Music Reviews & Criticism

Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its applications in polyphonic music w...

Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection en...

’He plays the piano well,’ wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927. ’His compositions are not devoid of talen...

Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe collects the extraordinary output of Vivien Goldman from 1975 onwards; spanning a time when punk burnt its scalding f...

Drawn from NPR Music’s acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music—from Beyoncé to...

In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US music...

A musical genre forever outside the lines With a claim on artists from Jimmie Rodgers to Jason Isbell, Americana can be hard to define, but you kno...

Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall explores interconnections of the sacred a...

Twentieth-century composers created thousands of original works for solo percussion and percussion ensemble. Concise and ideal for the classroom, A...

This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Bl...

This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black M...

This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Bl...

This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black M...

These previously unpublished lectures by Elliott Carter date to the summer of 1967, when the acclaimed composer taught at the Contemporary Music Wo...

In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster of acclaimed sch...

Johann Sebastian Bach was a Lutheran and much of his music was for Lutheran liturgical worship. As these insightful essays in the twelfth volume of...

Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad. Interv...

Music was central to the medieval church's public worship: it was the essential medium of the Mass and the Divine Office. In this new critical edit...

The definitive history of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, which fostered some of the most iconic musicians in American history--an...