Music Reviews & Criticism

Musical representations of Europe in myth and allegory are well known, but when and under what circumstances did the words European and music becom...

An in-depth exploration of the style and influence of Pat Metheny, a truly distinctive musical voice of our time. Guitarist and composer Pat Methen...

From the earliest days of rock and roll, white artists regularly achieved fame, wealth, and success that eluded the Black artists whose work had pr...

Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music provides a new assessment of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in terms of his ...

Twelve months, twelve eras: the seasonal journal and planner inspired by Taylor Swift, the perfect gift this Christmas.In this guided journal and p...

The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whitema...

The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whitema...

Contributions by Cassandra D. Chaney, Shannon M. Cochran, Samuel P. Fitzpatrick, Judson L. Jeffries, Zada Johnson, Tony Kiene, Aaron J. Kimble, Jer...

WHEN ROCK MET REGGAE: HOW THE CULTURAL CROSSOVER OF BOB MARLEY, THE CLASH, HTE SPECIALS AND MPORE CHANGED THE FACE OF ROCK MUSIC

No one played like Jesse Ed Davis. One of the most sought-after guitarists of the late 1960s and 70s, Davis appeared alongside the eras greatest st...

Schuberts Workshop offers a fresh study of the composers compositional technique and its development, rooted in the authors experience of realising...

Schuberts Workshop offers a fresh study of the composers compositional technique and its development, rooted in the authors experience of realising...

More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to attract in...

We know what, say, a Josquin mass looks likebut what did it sound like? This is a much more complex and difficult question than it may seem. Kennet...

In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the s...

This volume brings together twenty-two of the most diverse and stimulating journal articles on classical and romantic performing practice, represen...

Research in the 20th and 21st centuries into historical performance practice has changed not just the way performers approach music of the 17th and...

In 1912 Heinrich Schenker contracted with the Viennese publisher Universal Edition to provide an 'elucidatory edition' (Erläuterungsausgabe) of Be...

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one...

Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when speaking about music? How do ...

Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music ...

In 1853 Robert Schumann identified fully-formed compositional mastery in the young Brahms, who nevertheless in the years following embarked on a pe...

This book looks beyond the incredible music of the world's most successful band to analyse how it was possible to love them without even listening ...