Music: Styles & Genres

This innovative book continues David Damschroder's radical reformulation of harmonic theory, presenting a dynamic exploration of harmony in the com...

With her deeply personal songwriting, countless hit songs, and genre-bending yet unmistakable sound, Taylor Swift has cemented her status as one of...

Although Hip Hop is known to come from the streets of South Bronx, New York, its origins go far deeper than that. Unconsciously, the innovative sou...

for Soprano solo and SSAA (with divisions) unaccompanied This gentle arrangement for a cappella choir of the well-known fifteenth-century carol co...

Reveals the importance of the jazz craze in France between the two world wars and the French construction of jazz as a black music - an exoticiza...

He is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced. But even as the principle songwriter and lead guitarist for The Who, it would ...

Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of...

Illuminates unexplored dimensions of the music-literature relationship and the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain famous writers and compose...

Billy Joel has sold over 150 million records, produced thirty-three Top-40 hits, received six Grammy Awards, and been inducted into the Rock and Ro...

'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' ...