Musical Instruments & Instrumental Ensembles

The book shows the importance for parents to encourage a child’s imagination. Imagination has a strong connection to language and logical thinking ...

The garamut is a log idiophone that is found in many of the coastal and island areas of Papua New Guinea. The instrument’s primary use is as a spee...

Beethoven’s piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio. The sonatas have ...

Despite their central role in many forms of music-making, drummers have been largely neglected in the scholarly literature on music and education. ...

This book presents the editions of Chopin’s works as cultural texts and gives account of the main events in their reception history. Based on a new...

Beethoven’s piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio. The sonatas have ...

When Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin's music was performed during his lifetime, it always elicited ecstatic responses from the listeners. Wilhelm G...

First Published in 1988. Though many standard musicological reference works document the use of the trombone from its beginning in the middle of th...

Using a collection of over one thousand popular songs from the war years, as well as around 150 soldiers’ songs, John Mullen provides a fascinating...

Performance is a forum for social action, embodied interaction and shared authority. Recently, as the various acts and agencies surrounding a perfo...

To reach the highest standards of instrumental performance, several years of sustained and focused learning are required. This requires perseveranc...

Music theory is often seen as independent from - even antithetical to - performance. While music theory is an intellectual enterprise, performance...

Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music offers a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteen...

Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance...

Isolde Ahlgrimm (1914-1995) was an important pioneer in the revival of Baroque and Classical keyboard instruments in her native city, Vienna, and l...

For a half century, Ben Webster, one of the "big three" of swing tenors-along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young-was one of the best-known and m...

A fascinating study of Senegalese masters of the sabar drum

This unique book is an authoritative and detailed guide to all the best musical creations for small string ensembles, including prominent works by ...

One of the most remarkable tales of recent resurrections in the field of early keyboard music concerns the music of Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595-1...

The first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of indigenous Amazonian musical cultures, Burst of Breath showcases new research on th...

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating ...

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating ...

Pain and injury are near constant companions for professional musicians. Aching hands, painful joint swelling, back problems, among other ailments ...

Murray Grodner draws on his distinguished career as a double bass musician and teacher in this compendium of performance philosophy, bowing and phr...

A Choice "Best Academic" book in its first edition, The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about this instrument. ...

Pain and injury are near constant companions for professional musicians. Aching hands, painful joint swelling, back problems, among other ailments ...

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) is an American icon. Most famous for his military marches, the composer-bandmaster led a disciplined group of devoted...

Yonit Lea Kosovske surveys early music and writing about keyboard performance with the aim of facilitating the development of an expressive tone in...

As soloist, master class teacher, and pianist of the world-renowned Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler can boast of four Grammy nominations, three h...

Unlike the violin, which has flourished largely unchanged for close to four centuries, the trumpet has endured numerous changes in design and socia...

Roni Stoneman was the youngest daughter of the pioneering country music family and a woman who overcame poverty and abusive husbands to claim the t...

Laila Storch is a world-renowned oboist in her own right, but her book honors Marcel Tabuteau, one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century mus...

In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissa...

More than eighty years have passed since Edgard Varèse’s catalytic work for percussion ensemble, Ionisation, was heard in its New York premiere. A ...

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the ...

Chronicling nearly a century of music, Gaby Casadesus’ MyMusical Notes, recounts the French pianist's remarkable career as half of one of the most ...

English keyboard music reached an unsurpassed level of sophistication in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as organists such as Wi...

Saint Lambert's Nouveau traité de l'accompagnement de clavecin, de l'orgue, et des autres instruments of 1707 supplements his earlier harpsichord t...

No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane Grappelly and the Hot Cl...

The term "viola bastarda" refers to both an instrument and a style of playing that is one of the crowning achievements of musical mannerism. The It...

" . . . detailed and thorough . . . a wealth of information . . . David Yeomans deserves our thanks for a job exceedingly well done." —American Mus...

". . . a major contribution to cornett research and belongs in the library of every cornettist." —Historic Brass Society". . . scrupulously detaile...

Long a symbol of American culture, the banjo actually originated in Africa before European-Americans adopted it. Karen Linn shows how the banjo--de...

". . . an extraordinary book, monumental and challenging . . . Buy this book and immerse yourself in it. You will enter a new world." —American Mus...

Named for a popular local fiddle tune, The Crooked Stovepipe is a rollicking, detailed, first-ever study of the indigenous fiddle music and social ...

"This is an essential book for those interested in renaissance instrumentation as well as for potential players." —Early Music Review"Sterling Scot...