Musical Scores, Lyrics & Libretti

Charles Frieth, pre-eminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser, is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the world p...

The Bushwackers Big Australian Song Book is a collection of some of the best-loved folk songs performed by The Bushwackers band.Featuring music, ly...

Cole Porter (1891–1964) remains one of America’s most popular composer-songwriters, known for the many urbane, witty, romantic songs he wrote for s...

As winter's first snow falls, there's not much Christmas cheer in Sherwood Forest. Cupboards are bare, the nights are cold, and the cruel Sheriff o...

Inhalt: Marcello Sorce Keller: Was ist Musik? Einige Gründe dafür, warum wir die ‘Musik’ nicht mehr als ‘Musik’ bezeichnen sollten – Adriano Giardi...

Established in 1943, the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for music went to many of America’s top composers, like Aaron Copland, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Samu...

What do pop songs have to say about love? Surprisingly, this book shows that most popular love songs express much more about alienation, infatuatio...

What do pop songs have to say about love? Surprisingly, this book shows that most popular love songs express much more about alienation, infatuatio...

INTEGRATION is a multi-sensory experience, presented as an illustrated book of lyrics selected from Kellee Maize's most-downloaded albums. INTEGRAT...

The contributions in this volume reflect the efforts of musicology to understand a hybrid area with a fascinating evolution. They aim to address th...

Abseiling lesbians! Queers in classrooms! Perverts panicking parents! Thatcher's Section 28, which banned the 'promotion' of homosexuality in scho...

In Great Songwriting Techniques, veteran composer and teacher Jack Perricone shares years of experience in the art, science, and pedagogy of songwr...

In Great Songwriting Techniques, veteran composer and teacher Jack Perricone shares years of experience in the art, science, and pedagogy of songwr...

Winner of a Fringe First Award 2024 What use is paper? To speak. To imagine. To remember. It starts when she puts a note through his letterbox. ...

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street lite...

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...

Ernst Lichtenhahn ist ohne Übertreibung ein Doyen der schweizerischen Musikforschung. Als einer der wenigen Musikwissenschaftler im deutschsprachig...

The contributors are leading scholars from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Italy. The essays examine the history of music publishing f...

This monograph is an authoritative study of the œuvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligeti’s key works ar...

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

As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research possibilities n...

Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record is the first in-depth study of the vinyl record. Richard Osborne traces the evolution of the recording form...