Musical Scores, Lyrics & Libretti

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...

Folklorists and lovers of folk songs will delight in this collection of the lyrics of songs sung by settlers of western New York in the middle of t...

In this riveting personal story, the award-winning, bestselling recording artist takes you on a tour through his house of memories, offering a fasc...

During his lifetime Zevon never quite achieved the recognition he deserved, but he did build up a huge cult following and critical acclaim for his ...

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score, Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, w...

This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Co...

From two of the team that created the highly-popular musical "The Demon Headmaster" comes this energetic and original rock musical for a large cast...

When first published in 1979 no less an authority than Bob Copper described this collection as 'without doubt . . . the finest book of English trad...

Music-Dance explores the identity of choreomusical work, its complex authorship and its modes of reception as well as the cognitive processes invol...

After Robert Armin joined the Chamberlain's Men, singing in Shakespeare's dramas catapulted from 1.25 songs and 9.95 lines of singing per play to 3...

This anthology of over 40 scores and excerpts represents a wide range of music from across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century,...

No matter what kind of career you want in music, learning how to write good song is the foundation of the music industry.Platinum award-winning sin...

No matter what kind of career you want in music, learning how to write good song is the foundation of the music industry.Platinum award-winning sin...

This volume contains parallel texts and translations of all Bach's church and secular cantatas that have come down to us complete. They have been t...

This collection of conversations with the Guarneri members explores all the most important facets of chamber-music playing.

Bill Snibson, a Lambeth costermonger, is revealed to be the New Earl of Hareford and his newly-discovered aristocratic relations are horrified. Bri...

The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand...

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

James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best kno...

Musicians, conductors, students, and researchers can now have a list of conductor-related holdings and where to find them right at their fingertips...

NOW IN PAPERBACK! Designed for use by professional singers, amateurs, teachers, coaches, and students; contains annotations for more than 1,000 son...

Drawing generously from four centuries of Italian, German and French art song, Exploring Art Song Lyrics embraces the finest of the literature and...

Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The...

Drawing generously from four centuries of Italian, German and French art song, Exploring Art Song Lyrics embraces the finest of the literature and...

The American Song Book, Volume I: The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint original sheet mu...

The American Song Book, Volume I: The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint original sheet mu...

This book is a collection of essays written by and interviews with working composers for film and television, and video games, exploring the busine...