Theory of Music & Musicology

A fascinating aspect of the study of music in medieval Islamic and Judaic writings is the broad and interdisciplinary nature of the works and treat...

Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial dec...

A thorough examination of Shostakovich's string quartets is long overdue. Although they can justifiably lay claim to being the most significant and...

Turkish Metal journeys deep into the heart of the Turkish heavy metal scene, uncovering the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implica...

Sonata form is fundamentally a dramatic structure that creates, manipulates, and ultimately satisfies expectation. It engages its audience by invit...

The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the Western romantic ideal, is now troubled by accounts and explanations of creativity a...

«(This book) is the first extensive study of the works of Antoni Szałowski, which provide a clear example of the adaptation of the principles of Ne...

Natalie Curtis Burlin (1876–1921) was born to a wealthy New York City family and initially trained for a career as a classical concert pianist. But...

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

Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the exp...

People chat about music every day, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. By addressing different perspectives and ...

The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music...

During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination a...

Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse or ...

This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analyti...

Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition is a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in mus...

Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse or ...

The Ghana Dance Ensemble takes Ghana's national culture and interprets it in performance using authentic dance forms adapted for local or foreign a...

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Hay...

Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the exp...

Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to t...

Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these acti...

This book studies recent music in the western classical tradition, offering a critique of current analytical/theoretical approaches and proposing a...

Why has the female voice—as the resonant incarnation of the female body—inspired both fascination and ambivalence? Why were women restricted from p...