Theory of Music & Musicology

The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of...

In the 1950s, Hammer Film Productions, a small British filmmaking company, introduced the world to a new genre of motion picture. Referred to by so...

By enabling performers to grasp the fundamentals of interpretation, this work allows them to satisfy the requirements of the music and follow their...

The MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning, Volume 1: Strategies brings together the best and most current research on methods for music learn...

The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international e...

The MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning, Volume 1: Strategies brings together the best and most current research on methods for music learn...

This outstanding collection of Susan McClary's work exemplifies her contribution to a bridging of the gap between historical context, culture and m...

Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family, and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary com...

Foundations of Diatonic Theory: A Mathematically Based Approach to Music Fundamentals is an introductory, undergraduate-level textbook that provide...

In this volume fifteen musicologists from five countries present new findings and observations concerning the production, distribution and use of m...

Most books concerned with physics and music take an approach that puts physical theory before application. Consequently, these works tend to dampen...

When he emerged from the nightclubs of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan was often identified as a "protest" singer. As early as 1962, however, Dylan wa...

The Creative Electronic Music Producer examines the creative processes of electronic music production, from idea discovery and perception to the po...

Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment teaches fundamental concepts of jazz improvisation, highlighting the development of performan...

The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international e...

Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively introduced Western mu...

What is music?Modern society has come to view music largely as entertainment and commodity. In response, We Are Music: An Existential Journey Towar...

This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing—or who have previously performed—in Americ...

Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbol...

Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realis...

This volume examines music's place in the process of Jewish assimilation into the modern European bourgeoisie and the role assigned to music in for...

The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account o...

This book explores the meaning and value of music in children's lives, based upon their expressed thoughts and actual musicking behaviors in school...

The contributions in this volume focus on the ways in which silence and music relate, contemplate each other and provide new avenues for addressing...

The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion, prepared piano, and electronic music, but he is also ack...

The Safavid era (1501–1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, inc...

Musical leadership is associated with a specific profession—the conductor—as well as being a colloquial metaphor for human communication and cooper...

"Everything But Bach, Beethoven and Brahms," comprises this multicultural repertoire guide for pianists, composers, music teachers and students, wo...

Always a vital part of community cultural life, children's choirs can be small amateur clubs or sophisticated arts organizations on a par with adul...

This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing—or who have previously performed—in Americ...

This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to ...

As the work of cultural criticism that recalls the concerns of Foucault, Hayden White, Zizek and others, Decentering Music examines the struggle fo...

Originally published in 1943, Models for Beginners in Composition represents one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest attempts at reaching a broad Ameri...

During the last several decades, most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between 'high' and 'low' art is an artificial one, that...

Popular Music and the Postcolonial addresses the often-overlooked relationship between the fields of popular music and postcolonial studies, and it...