Theory of Music & Musicology

The two workbooks that accompany The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Fourth Edition, feature an organ...

When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. Bu...

To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the most a...

Examines the history of musical self-quotation, and reveals and explores a previously unidentified case of Schubert quoting one of his own songs in...

This book discusses the myriad ways in which Beethoven begins his works and the structural, rhetorical, and emotional implications of these beginni...

A synchronic study that highlights the importance of printed packaging, rather than notes on the page, to the complex relationship between composer...

How to Make It in the New Music Business has become the go-to resource for do it yourself musicians eager to make a living in a turbulent industr...

There are all sorts of people, events and sounds that exist in the musical world for which there are no words. We have been sadly bereft of a sati...

Originally published in 2003 and now revised and updated ÊThe Songwriting SourcebookÊ is the third entry in Rikky Rooksby's bestselling ÊHow to W...

La musica napoletana conosce uno straordinario successo europeo fin dai primi decenni del Settecento. I contributi raccolti in questo volume presen...

The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run almost continuously since 1942, and represents a unique record of the changing place of music in Br...

This book provides first-year university students majoring in western art music with a thorough study of both structural and ornamental diatonic ha...

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

When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her li...

This book traces the development of music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries with regards to the work of six women composers: Sofia Gubaidul...