Theory of Music & Musicology

Elements of Sonata Theory outlines a fresh approach to analysing the sonata. Both building on and departing from earlier methods of analysis, this ...

Given the phenomenal fame and commercial success that the Beatles knew for the entire course of their familiar career, their music per se has recei...

This translation of the third volume of Syntagma musicum is part of a multi-volume work by German composer and theorist Michael Praetorius (1571-16...

Virtually no other musical discipline is as closely linked with the culture and essence of a country as the chanson with France. With roots in the ...

John D. White's comprehensive approach to music education is updated here in the second edition of Guidelines for College Teaching of Music Theory....

First Published in 2003. The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint is an introductory text to the analysis and composition of tonal counterpoint. Using examp...

Heinrich Schenker's The Art of Performance shows this great music theorist in a new light. While his theoretical writings helped transform music th...

In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism. Drawing on conte...

Divided into three sections, Linda Phyllis Austern collects eighteen, cross-disciplinary essays written by some of the most important names in the ...

A Conductor’s Guide to the Choral-Orchestral Works of the Classical Period, Part I: Haydn and Mozart is the fourth volume in Jonathan Green’s innov...

An accessible exploration of an important and understudied music theory topic, Swain's book examines the dimensional technique of analyzing harmoni...

Presenting the latest research in the area, this volume explores the fundamental concept of qupai 曲牌, melodic models upon which most traditional Ch...

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop ...

This is the first complete survey of the historical pitch standards used by musicians during the last four centuries. Written from a practical pers...

Is the music world clinging to an outdated school of thought in ethnomusicology? Nercessian shows how the theory of cultural relativism continues t...

German music critic and opera producer Paul Bekker (1882–1937) is a rare example of a critic granted the opportunity to turn his ideas into practic...

Though we can no longer hear how it sounded, the written sources that remain provide much information on the music of the medieval Islamic and Jewi...

The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-'l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr is the only theoretical text of any substance that can be considered representative of...

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, p...

Unquestionably the founding work of minimalism in musical composition, Terry Riley's In C (1964) challenges the standards of imagination, intellect...

What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition? How are men and masculinit...

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

First published in 1990, this book was the first comprehensive study of Balzac’s relationship to music, blending past scholarship with new perspect...

In an age when our patterns of music consumption are changing rapidly, musical understanding has never been more relevant. Understanding Music prov...