Theory of Music & Musicology

The South Korean percussion genre, samul nori, is a world phenomenon whose rhythmic form is the key to its popularity and mobility. Based on both e...

Interactive Composition empowers readers with all of the practical skills and insights needed to compose and perform electronic popular music in a ...

A detailed study of the well-known, yet poorly understood, music theory of composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963). The music theory of composer Paul ...

Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its prima...

In the thirty years since their immigration from Ethiopia to the State of Israel, Ethiopian-Israelis have put music at the center of communal and p...

In the latest of his books exploring a lifetimes passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical fa...

The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-...

This textbook is a concise survey of European music from 1600 through 1750 and is designed for junior/senior level courses in Baroque music. These ...

Applies the notion of musical voice to diverse repertoires, ranging from the operas and cantatas of Handel to the autograph albums of nineteenth-ce...

New essays by noted authorities on music and related arts in early modern Italy, giving special attention to musical sources, poetry, performance, ...

This anthology is a study of European music spanning from the late sixteenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries. The volume can be used to accomp...

You want to write songs, and you want to write them on guitar. This updated twentieth-anniversary third edition of the bestselling songwriting hand...

A masterly account of a fraught relationship between Schoenberg (the teacher) and Wellesz (his pupil), set against the intellectual and musical cur...

A masterly account of a fraught relationship between Schoenberg (the teacher) and Wellesz (his pupil), set against the intellectual and musical cur...

Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early mode...

Among major 20th-century composers whose music is poorly understood, Sergei Prokofiev stands out conspicuously. The turbulent times in which Prokof...

Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study as seen through the lens o...

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - s...

This pathbreaking study reveals Purcell's extensive use of symmetry and reversal in his much-loved trio sonatas, and shows how these hidden structu...

Consciousness has been described as one of the most mysterious things in the universe. Scientists, philosophers, and commentators from a whole rang...