Western Classical Music

Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, ho...

From electronic beeps to orchestral scores, video game music has truly arrived. Rapidly growing in popularity around the world, it looks set to pla...

William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece enjoying a twenty-first-cen...

Life in ancient Greece was musical life. Soloists competed onstage for popular accolades, becoming centrepieces for cultural conversation and even ...

The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music provides a significant contribution to the research and history of Spanish film music, exploring the i...

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera. This radical way of creating opera formed a counterweight, even a relief, to...

Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted ...