Western Classical Music

Lutes and Marginality in Pre-Modern China traces the complex history of lutes as they moved from the far west into China, and how these instruments...

Musical scores like literature, poetry, and technical manuals are documents. The central tenet of this book is that musical composition in the di...

Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was a composer with an individual, expressive style. She was also an excellent violinist, a very fine pianist, and a t...

The Technique of Orchestration Workbook, Seventh Edition, accompanies the textbook of the same namethe definitive resource on the study of orchestr...

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate ...

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate ...

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Third Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contributions of women in a variety of...

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Third Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contributions of women in a variety of...

The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand...

First published in 1998, this broad survey includes a large number of musical illustrations and provides an indispensable guide for both students a...

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this ...

First published in 1998, this broad survey includes a large number of musical illustrations and provides an indispensable guide for both students a...

First published in 1999, the essays that follow have been selected from the authors writings to explore musical institutions in 15th and 16th centu...

First published in 1998, this volume brings together the most part of the authors work on medieval polyphony. The most significant advance in music...

First published in 1999, the essays that follow have been selected from the authors writings to explore musical institutions in 15th and 16th centu...

Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Sam...

This book explores the connection between melodrama and medicine from multiple perspectives. Neuroscientists study the relationship between opera a...

This is a wonderful tale of self-realisation, of what we can gain from turning to genius in life's many crises. Norman Lebrecht, author of Why Beet...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in ...

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.S. Bach was the first important work on the composer in nearly a generation. The many dis...