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 ...

The Technique of Orchestration Workbook, Seventh Edition, accompanies the textbook of the same name—the definitive resource on the study of orchest...

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...

First published in 1999, the essays that follow have been selected from the author’s writings to explore musical institutions in 15th and 16th cent...

First published in 1998, this volume brings together the most part of the author’s work on medieval polyphony. The most significant advance in musi...

From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-making through the analysis of...