Western Classical Music

This volume brings together twenty-two of the most diverse and stimulating journal articles on classical and romantic performing practice, represen...

Research in the 20th and 21st centuries into historical performance practice has changed not just the way performers approach music of the 17th and...

This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer...

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one...

Since 1978, the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi's death, there has been an explosion of serious writing about his music, life and times. Much of this ...

Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music ...

Claudio Monteverdi is now recognized as the towering figure of a critical transitional moment of Western music history: relentless innovator in eve...

This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of...

Since the late 1980s, the boundaries between the ‘musicologies’ have become increasingly blurred. Most notably, a growing number of musicologists h...

Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its applications in polyphonic music w...

Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection en...

Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work, The Metaphysical, Physical and Technical...

Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the ...

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthe...

Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom provides college music history instructors with a concise guide on how to create an accessible ...

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 600 songs relating to Atlantic Canadian disasters from 1891...

This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevance of music composed today with the first large-scale audience experi...

The principal purpose of topics in musicology has been to identify meaning-bearing units within a musical composition that would have been understo...

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the ...

A practical manual for building musical understanding and physical skills, intended for conductors at all stages of development. This book is a pr...