Western Classical Music

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

Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myri...

In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or remembered-to infiltrat...

'Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through a closely f...

We know what, say, a Josquin mass looks likebut what did it sound like? This is a much more complex and difficult question than it may seem. Kennet...

For nearly two centuries Johann Sebastian Bach has been regarded as a cornerstone of Western musical culture. His music inspired subsequent generat...

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...

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

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...