Western Classical Music

This book presents original research applying mathematics to musical rhythm, with a focus on computational methods, theoretical approaches, analysi...

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the...

Challenging current music making approaches which have traditionally relied on the repetition of fixed forms when played, this book provides a new ...

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

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...

Music, Piety, and Political Power in 17th-Century Salzburg traces the role of sacred music in the service of politics at the archbishopric of Salzb...

Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the la...

Sketches and Scholarly Studies: Part II, Musical Settings and Sketches brings together two crucial aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins's insatiable dr...

Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century’s greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain ...

Composer and broadcaster Jack Pepper introduces the world of classical music - and its colourful characters - as you've never seen it before... LET...