Western Classical Music

We often think of music in terms of sounds intentionally organized into patterns, but music performed in signed languages poses considerable challe...

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has lo...

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has lo...

The Piano Player: Classical Piano Pieces presents a curated selection of 22 original works written for piano and ideal for the intermediate pianist...

What is the role of classical music in the 21st century? How will classical musicians maintain their relevance and purpose?This book follows the wo...

Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. He has published wi...

Originally published in 1943 and subsequently as a revised and enlarged edition in 1978, Musical Instruments has long been held in high regard, not...

A comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century.  Florence...

The initial volume in a series of American Bach Society Guides, Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering is a comprehensive study of two closely re...

As a distinctive and attractive musical repertory, the hundred-odd English carols of the fifteenth century have always had a ready audience. But so...

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 1996, this volume counters the attitude of paying more attention to the performer than to the piece. Too often, Anthony Hopkins ...

The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing of the string quartet, often represented as a smooth and logical progression from...

This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of khayal bandishes composed by Nemat Khan Sadarang and Feroze Khan Adarang. It argues that decipherin...

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...