Music Books

New and Published Books

1. Making Music with Sounds

   By Leigh Landy

   Making Music with Sounds offers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions with sounds and facilitates creativity in school age children, with the activities primarily for 11-14 year old students. It can also be used by people...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Debates in Music Teaching

   Edited by Chris Philpott, Gary Spruce

   Series: The Debates in Subject Teaching Series

   Debates in Music Teaching encourages students and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in music education. It aims to introduce a critical approach to the central concepts and practices that have influenced major interventions and initiatives in music teaching,...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. William Byrd

   A Research and Information Guide, 3rd Edition

   By Richard Turbet

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to William Byrd. This new edition includes research since the publication of the last edition....

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Music, Sound and Filmmakers

   Sonic Style in Cinema

   Edited by James Wierzbicki

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye, but also for the ear. The bulk of the text focuses on the work of directors Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, the Coen brothers, Peter Greenaway,...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Giuseppe Verdi

   A Research and Information Guide, 2nd Edition

   By Gregory Harwood

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to Giuseppe Verdi. This new edition includes research since the publication of the first edition in 1998....

   Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge
6. Advanced Schenkerian Analysis

   Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm, Motive, and Form

   By David Beach

   Advanced Schenkerian Analysis: Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm, Motive, and Form is a textbook for students with some background in Schenkerian theory. It begins with an overview of Schenker's theories, then progresses systematically from the phrase and their various combinations to longer and more...

   Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Migrating Music

   Edited by Jason Toynbee, Byron Dueck

   Series: CRESC

   Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on ‘world music’ questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this genre – but says relatively little about migration and mobility – diaspora studies have much to say...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition

   By David Beach, Ryan McClelland

   Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition is a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in music analysis. It outlines a process of analyzing works in the Classical tradition by uncovering the construction of a piece of music—the formal, harmonic...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
9. World Music

   A Global Journey - Hardback & CD Set Value Pack, 3rd Edition

   By Terry E. Miller, Andrew Shahriari

   Authors Terry E. Miller and Andrew Shahriari take students around the world to experience the diversity of musical expression. World Music: A Global Journey, now in its third edition, is known for its breadth in surveying the world’s major cultures in a systematic study of world music within a...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality

    Harmonic Progression Based on Modality and the Interval Cycles

    By Paolo Susanni, Elliott Antokoletz

    Series: Routledge Studies in Music Theory

    This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire. It does so in a simple, clear, and...

    Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge