Musical Instruments & Ensembles Books

New and Published Books

1. The Recorder

   A Research and Information Guide, 3rd Edition

   By Richard W. Griscom, David Lasocki

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   A Choice "Best Academic" book in its first edition, The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about this instrument. This new edition is thoroughly redone, takes account of the publishing activity of the years since its first publication, and still follows the original...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge
2. Twentieth-Century Organ Music

   Edited by Christopher S. Anderson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Musical Genres

   This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition, the most significant composers and their works, and the evolving role of the instrument and its music. The twentieth-century was a time of unprecedented change for organ music, not...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. Keyboard Skills for Music Educators: Score Reading

   By Shellie Gregorich, Benjamin Moritz

   Keyboard Skills for Music Educators: Score Reading is the first textbook equip future educators with the ability to play from an open score at the keyboard. Score reading can be a daunting prospect for even the most accomplished pianist, but it is a skill required of all choral and instrumental...

   Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
4. North American Fiddle Music

   A Research and Information Guide

   By Drew Beisswenger

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide is the first large-scale annotated bibliography and research guide on the fiddle traditions of the United States and Canada. These countries, both of which have large immigrant populations as well as Native populations, have maintained...

   Published April 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. String Quartets

   A Research and Information Guide, 2nd Edition

   By Mara Parker

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original publication (chapters for general references, histories, individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and critical editions, and miscellaneous...

   Published November 22nd 2010 by Routledge
6. Musical Gestures

   Sound, Movement, and Meaning

   Edited by Rolf Inge Godøy, Marc Leman

   We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating it to our body movements, or form an image in our minds of body movements. Musical Gestures is a collection of essays that explore the relationship...

   Published December 17th 2009 by Routledge
7. Piano Pedagogy

   A Research and Information Guide

   By Gilles Comeau

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide provides a detailed outline of resources available for research and/or training in piano pedagogy. Like its companion volumes in the Routledge Music Bibliographies series, it serves beginning and advanced students and scholars as a basic guide to...

   Published June 17th 2009 by Routledge
8. Interpreting Mozart

   The Performance of His Piano Pieces and Other Compositions, 2nd Edition

   By Eva Badura-Skoda, Paul Badura-Skoda

   Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart's works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard literature and of Mozart. Now, in a completely updated and revised edition, this book includes the last...

   Published May 18th 2008 by Routledge
9. Encyclopedia of Percussion

   2nd Edition

   Edited by John Beck, John H. Beck

   Encyclopedia of Percussion:,2nd edition, updates and enlarges the only comprehensive encyclopedia covering all of the major percussion instruments, the volume is divided into 4 major sections: an alphabetical dictionary of percussion instruments and terms; illustrations of key percussion...

   Published June 24th 2007 by Routledge
10. Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles

    By Larry Sandberg

    Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic Guitar Styles, Larry Sandberg’s Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an instructional book...

    Published November 27th 2006 by Routledge