Western Music Styles (Early & Classical) Books

New and Published Books

1. Edward Elgar

   A Thematic Catalogue and Research Guide, 2nd Edition

   By Christopher Kent

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   This updated second edition is an in-depth exploration of Elgar's compositions and of writings by and about the composer and his music. The past 16 years have seen a steady increase in scholarly publications and the emergence of The Elgar Society Journal, as well as further discoveries of the...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. Nineteenth-Century Choral Music

   Edited by Donna M. Di Grazia

   Series: Routledge Studies in Musical Genres

   Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction to choral singing and the ways it was linked to...

   Published September 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

   By Eduardo de la Fuente

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism,...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
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. 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
8. 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
9. Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice

   By Edward Pearsall

   Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice introduces a number of tools for analyzing a wide range of twentieth-century musical styles and genres. It includes discussions of harmony, scales, rhythm, contour, post-tonal music, set theory, the twelve-tone method, and modernism. Recent developments...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
10. 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