Western Music Styles (Early & Classical) Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. The Globalization of Music in History

   By Richard Wetzel

   Series: Routledge Studies on History and Globalization

   This book contextualizes a globalization process that has since ancient times involved the creation, use, and world-wide movement of song, instrumental music, musical drama, music with dance, concert, secular, popular and religious music. Integral to the process have been political, economic,...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
9. William Alwyn

   A Research and Information Guide

   By John C. Dressler

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide is a catalogue, discography and annotated bibliography of the nearly 500 works of this twentieth-century British composer. It will be invaluable to twentieth-century British composer researchers and aficionados, music history courses, and...

   Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
10. Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets

    Cinemajazzamatazz

    By Morris Holbrook

    Series: Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

    Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets focuses on macromarketing-related aspects of film music in general and on the cinemusical role of ambi-diegetic jazz in particular. The book examines other work on music in motion pictures which has dealt primarily with the traditional distinction between...

    Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge