Music Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. 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
2. 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
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. 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
6. Electronic and Experimental Music

   Technology, Music, and Culture, 4th Edition

   By Thom Holmes

   Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, genres, and techniques used in both analog and digital synthesis. This textbook has been greatly expanded and revised with the needs of...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. The Sound Handbook

   By Tim Crook

   Series: Media Practice

   'Tim Crook has written an important and much-needed book, and its arrival on our shelves has come at a highly appropriate time.' Professor Seán Street, Bournemouth University The Sound Handbook maps theoretical and practical connections between the creation and study of sound across the multi-media...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Cultural Study of Music

   A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton

   What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
10. Music in the Western

    Notes From the Frontier

    By Kathryn Kalinak

    Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

    Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier presents essays from both film studies scholars and musicologists on core issues in western film scores: their history, their generic conventions, their operation as part of a narrative system, their functioning within individual filmic texts and their...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge