Music

Experiencing Jazz, Second Edition, is an integrated textbook with online resources for jazz appreciation and history courses. Through readings, illustrations, timelines, listening guides, and a streaming audio library, it immerses the reader in a journey through the history of jazz, while placing the music within a larger cultural and historical context. Streamlined for your undergrad students with just the right amount of information in learning jazz history/jazz titles, Experiencing Jazz is the textbook for you. Request a complimentary exam copy for your course today. 

"A useful resource for the history of movie music as well as the composers' perspectives on the subject and their own creative purposes in scoring films. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."
--CHOICE (M. Goldsmith, Nicholls State University)

William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide is a catalog, 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 movie music courses. Recommend this title to your librarian today.

Deniz Peters is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Aesthetics of Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria. 

Thom Holmes is a composer and music historian. He studied composition with Paul Epstein in Philadelphia, was the longtime publisher of the magazine Recordings of Experimental Music (1979–85), and worked with John Cage. Request your complimentary exam copy of Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, 4th Edition here.

"By referencing the importance of the diaspora in shaping and developing Irish music, this publication fills a major gap in scholarship. ... Williams presents, in a thorough, readable way, the important debate regarding the essentialist notions of Irish music and of ‘the Irish’." --Angela Moran, Ethnomusicology Forum, Volume 21, Issue 1, 2012