Music

"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)

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 strong pedagogical framework. Request your complimentary exam copy.

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