Browse Books by Subject

Browse Music books by subject from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

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Recently Published Books

1. Alberto Ginastera

   A Research and Information Guide

   By Deborah Schwartz-Kates

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   Alberto Ginastera: A Research and Information Guide is the first bio-bibliographic study of the composer and the only published book on the subject in English. This work fills a critical gap in contemporary music studies by enriching our knowledge of one of the most compelling creative voices of...

   Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge
2. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe

   2nd Edition

   By Philip V. Bohlman

   Series: Focus on World Music Series

   Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe—from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the...

   Published September 2nd 2010 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 July 29th 2010 by Routledge
4. Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art

   Performing Migration

   Edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Rocío G. Davis, Johanna C. Kardux

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this...

   Published July 25th 2010 by Routledge
5. An Introduction to Music Technology

   By Dan Hosken

   An Introduction to Music Technology provides a clear and concise overview of the essential elements of music technology for today’s musician. It is designed to provide music students with the background necessary to apply technology in their creating, teaching, and performing. This book focuses on...

   Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
6. Xenakis

   His Life in Music

   By James Harley

   Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual...

   Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
7. Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music Teaching

   By Mark Robin Campbell, Linda K Thompson, Janet R. Barrett

   Constructing a Personal Orientation to Music Teaching promotes inquiry and reflection to facilitate teacher growth, lifelong learning and a disposition toward educational change. Strongly grounded in current theories and research in teacher education, the text engages readers in analyzing their own...

   Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
8. Women in Music

   A Research and Information Guide, 2nd Edition

   By Karin Pendle, Melinda Boyd

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work,...

   Published July 11th 2010 by Routledge
9. Fundamentals for the Aspiring Musician

   A Preparatory Course for Music Theory

   By Robert J. Frank, Kenneth Metz

   Fundamentals for the Aspiring Musician is a completely integrated textbook written for students who wish to study music professionally. It uses technology to its fullest to aid students in preparation for the study of music theory by laying a thorough and solid foundation of basic music...

   Published July 1st 2010 by Routledge
10. Samuel Barber

    A Research and Information Guide, 2nd Edition

    By Wayne Wentzel

    Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

    An annotated reference guide to Barber's life, works and achievements, it will prove valuable for anyone seeking information on him....

    Published July 1st 2010 by Routledge