Western Music Styles (Early & Classical) Products

By Thom Holmes

Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Sixth Edition, presents an extensive history of electronic music—from its historical beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its everchanging present—recounting the musical ideas that arose in parallel with technological…

Paperback – 2020-03-26 
Routledge

Edited by Helga R. Gudmundsdottir, Carol Beynon, Karen Ludke, Annabel J. Cohen

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume II: Education examines the many methods and motivations for vocal pedagogy, promoting singing not just as an art form arising from the musical instrument found within every individual but also as a means of communication with…

Hardback – 2020-03-25 
Routledge
The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing

Edited by Michael Kassler

Originally published in 2003, Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself is an annotated collection of the memoirs of Charles Edward Horn. They include an account of Horn’s father, Charles Frederick Horn, who arrived penniless in London in 1782 and rose to become music master to Queen…

Paperback – 2020-02-28 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By John Harley

First published in 1999, this volume is the first full-length study to deal with the life and music of Orlando Gibbons since E.H. Fellowes’s short book, originally published in 1923. John Harley investigates in detail the family and musical background from which Orlando Gibbons emerged, and gives a…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
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Routledge Revivals

By Antony Hopkins

First published in 1996, this volume counters the attitude of paying more attention to the performer than to the piece. Too often, Anthony Hopkins argues, music is simply regarded as a pleasant background noise to accompany our other activities, whereas Beethoven offers much more than that. Hopkins…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

Edited by Andrew Ashbee

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of his death. They examine not only Lawes’s music but the milieu in which he worked. Part One examines the musical life of the…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Ernest H. Sanders

First published in 1998, this volume brings together the most part of the author’s work on medieval polyphony. The most significant advance in music during the period in the High Gothic was the development of a system of rhythm and of its notation, the modern understanding of which was to a…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
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Routledge Revivals

By Lionel Pike

First published in 1998, this broad survey includes a large number of musical illustrations and provides an indispensable guide for both students and teachers. Hexachords and solmization syllables formed the foundations of musical language during the sixteenth century. Yet, owing to changes over…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Bettina Hoffmann

The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study, Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument -- its construction, technique and history -- for the non-specialist, interweaving this…

Paperback – 2020-01-09 
Routledge

By Laura Emmery

Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carter’s five string quartets. Offering a systematic and logical way of unpacking concepts and processes in these quartets that would otherwise remain…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
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Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900

Edited by Jelena Novak, John Richardson

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its première at the Avignon Festival in 1976. During its initial European tour, Metropolitan Opera premiere, and revivals in 1984 and 1992, Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both…

Hardback – 2019-12-19 
Routledge
Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera

Edited by Erik Dr Levi, David Professor Fanning

Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during the Second World War. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under direct German control, or…

Hardback – 2019-12-19 
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