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Histories and Narratives of Music Analysis

Edited By: Milena Medić, Miloš Zatkalik

£69.99

This volume offers a cross section of current directions in music analysis. Music analysis is presented as a vibrant, multi-faceted field of research that constantly re-examines its own postulates while establishing dialogues with other disciplines.

Music of Japan Today

Edited By: E. Michael Richards, Kazuko Tanosaki

£39.99

Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through essays from international composers, performers, and scholars, covering topics from Toru Takemitsu's legacy to computer music and avant-garde sound artists.

Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through essays from international composers, performers, and scholars, covering topics from Toru Takemitsu’s legacy to computer music and avant-garde sound artists.

Musical Waves

West Coast Perspectives of Pitch, Narrative, and Form

Edited By: Andrew Aziz, Jack Boss

From £30.99

This volume comprises a wide range of cutting-edge analytical approaches for numerous musical styles. It includes studies inspired by Schoenberg, transformational theory, narrative, form, and—notably—several approaches to popular music.

Music Research

New Directions for a New Century

Edited By: Michael Ewans, Rosalind Halton, John A. Phillips

£39.99

This book compiles peer-reviewed papers from the conference “Music Research: new directions for a new century.” Papers explore four main themes: Research through Performance, Music and Society, Music and Technology, and Structure and Context.

Rebetiko Worlds

By: Dafni Tragaki

£39.99

Experience rebetiko music-making in Thessaloniki today. This ethnography explores the human encounters and lived experiences of the rebetiko revival, while also recounting the story of an ethnographer engaged in fieldwork ‘at home’.

Meyerbeer’s Singspiele and Opéras-Comiques

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

From £40.99

This study explores Meyerbeer’s dramatic and vocal genius through his German Singspiels and Parisian triumphs. His later works fuse captivating beauty with extreme virtuosity, reaching new heights of technical and dramaturgical refinement.

Operetta

A Sourcebook, Volumes I and II

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£139.99

From 19th-century Paris to Broadway, this source book surveys operetta's international schools and principal composers. It offers a chronology, biographical material, selected synopses, a discography, and a comprehensive index.

From 19th-century Paris to Broadway, this source book surveys operetta’s international schools and principal composers. It offers a chronology, biographical material, selected synopses, a discography, and a comprehensive index.

Ethnic and Cultural Identity in Music and Song Lyrics

Edited By: Victor Kennedy

£61.99

The fifteen chapters here look at a variety of popular and folk music from around the world, with examples of British, Slovene, Chinese and American songs, poems and musicals, demonstrating how lyrics set to music can reflect, express and construct collective identities.

Improvisation

Between Technique and Spontaneity

Edited By: Marina Santi

£34.99

This book explores improvisation—a creative process where shared practices meet spontaneity. The studies within contend that artistic improvisation holds the key to understanding the improvisation that pervades our professions and everyday experiences.

Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance

Edited By: Denis Collins, Klisala Harrison, Samantha Owens

£39.99

Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly enquiry, this collection provides a lively forum on aesthetics and experience in music performance. Papers engage in a scholarly dialogue on the technical, expressive and embodied aspects of performance.

Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Songs and Poems

Visions from the Tower of Song

Edited By: Peter Billingham

£45.99

One of the first works on Leonard Cohen to be produced, this Festschrift discusses a range of his songs and poems. The essays range from unique insights offered by Cohen’s official biographer Sylvie Simmons through to considerations of major themes in his output.

Anzor Erkomaishvili and Contemporary Trends in the Study of Traditional and Sacred Georgian Music

Edited By: Joseph Jordania, Rusudan Tsurtsumia

From £33.99

This collection reviews new developments in Georgian ethnomusicology and presents a tribute to Anzor Erkomaishvili, a pivotal figure in Georgian traditional music. The increasing popularity of Georgian choral singing provides an urgent need for this essential volume.

Choral Singing

Histories and Practices

Edited By: Ursula Geïsler, Karin Johansson

£47.99

What role does choral activity play in the construction of social and musical meaning? This anthology addresses questions like these from a wide range of disciplines, contributing to a transdisciplinary discussion about the origins, functions, and meanings of choral singing.

De-Canonizing Music History

Edited By: Vesa Kurkela

£39.99

This book is about musical canons and de-canonizing music history. Its main goal is to deconstruct these canons: to analyze and problematize them in their variety through artistic encounters where art meets popular, ethnic meets education, and avantgarde meets mainstream.

Researching Music Censorship

Edited By: Helmi Järviluoma, Annemette Kirkegaard, Jan Sverre Knudsen

£64.99

Why is music censored? It's not always about the lyrics. This volume examines music censorship from a global perspective, arguing that the reasons for bans often lie beyond verbal messages and in the complex historical, structural, and emotional interpretations of sound itself.

Why is music censored? It’s not always about the lyrics. This volume examines music censorship from a global perspective, arguing that the reasons for bans often lie beyond verbal messages and in the complex historical, structural, and emotional interpretations of sound itself.

Anthony Burgess

Music in Literature and Literature in Music

Edited By: Marc Jeannin

£39.99

This book offers a new insight into the relationship between literature and music through the works of Anthony Burgess. International scholars explore the musicality of literature and the literary aspects of music, referencing artists from Mozart to Joyce.

The Roots of Western Swing

Texas Swing, Race, Radio and Records

By: John L. Clark, Jr.

From £29.99

This book details the early history of Western swing—a hybrid of country, jazz, and blues. In the 1930s, musicians influenced by jazz foregrounded improvisation and blues expression to develop an original style that reached its peak popularity in the 1940s.

Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (and Others)

Edited By: Jack Boss, Brad Osborn, Tim S. Pack

£44.99

This collection of essays applies traditional and innovative techniques to the music of late 20th and 21st-century composers, making the music of our time less impenetrable by showing how it follows and varies older schemes. Includes analysis of popular music and jazz.

Music Performance Anxiety

A Comprehensive Update of the Literature

By: Ariadna Ortiz Brugués

£61.99

Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) affects many individuals, regardless of age or experience. This book provides an updated review of the literature on the topic, covering its concept, epidemiology, and interventional studies, along with critiques of published work.

The Impact of the British Oboist Léon Goossens

A Breath in Time

By: Jonathan Tobutt

From £29.99

This study reassesses Léon Goossens’ contribution to British oboe playing. It explores his pivotal role as a catalyst for new compositions that created a library of British oboe music, addressing a void in the repertoire and ultimately restoring the instrument’s status.