Theory of music and musicology

This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell''s music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques.

An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.

Digital technology has profoundly transformed almost all aspects of musical culture.

This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

A reliable scholarly reference tool for those actively pursuing the historical performance of music.

This book charts the origins, development and spread of medieval Western European music from late antiquity to the end of the fourteenth century.

An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.

A comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the psychology of musical development in children and adults, from theory to research and applications.

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

A comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the psychology of musical development in children and adults, from theory to research and applications.

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

Portrays Schoenberg''s atonal music as successions of motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out ''musical idea'' and ''basic image'' frameworks.

A creative and accessible harmonic analysis of major works by key composers, demonstrating innovative methods in harmonic theory with sound examples.

Offers a thematic examination of Britten''s operas, focusing particularly on the way that ideology is presented on stage.

This book surveys the breadth, richness, and meaning of Duke Ellington''s celebrated career, examining his impact on jazz music and its surrounding culture.

This book surveys the breadth, richness, and meaning of Duke Ellington''s celebrated career, examining his impact on jazz music and its surrounding culture.

The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.

This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.

A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

This collection of essays offers a wide range of new interdisciplinary perspectives on Heinrich Glarean''s contribution to intellectual life.

This collection of essays offers a wide range of new interdisciplinary perspectives on Heinrich Glarean''s contribution to intellectual life.

This fascinating book will interest anyone wanting to learn more about the relationship between mathematics and the arts.

This fascinating book will interest anyone wanting to learn more about the relationship between mathematics and the arts.

This book focuses on music, sound and space and how they have been employed to transform public and private experience.

This book focuses on music, sound and space and how they have been employed to transform public and private experience.

Rebecca Herissone''s study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to the creation of music in late seventeenth-century England.

Rebecca Herissone''s study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to the creation of music in late seventeenth-century England.

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental electronic music and includes many suggestions for further reading and listening.

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental electronic music and includes many suggestions for further reading and listening.

Offers a new way of understanding music''s connections with Orientalism and imperialism by using the concept of ''mission''.

The Rival Sirens examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera.

The first full-length English-language discussion of the Darmstadt New Music Courses, showing the rise and fall of the ''Darmstadt School''.

Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.

The Rival Sirens examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera.

The first full-length English-language discussion of the Darmstadt New Music Courses, showing the rise and fall of the ''Darmstadt School''.

Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.

Musical value has shifted from the staging of works in concert halls to the curatorial composing of public encounters.

Musical value has shifted from the staging of works in concert halls to the curatorial composing of public encounters.