Theory of music and musicology

A semiotic approach to works using open notation, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators.

A semiotic approach to works using open notation, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators.

This Element explores the procedures and techniques through which music communicates drama when very little is spoken in a musical.

This Element explores the procedures and techniques through which music communicates drama when very little is spoken in a musical.

Ground-breaking dual biography that explores pop music''s two most influential songwriters, offering new insights into their creative thinking.

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

Ground-breaking dual biography that explores pop music''s two most influential songwriters, offering new insights into their creative thinking.

The first English language collection on the musical sublime.

The first English language collection on the musical sublime.

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.

Explores music, gesture and embodiment through the work of composers such as Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Debussy, and Mahler.

Explores music, gesture and embodiment through the work of composers such as Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Debussy, and Mahler.

Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.

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.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms''s music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

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

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms''s music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.

Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.

This first multi-author book on Telemann in English examines the composer''s life and works from a wide range of perspectives.

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.