Renowned organist, composer, and Paris Conservatory professor Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) was...

Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956), a celebrated violinist who performed over a thousand recitals throug...

With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique perspectives on the...

Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works su...

Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von Bülo...

John Cage was one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992. Bu...

Elliott Carter (b.1908) is now generally acknowledged as America's most eminent living composer. ...

Weimar Germany - the age of Bauhaus and Brecht - was a time of significant activity in all areas ...

The American-born Winnaretta Singer [1865-1943] was a millionaire at the age of eighteen, due to ...

Today's pianists are expected to play music of three centuries on a single instrument: Steinway's...

The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century: from Strauss's Elektra and We...

Violence in Nigeria is the most comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Niger...

Harry Partch (1901-74) was one of the most distinctive and influential American composers of the ...

The unique sounds of the biwa, shamisen, and other traditional instruments from Japan are heard m...

This book focuses on the modern cultures of Africa, from the consequences of the imposition of We...

Nineteenth-century French organ music attracts an ever-increasing number of performers and devote...

The Mismapping of America presents and analyzes the significant cartographic errors that have sha...

Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture is the first serious study of the singer actor's a...

This book introduces a theory of music analysis that one can use to explore aspects of segmentati...

Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Roche...

The harmonic language of the late nineteenth-century is studied here as a development of common-p...

Samuel Barber is one of America's most popular classical composers. His widely beloved works incl...

The essays in this volume, by one of America's leading authorities on Bach and Mozart, serve a si...

The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett(1894-1981) encompassed a wi...

This paperback edition of Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night addresses tolerance and ac...

This collection of essays, edited by Sheryl L. Meyering and with a foreword by Cathy N. Davidson,...

Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distin...

A celebration of Sinatra's enduring impact on American entertainment and cultural life. For nearl...

In the beginning there was noise. Drumming, the world's most ancient instrumental tradition, re-e...

...supported by a wealth of information --- often novel and fascinating --- which the author has ...

Covers the Italian Baroque period (1600-1730). Borgir rejects the notion that the basso continuo ...

Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg has been one of the most performed operas ever si...

This pioneering study examines aspects of figured bass notation and continuo realization in the H...

The study of Viennese harmonic theory has developed widely since Schoenberg educated a generation...

Scott Messing is a good digger. He successfully unearths the cultural politics out of which nouve...

Master interviewer Bálint András Varga poses three probing questions to renowned contemporary com...

Bálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For Th...

Maurice Duruflé The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and compose...

How do we build civil society? How does a society repair itself after violence? How do we live in...

The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins expl...

The first biography of the composer Gérard Grisey shows how the artist's sensuality and rigor cam...