Alan Walker 
Reflections on Liszt [PDF ebook] 

Beginning with an introductory essay on his achievements, it continues with annotations on Bernstein”s voluminous writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary sources. …

The Directory of Choral-Orchestral Music is the most comprehensive index of music written for orchestra with chorus in print today.Offering performance information about choral works by more than 900 …

How has the history of rock ‘n’ roll been told? Has it become formulaic? Or remained, like the music itself, open to outside influences? Who have been the genre’s primary historians? What common fram …

Thai classical singing is a genre that blossomed during the golden age of music in the royal court at Bangkok during the nineteenth century. It took a variety of forms including unaccompanied songs u …

Discussion of tonal structure has been one of the most problematic and controversial aspects of modern study of Medieval and Renaissance polyphony. These new essays written specifically for this volu …

Made in Italy serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Italian popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Italian …

While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have includ …

The Operatic Problem delves into various issues surrounding opera as a form of musical and theatrical performance. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the challenges and artistic dilemmas faced i …

Analysing over 100 recordings from 1945-1975, this book examines twentieth-century baroque performance practice as evinced in all the commercially available recordings of J.S. Bach”s Passions, Brand …

Antonio Gardano”s publications are among the most important sources of 16th-century music. The second volume describes the output of this leading Italian music press in its cultural, bibliographical …