Music

First Published in 1998. A New Series Fills a Void in 17th-Century Italian Music Drawing on the riches of a largely unknown repertoire, this innovative series makes available in modern score a large …

A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown; from Woodstock and the ”Summer of Love” …

The music industries hinge on entrepreneurship. The recent, rapid convergence of media and the parallel ongoing evolution of music businesses have again seen the focus shift to independent companies …

Translating for Singing discusses the art and craft of translating singable lyrics, a topic of interest in a wide range of fields, including translation, music, creative writing, cultural studies, pe …

In France during the 1960s and 1970s, popular music became a key component of socio-cultural modernisation as the music/record industry became increasingly important in both economic and cultural ter …

Nicholas Medtner (1880-1951) has always been a neglected figure in the history of Russian music, and yet his friend Rachmaninoff considered him the greatest of contemporary composers. He wrote three …

How, in 1705, was Thomas Salmon, a parson from Bedfordshire, able to persuade the Royal Society that a musical performance could constitute a scientific experiment? Or that the judgement of a musical …

This title was first published in 2002. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of Britain”s most distinguished composers. This source book documents as much of the material on his music as is available to …

Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in th …

"Chopin: the Man and His Music" by James Huneker is a comprehensive biography that delves into the life and musical genius of the renowned composer Frederic Chopin. Huneker’s book serves as …