Peter Benjaminson 
Mary Wells [EPUB ebook] 
The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar

A comprehensive, engaging and timely Bakhtinian examination of the ways in which the music and lyrics of Pacific reggae, aspects of performance, a record album cover and the social and political cont …

First Published in 1997. Seydelmann“s four-hand sonatas are delightful pieces of music, written for the intimate pleasure of both performers. The two parts are consistently of equal technical …

The purpose of this series is to provide a large repertory 17th century Italian sacred music in clear modern editions that are both practical and faithful to the original …

First published in 1988. The Libro di fra Gioseffo da Ravenna is one of the largest early anthologies of Italian keyboard music: it covers a wide range of styles and genres from the final decades of …

The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-“l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr is the only theoretical text of any substance that can be considered representative of musicological discourse in Cairo during the first …

This biography tells the story of Alice May, a touring prima donna in the nineteenth century who travelled from England to Australia, New Zealand, India and the US, taking part in pioneering …

Armed only with turntables, a mixer and a pile of records, hip-hop DJs and turntable musicians have changed the face of music. However, whilst hip-hop has long been recognised as an influential …

Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade, The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle“s output. …

Since the publication of Solomon Volkov“s disputed memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, the composer and his music has been subject to heated debate concerning how the musical meaning of his works can be …