Johann Sebastian Bach 
Partita for Flute by J. S. Bach [PDF ebook] 

Taking up questions and issues in early chant studies, this volume of essays addresses some of the topics raised in James Mc Kinnon»s The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Ro …

Made in Poland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Polish popular music. Each essay, written by a leading schola …

Whilst these records were being conceived, rehearsed, recorded and produced, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images. These ranged from obsessive, insomniac scrawls in biro to six-foot …

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 …

Performing Arts in Changing Societies is a detailed exploration of genre development within the fields of dance, theatre, and opera in selected European countries during the decades before and after …

This anthology to accompany Gateways to Understanding Music is comprised of musical ‘texts.’ These broadly defined texts—primarily musical scores—facilitate the integration of score study and music t …

This book, the first full-length text on the subject, explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car. It presents the relationship between cars and music in an effort to understand …

This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of the Spheres, emanating from cosmic harmon …

Though The Velvet Underground were critically and commercially unsuccessful in their time, in ensuing decades they have become a constant touchstone in art rock, punk, post-punk, indie, avant pop and …

"The Great German Composers" by George T. Ferris is a comprehensive masterpiece in classical music history books, offering insightful biographies of prominent German composers. Through meti …