David Byrne 
How Music Works [EPUB 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 …

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 …

Music After Deleuze explores how Deleuzian concepts offer interesting ways of thinking about a wide range of musics. The concepts of difference, identity and repetition offer novel approaches to West …

Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction presents new insights into the study of musical rhythm through investigations of the micro-rhythmic design of groove-based music. The main purpose of …

The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and Indigenous cultures, ho …

While the musical culture of the British Isles in the  »long nineteenth century » has been reclaimed from obscurity by musicologists in the last thirty years, appraisal of operatic culture in the lat …

Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students. ‘Creative composition’-composing in your own style, rather than in the style of a composer of the past-is emb …

Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer, beginning with the majestic works of Beethoven, and continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, …

As a popular music, the evolution of jazz is tied to the contemporary sociological situation. Jazz was brought from America into a very different environment in Britain and resulted in the establishm …

Music! It is the great pleasure of this city, the great occupation of the drawing-rooms, which have banished politics, and which have renounced literature, from ennui. Jules Janin, An American in Par …