Roberta Montemorra Marvin 
Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia [PDF ebook] 

The musical tradition of Ma »luf is believed to have come to North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries. Alth …

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 …

The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book to examine the concept of attention in …

This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology …

The double bass – the preferred bass instrument in popular music during the 1960s – was challenged and subsequently superseded by the advent of a new electric bass instrument. From the mid-1960s and …

Chopin »s twenty-four Préludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin »s Préludes to be compositions in their own right …

Eroticism in Early Modern Music contributes to a small but significant literature on music, sexuality, and sex in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from a long dialog …

Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia »s war of independence f …

As Robert Schumann put it,  »Only few works are as clearly stamped with their author »s imprint as his ». This book explores Schubert »s stylistic traits in a series of chapters each discussing an in …

John Merbecke (c.1505-c.1585) is most famous as the composer of the first musical setting of the English liturgy, The Booke of Common Praier Noted (BCPN), published in 1550. Not only was Merbecke a p …