Music

�In a word, I shall endeavour to show how our music, having been originally a shell-fish, with its restrictive skeleton on the outside and no soul within, has been developed by the inevitable laws of …

The music of the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in recent years. Despite wide recognition in his own lifetime, Szymanowski‘s works were somewhat ov …

As shown by the ever-increasing volume of recordings, editions and performances of the vast repertory of secular cantatas for solo voice produced, primarily in Italy, in the second half of the sevent …

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was one of Britain”s leading composers: his music is frequently performed throughout Europe, the United States (where he lived and worked) and Japan. He is particularly r …

This title was first published in 2003. This work considers the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studies perspective. Michael Brocken provides a historical narrative of the folk …

The Music of Malaysia, first published in Malay in 1997 and followed by an English edition in 2004 is still the only history, appreciation and analysis of Malaysian music in its many and varied forms …

California Schemin”is the remarkable real life story of how two rappers from Dundee pretended to be two rappers from California and duped the record industry out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. …

This volume explores not only the close ties that link the cultures and musics of East and Northeast Asia, but also the distinctive features that separate them. …

Sir Paul Mc Cartney first picked up a guitar as a bereaved teenager in 1956. In the fifty years since he”s become the most successful pop music composer in history, enjoying a virtual season ticket …

This is a hacks-only version of Part 1 in the series: Hack Music Theory. Each hack delivers all the vital info you need to know about each topic. Read through all these hacks in a half hour, and you’ …