David Trippett & Benjamin Walton 
Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination [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 …

What can infants hear? What are their reactions to music? Is it useful for them to sing and listen to music? Is their auditory sensitivity developed before their birth? At what age do they start sing …

HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism explores a fast-growing and transnational movement of street bands—particularly brass and percussion ensembles—and examines how this exciting phe …

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927–2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical s …

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 …

While attention has been paid to various aspects of music education in China, to date no single publication has systematically addressed the complex interplay of sociopolitical transformations underl …

Shostakovich”s music is often described as being dynamic, energetic. But what is meant by ”energy” in music? After setting out a broad conceptual framework for approaching this question, Michael R …

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 …

Schubert Studies comprises eleven essays by renowned Schubert scholars and performers. The volume sheds light on certain aspects of Schubert‘s music and biography which have hitherto remained relativ …

Mozart”s piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies as his most frequently performed and best loved music. They have attracted the attention of generations of musicologists who have e …