Jim Samson 
Cambridge Companion to Chopin [PDF ebook] 

This book challenges and replaces the existing view of Mallarm mission to ”re-possess” music on behalf of poetic language. Traditionally, this view focused on only the last fifteen years of the poe …

The career of Gabriel Faur‘s a composer of songs for voice and piano traverses six decades (1862-1921); almost the whole history of French m die is contained within these parameters. In the 1860s Fau …

American writer, composer, artist, and philosopher John Cage (1912–92) is best known for his experimental composition 4’33, ” a musical score in which the performer does not play an instrument during …

So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword by Deborah Curtis , presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the …

Published in 1944, this book considers musical theory and music history to create a short but comprehensive guide to the history of harmony and thus a discourse on what we understand harmony to be in …

First published in 1997, this volume demonstrates that through his activities as a composer, historian, lecturer and administrator, Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918) played a significant role in British m …

An essential part of human expression, humor plays a role in all forms of art, and humorous and comedic aspects have always been part of popular music. For the first time, The Routledge Companion to …

This title was first published in 2000: Catalan-born composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) left significant legacies – both musical and documentary. Exiled in Cambridge with the onset of the Spanish C …

From Hitler”s notorious fondness for Wagner”s operas to classical music”s role in fuelling German chauvinism in the era of the world wars, many observers have pointed to a distinct relationship be …

Though individual pieces from the late fifteenth century are widely accepted as being written for instruments rather than voices, they are traditionally considered as exceptions within the context of …