Robin A. Leaver & Jan Smaczny 
Exploring Bach’s B-minor Mass [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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates how music reflects and deepens both individual and cultural understandings. Mu …

On July 12, 1962, London”s Marquee Club debuted a new act, a blues-inflected rock band named after a Muddy Waters song – The Rolling Stones. They were a hard-edged band with a flair for the dramatic …

Interested in promoting, selling, and distributing music online? Have the website but not sure what to do next? Web Marketing for the Music Business is designed to help develop the essential Internet …

The double bass – the preferred bass instrument in popular music during the 1960s – was challenged and subsequently superseded by the advent of a new electric bass instrument.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

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 …