Gunter Wagner 
Jahrbuch des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung (SIM) Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1997 [PDF ebook] 

This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays …

Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide, Second Edition presents researchers with the most significant and helpful resources on Olivier Messiaen, one of the twentieth century»s greatest c …

Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in th …

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 …

America’s Songs II: Songs from the 1890»s to the Post-War Years continues to tell the stories behind popular songs in our country’s history, serving as a sequel to the bestselling America’s Songs: S …

Popular Christmas Carol for Elementary Piano A Silver Tonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead! …

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 …

Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to audience responses and me …

The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.S. Bach»s music and information about him. Hitherto this subject has been called »the English Bach revival», but that is a mi …

Charles Avison»s Essay on Musical Expression, first published in 1752, is a major contribution to the debate on musical aesthetics which developed in the course of the 18th century. Considered by Ch …