Scott F. Madey & Dean D. VonDras 
Music, Wellness, and Aging [PDF ebook] 
Defining, Directing, and Celebrating Life

The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular …

Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social …

Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music. This annotated bibliography is an exh …

Born in 1885 in Porto, Portugal, to a middle-class musical family, Guilhermina Suggia began playing cello at the age of five. A child prodigy, she was already a seasoned performer when she won a scho …

While it’s one thing plugging in a Keyboard and playing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", it’s quite another discovering all the possibilities of harmony, chords and counterpoint. The key to b …

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 …

First Published in 1995. Il primo libro delle musiche (Venice, 1618) …

Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary so …

Intended as a supplement to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850, this Companion provides additional information which, largely for reasons of space but also of contin …