James Jordan & Mark Moliterno 
Musician’s Breath [PDF ebook] 
The Role of Breathing in Human Expression

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 …

Elliott Smith was one of the most gifted songwriters of the nineties, adored by worshipful fans for his subtly melancholic words and melodies. The sadness had its sources in the life. There was traum …

This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a cou …

A history of the English music festival is long overdue. Dr Pippa Drummond argues that these festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during the nineteenth cen …

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 …

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 …

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 …

What is it about the history, geographical position and cultures of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia that has made music such a potent and powerful agent? This volume presents the first …

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 …

John Merbecke (c.1505-c.1585) is most famous as the composer of the first musical setting of the English liturgy, The Booke of Common Praier Noted (BCPN), published in 1550. Not only was Merbecke a p …