Philip Rupprecht 
Britten’s Musical Language [PDF ebook] 

Music and War in the United States introduces students to the long and varied history of music”s role in war. Spanning the history of wars involving the United States from the American Revolution to …

A wry, funny and fascinating memoir from the German prince who fuelled the success of the Rolling Stones ”This is one of the funniest rock books I”ve read” New Statesman ” Unusually frank, enjoya …

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 …

Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of compositi …

In higher music education, learning in social settings (orchestras, choirs, bands, chamber music and so on) is prevalent, yet understanding of such learning rests heavily on the transmission of knowl …

20th-Century Chamber Music features an introduction giving a chronological overview of 20th-century chamber music and the major composers in the style, setting in context the following chapters that …

Shostakovich”s music is often described as being dynamic, energetic. But what is meant by ”energy” in music? After setting out a broad conceptual framework for approaching this question, Michael R …

The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction captures a new paradigm in the study of music interaction, as a wave of recent research focuses on the role of the human body in musical experien …

This book explores the highly-valued, and often highly-charged, ideal of authenticity in hip-hop — what it is, why it is important, and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing …

This collection of eight ”lectures” by internationally acclaimed pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as part of the Benja …