Ethnomusicology

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Revisiting Music Theory: Basic Principles, Second Edition, surveys the basics of music theory and explains the terms used in harmonic and formal analysis in a clear and concise manner. Students will find Revisiting Music Theory to be an essential resource for review or reference, while instructors o..

Books on Handel written by musicians already abound, but musicians as a rule take more interest in the means by which an end is attained than the end itself. They tell us a great deal about the methods by which a composer expresses himself, but very little about what he actually has to express...

The second volume of Carl Friedrich Glasenapp's Life of Richard Wagner...

Revival: Life of Richard Wagner Vol. III (1903)..

Fourth volume of Carl Francis Glasenapp's Life of Richard Wagner...

This volume brings our story down to 1843, an important era in Richard Wagner’s Life, with his entry, as composer, of two successful operas, upon a so-called "practical" career at one of the principal German theatres...

A plethora of biographical accounts of some of the contemporary composers and musicians at the turn of the twentieth century...

An empirical study of imaginative responses to music...

A series of essays on reactions and emotional responses to music...

The culture of insurgents in early modern Europe was primarily an oral one; memories of social conflicts were passed on through oral forms such as songs and legends. This popular history influenced political choices and actions through and after the early modern period. This book examines many examp..

The rich local traditions of musical life in rural China are still little known. Music-making in village society is largely ceremonial, and shawm bands account for a major part of such music. This is the first major ethnographic study of Chinese shawm bands in their ceremonial and social context. Ba..