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Music in Ancient Greece and Romeby John Landels
Routledge 1998; US$ 40.95Music in Ancient Greece and Rome presents a comprehensive introduction to the study of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Trahan, presented in concise and user-friendly chapters, with suggestions for further reading. more...
Operaby Edward O.D. Downes; Guy A. Marco
Routledge 2001; US$ 175.00Covering over 320 composers and 43 countries, this book will be invaluable to opera scholars, researchers and serious listeners throughout the world. more...
Frederic Chopinby William Smialek
Routledge 2000; US$ 150.00The Chopin legend is considered through studies of the performance tradition and a discography of recent and reissued recordings. This book also features short essays on the historiography of Chopin research and the direction of scholarship. more...
Gabriel Fauréby Edward R. Phillips
Routledge 1999; US$ 125.00This work is part of a series which presents information on composers. Each volume offers annotated lists of all writings in major languages plus lists of works by the composers, biographical sketches and guides to library resources, organizations more...
A Schnittke Readerby Alfred Schnittke; Alexander Ivashkin
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 19.95This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with musical examples, many of them in Schnittke's own hand. In A Schnittke Reader, the composer speaks of his life, his works, other composers, performers, and a broad range of topics in 20th-century music. The volume is rounded out with reflections by some of Schnittke's contemporaries. more...
Hearing Filmby Anahid Kassabian
Routledge 2001; US$ 38.95Hearing Film offers the first critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film. more...
Operatic Stateby Ruth Bereson
Routledge 2002; US$ 120.00Bereson investigates the elite and privileged status of the closed-world of opera, and the way states have financed and supported it since its beginnings. more...
Elliott Carterby John F. Link
Garland Science 2000; US$ 120.00A comprehensive guide to research on the American composer Elliott Carter. Contains a chronology, complete list of works, detailed books, articles, interviews, video recordings and Carter's own writings. more...
Ethnomusicologyby Jennifer Post
Routledge 2003; US$ 120.00An annotated bibliography of books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of ethnomusicology. more...
Electronic and Experimental Musicby Thomas B. Holmes
Routledge 2002; US$ 37.95The second edition of the classic text on the history of electronic music, this book has been thoroughly updated to present material on home computers, the Internet, as well as enlarged sections on history and theoretical issues. more...