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Routledge World Music Pedagogy: World Music Pedagogy Volume V: Choral Music Education (Paperback)

World Music Pedagogy Volume V: Choral Music Education explores specific applications of the World Music Pedagogy process to choral music education in elementary middle and high school contexts as well as within community settings. The text provides... more

Routledge World Music Pedagogy World Music Pedagogy Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education (Hardcover)

World Music Pedagogy Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education addresses a pedagogical pathway of varied strategies for teaching world music in higher education offering concrete means for diversifying undergraduate studies through world... more

Routledge Global Popular Music: Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music (Paperback)

Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history sociology and musicology of contemporary Greek popular music. Each essay covers the major figures styles and social contexts of pop music in... more

Routledge Music and Screen Media: Music Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema (Hardcover)

Music Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye but also for the ear. The bulk of the text focuses on the work of directors Wes Anderson Ingmar... more

Routledge Research in Music: Liveness in Modern Music: Musicians Technology and the Perception of Performance (Hardcover)

This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music where... more

Routledge Music and Screen Media: Music Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema (Paperback)

Music Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye but also for the ear. The bulk of the text focuses on the work of directors Wes Anderson Ingmar... more

Routledge Music Companions: The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music (Hardcover)

The recent resurgence of experimental music has given rise to a more divergent range of practices than has previously been the case. The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music reflects these recent developments by providing examples of... more

Routledge Studies in Popular Music: Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture (Paperback)

Is goth music a genre and if so how does it relate to the goth subculture? The music played at goth club nights and festivals encompasses a broad range of musical substyles from gloomy Batcave reverberations to neo-medieval bagpipe drones and from the... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)

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 sources which deal with him his compositions and his... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: Charles Francois Gounod: A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)

Charles François Gounod: 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 sources which deal with him and his compositions. more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: The Madrigal (Hardcover)

The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarship on virtually all aspects of madrigal composition production and consumption. It contains 1 237 entries for items in English French German... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide is a valuable tool for any scholar performer or music student interested in accessing the most pertinent resources on the life works and cultural context of the composer. It is an updated... more

Routledge Research in Music: Opera Emotion and the Antipodes Volume II: Applied Perspectives: Compositions and Performances (Paperback)

There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera s staging to the reactions and critiques of... more

The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching Out with Technology (Hardcover)

The theme of this Research Companion is connectivity and the global reach of electroacoustic music and sonic arts made with technology . The possible scope of such a companion in the field of electronic music has changed radically over the last 30... more

Routledge Studies in Popular Music Reading Smile: History Myth and American Identity in Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks Long-Lost Album (Hardcover)

First conceived in 1966 but only completed in 2004 Brian Wilson Presents Smile has been called the best-known unreleased album in pop music history and an American Sergeant Pepper. Reading Smile offers a close analysis of the recording in its social... more

Routledge Research in Music: Singers Scores and Sounds: Making New Connections and Transforming Voices (Paperback)

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings singers and singing.　 Centred around materials from the mid-twentieth century this book focuses on a time when... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: Edward Elgar: A Thematic Catalogue and Research Guide (Hardcover)

This updated second edition is an in-depth exploration of Elgar s compositions and of writings by and about the composer and his music. The past 16 years have seen a steady increase in scholarly publications and the emergence of The Elgar Society... more

Routledge African Studies: Music Performance and African Identities (Hardcover)

Cutting across countries genres and time periods this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years using music to tell a larger story about the cultures... more

Routledge Key Guides: Music Business: The Key Concepts (Paperback)

Music Business: The Key Concepts is a comprehensive guide to the terminology commonly used in the music business today. It embraces definitions from a number of relevant fields including: general business marketing e-commerce intellectual property law... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: Global Jazz: A Research and Information Guide (Paperback)

Global Jazz: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that explores the global impact of jazz detailing the evolution of the African American musical tradition as it has been absorbed transformed and expanded across the world s... more

Routledge Studies in Musical Genres Nineteenth-Century Piano Music (Paperback)

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. more

Routledge Research in Music: Musical Topics and Musical Performance (Hardcover)

The principal purpose of topics in musicology has been to identify meaning-bearing units within a musical composition that would have been understood by contemporary audiences and therefore also by later receivers albeit in a different context and with... more

Routledge Advances in Sociology: Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity (Hardcover)

In the first decade of the twentieth-century many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance.... more

Routledge Studies in Musical Genres: Twentieth-Century Organ Music (Paperback)

This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition the most significant composers and their works and the evolving role of the instrument and its music. The twentieth-century was a time... more

Routledge Research in Music: Singers Scores and Sounds: Making New Connections and Transforming Voices (Hardcover)

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings singers and singing. Centred around materials from the mid-twentieth century this book focuses on a time when composers... more

Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology: Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut (Hardcover)

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 country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music and... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)

Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography to books recordings videos and websites in the field of ethnomusicology. The book is divided into two parts. Part One is organized by resource type in categories of greatest... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: Johannes Brahms: A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)

First published in 2011. Johannes Brahms: 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 sources which deal with him... more

Routledge Research in Music Shaping Sound and Society: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments (Hardcover)

This volume brings together leading voices from the new wave of research on musical instruments to consider how we can connect the material aspects of instruments with their social function approaches that have been otherwise too frequently separated... more

Routledge Studies in Musical Genres: Nineteenth-Century Choral Music (Paperback)

Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction... more

Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music: Tin Pan Alley (Paperback)

In Tin Pan Alley we see the beginnings of the pop world as we now know it: commercial constantly capturing exploiting or even occasionally creating a public mood. The Alleymen were workers as much as artists. This book first published in 1982 explores... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: Paul Hindemith: A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)

Paul Hindemith: 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 sources which deal with him his compositions and his... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies Blues Funk Rhythm and Blues Soul Hip Hop and Rap: A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)

Despite the influence of African American music and study as a worldwide phenomenon no comprehensive and fully annotated reference tool currently exists that covers the wide range of genres. This much needed bibliography fills an important gap in this... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: Gabriel Faure: A Guide to Research (Hardcover)

First published in 2011 this research study includes a biography section as well as the works of Gabriel Urbain Fauré born on 12 May 1845. Much of Fauré s music especially the late pieces remain little played and little known--as a result his... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)

William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide is a catalogue discography and annotated bibliography of the nearly 500 works of this twentieth-century British composer. It will be invaluable to twentieth-century British composer researchers and... more

Routledge Music Bibliographies: Quincy Jones: A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)

Quincy Jones: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and discography on one of the most prolific composers arrangers and conductors in American music. This reference work will appeal to wide range of musicologists... more

Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology: The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance (Paperback)

This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon the... more

Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology: The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance (Hardcover)

This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon the... more