Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is acknowledged as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Western trad...

Nicholas Cook explores the nature of music, how we think about it, its social and cultural dimens...

The text is divided into two parts: part One deals with the most important analytical methods cur...

Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the musi...

This book interprets the music theory of Henrich Schenker (1868-1935) as part of a comprehensive ...

This book provides a practical guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation in ...

From the cylinder to the download, the practice of music has been radically transformed by the de...

Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of current thinking about music. In this bo...

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, first published in 2004, is an appraisal of the...

This book explores the adaptation and appropriation of a range of canonical and lesser-known Brit...

Digital technology has profoundly transformed almost all aspects of musical culture. This book ex...

Investigates the reasons behind the current disillisionment in democratic statecraft.Explores the...