Art

Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in...

Foundations of Music Technology explores the core concepts of music technology and its uses as...

From Berlin to Boston, and St Petersburg to Sydney, ancient Egyptian art fills the galleries...

'The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern...

Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth...

John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral...

This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how...

In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very...

Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as...

Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the narrative and...

The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural...

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts...

Johann Sebastian Bach's two surviving passions--St. John and St. Matthew--are an essential part of the...

Folk songs are short stories from the souls of common people. Some, like Mexican corridos...

Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at ColonusSophocles stands as one of...

Music Theory through Musical Theatre takes a new and powerful approach to music theory. Written...

Between September 2006 and December 2008, Simon Bikindi stood trial at the International Criminal Tribunal...

A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the...

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media surveys the contemporary landscape of...

This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach....

Taking up where Early Jazz (OPB, #6.95) leaves off, this second volume of Gunther Schuller's...

More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at...

Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and...

Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's...

Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization...

With peerless talent and unrivalled international presence, few stars shone brighter in the heady firmament...

In this new edition of their groundbreaking Kodály Today, Mícheál Houlahan and Philip Tacka offer...

The Desiring-Image yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on...

Singers must equip themselves with enough knowledge to clearly convey specific sensations and difficulties with...

The Art of Music Production is the first book to comprehensively analyze and describe the...

Based on educational theory and on recognized music teaching methods, Theory and Practice of Technology-Based...

A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of...

Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new...

Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on...

"Pygmy music" has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and music for decades if not...

Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les...

The lute was one of the most important instruments in use in Europe from late...

A monumental accomplishment from the age of Enlightenment, the string quartets of Joseph Haydn hold...

The Baroque Clarinet is a sourcebook for the historical study of the European clarinet during...

Broadway Yearbook 2000-2001 is a relevant and irreverent record of the theatrical year. A vivid...

What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this adventurous new...

Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is...