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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works ensures an objective knowledge of...

Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet...

What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay...

How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's...

This long-awaited new edition of Music in the Primary School is for all those involved...

Assessment in schools has become a hotly debated issue in education. In the wake of...

This book looks at two years in the life of the UK's first Specialist Music...

What are instrumental lessons for? And why do so many students want to 'give up'...

** Music in Mainland Southeast Asia is one of several case-study volumes that can be...

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current...

The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music offers a state-of-the-art cross-section of the most field-defining topics...

Take more than forty years of partnering celebrated soloists in concerts all over the world,...

Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev...

Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic research and applied practice that...

The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful but often overlooked presence...

From films ranging from An American in Paris and Flying Down to Rio to such...

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition is the largest, most comprehensive and accurate...

Handel's English church music spans the complete period of his active career in London: his...

The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth...

The Oxford History of World Cinema is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema...

The Oxford Companion to Music is one of the most famous music reference works of...

The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all the Gilbert &...

This book takes a radical approach to the study of traditional songs. Folk song scholarship...

China has over three hundred distinct styles of music drama, from exorcism theatre to farce,...

In a lively and engaging debate, Love, Power and Meaning outlines and challenges different critical...

The major choral works by Johann Sebastian Bach-the Christmas, Easter, and Ascension Oratorios, and the...

An exceptional text for undergraduate and graduate music students, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style uses a...

Perhaps the most renowned writer in the field of vocal pedagogy, Richard Miller has delivered...

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

First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, the Grove Book of Operas,...

The Musical Playground is a new and fascinating account of the musical play of school-aged...

Music in China is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with...

In The Naked Voice, W. Stephen Smith invites all singers to improve their vocal technique...

When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great,...

Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, Analytical Studies in World Music offers fresh...

The Oxford Handbooks are a major new cross-disciplinary initiative from Oxford University Press. Each volume...

This is the second volume of a two-volume translation of Heinrich Schenker's Der Tonwille (1921-24)....

Since its 1998 publication, the International Encyclopedia of Dance has been the definitive source on...

Since its initial publication in 1980, the Dictionary has been widely acclaimed as an indispensable...

Music in Brazil is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with...

Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide...

While many texts and courses on the art of singing offer comprehensive overviews of technique...

Music in Egypt is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with...