An illuminating guide for aspiring musicians on all aspects of the professional music world

The first book to study the ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States.

Illuminating the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Malcolm Boyd's classic biography has provided generations with an acclaimed portrait of this musical giant. Now, in the wake of important new findings by Bach historians, the important work has been updated and expanded--offering the most accurate and compelling study of Bach available today.

The most comprehensive handbook on music cognition and development available.

With thorough coverage of the most important research schemata, this book represents the most comprehensive material on research in music education that has been published.

First analysis of the cultural sources and impact of Alvin Ailey's work.

Renowned vocal pedagogue Shirlee Emmons and leading choral director Constance Chase equip choral directors with the practical tools they need to help singers achieve peak choral performance.

A user-friendly lexicon containing more than 2,000 carefully researched entries that supply information on most of the mythological, historical, geographical, and literary references contained in western art song. It is designed to help singers and accompanists enhance their performances of art songs by providing them with the background on the many references embedded in this vast repertoire.

This interdisciplinary collection explores courtesan cultures in ancient Greece, renaissance Italy, east Asia and the Indian subcontinent, past and present, to show how the arts have figured in the courtesan's survival and demise.

Beth and Jonathan Glixon provide a comprehensive view of opera production in mid seventeenth-century Venice.

Newly annotated collection of canonical articles by prominent music theorist David Lewin.

This volume presents for the first time over 500 letters between Gustav Mahler and his family.

The first comprehensive guide to materials for research on J.S. Bach.

Uses both literary and musicological methods to illuminate some of Mozart's best-loved operas.

First book in over fifty years to concentrate on the works themselves rather than the composers' biographies, and employs a controversial thesis to boot.