Music History

The definitive history of Western music, now with Total Access. Combining current scholarship with cutting-edge pedagogy, the Ninth Edition of A Hi...

Barbara Hanning’s Concise History of Western Music offers students a manageable introduction to the forces that shaped music. Combining concision w...

by Christopher H. Gibbs and Richard Taruskin The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition, Second Edition, immerses students in the engagin...

The early seventeenth century, when the first operas were written and technical advances with far-reaching consequences—such as tonal music—began t...

With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new ...

This classic anthology assembles over 200 source readings, bringing to life the history of music through letters, reviews, biographical sketches, m...

"Nobody writes better about music .... again and again, unerring insight into just the features that make the music special and fine."—The New York...

A greatly expanded edition of the National Book Award-winning masterpiece by a world-class pianist and writer on music. This outstanding book treat...

Nineteenth-century music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Music in the Nineteenth Century examines the period from the Congress ...

“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”―Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transf...

Mark Bonds Learn the History of Music, through Music.   A History of Music in Western Culture, 4/e is based on the premise that the best way to con...

No one composer is at the centre of this fascinating story, but a larger picture emerges of a shift in musical scenery, from the world of the innoc...

The newly expanded recorded anthology features updated recordings from some of the best performers and ensembles working today alongside classic re...

Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional ch...

The third volume to appear in the magnum opus of A. Peter Brown takes as its topic the European symphony ca. 1800–ca. 1930 and is divided into two ...

by, Jeffrey Langford A History of the Symphony: The Grand Genre identifies the underlying cultural factors that have shaped the symphony over the p...

by Ted Gioia “A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched” (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifte...

Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creati...

Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums i...

Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers...

The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smither's monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical...