Music Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music

   Edited by Theodore Gracyk, Andrew Kania

   Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions

   The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections: general issues emotion...

   Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Masculinity in Opera

   Edited by Philip Purvis

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has...

   Published June 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. International Dictionary of Music Therapy

   Edited by Kevin Kirkland

   The therapeutic uses of music can vary greatly from one part of a country to the next, from one therapist to the next and across national and continental lines. This groundbreaking work is the first to bring together the expertise of an international array of contributors into one resource. The...

   Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Radio's New Wave

   Global Sound in the Digital Era

   Edited by Jason Loviglio, Michele Hilmes

   Radio’s New Wave explores the evolution of audio media and sound scholarship in the digital age. Extending and updating the focus of their widely acclaimed 2001 book The Radio Reader, Hilmes and Loviglio gather together innovative work by both established and rising scholars to explore the ways...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. On Music

   By Theodore Gracyk

   Series: Thinking in Action

   Opinionated and example-filled, this extremely concise and accessible book provides a survey of some fundamental and longstanding debates about the nature of music. The central arguments and ideas of historical and contemporary philosophers are presented with the goal of making them as accessible...

   Published May 27th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Studio SOS Book

   Solutions and Techniques for the Project Recording Studio

   By Paul White, Hugh Robjohns, Dave Lockwood

   Series: Sound On Sound Presents...

   Professional studio design is a specialized science, with more than a touch of "black magic" thrown in. Over the past few years, Sound on Sound magazine has made one trip each month to a reader’s studio. These visits have demonstrated that it is fairly simple to make a huge improvement to an...

   Published April 25th 2013 by Focal Press
7. Music Production: Recording

   A Guide for Producers, Engineers, and Musicians

   By Carlos Lellis

   The sound recorder is the ‘mirror with a memory’ for those who listen. With it we can capture glimpses of our reality, producing ‘pictures’ as we express ourselves. These may ultimately serve as reminders of who we were and of our dreams… Your recordings are the vehicle for your compositions....

   Published April 18th 2013 by Focal Press
8. The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music

   Edited by Jonathan Savage

   The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight, guidance and clarity about key issues affecting Music teachers. The book brings together key extracts from classic and contemporary...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. The Music Documentary

   Acid Rock to Electropop

   Edited by Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. International Who's Who in Classical Music 2013

    29th Edition

    Edited by Europa Publications

    Series: Biographical Reference Series

    The International Who’s Who in Classical Music 2013 is a vast source of biographical and contact information for singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors, managers and more. Each entrant has been given the opportunity to update his or her information for the new improved...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge