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The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Music and Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachael Durkin, Katharina Clausius, Christin Hoene, Katherine Butler
June 29, 2026
The entanglement of music and literature of the early modern period is rich with exchanges, dialogues, and disputes. These entanglements present a fascinating counterpoint to early modernity, and in many ways serve as complicit witnesses to their times and places. The Routledge Companion to Early ...
The Routledge Companion to Voice and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Amy Skjerseth, Freya Jarman, Naomi Andre
June 17, 2026
This collection pushes the boundaries of studies and practices of voice–not only past essential, transcendental, and universal notions of voicing, but also to understudied arenas of voice and identity, especially in race, disability, aging, geographical, Indigenous, trans, and other contexts. The ...
The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeremy Barham
September 28, 2025
In a major expansion of the conversation on music and film history, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era draws together a wide-ranging collection of scholarship on music in global cinema during the transition from silent to sound films (the late 1920s to the 1940s). ...
The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Dromey
June 27, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics, artist-researchers, and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology. Once a field that addressed music’s socio-political or performative contexts, applied musicology ...
The Routledge Companion to Teaching Music Composition in Schools: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsty Devaney, Martin Fautley, Joana Grow, Annette Ziegenmeyer
May 05, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Teaching Music Composition in Schools: International Perspectives offers a comprehensive overview of teaching composing from a wide range of countries around the world. Addressing the current state of composition pedagogy from primary to secondary school levels and beyond...
The Routledge Companion to Music, Autoethnography, and Reflexivity
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Gouzouasis, Christopher Wiley
December 18, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Music, Autoethnography, and Reflexivity represents a substantial contribution to the field of writing reflexively about an individual’s practice within music studies. In seven sections, 22 original chapters by a diverse set of contributors consider writing about personal ...
The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ádám Havas, Bruce Johnson, David Horn
November 15, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories, and cultural criticism. It rests on the argument that diasporic ...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music
1st Edition
By Keith Potter, Kyle Gann
October 14, 2024
In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. Scholars have also been turning their attention to the work of lesser-known ...
The Roberto Gerhard Companion
1st Edition
By Monty Adkins, Michael Russ
October 14, 2024
More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to attract international scholarly interest. The Roberto Gerhard Companion is the first full length scholarly work on this composer noted for his sharp intellect and...
The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender
1st Edition
Edited
By James Reddan, Monika Herzig, Michael Kahr
October 04, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe. Such interrogation requires ...
The Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Clint Randles, Pamela Burnard
August 26, 2024
Viewing the plurality of creativity in music as being of paramount importance to the field of music education, The Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music Education provides a wide-ranging survey of practice and research perspectives. Bringing together philosophical and applied foundations, ...
The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Hamer, Helen Julia Minors
August 13, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of women’s participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present. Global in scope, with contributors from over thirty countries, this book reveals...