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Routledge Music Companions

About the Book Series

Routledge Music Companions offer thorough, high-quality surveys and assessments of major topics in the study of music. All entries in each companion are specially commissioned and written by leading scholars in the field. Clear, accessible, and cutting-edge, these companions are the ideal resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers alike.

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34 Series Titles


The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology

The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology

1st Edition

Edited By Jonathan P. J. Stock, Beverley Diamond
May 27, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology is an in-depth survey of the moral challenges and imperatives of conducting research on people making music. It focuses on fundamental and compelling ethical questions that have challenged and shaped both the history of this ...

The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

1st Edition

Edited By Rachael Durkin
May 27, 2024

Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of ...

The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy Before, In, and Beyond Higher Education

The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy: Before, In, and Beyond Higher Education

1st Edition

Edited By Kent Cleland, Paul Fleet
December 19, 2022

The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy offers a comprehensive survey of issues, practice, and current developments in the teaching of aural skills. The volume regards aural training as a lifelong skill that is engaged with before, during, and after university or conservatoire studies in ...

The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies

The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Nicholas Gebhardt, Nichole Rustin-Paschal, Tony Whyton
December 13, 2021

The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies presents over forty articles from internationally renowned scholars and highlights the strengths of current jazz scholarship in a cross-disciplinary field of enquiry. Each chapter reflects on developments within jazz studies over the last twenty-five years, ...

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical

1st Edition

Edited By Jessica Sternfeld, Elizabeth L. Wollman
December 13, 2021

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical’s evolving relationship to American culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In the past decade-and-a-half, international scholars from an ever-widening number of disciplines and ...

The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy

The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy

1st Edition

Edited By Leigh VanHandel
September 30, 2021

Today’s music theory instructors face a changing environment, one where the traditional lecture format is in decline. The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy addresses this change head-on, featuring battle-tested lesson plans alongside theoretical discussions of music theory curriculum and...

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor

1st Edition

Edited By Thomas M. Kitts, Nick Baxter-Moore
December 18, 2020

An essential part of human expression, humor plays a role in all forms of art, and humorous and comedic aspects have always been part of popular music. For the first time, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor draws together scholarship exploring how the element of humor interacts with...

The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching out with Technology

The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching out with Technology

1st Edition

Edited By Simon Emmerson
December 18, 2020

The theme of this Research Companion is 'connectivity and the global reach of electroacoustic music and sonic arts made with technology'. The possible scope of such a companion in the field of electronic music has changed radically over the last 30 years. The definitions of the field itself are now...

The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music

The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music

1st Edition

Edited By Björn Heile, Charles Wilson
December 18, 2020

Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades following the Second World War, before becoming the object of widespread critique in the last two decades of...

The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being

The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being

1st Edition

Edited By Penelope Gouk, James Kennaway, Jacomien Prins, Wiebke Thormahlen
September 30, 2020

In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic. Scientific research and new neuro-imaging technologies have provided extraordinary new insights into how music affects our brains and bodies, and researchers in fields ranging from psychology ...

The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach

The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach

1st Edition

Edited By Robin Leaver
September 30, 2020

The Ashgate Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach provides an indispensable introduction to the Bach research of the past thirty-fifty years. It is not a lexicon providing information on all the major aspects of Bach's life and work, such as the Oxford Composer Companion: J. S. Bach. Nor is ...

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis Expanding Approaches

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches

1st Edition

Edited By Ciro Scotto, Kenneth M. Smith, John Brackett
June 30, 2020

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the ...

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