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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 Sounding Art

The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art

1st Edition

Edited By Marcel Cobussen, Vincent Meelberg, Barry Truax
June 30, 2020

The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art presents an overview of the issues, methods, and approaches crucial for the study of sound in artistic practice. Thirty-six essays cover a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to studying sounding art from the fields of musicology, cultural studies, sound ...

The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking

The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking

1st Edition

Edited By Suzel A. Reily, Katherine Brucher
June 30, 2020

WINNER OF THE 2019 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE FOR EDITED COLLECTIONSThe Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking provides a reference to how, cross-culturally, musicking constructs locality and how locality is constructed by the musicking that takes place within it, ...

The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction

The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction

1st Edition

Edited By Micheline Lesaffre, Pieter-Jan Maes, Marc Leman
December 10, 2019

The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction captures a new paradigm in the study of music interaction, as a wave of recent research focuses on the role of the human body in musical experiences. This volume brings together a broad collection of work that explores all aspects of this new ...

The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition

The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Ashley, Renee Timmers
December 10, 2019

WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF MUSIC THEORY’S 2019 CITATION OF SPECIAL MERIT FOR MULTI-AUTHORED VOLUMES The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition addresses fundamental questions about the nature of music from a psychological perspective. Music cognition is presented as the field that investigates the ...

The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education

The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education

1st Edition

Edited By Andrew King, Evangelos Himonides, S. Alex Ruthmann
December 10, 2019

The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education is a comprehensive resource that draws together burgeoning research on the use of technology in music education around the world. Rather than following a procedural how-to approach, this companion considers technology, musicianship, and ...

The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound

The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound

1st Edition

Edited By Miguel Mera, Ronald Sadoff, Ben Winters
December 10, 2019

The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with forms of narrative media such as television, videogames, and film. The inclusive framework of "screen music ...

The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture

The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Shephard, Anne Leonard
April 25, 2019

As a coherent field of research, the field of music and visual culture has seen rapid growth in recent years. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture serves as the first comprehensive reference on the intersection between these two areas of study, an ideal introduction for those coming ...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell

1st Edition

Edited By Rebecca Herissone
June 07, 2017

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the environment of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field. Seen from the perspective of modern, interdisciplinary approaches to ...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

1st Edition

Edited By Derek B. Scott
December 23, 2009

The research presented in this volume is very recent, and the general approach is that of rethinking popular musicology: its purpose, its aims, and its methods. Contributors to the volume were asked to write something original and, at the same time, to provide an instructive example of a particular...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music

The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music

1st Edition

Edited By James Saunders
September 16, 2009

The recent resurgence of experimental music has given rise to a more divergent range of practices than has previously been the case. The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music reflects these recent developments by providing examples of current thinking and presenting detailed case studies...

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