Routledge Research in Music
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering music performance, theory, and culture alongside topics such as gender, race, ecology, film, religion, politics, and science, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music: Making Movement Sing
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Scoggin, Dana Plank
January 30, 2025
In both video games and animated films, worlds are constructed through a combination of animation, which defines what players see on the screen, and music and sound, which provide essential cues to action, emotion, and narrative. This book offers a rich exploration of the intersections between ...
Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860
1st Edition
Edited
By Franco Piperno, Simone Caputo, Emanuele Senici
December 18, 2024
Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex ...
Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory: Essays in Honor of Kevin Korsyn
1st Edition
Edited
By Bryan Parkhurst, Jeffrey Swinkin
December 18, 2024
Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. He has published widely and influentially in areas as diverse as Beethoven and Brahms studies, chromatic tonality, disciplinarity and metatheory, history of theory, ...
Music in Films on the Middle Ages: Authenticity vs. Fantasy
1st Edition
By John Haines
October 14, 2024
This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music. ...
Musical Performance and the Changing City: Post-industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabian Holt, Carsten Wergin
October 14, 2024
A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the ...
Popular Music in a Digital Music Economy: Problems and Practices for an Emerging Service Industry
1st Edition
By Tim Anderson
October 14, 2024
In the late 1990s, the MP3 became the de facto standard for digital audio files and the networked computer began to claim a significant place in the lives of more and more listeners. The dovetailing of these two circumstances is the basis of a new mode of musical production and distribution where ...
Schubert's Workshop: Volume 1: Towards an Early Maturity
1st Edition
By Brian Newbould
October 07, 2024
Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert’s unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert’s use of technical and structural devices, Brian ...
Schubert's Workshop: Volume 2: Mastery and Beyond
1st Edition
By Brian Newbould
October 07, 2024
Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert’s unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert’s use of technical and structural devices, Brian ...
Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music: The Forging of an American Composer
1st Edition
By Paul Bertagnolli
September 10, 2024
Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876–1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism. The book expands current knowledge of MacDowell’s childhood in four of the ...
Musical Topics and Musical Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Julian Hellaby
August 26, 2024
The principal purpose of topics in musicology has been to identify meaning-bearing units within a musical composition that would have been understood by contemporary audiences and therefore also by later receivers, albeit in a different context and with a need for historically aware listening. ...
Women in Convent Spaces and the Music Networks of Early Modern Barcelona
1st Edition
By Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita
August 26, 2024
This book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early modern era. Exploring how convents were involved in the musical networks operating in sixteenth-century Barcelona, it challenges the invisibility of women in music history and reveals ...
Music, Piety, and Political Power in 17th-Century Salzburg: The Sounds of Good Government
1st Edition
By Kimberly Beck Hieb
August 20, 2024
Music, Piety, and Political Power in 17th-Century Salzburg traces the role of sacred music in the service of politics at the archbishopric of Salzburg, one of many jurisdictions that made up the Holy Roman Empire in the second half of the 17th century. The author reveals that the use of music ...