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.
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 ...
Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind Instruments: Trash Music
1st Edition
By Rachel N. Becker
March 29, 2024
This book approaches opera fantasias – instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material – both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument performers in Italy in the nineteenth century. ...
Cognate Music Theories: The Past and the Other in Musicology (Essays in Honor of John Walter Hill)
1st Edition
Edited
By Ignacio Prats-Arolas
March 13, 2024
This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory. Cognate music theories offer a new way of thinking about music theory, music history, and the relationship between ...
Early English Composers and the Credo: Emphasis as Interpretation in Sixteenth-Century Music
1st Edition
By Wendy J Porter
January 29, 2024
This book develops an innovative approach for understanding the relationship between music and words in the works of five major composers of the English Renaissance: John Taverner, Christopher Tye, John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd. Focusing on these composers’ settings of the Latin ...
Music and Performance in the Book of Hours
1st Edition
By Michael Alan Anderson
January 29, 2024
This study uncovers the musical foundations and performance suggestions of books of hours, guides to prayer that were the most popular and widespread books of the late Middle Ages. Exploring a variety of musical genres and sections of books of hours with musical implications, this book presents a ...
Music by Subscription: Composers and their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676–1820
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon D.I. Fleming, Martin Perkins
January 29, 2024
This book breaks new ground in the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century music in Britain through the study of a hitherto neglected resource, the lists of subscribers that were attached to a wide variety of publications, including musical works. These lists shed considerable light on ...
Orpheus in the Academy: Monteverdi's First Opera and the Accademia degli Invaghiti
1st Edition
By Joel Schwindt
January 29, 2024
This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera’s performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio...