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.
West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration
1st Edition
By Paul Laird
January 29, 2024
In this ground-breaking study, Paul Laird examines the process and effect of orchestration in West Side Story and Gypsy, two musicals that were among the most significant Broadway shows of the 1950s, and remain important in the modern repertory. Drawing on extensive archival research with original ...
Modes of Communication in Stravinsky’s Works: Sign and Expression
1st Edition
By Per Dahl
September 25, 2023
Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas. There are many examples of discrepancies between his literate statements about music and musicians and his musical compositions and activity. Per Dahl presents a model of communication that unveils a clear and logical understanding ...
Sound Heritage: Making Music Matter in Historic Houses
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeanice Brooks, Matthew Stephens, Wiebke Thormählen
September 25, 2023
Sound Heritage is the first study of music in the historic house museum, featuring contributions from both music and heritage scholars and professionals in a richly interdisciplinary approach to central issues. It examines how music materials can be used to create narratives about past inhabitants ...
Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental Music
1st Edition
By Riccardo D. Wanke
May 31, 2023
What does a one hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas have in common with a series of glitch-noise electronic tracks by Pan Sonic? This book proposes that, despite their differences, they share a particular understanding of sound that is found across several quite distinct ...
Researching Secular Music and Dance in the Early United States: Extending the Legacy of Kate Van Winkle Keller
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Lohman
January 09, 2023
This book provides a practical introduction to researching and performing early Anglo-American secular music and dance with attention to their place in society. Supporting growing interest among scholars and performers spanning numerous disciplines, this book contributes quality new scholarship to ...
Singers, Scores and Sounds: Making New Connections and Transforming Voices
1st Edition
By Ellen Hooper
December 30, 2022
This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing. Centred around materials from the mid-twentieth century, this book focuses on a time when composers and performers were questioning the idea ...
Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I: Historical Perspectives: Creating the Metropolis; Delineating the Other
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Davidson, Michael Halliwell, Stephanie Rocke
August 01, 2022
There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera’s staging to the reactions and critiques of audience members, emotion is omnipresent in ...
Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume II: Applied Perspectives: Compositions and Performances
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Davidson, Michael Halliwell, Stephanie Rocke
August 01, 2022
There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera’s staging to the reactions and critiques of audience members, emotion is omnipresent in ...
Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers
1st Edition
By David Symons
May 30, 2022
Australia’s Jindyworobak Composers examines the music of a historically and artistically significant group of Australian composers active during the later post-colonial period (1930s–c. 1960). These composers sought to establish a uniquely Australian identity through the evocation of the country’s ...
Medievalism and Nationalism in German Opera: Euryanthe to Lohengrin
1st Edition
By Michael S. Richardson
May 30, 2022
Medievalism, or the reception or interpretation of the Middle Ages, was a prominent aesthetic for German opera composers in the first half of the nineteenth century. A healthy competition to establish a Germanic operatic repertory arose at this time, and fascination with medieval times served a ...
Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East
1st Edition
By John Arthur Smith
May 30, 2022
Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia. The book covers ancient Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from ...
Burma, Kipling and Western Music: The Riff from Mandalay
1st Edition
By Andrew Selth
February 07, 2019
For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma perceived in and by the Western world, and how did people in countries like the United Kingdom and United States form their views? This book explores how Western perceptions of Burma were influenced by the popular...