Routledge Research in Music

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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.

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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...

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 ...