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.
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 ...
Performing Arts in Changing Societies: Opera, Dance, and Theatre in European and Nordic Countries around 1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Randi Margrete Selvik, Svein Gladsø, Anne Margrete Fiskvik
December 13, 2021
Performing Arts in Changing Societies is a detailed exploration of genre development within the fields of dance, theatre, and opera in selected European countries during the decades before and after 1800. An introductory chapter outlines the theoretical and ideological background of genre thinking ...
From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th- and 21st-Century Music
1st Edition
By Makis Solomos
June 30, 2021
From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and showing how music had begun a change of paradigm, moving from a culture centred on the note to a culture of sound. Each chapter ...
The Consolations of History: Themes of Progress and Potential in Richard Wagner’s Gotterdammerung
1st Edition
By Alexander Shapiro
June 30, 2021
In this book on Richard Wagner’s compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Götterdämmerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H. Shapiro advances an ambitious new interpretation which uncovers intriguing new facets to the work’s profound insights into the human condition. By ...
John Williams: Changing the Culture of the Classical Guitar: Performance, perception, education and construction
1st Edition
By Michael O'Toole
December 18, 2020
This book assesses the influence and reception of many different forms of guitar playing upon the classical guitar and more specifically through the prism of John Williams. Beginning with an examination of Andrés Segovia and his influence upon Williams’ life’s work, a further three incisive ...
Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician
1st Edition
Edited
By Helen Julia Minors, Laura Watson
December 18, 2020
This book appraises the contribution of Paul Dukas (1865–1935) to a wide variety of French musical practices. As a composer, critic, artistic collaborator and teacher, Dukas was central to the fin de siècle and early twentieth-century Paris musical scene (and more broadly to the French scene). ...
Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall
1st Edition
Edited
By James Wierzbicki
September 30, 2020
Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with ‘iconic’ film composers who, perhaps to the surprise of many fans of film music, nevertheless maintained lifelong careers as composers for the concert hall. Featured composers include Erich Wolfgang ...
The Modern Percussion Revolution: Journeys of the Progressive Artist
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Lewis, Gustavo Aguilar
September 30, 2020
More than eighty years have passed since Edgard Varèse’s catalytic work for percussion ensemble, Ionisation, was heard in its New York premiere. A flurry of pieces for this new medium dawned soon after, challenging the established truths and preferences of the European musical tradition while ...
Global Percussion Innovations: The Australian Perspective
1st Edition
By Louise Devenish
June 30, 2020
First emerging in North America and Europe in the late 1920s, contemporary percussion practices have transitioned from the fringes of contemporary music to the forefront over the past 90 years. In the 1960s contemporary percussion practices reached Australian shores and a new generation of ...
Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Ingraham, Joseph So, Roy Moodley
June 30, 2020
Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as ...