When Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he dreamed of inspiring a "race of singers" who would celebrate the working class and realize the ...

The Missa solemnis is a document of extraordinary richness from the last decades of Beethoven's creative life. In this compendious and accessible guide ...

Commissioned and edited to appeal to a crossover Film and Music Studies readership,  Terror Tracks  is an anthology that analyses the use of ...

Falsely attributed to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, this splendid setting of the Magnificat text is actually by Pergolesi's teacher Francesco Durante. ...

The story of music told in this book begins in pre-Islamic times with musical forms that bear strong imprints of the Bedouin’s tribal way of life. ...

Adults develop the same piano skills as any other student. But their needs and expectations are very different. Enter veteran piano teacher (and former ...

"Sea Chanteys" is a vintage collection of traditional sailor songs. Also known as shanties or chanteys, these songs were tropically sang by sailors aboard ...

You weren't born with an owner's manual.  The day that your new instrument arrived is not unlike the day you were born and your parents took ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is ...