Music: New Music Resources

This definitive source chronicles the lives and works of 875 women composers of Western classical music.

This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America.

Renowned composer Jennifer Higdon is best known for her symphonic pieces Blue Cathedral, Concerto for Orchestra, City Scape, Concerto 4-3 and Violin Concerto. These compositions illustrate her breadth of style and avant-garde technique.

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is the first resource to provide a comprehensive study of the education of students with autism within the music classroom.

Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest ancestors to today's mass-produced songs.

A gathering chiefly of talks given either by invitation or at conferences throughout the world over the last quarter century.

On Minimalism moves from the style's origins in psychedelic counterculture through its arrival in the mainstream and into its present-day manifestations in doom metal and ambient jazz. O'Brien and Robin curate minimalism's history anew, documenting one of the most important musical movements of our time.

The Best Jobs in the Music Industry is an essential career guide for those who love music and are exploring different areas beyond the obvious performer route. This second edition includes updates and even more interviews, giving a look at how music jobs have changed and the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the music industry.

This powerhouse best-selling text maintains its tradition as the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the music industry in all of its diversity. Readers new to the music business and seasoned professionals alike will find David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville, and Serona Elton′s handbook the go-to source, regardless of their specialty within the music field. Music Business Handbook and Career Guide is ideal for introductory courses such as Introduction to the Music Business, Music and Media, and other survey courses as well as more specialized courses such as the Record Industry, Music Careers, Artist Management, and more.

Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in the Haight-Ashbury from 1964-1967.

Though viewed as quintessentially German, lieder became a centerpiece of nineteenth century song recitals in the United States. By the 1890s, these songs, which were often sung in English, were a sensation among tutored and untutored music lovers alike.

As countries went into lockdown in 2020, people turned to music for comfort and solidarity. Neighbours sang to each other from their balconies; people participated in online music sessions that created an experience of socially distanced togetherness. Nicholas Cook argues that the value of music goes far beyond simple enjoyment.

Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics...
... Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how singers and their songs equip us to process social change and divergent opinions.

Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve students, teachers, or their goals in music.

New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene.

The Musician's Journey escorts musicians, performing artists, music teachers, and advanced music students along the road toward a successful career, offering a vast array of resources to guide them from envisioning the process to achieving the practical details.

A Handbook of Diction for Singers is a complete guide to achieving professional levels of diction in Italian, German, and French.

Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life-one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is the first resource to provide a comprehensive study of the education of students with autism within the music classroom.