The Psychology of Music serves as an introduction to an interdisciplinary field in psychology, which focuses on the interpretation of music through...
Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music is a collaborative work that discusses musical perception in the context of medical science...
The work of Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935), widely regarded as the most important music theorist of the twentieth century, has shaped the teaching of...
Choice Outstanding Academic Title A survey of intervals and scales, tone pitch, loudness and time in Western music raises many questions about the...
Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains assembles interdisciplinary essays investigating concepts of harmony during a transitional period, in which...
Lies and Epiphanies offers case studies of "inspiration" in five composers -- Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss, and...
This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute. It...
The American Academy in Rome launched its Rome Prize in Musical Composition in 1921, a time in the United States of rapidly changing ideas about...
Stravinsky's "Great Passacaglia" marks the first full-length analytic study devoted to the Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, an important...