Essays and writings

John Sloboda  

Joseph N. Straus   In the early 1950s, Stravinsky’s compositional style began to change and evolve with astonishing rapidity. He abandoned the musical neoclassicism to which... [read more]

   The idea that the universe is created out of sound or music (and therefore is music) is a very, ancient one. In... [read more]

Charles Ives  

Bruce Haynes  

Derek Bailey  

Geoffrey Madell  

Igor Stravinsky   Stravinsky delivered these six "lessons" at Harvard from 1939-1940. Stravinsky discusses composition, the function of the critic, modern Russian music (as of... [read more]

Mark Eden Horowitz,Stephen Sondheim  

Arnold Schoenberg  

Patricia Shehan Campbell,Bonnie C. Wade  

Andrew DellªAntonio,Andrew Dell''Antonio  

Margaret G. Cobb  

Hans Keller,Christopher Wintle  

Justin London  

Anthony DeCurtis  

John Simon  

John Malkin  

David Boucher, Gary K. Browning   The authors deal with various aspects and periods of Dylan's career, including the early protest ballads, the artistic high-point of his mid-sixties... [read more]

Bakari Kitwana  

Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz, Steve Silverman   One of America's best-known composers and writers of twentieth century music, Aaron Copland was an American individual. This volume brings together the... [read more]

Craig Ayrey,Mark Everist  

Lawrence M. Zbikowski  

Daniel Fischlin,Ajay Heble  

David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition: how do we extract basic kinds... [read more]