Essays and writings

Christoph Cox,Daniel Warner  

John Sloboda  

Anthony DeCurtis  

John Malkin  

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]

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]

Daniel Fischlin,Ajay Heble  

Mark Eden Horowitz,Stephen Sondheim  

Arnold Schoenberg  

Andrew DellªAntonio,Andrew Dell''Antonio  

Margaret G. Cobb  

Hans Keller,Christopher Wintle  

Justin London  

John Simon  

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]

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  

Craig Ayrey,Mark Everist  

Lawrence M. Zbikowski