Musicology

A graduate-level music history resource that offers a survey of Western music history, a reappraisal of historical narratives, and a critical scholarly lens.

The quintessential undergraduate music history textbook. A good resource to become familiar with the basics of Western music history.

Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera.

With their era-defining music and instantly recognisable look, Chic's reputation as pioneers of disco has endured long after the movement itself. Covering the sweet successes and fallings out of favour, the creative process and encounters with Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Diana Ross, Madonna and others, the acclaimed Everybody Dance explores the highs and the lows of Chic's journey in fascinating detail.

The Rest Is Noise takes the reader inside the labyrinth of modern sound. Ross, in this sweeping and dramatic narrative, takes us from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies. We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of dramatic new technologies, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, riots, and friendships forged and broken. The end result is not so much a history of twentieth-century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music.

In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. In Sovereign Feminine, Matthew Head explores the role that women played in the development of classical music.

Undergraduate Research in Music: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, with examples of undergraduate research activities and case studies on projects in the various areas of music study.

Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians, and as an aid for librarians.

Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.

The seminal guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries.

A foundational set of primary-source readings on music, often used as a supplement in music history courses.

This classic anthology combines source readings with interpretive essays and personal portraits to illuminate the rich yet neglected history of women in music.

List of sources of music and women composers.