"Jazz: Research and Pedagogy" is the third edition of an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 1995, the quantity and quality of books on jazz research, performance, and teaching materials have increased. Although the 1995 book was the most comprehensive annotated jazz bibliography published to that date, several books on research, performance, and teaching materials were omitted. In addition, given the proliferation of new books in all jazz areas since 1995, the need for a new, comprehensive, and...

My concepts present, for the first time, a genuine theory of tonal language - he was not overly humble but we might expect as much of the most important theorist of tonal music to write in the 20th century. Schenker's eloquence teaches us about what a good theory is, how art differs from science, and of course about the music itself. This bibliography and guide should be useful to anyone doing research on this remarkable teacher.

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

William Byrd is the most celebrated English composer of the 16th and early 17th centuries. Widely studied and performed, his works are consider models of their time and continue to fascinate students and scholars centuries later. This book is an entirely revised edition of the original Byrd CRM published by Garland in 1987. In the intervening decade, a mountain of new Byrd research has occurred; meanwhile, some of the older references mentioned in the original CRM have become outdated or outmoded. Plus, new editions of Byrd's music have made his complete musical compositions available as...

Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the "New Grove Dictionary of Opera" (1992), electronic resources such as the "RISM" libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g.,...

Written by one of the foremost historians of music librarianship in the US, this authoritative bibliography of music librarianship reflects the great diversity of the literature of music librarianship in America. The literature of American music librarianship has been around since the nineteenth century when public libraries began to keep records of player-piano concerts, significant donations of books and music, and suggestions for housing music. Throughout the twentieth century American periodicals printed more and more articles on topics within music studies and eventually specialized...

This is a guide to research on the great composer, Maurice Ravel. It includes over 2000 annotated entries of the scholarly literature on Ravel, including catalogues, facsimilies of autographs, music editions, textual criticism, bibliographies, monographs, articles, and dissertations covering his life and music.

This monograph offers an overview of the writings about Camille Saint-Saens, his music, and the general period in which he worked. The bibliography includes works that offer differing opinions of the composer and his music. The author covers both the lesser-known writings on Saint-Saens and his music, as well as the most recent examples of scholarship produced at the end of the twentieth century. Hailed by such luminaries as Berlioz, Gounod, Liszt, and Wagner as among the greatest musicians of his time, Saint-Saens will be better appreciated and investigated by present and future scholars...

This is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of the literature on the violin to be published in over 100 years, and provides an invaluable resource of information for musicologists, music theorists, performers, teachers, critics and many more. From the first mention of the instrument by Hans Gerle in 1532, to Ph.D dissertations from 2004, the book covers the complete span of literature on the violin in an easy-to-follow chronological format. The author has used an interdisciplinary approach and brings together the writings not only of violinists and music theorists, but also...

This key text will be the first full-length research tool on Adrian Willaert, the Renaissance composer of motets and madrigals who came to prominence in the first part of the sixteenth century, and should prove invaluable to researchers and students.