In this volume, editor Gavin S.K. Lee brings together a diverse group of music theorists who issue queer challenges to both music theory and musicology and show that queerness is integral to music-theoretical practice.

De redactie werd gevormd door prof. dr. Kees Vellekoop, prof. dr. Ignace Bossuyt, dr. Rudolf Rasch, prof. dr. Emile Wennekes, prof. dr. Rokus de Groot, prof. dr. Mark Delaere, dr. Lutgard Mutsaers.

The Music of World War II tells the stories behind the origins of many of these musical compositions, some of which have survived to become standards still popular today.

Author Una McIlvenna brings the execution ballad to life in Singing the News of Death, uncovering the relationship between punishment and music throughout Europe from 1500-1900 with an unprecedented breadth of study and ambition.

An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.

A renowned music scholar narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age in the 18th and 19th centuries by taking readers behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas. 88 ...

Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's colonial and postcolonial history.

The book challenges the human exceptionalism that has allowed musicologists to overlook music’s structural resemblances to the songs of nonhuman species, the intricacies of music’s physiological impact on listeners, and the many ...

A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores the concurrence between the narratives of Handelian operas and how these stories are represented through actions, words, and music.

The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed.