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The Cambridge Music list is one of the largest music book lists in the world. It caters for scholars, students and general readers and covers most areas of musical interest from polyphony to pop.

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Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music

Olivia A. Bloechl

Olivia A. Bloechl demonstrates how encounters with Native American music in the early years of colonization...

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Add to basketPoetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic

James H. Donelan

James H. Donelan explains how Hölderlin, Hegel, Wordsworth, and Beethoven, working in three fields – philosophy, poetry, and music...

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Add to basketThe Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music

Edited by Nick Collins, Julio d'Escrivan

Electronic music underwrites most contemporary music via recording studios, digital downloads, synthesisers, sequencers and sound editors, effects processing, and...

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Add to basketThe Cambridge Companion to Mahler

Edited by Jeremy Barham

In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book offers the only comprehensive, single-volume study in English...

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Add to basketThe Cambridge Companion to the Musical

Edited by William A. Everett, Paul R. Laird

Tracing the development of the musical on both Broadway and in London's West End, this updated Companion continues to provide...

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Add to basketThe Great Transformation of Musical Taste

Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms

William Weber

Tracing the evolution of musical taste in European concert programs from 1750 to 1870, William Weber demonstrates how separate worlds...

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Add to basketThe Invention of "Folk Music" and "Art Music"

Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner

Matthew Gelbart

We tend to take for granted the labels we put to music. This book considers the origins and implications of...

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Add to basketThinking about Harmony

Historical Perspectives on Analysis

David Damschroder

Composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin wrote their compositions without saying much about how they were constructed. A separate...

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Add to basketVerdi and the French Aesthetic

Verse, Stanza, and Melody in Nineteenth-Century Opera

Andreas Giger

The structure and style of nineteenth-century French and Italian opera depend greatly on the rhythmic qualities of its text...

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