Routledge Research in Music
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering music performance, theory, and culture alongside topics such as gender, race, ecology, film, religion, politics, and science, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Spanish Piano Music and Folklore from the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries: Crossing Paths
1st Edition
By Ana Benavides
July 31, 2025
This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music—songs and dances—from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The piano was the dominant solo instrument in European art music of this period, including Spanish, and Ana Benavides uses this as a vehicle for examining a wide variety of ...
Contemporary Musical Virtuosities
1st Edition
Edited
By Louise Devenish, Cat Hope
May 27, 2025
Contemporary notions of musical virtuosity redevelop historic concepts and demonstrate that our present understanding of virtuosity in western art music has shifted from what seemed, for a time, to be a relatively clear and stable definition. In the field and the academy, lively debates around the ...
Music Performance Encounters: Collaborations and Confrontations
1st Edition
Edited
By John Koslovsky, Michiel Schuijer
May 06, 2025
Why do most musical performers and musical researchers continue to inhabit divergent epistemic spaces? To what extent is the act of musical performance coextensive with the act of doing musical research, and vice versa? At what point in the research process can a performative act transform into a ...
Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism
1st Edition
By Amanda J. Haste
May 06, 2025
Twenty-first-century monastic communities represent unique social environments in which music plays an integral part. This book examines the role of music in Catholic, Anglican/Episcopalian and neo-monastic communities in Britain and North America, engaging closely with communities of practice to ...
The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music: Making Movement Sing
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Scoggin, Dana Plank
January 30, 2025
In both video games and animated films, worlds are constructed through a combination of animation, which defines what players see on the screen, and music and sound, which provide essential cues to action, emotion, and narrative. This book offers a rich exploration of the intersections between ...
Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860
1st Edition
Edited
By Franco Piperno, Simone Caputo, Emanuele Senici
December 18, 2024
Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex ...
Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory: Essays in Honor of Kevin Korsyn
1st Edition
Edited
By Bryan Parkhurst, Jeffrey Swinkin
December 18, 2024
Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. He has published widely and influentially in areas as diverse as Beethoven and Brahms studies, chromatic tonality, disciplinarity and metatheory, history of theory, ...
Music in Films on the Middle Ages: Authenticity vs. Fantasy
1st Edition
By John Haines
October 14, 2024
This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music. ...
Musical Performance and the Changing City: Post-industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabian Holt, Carsten Wergin
October 14, 2024
A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the ...
Popular Music in a Digital Music Economy: Problems and Practices for an Emerging Service Industry
1st Edition
By Tim Anderson
October 14, 2024
In the late 1990s, the MP3 became the de facto standard for digital audio files and the networked computer began to claim a significant place in the lives of more and more listeners. The dovetailing of these two circumstances is the basis of a new mode of musical production and distribution where ...
Schubert's Workshop: Volume 1: Towards an Early Maturity
1st Edition
By Brian Newbould
October 07, 2024
Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert’s unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert’s use of technical and structural devices, Brian ...
Schubert's Workshop: Volume 2: Mastery and Beyond
1st Edition
By Brian Newbould
October 07, 2024
Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert’s unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert’s use of technical and structural devices, Brian ...