New Books

2022: 

Jackson, Larisa P. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Harmonic Theory: Practical Manual of Harmony, Its Sources, History, and Traditions. University of North Texas Press, 2022.

Kurth, Ernst. Music Psychology. Translated by Daphne Tan and Christoph Neidhöfer, edited by Daphne Tan. Routledge, 2022.

Nielson, Lisa. Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.


2021: 

Bernhard, Michael, and Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba (eds.). Traditio Iohannis Hollandrini. Supplementum. Translated by Calvin M. Bower. Instytut Sztuki PAN, 2021.

Cook, Karen M. Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon: Magister Johannes Pipardi. Routledge, 2021.

Dokter, Julia. Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque: Treatises, Scores, and the Performance of Organ Music. University of Rochester Press, 2021.

Forgács, Robert. Latin and Music in the Early Modern Era. Brill, 2021.

Keym, Stefan (ed.). Geschichte der Musiktheorie, Band 12: Die Musiktheorie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert Dritter Teil: Frankreich, Belgien und Italien. wbg Academic, 2021.

Klavan, Spencer A. Music in Ancient Greece: Melody, Rhythm and Life. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Mirka, Danuta. Hypermetric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart Chamber Music for Strings, 1787–1791.  Oxford University Press, 2021.

Plenckers, Leo. Arab Music: A Survey of Its History and Its Modern Practice. Archaeopress Publishing, 2021.

Wilde, Cornelia, and Wolfram R. Keller. Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains: Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture between Sensibility and Abstraction. De Gruyter, 2021.


2020: 

Baragwanath, Nicholas. The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Barbieri, Patrizio. Quarrels on Harmonic Theories in the Venetian Enlightenment. Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2020.

Bazayev Inessa, and Christopher Segall (eds.). Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music: Tonality, Modernism, Serialism. Routledge, 2020.

Busse Berger, Anna Maria. The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961: Scholars, Singers, Missionaries. University of Chicago Press, 2020.

DelDonna, Anthony R. Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples: Politics, Patronage and Artistic Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Gjerdingen, Robert O. Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Gökpinar, Yasemin. Höfische Musikkultur im klassischen Islam: Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī (gest. 749/1349) über die dichterische und musikalische Kunst der Sängersklavinnen. Brill, 2020.

Grant, Roger Mathew. Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical. Fordham University Press, 2020.

Gurd, Sean Alexander. The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Long, Megan Kaes. Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Nowacki, Edward. Greek and Latin Music Theory: Principles and Challenges. University of Rochester Press, 2020.

Reynolds, Dwight. The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus. Routledge, 2020.


2019: 

Canzio, Riccardo. Sakya Pandita’s Treatise on Music. Vajra Books, 2019.

Christensen, Thomas. Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis. University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Farraj, Johnny, and Sami Abu Shumays. Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Remeš, Derek. Realizing Thoroughbass Chorales in the Circle of J. S. Bach. Wayne Leupold Editions, 2019.


 

2018: 

Brandes, Juliane. Ludwig Thuille und die Münchner Schule: Kompositionslehre in München am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts und die „Harmonielehre“. Wolke Verlag, 2018.

Desmond, Karen. Music and the moderni, 1300–1350: The ars nova in Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Dyer, Joseph. The Scientia artis musice of Hélie Salomon: Teaching Music in the Late Thirteenth Century Latin Text with English Translation and Commentary. Routledge, 2018.

Evers, Timo. »… to rescue the science of music from the mysterious darkness in which it was wrapped. « – August Friedrich Christoph Kollmann und seine Schriften: Biographie, Theorie und Expertise im Kontext musikalischer Wissensvermittlung um 1800. Georg Olms Verlag, 2018.

Mohammadi, Mohsen (ed.). رساله هفت دستگاه موسیقی ایرانی = The Treatise on the Seven Dastgāh of Iranian Music. مؤسسه پژوهشی میراث مکتوب (Miras Maktoob Research Institute), 2018.

Neubauer, Eckart, and Elsbeth Ida Neubauer. Arab Music in Western Research. A Bibliography of Books and Articles written in Western Languages on the Music of the Arab Countries. Part III: Theory of Music. Musical Practice. Musical Instruments. Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 2018.

Ortiz, Joseph. On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music by John Taverner. Routledge, 2018.

Tanaka, Yūki. 中国の音楽思想: 朱載堉と十二平均律 = The Philosophy of Music in Ancient China : Zhu Zaiyu and Twleve-Tone Equal Temperament. Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai (University of Tokyo Press), 2018.

Wright, Owen. Music Theory in the Safavid Era: The taqsīm al-naġamāt. Routledge, 2018.


 

2017: 

Guido, Massimiliano (ed.). Studies in Historical Improvisation: From Cantare super Librum to Partimenti. Routledge, 2017.

Hicks, Andrew. Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Wörner, Felix, Ullrich Scheideler, and Philip Rupprecht (eds.). Tonality Since 1950. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017.


 

2016: 

Mongoven, Casey. Werckmeister’s Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse (1707). Lulu Books, 2016.


 

2015: 

DeFord, Ruth I. Tactus, Mensuration, and Rhythm in Renaissance Music. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Schiltz, Katelijne. Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance. Cambridge University Press, 2015.