David Johnson's classic study describes Scotland in the eighteenth century, a period when music, both folk and classical, flourished. Thomas Erskine, the Earl of Kelly, is the most remarkable composer of the time, but this book shows how the vibrant musical flowering left no section of society untouched. Musical societies and assemblies were active in all the main towns; the gatherings of genteel

Aims to introduce the general public to the scholarly debate that has revolutionized Russian music history. This work summarizes the fresh view of Russian music and provides an overview of the relationships between artistic movements and political ideas. It explores the cultural and historical milieu from which great works have emerged.

This revised and updated study aims to offer an authoritative and interesting text on traditional Japanese music. It covers the full range of religious, dramatic and folk music of Japan, and includes an audio CD of music samples.

This title provides an overview of the many styles of North Indian music, from the chants of the ancient Vedas to modern devotional singing; from the serious and meditative rendering of raga to the concert-hall excitement of the modern sitar, sarod and tabla.

A fourth volume of studies in the historical musicology and organology of Asia.

The seventh volume in this study of the music of the Tang Court.

Looks at ethnomusicology - a study of the world's musics from a comparative perspective, and the study of all music from an anthropological perspective - as a field of research. This book includes chapters on the doing and writing of musical ethnography, the scholarly study of instruments, and aspects of women's music and women in music.

This text traces the evolution of musical instruments and their importance in different world cultures. The book examines the relationship between man and music, looking at the varied ways in which people have used instruments throughout history.

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This volume makes available some of the major writings of the Romanian ethnomusicologist Constantin Brailoiu.

Intimate portrayal of the Arab musical experience, for both the specialist and general reader.