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

Presents the story of a particular Javanese group of 'matching' musical instruments, the gamelan Digul, built in a notorious Dutch East Indies prison camp by a master musician and political activist. Containing musical and political discussions, this title depicts the role it played in helping to foster Australian-Indonesian friendship.

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.

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.

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.

Renegades tells the story of the steelband movement in words and images, focusing especially on the history of one band which, perhaps more than any other, has come to symbolise the success of steelband music: The Renegades .

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

This volume brings to an end the transcription and description of thirty-one items from the Court Entertainment Music of the Tang.

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.

The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music 2nd Edition provides an overview of the historical and cultural contexts of the music, its instruments, composers, leading practitioners, and schools. Profusely illustrated, the Companion also contains a guide to pronunciation and transliteration, a glossary, and an alphabetical index of ragas and scales.

The fifth volume of Musica Asiatica is a collection of essays on the music of East Asia.