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American Musical Theater provides a chronological history of musical theater within a cultural context. Covering the major artistic trends, seminal works, and leading figures in the field, the text uses case study musicals in each chapter as a lens through which to explore themes and developments in the evolution of musical theater over time. In addition to exposing students to the musical theater canon, author James Leve encourages them to think...

Explore the rich terrain of American popular music with the most complete introduction of its kind. With the sixth edition of the bestselling text American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Starr and Waterman help students hear more in the music around them with a cultural and social history of popular music.

Basic Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis gives students a thorough, clear, and methodical introduction to post-tonal music theory and its application to music composed since 1900. Designed for students studying post-tonal music at the end of a required theory sequence or taking a stand-alone upper-division course, the text provides basic theoretical tools and offers multiple opportunities for reinforcement and application in the form of theoretical a...

The most engaging, integrated, and musical theory text available. The Complete Musician focuses on music in context, emphasizing how theory informs performance.

Acclaimed for its creative approach and diverse repertoire, Contemporary Class Piano provides a student-friendly introduction to basic piano skills. In short, progressive chapters that mirror the standard one-semester curriculum, it explains the essential elements of piano playing, incorporating diagrams, practice exercises, and musical examples that help students build proficiency and confidence with a variety of chord patterns, major and minor ...

The Second Edition of Contemporary Musicianship presents traditional music theory and analysis in an innovative manner, combining music history, popular culture, and composition in order to reach a broader audience: the non-music major and the music business/industry student. This book seeks to teach students the basic principles of music theory while incorporating the great works of classical performers and popular artists. Each chapter is desig...

Designed for introductory courses in electronic music and multimedia, Digital Audio and Acoustics for the Creative Arts presents the fundamental concepts of musical acoustics, psychoacoustics, electronics, digital audio, audio recording, and communication among devices via the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) and Open Sound Control (OSC).

Student resources for this title are available on the book's Companion Website.

Discovering Music, Third Edition, offers the depth, breadth, and context of that students need, in a concise format that is visually appealing. Written to inspire students to connect intellectually and emotionally with music from the Western canon and beyond, the text is supported by a robust digital program, including interactive listening maps, videos and animations, an instructor's manual, PowerPoint presentations, a computerized test bank, an...

Elements of Music is an introduction to music fundamentals for music majors and non-majors. Organized into brief lessons, each of which is followed by exercises and in-class activities, the text offers instructors flexibility in how they teach music fundamentals. Unmatched concision and clarity make learning fundamentals simple. Throughout the text, a core repertoire introduces students to fundamental concepts, helping students connect fundamenta...

Film Music: An Introduction in 11 Takes is a straightforward, scholarly guide to audiovisual music that is truly global in scope as well as practical in outlook, featuring dozens of interviews with film industry insiders. This textbook teaches today’s student how to better understand the conventions of film music and how these conventions came into existence in a global and musical context.

Each chapter introduces and demonstrates universally shared foundational concepts of music technology using hands-on, customized, software-based lessons, which can be applied immediately using the Fundamentals of Music Technology (FMT) software. A free, customized software application for Mac or PC demonstrates the basic concepts of music technology germane to all professional applications like recording, synthesis, digital notation, MIDI, automa...

A world music text that combines the best of a thematic and geographic approach, Global Music Cultures offers students and instructors of ethnomusiscology a unique overview of the key musical cultures of the world, incorporating the lastest theoretical approaches.

Building on the same pedagogy that informed The Complete Musician, this Graduate Review of Tonal Theory is the first book to review music theory at a level that is sophisticated enough for beginning graduate students. Steven G. Laitz and Christopher Bartlette address students as colleagues, and thoroughly explore appealing and practical analytical applications. The text also provides a means to discuss the perception and cognition, the analysis a...

Hearing the Movies, Second Edition, combines a historical and chronological approach to the study of film music and sound with an emphasis on building listening skills. Through engaging, accessible analyses and exercises, the book covers all aspects of the subject, including how a soundtrack is assembled to accompany the visual content, how music enhances the form and style of key film genres, and how technology has influenced the changing landsc...

Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition, Fourth Edition, explores the conceptual frameworks that have shaped musical development from antiquity to the present. In a lively narrative that prompts readers to think both critically and creatively, Douglass Seaton uses historical documents from thinkers, artists, and musicians to add rich detail to the compelling story of Western music. This brief and accessible narrative of music history fe...

A performance-oriented music appreciation text designed to create lifelong listeners. In Performance teaches music appreciation by focusing on how all listeners first encounter music—through its performance. By emphasizing where music is heard or performed, this text aims to create lifelong, active music listeners who understand the value of different types of music and the impact that it has on their everyday lives. In addition to covering...

Rather than a compendium of jazz artists or a guide to jazz musical theory, David Szatmary’s Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870–2019) explains jazz through the struggles for racial and gender equality, major demographic upheavals, technological advances, economic turmoil, music-business practices and political struggles and wars.  It explains why jazz developed by pinpointing the social conditions surrounding it and, in the proce...

Designed for non-music majors who want to learn piano "for the fun of it," Learning Piano: Piece by Piece is also ideal for courses in class piano and for individual instruction. This concise and user-friendly book presents materials in an engaging manner and in a logical piece-by-piece progression of difficulty. Offering a rich and well-rounded solo and ensemble repertoire, it enables students to master basic keyboard skills through the study of...

Listening to Jazz offers the most engaging introduction to the rich history and culture of jazz. Featuring coverage of all standard periods and genres—including a solid focus on contemporary jazz and ample coverage of Latin musicians and women in jazz—this text helps students understand how jazz evolved and how its various styles intersect and blend. Through in-depth listening guides and a narrative that addresses both social history ...

Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture is an interdisciplinary introduction to the economics, history, and law that shape the music we love. The book is both innovative and readable, presenting its subject through case studies, timelines, and even excerpts from a graphic novel. The end result is neither dry nor obscure. And this is as it should be, because the law and business practices shaping our musical culture are both important and captiva...

Welcome to the companion website for Music Research: A Handbook, Third Edition, by Dr. Laurie J. Sampsel! This site is designed to supplement and enhance the material found in the textbook. It includes all the links cited in the text as well as supplemental links not cited; updates to bibliographies and readings; and lists of the research tools in the text, core music journals, and major professional music associations. This website also offers u...

Designed for today's undergraduate music students, Music Theory Remixed: A Blended Approach for the Practicing Musician presents tonal music theory through a dual lens of works from the Western canon and examples from popular music, including rock, jazz, techno, film soundtracks, and world music. With exceptional clarity, it balances the study of traditional part-writing with the development of essential skills like score analysis and identificat...

Offering 477 pieces of music from the Baroque period to the present, Music for Analysis, Eighth Edition, is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind. The book is organized by music theory concept, so it can easily be linked to any introductory theory course. The authors do not prescribe any system of analysis, allowing individual instructors to follow their own preferences with their students. Ample room for student work eliminates the need f...

Music in East Africa introduces readers to the various ways in which historical musical traditions and present-day musical performances either collide, fuse, or remain mutually exclusive in contemporary East Africa. Through descriptions of performances and case studies that detail the lives of individual musicians, Gregory Barz shows how people in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania create, dance to, and interact with traditional East African music.

Music in Egypt provides an overview of the country's rich and dynamic contemporary musical landscape. It offers an in-depth look at specific Egyptian musical traditions, paying special attention to performers and the variety of contexts in which performances occur. The book acknowledges the pervasive presence of Islam by focusing on two Muslim performance genres and by considering the age-old issue of the compatibility of music and Islam. The vol...

Music in Japan offers a vivid introduction to the music of contemporary Japan, a nation in which traditional, Western, and popular music thrive side by side. Drawing on more than forty years of experience, author Bonnie C. Wade focuses on three themes throughout the book. She begins by exploring how music in Japan has been profoundly affected by interface with both the Western (Europe and the Americas) and Asian (continental and island) cultural ...

Ideal for introductory undergraduate courses in world music or ethnomusicology and for upper-level courses on music of the Iberian Peninsula, Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture introduces students to the diverse musical cultures of these two Iberian countries. The book characterizes selected musical genres, styles, practices, and events such as fiestas. Separate chapters are devoted to fado and flamenco focusing o...

The Spanish-speaking islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic make up a relatively small region, but their musical and cultural traditions have had a dramatic, sweeping impact on the world. The first brief, stand-alone volume to explore the music of these three islands, Music in the Hispanic Caribbean provides a vibrant introduction to diverse musical styles including salsa, merengue, reggaeton, plena, Latin jazz, and the bolero.

Musics of the World offers a rich introduction and eighteen area chapters that consistently locate the reader in a region’s cultural context before exploring what makes each place musically unique. Each chapter features three very different musical genres with links to videos, timed musical tracks, definitions, color photographs, recipes, and discussion questions. The writing style is upbeat and welcoming, and instructors can use the book with co...

The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition, Second Edition, immerses students in the engaging story of the Western musical tradition. By emphasizing the connections among works, both within each cultural era and across time and place, the text goes beyond a basic retelling of the music's history to build students' ability to listen critically to key works.

A full suite of instructor resources, a free open-access student Companion Websit...

Featuring over 100 readings from a wide range of sources and writers, The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader has established itself as the #1 reader on the market for popular music studies. It provides a rich and engaging introduction to the development of American popular music and the important social and cultural issues raised by its study. The text brings together a vast array of selections from sources that include mainstream and specialized magazin...

Principles of Music 3e introduces students to music fundamentals by moving step-by-step through carefully sequenced exercises. Throughout the text students learn to use the keyboard as a tool to visualize theoretical concepts. In addition to pitch, the text explores the basics of rhythm and meter, emphasizing exercises that link to performance throughout. While the text’s repertoire is primarily drawn from Western classical music, the book includ...

Designed for the undergraduate course sequence in aural skills, Progressive Sight Singing, Third Edition, introduces students to the underlying grammar and syntax of musical structure and prepares them to perceive that structure with both the ear and the eye. For the Third Edition, Part I (Rhythmic Reading) the pacing has been expanded and adjusted, and simple meters are now introduced earlier to aid in the development of the connection between s...

Designed for students who enter the music theory sequence with very little formal training to help them master essential sight-singing, ear-training, and rhythm skills, Progressive Sight Singing provides a step-by-step introduction to the underlying grammar and syntax of musical structure and prepares students to perceive that structure with both the ear and the eye. Working from the premise that students learn musical skills in much the same ord...

Rap and Hip Hop Culture traces the ideological, social, historical, and cultural influences on a musical genre that first came to prominence in the mid-1970s in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods, the South Bronx. Throughout, this enlightening text highlights key performers, producers, and voices in the rap and hip hop movements, using their stories to illuminate the underlying issues of racism, poverty, prejudice, and artistic freedom that...

Providing the perfect balance of cultural and musical analysis, Rock: Music, Culture, and Business by Joseph G. Schloss, Larry Starr, and Christopher Waterman tells the full story of rock 'n' roll, from its earliest beginnings to today.

Resources for this title are available on the book's Companion Website

Strategies for Teaching Strings: Building a Successful String and Orchestra Program, Fourth Edition, is an essential guide for prospective, novice, and experienced string teachers alike. This comprehensive text provides all the information necessary to develop and manage a successful school-based program. Based on the national standards for teaching strings and orchestra, the text covers performance objectives, strategies for teaching technical a...

The Music Appreciation text that encourages active listening through a recurring repertory of classic works

Take Note is designed to help students become active and attentive listeners through in-depth examination of a recurring repertory of core musical works. By exploring each element of music through the lens of these core works—which were carefully selected to represent a variety of styles and genres—students deepen their understa...

Developed in conjunction with Thinking Musically and the culture case studies in the Global Music Series, Teaching Music Globally provides teachers and students of music education with ideas and techniques for engaging their students in the study of the world's musical cultures. Offering a large selection of exercises and activities of varying difficulty, this text is a guide for teachers of elementary through university level students--in band, ...

As the cornerstone of the Global Music Series, Thinking Musically, Third Edition, explores musical diversity by integrating the sounds and traditions of world cultures. Bonnie C. Wade discusses how various cultural influences-gender, ethnicity, mass media, westernization, nationalism, and acculturation-are shaping music and the ways that we experience it.

Resources for this title are available on the book's Companion Website

Writing in Music demystifies music writing conventions and methods by offering strategies for the types of writing that students most often encounter in college courses on music. The book offers guidance through the writing process and, for research assignments, through the research process. Geared for an audience of music majors and other students taking undergraduate music-major courses--as well as for master's students in music desiring more t...