The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists [...]

- 29,000+ articles and 6,000+ contributors from 98 countries
- 20,000+ biographies and 5,000+ photographs, diagrams, drawings, and maps
- coverage of new schools of thought [...]

Since its 1998 publication, the International Encyclopedia of Dance has been the definitive source on this expressive art form, documenting all types of dance around [...]

In American Popular Music: The Rock Years , Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman take readers on a fascinating journey through the rich historical and stylistic [...]

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is widely accepted as the most authoritative reference work on popular music available. This new fourth edition has been thoroughly [...]

A reference guide to the vast array of art song literature and composers from Latin America, this book introduces the music of Latin America from [...]

Juan Bautista Plaza (1898-1965) was the central composer in Venezuela for much of the 20th century as well as the leading figure in Venezuelan music [...]

A uniquely American form, the origins of the blues date back to late nineteenth century rural African American communities. In the twentieth century the blues [...]

In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, [...]