Routledge Research in Music
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering music performance, theory, and culture alongside topics such as gender, race, ecology, film, religion, politics, and science, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
The Finales of Turandot: Puccini’s Last Act
1st Edition
By Deborah Burton
September 21, 2026
How would Puccini have finished his last opera Turandot had he lived to complete it? In time for the centennial of the opera’s posthumous premiere in 2026, Deborah Burton provides an in-depth examination of the different completions of the opera, Turandot, from 1925 to the present, with an emphasis...
Samba, Blues and Jazz: Love, Money and Race in Brazilian and American Music
1st Edition
By Ruben George Oliven
June 12, 2026
This book compares the origins of samba, jazz, and the blues, discussing the racial and popular class elements surrounding them and how white middle-class composers gradually appropriated them, in the context of Brazil and the United States, providing invaluable comparative insights about modernity...
Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music: The Forging of an American Composer
1st Edition
By Paul Bertagnolli
May 22, 2026
Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876–1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism. The book expands current knowledge of MacDowell’s childhood in four of the ...
Music and the Reconstruction of Spanish Modernism: The Broken Mosaic
1st Edition
By Amanda García Fernández-Escárzaga
December 19, 2025
This book provides new critical insights into Spanish musical, artistic, and literary works produced between the concluding years of the nineteenth century and the initial decades of the twentieth century. Fernández-Escárzaga creates a conceptual map to assist in comprehending the multifarious ...
Handel’s Grand Concertos Opus 6: Shifts in Compositional Perspectives
1st Edition
By Vadym Rakochi
December 11, 2025
This book offers a deep analysis of Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos, Op. 6, a part of Handel’s repertoire which has remained relatively understudied. Bringing together an analytical approach to the concertos with their historical context, the author shows how studying these concertos offers new ...
Music in the Disney Parks
1st Edition
By Gregory Camp
November 26, 2025
Gregory Camp shows that the choice and use of music in Disney theme parks is very much grounded in Disney’s experience with storytelling on film and television, and that Disney’s musical storytelling in the parks is built upon the concept of nostalgia. Camp illustrates how the instrumentation and ...
Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind Instruments: Trash Music
1st Edition
By Rachel N. Becker
September 29, 2025
This book approaches opera fantasias – instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material – both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument performers in Italy in the nineteenth century. ...
Cognate Music Theories: The Past and the Other in Musicology (Essays in Honor of John Walter Hill)
1st Edition
Edited
By Ignacio Prats-Arolas
September 28, 2025
This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory. Cognate music theories offer a new way of thinking about music theory, music history, and the relationship between ...
Shaping Sound and Society: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Cottrell
August 29, 2025
This volume brings together leading voices from the new wave of research on musical instruments to consider how we can connect the material aspects of instruments with their social function, approaches that have been otherwise too frequently separated in musical scholarship. Shaping Sound and ...
Spanish Piano Music and Folklore from the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries: Crossing Paths
1st Edition
By Ana Benavides
July 31, 2025
This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music—songs and dances—from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The piano was the dominant solo instrument in European art music of this period, including Spanish, and Ana Benavides uses this as a vehicle for examining a wide variety of ...
Contemporary Musical Virtuosities
1st Edition
Edited
By Louise Devenish, Cat Hope
May 27, 2025
Contemporary notions of musical virtuosity redevelop historic concepts and demonstrate that our present understanding of virtuosity in western art music has shifted from what seemed, for a time, to be a relatively clear and stable definition. In the field and the academy, lively debates around the ...
Music Performance Encounters: Collaborations and Confrontations
1st Edition
Edited
By John Koslovsky, Michiel Schuijer
May 06, 2025
Why do most musical performers and musical researchers continue to inhabit divergent epistemic spaces? To what extent is the act of musical performance coextensive with the act of doing musical research, and vice versa? At what point in the research process can a performative act transform into a ...