Upcoming title.- Written by award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia, this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions. In this...

A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned e...

A thorough guide of twentieth-century music, designed for use as an essential reference handbook due to its brilliant musical analysis. A work in which the listener’s...

"This book arose due to the questions I have asked myself throughout several decades of professional activity in musical improvisation. It therefore came about through the...

Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave...

What did Mozart and Da Ponte talk about as they composed? What bitter words did Verdi and the Duke of Rivas exchange in front of Madrid’s Royal Theater on the eve of La forza...

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), el “padre de la sinfonía”, es uno de los compositores clásicos más celebrados de la historia, y al mismo tiempo protagonista de una biografía casi...

This book is partly a biography, partly musical history and partly a mystery tale, which brings together three narrative threads The first is led by J.S.Bach and the score of...

All human cultures seem to make music - today and through history. But why they do so, why music can excite deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all are qu...