This volume offers a cross section of current directions in the broad field of music analysis as practiced by a transnational community of scholars. Music analy

Based on the assumption that reality, reference and representation work together, this introductory textbook explains and illustrates the various ways in which

This comprehensive volume offers a wide-ranging perspective on the stories that art music has told since the start of the 20th century. Contributors challenge t

Byron Almén proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory,

"Brings together the disciplines of art, music, and history to explore the importance of the past to conceptions of the present in the central Middle Ages"--Pro