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Books on Music, Musicians and Music Theory
Forsyth is a great place to find a huge variety of books on the subject of Music, including various resources on Music Theory. This includes composer and performer biographies and both academic and popular titles on the history of music, performance, practice, composition, music theory and harmony. We a...
Books on Music, Musicians and Music Theory
Forsyth is a great place to find a huge variety of books on the subject of Music, including various resources on Music Theory. This includes composer and performer biographies and both academic and popular titles on the history of music, performance, practice, composition, music theory and harmony. We also stock a wide range of workbooks and flashcards for students and teachers. If you can't find what you are looking for or need advice, why not give our expert sheet music staff a ring on 0161 956 2052 ext. 606
Books on Music/Music Theory There are 1095 products.
£ 115.00Performing Brahms - Early Evidence of...
Enhanced by an accompanying CD, this book presents documentary evidence of performance in Brahms’s time.
£ 115.00
£ 90.00Berliozs Orchestration Treatise - A...
Provides both a translation and detailed commentary on Berlioz’s own practice as an orchestrator.
£ 90.00
£ 90.00Opera Buffa in Mozarts Vienna
An examination of the world of Vienna and the opera buffa in the eighteenth-century.
£ 90.00
£ 90.00Stradivari
A highly illustrated biography and study of Stradivari, the greatest violin maker, including colour photographs of his most famous instruments.
£ 90.00
£ 86.50
£ 85.00Monteverdi
This book, originally published in Italian, is a leading study of the greatest composer of late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy.
£ 85.00
£ 85.00Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov -...
Caryl Emerson and Robert Oldani take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov.
£ 85.00
£ 85.00The Cambridge History of American Music
A definitive history of music in the United States, written by a team of scholars.
£ 85.00
£ 85.00Opera and the Enlightenment
This collection of essays explores the wide dimensions and influence of eighteenth-century opera.
£ 85.00
£ 85.00Putting Popular Music in its Place
Essays on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with politics and ideology.
£ 85.00
£ 82.00Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late...
The first comprehensive study of the liturgical manuscripts of the Florentine Duomo.
£ 82.00
£ 80.00Song on Record
A history of the Lied and its interpretation, with a guide to available recordings.
£ 80.00
£ 80.00Tikopia Songs - Poetic and Musical Art of...
This book shows how the poetry and music of a Polynesian people, the Tikopia, can have an intimate relation with their social life.
£ 80.00
£ 80.00Music and Text - Critical Inquiries
This book demonstrates how musical and literary scholarship can combine forces effectively on the common ground of contemporary literary theory and interpretive practice.
£ 80.00
£ 80.00
£ 80.00Purcell Manuscripts - The Principal...
Major reference tool providing in-depth analysis of Purcell manuscript sources.
£ 80.00
£ 75.00German Opera - From the Beginnings to Wagner
This wide-ranging history explores German opera from its primitive origins up to Wagner.
£ 75.00
£ 75.00Musica Getutscht - A Treatise on Musical...
This early German ‘do-it-yourself’ manual tells us about music-making in the years just before the Reformation.
£ 75.00
£ 75.00Roger Norths The Musicall Grammarian 1728
A treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches.
£ 75.00- £ 75.00
- £ 75.00
The Musical Dilettante - A Treatise on...
This book offers a most comprehensive view of galant composition available in a single volume.
£ 75.00 
£ 75.00Bach Interpretation - Articulation Marks...
A comprehensive assessment of J.S. Bach’s use of articulation marks (i.e. slurs and dots) in the large body of primary sources.
£ 75.00
£ 75.00Byrd Studies
This book is a collection of twelve essays by British and American writers on William Byrd.
£ 75.00
£ 75.00Russians on Russian Music, 1830–1880 - An...
This substantial anthology of Russian writing on Russian music features the most influential critics of music in nineteenth-century Russia.
£ 75.00- £ 75.00
Summa Musice - A Thirteenth-Century Manual...
Christopher Page’s book provides an edition of the Latin text taken from the only surviving original copy, together with an English translation.
£ 75.00 
£ 75.00Berlioz Studies
This book contains essays by leading Berlioz scholars on various aspects of the great musician’s life and work.
£ 75.00
£ 75.00Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn
This book is a detailed investigation of a lively and innovative period in London’s cultural life.
£ 75.00- £ 75.00
Elizabethan Mythologies - Studies in...
Robin Headlam Wells re-examines the myth, central to the Orpheus story.
£ 75.00 - £ 75.00
Music in the German Renaissance - Sources,...
Explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm in the age of Gutenberg, Dürer and Luther.
£ 75.00 - £ 75.00
Purcell Studies
Essays commemorating the 1995 tercentenary of Purcell’s death, representing the best recent research.
£ 75.00