Theory of music and musicology

In Stambeli, Richard C.

Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise.

Ideal for home learning, this simple and inspirational guide helps children understand and appreciate music.

This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire.

How can a piano tuner obtain such high precision with no other measuring device than their own ears?

Mathematical Music offers a concise and easily accessible history of how mathematics was used to create music.

This book presents a detailed analysis of what it means to be absorbed in playing music.

Discourse on popular music frequently describes artists' recordings and performances as "e;intimate.

Il volume si ricollega a un convegno tenutosi a Vienna sul primo decennio dell'attività artistica di Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782), concentrandosi sulla stagione in cui egli si impegnò ad affermarsi come "virtuoso di poesia" prima nei salotti napoletani, poi nei teatri d'opera di Napoli, Roma e Venezia.

This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise on the subject of music form, and includes information on sentencing and phrasing, modulation, rhythm, and much more.

America tells its stories through song.

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain from the emergence of cinema to the introduction of synchronized sound.

In Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis.

A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory and partimento, and takes an integrated, hands-on approach to the teaching of harmony and counterpoint in today's classrooms and studios.

This almanac of sound words important to artists and scholars highlights words that expand the way we speak (and write) about sonic experiences.

This accessible introduction is the first English-language book in a generation to cover program music as idea and repertoire.

A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOpening with an account of print portraiture facilitating Franz Liszt's celebrity status and concluding with Riot Grrrl's noisy politics of feminism and performance, this interdisciplinary anthology charts the relationship between music and the visual arts from late Romanticism and the birth of modernism to 'postmodernism', while crossing from Western art to the Middle East.

This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book Music, Art, and Metaphysics, which gathers together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics.

This book examines four main areas of music in early childhood: the traditions of music for young children, their capacities for music, the way they make music with others, and constructed and mediated musical childhoods.

The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research.

Werner Reinhart (1884–1951) war kein "Sponsor" oder "Drittmittelgeber" im heutigen Sinn, sondern er entsprach dem klassischen Typus eines altruistischen Mäzens und machte Winterthur und die Villa Rychenberg vor etwa 100 Jahren zu einem kulturellen Zentrum.

Popular Polish Electronic Music, 1970-2020 offers a cultural history of popular Polish electronic music, from its beginning in the late 1960s/early 1970s up to the present day, in the context of Polish economic, social and political history, and the history of popular music in this country.

Simon Zagorski-Thomas sets out a framework for the study of record production using current ideas from psychology and sociology.

The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.

From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salome Voegelin expands 'possible world theory' to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday.

The musicological study of popular music has developed, particularly over the past twenty years, into an established aspect of the discipline.

This book is about the human mental capacities that are mostly veiled in the use of language yet can be revealed through music activities.

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J.

The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself.

In recent years, academics and professionals in the social sciences have forged significant advances in quantitative research methodologies specific to their respective disciplines.

In his 1985 book The Idea of Music: Schoenberg and Others, Peter Franklin set out a challenge for musicology: namely, how best to talk and write about the music of modern European culture that fell outside of the modernist mainstream typified by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern?

Theodor Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music.

A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.

The Music of Multicultural America explores the intersection of performance, identity, and community in a wide range of musical expressions.

With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music.

This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986.

In Together, Somehow, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta examines how people find ways to get along and share a dancefloor, a vibe, and a sound.

Schubert's Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer's compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author's experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert's unfinished works.

Jennifer Bain contextualizes the revival of Hildegard''s music, engaging with intersections amongst local devotion and political, religious, and intellectual activity.

A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition.