Theory of music and musicology

How do digital technologies transform music?

Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays on the philosophy of music, written by Stephen Davies--one of the most distinguished philosophers in the field.

Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "e;through"e; music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters.

This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes.

This title was first published in 2001: Unlike many other academic disciplines, musicology has been somewhat reluctant to explore the possibilities that critical theory might offer to our understanding of music and the ways in which we study it.

Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847.

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Gotterdammerung.

Rebecca Herissone''s study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to the creation of music in late seventeenth-century England.

The human singing voice holds immense power - to convey mood, emotion, and identity in songs, provide music's undeniable "e;wow"e; moments, and communicate a pop song's meaning perhaps more than any other musical parameter.

Caritas relates the 'true', yet largely undocumented story of Christine Carpenter, a 14th-century anchoress who moves towards insanity as her desire for a divine revelation continues to be unfulfilled after a period of three years locked in her cell.

Building on the foundation of Lerdahl and Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, this volume presents a multidimensional model of diatonic and chromatic spaces that quantifies listeners' intuitions of the relative distances of pitches, chords, and keys from a given tonic.

Disability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day.

Making its first huge impact in the 1960s through the inventions of Bob Moog, the analog synthesizer sound, riding a wave of later developments in digital and software synthesis, has now become more popular than ever.

Music was everywhere during the Civil War.

Unter den Ausgaben für Ensemble- und Ergänzungsfächer des VdM ist der neue Lehrplan "Musiktheorie und Komposition" erschienen.

Comprehensive Aural Skillsis a complete suite of material for both performance and dictation, covering the wide range of sight singing and ear training skills required for undergraduate courses of study.

The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile-portable, fungible, and ubiquitous.

This book provides a true A to Z of recorded sound, from its inception to the present day, outlining how technologies, techniques, and social attitudes have changed things, noting what is good and what is less good.

Discussion concerning the 'musicality' of Samuel Beckett's writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett's engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by the ongoing interest of musicians in Beckett's work.

Die israelische Komponistin Chaya Czernowin (*1957) genießt international ein hohes Renommee.

Described as the "e;life and soul of British contemporary music"e;, Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano.

Als promovierter Jurist, bewandert in Kunstgeschichte und Literatur, gehört der Musikschriftsteller August Wilhelm Ambros (1816–1876) zu den typischen Universalgeistern des 19.

Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "e;formats,"e; which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences.

When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life.

The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile-portable, fungible, and ubiquitous.

The MIDI Manual: A Practical Guide to MIDI within Modern Music Production, Fourth Edition, is a complete reference on MIDI.

Why do we find it hard to explain what happens when words are set to music?

Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege.

It is through their music that the Indigo Girls build upon the theological idea of community-building and solidarity-forming, in order to tell the stories, to relate the authentic experience of human struggle and reconciliation, of human love and pain.

On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks.

Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s.

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Bruce Springsteen: Two Hearts is the definitive biography of one of the most important songwriters and performers of the last three decades.

The Art of Populism in US Politics investigates connections between populist politics and artistic expressions in the United States in the Trump era.

Of the post-war, post-serialist generation of European composers, it was Luigi Nono who succeeded not only in identifying and addressing aesthetic and technical questions of his time, but in showing a way ahead to a new condition of music in the twenty-first century.

What does it mean to be expressive in music performance across diverse historical and cultural domains?

Sonic Writing explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media.

A comprehensive guide to the techniques of orchestral playing and the development of non-professional orchestras, Orchestral Performance covers all areas of orchestral music-making - instrumental technique and combination, ensemble, layout, repertoire and presentation.

Von Cordula Späth, der Superheldin vieler Romane Dietmar Daths, lässt sich behaupten, dass wegen ihr Dietmar Dath zum Schriftsteller und ein Verlag (der Verbrecher Verlag) gegründet wurde.

The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory.

Los sistemas físicos y procesos neuropsicológicos que intervienen en lo que llamamos música.

Musical practices in the 20th century pose new and complex problems in the study of the fundamental principles of pitch organization.

Covering modal music from Gregorian chant through the seventeenth-century, The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook combining stylistic composition, theory and analysis, music history, and performance.

This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.

Novice music teachers and music education students struggle to form an identity that synthesizes 'musician' with 'music teacher,' and to separate themselves from their prior experiences to think critically about music-making and music instruction.

Seit wann gibt es Musikwissenschaft als akademische Disziplin in Landern wie Italien, Schweden, Chile oder Sudkorea?