Theory of music and musicology

Winner of the 2020 British Forum for Ethnomusicology Book PrizeBangkok Is Ringing is an on-the-ground sound studies analysis of the political protests that transformed Thailand in 2010-11.

Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

Reimagining Music Theory: Contexts, Communities, Creativities invites instructors to rethink how we teach music theory, challenging the traditional, classical canon-based pedagogy and offering new and alternative approaches.

Tanzmusik bildet die Grundlage zahlreicher barocker Instrumental- und zum Teil auch Vokalmusik.

Die Polarität der beiden "Tongeschlechter" Dur und Moll zählt zu den Grundlagen der europäischen Musik der Neuzeit.

While the study and redefinition of the notion of authorship and its relationship to the idea of the literary work have played a central role in recent research on literature, semiotics, and related disciplines, its impact on contemporary musicology is still limited.

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F.

In a newly updated paperback release, Collecting, Analyzing, and Reporting Data considers an array of strategies for working with qualitative data in American music education.

From prehistoric bone flutes to pipe organs to digital synthesizers, instruments have been important to musical cultures around the world.

This book features original papers from 25th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2020), jointly organized by National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, during 8-9 October 2020.

This book features original papers from 27th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2023), jointly organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, and Sir C.

Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in the emerging field of sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and fully engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms.

Singing for the Dead chronicles ethnic revival in Oaxaca, Mexico, where new forms of singing and writing in the local Mazatec indigenous language are producing powerful, transformative political effects.

Theory for Today's Musician, Third Edition, recasts the scope of the traditional music theory course to meet the demands of the professional music world, in a style that speaks directly and engagingly to today's music student.

In east Javanese dance traditions like Beskalan and Ngremo, musicians and dancers negotiate gender through performances where males embody femininity and females embody masculinity.

This book explores the profound and ancient relationship between music and astronomy.

In the 1920s, the Mexican composer Julin Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound).

This volume constitutes the first complete publication of Marina Lobanova's study - banned in Russia in 1979 as too avant-garde and published there only in a bowdlerized version in 1990.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communications and travel.

Distinguished music theorist and composer David Lewin (1933-2003) applies the conceptual framework he developed in his earlier, innovative Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations to the varied repertoire of the twentieth century in this stimulating and illustrative book.

Arnold Schoenberg's theory of music has been much discussed but his approach to music theory needs a new historical and theoretical assessment in order to provide a clearer understanding of his contributions to music theory and analysis.

Originally published in 2003, Edvard Grieg and his Songs examines the lifetime of Edvard Grieg.

Welche Bedeutung hat Musik in verschiedenen Lebensabschnitten und welche Rolle spielt sie im Lebenswerk eines Einzelnen?

The recent resurgence of experimental music has given rise to a more divergent range of practices than has previously been the case.

The Music of Film opens up the world of film music from the inside.

Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment.

This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations.

This book explores the highly-valued, and often highly-charged, ideal of authenticity in hip-hop - what it is, why it is important, and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists.

Speech perception has been the focus of innumerable studies over the past decades.

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research, exploring how the audio-visual medium of film relates to, builds on and shapes metal culture.

Jazz Theory Workbook accompanies the second edition of the successful Jazz Theory-From Basic to Advanced Study textbook designed for undergraduate and graduate students studying jazz.

As the sound-producing mechanism for the bassoon, the reed is a vital component in the sound of the entire instrument.

Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly Sills Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives.

There is a strong tradition of literary analyses of the musical artwork.

This book explores music with respect to quantum computing, a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly.

From prehistoric bone flutes to pipe organs to digital synthesizers, instruments have been important to musical cultures around the world.

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures.

This book is an interdisciplinary project that brings together ideas from aesthetics, philosophy, psychology, and music sociology as an expansion of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer's theory on the aesthetics of play.

Innovation in Music: Innovation Pathways brings together cutting-edge research on new innovations in the field of music production, technology, performance, and business.

The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy offers a comprehensive survey of issues, practice, and current developments in the teaching of aural skills.

This full-score anthology for Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Period Music supports the textbook of the same name, the first book to present a comprehensive course text on advanced analysis of rhythm and meter.

The textbook provides students with insight into and overview of the basics of social research on music.