Theory of music and musicology

A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, stylistic, technical, and geographic categories, and set within the larger political, social, economic, and cultural framework.

With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan.

Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife.

A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic TitleIn Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz.

An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue.

Javier F.

Interactive Composition empowers readers with all of the practical skills and insights they need to compose and perform electronic popular music in a variety of popular styles.

The original edition of Beyond and Before extends an understanding of "e;progressive rock"e; by providing a fuller definition of what progressive rock is, was and can be.

First Published in 1999.

Irrläufe, wie sie Herta Müller vor Augen stehen, sind Wirbel: der Bilder und Begriffe, sind Drehung, sind Strömung im "Teufelskreis der Wörter" (wie sie ihre Nobelpreisrede überschrieben hat).

Do you find it challenging to integrate technology into your elementary music classroom?

Roger Scruton first addressed this topic in his celebrated book The Aesthetics of Music (OUP) and in this new book he applies the theory to the practice and examines a number of composers and musical forms.

Many people find music theory a tough subject-- but it doesn't have to be!

This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson.

Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a ';coloured' cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape.

An idealized image of European concert-goers has long prevailed in historical overviews of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Institutions in Recife, Brazil, have restructured subsidies in favor of encouraging musicians to become more entrepreneurial.

This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively tonal nor serial.

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.

Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies.

Istvan Anhalt, born into a Jewish family in Budapest in 1919, studied with Zoltan Kodaly before being conscripted into a forced labour camp during World War II.

Now available in paperback!

Become a Competent Music Producer in 365 Days is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of music-production.

Can music really arouse emotions?

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music.

How, in 1705, was Thomas Salmon, a parson from Bedfordshire, able to persuade the Royal Society that a musical performance could constitute a scientific experiment?

Ludic Dreaming uses (sometimes fictional) dreams as a method for examining sound and contemporary technoculture's esoteric exchanges, refusing both the strictures of visually dominated logic and the celebratory tone that so often characterizes the "e;sonic turn.

A complete, progressive course that teaches musicians how to notate music from audio examples, held on downloadable resources.

More than eighty years have passed since Edgard Varese's catalytic work for percussion ensemble, Ionisation, was heard in its New York premiere.

First published in 1996, this volume counters the attitude of paying more attention to the performer than to the piece.

What is rhetorical music?

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

 This book explores the ways in which popular music can criticise political, social and economic structures, through the lens of alternate rock band Manic Street Preachers.

The Digital Da Vinci book series opens with the interviews of music mogul Quincy Jones, MP3 inventor Karlheinz Brandenburg, Tommy Boy founder Tom Silverman and entertainment attorney Jay L.

Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere.

In recent years, many psychologists and cognitive scientists have published their views on the psychology of music.

This collection of essays offers a wide range of new interdisciplinary perspectives on Heinrich Glarean''s contribution to intellectual life.

Sounds can be harmonic, number sequences too - a coincidence?

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education offers global, comprehensive, and critical perspectives on a wide range of conceptual and practical issues in music education assessment, evaluation, and feedback as these apply to various forms of music education within schools and communities.

Electronic Visual Music is a comprehensive guide to the composition and performance of visual music, and an essential text for those wanting to explore the history, current practice, performance strategies, compositional methodologies and practical techniques for conceiving and creating electronic visual music.

Music education thrives on philosophical inquiry, the systematic and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions.

Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear.

This is a self-contained monograph on human voice.

In this new edition of their groundbreaking Kodly Today, Mchel Houlahan and Philip Tacka offer an expertly-researched, thorough, and -- most importantly -- practical approach to transforming curriculum goals into tangible, achievable musical objectives and effective lesson plans.