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.
Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses - especially those of academic analysis and journalistic criticism - that have influenced its creation, interpretation, and reception.
Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses - especially those of academic analysis and journalistic criticism - that have influenced its creation, interpretation, and reception.
An invention of the Industrial Revolution, the accordion provided the less affluent with an inexpensive, loud, portable, and durable "e;one-man-orchestra"e; capable of producing melody, harmony, and bass all at once.
Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years - the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical energies of rock and its attendant culture.
Der renommierte Schlagzeuger Christian Dierstein hat zusammen mit einer Forschungsgruppe der Hochschule fur Musik Basel die Spieltechniken auf dem Schlagzeug aus neuartiger Perspektive erforscht.
Die Wiederentdeckung der auf dem Prinzip des Generalbasses basierenden Kompositionslehre gehört zu den wichtigsten Entwicklungen einer »historisch informierten Musiktheorie« der letzten Jahre.
Mit der kommentierten Auswahl der Briefe und Notizen von Carl Dahlhaus (1928–1989) wird die Korrespondenz eines der bedeutendsten Musikwissenschaftler des 20.
Dieses Buch zeichnet ein großes historisches Panorama Europas und der "abendländischen Welt" anhand der Musik, mit deren Hilfe die Menschen ihre Kulturen seit jeher gestaltet haben.
Der lang erwartete Nachfolger von Nicole Schwindt-Gross' Erfolgsbuch "Musikwissenschaftliches Arbeiten" ist ein praktisches Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für das Studium der Musik und Musikwissenschaft, das sich auch zum Selbststudium und als Nachschlagewerk eignet.
Der lang erwartete Nachfolger von Nicole Schwindt-Gross' Erfolgsbuch "Musikwissenschaftliches Arbeiten" ist ein praktisches Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für das Studium der Musik und Musikwissenschaft, das sich auch zum Selbststudium und als Nachschlagewerk eignet.
Unter den Streichquartetten Beethovens gibt es keine bescheidenen Werke, sondern nur Bekenntnisse eines Komponisten, der seiner Zeit vorauszueilen scheint.
This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariee or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory, a vocal genre characterized by several different texts sounding simultaneously over a foundational Latin chant.
This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariee or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory, a vocal genre characterized by several different texts sounding simultaneously over a foundational Latin chant.
Arguably the pre-eminent European sculptor of his age, but historically considered little more than the facile court sculptor to the grand dukes of Florence, Giambologna played a major role in the artistic transformations of the late sixteenth century.
The principal purpose of topics in musicology has been to identify meaning-bearing units within a musical composition that would have been understood by contemporary audiences and therefore also by later receivers, albeit in a different context and with a need for historically aware listening.
The principal purpose of topics in musicology has been to identify meaning-bearing units within a musical composition that would have been understood by contemporary audiences and therefore also by later receivers, albeit in a different context and with a need for historically aware listening.
Designing Interactions for Music and Sound presents multidisciplinary research and case studies in electronic music production, dance-composer collaboration, AI tools for live performance, multimedia works, installations in public spaces, locative media, AR/VR/MR/XR and health.
Designing Interactions for Music and Sound presents multidisciplinary research and case studies in electronic music production, dance-composer collaboration, AI tools for live performance, multimedia works, installations in public spaces, locative media, AR/VR/MR/XR and health.
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