Theory of music and musicology

This introduction provides students and scholars with the information and skills they need when studying composers'' sketches.

This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research.

During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination and conservation of music.

This book gathers a set of works highlighting significant advances in the areas of music and sound.

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental electronic music and includes many suggestions for further reading and listening.

Musicologists have increasingly taken a wide-angled lens on the study of music in society, to explore how it can be intertwined with issues of politics, gender, religion, race, psychology, memory, and space.

In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia.

The book presents selected papers at the 9th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) held virtually in June 2022, organized by Zhejiang University, China.

A sweeping history of Ethiopian musicians during and following the 1974 Ethiopian revolution.

During the last few decades, most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between "e;high"e; and "e;low"e; art is an artificial one, that Beethoven's Ninth and "e;Blue Suede Shoes"e; are equally valuable as cultural texts.

Awarded a Certificate of Merit at the ARSC Awards for Excellence 2018In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think about, make and use popular music.

This comprehensive and groundbreaking book describes the effective use of songwriting in music therapy with a variety of client populations, from children with cancer and adolescents in secondary school to people with traumatic brain injury and mental health problems.

The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and analysis.

This first multi-author book on Telemann in English examines the composer''s life and works from a wide range of perspectives.

The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation.

In this book, readers will learn practical tips and strategies to teach music appreciation online.

Focusing on Messiaen's relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux.

This selection of sixteen of Nicholas Cook's essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years.

This book is about K-pop dance and the evolution and presence of its dance fandom on social media.

Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally.

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music and culture.

Today's popular tassa drumming emerged from the fragments of transplanted Indian music traditions half-forgotten and creatively recombined, rearticulated, and elaborated into a dynamic musical genre.

Black Power Music!

The singer tells her story from Scottish childhood to success on the Greenwich Village folk scene and beyond, and shares her passion for traditional music.

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience.

This Element explores the procedures and techniques through which music communicates drama when very little is spoken in a musical.

Mathemusical Conversations celebrates the understanding of music through mathematics, and the appreciation of mathematics through music.

Compiled by an international array of musical and technical specialists, this book deals with some of the most important topics in modern musical signal processing.

Unity Game Audio Implementation offers a unique, practical, project-based approach to learning about aspects of Interactive Game Audio for those who have never used a game engine before and don't want to learn computer programming right now.

In Listening Subjects, David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral experiences of music listeners.

Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance.

Carmen and the Staging of Spain explores the Belle poque fascination with Spanish entertainment that refashioned Bizet's opera and gave rise to an international "e;Carmen industry.

One of the pioneers of gender studies in music, Ellen Koskoff edited the foundational text Women and Music in Cross Cultural Perspective, and her career evolved in tandem with the emergence and development of the field.

Contributions by Cynthia Neese Bailes, Nina Batt, Lijun Bi, Helene Charderon, Stuart Ching, Helene Ehriander, Xiangshu Fang, Sara Kersten-Parish, Helen Kilpatrick, Jessica Kirkness, Sung-Ae Lee, Jann Pataray-Ching, Angela Schill, Josh Simpson, John Stephens, Corinne Walsh, Nerida Wayland, and Vivian Yenika-AgbawChildren, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media examines how creative works have depicted what it means to be a deaf or hard of hearing child in the modern world.

This book puts sampling studies on the academic map by focusing on sampling as a logic of exchange between audio-visual media.

Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts describes a range of successful programmes pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings.

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.

While Chopin composed only a few works in variation form, he employed variations and variation technique in the majority of his works.

Child prodigies have been observed in a range of disciplines - particularly music, mathematics, chess, and art.

In Chances and Choices, Stephanie Pitts surveys the aims and impact of formative musical experiences, evaluating the extent to which music education of various kinds provides a foundation for lifelong involvement and interest in music.

The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music.

In Pop Music and Hip Ennui: A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism, Macon Holt provides the imaginative and analytical resources to think with contemporary pop music to investigate the ambivalences of contemporary culture and the potentials in it for change.

In The Discourse of Musicology, Giles Hooper considers a number of issues central to recent debates about the nature and direction of contemporary musicology.

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.

Before the French Revolution, making music was an activity that required permission.

Through analysis, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the legacy of the leitmotif, from Wagner''s Ring cycle to present-day Hollywood film music.