Theory of music and musicology

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

This volume is the first book-length study of hooks in popular music.

This book, first published in 1987, was the first major survey of the links between the visual arts and pop music over the last thirty years.

This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us.

In zehn Beiträgen wird der Musikaustausch zwischen China und Europa als eine lange Geschichte von grenzüberschreitenden Begegnungen und Verflechtungen thematisiert: Im Fokus stehen zum einen Hybridbildungen im Spannungsfeld einer Rückbesinnung auf eigene Traditionen und einer Anerkennung der eigenen „Zusammengesetztheit“, zum anderen konkrete Austauschbeziehungen, also eine transkulturelle Musikvermittlung durch Lehrer*innen-Schüler*innen-Beziehungen, zum dritten die Rezeption chinesischer Musik in Europa, beginnend bei Berichten der Jesuiten im 17.

Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis.

This book opens with the emergence and development of the discipline of aesthetics in western countries, specifically the history of Western Music Aesthetics, to study and delve into the development of Chinese Music Aesthetics.

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

Questions about variation, similarity, enumeration, and classification of musical structures have long intrigued both musicians and mathematicians.

This is a self-contained monograph on human voice.

Cognitive mathematics provides insights into how mathematics works inside the brain and how it is interconnected with other faculties through so-called blending and other associative processes.

The first book-length study in English of composer Mathias Spahlinger, one of Germany's leading practitioners of contemporary music.

Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why.

Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why.

The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.

The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.

¿Qué papel tiene la música en la vida sexual de las personas?

The Other Classical Musics offers challenging new perspectives on classical music by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions.

This book stresses the interrelatedness of knowledge by extricating models that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

This book stresses the interrelatedness of knowledge by extricating models that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century.

Emotional courage is an underestimated characteristic of successful Black life in the segregated, unjust US south.

In a narrative that extends from fin de siecle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "e;pure sound.

Das Leben des Sängers und Komponisten Benedict Randhartinger (1802–1893) umspannte fast das gesamte 19.

When the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) began as a group of students at the University of Toronto in 1972, they performed with cumbersome, finicky analog instruments and DIY logistics, never sure if everything would work as intended.

Live Looping in Musical Performance offers a diverse range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the application of live looping technology by lusophone performers and composers.

A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmission and reception.

A step-by-step resource on forging one's own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader's genre of choice.

This volume brings together prominent scholars, artists, composers, and directors to present the latest interdisciplinary ideas and projects in the fields of art history, musicology and multi-media practice.

Melody is the true heart of music-the identity of a composition, the vessel that carries the lyrics, the tune that you keep whistling on your way home from a concert.

Melody is the true heart of music-the identity of a composition, the vessel that carries the lyrics, the tune that you keep whistling on your way home from a concert.

Mixing in Flow is a focused guide for mix engineers who are familiar with the basics of mixing and now seek greater consistency and refinement in their work.

Die österreichische Komponistin Olga Neuwirth (*1968) erlangte Bekanntheit vor allem durch ihre Opern und Musiktheaterwerke, die häufig ebenso aktuelle wie dezidiert politische Themen der Identität, Gewalt und Intoleranz behandeln.

Networked Music Performance (NMP) is the essential guide to both playing music online and ensemble music through networks.

This volume brings together prominent scholars, artists, composers, and directors to present the latest interdisciplinary ideas and projects in the fields of art history, musicology and multi-media practice.

Im Windschatten der digitalen Revolution begann sich vor einem Jahrzehnt auch ein neuer Typus von Kunstmusik auszubilden: eine Musik, die primär am Computer entsteht und nicht nur mit Noten und Samples, sondern auch mit Bildern, Videos, Texten, Umweltgeräuschen, Worten und Konzepten kompo­niert wird.

Psychedelic music is a fascinating yet under-researched field of study.

Networked Music Performance (NMP) is the essential guide to both playing music online and ensemble music through networks.

Live Looping in Musical Performance offers a diverse range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the application of live looping technology by lusophone performers and composers.

The Routledge Companion to Teaching Music Composition in Schools: International Perspectives offers a comprehensive overview of teaching composing from a wide range of countries around the world.

Was bleibt?

Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games brings together a range of perspectives that explore how music and sound in video games interact with virtual and real environments, often in innovative and unexpected ways.

In Together, Somehow, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta examines how people find ways to get along and share a dancefloor, a vibe, and a sound.

All songs were written with NWC Noteworthy Composer.

Psychedelic music is a fascinating yet under-researched field of study.

A step-by-step resource on forging one's own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader's genre of choice.