Theory of music and musicology

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In an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century, the guidance of a skilled music producer is quickly becoming indispensable for producing a great recording.

This eclectic, funny, and moving book tracks a life lived in music and words.

What does it mean to evoke a sense of home through song, or intentionally utilize nostalgia in songwriting?

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, no Canadian band rocked harder, louder or to more hardcore fans than Teenage Head.

Whereas Humphrey Bogart is always at the top of any list of the Entertainment Industry's most famous actors, very little is known about how he clawed his way to stardom from Broadway to Hollywood.

Every time I sing a song, I'm actually making love on stage.

Follow the author as he goes on a harrowing journey from the US Olympic Training Center to homeless shelters to shooting heroin on the job to being declared dead.

Before she died, Elizabeth Taylor claimed that previous biographers had revealed only half of my story, but I cant tell the other half because Id get sued.

This delightfully illustrated exploration into 60s French pop, and the women who built it, reveals y-y musics hip sensuality, humor, style and wit.

The notorious Linda Lovelace was Americas first Queen of Porn, presiding over a fast-developing multi-billion-dollar film industry during the decadent 1970s.

From famed celebrity biographer Darwin Porter, this is the most honest and journalistically important biography of Michael Jackson ever published, with a roster of literary reviews that outnumber and outclass any other MJ bio on the market.

This is the first post-mortem, unauthorized insight into Merv Griffin, a failed singer and unsuccessful actor who unexpectedly rewrote the rules of America's broadcasting industry.

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.

The true-life and deeply satiric odyssey of a punk-rock dropout turned porn empire overlord.

The idea of this monograph is to present an overview of decisive theoretical, computational, technological, aesthetical, artistic, economical, and sociological directions to create future music.

This volume presents a selection of research papers on various topics at the interface of statistics and computer science.

This book presents a detailed analysis of what it means to be absorbed in playing music.

The 20th century saw radical changes in the way serious music is composed and produced, including the advent of electronic instruments and novel compositional methods such as serialism and stochastic music.

This book examines four main areas of music in early childhood: the traditions of music for young children, their capacities for music, the way they make music with others, and constructed and mediated musical childhoods.

This book provides a true A to Z of recorded sound, from its inception to the present day, outlining how technologies, techniques, and social attitudes have changed things, noting what is good and what is less good.

In the third and final book of his iconic piano etudes Gyorgy Ligeti charts a new path relative to the rest of his musical output, representing a significant arrival in a composer's oeuvre known for its stylistic transformations.

This book presents a deep spectrum of musical, mathematical, physical, and philosophical perspectives that have emerged in this field at the intersection of music and mathematics.

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

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.

For the first time, you can read the Ramones' comments about their own history in this intimate series of interviews with the legendary band.

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.

Did you know that in the United States alone, more than one in four children live in a home without a father?

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

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