Theory of music and musicology

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.

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.

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.

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.

Few aspects of daily existence are untouched by technology.

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.