Theory of music and musicology

Using cine-ethnomusicology as a focus, Cineworlding introduces readers to ways of thinking eco-cinematically.

The cassette tape was revolutionary.

Arguably one of the most influential and revered figures in contemporary music theory, David Lewin (1933-2003) revolutionized the field through his work on transformational theory and theoretical methodology.

For readers of Oliver Sacks and Being Mortal by Atul Gawande comes a shimmery account of performing for a series of patients with varied afflictions, including the inevitable final one.

Musical biography has rarely been an object of theoretical and methodological reflection.

In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music-it's a national brand.

During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music.

Music Theory through Musical Theatre takes a new and powerful approach to music theory.

Idiot's Guides: Guitar Theory is music theory for guitar and other fretboard instruments.

The music of Edvard Grieg is justly celebrated for its harmonic richness, a feature especially apparent in the piano works written in the last decades of his life.

Die Göttinger Händel-Beiträge (GHB) erscheinen als Jahrbuch und werden im Auftrag der Göttinger Händel-Gesellschaft e.

How does a peoples, music reflect their history, their occupations, cultural beliefs and values?

Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world.

On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks.

The Hispanic rite, a medieval non-Roman Western liturgy, was practiced across the Iberian Peninsula for over half a millennium and functioned as the most distinct marker of Christian identity in this region.

Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles.

This volume provides the first printed critical edition of The Praise of Musicke (1586), keeping the original text intact and accompanied by an analytical commentary.

Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars and fire engines to, less often, tornado warnings.

Inge van Rij''s book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

Richly ethnographic and a compelling read, After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens and celebrity musicians in contemporary Haiti.

Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture.

There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to studying and researching music.

The enigmatic character of The Art of Fugue became apparent as early as in its first edition, printed more than a year after the composer's death.

Das Gedicht "Der Ginster oder die Blume der Wüste" (1834/37) von Giacomo Leopardi ist Inbegriff eines romantischen Pessimismus, der wie ein Stachel im Fleische der Aufklärung sitzt.

More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to attract international scholarly interest.

Examines the history of one of the best known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali and its connection with cultural tourism.

Heiner Goebbels (*1952) – weder der Tradition des Musikmuseums noch dem Fortschritt der Avantgarde fühlt er sich verpflichtet.

For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "e;lost paradise"e; of medieval Islamic Spain.

We Still Here maps the edges of hip-hop culture and makes sense of the rich and diverse ways people create and engage with hip-hop music within Canadian borders.

Electronic Visual Music is a comprehensive guide to the composition and performance of visual music, and an essential text for those wanting to explore the history, current practice, performance strategies, compositional methodologies and practical techniques for conceiving and creating electronic visual music.

What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music makers, and world class performers?

Applied studies scholarship has triggered a not-so-quiet revolution in the discipline of ethnomusicology.

Mit der Lustigen Witwe schuf Franz Lehár eine neue Form der Operette, deren stilistische Bandbreite vom Gassenhauer bis zum Musikdrama reichte.

Nowadays we listen to music whenever and wherever we like.

Play with Sound: Manual for Electronic Musicians and Other Sound Explorers offers a thorough introduction to music technology by centering on curiosity and creativity in the exploration of the fundamentals of sound.

The musicological study of popular music has developed, particularly over the past twenty years, into an established aspect of the discipline.

This volume presents a new collection of essays, all of them dealing with music, by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today.

Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets focuses on macromarketing-related aspects of film music in general and on the cinemusical role of ambi-diegetic jazz in particular.

Andrew Shenton's groundbreaking cross-disciplinary approach to Messiaen's music presents a systematic and detailed examination of the compositional techniques of one of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century as they relate to his desire to express profound truths about Catholicism.

The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years.

Beethoven's piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio.

Elegantly and engagingly written, this study demonstrates how opera has communicated with its diverse audiences over time.

Once the domain of a privileged few, the art of record production is today within the reach of all.

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.

Helen Buchholtz (1877–1953) hatte zeitlebens viele Freiheiten: Sie war finanziell unabhängig, familiär ungebunden und pflegte einen extravaganten Lebensstil.

Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work, The Metaphysical, Physical and Technical History of both Major and Minor Worlds, in which music plays an important role in his system of neoplatonic correspondences: the harmony of the universe (macrocosm) as well as the harmony of man (microcosm).

The Rival Sirens examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera.

Contemporary notions of musical virtuosity redevelop historic concepts and demonstrate that our present understanding of virtuosity in western art music has shifted from what seemed, for a time, to be a relatively clear and stable definition.