Thinking about Thinking: Metacognition for Music Learning providesmusic educators with information, inspiration, and practical suggestions for teaching music.
The first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current research since the book's initial release.
From the Romantic era onwards, music has been seen as the most quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time.
Today's research landscape requires an updated set of analytical skills to tell the story of how people interact with and make meaning from contemporary culture.
Live Looping in Musical Performance offers a diverse range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the application of live looping technology by lusophone performers and composers.
Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltn Kodly's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries.
Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the Hip Hop Movement.
The Second Edition of Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs offers updated accounts of music educators' experiences, featured as vignettes throughout the book.
Zusammenhänge zwischen Richard Wagners Philosophie, Leben und frühem Werk vermitteln, dass »das Weibliche« für den Komponisten zeitlebens eine besondere Bedeutung hatte.
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike.
During the century of British rule of the Indian subcontinent known as the British Raj, the rulers felt the significant influence of their exotic subjects.
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making-as well as creatively cannibalizing-electronic circuits for artistic purposes.
Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education.
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.
Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity is a groundbreaking collection bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers, and professionals.
In the motets of Philippe de Vitry, Guillaume de Machaut, and their contemporaries, tenors have often been characterized as the primary shaping forces, prior in conception as well as in construction to the upper voices.
Carol Salomon dedicated over thirty years of her life to researching, translating, and annotating this compilation of songs by the Bengali poet and mystical philosopher Lalan Sai (popularly transliterated as Lalon) who lived in the village of Cheuriya in Bengal in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time.
Nightmares of Contemporary HorrorCinema addresses collections of comprehensive studies on horror within selective chapters, focusing on American horror films in the new millennium.
Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula, Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom aims to both demonstrate why diversification is badly needed and help faculty expand their teaching with practical, classroom-oriented lesson plans that focus on teaching music theory with music by Black composers.
Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach, Third Edition combines a textbook and integrated workbook with an interactive website for those who want to learn the basics of reading music.
The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe.
"Hipster, Gangster, Femmes Fatales" – Diese erste deutschsprachige Darstellung des Jazz in der Filmmusik erzählt von verblüffend modernen multimedialen Experimenten der Stummfilmzeit und vom hedonistischen Slapstick der Roaring Twenties, von anarchischen Cartoons, luxuriösen Musical-Exzessen und den Abgründen des Film noir, von den "funky" Soundtracks des Exploitationfilms und dem frühen Actionkino.
Censorship had an extraordinary impact on Alban Berg's opera Lulu, composed by the Austrian during the politically tumultuous years spanning 1929 to 1935.
Die Trauer um Friedrich den Großen hallte weit über die Grenzen Preußens hinaus und inspirierte den begnadeten Komponisten Johann Friedrich Reichardt zu einem Werk von außergewöhnlicher Tiefe und Ausdruckskraft: der Trauer-Kantate auf den Tod des preußischen Königs.
In recent years, a psychological perspective has gained increasing acceptance in the education provided to musicians: teachers, performers, and "e;creatives"e; alike.
