Theory of music and musicology

The contributions to this Festschrift, honouring the distinguished Irish musicologist Harry White on his sixtieth birthday, have wide repercussions and span a broad timeframe.

From the Tin Pan Alley 32-bar form, through the cyclical forms of modal jazz, to the more recent accumulation of digital layers, beats, and breaks in Electronic Dance Music, repetition as both an aesthetic disposition and a formal property has stimulated a diverse range of genres and techniques.

A commonsense, self-contained introduction to the mathematics and physics of music; essential reading for musicians, music engineers, and anyone interested in the intersection of art and science.

Ground-breaking dual biography that explores pop music''s two most influential songwriters, offering new insights into their creative thinking.

Multivocality frames vocality as a way to investigate the voice in music, as a concept encompassing all the implications with which voice is inscribed-the negotiation of sound and Self, individual and culture, medium and meaning, ontology and embodiment.

Music education has historically had a tense relationship with social justice.

Does music make kids smarter?

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works.

In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground.

Neue Wege für eine kreative MusikpädagogikMusik ist weit mehr als ein Schulfach – sie ist ein kreativer Prozess, in dem Zeit und Innovation miteinander verschmelzen.

First Published in 1979.

Sound Advice is a valuable resource for college students, beginning teachers, and experienced conductors of children's choirs.

Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity is a practical blueprint for teachers wanting to begin teaching music technology to secondary age students.

Between September 2006 and December 2008, Simon Bikindi stood trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, accused of inciting genocide with his songs.

In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

This book surveys emerging music and education landscapes to present a sampling of the promising practices of music teacher education that may serve as new models for the 21st century.

Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of ChuckBerry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure.

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.

This volume charts a new frontier of applied ethnomusicology by highlighting the role of music in both inciting and resolving a spectrum of social and political conflicts in the contemporary world.

London, 1966: Paul McCartney met a group of three electronic musicians called Unit Delta Plus.

Thema dieser Studie ist die Verbindung von Theologie und Musik als ideologisches Instrumentarium des Bayreuther Kreises, der als Bindeglied zwischen Richard Wagner und der NS-Ideologie fungierte.

Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the film music repertoire.

In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed.

Today, Claude Debussy's position as a central figure in twentieth-century concert music is secure, and scholarship has long taken for granted the enduring musical and aesthetic contributions of his compositions.

With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form.

Das LaSalle-Quartett wurde 1947 an der Juilliard School in New York gegründet und hat bis 1987 konzertiert.

This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing-or who have previously performed-in America's major symphony orchestras.

The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b.

Hits and Misses examines a selection of songs and recordings through the lens of textual criticism and delineates the creative process as it unfolds from the initial conception of a song to the final mix presented on disc.

We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures.

Many young people rely on music to guide them through the good and bad times of their lives.

An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.

Digitalisierung war für Opernhäuser und Konzertsäle, Theater und Museen lange allenfalls ein Marketingthema.

This handbook for advanced students explains the various applications to music of methods derived from linguistics and semiotics.

Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener.

During the past two decades, there has emerged a growing need to reconsider the objects, axioms and perspectives of writing music history.

In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground.

The first English language collection on the musical sublime.

Originally published in 2003, Edvard Grieg and his Songs examines the lifetime of Edvard Grieg.

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization.

Disability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day.

Now in its eighth edition, Basic Conducting Techniques provides a clear and intelligible introduction to the art of conducting an ensemble.

Die Göttinger Händel-Festspiele mussten im Jubiläumsjahr 2020, abgesehen von einigen digitalen Ersatzveranstaltungen, wie fast allen anderen Musikfestivals ausfallen.

Chronicles the work of Norberto Tavares, a Cabo Verdean musician and humanitarian who served as the conscience of his island nation during the transition from Portuguese colony to democratic republic.