Theory of music and musicology

At the heart of The Republic of Love are the voices of three musicians-queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu-who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s.

Examining, for the first time, the compositions of Johann Joseph Fux in relation to his contemporaries Bach and Handel, The Musical Discourse of Servitude presents a new theory of the late baroque musical imagination.

Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape.

This handbook provides powerful ways to understand changes in the current media landscape.

Dieser Band behandelt ein zentrales Moment der Entwicklung in der italienischen Musik um 1600, das gleichermaßen Geschichte des Komponierens, Notierens und der Aufführungspraxis betrifft: die Integration von Akkordinstrumenten in die musikalische Produktion (im weitesten Sinn).

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.

Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation.

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music.

Digital technology is transforming the musical score as a broad array of innovative score systems have become available to musicians.

Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students.

This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective.

This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music.

What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a means of aesthetic self-reflection?

Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon.

Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World.

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century.

Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician expands the Today's Musician family of textbooks to encompass the essential elements of musicianship and aural skills training.

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D.

What is it that drives people to undertake music research?

Child prodigies have been observed in a range of disciplines - particularly music, mathematics, chess, and art.

Eminently readable despite the complexity of its subject, Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bach's 48 guides the reader in studying the 48 fugues of the composer's Well-Tempered Clavier.

In Local Fusions, author Barbara Rose Lange explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial crisis of 2008.

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.

Networked Music Performance (NMP) is the essential guide to both playing music online and ensemble music through networks.

When asked to describe what music means to them, most people talk about its power to express or elicit emotions.

Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen.

Song Walking explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland.

This definitive volume, the second, largest, and most central in Newman's History of the Sonata Idea, covers the period from the first sample Italian sonatas using the new techniques of the Alberti bass about 1735 to the succession of masterpieces by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven which extended until about 1820.

From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States.

Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail.

For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk the ideal of the total work of art has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art.

This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post-civil rights generation.

Designing Interactions for Music and Sound presents multidisciplinary research and case studies in electronic music production, dance-composer collaboration, AI tools for live performance, multimedia works, installations in public spaces, locative media, AR/VR/MR/XR and health.

A brilliant new survey and intelligent exploration of progressive rock, from its origins through to contemporary artists.

Over the last two centuries, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with the idea of freedom, in particular a freedom embodied in the heroic figure of Prometheus.

Ad fontem musicae – An der Quelle der Musik: das ist die Musiksammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek.

A treasure trove for any fan of the four-stringed (and occasionally more) instrument.

Joseph Haydn wurde bereits zu Lebzeiten als "Orpheus", "Shakespeare" oder "Tintoretto der Musik" bezeichnet.

Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why.

Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks.

As Robert Schumann put it, 'Only few works are as clearly stamped with their author's imprint as his'.

Engaging with sensory experience provides a gateway to the contemplation and cultivation of creativity and ideas.

Musicology, having been transmitted as a compilation of disparate events and disciplines, has long necessitated a 'magic bullet', a 'unified field theory' so to speak, that can interpret the steady metamorphosis of Western art music from late medieval modality to twentieth-century atonality within a single theoretical construct.

Counterpoint manuals have long been central to the music education of composers, historians, and theorists.

The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored.