Theory of music and musicology

The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research presents a cohesive framework with which to conduct practice-based research or to support, manage and supervise practice-based researchers.

Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages.

The Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingen's twelfth-century music-drama, is one of the first known examples of a large-scale composition by a named composer in the Western canon.

In the mid-20th century, African musicians took up Cuban music as their own and claimed it as a marker of black Atlantic connections and of cosmopolitanism untethered from European colonial relations.

Interpreting Music Video introduces students to the musical, visual, and sociological aspects of music videos, enabling them to critically analyze a multimedia form with a central place in popular culture.

The book is an outline of the Armenian duduk, a cylindrical double-reed aerophone made of apricot-wood, and its relation to the Armenian identity.

If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists.

How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire?

This book explores Russian independent music - nezavisimaia muzyka - in a time of profound transformations in Russian society, looking especially at the mutual influence between music and the socio-political context in which it was created.

This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms.

This is an essential text on an important area of the music curriculum consistently judged weak or inadequate by school inspectors in Britain.

Music therapy is an internationally recognised field of professional evidence-based practice.

Bright Star of the West examines the life, repertoire, and influence of Ireland's greatest sean-nos (old-style) singer, Joe Heaney (1919-1984).

Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music.

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.

The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements.

Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents.

The first comprehensive study of musical Holocaust representations in the Western tradition to examine both musical language and cultural value.

Understanding Post-Tonal Music is a student-centered textbook that explores the compositional and musical processes of twentieth-century post-tonal music.

This volume examines the powerful ways in which identity can be shaped by rock music.

The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema.

In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers.

Student learning in school music ensembles is often focused on technical skill development.

In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellectual property system.

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes?

The study of musical composition has been marked by a didactic, technique-based approach, focusing on the understanding of musical language and grammar -harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and arrangement - or on generic and stylistic categories.

Building on the insights of the first volume on Music and Gesture (Gritten and King, Ashgate 2006), the rationale for this sequel volume is twofold: first, to clarify the way in which the subject is continuing to take shape by highlighting both central and developing trends, as well as popular and less frequent areas of investigation; second, to provide alternative and complementary insights into the particular areas of the subject articulated in the first volume.

Since the publication of Solomon Volkov's disputed memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, the composer and his music has been subject to heated debate concerning how the musical meaning of his works can be understood in relationship to the composer's life within the Soviet State.

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

This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms.

In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.

You want to write songs, and you want to write them on guitar.

Rebecca Herissone''s study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to the creation of music in late seventeenth-century England.

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

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes?

Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound.

Music, Time, and Its Other explores the relation between the enigmatic character of our temporal experiences and music's affective power.

Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

This book examines arranging methods and their applications.

Nikos Skalkottas is perhaps the last great 'undiscovered' composer of the twentieth century.

Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts.

Over the last century, developments in electronic music and art have enabled new possibilities for creating audio and audio-visual artworks.

A dazzling appraisal of the definitive classical music performances available todayFor classical music lovers, there is nothing more beguiling and exciting than the range of technique and emotion that can capture or transform the great works in the hands of a conductor and musicians.

This book is intended as a survey history of the American record business as it developed during its first full century.

The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook that combines practical, "e;how-to"e; guidance in 18th-century techniques with extensive historical examination of contrapuntal works and genres.

Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "e;the original fusion music.

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This first multi-author book on Telemann in English examines the composer''s life and works from a wide range of perspectives.

Quincy Jones: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and discography on one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, and conductors in American music.