Theory of music and musicology

Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "e;formats,"e; which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences.

In the 1920s, the Mexican composer Julin Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound).

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The question of tonality's origins in music's pitch content has long vexed many scholars of music theory.

Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847.

The Art of Populism in US Politics investigates connections between populist politics and artistic expressions in the United States in the Trump era.

When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra-someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper-and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate.

Music represents one of humanity's most vivid contemplations on the nature of time itself.

The reggae sound system has exerted a major influence on music and popular culture.

This book studies George Crumb's The Winds of Destiny (2004) and Black Angels (1970) as artifacts of collective memory and cultural trauma.

The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research.

Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world.

How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music?

Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip-hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making, providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with experts from the world of Hip Hop and beyond.

At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition.

Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music TheoryWinner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAPWhat is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again?

This volume is the masterpiece of Chao Gejin, one of the best-known Chinese scholars of epic studies, during the last several decades between the 20th and 21st centuries.

Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region.

Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions, meeting needs right across the lifespan.

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?

Diese neue und innovative Gesangsschule bietet ein didaktisch und pädagogisch durchdachtes Aufbauprogramm zur Stimmbildung für alle Genres (Klassik, Musical, Pop oder Jazz).

At the dawn of the 1990s, as the United States celebrated its victory in the Cold War and sole superpower status by waging war on Iraq and proclaiming democratic capitalism as the best possible society, the 1990s underground punk renaissance transformed the punk scene into a site of radical opposition to American empire.

The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound.

The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts.

This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation.

In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann-DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer-identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood.

The political has always been part of popular music, but how does that play out in today's musical and political landscape?

Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music TheoryWinner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAPWhat is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again?

When rock 'n' roll began its ascendancy in the 1950s the older generation saw it as dangerous, renegade, threatening the moral stability of a nation.

The practices of singing and teaching singing are inextricable, joined to each other through the necessity of understanding the vocal art and craft.

Chinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditional Chinese theatre.

Proceedings of the International Conference of Composers attended by SCEG at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario in August 1960.

American composers are at the forefront of a renaissance in concert music, in the process expanding the very definition of the category.

This textbook is a first introduction to mathematics for music theorists, covering basic topics such as sets and functions, universal properties, numbers and recursion, graphs, groups, rings, matrices and modules, continuity, calculus, and gestures.

An authoritative guide to the multi-faceted compositional approach that underpinned twentieth-century art music from Schoenberg to Babbitt and beyond.

This ethnographic work about TikTok's musicking in a glocal (Austrian) context complements and build upon ethnomusicological assumptions, theories, and methods for the study of musical practices in digital spaces.

Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set.

Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks.

Musical activity is one of the most ubiquitous and highly valued forms of social interaction in North America (to say nothing of world over), being engaged from sporting events to political rallies, concerts to churches.

Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work.

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The antinomy of musical work and musical form has been central for music theory for centuries.

Special Needs, Community Music, and Adult Learning is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education.

Mit der kommentierten Auswahl der Briefe und Notizen von Carl Dahlhaus (1928–1989) wird die Korrespondenz eines der bedeutendsten Musikwissenschaftler des 20.

The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years.