Theory of music and musicology

This Element explores the procedures and techniques through which music communicates drama when very little is spoken in a musical.

In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which engage more directly with sound, including sound poetry, experimental music and pop.

Music cultures today in rural and urban Mongolia and Inner Mongolia emerge from centuries-old pastoralist practices that were reshaped by political movements in the twentieth century.

"e;Relaxation Studies"e; is a 1908 work by English pianist Tobias Matthay.

The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today.

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain from the emergence of cinema to the introduction of synchronized sound.

Gathering perspectives of musical talent from the psychological, musical, and educational fields, Kindling the Spark is the only single sourcebook that defines musical talent and provides practical strategies for identifying and nurturing it.

Uncurating Sound performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge and normativity.

This book provides a unique overview of the development of justice-related beliefs in different socialization contexts, and also of the role this plays in protecting mental health and promoting career development for adolescents and young adults.

Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory.

Tonality and Transformation is a groundbreaking study in the analysis of tonal music.

This book studies the "e;hyperorchestra"e; as used in music for the screen and draws from the intersection of practice and theory.

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

Bachs 'Orgelbüchlein' (O=B) galt bislang als musikalischer Torso.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

Christians and Christianity have been central to Hip Hop since its inception.

"Musik allein genügt" ist ein Plädoyer für ein vollkommenes Sicheinlassen auf Musik: Es genügt nicht, ihre mutmaßlichen Inhalte ästhetisch zur Kenntnis zu nehmen oder zu sezieren.

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is a comprehensive resource for everyone who works with students with autism within the music classroom.

Explores music, gesture and embodiment through the work of composers such as Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Debussy, and Mahler.

On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television.

Through analysis, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the legacy of the leitmotif, from Wagner''s Ring cycle to present-day Hollywood film music.

Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of ase, the West African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the African Diaspora.

This book is for experienced luthiers and guitar designers in the industry, novice builders wishing to improve their designs, and guitar owners interested in knowing more about their instruments.

Today, no matter where you are in the world, you can turn on a radio and hear the echoes and influences of Chicago house music.

Musikalische Notation vergangener Zeiten wirkt oft dekorativ wie ein exotisches Gewächs, gleichzeitig aber auch sehr rätselhaft.

In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War.

Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear.

A global history of Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, with chapters by leading international scholars.

1956 was a year of transition in Poland, and an important year for Polish music.

Over several years, Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet have interviewed approximately 50 musicians from various backgrounds about their practice of musical improvisation.

Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens presents a fresh, new exploration of the impact of musical experiences on the quality of life of senior citizens, and charts a new direction in the facilitation of the musical lives of people of all ages.

What is experimental music today?

Pierre Boulez was appointed to the College de France in 1976, with the chair devoted to 'Invention, technique and language in Music', and he held his position until 1995.

This fascinating book will interest anyone wanting to learn more about the relationship between mathematics and the arts.

Between 1780 and 1850, the growing prominence of female singers in Britain's professional and amateur spheres opened a fraught discourse about women's engagement with musical culture.

Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony stands out as one of the most provocative symphonic statements of the early twentieth century.

Practical Musicology outlines a theoretical framework for studying a broad range of current musical practices and aims to provoke discussion about key issues in the rapidly expanding area of practical musicology: the study of how music is made.

Commentary on Skryabin has struggled to situate an understanding of the composer's music within his idiosyncratic philosophical world views.

From humble beginnings in murky, Liverpool clubs in the early sixties, four songwriters emerged who would change the course of popular music forever: The Beatles.

Music pervades Shakespeare'swork.

This book presents a deep spectrum of musical, mathematical, physical, and philosophical perspectives that have emerged in this field at the intersection of music and mathematics.

The Music of Multicultural America explores the intersection of performance, identity, and community in a wide range of musical expressions.

In the latest of his books exploring a lifetime's passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical faculties to bear on a panoply of different musical genres, both contemporary and classical.

Sociological Thinking in Music Education presents new ideas about music teaching and learning as important social, political, economic, ecological, and cultural ways of being.

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.