Theory of music and musicology

Diese Festschrift ist ein lebendiges Zeugnis fuer die grosse Wirkung, die Dorothea Baumann als Musikpraktikerin und Musikwissenschaftlerin entfaltet hat.

In this volume fifteen musicologists from five countries present new findings and observations concerning the production, distribution and use of music manuscripts and prints in seventeenth-century Europe.

We bring into full light some excerpts on musical subjects which were until now scattered throughout the most famous scientific texts.

We bring into full light some excerpts on musical subjects which were until now scattered throughout the most famous scientific texts.

Galileo Galilei said he was "e;reading the book of nature"e; as he observed pendulums swinging, but he might also simply have tried to draw the numbers themselves as they fall into networks of permutations or form loops that synchronize at different speeds, or attach themselves to balls passing in and out of the hands of good jugglers.

This volume is the first book-length study of hooks in popular music.

This book explores music with respect to quantum computing, a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly.

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

This book presents cutting-edge methods and findings that are expected to contribute to significant advances in the areas of communication design, fashion design, interior design and product design, as well as musicology and other related areas.

Wallace Stevens's musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music, MCM 2022, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in June 2022.

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.

This volume is a collection of essays on complex symmetries.

Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music.

This book presents a new semiotic theory based upon category theory and applying to a classification of creativity in music and mathematics.

In the third and final book of his iconic piano etudes Gyorgy Ligeti charts a new path relative to the rest of his musical output, representing a significant arrival in a composer's oeuvre known for its stylistic transformations.

Besides their well-known value in number theory, continued fractions are also a useful tool in modern numerical applications and computer science.

This book gathers a set of works highlighting significant advances in the areas of music and sound.

This book explores the fascinating and intimate relationship between music and physics.

This book shows how information theory, probability, statistics, mathematics and personal computers can be applied to the exploration of numbers and proportions in music.

This book provides a true A to Z of recorded sound, from its inception to the present day, outlining how technologies, techniques, and social attitudes have changed things, noting what is good and what is less good.