Theory of music and musicology

Composing for Voice: Exploring Voice, Language and Music, Second Edition, elucidates how language and music function together from the perspectives of composers, singers and actors, providing an understanding of the complex functions of the voice pedagogically, musicologically and dramatically.

First Published in 1999.

Bernhard Lang: Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers offers a critical guide and introduction to the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b.

This book presents original research applying mathematics to musical rhythm, with a focus on computational methods, theoretical approaches, analysis of rhythm in folk and global music traditions, syncopation, and maximal evenness.

This book focuses on music, sound and space and how they have been employed to transform public and private experience.

"Das Buch, das die Zeugnisse für Josquins Ruhm bei den Zeitgenossen und Nachruhm bis ins 17.

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.

Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe.

This book is a major new study - dealing with notions of film music as a device that desires to control its audience, using a most powerful thing: emotion.

Alban Berg (1885-1935), a student of Arnold Schoenberg and one of the most prominent composers of the Second Viennese School, is counted among the pioneers of twelve-tone serialism.

A unique Israeli national culture-indeed, the very nature of "e;Israeliness"e;-remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills.

Rechtzeitig zum Jubiläumsjahr 2022, in dem des 350.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising is an essential guide to the crucial role that music plays in relation to the audio or audiovisual advertising message, from the perspectives of its creation, interpretation, and reception.

Musical scores - like literature, poetry, and technical manuals - are documents.

In his groundbreaking book, The Mozart Effect, Don Campbell revealed the enormous healing powers of classical music.

Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies as his most frequently performed and best loved music.

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

This collection of essays explores the cultures that coalesced around printed music in previous centuries.

This book explores modern European religious and non-religious rituals and their main features by focusing on music as a key element required for the full expression of beliefs.

This new study draws on analysis, literary criticism, and source studies to propose a new conception of the nineteenth-century romantic cycle.

Russian composer Alexander Skryabin's life spanned the late romantic era and the momentous early years of the twentieth century, but was cut short before the end of the first world war.

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.

Als große, integrale Kunstform wird Musik zunehmend unterschätzt.

Listening is a social process.

How does the immediate experience of musical sound relate to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation?

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

The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history.

"Einem von Augustinus in ""De ordine"" entworfenem Bildungsideal zufolge sollen einige Lehrfächer die Schüler vom ""Körperlichen"" zum ""Unkörperlichen"" führen; sie sollen also ausgehend von unmittelbar nachvollziehbaren, sinnenfälligen Erfahrungen des Menschen zur Erkenntniseiner Wirklichkeit führen, durch die die zunächst wahrgenommene Welt erst begründet wird.

One of the twentieth century's most important musical thinkers, James Tenney did pioneering work in multiple fields, including computer music, tuning theory, and algorithmic and computer-assisted composition.

Blues Hall of Fame InducteeNamed a Classic of Blues Literature by the Blues Foundation, 2019 This remarkable book recovers three invaluable perspectives, long thought to have been lost, on the culture and music of the Mississippi Delta.

Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis.

Improvisation was a crucial aspect of musical life in Europe from the late eighteenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth, representing a central moment in both public occasions and the private lives of many artists.

Before the French Revolution, making music was an activity that required permission.

Music Across the Senses provides music educators with practical ideas for facilitating student music listening skill development.

Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Changui is the first in-depth study of changui, a style of music and dance in Guantanamo, Cuba.

Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from Bulgaria.

Theology as Performance breaks new ground in the growing conversation between modern theology and philosophical aesthetics.

Bluegrass has found an unlikely home, and avid following, in the Czech Republic.

The contemporary media landscape might be described in simple terms as a digital terrain where real and virtual worlds collide.

Our understanding of music is inherently metaphorical, and metaphoricity pervades all sorts of musical discourses, be they theoretical, analytical, philosophical, pedagogical, or even scientific.

The contributions to this Festschrift, honouring the distinguished Irish musicologist Harry White on his sixtieth birthday, have wide repercussions and span a broad timeframe.

Ausgehend vom vollständig erhaltenen Autograf der monumentalen "Blockbuster-Oper" Le Roi Carotte beleuchtet Alexander Grün neben der Entstehungsgeschichte des Werks erstmals sämtliche einschlägigen kompositionstechnischen Parameter einer Opernpartitur Offenbachs, des sogenannten "Vaters der Operette".

In an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century, the guidance of a skilled music producer is quickly becoming indispensable for producing a great recording.

The Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires operated for less than a decade, but by the time of its closure in 1971 it had become the undeniable epicenter of Latin American avant-garde music.

Curriculum decisions are the foundation of education.