Theory of music and musicology

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.

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.

The lyrics of medieval "e;courtly love"e; songs are characteristically self-conscious.

This volume constitutes the first complete publication of Marina Lobanova's study - banned in Russia in 1979 as too avant-garde and published there only in a bowdlerized version in 1990.

In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself.

Music is well known to have a significant effect on physiology and is widely used as an effective therapeutic tool in stress and pain management, rehabilitation, and behavior modification, but its effects are not well understood.

An idealized image of European concert-goers has long prevailed in historical overviews of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Jazz, the Charleston, nightclubs, cocktails, cinema, and musical theatre: 1920s British nightlife was vibrant and exhilarating.

Musical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life.

Der Kompositionsstil von Luigi Nono (1924–1990) veränderte sich ab Mitte der 1970er Jahre.

Dieser Band enthält die Beiträge, die im Rahmen des Prager Kongresses »Aktuelle Fragen der Mozart-Forschung III« am 9.

Yes, you can turn those great melodies and smokin grooves in your head into stunning digital music!

Parading respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa is an intimate and incisive portrait of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa.

SchenkerGUIDE is an accessible overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music.

Some of Debussy's most beloved pieces, as well as lesser-known ones from his early years, set in a rich cultural context by leading experts from the English- and French-speaking worlds.

A detailed study of the well-known, yet poorly understood, music theory of composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963).

The quintessential Romantic artist of his century, Hector Berlioz impressed Paganini and Liszt as "e;Beethoven's only heir"e; and dazzled the young Wagner as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic.

Zeitmae is one of a group of four acknowledged masterpieces composed between 1955 and 1957 that together established Karlheinz Stockhausen as the leading figure in the European avant-garde.

Drei Bücher in einem: Lexikon – Lesebuch – ArbeitsmittelKonzept:"Lexikon": direkter Zugriff auf alle wichtigen Informationen zum Themenfeld "Musiklehre".

The first substantial volume in English to explore the impact of Arvo Pärt on contemporary music and culture.

The essays in this volume offer diverse, innovative approaches to medieval music and culture.

The new edition of The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development celebrates the richness and diversity of the many different ways in which children can engage in and interact with music.

Black Women's Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Women's Liberation Movement of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s was a unique combination of Black political feminism, Black literary feminism, and Black musical feminism, among other forms of Black feminism.

Commercial and Popular Music in Higher Education brings together working examples of pedagogy in emerging areas of popular and commercial music to offer practical insights and provide a theoretical framework for today's music educators.

This book presents a new approach to computational musicology in which music becomes a computational entity based on human cognition, allowing us to calculate music like numbers.

Examines how the Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Musical Ensemble uses musical performance and storytelling to manage, structure, model, and legitimize power relations among the Baganda people of south-central Uganda.

A landmark history of early radio in Germany and the quest for broadcast fidelityWhen we turn on a radio or stream a playlist, we can usually recognize the instrument we hear, whether it's a cello, a guitar, or an operatic voice.

This monograph carries out an in-depth investigation into compositional processes, shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency.

An indispensable study of the music of Altai-Sayan peoples Based on more than twenty years of collaborative research, Carole Pegg's long-awaited participatory ethnography explores how Indigenous nomadic peoples of Russia's southern Siberian republics (Altai, Khakassia, Tyva) sound multiphonies of place in a post-Soviet global world.

In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance.

The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history.

This book presents a history which is nearing its nadir, where a species of warlike primates is destroying the delicate web of life perceived by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, committing a war against nature and the fastest mass extinction in the history of nature, with global temperatures incinerating the biosphere by several degrees Celsius, within a lifetime.

In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences.

"Russische Musik" konfrontierte die westeuropäischen Nachbarn ab den 1860er Jahren mit einem neuen Repertoire, das ebenso befremdete wie faszinierte.

Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding.

Interactive Composition empowers readers with all of the practical skills and insights they need to compose and perform electronic popular music in a variety of popular styles.

Winner of the 2024 BFE Book Prize (British Forum for Ethnomusicology) Older people negotiating dance routines, intimacy, and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danzon in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music-dance genre.

Der Einfluss von Filmmusik auf die Wahrnehmung und Wirkung der im Film gezeigten Bildwelten ist kaum zu überschätzen.

Our sense that a waltz is "e;in three"e; or a blues song is "e;in four with a shuffle"e; comes from our sense of musical meter.

Music Technology and the Project Studio: Synthesis and Sampling provides clear explanations of synthesis and sampling techniques and how to use them effectively and creatively.