Theory of music and musicology

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This volume of original essays is dedicated to Owen Wright in recognition of his formative contribution to the study of music in the Islamic Middle East.

This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today.

This interdisciplinary volume enters the scholarly conversation about Bruce Springsteen at the moment when he has reinforced his status of global superstar and achieved the status of social critic.

Michael Wertmüller (*1966 in Thun) passt in keine Schublade.

Although Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world and home to an estimated 44 million Indonesians, its musical arts and cultures have not been the subject of a book-length study until now.

Mit seinem neuen Werk legt Masen Abou-Dakn, einer der erfolgreichsten Songwriting-Pädagogen im deutschsprachigen Raum, ein umfangreiches Arbeitsbuch zum Songtexten vor.

In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed film music author Kevin Donnelly offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization in sound film.

This study reassesses Cage's multifaceted practice from a transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions.

More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically experimental that it thwarts any learned notions.

Over the past four decades, the "e;globalized"e; aspects of cultural circulation have received the majority of scholarly-and consumer-attention, particularly in the study of South Asian music.

This anthology brings together representative examples of the most significant and engaging scholarly writing on Chopin by a wide range of authors.

Stereo is everywhere.

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.

This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, one of the composer's most popular and most powerful works.

Written by an experienced drummer and philosopher, Groove is a vivid and exciting study of one of music's most central and relatively unexplored aspects.

Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century.

Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why.

Vocal, Instrumental, and Ensemble Learning and Teaching is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education.

This book is intended as a survey history of the American record business as it developed during its first full century.

With flashing lights, bright colors, and big money, game shows have been an integral part of American culture since the days of radio.

Im Windschatten der digitalen Revolution begann sich vor einem Jahrzehnt auch ein neuer Typus von Kunstmusik auszubilden: eine Musik, die primär am Computer entsteht und nicht nur mit Noten und Samples, sondern auch mit Bildern, Videos, Texten, Umweltgeräuschen, Worten und Konzepten kompo­niert wird.

How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time?

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.

A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history.

Investigating the reception of Schubert''s most daring harmonies, this book uses Schubert''s harmonic practice to critique canonical music theories.

Brazilian music has been central to Brazil's national brand in the U.

In the 1990s, expressive culture in the Caribbean was becoming noticeably more feminine.

Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts.

Sonic Rupture applies a practitioner-led approach to urban soundscape design, which foregrounds the importance of creative encounters in global cities.

Humming is a ubiquitous and mundane act many of us perform.

Romantische Musik dominiert unser Konzertrepertoire, umgibt uns mit ihren zum kitschigen Klischee heruntergekommenen Ausdrucksmitteln allgegenwärtig in Pop- und Filmmusik und lebt fort in den Institutionen unseres Musiklebens, die maßgeblich auf das 19.

Build AI-Enhanced Audio Plugins with C++ explains how to embed artificial intelligence technology inside tools that can be used by audio and music professionals, through worked examples using Python, C++ and audio APIs which demonstrate how to combine technologies to produce professional, AI-enhanced creative tools.

Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music showcases the breadth and complexity of the music of Indonesia.

A performer''s perspective on Reich''s compositions which explores the techniques developed by musicians to bring his compositions to life.

Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia's brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in order to place jazz within the turbulent cultural environment of the twentieth century.

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

The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth centuryDerived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to go), a circuit can refer to any bounded area.

Ein Standardwerk über den großen Komponisten - von einem der angesehensten Musikkritiker der USA.

This Element addresses how listening to music influences emotional response, movement, and pain sensation through physiological changes.

This collection of essays delves into the historiographical traditions that have dominated how the stories of European postwar avant-garde music are told, seeking to approach commonplaces of that history writing from new perspectives.

In Renegotiating French Identity, Jane Fulcher addresses the question of cultural resistance to the German occupation and Vichy regime during the Second World War.

Harry Somers is one of Canada's leading composers, and one of the most original.