Theory of music and musicology

The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions.

In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead.

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J.

Wann wurde die Notenschrift erfunden, und warum ist die Musik, die wir heute im Konzertsaal hören, ohne sie nicht denkbar?

Presenting detailed bibliographic information on all aspects of orchestration, instrumentation, and musical arranging with the broadest possible historical and stylistic palette, this work includes over 1,200 citations.

Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire.

Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians celebrates the transcendent experience of Mardi Gras, encompassing both ancient and current traditions of New Orleans.

Der Komponist Jürg Baur (1918–2010) lehnte sich nie an eine Schule oder Richtung an.

This book, authored by the late Princeton music scholar Harold Powers, discusses a single Indian raga called Ritigaula.

Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies.

Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny.

The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space.

Wenn Wolfgang Jacobi (1894–1972) sich selbst als "Neoklassizist" bezeichnete, dann zeigt er sich nicht nur beeinflusst von Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith, Max Reger oder Béla Bartók, sondern positioniert sich auch selbstbewusst im kritischen Kontext der Neuen Musik.

Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a textbook designed to demystify music theory and analysis to make it more accessible to the musical theatre student.

This volume charts a new frontier of applied ethnomusicology by highlighting the role of music in both inciting and resolving a spectrum of social and political conflicts in the contemporary world.

London operatic adaptations have been maligned, but this comprehensive study demonstrates their importance to theatre, opera and canon formation.

This is an essential text on an important area of the music curriculum consistently judged weak or inadequate by school inspectors in Britain.

Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound.

Multilevel Grounding develops a new approach to musical meaning-Multilevel-Grounded Semantics, addressing the well- known paradox that music seems full of meaning yet there is little consensus among listeners on what exactly it is that this meaning communicates.

Drawing on both academic research and real world practice, this book offers an in-depth investigation into the production of music documentaries broadcast on radio.

Diese Monographie zeichnet erstmals ein umfassendes Bild des Komponisten, Dirigenten und Musiktheoretikers Adolf Reichel (1816–1896).

This is the first monograph dedicated to this interdisciplinary research area, combining the views of music, computer science, education, creativity studies, psychology, and engineering.

Einzigartig vielfältig ist das Spektrum des Musiktheaters, das sprachliche, szenische und kompositorische Ebenen miteinander verbindet und etwas unerhört Neues schafft.

This book addresses the acoustic signal analysis and spectral dynamics of the tanpura, an Indian plucked string instrument.

En muy pocas ocasiones se ha producido una convivencia tan armónica como fructífera entre música y filosofía como en el trabajo de Adorno: desde la relación entre ambas hasta su teoría estética, pasando por la práctica musical, el atonalismo, la dodecafonía, el penetrante estudio de numerosos compositores –de Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Richard Strauss o Weill a Wagner, Mahler, Berg, Schönberg o Stravinski–, críticas de conciertos, conferencias radiofónicas… Su obra constituye uno de los más brillantes análisis musicológicos llevados a cabo en el siglo xx.

This book stresses the interrelatedness of knowledge by extricating models that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas.

This book brings together an international group of authors to discuss the outdoor environmental education (OEE) theory and practice that educators can use to support teaching and learning in higher education.

The jazz pianist discusses his life and career, from his birth in Texas, to his rise to international fame and his involvement in politics and business.

Improvisation is crucial to a wide range of artistic activities - most prominently, perhaps, in music, but extending to other fields of experience such as literature and pedagogy.

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David Damschroder''s new analytical perspective sheds fresh light on Beethoven''s harmonic structures.

The electronic medium allows any audible sound to be contextualized as music.

Volcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's music writings.

While Western medicine has conventionally separated music, science, and religion into distinct entities, traditional cultures throughout the world have always viewed music as a bridge that connects the physical with the spiritual.

Canta Conmigo!

This is a self-contained monograph on human voice.

This ethnographic work about TikTok's musicking in a glocal (Austrian) context complements and build upon ethnomusicological assumptions, theories, and methods for the study of musical practices in digital spaces.

Kenneth H.

The Art of Digital Orchestration explores how to replicate traditional orchestration techniques using computer technology, with a focus on respecting the music and understanding when using real performers is still the best choice.

London, 1966: Paul McCartney met a group of three electronic musicians called Unit Delta Plus.

Will Metz's main ambition in his first book, Music Theory for Self-Taught Musicians: Level 1: The Basics, was to define and introduce all the main concepts used in music theory (intervals, chords, scales, modes, etc.

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

Musicians rapping in kriolu--a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery.