Theory of music and musicology

The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South.

Winner of the 2015 PMIG Outstanding Publication Award from the Society of Music TheoryThe DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as vinyl records and digital samples to create fluid, dynamic performances.

'Groundbreaking' Amy Cuddy, bestselling author of Presence 'A roadmap for innovators, entrepreneurs and those seeking new avenues for exploring and reimagining the future' Deepak Chopra Musicians are masters of innovation, constantly finding new ways to adapt to accelerating change and staying ahead of the beat.

This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history.

The contributions in this volume focus on the ways in which silence and music relate, contemplate each other and provide new avenues for addressing and gaining understanding of various realms of human endeavour.

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music opens up a new way of thinking about the absence of women's music.

Winner, ASA (American Society for Aesthetics) 2023 Outstanding Monograph Prize

For Theodore Gracyk meaning in popular music depends as much on the context of reception and performer's intentions as on established musical and semantic practices.

Sound Art offers the first comprehensive introduction to sound art written for undergraduate students.

The Practice of Popular Music is a music theory and musicianship textbook devoted to explaining the organization of contemporary popular music styles such as pop, rock, R&B, rap, and country.

Challenging current music making approaches which have traditionally relied on the repetition of fixed forms when played, this book provides a new framework for musicians, composers, and producers wanting to explore working with music that can be represented by data and transformed by interactive technologies.

Moving back through Dewey, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Rousseau, the lineage of Western music education finds its origins in Plato and Pythagoras.

Timbre is among the most important and the most elusive aspects of music.

From studio albums to stadium tours, Taylor Swift is a record-setting pop artist whose impacts are outsized and global in scale.

The nine ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume, balanced in age and gender and hailing from a diverse array of countries, share the goal of stimulating further development in the field of ethnomusicology.

The explosion of minimalism into the worlds of visual arts, music and literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century presents one of the most radical and decisive revolutions in aesthetic history.

Compiled by an international array of musical and technical specialists, this book deals with some of the most important topics in modern musical signal processing.

Over the past few decades, the use of the arts in health has blossomed.

In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M.

All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "e;irrepressibly artful minds.

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music.

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Focusing on Messiaen's relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux.

An effective new songwriting vocabulary supported by ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC.

Der Band versammelt kultur- und musikanalytische Studien über Werke und Werkgruppen aus allen Phasen des Schaffens von Toru Takemitsu und wendet sich insbesondere den spannungsvollen Verwerfungen zu, aus denen Takemitsus Komponieren im Kontext einer Moderne mit globalem ästhetischen Anspruch hervorgeht.

Today, Claude Debussy's position as a central figure in twentieth-century concert music is secure, and scholarship has long taken for granted the enduring musical and aesthetic contributions of his compositions.

Ground-breaking dual biography that explores pop music''s two most influential songwriters, offering new insights into their creative thinking.

Giuseppe Verdi war weit mehr als nur ein Komponist – er war ein musikalischer Visionär, dessen Werke die italienische Oper revolutionierten und tief mit den Freiheits- und Einheitsbestrebungen Italiens verwoben waren.

James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music is the first full-length and in-depth study to position this painter within the overall trajectory of French modernism during the second half of the nineteenth century and to view the artist as integral to the aesthetic projects of its most original contributors.

Black Studies is a hugely important, and yet undervalued, academic field of enquiry that is marked by its disciplinary absence and omission from academic curricula in Britain.

An exemplary investigation into music and sustainability, Singing and Survival tells the story of how music helped the Rapanui people of Easter Island to preserve their unique cultural heritage.

Music pervades Shakespeare'swork.

In the last decade of the twentieth century and on into the twenty-first, Israelis and Palestinians saw the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the escalation of suicide bombings and retaliations in the region.

In this book, the glory days of progressive rock are relived in a series of insightful essays about the key bands, songwriters and songs that made prog-rock such an innovative style.

Carl Schachter is, by common consent, one of the three or four most important music theorists currently at work in North America.

The art of the mix creates a new language of creativity.

World Musics in Context is a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world, in their historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day.

Die Motettenanthologie Liber selectarum cantionum, gedruckt im Jahr 1520 bei Grimm & Wirsung in Augsburg, ist ein Husarenstück ihrer Zeit.

What does music have to say about modernity?

Christians and Christianity have been central to Hip Hop since its inception.

The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored.

This volume presents a selection of research papers on various topics at the interface of statistics and computer science.

Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts.

In the London of Shakespeare and William Byrd, Thomas East was the premier, often exclusive, printer of music.

Nowadays we listen to music whenever and wherever we like.