Theory of music and musicology

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Commentary on Skryabin has struggled to situate an understanding of the composer's music within his idiosyncratic philosophical world views.

The first edition of Ernst Kurth's Musikpsychologie appeared in 1931, and was regarded by contemporaneous psychologists as no less than the foundation for a new systematic approach to the perception and cognition of music.

The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and romantic periods, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music documents practices of improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of free playing.

2019 wurde die in London geborene Komponistin Rebecca Saunders (*1967) mit dem Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis ausgezeichnet.

Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "e;Crazy Blues"e; set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "e;race records.

This book deals with the complex cognitive processes involved in understanding two "e;horizontal"e; aspects of music perception, melody and rhythm, both separately and together.

William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "e;last card,"e; explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career.

Many young people rely on music to guide them through the good and bad times of their lives.

Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture.

The music of Edvard Grieg is justly celebrated for its harmonic richness, a feature especially apparent in the piano works written in the last decades of his life.

Presenting the latest research in the area, this volume explores the fundamental concept of qupai ?

Dancehall: its simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community.

Songs for the Spirits examines the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance.

Drawing on ethnographic research and often deeply personal experiences with musical cultures, Queering the Field: Sounding out Ethnomusicology unpacks a history of sentiment that veils the treatment of queer music and identity within the field of ethnomusicology.

Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "e;is a means of rapid transformation.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe.

Before the Nazis sent members of the Filar family to Treblinka, these were the last words Marian Filar's mother said to him: "e;I bless you.

In recent years, girls' and mixed-gender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance.

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.

Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen.

A silent clapboard church on a barren Arctic landscape is more than just a place of worship: it is a symbol that can evoke fraught reactions to the history of Christian colonization.

Das Cello – ein Instrument, das durch seine Tiefe und Wärme die Herzen von Musikliebhabern weltweit berührt.

From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and showing how music had begun a change of paradigm, moving from a culture centred on the note to a culture of sound.

Paul Wranitzky, ein Zeitgenosse von Größen wie Haydn, Mozart und Beethoven, erlebte in seiner Zeit großen Ruhm, geriet jedoch im Laufe der Geschichte fast in Vergessenheit.

In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate.

This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory.

This book, first published in 1987, was the first major survey of the links between the visual arts and pop music over the last thirty years.

Increasingly, guitar study is offered alongside band, orchestra, and chorus in school music programs.

Sonata form is fundamentally a dramatic structure that creates, manipulates, and ultimately satisfies expectation.

Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800.

Students are drawn to mobile technologies such as iPads and smartphones because of the sheer endless possibilities of the digital worlds they hold.

This collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and future could be.

Remains of Ritual, Steven M.

Der Komponist Max Reger hat nicht nur manche Zeitgenossen in Nervosität versetzt wie insbesondere die Vertreter der »Münchner Schule« während seines Intermezzos an der hiesigen Akademie der Tonkunst, sondern auch aktuell löst sein Name mitunter Unruhe aus, wenn die Divergenz zwischen dem ohne Weiteres ihm zugebilligten Rang als Vertreter der Jahrhundertwendenmoderne und seiner bis heute dennoch merkwürdig »gebremsten« Rezeption bewusst wird.

Ist die neuhumanistische Bildung für die Persönlichkeitsbildung relevant?

In the wake of World War II, the cultural life of the United States underwent a massive transformation.

Portrays Schoenberg''s atonal music as successions of motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out ''musical idea'' and ''basic image'' frameworks.

In the context of music therapy, microanalysis is the detailed analysis of that short period of time during a music therapy session during which some kind of significant change takes place.

A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmission and reception.

Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music?

Besides their well-known value in number theory, continued fractions are also a useful tool in modern numerical applications and computer science.

Theory Essentials for Today's Musician offers a review of music theory that speaks directly and engagingly to modern students.

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience.

This volume brings together analyses of works by thirteen Russian composers from across the twentieth century, showing how their approaches to tonality, modernism, and serialism forge forward-looking paths independent from their Western counterparts.