Theory of music and musicology

This book is a piece of serious musicology by a man who has worked as a song collector himself, but his erudition is lightly worn.

Für einen aufstrebenden Hofmusiker des frühen 18.

An introduction to the neuronal mechanisms of pitch and harmony, and the role of neuronal oscillations for brain and mind.

The Beatles and Black Music discusses the influence that Black music and culture has had over the Beatles throughout their collective and solo careers.

Alfred Brendel nannte Peter Gülke einmal "den sehr seltenen Fall eines praktischen Musikers, der zugleich Musikwissenschaftler ist und dazu ein Literat von hohen Graden".

Revival movements aim to revitalize traditions perceived as threatened or moribund by adapting them to new temporal, spatial, and social contexts.

In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers.

Die Moderne Gitarrentechnik zeigt, wie man sein Instrument zwar nach seinem persönlichen Geschmack, aber ohne gesundheitliche Risiken spielt.

River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it.

Australian by birth but a longtime resident of Great Britain, David Lumsdaine (b.

The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films.

The displacement of Chou Wen-chung from his native China in 1948 forced him into Western-European culture.

A thematic exploration of Schubert''s style, applied in readings of his instrumental and vocal literature by international scholars.

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

Die Dissertationsschrift gewährt erstmals einen tieferen Einblick in das inszenatorische Schaffen von Ursel und Karl-Ernst Herrmann.

Theory for Today's Musician, Third Edition, recasts the scope of the traditional music theory course to meet the demands of the professional music world, in a style that speaks directly and engagingly to today's music student.

Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles.

Legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.

At the dawn of the 1990s, as the United States celebrated its victory in the Cold War and sole superpower status by waging war on Iraq and proclaiming democratic capitalism as the best possible society, the 1990s underground punk renaissance transformed the punk scene into a site of radical opposition to American empire.

Spontaneity, immediacy and feeling characterize the blues as a genre.

This book examines arranging methods and their applications.

By the end of the Second World War, Germany was in ruins and its Jewish population so gravely diminished that a rich cultural life seemed unthinkable.

Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image examines the choreographic in cinema - the way choreographic elements inform cinematic operations in dancefilm.

Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip-hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making, providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with experts from the world of Hip Hop and beyond.

Penetrating, innovative analyses of numerous compositions by Chopin, integrating Schenkerian principles and a fresh perspective on harmony.

Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible.

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways?

Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church is a musical ethnography of a religious community.

Some of the great literary works such as the Bible and Indian epics, among others, provide society with the guiding principles of life.

When the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) began as a group of students at the University of Toronto in 1972, they performed with cumbersome, finicky analog instruments and DIY logistics, never sure if everything would work as intended.

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was one of Britain's leading composers: his music is frequently performed throughout Europe, the United States (where he lived and worked) and Japan.

An Introduction to Music Technology, Second Edition provides a clear overview of the essential elements of music technology for today's musician.

Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks.

In addition, The Tone Clock contains a broad selection of Peter Schat's polemical writings, embracing historical, political, aesthetic and environmental perspectives.

Jacques Offenbach, der "König der Operette", revolutionierte im 19.

John Adams's opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemporary literature.

Awarded a Certificate of Merit at the ARSC Awards for Excellence 2018In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think about, make and use popular music.

It's the real stories, not the publicists' confections, that concern Colin Escott.

Von der Physik der Töne zum Konzert der NeuronenWenn wir etwas mögen, ist es Musik in unseren Ohren, wer den Ton angibt, spielt die erste Geige, und wem der Marsch geblasen wird, der pfeift auf dem letzten Loch.

An accessible scientific explanation for the traditional rules of voice leading, including an account of why listeners find some musical textures more pleasing than others.

Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power.

Dass Musik immer Teil der Gesellschaft ist, in der sie entsteht, ist eine musiksoziologische Trivialität.

With a discography of over 1000 songs, 20 musicals and three motion pictures, the Lebanese singer and performer, Fairouz, is an artist of pan-Arab appeal, who has connected with listeners from diverse backgrounds and geographies for over four often tumultuous decades.

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works.

The Mind's Ear offers a unique approach to stimulating the musical imagination and inspiring creativity, as well as providing detailed exercises aimed at improving the ability to read and imagine music in silence, in the "e;mind's ear.

In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to overwhelm the cities.

Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals.

For centuries, the augmented sixth sonority has fascinated composers and intrigued music analysts.