Theory of music and musicology

Based upon Cantometrics: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music (1976), by Alan Lomax, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music is a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analyzing the formal elements of music related to human geography and sociocultural patterning.

During the Cold War, state-sponsored musical performances were central to the diplomatic agendas of the United States and the Soviet Union.

The Hispanic rite, a medieval non-Roman Western liturgy, was practiced across the Iberian Peninsula for over half a millennium and functioned as the most distinct marker of Christian identity in this region.

With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point.

The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus.

The study of the senses has become a rich topic in recent years.

Making It Happen is a comprehensive guide to navigating the modern music industry, that redefines what 'making it' means for musicians, and inspires and educates musicians on the different options for generating revenue from their art.

Die Lieder von Richard Strauss gehören neben denen von Schubert, Schumann, Brahms und Wolf zu dem beliebtesten des Liederabend-Repertoires weltweit.

Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France.

Auch gut 200 Jahre nach Jacques Offenbachs Geburtstag am 20.

A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life.

Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing.

Richard Dawkins's formulation of the meme concept in his 1976 classic The Selfish Gene has inspired three decades of work in what many see as the burgeoning science of memetics.

Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public, while others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public performance as an overwhelming challenge that must be endured?

The private studioli of Italian rulers are among the most revealing interior spaces of the Renaissance.

John MacAuslan interprets four great Schumann works in the context of their literary connections and Romantic aesthetic concepts.

Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians.

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F.

A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last opera, by one of Britain's leading intellectuals Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of the Grail from the sins that have polluted it.

How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states?

Sound Foundations offers a holistic and personalized introduction to music technology, songwriting, and entrepreneurship.

Performing Electronic Music Live lays out conceptual approaches, tools, and techniques for electronic music performance, from DJing, DAWs, MIDI controllers, traditional instruments, live sound design, hardware setups, custom software and hardware, to live visuals, venue acoustics, and live show promotion.

Bryan Gilliam explores the composer''s response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss'' stage works and their historical contexts.

Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures.

Mili Alexejewitsch Balakirew gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Wegbereiter der russischen Nationalmusik.

Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varese or Xenakis, while improvisers face music influenced by Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Aka Moon, Weather Report, Irakere or elements from the Balkans, India, Africa or Cuba.

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium.

Following her distinguished earlier career as a concert pianist and later as a music theorist, Jeanne Bamberger conducted countless case studies analysing musical development and creativity the results of which were published in important scientific journals.

Contemporary Orchestration: A Practical Guide to Instruments, Ensembles, and Musicians teaches students how to orchestrate for a wide variety of instruments, ensembles, and genres, while preparing them for various real-world professional settings ranging from the concert hall to the recording studio.

The state of contemporary music is dizzyingly diverse in terms of style, media, traditions, and techniques.

This volume is a collection of essays on complex symmetries.

Becoming an Ethnomusicologist centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologist.

Melody is the true heart of music, often inspired by nothing more than the songwriter's muse.

Discourse analysis and rhetoric are very much developed in communication, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

Insights into Music Composition is a guide and source of inspiration for beginning students of music composition.

Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras demonstrates how the composer achieved his own Brazilian neoclassical style in a group of works, nine suites in total, that is arguably one of the best examples of homage to J.

The textbook provides students with insight into and overview of the basics of social research on music.

Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity.

Dieses Buch fur die Tuba ist ein Wegbegleiter fur Komponisten und Instrumentalisten.

This book challenges the dominant expertise professionalism rationale for music education by responding to the call to develop 'ecological awareness' at a time when all professions have a moral obligation to place sustainable and interdependent life at the center.

Lou Koster (1889-1973) gehörte zu den ersten Komponistinnen in der luxemburgischen Musikgeschichte und hatte hier ungleich stärker mit Vorurteilen zu kämpfen als manche ihrer Kolleginnen in den weltoffeneren europäischen Metropolen.

DAS BUCH ZWÖLF gibt eine Zusammenschau aller zwölf Felder unter Berücksichtigung der zugeordneten Grimm-Märchen.

In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues.