Theory of music and musicology

In 1877, Ruskin accused Whistler of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face'.

In 1953, John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson shook the foundations of imperial history with their essay 'The Imperialism of Free Trade'.

This volume collects, for the first time, essential interviews and aesthetic writings from throughout James Tenney's five-decade artistic career.

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire.

Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies offers the first scholarly approach focusing on music in the broad class of video games known as role-playing games, or RPGs.

"Die Orgel war für mich das Ermöglichungsinstrument" – da man dem jugendlichen Komponisten noch kein Orchester anvertrauen wollte, suchte sich Wolfgang Rihm zu Beginn seines kompositorischen Schaffens ein Instrument, das ihm neue musikalische und kreative Welten erschließen konnte: die Orgel.

Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman discusses Ornette Coleman's musical philosophy of "e;Harmolodics,"e; an improvisational system deeply inspired by the Civil Rights Movement.

Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony stands out as one of the most provocative symphonic statements of the early twentieth century.

This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariee or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory, a vocal genre characterized by several different texts sounding simultaneously over a foundational Latin chant.

Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing the Flute has long been recognized as one of the primary sources of information about eighteenth-century performance practice.

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.

Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study as seen through the lens of semiotics.

Jennifer Bain contextualizes the revival of Hildegard''s music, engaging with intersections amongst local devotion and political, religious, and intellectual activity.

Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound.

Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis.

In this book, a leading authority on film music examines scores of the silent film era.

 This edited book considers the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship in a higher education context.

The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production examines metal music composition as a distinct practice that combines a complex array of formal musical, expressive, and technological elements.

A "e;contemplative"e; ethnographic study of a Benedictine monastery in Vermont known for its folk-inspired music.

David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture.

Islands are concentrated "e;instances"e; of place, in every sense of the term.

What is music, and why does it move us?

Guillaume Dufay, kurz vor 1400 geboren, 1474 in Cambrai gestorben, ist der erste Komponist, in dem sich die neue Musik der Renaissance kristallisiert.

For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been routinely applied to eighteenth-century music.

Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian music.

In a time when music streaming has become the dominant mode of consuming music recordings, this book interrogates how users go about listening to music in their everyday lives in a context where streaming services are focused on not only the circulation of music for users but also the circulation of user data and attention.

This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.

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

In the 1950s, Hammer Film Productions, a small British filmmaking company, introduced the world to a new genre of motion picture.

This book addresses the central problem of music cognition: how listeners' responses move beyond mere registration of auditory events to include the organization, interpretation, and remembrance of these events in terms of their function in a musical context of pitch and rhythm.

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.

Jozef Kozlowski war mehr als nur ein außergewöhnliches musikalisches Talent – er war ein Visionär, dessen Werke die europäische Musikszene tiefgreifend veränderten.

ISA Science, the research format of University for Music and Performing Art Vienna's summer school has turned out successfully both in terms of its international resonance and its effects on the institution's academic community.

The Second Edition of Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs offers updated accounts of music educators' experiences, featured as vignettes throughout the book.

From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches involving sound.

We Still Here maps the edges of hip-hop culture and makes sense of the rich and diverse ways people create and engage with hip-hop music within Canadian borders.

Short Studies in the Nature of Music (1920) examines the origin and nature of music, prompting lines of thought for greater analysis.

Rooted in research and practice, Perspectives on Conducting presents a multi-faceted exploration of the role of the modern-day conductor.

Sonic Writing explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media.

When the artist moves into the classroom or community to educate and inspire students and audience members, this is Teaching Artistry.

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.

First Published in 1994.

Musical scores - like literature, poetry, and technical manuals - are documents.

The gayat al-matlub fi 'ilm al-adwar wa-'l-durub by Ibn Kurr is the only theoretical text of any substance that can be considered representative of musicological discourse in Cairo during the first half of the fourteenth century CE.

A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music and emotion Includes general introductory chapters to engage a broad readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for experts Offers the most empirical (and most systematic) work on the topics of neural correlates of musical syntax and musical semantics Integrates research from different domains (such as music, language, action and emotion both theoretically and empirically, to create a comprehensive theory of music psychology

The latest volume in the Music Library Association's Index and Bibliography series, Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000, features over 9,000 references to analyses of works by more than 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

What makes a song sound foreign?