Theory of music and musicology

In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself.

Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture.

Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic intersections between the local and the global, and between agency and identity, are presented through case studies in this book.

Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations.

Stummfilme sind nie wirklich stumm gewesen.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

Musical imagination and creativity are amongst the most abstract and complex aspects of musical behaviour, though, until recently, they have been difficult to subject to empirical enquiry.

Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago.

Why do we value music?

This almanac of sound words important to artists and scholars highlights words that expand the way we speak (and write) about sonic experiences.

This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective.

This volume examines the global influence and impact of DIY cultural practice as this informs the production, performance and consumption of underground music in different parts of the world.

During the past 40 years, mathematical music theory has grown and developed in both the fields of music and mathematics.

In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening.

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

The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference.

A deep dive into the history and retro appeal of musical exotica, including the Orientalism, Hawaiianesque, and Afro-tropicalism sub-sets.

The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings provides an in-depth study of the music of two of the biggest fantasy franchises, focussing on music's worldbuilding roles within the film-watching experience and elsewhere in videogames, trailers, plays, theme parks and other attractions, and the world of fandom.

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation.

This book examines how compression can be understood not only as a digital process enacted through computing, but as a wider economic and political phenomenon that impacts on the ecology of waste, diversity and social inclusivity.

This is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book Music, Art, and Metaphysics, which gathers together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics.

A remarkably fresh piece of Dylan scholarship, focusing on the profound impact that his Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character.

More than eighty years have passed since Edgard Varese's catalytic work for percussion ensemble, Ionisation, was heard in its New York premiere.

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century.

New in paperback, the articles collected in Models of Qualitative Research examine the use of qualitative research in answering important research questions regarding music teaching and learning in a variety of diverse music education contexts.

Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries.

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

K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities.

Johann Mattheson (1681–1764) war einer der vielseitigsten und einflussreichsten Musiker des Barockzeitalters.

Among major 20th-century composers whose music is poorly understood, Sergei Prokofiev stands out conspicuously.

Beethoven's piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio.

This is a music theory text that presents a systematic approach to polyphonic composition in the ecclesiastical style of Palestrina.

When he emerged from the nightclubs of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan was often identified as a "e;protest"e; singer.

Why does poetry appeal to music?

Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.

Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Period Music is the first book to present a comprehensive course text on advanced analysis of rhythm and meter.

Innerhalb der musikalischen Avantgarde der 1960er Jahre schufen Komponisten wie György Ligeti, Dieter Schnebel, Helmut Lachenmann oder Heinz Holliger eine völlig neue Art von geistlicher Chormusik.

Der Prager Musiker Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942) wirkte nach Kriegsende 1919/20 in Dresden, veranstaltete Fortschrittskonzerte und korrespondierte mit Schönberg und Grosz.

Commercial and Popular Music in Higher Education brings together working examples of pedagogy in emerging areas of popular and commercial music to offer practical insights and provide a theoretical framework for today's music educators.

Born in New Orleans before migrating to Chicago, Mahalia Jackson (1911-72) is undoubtedly the most widely known black gospel singer, having achieved fame among African American communities in the 1940s then finding a wide audience among non-black U.

Das seit 1904 kontinuierlich erscheinende Bach-Jahrbuch ist weltweit das angesehenste Publikationsorgan der internationalen Bach-Forschung.

The Art Experience: An Introduction to Philosophy and the Arts takes readers on an engaging and accessible journey that explores a series of fundamental questions about the nature of art and aesthetic value.

Folk songs are short stories from the souls of common people.

Drawing on insights from the modern "e;process"e; philosophy of Bergson, William James, and A.

Klang und Musik bieten vielfältiges Material, um die Anwendbarkeit von Mathematik darzulegen.

Often labeled "e;neo-Nazis"e; or "e;right-wing extremists,"e; radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied on music to voice their opposition to immigration and multiculturalism.