Theory of music and musicology

Through analysis, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the legacy of the leitmotif, from Wagner''s Ring cycle to present-day Hollywood film music.

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

This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the Renaissance.

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

Thomas Peattie considers the theatrical dimension of Mahler''s reinvention of the symphony at the turn of the twentieth century.

The first in-depth historical analysis of British art music post-1945, providing a group-portrait of eleven composers ranging from avant-garde to pop.

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

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This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

This accessible introduction is the first English-language book in a generation to cover program music as idea and repertoire.

Porphyry''s multifaceted Commentary is of major philosophical and musicological importance.

Inge van Rij''s book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

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

This introduction provides students and scholars with the information and skills they need when studying composers'' sketches.

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This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

This accessible introduction is the first English-language book in a generation to cover program music as idea and repertoire.

Inge van Rij''s book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

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

This introduction provides students and scholars with the information and skills they need when studying composers'' sketches.

The Monstrous New Art reveals the depth of medieval composers'' engagement with monstrous and hybrid creatures and ideas.

This book explores the historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz across 1900–65, from both perspectives.

This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to provide an in-depth overview of Ellington''s career.

The Monstrous New Art reveals the depth of medieval composers'' engagement with monstrous and hybrid creatures and ideas.

This book explores the historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz across 1900–65, from both perspectives.

This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to provide an in-depth overview of Ellington''s career.

Rufus Hallmark interprets Schumann''s famously controversial song cycle in the social, literary, and musical contexts of contemporary German society.

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

Rufus Hallmark interprets Schumann''s famously controversial song cycle in the social, literary, and musical contexts of contemporary German society.

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

This book traces the interrelationships of Schenker''s entire theoretical work and ideology while emphasizing fundamental differences between his mature and early theory.

This book traces the interrelationships of Schenker''s entire theoretical work and ideology while emphasizing fundamental differences between his mature and early theory.

The first comprehensive history of music on a global basis, laying the foundations for a sweeping history of all music.

The first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language.

The first comprehensive history of music on a global basis, laying the foundations for a sweeping history of all music.

The first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language.

Gyorgy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century.

Gyorgy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century.

Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s.

Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s.

Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation is a collection of twenty-one essays by leading scholars, surveying vital themes in the history of African American music.

Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation is a collection of twenty-one essays by leading scholars, surveying vital themes in the history of African American music.

Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music.

Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music.

This monograph carries out an in-depth investigation into compositional processes, shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency.

This monograph carries out an in-depth investigation into compositional processes, shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency.

James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music is the first full-length and in-depth study to position this painter within the overall trajectory of French modernism during the second half of the nineteenth century and to view the artist as integral to the aesthetic projects of its most original contributors.