Theory of music and musicology

Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition.

Dieses Buch zeichnet ein großes historisches Panorama Europas und der "abendländischen Welt" anhand der Musik, mit deren Hilfe die Menschen ihre Kulturen seit jeher gestaltet haben.

This book presents sixteen chapters in Volume 1.

This book examines the collection and curation of music, and the way digital streaming services are transforming the way we engage with the media.

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.

Is the music world clinging to an outdated school of thought in ethnomusicology?

The field of Music Psychology has grown dramatically in the past 20 years, to emerge from being just a minor topic to one of mainstream interest within the brain sciences.

Fantasy Pieces examines from several vantage points a vital life-force of Robert Schumann's music, namely metrical conflict.

Critiques and calls for reform have existed for decades within music education, but few publications have offered concrete suggestions as to how things might be done differently.

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

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Ethnomusicologists have journeyed from Bali to Morocco to the depths of Amazonia to chronicle humanity's relationship with music.

A radical reappraisal of the left-wing politics at the heart of nineteenth-century German music and culture, first published in 2010.

For several decades, Scott Burnham has sought to bring a ready ear and plenty of humanistic warmth to musicological inquiry.

Claudia Michels beschreibt anhand zeitgenössischer Quellen das Faschingstreiben am Wiener Hof Anfang/Mitte des 18.

This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations.

Alvin Luciers populärste Arbeit "I Am Sitting in a Room" aus dem Jahr 1969 gilt als eine der bedeutendsten experimentellen Kompositionen des 20.

Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures.

Setting the stage for a most intriguing journey into the world of minimalism, Robert Carl's Terry Riley's In C argues that the work holds its place in the canon because of the very challenges it presents to "e;classical"e; music.

The theme of this Research Companion is 'connectivity and the global reach of electroacoustic music and sonic arts made with technology'.

Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny.

From the Erotic to the Demonic demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity.

Um 1900 entsteht ein neues Hören: von der Medialisierung durch die phonographische Technik bis zu Arnold Schönbergs Emanzipation der Dissonanz.

Music and Historical Critique provides a definitive collection of Gary Tomlinson's influential studies on critical musicology, with the watchword throughout being history.

The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira.

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.

Today's research landscape requires an updated set of analytical skills to tell the story of how people interact with and make meaning from contemporary culture.

San Francisco and the Long 60s tells the fascinating story of the legacy of popular music in San Francisco between the years 1965-69.

A moving portrait of the contemporary experiences of migrant Moroccan men.

Dark sound carries the dense cultural weight of darkness; it is the undertow of music that embodies melancholy, desire, grief, violence, rage, pain, loss and longing.

How do we bridge the gap between theory and the music we love?

Wie hat sich die musikalische Interpretation seit der ersten Gesamteinspielung einer vollständigen Sinfonie entwickelt?

This book presents a deep spectrum of musical, mathematical, physical, and philosophical perspectives that have emerged in this field at the intersection of music and mathematics.

This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop.

BERMUDO alone of the many Spanish theorists and composers of the 16th century seems to have written anything specifically for New World use.

In this book author Cathy Benedict challenges and reframes traditional ways of addressing many of the topics we have come to think of as social justice.

Music Outside the Lines is an informative and practical resource for all who are invested in making music composition an integral part of curriculum.

Cognitive mathematics provides insights into how mathematics works inside the brain and how it is interconnected with other faculties through so-called blending and other associative processes.