Theory of music and musicology

Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music?

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is more than a musical event that ostensibly "e;unites European people"e; through music.

Besides their well-known value in number theory, continued fractions are also a useful tool in modern numerical applications and computer science.

Theory Essentials for Today's Musician offers a review of music theory that speaks directly and engagingly to modern students.

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience.

This volume brings together analyses of works by thirteen Russian composers from across the twentieth century, showing how their approaches to tonality, modernism, and serialism forge forward-looking paths independent from their Western counterparts.

No book from this past year better explains American popular music than professor Matthew Morrison's Blacksound.

Questions about variation, similarity, enumeration, and classification of musical structures have long intrigued both musicians and mathematicians.

First published in 1996, this volume counters the attitude of paying more attention to the performer than to the piece.

**WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography**NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS.

WINNER OF THE 2019 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE FOR EDITED COLLECTIONSThe Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking provides a reference to how, cross-culturally, musicking constructs locality and how locality is constructed by the musicking that takes place within it, that is, how people engage with ideas of community and place through music.

From studio albums to stadium tours, Taylor Swift is a record-setting pop artist whose impacts are outsized and global in scale.

This engaging and long influential collection of essays looks at the art of singing in its totality.

Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance.

A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West.

Arguably one of the most influential and revered figures in contemporary music theory, David Lewin (1933-2003) revolutionized the field through his work on transformational theory and theoretical methodology.

Drawing upon the past two decades of burgeoning literature in philosophy of music, this study offers a comprehensive, critical analysis of what is entailed in performance interpretation.

In The Dancer's Voice Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood.

Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies as his most frequently performed and best loved music.

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

The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy.

This is the ultimate guide to the new digital world of music.

Werner Reinhart (1884–1951) war kein "Sponsor" oder "Drittmittelgeber" im heutigen Sinn, sondern er entsprach dem klassischen Typus eines altruistischen Mäzens und machte Winterthur und die Villa Rychenberg vor etwa 100 Jahren zu einem kulturellen Zentrum.

The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b.

Vision dominates philosophical thinking about perception, and theorizing about experience in cognitive science has traditionally focused on a visual model.

In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them.

This book introduces path-breaking applications of concepts from mathematical topology to music-theory topics including harmony, chord progressions, rhythm, and music classification.

The book presents selected papers at the 10th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) held in June 2023, China.

Fleeing the Nazis, Theodor W.

In the London of Shakespeare and William Byrd, Thomas East was the premier, often exclusive, printer of music.

Originally published in 2003, Hans Keller and the BBC is a vivid portrait of the changing face of British broadcasting seen through the work of one of its most significant personalities.

In the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks: what exactly is improvisation?

The Digital Musician, Third Edition is an introductory textbook for creative music technology and electronic music courses.

The explosion of minimalism into the worlds of visual arts, music and literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century presents one of the most radical and decisive revolutions in aesthetic history.

Cowboy Bebop is one of the most beloved anime series of all time, and if you ask its fans why, you can expect to hear about its music.

Why do most musical performers and musical researchers continue to inhabit divergent epistemic spaces?

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes?

Sonic Identity at the Margins convenes the interdisciplinary work of 17 academics, composers, and performers to examine sonic identity from the 19th century to the present.

This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas.

The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject.

Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music.

In this book, readers will learn practical tips and strategies to teach music appreciation online.

Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans's history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form-jazz.

A performance culture of illness and wellness In southern Uganda, ritual healing traditions called kusamira and nswezi rely on music to treat sickness and maintain well-being.

The first substantial volume in English to explore the impact of Arvo Pärt on contemporary music and culture.