Theory of music and musicology

Alban Berg (1885-1935), a student of Arnold Schoenberg and one of the most prominent composers of the Second Viennese School, is counted among the pioneers of twelve-tone serialism.

Black British Gospel Music is a dynamic and multifaceted musical practice, a diasporic river rooted in the experiences of Black British Christian communities.

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If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists.

The author presents a cultural history of popular Viennese electronic music from 1990 to 2015, from the perspectives of production, scene and national and international reception.

With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music.

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

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

This book explores the profound and ancient relationship between music and astronomy.

The title coinage of this book, stimulacra, refers to the fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds and senses by simulating things through words.

Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary period of songs in American cinema.

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What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music makers, and world class performers?

"e;The Craft of Modal Counterpoint"e; is the companion book to Benjamin's "e;The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint,"e; recently republished in a second edition by Routledge.

Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege.

This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance.

So schlicht Hugo Kauders Erscheinung, so schillernd seine nach innen gekehrte Welt: Der Musikpreisträger der Stadt Wien von 1928 zeichnet sich durch glänzende Verschränkungen von Musik und Philosophie sowie durch Verbindungen zwischen Theorie und Praxis aus.

Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study.

This book explores historical and philosophical connections between music, leisure, and education.

Developing Musicianship through Aural Skills, Third Edition, is a comprehensive method for learning to hear, sing, understand, and use the foundations of music as part of an integrated curriculum, incorporating both sight singing and ear training in one volume.

This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research.

Although women have been teaching and performing music for centuries, their stories are often missing from traditional accounts of the history of music education.

This Companion explores the historical and theoretical contexts of the singer-songwriter tradition, and includes case studies of singer-songwriters from Thomas d''Urfey through to Kanye West.

In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellectual property system.

It seems self-evident that music plays more than just an aesthetic role in contemporary society.

Performed on an acoustic steel-string guitar with open tunings and a finger-picking technique, Hawaiian slack key guitar music emerged in the mid-nineteenth century.

Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions, meeting needs right across the lifespan.

When asked to describe what music means to them, most people talk about its power to express or elicit emotions.

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

What type of practice makes a musician perfect?

The most familiar entertainment icons and storylines from the 1950s and 60s remain potent signs that continue to resonate within contemporary American society and culture.

This international collection examines the opportunities for using music-induced states of altered consciousness to promote physical and mental healing, treat substance dependence, and in spiritual and palliative care.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of musical variation through a systematic approach, heavily influenced by the principles of Grundgestalt and developed variations, both created by the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951).

Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.

Many churchgoers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still sung at Sunday services.

The essays in this volume offer diverse, innovative approaches to medieval music and culture.

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

This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.

After the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Turkey's secularized society disdained the ney, the Sufi reed flute long associated with Islam.

This Encyclopedia is the first to compile pseudonyms from all over the world, from all ages and occupations in a single work: some 500,000 pseudonyms of roughly 270,000 people are deciphered here.