Theory of music and musicology

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.

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.

Thomas Schuttenhelm provides a detailed account of the events leading up to and throughout the compositional process associated with Michael Tippett's Fifth String Quartet and a comprehensive analysis of the entire quartet.

Thomas Schuttenhelm provides a detailed account of the events leading up to and throughout the compositional process associated with Michael Tippett's Fifth String Quartet and a comprehensive analysis of the entire quartet.

Improvisation was a crucial aspect of musical life in Europe from the late eighteenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth, representing a central moment in both public occasions and the private lives of many artists.

Improvisation was a crucial aspect of musical life in Europe from the late eighteenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth, representing a central moment in both public occasions and the private lives of many artists.

This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history.

This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history.

Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world.

Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world.

The first edition of Ernst Kurth's Musikpsychologie appeared in 1931, and was regarded by contemporaneous psychologists as no less than the foundation for a new systematic approach to the perception and cognition of music.

The first edition of Ernst Kurth's Musikpsychologie appeared in 1931, and was regarded by contemporaneous psychologists as no less than the foundation for a new systematic approach to the perception and cognition of music.