Theory of music and musicology

This handbook for advanced students explains the various applications to music of methods derived from linguistics and semiotics.

This handbook for advanced students explains the various applications to music of methods derived from linguistics and semiotics.

This concise and clear guide to simplified music theory teaches readers who play music by ear how to read musical notation by guiding them through the basics of reading and composing music to share with others.

A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music and emotion Includes general introductory chapters to engage a broad readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for experts Offers the most empirical (and most systematic) work on the topics of neural correlates of musical syntax and musical semantics Integrates research from different domains (such as music, language, action and emotion both theoretically and empirically, to create a comprehensive theory of music psychology

Discourse analysis and rhetoric are very much developed in communication, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

Discourse analysis and rhetoric are very much developed in communication, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

Get more out of music with this essential guide Music Theory For Dummies makes music theory easy to understand, with a friendly, unintimidating overview of everything you need to know to become fluent at knocking out beats, reading musical scores, and learning to anticipate where a song should go whether you're reading someone else's music or writing your own.

How can a piano tuner obtain such high precision with no other measuring device than their own ears?

A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brain Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music and emotion Includes general introductory chapters to engage a broad readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for experts Offers the most empirical (and most systematic) work on the topics of neural correlates of musical syntax and musical semantics Integrates research from different domains (such as music, language, action and emotion both theoretically and empirically, to create a comprehensive theory of music psychology

Yes, you can turn those great melodies and smokin grooves in your head into stunning digital music!

The first comprehensive study of music and queer identities in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century English literature.

The first comprehensive study of music and queer identities in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century English literature.

A semiotic approach to works using open notation, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators.

A semiotic approach to works using open notation, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators.

This Element explores the procedures and techniques through which music communicates drama when very little is spoken in a musical.

This Element explores the procedures and techniques through which music communicates drama when very little is spoken in a musical.

Ground-breaking dual biography that explores pop music''s two most influential songwriters, offering new insights into their creative thinking.

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

Ground-breaking dual biography that explores pop music''s two most influential songwriters, offering new insights into their creative thinking.

The first English language collection on the musical sublime.

The first English language collection on the musical sublime.

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.

Explores music, gesture and embodiment through the work of composers such as Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Debussy, and Mahler.

Explores music, gesture and embodiment through the work of composers such as Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Debussy, and Mahler.

Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.

A reliable scholarly reference tool for those actively pursuing the historical performance of music.

This book charts the origins, development and spread of medieval Western European music from late antiquity to the end of the fourteenth century.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms''s music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

Digital technology has profoundly transformed almost all aspects of musical culture.

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms''s music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

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

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

This first multi-author book on Telemann in English examines the composer''s life and works from a wide range of perspectives.

This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell''s music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques.

An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.

Digital technology has profoundly transformed almost all aspects of musical culture.

This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

A reliable scholarly reference tool for those actively pursuing the historical performance of music.

This book charts the origins, development and spread of medieval Western European music from late antiquity to the end of the fourteenth century.

An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.

A comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the psychology of musical development in children and adults, from theory to research and applications.

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

A comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the psychology of musical development in children and adults, from theory to research and applications.

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.