Theory of music and musicology

Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

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

Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

Portrays Schoenberg''s atonal music as successions of motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out ''musical idea'' and ''basic image'' frameworks.

A creative and accessible harmonic analysis of major works by key composers, demonstrating innovative methods in harmonic theory with sound examples.

Offers a thematic examination of Britten''s operas, focusing particularly on the way that ideology is presented on stage.

This book surveys the breadth, richness, and meaning of Duke Ellington''s celebrated career, examining his impact on jazz music and its surrounding culture.

This book surveys the breadth, richness, and meaning of Duke Ellington''s celebrated career, examining his impact on jazz music and its surrounding culture.

The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

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

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

A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

This collection of essays offers a wide range of new interdisciplinary perspectives on Heinrich Glarean''s contribution to intellectual life.

This collection of essays offers a wide range of new interdisciplinary perspectives on Heinrich Glarean''s contribution to intellectual life.

This fascinating book will interest anyone wanting to learn more about the relationship between mathematics and the arts.

This fascinating book will interest anyone wanting to learn more about the relationship between mathematics and the arts.

This book focuses on music, sound and space and how they have been employed to transform public and private experience.

This book focuses on music, sound and space and how they have been employed to transform public and private experience.

Rebecca Herissone''s study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to the creation of music in late seventeenth-century England.

Rebecca Herissone''s study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to the creation of music in late seventeenth-century England.

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental electronic music and includes many suggestions for further reading and listening.

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental electronic music and includes many suggestions for further reading and listening.

Offers a new way of understanding music''s connections with Orientalism and imperialism by using the concept of ''mission''.

The Rival Sirens examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera.

The first full-length English-language discussion of the Darmstadt New Music Courses, showing the rise and fall of the ''Darmstadt School''.

Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.

The Rival Sirens examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera.

The first full-length English-language discussion of the Darmstadt New Music Courses, showing the rise and fall of the ''Darmstadt School''.

Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.

Musical value has shifted from the staging of works in concert halls to the curatorial composing of public encounters.

Musical value has shifted from the staging of works in concert halls to the curatorial composing of public encounters.

In this innovative resource, Thomas P.

This Element addresses how listening to music influences emotional response, movement, and pain sensation through physiological changes.

This Element addresses how listening to music influences emotional response, movement, and pain sensation through physiological changes.

This volume examines the use of Black popular culture to engage, reflect, and parse social justice, arguing that Black popular culture is more than merely entertainment.

This volume examines the use of Black popular culture to engage, reflect, and parse social justice, arguing that Black popular culture is more than merely entertainment.

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing.

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing.

Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "e;how the record shapes the song"e; (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a variety of perspectives.

Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "e;how the record shapes the song"e; (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a variety of perspectives.

Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula, Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom aims to both demonstrate why diversification is badly needed and help faculty expand their teaching with practical, classroom-oriented lesson plans that focus on teaching music theory with music by Black composers.

Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula, Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom aims to both demonstrate why diversification is badly needed and help faculty expand their teaching with practical, classroom-oriented lesson plans that focus on teaching music theory with music by Black composers.

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research.

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research.