Theory of music and musicology

Written by an active composer, performer and educator, Sonic Art: An Introduction to Electroacoustic Music Composition provides a clear and informative introduction to the compositional techniques behind electroacoustic music.

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

Vermeintlich staubtrockene Musiktheorie in moderner Form, fundiert, kompakt und vor allem praxisorientiert: Diesen Anspruch schreibt sich das erfolgreiche Team von "MusikDurchblick" schon seit Jahren auf die Fahne, in zahlreichen Videos auf YouTube und nun endlich auch in Buchform.

Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set.

In the contemporary world, the role of the commercial composer has grown to include a wide range of new responsibilities.

Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound.

The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.

In diesem Band wird die Verankerung der Musikgeschichte des 20.

"e;The Secrets of Violin Playing"e; is a classic guide to playing the violin, dealing with every aspect from care and maintenance of the instrument to mastering the basics and avoiding common problems.

This book examines how Berlioz used musical forms to represent a narrative, and to depict emotions such as madness or love.

Black Power Music!

The Technique of Orchestration Workbook, Seventh Edition, accompanies the textbook of the same name-the definitive resource on the study of orchestration-providing musical excerpts, full scores, and scoring assignments to enrich the lessons learned in the textbook.

The 20th century saw radical changes in the way serious music is composed and produced, including the advent of electronic instruments and novel compositional methods such as serialism and stochastic music.

The first systematic study to address the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule.

The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared.

How does one go about writing the history of musical composition in the late twentieth century when, on the one hand, so much of it seems impossibly fractured and disassociated, and, on the other, there has been so little certainty about what the notion of 'music history' might entail under the critiques of post-modernism?

It is well known that many musicians, from amateurs to famous professionals, are largely and sometimes exclusively self-taught.

Remastering Music and Cultural Heritage presents a detailed account of the culture and practice of remastering music recordings.

In an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century, the guidance of a skilled music producer is quickly becoming indispensable for producing a great recording.

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.

This volume examines the powerful ways in which identity can be shaped by rock music.

Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon.

Platinum award-winning singer, songwriter, and lyricist Mark Winkler provides a handbook on writing great lyrics, chock full of songwriting exercises and engaging personal vignettes.

A thematic exploration of Schubert''s style, applied in readings of his instrumental and vocal literature by international scholars.

Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music?

Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere.

Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings is designed to be a primary or ancillary text for college-level music majors.

Schubert's Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer's compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author's experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert's unfinished works.

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

Designed to serve music students at the college level, this informal approach to music theory relates the technical aspects of music with the expressive character of the art.

Islands are concentrated "e;instances"e; of place, in every sense of the term.

The quintessential Romantic artist of his century, Hector Berlioz impressed Paganini and Liszt as "e;Beethoven's only heir"e; and dazzled the young Wagner as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic.

Im Jahr 2021 jährt sich der Todestag Anton Bruckners zum 125.

K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities.

Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music presents an approach to conceptualizing and utilizing technology as a tool for music learning.

This book gathers a set of peer-reviewed works at the intersection between music, sound, and image research and practice.

This interdisciplinary volume explores the girl's voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers through topics that range from female vocal development during adolescence to girls' online media culture.

Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts.

Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music presents an approach to conceptualizing and utilizing technology as a tool for music learning.

Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms.

A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, stylistic, technical, and geographic categories, and set within the larger political, social, economic, and cultural framework.

This book discusses the use of advanced techniques to produce and understand music in a digital way.

This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.

We bring into full light some excerpts on musical subjects which were until now scattered throughout the most famous scientific texts.

Das Gedicht "Der Ginster oder die Blume der Wüste" (1834/37) von Giacomo Leopardi ist Inbegriff eines romantischen Pessimismus, der wie ein Stachel im Fleische der Aufklärung sitzt.