Theory of music and musicology

In an age when our patterns of music consumption are changing rapidly, musical understanding has never been more relevant.

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

Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions.

Die erste große zusammenfassende Darstellung der Geschichte musikalischer Interpretation in den letzten beiden Jahrhunderten.

This book is an invaluable chronicle of an exuberant time of artistic exploration and experimentation populated by now legendary figures such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Terry Riley, Julius Eastman, David Tudor, and many others who were part of this under-known chapter of late 20th century music history.

Caritas relates the 'true', yet largely undocumented story of Christine Carpenter, a 14th-century anchoress who moves towards insanity as her desire for a divine revelation continues to be unfulfilled after a period of three years locked in her cell.

Stuart Nicholson's biography of Ella Fitzgerald is considered a classic in jazz literature.

Discussion concerning the 'musicality' of Samuel Beckett's writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett's engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by the ongoing interest of musicians in Beckett's work.

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

Mozart's piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the pianist's repertoire.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communications and travel.

The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira.

General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods.

In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music and sonic arts, and music theory, transgressing disciplinary boundaries and established beliefs.

Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study, Second Edition, is a comprehensive textbook for those with no previous study in jazz, as well as those in advanced theory courses.

Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century.

For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Celine Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.

The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered in order to work within the then-operative modal system.

The cassette tape was revolutionary.

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

György Kurtág (*1926) zählt zweifelsohne zu den bedeutendsten lebenden Komponisten weltweit.

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

This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students.

This book focuses on piano teachers and the many pains they encounter in their careers.

Descubre el Arte de la Dirección Coral con "El Director de Coro: Manual para la Dirección de Coros Vocacionales"La música coral ha sido una forma de expresión artística accesible y significativa a lo largo de la historia, uniendo a personas de diversas comunidades a través del canto colectivo.

She traces his musical roots, piano studies, repertoire, and concert career through his correspondence with family and friends and his own and his contemporaries' memoirs, using material never before available in English.

An award-winning account of the importance of semiotic play in Classic instrumental music, including that of Mozart, Haydn, and BeethovenOf all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Ein Sinn, der verborgen oder enthüllt werden kann, ist eine der zentralen Denkfiguren der Neuzeit.

A performer''s perspective on Reich''s compositions which explores the techniques developed by musicians to bring his compositions to life.

Why do we find it hard to explain what happens when words are set to music?

In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of music, shows how illusions of music and speech--many of which she herself discovered--have fundamentally altered thinking about the brain.

This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes.

Rooted in the experience of a professional choral conductor, this book provides a guide to practical issues facing conductors of choral ensembles at all levels, from youth choruses to university ensembles, church and community choirs, and professional vocal groups.

Hip Hop Headphones is a crash course in Hip Hop culture.

The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it.

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music.

Among major 20th-century composers whose music is poorly understood, Sergei Prokofiev stands out conspicuously.

This book reveals the most popular instrument in the world as it was in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare.

Das Oeuvre von Max Reger (1873–1916) rief zu Lebzeiten des Komponisten Zustimmung und Ablehnung hervor.

Der Komponist Marco Stroppa (*1959) schafft seine Werke wie ein Architekt: Jeder kleine Baustein muss berechnet und perfekt positioniert sein, damit seine kunstästhetische Vision sich bestens entfalten kann.

Der Band enthält als Erstveröffentlichung den Briefwechsel zwischen Richard Strauss und dem Verlag C.

John Taverner's lectures on music constitute the only extant version of a complete university course in music in early modern England.

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