Theory of music and musicology

Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice.

From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones.

Elegantly and engagingly written, this study demonstrates how opera has communicated with its diverse audiences over time.

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers who have some knowledge of subharmonic functions, or an interest in holomorphic approximation.

Elegantly and engagingly written, this study demonstrates how opera has communicated with its diverse audiences over time.

For five short years in the 1980s, a four-piece Manchester band released a collection of records that had undeniably profound effects on the landscape of popular music and beyond.

A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach''s Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.

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

This book offers a fundamental reworking of the history of the development of Greek music from the classical period to Roman times.

A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach''s Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.

Flora Levin explores how and why music was so important to the ancient Greeks.

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

Traces how music analysis evolved from responses of musicians to music written in 1800–1850.

Considers the idea of self-consciousness in the work of Hölderlin, Hegel, Wordsworth and Beethoven.

This 2007 book examines the ancient science of harmonics, the most important branch of Greek musical theory.

Andrew Bowie uses music to question many ideas about language, meaning and philosophy.

An accessible guide to T.

This accessible guide unravels the complexities of musical performance for students, teachers and performers at all levels.

It aims to encourage listeners to think more seriously about the ''social'' consequences of the music they spend time with.

Examines Britten''s fusion of verbal and musical sound in opera and song.

This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music.

Develops a model of chromatic chord relations in nineteenth-century music.

This book examines the scientific procedures devised by Ptolemy for investigating the structures underlying musical melody.

Provides both a translation and detailed commentary on Berlioz''s own practice as an orchestrator.

This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music and its power to construct meaning.

Demonstrates how Riemann''s theories advanced an understanding of the tonal tradition as both natural and German.

A detailed guide to one of Bach''s most popular keyboard works.

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

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

Want to turn that haunting tune in your head into an awesome sound in your ear?

While the study and redefinition of the notion of authorship and its relationship to the idea of the literary work have played a central role in recent research on literature, semiotics, and related disciplines, its impact on contemporary musicology is still limited.

While the study and redefinition of the notion of authorship and its relationship to the idea of the literary work have played a central role in recent research on literature, semiotics, and related disciplines, its impact on contemporary musicology is still limited.

Digital technology is transforming the musical score as a broad array of innovative score systems have become available to musicians.

Digital technology is transforming the musical score as a broad array of innovative score systems have become available to musicians.

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F.

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F.

Of the post-war, post-serialist generation of European composers, it was Luigi Nono who succeeded not only in identifying and addressing aesthetic and technical questions of his time, but in showing a way ahead to a new condition of music in the twenty-first century.

Of the post-war, post-serialist generation of European composers, it was Luigi Nono who succeeded not only in identifying and addressing aesthetic and technical questions of his time, but in showing a way ahead to a new condition of music in the twenty-first century.

Making its first huge impact in the 1960s through the inventions of Bob Moog, the analog synthesizer sound, riding a wave of later developments in digital and software synthesis, has now become more popular than ever.

Making its first huge impact in the 1960s through the inventions of Bob Moog, the analog synthesizer sound, riding a wave of later developments in digital and software synthesis, has now become more popular than ever.

Schenkerian Analysis: Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm, Motive and Form, Second Edition is a textbook directed at all those-whether beginners or more advanced students-interested in gaining understanding of and facility at applying Schenker's ideas on musical structure.

This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively tonal nor serial.

This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively tonal nor serial.

Schenkerian Analysis: Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm, Motive and Form, Second Edition is a textbook directed at all those-whether beginners or more advanced students-interested in gaining understanding of and facility at applying Schenker's ideas on musical structure.

Jazz Theory Workbook accompanies the second edition of the successful Jazz Theory-From Basic to Advanced Study textbook designed for undergraduate and graduate students studying jazz.

Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s.

Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s.

First published in 1996, this volume counters the attitude of paying more attention to the performer than to the piece.

First published in 1996, this volume counters the attitude of paying more attention to the performer than to the piece.