Theory of music and musicology

A thorough examination of Shostakovich's string quartets is long overdue.

Since 1973, Queen have captivated listeners through the intense sonic palette of voices and guitars, the sprawling and epic journeys of songs, and charismatic splendour of their live performances.

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J.

For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939-2001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music.

How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states?

A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOpening with an account of print portraiture facilitating Franz Liszt's celebrity status and concluding with Riot Grrrl's noisy politics of feminism and performance, this interdisciplinary anthology charts the relationship between music and the visual arts from late Romanticism and the birth of modernism to 'postmodernism', while crossing from Western art to the Middle East.

Focus: Irish Traditional Music is an introduction to the instrumental and vocal traditions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as Irish music in the context of the Irish diaspora.

This Companion explores the historical and theoretical contexts of the singer-songwriter tradition, and includes case studies of singer-songwriters from Thomas d''Urfey through to Kanye West.

Music Technology Essentials provides an overview of the vocabulary, techniques, concepts, and devices used in contemporary music production and guides readers through the essential fundamentals of music technology so that they can create their own music productions at home.

Drawing on ethnographic research and often deeply personal experiences with musical cultures, Queering the Field: Sounding out Ethnomusicology unpacks a history of sentiment that veils the treatment of queer music and identity within the field of ethnomusicology.

This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music.

Topics are musical signs developed and employed primarily during the long eighteenth century.

It is the contention of the editors and contributors of this volume that the work carried out by Gilles Deleuze, where rigorously applied, has the potential to cut through much of the intellectual sedimentation that has settled in the fields of music studies.

This study reassesses Cage's multifaceted practice from a transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions.

Music and Music Education in People's Lives is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education.

Die Studie stellt die Musikpflege des 18.

An invention of the Industrial Revolution, the accordion provided the less affluent with an inexpensive, loud, portable, and durable "e;one-man-orchestra"e; capable of producing melody, harmony, and bass all at once.

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse.

Sonic Overload offers a new, music-centered cultural history of the late Soviet Union.

Viele Musiker - ob Anfänger oder Fortgeschrittene - empfinden Musiktheorie als abschreckend und fragen sich: "Wozu das Ganze?

Filmfachzeitschriften wie der Kinematograph und die LichtBildBühne stellten bereits ab 1907 – und somit deutlich vor der Musikfachpresse – ein wichtiges Medium für den Austausch von Ideen, Gedanken und Erfahrungen für Kinomusiker dar.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music, MCM 2022, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in June 2022.

Making quality moving pictures has never been easier or more affordable, and the proliferation and ease of access to digital recording devices has prompted scores of amateurs to record and post videos to YouTube and its ilk.

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.

In Kwaito Bodies Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid.

What does music have to say about modernity?

Since 1945 the emphasis in new music has lain in a desire for progress, a concept challenged by postmodernist aesthetics.

This book introduces polytempic polymicrotonality as a new musical aesthetic.

Brazilian music has been central to Brazil's national brand in the U.

'Sonic intimacy' is a key concept through which sound, human and technological relations can be assessed in relation to racial capitalism.

In this lively examination of youth and their relationship to music, first published in 1994, contributors cover issues ranging from the place of music in urban subculture and what music tells us about adolescent views on love and sex, to the political status of youth and youth culture.

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Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.

Here translated for the first time, Jean-Jacques Nattiez's widely hailed comparative guide to the techniques of music analysis focuses on a single vivid passage from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.

Why don't Guitar Hero players just pick up real guitars?

When the story of modernity is told from a theological perspective, music is routinely ignored-despite its pervasiveness in modern culture and the manifold ways it has been intertwined with modernity's ambivalent relation to the Christian God.

Re-Making Sound is concise and flexible primer to sound studies.

Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' - an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction.

Compositional Process in Elliott Carter's String Quartets is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carter's five string quartets.

Wann wurde die Notenschrift erfunden, und warum ist die Musik, die wir heute im Konzertsaal hören, ohne sie nicht denkbar?

A portrait miniature of a cherubic boy with a wig was discovered in Salzburg in 2018.

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and CosA fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another.

When Joseph II placed his opera buffa troupe in competition with the re-formed Singspiel, he provoked an intense struggle between supporters of the rival national genres, who organized claques to cheer or hiss at performances, and encouraged press correspondents to write slanted notices.

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.

This book studies George Crumb's The Winds of Destiny (2004) and Black Angels (1970) as artifacts of collective memory and cultural trauma.

Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change.