Theory of music and musicology

"e;World music"e; is an awkward phrase.

Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age explores the relationship between macro environmental factors, such as politics, economics, culture and technology, captured by terms such as 'post-digital' and 'post-internet'.

Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily.

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The great saxophonist Charlie Parker once proclaimed "e;if you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn"e;.

Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture.

This volume addresses the perceived gap between symbolic interaction and ethnomusicological approaches to the study of music.

Hailed as a national hero and musical revolutionary, Thomas Mapfumo, along with other Zimbabwean artists, burst onto the music scene in the 1980s with a unique style that combined electric guitar with indigenous Shona music and instruments.

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.

This work is an exposition of the traditions of Japanese blind singers who accompanied themselves on the biwa, and of the complex identity of Yamashika Yoshiyuki (1901-1996), a man widely portrayed as the last such "e;living relic"e; of the medieval bards called biwa hoshi.

Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition.

Music as a narrative drama is an intriguing idea, which has captured explicit music theoretical attention since the nineteenth century.

Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song.

Written by an experienced drummer and philosopher, Groove is a vivid and exciting study of one of music's most central and relatively unexplored aspects.

„Team im Rhythmus" nimmt den Zusammenhang zwischen synchronisationsbasierter Rhythmuserfahrung in Teams und der Entwicklung teamrelevanter sozialer Kompetenzen, der Steigerung von Gruppenkohäsion und dem Auftreten von Flowerfahrungen in den Blick.

Der renommierte Schlagzeuger Christian Dierstein hat zusammen mit einer Forschungsgruppe der Hochschule fur Musik Basel die Spieltechniken auf dem Schlagzeug aus neuartiger Perspektive erforscht.

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

This book presents a comprehensive view of children's musical artistry and how to develop it in both the music classroom and children's chorus.

In Resonant Matter, Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times.

The title seeks to show how people are embedded culturally, socially and linguistically in a certain peripheral geographical location, yet are also able to roam widely in their use and takeup of a variety of linguistic and cultural resources.

The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus.

Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992.

Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses - especially those of academic analysis and journalistic criticism - that have influenced its creation, interpretation, and reception.

In a narrative that extends from fin de siecle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "e;pure sound.

La música es un hecho social, no es únicamente un fenómeno acústico organizado sino también un signo, un símbolo, un código acerca del comportamiento social y un modo de interpretar la vida del ser humano, al igual que la economía, la política o la psicología.

A combination of button accordion and bajo sexto, conjunto originated in the Texas-Mexico borderlands as a popular dance music and became a powerful form of regional identity.

For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been routinely applied to eighteenth-century music.

Music Technology and the Project Studio: Synthesis and Sampling provides clear explanations of synthesis and sampling techniques and how to use them effectively and creatively.

United in their indebtedness to the scholarship of Raymond Monelle, an international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this state of the art volume to investigate different ways in which music signifies.

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltn Kodly's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries.

Die auditive Gestaltung im Kino lädt zum aufmerksamen Zuhören ein, um eine Geschichte interessant und unterhaltsam zu erzählen.

This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro's 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic treatment of science and technology whose influence extended far beyond its day.

Music-Dance explores the identity of choreomusical work, its complex authorship and its modes of reception as well as the cognitive processes involved in the reception of dance performance.

In the 1950s, Hammer Film Productions, a small British filmmaking company, introduced the world to a new genre of motion picture.

Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art.

Experiencing Jazz, Third Edition is an integrated textbook, website, and audio anthology for jazz appreciation and history courses.

The great saxophonist Charlie Parker once proclaimed "e;if you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn"e;.

This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

Spontaneity, immediacy and feeling characterize the blues as a genre.

This book surveys emerging music and education landscapes to present a sampling of the promising practices of music teacher education that may serve as new models for the 21st century.