Theory of music and musicology

With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century.

Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world.

Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World.

This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas.

"e;Mek Some Noise"e;, Timothy Rommen's ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity.

Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles.

A unique Israeli national culture-indeed, the very nature of "e;Israeliness"e;-remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills.

In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's government-in-exile.

Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene.

Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the policies that have shaped artistic life.

This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop.

The gamelan music of Central Java is one of the world's great orchestral traditions.

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.

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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?

A single moment can change your life forever.

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.