Theory of music and musicology

Rock and roll music evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, as a combination of African American blues, country, pop, and gospel music produced a new musical genre.

Begriffe wie Sicherheit, Freiheit, Risiko waren den Diskursen im Kontext Neuer Musik von Anfang an inhärent.

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.

Digital technology has profoundly transformed almost all aspects of musical culture.

This book addresses the analysis of musical sounds from the viewpoint of someone at the intersection between physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians.

Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated.

The Creative Electronic Music Producer examines the creative processes of electronic music production, from idea discovery and perception to the power of improvising, editing, effects processing, and sound design.

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.

This collection of essays, first published in 1987, provides a sociological treatment of many musical forms - rock, jazz, classical - with special emphasis on the perspective of the practising musician.

Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe.

Rock and roll music evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, as a combination of African American blues, country, pop, and gospel music produced a new musical genre.

Why does a piano sound like a piano?

A product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach "e;home"e; through musicking.

Winner of the 2020 British Forum for Ethnomusicology Book PrizeBangkok Is Ringing is an on-the-ground sound studies analysis of the political protests that transformed Thailand in 2010-11.

In this collection, Shipton has drawn together conversations with some of the key jazz pianists.

Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape.

"e;The American Negro,"e; Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, "e;must remake his past in order to make his future.

Die Göttinger Händel-Beiträge (GHB) erscheinen als Jahrbuch und werden im Auftrag der Göttinger Händel-Gesellschaft e.

Policy and the Political Life of Music Education is the first book of its kind in the field of Music Education.

Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a textbook designed to demystify music theory and analysis to make it more accessible to the musical theatre student.

Franz Martin Olbrisch, geboren 1952 in Mülheim/Ruhr, teilt seine Werke in Orchester- und Ensemblewerke, Kammermusik und Solostücke, Tape Music, Werke mit visuellem Anteil und Gruppenarbeiten ein.

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

This book, authored by the late Princeton music scholar Harold Powers, discusses a single Indian raga called Ritigaula.

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set.

In the late fifteenth century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance.

Cognitive mathematics provides insights into how mathematics works inside the brain and how it is interconnected with other faculties through so-called blending and other associative processes.

Mit Heinz Ackers Modulationslehre wird erstmalig das große Gebiet der Modulation grundlegend untersucht und dargestellt.

Melody is the true heart of music-the identity of a composition, the vessel that carries the lyrics, the tune that you keep whistling on your way home from a concert.

Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture.

The Art of Emergency charts the maneuvers of art through conflict zones across the African continent.

This book explains the state of the art in the use of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of musical structures such as rhythms or scales.

Sounds can be harmonic, number sequences too - a coincidence?

Creative practice in music, particularly in traditional concert culture, is commonly understood in terms of a rather stark division of labour between composer and performer.

Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time.

Composing for Voice: Exploring Voice, Language and Music, Second Edition, elucidates how language and music function together from the perspectives of composers, singers and actors, providing an understanding of the complex functions of the voice pedagogically, musicologically and dramatically.

Music represents one of humanity's most vivid contemplations on the nature of time itself.

Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century.

Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition is a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in music analysis.

Community musicians move in many diverse settings, and facilitate local music activities in a wide array of community contexts including schools, hospitals, places of worship, music festivals, and prisons.

Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century.

Sándor Veress (1907–1992) gilt zweifellos als einer der bedeutendsten ungarischen Komponisten der Generation nach Béla Bartók und Zoltán Kodály.

It has been sixty years since Rock 'n' Roll exploded into the mainstream, yet we remain limited in our understanding of how its bawdy excesses absorbed into the annals of mass popularity in such a short amount of time.

Komponist, Volksmusikforscher und Musikpädagoge: Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967) und Béla Bartók gelten gemeinhin als bedeutendste ungarische Komponisten.

This book provides musicians, students, and teachers a practical guide for optimal music learning, practice, memorization, and performance by the application of modern neuro-music research.