Theory of music and musicology

Unity Game Audio Implementation offers a unique, practical, project-based approach to learning about aspects of Interactive Game Audio for those who have never used a game engine before and don't want to learn computer programming right now.

Since the advent of autism as a diagnosed condition in the 1940s, the importance of music in the lives of autistic people has been widely observed and studied.

This practical book describes the specific use of receptive (listening) methods and techniques in music therapy clinical practice and research, including relaxation with music for children and adults, the use of visualisation and imagery, music and collage, song-lyric discussion, vibroacoustic applications, music and movement techniques, and other forms of aesthetic listening to music.

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was one of Britain's leading composers: his music is frequently performed throughout Europe, the United States (where he lived and worked) and Japan.

Penetrating, innovative analyses of numerous compositions by Chopin, integrating Schenkerian principles and a fresh perspective on harmony.

FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED.

Experiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using a template consistently across its 16 studies.

The Monstrous New Art reveals the depth of medieval composers'' engagement with monstrous and hybrid creatures and ideas.

Building on the insights of the first volume on Music and Gesture (Gritten and King, Ashgate 2006), the rationale for this sequel volume is twofold: first, to clarify the way in which the subject is continuing to take shape by highlighting both central and developing trends, as well as popular and less frequent areas of investigation; second, to provide alternative and complementary insights into the particular areas of the subject articulated in the first volume.

Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception.

In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and nonhuman behavior.

Technology is an increasingly popular part of music education in schools that attracts students to school music who might not otherwise be involved.

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century.

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century.

Nikos Skalkottas is perhaps the last great 'undiscovered' composer of the twentieth century.

Bach has remained a figure of continuous fascination and interest to scholars and readers since the original Master Musicians Bach volume's publication in 1983 - even since its revision in 2000, understanding of Bach and his music's historical and cultural context has shifted substantially.

The confluence between music and literature, long hymned as sister arts, is a newly burgeoning field of critical inquiry.

The classical music of Iraq, known as Iraqi Maqam, features classical and vernacular poetry sung by a virtuoso soloist and accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble.

The electronic medium allows any audible sound to be contextualized as music.

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.

Build AI-Enhanced Audio Plugins with C++ explains how to embed artificial intelligence technology inside tools that can be used by audio and music professionals, through worked examples using Python, C++ and audio APIs which demonstrate how to combine technologies to produce professional, AI-enhanced creative tools.

Building on the foundation of Lerdahl and Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, this volume presents a multidimensional model of diatonic and chromatic spaces that quantifies listeners' intuitions of the relative distances of pitches, chords, and keys from a given tonic.

Offering innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras, Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency adopts ethnographic, historical and comparative perspectives on a variety of traditions, including symphony, Caribbean steel, Indonesian gamelan, Indian film and Vietnamese court examples.

This book charts the origins, development and spread of medieval Western European music from late antiquity to the end of the fourteenth century.

This book provides a broad introduction to the scientific and psychological study of music, exploring how music is processed by our brains, affects us emotionally, shapes our personal and cultural identities, and can be used in therapeutic and educational contexts.

Novice music teachers and music education students struggle to form an identity that synthesizes 'musician' with 'music teacher,' and to separate themselves from their prior experiences to think critically about music-making and music instruction.

In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L.

Robert Münster war mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte lang Leiter der Musikabteilung der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München und hat sich mit zahlreichen Publikationen über Johannes Brahms und sein Wirken im deutschsprachigen Raum, insbesondere im Kontext der Münchner Musikgeschichte, als Kenner und Spezialist auf dem Gebiet der Brahms-Forschung ausgewiesen.

Carl Czerny, eine zentrale Figur der Musikgeschichte des 19.

In late eighteenth-century Vienna and the surrounding Habsburg territories, over 50 minor-key symphonies by at least 11 composers were written.

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.

This volume brings together the work of social scientists and music scholars examining the role of migrant and migrant descended communities in the production and consumption of popular music in Europe and North America.

Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of ase, the West African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the African Diaspora.

Throughout his career, David Lewin labored to make even the most abstract theory speak to the experience of the ordinary listener.

A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective processes underlying interactions with music.

The US American musicologist, composer, philosopher, inventor, and political activist Charles Seeger (1886-1979) is a key figure in the development of twentieth-century musicology.

Was bleibt?

With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point.

Ask the gangsta rap devotee.

In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music.

Translating for Singing discusses the art and craft of translating singable lyrics, a topic of interest in a wide range of fields, including translation, music, creative writing, cultural studies, performance studies, and semiotics.

Auch gut 200 Jahre nach Jacques Offenbachs Geburtstag am 20.

Die Musiksammlung der Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau zählt zu den bedeutenden historischen Notensammlungen Mitteldeutschlands.

Die Begründung und schrittweise Durchsetzung einer liberalen Demokratie in Westdeutschland war ein Vorgang, welcher auch und gerade von den älteren Kultureliten beträchtliche Wandlungsprozesse und Anpassungsleistungen verlangte.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to playing the pianoforte, with information on everything from finding the right notes to playing legato and staccato.

Engaging with a broad range of research and performance genres, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers the most comprehensive research on Hip Hop dance to date.