Theory of music and musicology

The Hispanic rite, a medieval non-Roman Western liturgy, was practiced across the Iberian Peninsula for over half a millennium and functioned as the most distinct marker of Christian identity in this region.

Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music presents an approach to conceptualizing and utilizing technology as a tool for music learning.

Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music presents an approach to conceptualizing and utilizing technology as a tool for music learning.

Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia's brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in order to place jazz within the turbulent cultural environment of the twentieth century.

In this book, a leading authority on film music examines scores of the silent film era.

Focusing on the music of the great song composers--Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss--Poetry Into Song offers a systematic introduction to the performance and analysis of Lieder .

It's a cliche that the world is shrinking.

Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny.

In this book Christopher Hasty presents a striking new theory of musical duration.

As a work of cultural criticism that recalls the concerns of Foucault, Hayden White, Zizek, and others Decentering Music examines the struggle for the authority to speak about music at a time when the humanities are in crisis.

Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style.

Carl Schachter is, by common consent, one of the three or four most important music theorists currently at work in North America.

The groundbreaking analytical techniques of Heinrich Schenker have had a powerful impact on the English-speaking musical world, and their importance, a century after he embarked on his major projects, is greater than ever.

How was Africa seen by the West during the colonial period?

In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism.

Fantasy Pieces examines from several vantage points a vital life-force of Robert Schumann's music, namely metrical conflict.

Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination.

"e;Pygmy music"e; has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and music for decades if not centuries, but until now this aspect of their culture has never been described in a work that is at once vividly engaging, intellectually rigorous, and self-consciously aware of the ironies of representation.

What is rock and roll and where does it come from?

This new study draws on analysis, literary criticism, and source studies to propose a new conception of the nineteenth-century romantic cycle.

The Muse That Sings is a unique behind-the-scenes look at both twentieth-century music and the nuts and bolts of creative work.

Based on extensive fieldwork and documentary research in China, this book is a chronicle of the musical history of Lijiang County in China's southern Yunnan Province.

How did Renaissance composers write their music?

Calling Back the Spirit describes how, in the face of Indonesian and foreign cultural pressures, the Makassarese people of South Sulawesi are defending their local spirit through music and dance.

What type of practice makes a musician perfect?

This volume examines how the search for "e;cultural authenticity,"e; the dispute over the past, and the role of "e;modernity"e; have been instrumental in building the regional musical culture of the Mantaro Valley, a central Peruvian region with about half a million inhabitants.

In the London of Shakespeare and William Byrd, Thomas East was the premier, often exclusive, printer of music.

The work of composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) ranges from late-romantic salon pieces to evocations of flamenco to stark neoclassicism.

An accessible exploration of an important and understudied music theory topic, Swain's book examines the dimensional technique of analyzing harmonic rhythm.

In recent years, many psychologists and cognitive scientists have published their views on the psychology of music.

World Musics in Context is a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world, in their historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day.

This is the second volume of a two-volume translation of Heinrich Schenker's Der Tonwille (1921-24).

A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th century.

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.

The past ten years have seen a rapidly growing interest in performing and recording Classical and Romantic music with period instruments; yet the relationship of composers' notation to performing practices during that period has received only sporadic attention from scholars, and many aspects of composers' intentions have remained uncertain.

Bach's cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet studies of the individual cantatas that are both illuminating and detailed are few.

Across the United States, Jews come together every week to sing and pray in a wide variety of worship communities.

All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "e;irrepressibly artful minds.

Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church is a musical ethnography of a religious community.

From the Erotic to the Demonic demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity.

The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years.

Walter Aaron Clark's detailed and accurate account (the first in English) of one of the most intriguing figures of the Romantic period is now available in paperback.

Being True to Works of Music explores the varieties of authenticity involved in our practice of performing works of Western classical music.

Being True to Works of Music explores the varieties of authenticity involved in our practice of performing works of Western classical music.

Theology, Music, and Modernity addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity?

Theology, Music, and Modernity addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity?

Descubre el Arte de la Dirección Coral con "El Director de Coro: Manual para la Dirección de Coros Vocacionales"La música coral ha sido una forma de expresión artística accesible y significativa a lo largo de la historia, uniendo a personas de diversas comunidades a través del canto colectivo.

Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early modern song needs to be considered as sung.

Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early modern song needs to be considered as sung.

Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia.