Theory of music and musicology

What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music makers, and world class performers?

Sound Advice is a valuable resource for college students, beginning teachers, and experienced conductors of children's choirs.

Our sense that a waltz is "e;in three"e; or a blues song is "e;in four with a shuffle"e; comes from our sense of musical meter.

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D.

Heinrich Schenker's The Art of Performance shows this great music theorist in a new light.

George Gershwin is one of the giants of American music, unique in that he was both a brilliant writer of popular songs and of more serious music.

This book addresses the central problem of music cognition: how listeners' responses move beyond mere registration of auditory events to include the organization, interpretation, and remembrance of these events in terms of their function in a musical context of pitch and rhythm.

Music and queerness interact in many different ways.

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.

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.

Sociological Thinking in Music Education presents new ideas about music teaching and learning as important social, political, economic, ecological, and cultural ways of being.

The Mind's Ear offers a unique approach to stimulating the musical imagination and inspiring creativity, as well as providing detailed exercises aimed at improving the ability to read and imagine music in silence, in the "e;mind's ear.

The Mind's Ear offers a unique approach to stimulating the musical imagination and inspiring creativity, as well as providing detailed exercises aimed at improving the ability to read and imagine music in silence, in the "e;mind's ear.

This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, one of the composer's most popular and most powerful works.

Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power.

Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power.

Sebastien Erard's (1752-1831) inventions have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano building today.

Sebastien Erard's (1752-1831) inventions have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano building today.

Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years.

Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years.

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

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

Curriculum decisions are the foundation of education.

Curriculum decisions are the foundation of education.

Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact.

Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact.

The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound.

The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound.

Musical activity is one of the most ubiquitous and highly valued forms of social interaction in North America (to say nothing of world over), being engaged from sporting events to political rallies, concerts to churches.

Musical activity is one of the most ubiquitous and highly valued forms of social interaction in North America (to say nothing of world over), being engaged from sporting events to political rallies, concerts to churches.

When many people think of African music, the first ideas that come to mind are often of rhythm, drums, and dancing.

When many people think of African music, the first ideas that come to mind are often of rhythm, drums, and dancing.

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

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

In recent years, a psychological perspective has gained increasing acceptance in the education provided to musicians: teachers, performers, and "e;creatives"e; alike.

In recent years, a psychological perspective has gained increasing acceptance in the education provided to musicians: teachers, performers, and "e;creatives"e; alike.

Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space.

Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space.

Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949-89), presenting a distorted vision of the national past.

Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949-89), presenting a distorted vision of the national past.

Whether regarded as a perplexing object, a morally captivating force, an ineffable entity beyond language, or an inescapably embodied human practice, music has captured philosophically inclined minds since time immemorial.

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works.

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works.

Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere.

Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere.

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

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

Sonata form is the most commonly encountered organizational plan in the works of the classical-music masters, from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven to Schubert, Brahms, and beyond.

Sonata form is the most commonly encountered organizational plan in the works of the classical-music masters, from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven to Schubert, Brahms, and beyond.