Theory of music and musicology

Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations.

This book is about how music "e;in a key"e; is composed.

Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear.

Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear.

Music Education for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Resource for Teachers provides foundational information about autism spectrum disorder and strategies for engaging students with ASD in music-based activities such as singing, listening, moving, and playing instruments.

Music Education for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Resource for Teachers provides foundational information about autism spectrum disorder and strategies for engaging students with ASD in music-based activities such as singing, listening, moving, and playing instruments.

In Rethinking Schubert, today's leading Schubertians offer fresh perspectives on the composer's importance and our perennial fascination with him.

Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the 1950s, and in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the conflict has only grown.

Popular music has come to play a significant role in the political and cultural history of the Nordic countries.

Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens presents a fresh, new exploration of the impact of musical experiences on the quality of life of senior citizens, and charts a new direction in the facilitation of the musical lives of people of all ages.

Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself.

Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself.

Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents.

Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents.

In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues.

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art examines, under one umbrella, different kinds of analogies, mutual influences, integrations and collaborations of audio and visual in different art forms.

Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art.

Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art.

Experiencing Music Composition in Grades 3-5 is a practical guide to new, innovative, and natural composition techniques for young composers.

Experiencing Music Composition in Grades 3-5 is a practical guide to new, innovative, and natural composition techniques for young composers.

The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.

The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.

Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence.

Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence.

Nothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge explores how timbre shapes musical affect and meaning.

Nothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge explores how timbre shapes musical affect and meaning.

Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire.

In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries, Marc Gidal investigates how and why a multi-faith community in southern Brazil utilizes music to combine and segregate three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque.

Music education has historically had a tense relationship with social justice.

The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music.

During the nineteenth century, nearly one hundred symphonies were written by over fifty composers living in the United States.

Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen.

From the Romantic era onwards, music has been seen as the most quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time.

Dance in TV advertisements has long been familiar to Americans as a silhouette dancing against a colored screen, exhibiting moves from air guitar to breakdance tricks, all in service of selling the latest Apple product.

Dance in TV advertisements has long been familiar to Americans as a silhouette dancing against a colored screen, exhibiting moves from air guitar to breakdance tricks, all in service of selling the latest Apple product.

Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony stands out as one of the most provocative symphonic statements of the early twentieth century.

This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology.

This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology.

In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues.

One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Part broke into the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977, a work that introduced his signature tintinnabuli style to listeners throughout the world.

One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Part broke into the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977, a work that introduced his signature tintinnabuli style to listeners throughout the world.

Teaching the Postsecondary Music Student with Disabilities provides valuable information and practical strategies for teaching the college music student.

Teaching the Postsecondary Music Student with Disabilities provides valuable information and practical strategies for teaching the college music student.

The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions.

Choral Monuments provides extensive material about eleven epoch-making choral masterworks that span the history of Western culture.

Choral Monuments provides extensive material about eleven epoch-making choral masterworks that span the history of Western culture.

During the Cold War, state-sponsored musical performances were central to the diplomatic agendas of the United States and the Soviet Union.

An idealized image of European concert-goers has long prevailed in historical overviews of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

An idealized image of European concert-goers has long prevailed in historical overviews of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods.