History of music

The fictional Dr. Strabismus sets out to write a new comprehensive theory of music. But music's tendency to deconstruct itself combined with the complexities of postmodernism doom him to failure. This is the parable that frames The Sense of Music, a..

This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. By reference to contemporary music theory, to alternate notions of the meaning of..

The Russian avant-garde were trend-setters in a"'Golden Age" of world art at the beginning of the 20th century. Today their work continues to enrich our culture through their paintings, poetry, architecture, cinema, music, and theater. The Three Apo..

The charts are the evening news of the music industry. Collected here, they show the rapid rise or demise of each single as it enters the charts, either winning over a large audience or just making music for its own smaller group of fans. Top 40 Cha..

Tonal consciousness, in the sense of a clear intuition about which note or chord a piece of music will finish on, is as much a part of our everyday experience of music as it is of contemporary music theory. This book asks to what extent such tonal c..

Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-de..

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene ..

Meinolf Brüsers Buch bietet eine völlig neue Sicht auf Bachs Motetten und auf Bach selbst. Bachs Motetten sind in ihrer historischen Entstehung für die Musikwissenschaft ein Rätsel geblieben. Sie galten bisher als bürgerliche Auftragsmusiken. Tatsäc..

Die Sonatine pour flûte et piano (1946) zählt zu den meistgespielten Werken von Pierre Boulez und nimmt in seinem Œuvre eine Schlüsselstellung ein: Als &«Opus 1» spiegelt sie die Auseinandersetzung mit Lehrern und Vorbildern. In der vorliegenden Stu..

In WOMEN MAKE NOISE musicians, journalists, promoters and fans excavate the hidden story of the all-girl band: from country belles of the 20s-40s and girl groups of the 60s, to prog rock goddesses, women's liberationists and punks of the 70s-80s; fr..

Although Frank Zappa died over 20 years ago, he continues to be regarded as an iconic figure in 20th century culture. In 1973 he famously said 'Jazz is not dead… it just smells funny,' and in this new book Geoff Wills takes a look at Zappa's widely ..

Ungefähr seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts scheinen in der Musik die Grenzen zwischen &«U» und &«E» durchlässiger als zuvor. Kontaktaufnahmen, Osmosen, neuartige Beziehungen zwischen den musikalischen Kulturen sind zu beobachten, die in beide Rich..

Osterreich gilt bis heute als &?Land der Musik?. Dieses Klischee hat Tradition und wurde bereits in der ausgehenden Monarchie kulturpolitisch verwendet, um die Besonderheit des Landes und seiner Bevolkerung zu unterstreichen. In dieser Arbeit sol..