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Theory of music & musicology
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Pink Moon explores how Nick Drake's third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the marketing team behind the VW Cabrio commercial th..
14.70£
In 'Play Music Better', music examiner and renowned teacher Fiona Berry shares practice tips for music with a holistic approach that combines the mind, body, and heart for any adult learning to play an instrument. You will learn how to gain confiden..
24.64£
Brand: Peter Lang
Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and sexuality, and a productive site of rebellion, oddity and queerness. The transformative capacity of music-making, performance and consumption helps us to make sense of identity and allow..
68.02£
Communal music has the power to shape a soul and a society.In many places today, a culture of singing and making music remains robust, despite pressure from the commercial music industry. Or it was until the Covid pandemic hit and we glimpsed what a..
13.76£
Brand: Springer Publishing
In zehn Beiträgen wird der Musikaustausch zwischen China und Europa als eine lange Geschichte von grenzüberschreitenden Begegnungen und Verflechtungen thematisiert: Im Fokus stehen zum einen Hybridbildungen im Spannungsfeld einer Rückbesinnung auf e..
68.22£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music remarkably since 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enka at the turn of the century, tracing..
35.49£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Once the domain of a privileged few, the art of record production is today within the reach of all. The rise of the ubiquitous DIY project studio and internet streaming have made it so. And while the creative possibilities available to everyday musi..
32.97£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Percy Grainger [1882-1961] was a pianist, composer, ethnographer, essayist, and much more. The Australian-American musician aspired to the condition of a polymath, with strong interests in language, culture, ecology and technology. In an age of incr..
100.65£
Can sound be perceived independently of its social dimension? Or is it always embedded in a discursive network? POSTCOLONIAL REPERCUSSIONS explores these questions in form of a collective conversation. The contributors have collected sound stories a..
43.20£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Practical Musicology outlines a theoretical framework for studying a broad range of current musical practices and aims to provoke discussion about key issues in the rapidly expanding area of practical musicology: the study of how music is made. The ..
102.35£
Written by Daphne Carr, this book tells the story of the birth of Nine Inch Nails, while giving voice to a peculiarly American subculture. ISBN: 9780826427892Publisher: ContinuumImprint: ContinuumPublished date: 26 May 2011DEWEY: 782.421660922DEWEY ..
16.83£
ISBN: 9780802778130Publisher: Walker & Co.Imprint: Walker & Co.Published date: 01 Nov 2010DEWEY: 516.22DEWEY edition: 22Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 409Weight: 885gHeight: 190mmWidth: 157mmSpine width: 36mm..
30.82£
When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and railways: orchestral pieces and popular songs describing rail..
34.21£
Anthropologist Georgina Born presents one of the first ethnographies of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. As a year-long participant-observer, Born st..
37.45£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Studying Gregorian chant presents many problems to the researcher because its most important stages of development were not recorded in writing. From the sixth to the tenth century, this form of music existed only in song as medieval musicians relie..
32.70£
When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how political action through music increases the potential for people to determine their own fate. If anyth..
25.72£
Brand: Jawbone Press
"Relax Baby Be Cool is a trip into unraveling the mind and genius of one of the greatest artists of all time. Although Gainsbourg's music has been discovered by new generations, his life has rarely been illuminated and contextualized with such style..
21.17£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history. Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when ..
91.05£
Where did musical minimalism come from-and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained ..
31.94£
Brand: Atria Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Tori Amos. Since the release of her ..
20.39£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
As one of the most popular classical composers in the performance repertoire of professional and amateur orchestras and choirs across the world, Gustav Mahler continues to generate significant interest, and the global appetite for his music, and for..
90.78£
Brand: Lexington Books
The teaching and learning of music around the world have evolved in diverse ways as social, industrial, and cultural developments have influenced the ways humans understand, organize, and collectivize music education. Revolutions in Music Education:..
92.11£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
Each pattern is introduced in a step-by-step process that encourages students to read rhythms not as individual notes but as groups of notes. These groups then recur throughout the text in a variety of carefully graded exercises. ISBN: 9780393970739..
41.72£
Rock & Pop Theory: the essential guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. With a special focus on popular music, this indispensable guide: introduces key musical concepts such as pitch, t..
12.12£