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Theory of music & musicology
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Aimed at those who have some knowledge of music but not formal training in composition, this concise introduction to composing starts right in with a brief composition exercise, then proceeds step by step through a series of increasingly complex and..
36.39£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition provides an innovative approach to the instruction of the craft of music composition based on tailored exercises to help students develop their creativity. When composition is ..
39.74£
In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way ..
84.15£
With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit socia..
28.97£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The title page of this book refers to Miss Fitton as the author of Conversations on Botany. She later wrote How I became a Governess (1861), describing her own musical background and how she worked in Paris, teachingEnglish to perfect her French. Th..
28.51£
The idea that the universe is created out of sound or music (and therefore ismusic) is a very ancient one. In this book, Joscelyn Godwin brings together three contemporary German thinkers who exemplify this tradition in its modern variants: Marius S..
22.64£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
In Counterpoint-for many years one of the most highly regarded texts in the field-the principles by which the contrapuntal element has operated in the works of composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures are presented. The counterpoint studi..
60.66£
Creative Composition for the Classroom is a practical resource aimed at aspiring composers, those teaching creative music-making or composition, and instrumental teachers wanting to add more creativity to their tuition, as well as those choosing to ..
21.65£
Creolized Aurality Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Brand: University of Chicago Press
In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music-a secular, drum-based tradition-captures the entangled histories of French colonization, m..
31.62£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Curriculum decisions are the foundation of education. They determine the knowledge, understandings, skills, attitudes, and values deemed necessary for today's students. Beyond musical competencies, a curriculum is, therefore, the most important resp..
29.34£
Richard Taruskin's sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled insider awareness of relevant debates in all areas of music studies, including historiography and criticism, represent..
38.38£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Dark sound carries the dense cultural weight of darkness; it is the undertow of music that embodies melancholy, desire, grief, violence, rage, pain, loss and longing. Compelling and unnerving, dark sound immerses bodies in the darkest moments and de..
35.71£
Defining Modernism investigates the intellectual connections among three leading nineteenth-century European modernists - Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Richard Wagner. Through a close reading of Baudelaire's and Nietzsche's essays on art and culture, W..
42.94£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This book is an innovative contribution to Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, as well as his interaction with contemporary Russian culture. It offers new and ..
94.67£
Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking work traces the central-and contested-role of music..
30.06£
Listening to the dissonances of nature and nationhood in modern Iceland. During the past three decades, Iceland has attained a strong presence in the world through its musical culture, with images of the nation being packaged and shipped out in melo..
21.04£
Brand: Intellect Books
Distillation of Sound focuses on the original music of Jamaica and how, through dub reggae, Jamaican culture was expanded and shifted. It will further the discussion on dub music, its importance to Jamaican culture, and its influence on the rest of..
30.61£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France. Jazz manouche-a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing tunes-is among France's most celebrated musical p..
33.15£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
It is commonly assumed that Franz Schubert (1797-1828), best known for the lyricism of his songs, symphonies, and chamber music, lacked comparable talent for drama. Challenging this view, Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert provides a timely re-eva..
98.44£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. RJ Wheaton offers an impressionistic in..
15.28£
Brand: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781495075223Publisher: Hal Leonard CorporationImprint: Hal Leonard CorporationPublished date: 02 Mar 2017Language: EnglishWeight: 278gHeight: 305mmWidth: 230mmSpine width: 3mm..
26.52£
Brand: Music Sales Ltd
ISBN: 9781785581700Publisher: Music Sales LtdImprint: Music Sales LtdPublished date: 31 Aug 2016Language: EnglishWeight: 318gHeight: 295mmWidth: 210mmSpine width: 10mm..
25.56£
Brand: Draft2digital
Deze in het Nederlands vertaalde eBook presenteert de belangrijkste Oude Egyptische muziekinstrumenten, hun bereik en hun speeltechnieken. ISBN: 9798215681947Publisher: Draft2digitalImprint: Moustafa GadallaPublished date: 11 Sep 2022Language: Dutch..
15.42£
Brand: Columbia University Press
As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and m..
64.86£