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Theory of music & musicology
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) is unique among British writers on music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Learned and practical, at home in classical and modern languages, knowledgeable in a wide range ..
95.90£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies. In contrast, earlier discussions more often invoked the metaphor of a journey to describe the structure of a composition. In Jour..
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Karol Rathaus (geboren 1895 in Tarnopol, gestorben 1954 in New York), Schueler von Franz Schreker in Wien und Berlin, war in den fruehen 30er Jahren ein bekannter Komponist von Sinfonik, Kammermusik, Schauspielmusiken und Partituren fuer den Tonfilm..
90.53£
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of medi..
33.76£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
An exploration of Radiohead's game-changing album. Rather than simply reinforcing Kid A's canonical status, it situates the album in the temporal, examining it from various philosophical and cultural interpretations of time in order to arrive at its..
14.84£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a cent..
87.41£
Brand: North Atlantic Books
A Book of the Year in Rolling Stone, Uncut, Mojo, The Telegraph and the Glasgow Herald This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new son..
15.16£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing coo..
16.70£
Brand: Peter Lang
Diese Festschrift ist dem Musikwissenschaftler Jürgen Maehder anlässlich seines 70. Geburtstags gewidmet und versammelt Beiträge internationaler Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler. Mit ‹Libretto, Partitur, Szene› fokussiert der Band Forschungs..
85.79£
Brand: Peter Lang
To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a subordinate role - at least as important it is to be consciously aware of timbres, dynamic processes, musical characters and..
57.90£
Following the idea that you can only go as far forward as you can reach back, Wolfgang walks us through an informative and fascinating look back at the guiding principles of Orff-Schulwerk and how they developed, always with the intent to use them t..
23.33£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he's built an altar in the living room and keeps his fingernail clippings in the frid..
14.81£
More volumes on 'Deleuze and Artistic Research':Aberrant NuptialsThe Dark Precursor (Two-Volume Set)Exploring "assemblage theory" in relation to the arts and to artistic research The concept of assemblage has emerged in recent decades as a central t..
82.30£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony stands out as one of the most provocative symphonic statements of the early twentieth century. Throughout its performance history, it has often been heard as "existing in the shadow" of the Sixth Symphony or as "too ..
76.06£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices thrive on group creativity, relying on the close interaction of multip..
101.56£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even hea..
35.53£
Brand: Hal Leonard Corporation
Mastering with Ozone 8 covers the process of mastering finished songs using iZotope's preeminent Ozone software package. Designed to support instructor-led training and independent learning this course book covers all aspects of working with Ozone 8..
35.25£
Brand: World Scientific
Questions about variation, similarity, enumeration, and classification of musical structures have long intrigued both musicians and mathematicians. Mathematical models can be found from theoretical analysis to actual composition or sound production...
144.90£
Brand: Berklee Press Publications
ISBN: 9780634006388Publisher: BerkleeImprint: BerkleePublished date: 01 Apr 2000DEWEY: 781.24DEWEY edition: 22Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 180Weight: 652gHeight: 303mmWidth: 228mmSpine width: 12mm..
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Where did the major scale come from? Why does most traditional non-Western music not share Western principles of harmony? What does the inner structure of a canon have to do with religious belief? Why, in historical terms, is J.S. Bach's music regar..
51.59£
Brand: University of Texas Press
Raï music is often called the voice of the voiceless in Algeria, a society currently swept by tragic conflict. Raï is the voice of Algerian men, young men caught between generations and classes, in political strife, and in economic inequality. In a ..
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Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
In the fourteenth century composers and theorists invented mensuration and proportion signs that allowed them increased flexibility and precision in notating a wide range of rhythmic and metric relationships. The origin and interpretation of these s..
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In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in s..
37.05£
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whe..
31.43£