Theory

Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs...

Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt...

Giving pupils the inspiration and support they need at 11-14. The Opus Pupil Books form part of the new Opus music scheme for 11-14 year olds. Opus fulfils a recognized need for music resources at this level, giving pupils and teachers thorough support...

Analysing Musical Multimedia is the first study to produce a general theory of how different media - music, words, moving picture, and dance - work together to created multimedia. Though generally associated with contemporary developments, in particular...

"Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " -Music & LettersEero Tarasti advances a semiotic theory of music based on information provided by the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240677Author Jamey AebersoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

In examining the work of Theodor Adorno, this collection of essays focuses on the German philosopher's ideas in the field of musicology. Though it addresses complex theories, this inquiry maintains a lucid style, describing the nuances of Adorno's...

Zarlino's Le Istitutioni harmoniche, published in 1558, is one of the most influential music treatises of all time. To his contemporaries it revealed the secrets of composition he had learned from Adrian Willaert, who brought to Italy the polyphonic art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957547018Author Michael HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Note TreePublisher Note TreeWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988662391Author Al StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mockingbird Songs & StoriesPublisher Mockingbird Songs & StoriesWeight(grams)...

Despite its importance as a central feature of musical sounds, timbre has rarely stood in the limelight. First defined in the eighteenth century, denigrated during the nineteenth, the concept of timbre came into its own during the twentieth century and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986654916Author Maureen CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Mimast IncPublisher Mimast IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

Drawing on insights from the modern "process" philosophy of Bergson, William James, and A. N. Whitehead, Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm releases meter from its mechanistic connotations and recognizes it as a concrete, visceral agent of musical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692093290Author J Anthony AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Slam AcademyPublisher Slam AcademyWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Traditional approaches to musical form have always adopted a top-down perspective whereby a work's form organizes and unifies the individual parts of the work through an overarching logic. How Sonata Forms turns this view on its head, proposing instead...

Lights, Camera, Soundtracks surveys over 50 years of rock 'n' roll movies, musicals and performance films. The book identifies the top guns involved in each film, provides a storyline, rates the film, and reviews its soundtrack. From pop and rock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562242831Author Corey ChristiansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Fascinated by the collision of country and soul music in the Southern states, Hoskyns and photographer Muir MacKean set out on a journey through the American South to explore the phenomenon of primarily black singers and primarily white musicians joining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803523521Author Edina BalczoFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Independent Publishing NetworkPublisher Independent Publishing Network

Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience--particularly in sociology, cultural and...

From the Erotic to the Demonic demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity. This book will serve as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. The clear and...

Transdisciplinary and intermedial analysis of the experience of music. Nowadays musical semiotics no longer ignores the fundamental challenges raised by cognitive sciences, ethology, or linguistics. Creation, action and experience play an increasing role...

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire. The book provides philosophical frameworks, primary-source analysis, and clear,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562242992Author Jamey AebersoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783055821Author Alistair WightmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Rhinegold EducationPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

From electronic beeps to orchestral scores, video game music has truly arrived. Rapidly growing in popularity around the world, it looks set to play an important role in the future of classical music. This handy reference guide from Classic FM steers you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857367877Author Trinity College LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London...

Bits and Pieces tells the story of chiptune, a style of lo-fi electronic music that emerged from the first generation of video game consoles and home computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through ingenuity and invention, musicians and programmers...

"Like Hanslick, Professor Payzant is both musician and philosopher; and he has brought the knowledge and insights of both disciplines to this large undertaking." --Gordon Epperson, Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismReviewsLike Hanslick, Professor...

Stone is undoubtedly one of the world's leading authorities on contemporary music notation and its problems. As head of the Index of New Musical Notation, he collected and categorized the myriad new devices appearing in published music of this century...

For something we often barely notice music in films is usually highly effective. It creates tension, elicits emotion and is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of the cinematic experience. Upon closer inspection, it can be seen that film music...

As the sound-producing mechanism for the bassoon, the reed is a vital component in the sound of the entire instrument. While pre-manufactured reeds are widely available for purchase at music stores, this one-size-fits-all option hardly does justice to...

An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference...

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music-its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers...

Designed for Music Theory courses, Music Theory Through Improvisation presents a unique approach to basic theory and musicianship training that examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851622187Page Count 213Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

"Semioticians began by looking at literature but have gradually applied their techniques to other disciplines, including music. The late Naomi Cumming . . . based this consideration of the sources of musical expression on her experiences as a...

Our sense that a waltz is "in three" or a blues song is "in four with a shuffle" comes from our sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of our musical experience from a psychological point of view. Musical...

David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is recognized as the seminal work paving the way for current studies in mathematical and systematic approaches to music analysis. Lewin, one of the 20th century's most prominent figures in...

In Musical Form, Forms, and Formenlehre, three eminent music theorists reflect on the fundamentals of "musical form." They discuss how to analyze form in music and question the relevance of analytical theories and methods in general. They illustrate...