Theory

Einfache Notenwerte und Pausen einschliesslich Punktierungen. Einfache Taktarten, Taktstriche und Rhythmen. Das Notensystem im Violin- und Bassschlussel. Einfache Tonleitern: C-, G-, D- und F-Dur und deren Tonart-Vorzeichnungen. Wichtige musikalische...

In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of...

If pictures can be sexist, can analysing sound reveal sexism, too? Where is the language to discuss sexism in music? L.J. Muller tackles these important questions in their 2018 German book titled Sound und Sexismus, which was awarded the IASPM 2019 book...

The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered in order to work within the then-operative modal system. To unravel this mystery,...

Time is of the essence in music because the ear can only perceive sequentially-one thing at a time-unlike the eye, which is capable of panoramic view. Silence and Slow Time proposes a way of thinking about music that is faithful to the experience of...

Since the early days of motion picture production, film scores have helped define our emotional and aesthetic perception of stories of innumerable genres. This phenomenon is particularly true with space movies and television. The music from films and...

Music has always been at the heart of American television. Amongst the many roles it plays in broadcasting, music entertains viewers with live and videotaped performances, evokes moods and identifies characters and settings, and sells products through...

Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first to systematically explore the connection between rhetoric and music...

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Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally.An impressive number of Israeli jazz...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486273310Author Arthur H. BenadePage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

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The Music Theory in Practice series has helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the notation and theory of music. Now fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 2 Theory of Music Exam. Features...

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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 9780825682094Author Brian ThomsonPage Count 64Imprint AMSCO MusicPublisher AMSCO MusicWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 229mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472132485Author Pavitra SundarFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others-to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They...

This Element focuses on how music is experienced, articulated, and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. Special attention is paid to listeners, spaces, and music, co- and re-produced continuously in their triangular relationship affected by...

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At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice. As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic...

Making Music for Modern Dance traces the collaborative approaches, working procedures, and aesthetic views of the artists who forged a new and distinctly American art form during the first half of the 20th century. The book offers riveting first-hand...

This is the first book to examine comprehensively the major systems of musical notation proposed during the past three centuries. Illustrating the many attempts to improve upon or replace the traditional system, this important work chronologically lists,...

Electroacoustic music, a flourishing medium for over half a century, remains today, in a wide array of technological forms, one of the major areas of creative activity in music. However, it has long been overlooked in theoretical studies-possibly in part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692547441Author Bryan DelauneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Chi Rho PublishingPublisher Chi Rho PublishingWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about time in music and science from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Centered on theories of musical meter, the book...

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Designed to serve music students at the college level, this informal approach to music theory relates the technical aspects of music with the expressive character of the art. The approach is holistic in the sense that it focuses on the interrelationships...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956649294Author John O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pan Music PublishingPublisher Pan Music Publishing

No other book has covered the subject of 20th-century microtonal notation in such depth as this comprehensive guide book. 20th-Century Microtonal Notation surveys the many attempts to notate various microtonal divisions of the octave in our western music...

The application of science to the production of music has resulted, according to this classic 1940 text, in the development of musical acoustics. This book contains seven essays that `are concerned with vibrations, in air, that reach the ear, and with...

The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered in order to work within the then-operative modal system. To unravel this mystery,...

In this book Christopher Hasty presents a striking new theory of musical duration. Drawing on insights from modern "process" philosophy, he advances a fully temporal perspective in which metre is released from its mechanistic connotations and...

The Muse That Sings is a unique behind-the-scenes look at both twentieth-century music and the nuts and bolts of creative work. Here, twenty-five of America's leading composers-from Adams to Zorn, from Bolcom to Vierk-talk candidly about their craft,...

In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed film music author Kevin Donnelly offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization in sound film. Donnelly addresses the manner in which the lock of the audio and the visual exerts a perceptible synergy, an...