Theory of music and musicology Books
Peeters Publishers Systématique de la polyrythmie malinké:
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage décrit et analyse les principes qui régissent la polyrythmie d’un peuple établi sur un territoire allant du sud du Mali au nord-est de la Guinée: les Malinké. Leur polyrythmie, d’une extrême complexité, est mise en œuvre dans des musiques jouées par des formations regroupant une partie soliste et jusqu’à cinq instruments d'accompagnement. Julien André aborde cette technique, largement répandue en Afrique subsaharienne, en tant que système sémiologique. La méthodologie à laquelle il recourt allie l’apprentissage approfondi du jeu des tambours auprès de maîtres, sur le terrain, à des enregistrements analytiques permettant de réaliser des partitions détaillées. Il peut ainsi identifier dans toute formule polyrythmique la partie dévolue à chaque musicien et saisir de quelle manière elle s’articule avec toutes les autres. Chaque étape est soumise à une validation culturelle de la part de musiciens malinké. Il s’agit là du tout premier ouvrage exclusivement consacré à la polyrythmie. Il permet de comprendre comment un nombre limité de procédés musicaux nourrit une infinie richesse d’expression.
£55.00
Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren Een licht achter den heuvel: Het verlangen naar
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The New Menard Press Mind the Music
Book SynopsisMusic has a way of minding our brains, and Mind the Music explores the effects that it has on our cognition, emotion, and behaviour. As well as into the fabric of our culture, music is woven into the fabric of our humanity – but where does it come from, and how does it help us to learn?Intuition and improvisation turn out to be critical to understanding our own embodied cognition. We have hunches in a way that computers do not.But as technology takes over what were once human tasks, there is a temptation and even tendency to enjoy our creature comforts while neglecting our natural faculties. So how do we re-learn the ability to improvise, to help us find our place in the nexus of human and machine?Mind the Music is a reminder that it is important to keep your brain active, and an argument for the glory of intuitive choices. It dares you to improvise and dance to the music of the mind.
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Double 9 Books Handel
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Luster Publishing The Illustrated Book of Songs
Book SynopsisFrom rockers to ravers, The Illustrated Book of Songs is the book every music lover will want. In quick-witted style, Irish writer Colm Boyd navigates us through lists of classic songs for every occasion. Prepare yourself for fascinating facts, cool illustrations and withering commentary on songs presented in lists such as: Songs about Getting Dumped Songs about Prostitution Songs about Environmental Matters Songs about Being a Complete and Utter Asshole Songs about Gender Identity Alternative Christmas Songs The Illustrated Book of Songs features 70 lists, discussing hundreds of songs from different genres and artists - from Adele to Aretha, Jagger to Jarvis, Rufus to Rosalia. Many of the songs are well-known, others are a little more off-radar. Some have amazing musicality, some have lyrics - quite literally - worthy of a Nobel Prize. Some deal with death, others deal with zebras, one song deals with prostitute-frequenting chess players in Bangkok. You get the idea. Each of the book's lists is accompanied by a scannable Spotify code, allowing readers to use their smartphones to directly access the songs mentioned. So, time to get reading and get listening. Check out the book's website for more information: colmboyd.com/the-illustrated-book-of-songs.Trade Review“New Irish author Colm Boyd gives that famous Irish sense of humour free rein in his hilarious first book, The Illustrated Book of Songs. This is the gift every music buff and lover of Irish wit will want.” -- Isabelle Kliger, Forbes;
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Editio Musica Budapest ZenemAÂkiadAÂ A Practical Approach to Viennese Classical Music
Book SynopsisThis book is to some extent a continuation of Dr. Kiss's 2015 textbook A Practical Approach to Harmony: From the Birth of Polyphony to the Baroque Era.The aim of this book is to support conservatory students (aged 14-22) and their teachers with a collection of carefully selected material from which to learn the necessary musical concepts and practical knowledge of music theory, form, and harmony.The target era is the Viennese Classical period, which spans just under one hundred years between around 1730 and 1830. The focus is on the greatest representatives of their time: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.The book concentrates on the practical aspects of studying music theory, form, and harmony. This means that all musical concepts become practical knowledge and are integrated into skills that a cultured musician needs (score reading, writing, singing or playing, composing, memorizing, transposing, arranging, analyzing, and so on).The book consists of ten units grouped into three levels of
£37.99
Poco Studio Music Theory for Young Musicians Grade 1 4th Ed.
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Rhythm MP Theory of Music Made Easy Grade 1
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£6.78
Rhythm MP Theory of Music Made Easy Grade 2
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Rhythm MP Theory of Music Made Easy Grade 4
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Rhythm MP Theory Of Music Made Easy Grade 6
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd On The Meta-category Of Chinese Music Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis book opens with the emergence and development of the discipline of aesthetics in western countries, specifically the history of Western Music Aesthetics, to study and delve into the development of Chinese Music Aesthetics. The book provides a clear timeline throughout the writing — from the history of Chinese Music Aesthetics, to the construction of a theoretical framework, and the intersections and conversations between Western and Chinese Music Aesthetics. This academic piece is fundamentally consistent with the developing field of Chinese philosophical and literary research.This book also discusses important music aesthetic categories of Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, and metaphysics, and uses critical thinking to analyse the relationship between these categories and relevant schools of thought, reflecting the author's academic vision and thought process.
£121.50
NUS Press Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities,
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on the music of migrant minorities in and from Japan examines the central role music plays in the ongoing adjustment, conciliation and transformation of newcomers and "hosts" alike. It is the first academic text to address music activities across a range of migrant groups in Japan-particularly those of Tokyo and its neighbouring areas. It is also the first to juxtapose such communities with those of Japanese emigrants as ethnic minorities elsewhere. It presents both archival and fieldwork-based case studies that highlight music in the dynamics of encounter and attempted identity making, under a unifying framework of migration.A radical change in policy with the 2019 introduction of a new "Specified Skilled Worker" visa category marked the beginning of Japan's "new immigration era" (imin gannen). The authors in this volume interrogate and shed light on the bureaucratically disseminated slogan of tabunka kyōsei, rendered in English as "multicultural coexistence". The concept itself and the many problems of realizing this ideal are examined through ethnography-based accounts of current minorities, including South Indians, Brazilians, Nepalis, Filipinos, Iranians and Ainu domestic migrants, and in light of comparative historical accounts of California and Australia. This volume will be of interest to ethnomusicologists, students of the cultures of migrant communities, and those engaged with cultural change and diversity in Japan and East Asia.Trade Review"Unsilent Strangers is a scholarly work that allows us to listen for ways by which music expresses minority identities in and through Japan. Together, these essays demonstrate ways by which music matters, as not merely a cultural idiom, but as a vital and fundamental part of our coexistence with each other." -- Christine Yano, University of Hawai`i, Manoa
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Jenny Stanford Publishing Form vs. Work
Book SynopsisThe antinomy of musical work and musical form has been central for music theory for centuries. Musical work is complete and all-inclusive, which makes it an ideal object of study. However, the teaching of musical form, albeit selective, is self-sufficient and epistemologically sovereign. The book offers both the historical overview and the analytical discourse on this antinomy in both Western and Russian perspectives. It presents an insider's view of the latter and contains materials never previously published.
£73.14
Afram Publications (Ghana) Ltd Ethnomusicology and African Music: Modes of Inquiry and Interpretation: v. 1: Collected Papers
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Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Mashindano: Competitive Music Performance in East Africa
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Editio Musica Budapest ZenemAÂkiadAÂ Introduction and Dance
Book SynopsisIntroduction and Dance exploits the alto saxophone's characteristic sound and virtuosity. It starts with a slow, nascent music, which gives way to a very fast dance with aksak rhythm in an asymmetrically segmented 8/16 meter. The work was commissioned by and is dedicated to saxophonist Levente Puskas and pianist Judit Varadi, who premiered it in September 2020 in the Hungarian Radio, and then first performed in concert in November that year.Marton Kerekfy (b. 1981) studied musicology and composition at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest (2000-2007) and received his PhD in musicology (2015) from the same institution. In 2006 he spent one semester on an Erasmus Grant at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Marton is Senior Research Fellow at the Budapest Bartok Archives, Editor of the Bela Bartok Complete Critical Edition, and Editor-in-Chief at Editio Musica Budapest ZenemA kiado.
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Europe Books QUIN ES LA MSICA QU TE DA O QU TE QUITA Construir
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Hal Leonard Corporation Music Theory for Kids
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA SemiConducting
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