Theory of music and musicology Books

Book SynopsisBecome a Competent Music Producer in 365 Days is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of music-production. Over the course of a year, this book takes the reader through ten chapters covering mixing, equalization, compression, reverb, delay and modulation, automation, vocals, synthesis, and mastering. To combat the patchy nature of fast' online content, this book provides an accessible and easily digestible course. Each chapter is broken down into daily readings and tasks, so that each topic can be fully explored, understood, and implemented before moving onto the next, with a range of online video tutorials that offer useful companion material to the book.Become a Competent Music Producer in 365 Days is an ideal introduction for beginners of all backgrounds, and students in further and higher education music-production classes, as well as aspiring professionals, hobbyists, and self-taught producers, who wish to have a thorough grasp oTrade Review"Sam George has broken down the fundamental elements of music production and presented them in an easily digestible format. A must read for any producer at any level." Dom Brown, musician, songwriter, producer, and lead guitarist (Duran Duran)"I love how this book brings effortless simplicity to the art of music production. I fully recommend it." Damian Keyes, Educator, Founder of BIMM and DK-MBA"A bite-sized, action-based, and investigative approach which allows readers to apply industry-standard knowledge and techniques to their creative products and projects. This book is high on my recommended reading list, and it should be on yours too!"Nathan Lilley, Music Educator, Innovator, and ELAM Vice PrincipalTable of Contents1. Unit One: Balancing a Mix 2. Unit Two: Panning a Mix 3. Unit Three: EQ 4. Unit Four: Compression 5. Unit Five: Reverb 6. Unit Six: Delay and Modulation Effects 7. Unit Seven: Automation 8. Unit Eight: Vocals 9. Unit Nine: Synthesis 10. Unit Ten: Mastering

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Book SynopsisExperiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using a template consistently across its 16 studies. It has been written for both specialist and non-specialist readers aiming to address means of increasing appreciation and understanding related to the experience of sonic creativity (music involving any sounds, not just musical notes) across this repertoire, as well as to launch a discussion about how the reception of sonic creativity can be influenced by the circumstances of listening in particular, regarding the qualitative difference between the in-situ as opposed to mediated experience. Although listening is the volume's focus, complementary information from the musicians is offered to facilitate holistic work overviews. As the first composition presented was composed by a 15-year-old, the intention is to demonstrate that what might be considered a niche area of the contemporary arts is one in which both increased appreciation and pTrade Review“In another outstanding contribution to music analysis, Leigh Landy’s Experiencing Organised Sounds is an important text for anyone interested in understanding and discussing score-less sound-making. With each chapter, diverse sound-based art forms and analytical approaches demonstrate multiple pathways into making art and analysing it. The book is organised by umbrella topics: fixed medium, live and sound art, within which each chapter discusses an example of the most common genres. Building on Landy’s extensive history of promoting sound-based art through insightful texts, this book is an impressive addition to his bibliography.”Dr. Kerry Hagan, University of Limerick, President – International Computer Music Association“This book goes far beyond sonic creativity. It is a definitive text for those of us who create music and teach sonic creativity. Written for a wider audience and with electroacoustic music at its core, it allows us not only to understand the full potential of creative listening to organised sound, but also to identify and appropriate the concepts and strategies that underlie the listening process. The practical application of the ideas of sonic creativity and the discussion of the influence of listening circumstances are framed by a set of diverse relevant examples. The contribution of this text also lies in the possibility of understanding the listening process as a creative act and thus generating a virtuous circle that informs how to teach and create sonic art and music today. This is one of the most interesting, useful and innovative books I have read in many years.”Dr. Rodrigo Sigal, Director of the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts, Full-time professor at ENES, UNAM. Mexico"This is a book that opens new worlds of listening. Leigh Landy concentrates on perception, on hearing. In the case of a sound-based composition, analysis must take listening into account. The big step forward here is the confrontation of media-based listening (headphone listening on the bus, stereo in the living room, etc.) versus live performance. The situational nature of listening influences the perception of a piece of music enormously. Although, as he states, this is not a new insight, Landy systematically approaches this issue via case studies across highly different genres - including sound art - thus providing the reader with new insights into sound-based works. This extraordinary book broadens the musicological horizon greatly and is equally suitable for scholars, composers and the general public."Prof. Dr. Martin Supper, University of the Arts – Berlin, author of Elektroakustische Musik und ComputermusikTable of ContentsTable of Contents1 To start What this book is all about Building on the author’s previous work Regarding the central part of the book 2 Work discussions across sound-based creativity – Fixed Medium Acousmatic/1 – Florian Sulpice: C’est wiizzz!!! Acousmatic/2 – John Young: Three Spaces in Mid-Air Soundscape – Katerina Tzedaki: a soundwalk lowercase – Simon Atkinson: interiorities viii + Kerry Francksen/Simon Atkinson: Betwixt & Between Electronic/formalised – Kevin Dahan: Gravitational Landscape (with tinnitus) Visual music – Bret Battey: Three Breaths in Empty Space Text-sound + sample-based – Leigh Landy: On the Éire 3 Work discussions across sound-based creativity – Live Mixed music – Simon Emmerson: Solo Flute Quartet Improvised – James Andean: Third Space Live coding – Anna Xambó: MTI@20 – Leicester, UK DIY electronics – John Richards: Motor Music Turntablism – dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit): untitled performance Performance art – Neal Spowage: Noise Loop Bootstrap 4 Work discussions across sound-based creativity – Sound art Installations/1 – Francesc Martí: Speech cycle Installations/2 – Peter Batchelor: Contraption Objects – Sam Topley: Noisy Pompoms 5 To end References Appendix – The Intention/Reception Form Used in the Book Glossary

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Book SynopsisA Music Transcription Method: Notating Recorded Music by Ear teaches how to leverage music dictation in the modern music industry. The book's four parts cover aspects of preparation, process, interpretation, and industry resources related to notating recorded music by ear.Taking a modular approach, the book guides readers from an initial subject overview to leveraging the craft for their own projects and careers. Each chapter includes an industry interview featuring diverse practitioner perspectives from Broadway, LA's film scoring scene, contemporary Jazz and Pop, orchestral and marching band styles, music educators, and music entrepreneurs. Transcribed sheet music examples, provided by members of GroundUP Music and several independent creators illustrate the transcription process, while field-relevant scholarly, educational, and professional references further illuminate the state of inquiry in music transcription. Learning outcomes, exploratory chapter activities, visual chapter maps and further instructional visuals, are included to support the learning styles of diverse readers.Supported by online resources offering a growing repository of reference materials, including sample materials and instructional videos with a focus on technology literacy, this is essential reading for undergraduates on music transcription, arranging and orchestration courses for a variety of musical contexts and genres, as well as musicians perfecting their music notation skills.

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Book SynopsisHeaviness in Metal Music Production, Volume II: Learn from the Masters details how the fundamental musical quality of metal, âœheavinessâ, is created during record production, offering unprecedented learning opportunities provided by eight world-leading producers mixing the same multi-track of the song âIn Solitudeâ and sharing insights into their creative visions and technical realizations.The book contains unabridged interviews with the producers about their conceptual understandings of heaviness and approaches to engineering âIn Solitudeâ, enriched by nearly 300 illustrations of their sound engineering techniques. Beginning with a summary of the researchersâ main findings on how heaviness is defined, the study then moves on to a comparative analysis of the producersâ mixes, providing structured guidelines for critical listening. These interviews and mix documentations are complemented by contextual information about heaviness in metal music production, covering non-musical, associative factors that influence what is possibly the most valued feature of metal music â heaviness.Heaviness in Metal Music Production will appeal to students of metal music, music technology and production, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, media, and communication. It will also serve as a practical primer for professional musicians, recording engineers, and producers to improve their own production values, or to allow for experimentation with new approaches.This two-volume set offers a well-rounded insight into the production of heaviness in theory and practice.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International license.

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Book SynopsisAs artificial intelligence has become increasingly sophisticated at producing many forms of media, it continues to be a challenge for AI to reliably and independently write convincing, enjoyable music without human guidance. The AI Music Problem: Why Machine Learning Conflicts With Musical Creativity asks why producing and constructing music is difficult for AI, with an investigation that straddles the technical, the musical, and the aesthetic. Bringing together the perspectives of the humanities and computer science, the author shows how the difficulties that music poses for AI connect to larger questions about music, artistic expression, and the increasing ubiquity of artificial intelligence.Taking a wide view of the current landscape of machine learning and Large Language Models, The AI Music Problem offers a resource for students, researchers, and the public to understand the broader issues surrounding musical AI on both technical and artistic levels. The au

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the contemporary composer Arvo Pärt and his reception. The volume charts his influence on areas including film, cultural programming, new media, cultures of listening, politics and performance practice. It addresses a wide readership across the humanities, with technical analysis kept to a minimum.Trade Review'This diverse collection of essays from a team of Pärt scholars, led by Laura Dolp, strongly advances the understanding of Pärt's music while filling gaps in current scholarship and grappling with the various, often erroneous, perceptions of the composer and his music.' Thomas Robinson, NotesTable of Contents1. Introduction Laura Dolp; 2. Empathy and tintinnabuli music in film Maria Cizmic; 3. Pärt and the sound of one hand clapping Robert Sholl; 4. Pärt and the experience of the neutral Sander van Maas; 5. Ethos and the industry of culture Laura Dolp; 6. An ethnography of spirituality Kythe Heller; 7. Politics and protest Michael Palmese; 8. Sonic embodiment C. J. May; 9. Performing Pärt Andrew Shenton.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de siècle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisMusic Theory Essentials offers an antidote to music theory textbooks that are overly long and dense. Focusing on the essentials, this text provides a clear-cut guide to the key concepts of music theory. Beginning with no assumptions about music theory knowledge, the book covers the core elements of music fundamentals, diatonic and chromatic harmony, post-tonal theory, and popular music in a single concise volume. Emphasizing critical thinking skills, this book guides students through conceptualizing musical concepts and mastering analytic techniques. Each chapter concludes with a selection of applications designed to enhance engagement: Exercises allow students to apply and practice the skills and techniques addressed in the chapter. Brain Teasers challenge students to expand their musical understanding by thinking outside the box. Exploring Music offers strategies for students to apply leTable of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Part I: Fundamentals Chapter 1: Pitch and Notation Chapter 2: Intervals Chapter 3: Scales and Melody Chapter 4: Keys Chapter 5: Chords Chapter 6: Musical Time Chapter 7: Introduction to Voice Leading and Counterpoint Part II: Diatonic Harmony Chapter 8: Four-Part Voice Leading Chapter 9: Nonchord Tones Chapter 10: Tonal Function, Syntax, and Prolongation Chapter 11: Triad Inversions Chapter 12: Seventh Chords Chapter 13: Motive, Phrase, Cadence, and Period Structure Chapter 14: Harmonic Sequences Part III: Chromatic Harmony Chapter 15: Secondary Dominants and Tonicization Chapter 16: Modulation I: Phrase Modulation and Diatonic Pivot Chords Chapter 17: Modal Mixture Chapter 18: The Neapolitan and Augmented Sixth Chords Chapter 19: Modulation II: Chromatic Pivot Chords, Enharmonic Reinterpretation, and Common-Tone Modulation Chapter 20: Dominant Ninth Chords, Altered Dominants, and Embellishing Chords Part IV: Post-Tonal and Popular Materials Chapter 21: The Dissolution of the Tonal System Chapter 22: New Pitch Collections Chapter 23: Centricity and Harmony Chapter 24: Set Theory Chapter 25: Serialism Chapter 26: Introduction to Jazz and Pop Harmony Appendix: List of Set Classes Credits Index of Musical Examples Index of Terms and Concepts

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Book SynopsisBetween 1958 and 2002, Luciano Berio wrote fourteen pieces entitled Sequenza, along with several versions of the same work for different instruments, revisions of the original pieces and also the parallel Chemins series, where one of the Sequenzas is used as the basis for a new composition on a larger scale. The Sequenza series is one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century - a collection of virtuoso pieces that explores the capabilities of a solo instrument and its player, making extreme technical demands of the performer whilst developing the musical vocabulary of the instrument in compositions so assured and so distinctive that each piece both initiates and potentially exhausts the repertoire of a new genre. The Sequenzas have significantly influenced the development of composition for solo instruments and voice, and there is no comparable series of works in the output of any other composer. Series of pieces tend to be linked by the instruments for which Trade Review’... contains much valuable, insightful commentary...’ Studies in Musical Theatre ’...the first serious contribution to the understanding of this very important part of Berio's compositional output....in addition to these specialist essays covering different aspects of confronting Berio's compositions and abounding in examples from the scores, statistical and graphical respresentation of the research results etc., the book offers an extensive bibliography on Berio and his work, listing of the editions of the Sequenza and the Chemins, a discography register and an index. As such, it surely represents a piece of inevitable literature for experts researching both Berio's work, and composition of the 20th century in general.’ International Review of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music '... a number of musicological fields - solo performance studies, later 20th-century aesthetics, issues of the work-concept - are all the richer for this stimulating volume.' TempoTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Introduction, David Osmond-Smith. Part 1 Performance Issues: Rhythm and timing in the two versions of Sequenza I for flute solo: psychological and musical differences in performance, Cynthia Folio and Alexander Brinkman; Rough romance: Sequenza II for harp as study and statement, Kirsty Whatley; Phantom rhythms, hidden harmonies: the use of the Sostenuto pedal in Berio's Sequenza IV for piano, leaf and sonata, Zoe Browder Doll; A dress or a straightjacket? Facing the questions of structure and periodicity posed by the notation of Berio's Sequenza VII for oboe, Patricia Alessandrini; Shadow boxing: Sequenza X for trumpet and piano resonance, Jonathan Impett. Part 2 Berio's Compositional Process and Aesthetics: Provoking acts: the theatre of Berio's Sequenzas, Janet K. Halfyard; The Chemins series, Paul Roberts; The compass of communications in Sequenza VIII for violin, Eugene Montague; Sequenza IX for clarinet: text, pre-text, con-text, Andrea Cremaschi; Proliferations and limitations: Beroi's reworking of the Sequenzas, Edward Venn. Part 3 Analytical Approaches: Vestiges of twelve-tone practice as compositional process in Berio's Sequenza I for solo flute, Irna Priore; Sonic complexity and harmonic syntax in Sequenza IV for piano, Didier Guigue and Marcílio Fagner Onofre; The nature of expressivity in Berio's Sequenza VI for viola, Amanda Bayley; A polyphonic type of listening in and out of focus: Berio's Sequenza XI for guitar, Mark D. Porcaro; ...and so a chord consoles us: Berio's Sequenza XIII (Chanson) for accordion, Thomas Gartmann. Bibliography; Discography; Index.

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Book SynopsisAmerican composer Morton Feldman is increasingly seen to have been one of the key figures in late-twentieth-century music, with his work exerting a powerful influence into the twenty-first century. At the same time, much about his music remains enigmatic, largely due to long-standing myths about supposedly intuitive or aleatoric working practices. In Composing Ambiguity, Alistair Noble reveals key aspects of Feldman''s musical language as it developed during a crucial period in the early 1950s. Drawing models from primary sources, including Feldman''s musical sketches, he shows that Feldman worked deliberately within a two-dimensional frame, allowing a focus upon the fundamental materials of sounding pitch in time. Beyond this, Feldman''s work is revealed to be essentially concerned with the 12-tone chromatic field, and with the delineation of complexes of simple proportions in ''crystalline'' forms. Through close reading of several important works from the early 1950s, Noble shows tTrade Review'Noble was too modest when he said he hoped ’to place a few solid foundation stones for future scholars in this field to build upon’; in fact, he has supplied the foundation itself. With this book, Feldman scholarship enters a new stage of maturity.' American Record Guide ’... Noble’s remarkable text offers a much deeper insight and covers a notably more extensive range of circumstantial issues than the Table of Contents may humbly indicate. The main content of every chapter consists of a chain of analytical attempts that lead one to a concluding section, where the particular piece of music is being discussed in a more general context. Seemingly unrelated content finally appears to be interconnected in multiple ways, creating in a masterly fashion a fine web of recognizable lines of thought. As a pianist himself, Noble approaches Feldman’s pieces with a subtle performer’s sensitivity for the sonority, touch, registral and dynamic richness of his instrument - a sense of technical and artistic proficiency he shares with the composer himself. The manifold original insights into Feldman’s compositional practice based upon the investigation of primary sources make this book worthy of recommendation to any reader curious to explore the technical aspect of this music or to seek a different approach to his distinctive sonorities’. IRASM (Recenzije i obavijesti o izdanjima)Table of ContentsContents: Listening to process, playing the system; ’To create music as if on a canvas’: Intermission 5 (1952); Piano Piece (1952): ’a discipline of vagueness’; Intermission 6 (1953): ’the outlines of becoming’: ’Primitive designs’: hearing and thinking through Intersection 3; Playing Feldman; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised third edition of Allan Moore''s ground-breaking book, now co-authored with Remy Martin, incorporates new material on rock music theory, style change and the hermeneutic method developed in Moore's Song Means (2012). An even larger array of musicians is discussed, bringing the book right into the 21st century. Rock''s ''primary text''  its sounds  is the focus of attention here. The authors argue for the development of a musicology particular to rock within the context of the background to the genres, the beat and rhythm and blues styles of the early 1960s, ''progressive'' rock, punk rock, metal and subsequent styles. They also explore the fundamental issue of rock as a medium for self-expression, and the relationship of this to changing musical styles. Rock: The Primary Text remains innovative in its exploration of an aesthetics of rock.Table of Contents1. Issues in theory 2. Elements of an analytic musicology of rock 3. Early rock 4. Progressive styles and issues 5. A profusion of styles 6. Recent rock 7. Meanings

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Book SynopsisRJ Wheaton's writing on music, film, and literature has been published in The Oxford American, DaCapo's Best Music Writing series, and at PopMatters.com, where he is Senior Producer. He currently lives in Toronto.Trade Review"A growing Alexandria of rock criticism - Los Angeles Times, 2008 Ideal for the rock geek who thinks liner notes just aren't enough - Rolling Stone One of the coolest publishing imprints on the planet - Bookslut"Table of Contents1. Background; 2. Production; 3. Reception; 4. Influence.

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores Ranciere's thought along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and German opera, Romantic and modernist music, Latin American and South African music, jazz, and contemporary popular music, and sets him in dialogue with key thinkers including Adorno, Althusser, Badiou andDeleuze.

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Book SynopsisChildren create music in individually unique ways, but also using common processes. Each creating process component stated in the United States' National Music Standards (imagine, plan and make, evaluate and refine, and present; NCCAS, 2014) is explored in this text using children's creations from China, India, Ireland, Mexico, and the United States as examples. What can the characteristics of music created by children from five diverse locations teach us about creating music? How do the sounds surrounding children in their schools, homes, and communities affect the music they create and what can be learned from this? How do children's similar creating processes inform how we teach music? These questions are investigated as the children's music compositions and improvisations are shared and examined. As this narrative unfolds, readers will become acquainted with the children, their original music, and what the children say about their music and its creation. What we learn from this expTrade ReviewRiley is an experienced music teacher and professor, and the present book arose from her desire to help pre-service and in-service music educators understand and implement the revised standards for music composition. The focus of this fascinating project is articulated in the book's subtitle. The process of communication and collaboration a child uses to create music reflects his/her culture and awareness of other cultures. The author divides the book into three sections: the first looks at applied research and the curriculum used in formulating the project; the second examines components of the creative process and describes the cultures of the five countries represented in the book; the last looks at educators' role as facilitators. The inclusion of lesson plans and examples of projects for teachers to encourage classroom music composition and improvisation makes this an extraordinarily valuable resource. The book is well written and abounds with illustrations, tables, figures, charts, interviews, and curriculum standards. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals. * CHOICE *In spite of a growing base of research and instructional materials that support engaging students in music composition, doing so remains at the periphery of much music education practice. In this text, Dr. Patricia Riley offers a useful addition to existing literature…. Throughout these chapters, Riley writes as equal parts researcher, composition teacher, music teacher educator, and professional development provider – a blend that is consistent with her own experiences. She shifts among presenting collected data, analyzing student compositions, and providing readers with encouragement and advice. These descriptions of children’s music creations, and processes through which they were developed, are in and of themselves a helpful contribution to our professional literature…. In-service teachers, pre-service teachers, and music teacher educators who believe they lack experience providing feedback to composition students would be particularly well served by reading this chapter. Creating Music: What Children from Around the World Can Teach Us offers an exciting and fresh perspective on understanding how children create music, with immediate practical application for facilitating students’ creative work. * Music Education Research *Patricia Riley's Creating Music: What Children From Around the World Can Teach Us is not only a first-rate exploration of how children across the globe create with music, but it is an extremely valuable deep-dive on the composition and improvisation components of the new National Core Music Standards. As a member of the writing team of the High School Composition and Theory Standards, I am overjoyed that Riley has done such extensive research and put this text together in a cogent and useful manner. The chapter on process alone is worth the price of admission! -- Rob Deemer, PhD, head of music composition, State University of New York at Fredonia and chair of the NYSSMA Composition & Improvisation CommitteeIn her illuminating book, Dr. Patricia Riley helps teachers to understand and teach the “creating process” that is a key component of the National Core Music Standards. Anyone interested in music education will benefit from reading this book, but it is a gift to teachers who may be confused or intimidated by the composition component of the new standards. Riley accomplishes this with her deft presentation of the entire compositional process through the creative voices of children from China, India, Ireland, Mexico, and the United States. The children’s conversations, colorful sketches, and compositions bring the theoretical principles down to earth with charming immediacy, and Riley’s global perspective makes this book a unique contribution to music education literature. -- Daniel Deutsch, founding chair of the National Association for Music Education’s Council for Music CompositionThis book is timely and important. Teachers will address the new National Core Music Standards and embed them into existing curricula that are often weak in the Creating artistic process. Of special importance is the chapter on mentoring - abundant with children's examples, process guides, and narrative descriptions. As teachers move forward, mentoring is a key element in furthering children's composition, so well articulated here. -- Sandi MacLeod, EdD, executive director, Music-COMPCreating Music: What Children From Around the World Can Teach Us is an excellent mix of carefully depicted observations and practical suggestions for including music composition in the education of children. Riley brings a teacher’s eye and a researcher’s mind to the world of children creating music. The book includes many suggestions for mentoring young composers and highlights connections to the new US National Core Music Standards. -- Janice Smith, professor of music education, Queens College CUNYRiley has successfully connected multiple strands of research focusing on children’s original music creations, including international perspectives and influences of cultural contexts, historical frameworks, national standards as guidelines, and an extensive literature review. Contributions to the field are found within the international insights that inform us about context and universalities, and children’s musical understanding as represented through their original musical works. With these insights, Riley shares her strategies when guiding, facilitating and mentoring young composers and improvisers. -- Betty Anne Younker, PhD, dean, professor of music education, Don Wright Faculty of Music, The University of Western OntarioTable of ContentsForeword—Peter Webster Preface Part I The Why and How of Children’s Music Creation Chapter 1: Creating Music is Important Chapter 2: Understanding the Processes of Music Creation Part II Exemplifying the Creating Process Components with Children’s Compositions and Improvisations From Around the World Chapter 3: Meeting the Children and Their Surroundings Chapter 4: Imagining Music Chapter 5: Planning and Making Music Chapter 6: Evaluating and Refining Music Chapter 7: Presenting Music Part III Facilitating Children’s Creating Chapter 8: Crafting Creating Opportunities Chapter 9: Mentoring Student Creations References About the Author

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Book SynopsisRock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present. This anthology allows Byron and Wollstonecraft to speak back to contemporary theories of Romanticism through Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Relying on Löwy and Sayre's Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, it explores how hostility, loss, and longing for unity are particularly appropriate terms for classic rock as well as the origins of these emotions. In essays ranging from Bob Dylan to Blackberry Smoke, this work examines how rock and roll expands, interprets, restates, interrogates, and conflicts with literary Romanticism, all the while understanding that as a term rock and roll in reference to popular music from the late 1940s through the early 2000s is every bit as contradicTrade ReviewIt might seem odd to bring the Romanticism of the 19th century together with the rock music of the 20th and 21st centuries. However, with this book Rovira (Mississippi College) shows that there is a valid connection. In dealing with rock, the contributors (most of whom are, like the editor, English scholars) focus primarily on lyrics rather than the music itself. The contributors do not superimpose their concepts of Romanticism onto song lyrics; rather, they show that song lyricists from Bob Dylan and the Beatles to U2 have had demonstrable connections to Romantic poets such as Blake and Wordsworth and to the thinking of the Romantic era. In exploring such connections, the essayists delve into the sociocultural background of the earlier time and the present. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *This collection by James Rovira shows just how influential the Romantics have been on modern popular music, not only furnishing contemporary singers with the themes and lyrics of their songs but, in many cases, also providing the attitude that defines post-war rock music. I was delighted to see some of my favorite Blake-inspired adaptations included here, as well as the fact that the contributors do not simply deal with the obvious examples of the influence of Romanticism but display a much wider range of appreciation and erudition. -- Jason Whittaker, University of LincolnA deft examination of the varieties of Romanticism and their incarnations in rock music, as wide-ranging and stimulating as the music and the literature it probes. -- Robert Pattison, Long Island University, author of The Triumph of VulgarityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Rock and Romanticism by James Rovira Part I: Blake, Shelley, and Rock “Tangled Up in Blake: the Triangular Relationship among Dylan, Blake, and the Beats” by Luke Walker “Romanticism in the Park: Mick Jagger Reading Shelley” by Jaaneke van der Leest “William Blake: The Romantic Alternative” by Douglas T. Root “Digging at the Roots: Martha Redbone’s The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake” by Nicole Lobdell “‘Tangle of Matter and Ghost’: U2, Leonard Cohen, and Blakean Romanticism” by Lisa Crafton Part II: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Rock “The Inner Revolution(s) of Wordsworth and the Beatles” by David Boocker “‘When the Light that’s Lost within Us Reaches the Sky’: Jackson Browne’s Romantic Vision” by Gary L. Tandy “‘Swimming Against the Stream’: Rush’s Romantic Critique of their Modern Age” by David S. Hogsette “Wordsworth’s ‘Michael,’ the Georgic, and Blackberry Smoke” by Ronald D. Morrison “Wordsworth on the Radio” by Rachel Feder Part III: European Romanticisms and Popular Music “Themes of ‘Scapigliatura’ and cursed poets in the songs of Piero Ciampi (1934–1980)” by Lorenzo Sorbo For more information, visit https://jamesrovira.com/rock-and-romanticism-blake-wordsworth-and-rock-from-dylan-to-u2/

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Book SynopsisThe revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated via socio-technological networks. Chapters funnel outward, from the solo improviser (Evan Parker), to nonlinear group dynamics (Sam Rivers trio), to networks that comprise improvisational communities, to pedagogical dynamics that affect how individuals learn, completing the hermeneutic circle. Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology''s Alan Merriam prize in its first edition, the revised edition features new sections that highlight electro-acoustic and transcultural improvisation, and concomitant issues of human-machine interaction and postcolonial studies.Trade Review"I am pleased to have had my work subjected to such rigorous scrutiny and I appreciate all the thinking David Borgo has done in an area where it is almost impossible to make any single uncontested statement!" -- Evan Parker, saxophonist/improvisor/composer"Integrating a broad range of interdisciplinary considerations - from complex systems and sociological theories to cognition and consciousness - saxophonist/composer/scholar David Borgo's Sync or Swarm makes important contributions to the expanding dialogue about contemporary improvised music." -- Ed Sarath, Professor of Music and Chair, Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation; Director, Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor"Getting excited while you are READING about MUSIC may be common to ethno-musicologists. But for me (a cognitive and computer scientist), music generally lives in one part of my brain while scientific/academic work lives in another. David Borgo's Sync or Swarm successfully lights up both sides of my brain!" -- Richard K. Belew, Professor and Chair, Cognitive Science Department, University of California, San Diego"Not only is this an important book for specialists working in areas of both contemporary music and contemporary science, but it also offers absorbing reading to improvising musicians, their listeners, and the growing cadre of smart, engaged folks fascinated by the human implications of 'complex' music, chaos theory, and other once-foreboding realms." -- David Ake, Associate Professor of Music, University of Nevada, Reno; author of Jazz Cultures"Borgo is familiar with a wide range of the recent literature on complexity, chaos, embodiment, etc. and he's done a creative job of bringing that into his main topic: free-jazz group improvisation." -- R. Keith Sawyer, Associate Professor of Education, Washington University; author of Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation"David Borgo's Sync or Swarm, a provocative, gutsy, and potentially revolutionary attempt to apply chaos theory, fractal plotting, sociological Actor-Network Theory, the concept of swarm intelligence, and other analytical templates to improvised music, wow!" -- Christopher Delaurenti, The Stranger"a provocative, gutsy, and potentially revolutionary attempt to apply chaos theory, fractal plotting, sociological Actor-Network Theory, the concept of swarm intelligence, and other analytical templates to improvised music. Wow!" * The Stranger *"Worth noting by British readers is the amount of space devoted to Evan, including some new quotations". -- Brian Priestly, JazzwiseThis new edition of Borgo’s Sync or Swarm is a most welcome addition to the growing literature emerging out of the new field of Improvisational Studies. Borgo’s great strength is to point us toward emerging methods and theories that can both help us understand improvisation in all its complexity, and the ways improvisation itself can help make sense of complex and dynamic social and cultural practices. Here in Sync or Swarm, Black diasporic art is shown to be at the forefront not just of creative practices, but of scientific ones too. It is refreshing to see Black art taken seriously as both a test-case for new theories in cognition, group behavior and complex systems, and as a way of enacting such theories. If you want to see where main-stream research in improvisational studies is likely to be a decade from now, read this new edition of Sync or Swarm. -- Eric Lewis, Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and co-editor Improvisation and Social Aesthetics (2017)With this expanded edition, Borgo presents to us an exquisite, ecological, system-centred view of a profoundly incorporating, embodied musicking practice – improvisation. His journey, deeply influenced by contemporary research in 4E cognitive science (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended), takes us on a metaphorical Mobius strip that illuminates not only the process and practice, the detritus and debris of musical improvisations, but, that also shows us improvisation as a microcosm of our perception of the world, highlighting the necessity for an open, dynamic, adaptive and emergent collective response to current, pressing social and environmental challenges. -- Franziska Schroeder, Professor of Music and Cultures, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom, co-editor of Soundweaving: Writings on Improvisation (2014)David Borgo's original book is already a landmark in improvisation studies. His approach, which seeks to explore improvisation through the lens of several contemporary sciences such as complexity theory, embodied/enactive cognition and actor-network theory, is absolutely original and opens up a field of interdisciplinary studies that has been expanding more and more in recent decades. This new edition brings important updates to the original work, including reflections on electro-acoustic improvisation, cross-cultural improvisation, man-machine interaction, and postcolonial cultural studies. With regard to this last topic, I am sure that my colleagues (improvisors and researchers) in Latin America will be especially pleased. -- Rogério Luiz Moraes Costa, Professor of Music, Improvisor and Researcher, University of São Paulo, Brazil, author of Música Errante: o jogo da improvisação livre (2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Preface (first edition) 1. The Sound and Science of Surprise The Age of Complexity Sync or Swarm 2. The Study of Improvisation The Field of Improvisation Studies Referent-Based Improvisation Referent-Free Improvisation Freedom Music Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t Improvisation Is, Improvisation Isn’t A Marvel of Paradox 3. Strange Loops The Embodied Mind Enaction and Prediction Taking the Note for a Walk It’s a Bit Like Juggling Lived Body and Living Body On Repeat Fractal Correlation Circular Causality Hall of Mirrors 4. Rivers of Consciousness The Art of the Trio Complexity and Emergence Musical Elephants The Sound of One Note Clapping Time and the Qualia of Experience The Phase Space of Improvisation Attractors Hues of Melanin Fractal Correlation Flights and Perchings 5. Orderly Disorder Chaotics Complex Adaptive Systems Dissipative Structuring Ancient to Future Sketches of Another Future 6. Sync and Swarm The Science of Sync Entrainment A Coordination Problem Insect Music The Art of Improvisation in the Age of Computational Participation The Puzzle of Coaction A Web Without a Spider Reassembling the Social 7. Harnessing Complexity The Map is Not the Territory Situated Musicianship Group Creativity Yes, and… Comprovisation The Shores of Multiplicity Complementarity and Metastability References Index

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Book SynopsisThe first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein. Theodor Adorno famously proclaimed that the model of Kurt Weill could not be repeated. Yet Weill's stage works set an inescapable precedent for composers on both sides of the Atlantic. Rebecca Schmid explores how Weill's formal innovations in particular laid the groundwork for operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein, although both composers resisted or downplayed his aesthetic contribution to American tradition. Comparative analysis based on Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence and other modes of intertextuality reveals that the principles of Weill's opera reform would catalyze an indigenous movement in sophisticated, socially engaged music theatre. Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein: A Study of Influence focuses on works that represent different phases of Weill's mission to renew the genre of opera, evolving from Die Dreigroschenoper to the musical play Lady in the Dark and the Broadway Opera Street Scene. Blitzstein and Bernstein in turn defied formal boundaries with The Cradle Will Rock, Regina, Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, and West Side Story - part of a short-lived movement in mid-twentieth century America that coincided with a renaissance for Weill's German-period works following the premiere of Blitzstein's translation, The Threepenny Opera, under Bernstein's baton. The unpublished A Pray by Blecht, for which Bernstein rejoined Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins, his collaborators on West Side Story, deepens the connection of Bernstein's aesthetic to Weill.Trade ReviewSchmid traces the tutelage of Blitzstein to Bernstein and back to Weill through performance anecdotes, personal letters, and documentation by previous researchers. Schmid's research is sound [and] the book is full of diverting production history and insights into the lives and minds of the three composers and their close circles. * The New England Theatre Geek *Deserves a warm welcome from anybody with an interest in the emergence of 'serious' Broadway shows after the Second World War. Weill's fundamental role in this is explored thoroughly, and the significance of his influence is brought into the light for the first time. This really is a fine read. A fascinating and original study. * Gramophone *Sheds considerable light on a fascinating subject and is well worth reading [since] Schmid writes so well. * SOUNDWORDSIGHT: AN ARTS MAGAZINE *Schmid's comprehensive archival research and revealing musical analysis offer new perspectives to support the many ways in which the "spectre of Weill" hovers gently over American opera. * KURT WEILL NEWSLETTER *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Why Influence? 2 "Have You Seen My New Opera?" 3 "Something Like Opera" 4 "Make Our Garden Grow 5 "This Isn't Worth drei Groschen" 6 A Pray by Blecht 7 "The Saga of Lenny" Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the life and work of Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) through newly discovered sources. 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 of musical topics and with even wider-ranging interests, and committed to the ideal of progress through rational thought, he typified the Enlightenment. His published output was large and diverse: a cello treatise in two quite different editions; two books on the flute and one on the piano; a treatise on figured bass; a history of the harp in the Highlands; and a translation of a French work of music theory. The list of his unrealised publications is even longer, including a proof of the oriental origins of the Scots. He married Anne Young, a well-known Edinburgh piano teacher, and his letters cast new light on the circumstances and date of her death. Taking account of Gunn's diverse experiences as a musician-scholar in Cambridge, London and Edinburgh, studying his sundry occupations, and exploring his social connections through a recently unearthed cache of his letters, this study moves away from 'treatise archaeology' and offers a broader view than is usually possible with such figures. The book will be of interest to those studying historical performance practice, music education in Enlightenment Britain, and the dissemination of Enlightenment thought.Trade ReviewGeorge Kennaway's book ... should be met with rejoicing, for it provides the first full account of Gunn's life, career, and writings and places him within the context of Enlightenment ideals. . . . Far from treating Gunn as an obscure Scottish writer, Kennaway discusses Gunn's works against contemporary music writers, so a balanced understanding of his philosophy and approach is finally possible. . . . This book goes a long way toward rescuing Gunn from music periphery, in terms of both biographical detail and analysis of his writings. -- Elizabeth Ford * BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute *Table of Contents1: Biography 2: Violoncello 1 And 2, And Airs 3: Flute 4: Shorter Works 5: Harp 6: Conclusions Appendix Personalia Bibliography Index

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Model answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 4 Theory exams

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Book SynopsisModel answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 7 Theory exams

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study in English of composer Mathias Spahlinger, one of Germany’s leading practitioners of contemporary music. One of the most stimulating and provocative figures on the new music scene on Germany, he has long been a touchstone for leftist, ‘critical’ composition there, yet his work has received very little attention in Anglophone scholarship until now. Born in 1944, Spahlinger has risen only gradually to prominence in his native Germany and for many years was considered an outsider within the contemporary music scene. Yet, his position as one of the most venerable exponents of post-WWII modernism in his homeland is now undeniable: his music is regularly performed, he has received commissions from many of the major orchestras and new music groups in Germany, and in 2014 he received the Großen Berliner Kunstpreis (Berlin Art Prize – Grand Prize) from the city’s Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts). Spahlinger is, however, becoming increasingly known as a significant figure within later twentieth-century music – in 2015, a festival in Chicago focused exclusively on his music, and he was a keynote speaker at a conference on Compositional Aesthetics and the Political at Goldsmiths, University of London. This new book provides an essential reference for scholars of new music and twentieth-century modernism. There are no other book-length studies of Spahlinger in English, though there is a monograph and a book of essays in German, and books of interviews. This original work promises a more critical perspective upon the composer and his aesthetics and political ideas compared to previous publications. The illustrations include musical examples. Its primary market will be a specialist musicological readership, including academics, researchers and composers, but the writing style such that it could be accessible also to undergraduates interested in the field. The discussion of aesthetic debates in post-war Germany, and the interesting reading of the work of Jacques Rancière, means that it could also have significant appeal across the disciplines of philosophy and critical theory.Trade Review'While on the one hand, Neil Thomas Smith succeeds in filling up a void in academic literature on Spahlinger in English, his writing exceeds that purpose by bringing Spahlinger’s work into a general cultural and political context.[...] What is perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Smith’s book is the detailed analysis of many notable works of Spahlinger, which generations of composers will find very useful after listening to the music. On the whole therefore, this very enlightening book illustrates how one of the most influential composers at the dawn of the 21st century put thought and sound into the wholeness of his unique works that continue to intrigue the global artistic community.' -- Jonas Baes, Popular MusicTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Modernism Underestimated Biography and Context: Spahlinger and Twentieth-Century Germany Part 2 Musique Concrète Instrumentale Order Open Form Perception Conclusion Mathias Spahlinger: List of Works

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Book SynopsisABRSM's Music Theory in Practice workbooks have helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the theory of music. The new Music Theory in Practice Model Answers series is a practical tool to use alongside the fully-revised workbooks for Music Theory in Practice, Grades 1 to 5, providing specimen answers for each exercise covered. Each book includes correct answers to every question with accepted options, where there can be more than one answer, and model answers for composition-style questions. This answer book will help you to prepare in the best possible way for the ABRSM Grade 5 Theory of Music exam.Trade ReviewExcellent as reference material for parents, self-taught students and those who simply want to enlarge and develop their general knowledge of how music is put together ... Organised as ever, ABRSM is to be admired for its presentation. * International Piano *

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Book Synopsis"This book is pure gold for the singer and singing therapist of today" - Mary Thienes Schunemann, founder, naturally you can sing! productions. "The life work of this Swedish artist is not so much the introduction of a new 'method' ...rather, this is the first adequate description in all music history of the western art of singing in terms of the human being's true nature." - Jurgen Schriefer, musicologist. Through experiential exercises and careful reasoning, Uncovering the Voice provides a new spiritually-enlivened interpretation of the processes involved in singing. It develops a knowledge of the essential nature of song, and summons us to work for the purity and preservation of true singing. First published in Germany in 1938, Uncovering the Voice disappeared under the weight of political events and the Second World War and was not republished until the 1970s. The new edition of this classic work has been re-edited and re-designed, and includes a biographical account of the author by Jurgen Schriefer as well as previously unpublished photographs. Afterword Dr E. Kolisko

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Book SynopsisThe unique scholarship and artistic sensitivity of Prof. Dr Hermann Beckh (1875–1937) is in the process of being rediscovered. The great linguist, Orientalist and Christian priest – an active music-lover who also composed – penned pioneer works on our musical system that are respected by musicians and musicologists. This volume brings together two revised versions of his best-loved books. The Essence of Tonality is written ‘…for musicians and music-lovers who, because of their particular musicality experience something spiritual – and for spiritual seekers and sensitive people who, because of their particular spirituality, have experienced a connection with music.’ Beckh believed a spiritual view of tonality would ensure music’s, and humanity’s, future. The author elucidates the correspondence of the circle of fifths (the keys) to the zodiac. Research should be directed towards the twelve vital, spiritual key-centres, as expressing the cosmic rhythms in which we all live, rather than the abstract twelve chromatic notes of atonality. In The Parsifal Christ-Experience, Beckh’s original insights throw new and powerful light on the search for meaning in our age, for a knowledge of the heart. In the poetic libretto and remarkable music of his final creation, Wagner – acknowledged by Bruckner as ‘the Master’ – presents the Grail legend and its imagery. The psychological drama and its ultimate solution provide insights to anyone who is prepared to reflect on inner experience. Through Beckh’s references to Wagner’s own letters, as well as a remarkable letter from Nietzsche, the reader gains knowledge of the true nature of Wagner and his work.Table of ContentsPart 1: THE ESSENCE OF TONALITY – Author’s Prefaces – Translator’s Preface – Postscript – Part 2: THE PARSIFAL=CHRIST=EXPERIENCE – Translator’s Preface – Introduction: ‘Richard Wagner and Christianity’ – Chapter I: The Christ-Mystery in the Prelude to Parsifal – Chapter II: The Drama of the Christ-Experience in Parsifal – Scene 1. The Swan – Scene 2. The Walk to the Grail Castle – Scene 3. Amfortas and the Grail – Scene 4. The Gesture towards the Heart—Parsifal shakes his Head – Scene 5. Parsifal in Klingsor’s Realm: Awakening to Knowledge – Scene 6. Kundry-Herodias: ‘There His gaze fell upon me.’ – Scene 7. The Redeeming Gaze of Christ: Karfreitagszauber – Appendix I: From Scene 2, The growth of the Gaze Motif in the transition music of Act I (The Walk to the Grail Castle) – Appendix II: From Scene 6, Kundry-Herodias: ‘I looked at Him—and laughed …’ – Appendix III: Twilight of the Gods and Resurrection: Wagner’s Mythological Wisdom by Emil Bock – Appendix IV: King Ludwig II of Bavaria on the 70th anniversary of his death by Rudolf Frieling

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating, witty and highly moving story of making and listening to music and its role and impact on grief. Written in the wake of the author's guitarist father's death.

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Book SynopsisSounds can be harmonic, number sequences too - a coincidence?This book deals with a musical theory of proportions, i.e. the ancient doctrine of proportions as the oldest and most important common anchorage of the two cultural sciences mathematics and music. The musical theory of tones, intervals, tetrachords, sounds and scales is in fact the exact musical image of the laws of arithmetic and its symmetries in the set of rules of playing with numbers, their proportions and their medievals. Alone the miracle of the so-called Harmonia perfecta maxima 6 - 8 - 9 - 12, whose proportions determine the fifth as well as the fourth, form the octave and have the brazen whole tone in their center, shaped the musical edifice of Pythagorean music for thousands of years. This elementary chain of proportions 6 : 8 : 9 : 12 is, moreover, completely symmetrical and built up from the arithmetic as well as from the harmonic medieta of the octave numbers 6 and 12. This book develops the theory of propor

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