Theory of music and musicology Books
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Music Therapy in Palliative Care: New Voices
Book SynopsisWithin the last decade music therapists have developed their work with people who have life-threatening illnesses and with those who are dying. This book presents some of that work from music therapists working in different approaches, in different countries, showing how valuable the inclusion of music therapy in palliative care has already proved to be.It is important for the dying, or those with terminal illness, that approaches are used which integrate the physical, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of their being. The contributors to this book emphasize the importance of working not only with the patient but with the ward situation, friends and family members. By offering patients the chance to be creative they become something other than patients - they become expressive beings, and there is an intimacy in music therapy that is important for those who are suffering. Many of the contributors write in their own personal voice, providing a particular insight which will be valuable not only to other music therapists seeking to enrich their own ways of working, but to all those involved in caring for the sick and the dying. Contributors describe their work with both children and adults living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other chronic degenerative diseases.Trade ReviewMusic therapy is still in the process of establishing its role in the UK palliative care movement. On balance, this publication can only help to inspire more therapists to work in the field, and to communicate their experiences to a wider audience. The personal approach to writing adopted by many of the authors is both highly accessible and absorbing. With this publication the voice of music therapy speaks clearly, providing a highly recommended account of this exciting and challenging area of work. -- British Journal of Music TherapyIn this pioneering book, David Aldridge presents chapters by an international range of music therapists who have extended the field to include work with patients suffering from the final stages of life-limiting illness. The result is an attractive volume that charts a fresh and innovative approach to problems faced by palliative care patients which will appeal to health care professionals as well as music therapists…I woud highly recommend this book as an inspiring addition to the literature on the use of creative therapies in palliative care. It offers a well-referenced, accessible and sensitively written contribution to the field. -- European Journal of Palliative CareThis book brings together the first published volume of many music therapists working with different approaches in different countries. It provides an extremely comprehensive insight into the approaches used by music therapists working within a variety of palliative care settings and a diversity of client groups and life-threatening conditions. The text is supplemented by very moving case studies. The book indicates clearly the power of music, its effect and the associations we hold with music throughout our lives. It is a multidimensional medium which has tremendous impact on our past, present and future lives. It provides a therapeutic tool within palliative care which by its varying dimensions has a potential value for individuals who are struggling with their present life-threatening or life-limiting circumstance. It is an essential read for anyone wishing to discover the potential value of music therapy within palliative care. -- British Journal of Occupational Therapy`Here is a book for the therapist, musician or student seeking a broard perspective on the practical application of music therapy. It is written by a range of practioners working in a variety of settings, each bringing a new vision to the interested reader. All aspects of music therapy are here represented, icluding listening, performance, composition (music and words) and milieu. Examples abound of different approaches to this most personal of therapeutic strategies - whether to complement pain relief, to provide an enjoyable undertaking for patients to join with each other and with their families and friends or as a diversionary activity. The thought provoking methods described from the practioner's view allow the reader to sit on sessions of music-making with patients turned musicians in a most exciting manner. It is this readability which will encourage the non-music therapist and non-therapist musician. Here are clear descriptions of successful methods in listening to music, in performning and composing with children and with older people. Lively imprtomptu 'jam' sessions are explored, carefully recalling instrumentation's and levels of musical expertise. Planned programmes of considerable complexity are described, allowing the reader to develop an understanding of the processes involved. A patient who wants me to compile a tape of his favourite music as a parting gift for his family, or the woman who has written words for a song but needs some help in composing a special tune. These cameos of practice are well presented and organised into a readable collection. They offer sufficient detail to encourage the well endowed music therapist while having sufficent non-technical material to allow access to the less musically inclined reder. This book is well referenced, offering a clear path to follow for those wishing to learn more. The subject and author indexes allow access to any vaguely recalled part of the book. -- RostrumI would highly recommend this book as an inspiring addition to the literature on the use of creative therapies in palliative care. It is slim (160 pages), well-written and highly readable, even to those who have no previous experience in the field. -- Marie Curie NewsThis book explores music therapy's enhancement of palliative care - giving voice to nine currently unpublished Music Therapists. The writers work in many settings - hospices, hospitals, paediatric oncology wards, AIDS support centres - in diverse countries throughout the world. But this diversity blends into a harmonious and inspiring book. -- Grief MattersThis book presents clinical writing from music therapists working using different approaches in various countries. It introduces the reader to different aspects of music therapy. The book contains in-depth case discussions rather than quantitative research analysis… Although entitled Palliative Care the book covers a wide spectrum of cancer stages, degenerative illnesses, HIV/AIDS, as well as, working with children and adults. The book illustrates the different areas where Music Therapy could work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. -- Irish Social WorkerThe contributors seek to emphasise the importance of working not only with the patient but with the ward situation, friends and family members; many write in their own personal voice, offering a particular insight which will be valuable not only to other music therapists seeking to enrich their own ways of working, but to all those involved in caring for the sick and the dying. -- Progress in Palliative CareTable of ContentsIntroduction, David Aldridge. 1. Music Therapy and the Creative Act, David Aldridge, Chair of Qualitative Research in Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany. 2. Music Therapy as Milieu in the Hospice and Paediatric Oncology Ward, Tryge Aasgaard, Asistant Professor, Oslo College; Music Therapist, Ullevl, The National Hospital, Hospice Louisenberg, Oslo, Norway. 3. Lyrical Themes in Songs Written by Palliative Care Patients, Clare O'Callaghan. 4. Creativity and Communication Aspects of Music Therapy in a Children's Hospital, Beth Dun, Senior Music Therapist, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. 5. Music Therapy at the End of Life: Searching for the Rite of Passage, Bridget Hogan. 6. Music Therapy in Chronic Degenerative Illness: Reflecting the Dynamic Sense of Self, Wendy Magee. 7. Music: A Means of Comfort, Susan Weber, Music Therapist, Johannes Hospiz der Barmherzigen, Munich; Lecturer in Music Therapy, Ludwigs Maximilian University, Munich. 8. Music Therapists' Personal Reflections on Working with Those Who Are Living with HIV/AIDS: `Almost the Definition of God', Nigel Hartley, Senior Music Therapist, Sir Michael Sobell House; London Lighthouse; Nordoff Robbins Centre, London. 9. Music Therapy with HIV Positive and AIDS Patients, Lutz Neugebauer. 10. The Implications of Melodic Expression for Music Therapy with a Breast Cancer Patient, Gudrun Aldridge, Lecturer, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany. 11. Writing and Therapy: Into a New Tongue, Rob Finlayson.
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Kahn & Averill The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and academics may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we have heard before, we may say that we don't "like" it. How is taking pleasure from music related to understanding it? This book explores these and other issues as they arise in various musical contexts. Performers' interpretations may be filled with errors, after all, that then become part of a tradition; a composer's work may be variously assessed by his or her contemporaries - an account of how Beethoven's reputation was established so early is included - and how musical analysis can mislead as well as enhance understanding of a composition. Originally the content of three lectures given in Rome in 1993 - "The Frontiers of Nonsense", "How To Become Immortal" and "Explaining the Obvious" - this work offers a study of music, as text, as performance, and as listening experience.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The Frontiers of Nonsense; 2. How to Become Immortal; 3. Explaining the Obvious; Notes; Index
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Signatura Edition JOHN DOWLANDS SECOND BOOKE OF SONGS OR AYRES
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Bohlau Verlag Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology:
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V&r Academic Das Wissen Der Unterschatzten Kunst
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Oratorien und die
Book SynopsisJohann Sebastian Bach krönte sein Schaffen geistlicher Musik mit Weihnachts-, Oster- und Himmelfahrtsoratorien sowie mit fünf Messvertonungen – gipfelnd in der monumentalen h-Moll-Messe, die als Vermächtnis angesehen werden kann. Für diese Werke verwendete er im Parodieverfahren häufig frühere Sätze, passte sie aber für die neue Komposition sorgfältig an. Durch Textvergleiche und die musikalische Gegenüberstellung von Vorlage und Parodie analysiert Friedhelm Krummacher den Aufbau dieser sehr besonderen Werke von der Gesamtanlage bis ins Detail und macht die Kunstfertigkeit des Bach’schen Verfahrens anschaulich. Dieses neue Buch ergänzt die zweibändige Publikation „Johann Sebastian Bach. Die Kantaten und Passionen“ (2018) von Krummacher zu einer Gesamtschau des geistlichen Werkes.Trade Review“... Diese ist Voraussetzung für interpretatorische Bemühungen, aber durchaus auch für ein „intellektuelles" Hören, das die kompositorischen Strukturen verstehen will. Darin liegt die Stärke des Bandes. ... Für einschlägige Bibliotheksbestände ist der Band neben den beiden anfangs genannten Bänden zu den Kantaten und Passionen ein Muß.” (Albert Raffelt, in: Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken, informationsmittel-fuer-bibliotheken.de, Jg. 30, Heft 4, 2022)Table of ContentsA. Die Oratorien.- I. Oster-Oratorium (BWV 249).- II. Weihnachtsoratorium (BWV 248).- III. Himmelfahrts-Oratorium (BWV 11).- B. Die Messen.- IV. Die Kyrie-Gloria-Messen.- 1. Missa in A (BWV 234).- 2. Missa in G (BWV 236).- 3. Missa in F (BWV 233).- 4. Missa in g (BWV 235).- V. Die h-Moll-Messe (BWV 232)- Literaturverzeichnis.- Register (BWV-Nummern).- Register (Textincipits)
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Anton Bruckner: Ein Leben mit Musik
Book SynopsisZum 200. Geburtstag von Anton Bruckner legt Felix Diergarten die lang erwartete, grundlegend neu recherchierte Biographie vor. Zugänglich und anschaulich geschrieben, werden alte und neue Bruckner-Bilder anhand der Quellen überprüft. Jedes der 25 chronologisch angeordneten Kapitel beleuchtet eine Lebensphase, eine Begebenheit, einen Ort oder ein besonderes Thema aus Bruckners Leben mit Musik. Das Buch macht so erfahrbar, wie sich Bruckners Kompositionen in seine Lebenswelten fügen: vom oberösterreichischen Dorf in die Metropolen Europas, vom Dorfschulhaus an die Universität, von der Dorfkirche an den neugotischen Dom, von den Dorfmusikanten zu den Wiener Philharmonikern.Table of ContentsGeleitwort Herbert Blomstedt.- Bruckner-Bilder.- Die frühen Jahre (1824-1855).- Linz (1856-1868).- Das erste Wiener Jahrzehnt (1868-1878).- Die späten Jahre (1879-1896).- Nachwort.- Register der Werke Bruckners.- Personenregister
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Verlag D.Oesterreichische Combining the Arts in Schuberts Time
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Harwood-Academic Publishers Chromaticism
Book SynopsisMusical practices in the 20th century pose new and complex problems in the study of the fundamental principles of pitch organization. The analysis of basic harmonic categories, one of which is chromaticism, acquires particular importance as a means of restoring time, which has gone out of joint and identifying the logical principles in the historical process of musical development. Vladimir Barsky, in his thoroughly researched and clearly written guide, traces the progress of the concept of chromaticism throughout Western musical history, and recreates an integrated logical and historical perspective in order to make a specific study of this key subject. He identifies the dynamics of the changing historical theories of chromaticism and relates these to musical practices, applying them to the analysis of current pitch systems. This book will be an invaluable tool for readers whose aim is to come nearer to comprehending the idioms of 20th century music.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Evolution of the Concept of Chromaticism; Chapter 2 Chromaticism as a Category of Musical Thinking; Chapter 3 Historical Types of Chromaticism; Chapter 4 Chromatic Systems in 20th-Century Music; con Conclusion;
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Books on Demand Der Songwriting - Workshop 1 + 6 Songs: Schritt für Schritt erleben wie Songs entstehen - mit allen Hörbeispielen
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Schwabe Verlag Basel Moved by Sound
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Waxmann Verlag GmbH Americana
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transcript Verlag Remixing the HipHop Narrative
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V&R unipress Sinne und Sinn der Vorstellungskraft
Book SynopsisWie formen der Aufbau eines Ãffentlichen Kulturlebens und Popularisierung das MusikhÃren?
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BoD - Books on Demand Songwriting On Demand
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Backbeat Books Unfinished
Book SynopsisLucas David Cantor Santiago is an author, producer, TEDx speaker, university guest lecturer, and two-time Emmy Award winner. He's collaborated with artists like Lorde, The Wu-Tang Clan, Spike Jonze, and Michel Gondry, and he's worked with major studios like FOX, NBC, Disney, Netflix, and DreamWorks. His music has reached hundreds of millions through radio, television, major films, and sports television broadcasts (including two Super Bowls). In 2019, Lucas used AI to complete Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, which is now performed by orchestras around the world. He is a founding General Partner at Mindset MusicTech, a venture capital fund that invests in music technology. He also mentors entrepreneurs through Abbey Road Redd and the British Phonographic Institute, investing in the next generation of music innovation.
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British Academy Huju Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai British
Book SynopsisAn account of Huju, a Shanghai operatic tradition which blends music and acting with portrayal of the lives of ordinary people, this study follows the genre as it develops in China's largest city from rural entertainment to urban ballad, revolutionary drama, and contemporary opera.Trade ReviewJonathan Stock has made a valuable contribution to the field of Chinese music studies in particular and to musicology in general. * Music and Letters *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; The Rise of Local Opera form in east China, up to 1920 ; Female roles and the Rise of Actresses, 1915-c.1950 ; Place and Music: Local Opera in Shanghai, 1912-49 ; Huju and the politics of revolution, post-1949 ; Ethnomusicological Research in an Urban Setting
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Oxford University Press Imaginative Minds
Book SynopsisImagination is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human thought. The supreme powers of flexibility, supposition and inventiveness that are its hallmarks, whether in science, technology, business or the visual, literary and performing arts, are highly prized in contemporary societies. Yet in the fields of psychology and cognitive science, where we might expect to find the topic ''centre-stage'', there has been comparatively little work. This volumes addresses this omission by bringing together the theories and methods of these disciplines with other perspectives offering important insights into the imagination. The 15 chapters address key questions about the imaginative workings of the mind, including how the capacity for imagination evolved, how it is expressed and what roles it plays in children''s thinking, what psychological processes and brain mechanisms are involved, and how imagination operates in universal cultural phenomena such as music, fiction and religion, whichTrade Reviewthe reviews cover a wide range of standpoints with modesty and caution...In summary this fascinating book provides a comprehensive survey of a neglected and scientifically challenging field. It should help further research. * Alan Kerr Journal of Consciousness Studies *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; EVOLUTION OF THE IMAGINATION ; DEVELOPMENT OF IMAGINATION IN CHILDREN ; MIND INTO CULTURE: PERSPECTIVES ON MUSICAL IMAGINATION ; IMAGINATION, COGNITION AND CREATIVE THINKING ; COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE OF THE IMAGINATION ; ATYPICAL IMAGINATION AND BRAIN MECHANISMS
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British Academy Red Strains Music and Communism Outside the
Book SynopsisThe end of global communism has erased from memory the prior influence of communist ideology outside of the communist bloc. Many western musicians were involved in communist movements and organisations which often had a decisive impact upon their music. This book recalls the meeting of music and communism in societies outside of a communist state.Table of ContentsI. MUSICIANS' PERSPECTIVES; II. TO 1960; III. FROM 1960
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OUP Oxford Defining the Discographic Self
Book SynopsisDesert Island Discs has run on BBC radio since 1942 and its archive is now accessible. This book is the first to assess the programme from a scholarly perspective. Chapters by musicologists, sociologists, and media scholars are complemented by personal spins by 'castaways', who reflect on talking publicly about the role of music in their lives.
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Oxford University Press, USA The Music Road Coherence and Diversity in Music
Book SynopsisThe Music Road (the western half of the famous "Silk Road") explores transmissions, migrations and discourses of music, dance and theatre in the area between the Mediterranean and India, from the first to the 20th century. This scholarly panorama explores this cultural world and considers its fascinating inner diversity.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Reinhard Strohm: The Music Road: an expedition across time and space Keynote 2: Martin Stokes: The Middle East in music history: An ethnomusicological perspective Alexandrian Tracks 3: Gabriela Currie: Sonic entanglements, visual records and the Gandharan nexus 4: Ciro Lo Muzio: Persian 'snap': Iranian dancers in Gandhra 5: Donatella Restani: Listening between the lines: Alexander's musical legacy in Italy (13th-15th centuries) Intercultural Islam 6: Andrew Hicks: Mysticism's musical modalities: Philosophies of audition in medieval Persian Sufism 7: Lisa Nielson: Samac intertwined in practice: Eight treatises from the ninth to fifteenth centuries 8: Slawomira Zeranska-Kominek: Writing the history of unwritten music: On the treatise of Darwesh 'Ali Changi (17th c.) 9: Owen Wright: Bridging the Safavid-Ottoman divide 10: Kevin Dawe: Musical instruments and world history: A case study of the guitar in the Republic of Turkey Indian Encounters 11: Margaret Walker: 11 The 'Nautch', the Veil, and the Bayadère: The Indian dance as musical nexus 12: Nalini Ghuman: Maud MacCarthy: 'The musicking body' Hellas between West and East 13: Katy Romanou: The music of the modern Greeks in Western and Eastern music literature, from the ninth to the 19th century 14: Walter Puchner: A typology of Western music and theatre activity in South-East Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region in premodern times (16th-19th century) 15: Kostas Kardamis: Orientalism in the art music of the Ionian islands 16: Avra Xepapadakou: European itinerant opera and operetta companies touring in the Near and Middle East A Gypsy Epilogue 17: Anna G. Piotrowska: From 'rhapsodic gypsy' to 'gypsy rhapsody' General bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Music the Market and the Marvellous
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The University of Chicago Press Composing Japanese Musical Modernity
Book SynopsisWhen we think of composers like Mozart or Beethoven, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra. For most of Japan's musical history, however, no such role existed - composition and performance were deeply intertwined. This book offers fresh insights not just into Japanese music but Japanese modernity at large.Trade Review"In this highly original book, Bonnie C. Wade skillfully presents a complicated story by weaving together the connections between political conditions, cultural environments, and social expectations. By focusing on these connections between social domains, she establishes a dynamic scene that cannot easily be captured by single concepts such as modernization, westernization, or globalization. She provides a study that is as much about composers, music organizations, and social history as it is about the making of Japanese musical modernity-a process that is still ongoing." (Frederick Lau, University of Hawaii at Manoa)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Rhythmic Structure of Music Phoenix Books
Book SynopsisIn this influential book on the subject of rhythm, the authors develop a theoretical framework based essentially on a Gestalt approach, viewing rhythmic experience in terms of pattern perception or groupings. Musical examples of increasing complexity are used to provide training in the analysis, performance, and writing of rhythm, with exercises for the student's own work. This is a path-breaking work, important alike to music students and teachers, but it will make profitable reading for performers, too.New York Times Book ReviewWhen at some future time theories of rhythm . . . are . . . as well understood, and as much discussed as theories of harmony and counterpoint . . . they will rest in no small measure on the foundations laid by Cooper and Meyer in this provocative dissertation on the rhythmic structure of music.Notes. . . . a significant, courageous and, on the whole, successful attempt to deal with a very controversial and neglected subject. Certainly no one who takes the ti
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The University of Chicago Press The Music between Us
Book SynopsisMusic plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. The author investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music's uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents and throughout centuries, the sense of a shared human experience.Trade Review"Higgins has written a wonderfully comprehensive book about nothing less than to what extent music is a universal phenomenon.... The author contends that though there appears to be dramatic variation across cultures, music universally reflects humans' common ways of behaving-for instance, in connection with longing and mourning-and serves to physically instruct one on how to comport oneself in society.... A welcome contribution to cross-cultural (and cross-species) philosophy of music.... Highly recommended." (Choice)"
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The University of Chicago Press Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music A Renewed
Book SynopsisThe highly chromatic music of the late 1800s and early 1900s includes some of the best-known works by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Cesar Franck, and Hugo Wolf. This book builds on nineteenth-century music theory to provide an original method for analyzing chromatic music.Trade Review"This book will clearly be of great importance to music theorists and historians alike." - Patrick McCreless, Yale University"
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The University of Chicago Press Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, increased specialization has sharply separated music theory from historical musicology. Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past brings together a group of essays--written by theorists and musicologists--that seek to bridge this gap. This collection shows that music theory can join forces with historical musicology to produce a more humanistic form of musical scholarship. In nineteen essays dealing with musical theories from the twelfth to the twentieth century, two recurring themes emerge. One is the need to understand the historical circumstances of the writing and reception of theory, a humanistic approach that gives theory a place within social and intellectual history. The other is the advantages of applying contemporaneous theory to the music of a given period, thus linking theory to the history of musical styles and structures. The periods given principal attention in these essays are the Renaissance, the years around 1800, and the twentieth century. AbundTable of ContentsIntroduction Christopher Hatch and David W. Bernstein 1 Music Theory and Its Histories Thomas Christensen 2 The Earliest Phases of Measured Polyphony Ernest H. Sanders 3 Modal Strategies in Okeghem's Missa Cuiusvis Toni Leeman L. Perkins 4 Finding the Soggetto in Willaert's Free Imitative Counterpoint: A Step in Modal Analysis Benito V. Rivera 5 Mode and Counterpoint Peter N. Schubert 6 The Cavalier Ercole Bottrigari and His Brickbats: Prolegomena to the Defense of Don Nicola Vicentino against Messer Gandolfo Sigonio Maria Rika Maniates 7 Theory as Polemic: Mutio Effrem's Censure . . . sopra il sesto libro de madrigali de Marco da Galiano Edmond Strainchamps 8 The Place of Aesthetics in Theoretical Treatises on Music Edward A. Lippman 9 Chromaticism in Classical Music James M. Baker 10 Momigny's Type de la Musique and a Treatise in the Making Ian Bent 11 Normality and Disruption in Beethoven's Bagatelle Op. 119, No. 8 Christopher Hatch 12 Coda as Culmination: The First Movement of the "Eroica" Symphony Robert P. Morgan 13 Symmetry and Symmetrical Inversion in Turn-of-the-Century Theory and Practice David W. Bernstein 14 Schoenberg and Goethe: Organicism and Analysis Severine Neff 15 The Contrapuntal Combination: Schoenberg's Old Hat P. Murray Dineen 16 The "New Education" and Music Theory, 1900-1925 Lee A. Rothfarb 17 Harmony as a Determinant of Structure in Webern's Variations for Orchestra Graham H. Phipps 18 "The Fantasy Can Be Critically Examined": Composition and Theory in the Thought of Stefan Wolpe Austin Clarkson 19 The Traditions Revisited: Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles as Russian Music Richard Taruskin
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The University of Chicago Press The Music between Us
Book SynopsisFrom our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. This title investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music's uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents.Trade Review"The Music between Us approaches the question of music through a vast amount of recent and fascinating work that implicates, if not demonstrates, music's central place in human nature: thought, feeling, synesthesia, language, and community. It eschews claims of metaphysical essence or universals, instead speaking to deep and normative aspects of the musical in human life and behavior. Assembling an extraordinary amount of data and results from cognitive psychology, anthropology, linguistics, neuroscience, ethnomusicology, and sociology, Kathleen Marie Higgins's book is worth reading purely for its compendium effect." (Daniel Herwitz, University of Michigan)"
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The University of Chicago Press ReEnvisioning Past Musical Cultures
Book SynopsisFrom the 6th to the 10th century, Gregorian chants existed only in song as medieval musicians relied on their memories and voices to pass each verse from one generation to the next. This work examines how these melodies were created, memorized, performed and modified.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The Problem 2: The New Historical View of Chant Transmission A: The Theories of Treitler and Hucke B: Oral and Written Transmission as Conceived in the New Historical View 3: Some Reflections on the New Historical View A: The "Rules" of "Grammar" and "Rhetoric": Deciphering the "Language" of Formulaic Chant B: Problems of Proof and Plausibility: The Need for Empirical Confirmation C: Implications and Applications: Toward Methodologies for Melodic Criticism and Editing D: Summary 4: Some Ethnomusicological Concerns A: Some Terms B: Cross-Cultural Comparisons 1: Principles of Comparison 2: Some Comparable Cultures C: The Performers and Their World D: Books and the Oral/Written Continuum 1: The Historical Continuum, from Oral to Written 2: Uses of Books in Liturgical Celebrations 3: Performance Practice E: Cultural Contexts 1: Musical Contacts between Clergy and Laity 2: Liturgical and Quasi-Liturgical "Folk Songs" 3: Regional Chant Dialects 4: Art Music vs. Folk Song in the Liturgy 5: Some Possible Means of Oral Transmission in Liturgical Chant A: Formulas 1: Repetition 2: Ranges of Variability 3: Concepts of "Formula" and "Centonization" in Selected Cultures 4: "Formulas" with Syntactic Functions B: Melody Types, Melodic Models, and Tune Families 1: Melodic Groups and Types 2: Melodic Outlines and Contours 3: Kinds of Melodic Models: A Continuum 4: The Impact of Modal Theory C: Interpolated Syllables D: Melodic Embellishment E: Organum 6: Summary and Conclusion Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press A Language of Its Own
Book SynopsisThe Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous - and enormously influential - dialogue with their subject. This book argues that the indispensable relationship between intellectual production and musical creation gave rise to the Western conception of music.Trade Review"This book is the crowning achievement of a first-rate scholar, drawing on decades of intensive as well as extensive expertise. The perspective it offers on Western art music is not just exceptionally well informed but also thoroughly original. Scholars in generations to come will find it an invaluable document of how scholars working at the end of the Western canonic paradigm viewed that paradigm." - Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Brown University"
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The University of Chicago Press Theory of African Music Volume I
Book SynopsisOffers an account of the music of Africa. This book describes and examines xylophone playing in southern Uganda and harp music from the Central African Republic; compares multi-part singing from across the continent; and explores movement and sound in eastern Angola. It also includes a cognitive study of African rhythm and Yoruba chantefables.Trade Review"Kubik's scholarship is deep and vast, and this collection of his writing has no parallel. He stands alone among Africanists for many reasons, which are amply demonstrated in these volumes." - Eric Charry, Wesleyan University"
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The University of Chicago Press Theory of African Music Volume II
Book SynopsisOffer an account of the music of Africa. This title draws on the author's extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continent to compare and contrast a wealth of musical traditions from a range of cultures. It also features a selection of photographs and is accompanied by a compact disc of the author's own recordings.Trade Review"Kubik's scholarship is deep and vast, and this collection of his writing has no parallel. He stands alone among Africanists for many reasons, which are amply demonstrated in these volumes." - Eric Charry, Wesleyan University"
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The University of Chicago Press Theory of African Music Volume II
Book SynopsisOffer an account of the music of Africa. This title draws on the author's extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continent to compare and contrast a wealth of musical traditions from a range of cultures. It also features a selection of photographs and is accompanied by a compact disc of the author's own recordings.Trade Review"Kubik's scholarship is deep and vast, and this collection of his writing has no parallel. He stands alone among Africanists for many reasons, which are amply demonstrated in these volumes." - Eric Charry, Wesleyan University"
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The University of Chicago Press Into the Light of Things The Art of the
Book SynopsisThis revision of avant-garde history traces a direct line back from John Cage, pop and conceptual art to the work of Whitman, Emerson, Ruskin, Carlyle and Wordsworth, showing how the art of everyday objects, often thought to be a contemporary phenomenon, actually began as far back as 1800.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments I: The End of Art? II: The Status of the Art Object Relative to Mere Real Things Before 1800 III: Confronting the Art Object: The Simple Produce of the Common Day A: William Wordsworth: The Simple Produce of the Common Day B: Thomas Carlyle: Natural Supernaturalism C: John Ruskin IV: Leaving the Raft Behind: John Cage A: Recontextualizing Cage: Industrial Supernaturalism, Suzukian Zen, and the Buddha's Raft B: The Simple Produce Changes: The Industrial Revolution and the Crisis of Natural Supernaturalism C: On the Buddha's Raft D: The Ultimate Object E: Ecology: 24'00" Epilogue Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Spheres of Music A Gathering of Essays
Book SynopsisLeonard B. Meyer's writings on the theory, history, perception and aesthetics of music have inspired and provoked generations of readers. This book makes available a selection of his essays originally published between 1974 and 1998.
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The University of Chicago Press Making Music Indigenous Popular Music in the
Book SynopsisWhen 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 heard in the nightclubs of Lima. In Making Music Indigenous, Joshua Tucker traces the history of this music and its key performers over fifty years to show that there is no single way to sound indigenous. The musicians Tucker follows make indigenous culture and identity visible in contemporary society by establishing a cultural and political presence for Peru's indigenous peoples through activism, artisanship, and performance. This musical representation of indigeneity not only helps shape contemporary culture, it also provides a lens through which to reflect on the country's past. Tucker argues that by following the musicians that have championed chimaycha music in its many forms, we can trace shifting meanings of indigeneity--and indeed, unco
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The University of Chicago Press Music and the New Global Culture From the Great
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The University of Chicago Press Stories of Tonality in the Age of Françoisjoseph
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The University of Chicago Press The Art of Mbira Musical Inheritance and Legacy
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The University of Chicago Press Music and the New Global Culture From the Great
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The University of Chicago Press Music and Musical Thought in Early India Chicago
Book SynopsisOffering 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 the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures, formal patterns, and genres of Indian music from Vedic times to the thirteenth century, presenting not so much a history as a thematic analysis and interpretation of India's magnificent musical heritage. In Indian culture, music forms an integral part of a broad framework of ideas that includes philosophy, cosmology, religion, literature, and science. Rowell works with the known theoretical treatises and the oral tradition in an effort to place the technical details of musical practice in their full cultural context. Many quotations from the original Sanskrit appear here in English translation for the first time, and the necessary technical information is presented in terms accessible to the
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The University of Chicago Press Erotic Triangles
Book SynopsisIn West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drumbeat to make a man get up and dance. The author draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities.Trade Review"This is a highly original and illuminating study of Sundanese performing arts and gender ideology. Theoretically challenging and historically rich, Erotic Triangles frames men's improvisational dance as the playful working out of gendered identity relations." - Andrew N. Weintraub, University of Pittsburgh"
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The University of Chicago Press Django Generations Hearing Ethnorace Citizenship
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Django Generations offers a profound analysis of how Manouche Romanies navigate French denials of race and racism through what Siv B. Lie calls ‘ambivalent essentialism’—the set of incompatible qualities ascribed by and to this ethnicized and racialized group whose most famous ancestor is the guitarist Django Reinhardt. Drawing on deep ethnographic and historical research, Lie brilliantly develops a semiotic framework that both explicates the development and negotiation of local identities in jazz manouche and their connection to much broader processes of managing marginalization and the exigencies of capitalism.”” -- Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Harvard University“A necessary addition for ethnomusicologists and scholars of Romani music, Django Generations is aptly named because it gives voice to groups of Romani musicians who are forging contemporary identities in modern contexts while acknowledging past histories and cultural roots.” -- Adriana Helbig, University of Pittsburgh“In this book, Siv B. Lie explores the paradoxes of jazz manouche’s history and its relationship to the Manouche community without taking sides in the complex debates between musicians, institutions, and the industry. Django Generations is a work of considerable intellectual sophistication.” -- Andy Fry, King’s College LondonTable of ContentsNotes on Terminology List of Figures Introduction Chapter One: Making Jazz Manouche Chapter Two: Cultural Activism’s Living Legacies Chapter Three: Generic Ontologies and the Stakes of Refusal Chapter Four: The Sound of Feeling Chapter Five: Heritage Stories Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix 1: Glossary Appendix 2: List of Formal Interviews Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Sounding Human
Book SynopsisAn 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 between human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing human musicality from its merely mechanical simulations. In Sounding Human, Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking the human or machine logic and seeking out others, better characterized by conjunctions such as and or with. Sounding Human enters the debate on posthumanism and human-machine relationships in music, exploring how categories of human and machine have been continually renegotiated over the centuries. Loughridge expertly traces this debate from the 1737 invention of what became the first musical androidto the creation of a sound wave instrument by a British electronic music composer in the 1960s, and the chopped and pitched vocals proTrade Review“In this dexterous book, Loughridge traces the seams in our understanding of humans and machines. Gathering examples from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sounding Human illustrates how musical technologies have provided new models for thinking about some of our deepest philosophical questions. Loughridge writes as masterfully about bells and harpsichords as she does about vocoders and neural nets, making clear that the boundary between people and devices has never been as clear as it seems.” * Nick Seaver, Tufts University *“Loughridge’s brilliant and elegant book delves into the foundational relationships between humans, machines, and music. Through an array of case studies covering more than three centuries, she exposes the impossibility of drawing divisions between humans and their mechanical companions. Loughridge shows the ways in which modern ideas of what makes us (sound) human were forged precisely through repeated negotiations with machines.” * Emily Dolan, Brown University *Table of ContentsList of Audio Examples Introduction: Sounding Human with Machines 1: Becoming Android: Reinterpreting the Automaton Flute Player 2: Hybrids: Voice & Resonance 3: Analogies: Diderot’s Harpsichord & Oram’s Machine 4: Personifications: Piano Death & Life 5: Genres of Being Posthuman: Chopped & Pitched Coda: Learning Machines Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press Sounding Human
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In this dexterous book, Loughridge traces the seams in our understanding of humans and machines. Gathering examples from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sounding Human illustrates how musical technologies have provided new models for thinking about some of our deepest philosophical questions. Loughridge writes as masterfully about bells and harpsichords as she does about vocoders and neural nets, making clear that the boundary between people and devices has never been as clear as it seems.” * Nick Seaver, Tufts University *“Loughridge’s brilliant and elegant book delves into the foundational relationships between humans, machines, and music. Through an array of case studies covering more than three centuries, she exposes the impossibility of drawing divisions between humans and their mechanical companions. Loughridge shows the ways in which modern ideas of what makes us (sound) human were forged precisely through repeated negotiations with machines.” * Emily Dolan, Brown University *Table of ContentsList of Audio Examples Introduction: Sounding Human with Machines 1: Becoming Android: Reinterpreting the Automaton Flute Player 2: Hybrids: Voice & Resonance 3: Analogies: Diderot’s Harpsichord & Oram’s Machine 4: Personifications: Piano Death & Life 5: Genres of Being Posthuman: Chopped & Pitched Coda: Learning Machines Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys
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McGill-Queen's University Press Listening to the Fur Trade
Book SynopsisAs fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and very occasionally bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths traces of music, performance, and other intangible cultural phenomena long since silenced, allowing us to hear the fur trade for the first time.Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. They found ways to interact every time they met, and facilitating material interests and survival went beyond the simple exchange of goods. Trust and good relations often entaileTrade Review“There has been much literature devoted to fur-trade canoe routes and voyageur life, but analyzing them through their soundscapes is very original. Daniel Laxer advances the intriguing idea that music and performance can be assessed as another form of exchange and thereby paints a different and more comprehensive picture of fur-trade labour and social relations. Listening to the Fur Trade will really shake up what we know about the fur trade.” George Colpitts, University of Calgary and author of North America’s Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580–1850“Laxer's attention to the importance of music and sound as tools of diplomacy in relationship negotiations and as central to life in precolonial Canada is a rich and innovative settler approach to historical studies.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
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Columbia University Press Music Madness and the Unworking of Language
Book SynopsisConsiders the particular representations that link music and madness, investigating the underlying motives, preconceptions, and ideological premises that facilitate the association of these two experiences.Trade ReviewAs a study of a literary obsession, Hamilton's book will remain a key text for those interested in the genesis of the idea of ineffable music. Eighteenth Century Music [A] superb book... a living testimony that philological learning and literary sensibility can be happily compatible. -- Herbert Lindenberger Modern Language Quarterly An extremely accomplished work that provides a powerful insight into a potentially important historical topic. -- Ian Miller H-DisabilityTable of ContentsA Note on Translations and Abbreviations Hors d'ouvre I Introduction: The Subject of Music and Madness 1. Hearing Voices 2. Unequal Song 3. Resounding Sense 4. The Most Violent of the Arts 6. Before and After Language: Hoffmann Hors d'ouvre II Notes Bibliography Index
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