Theory of music and musicology Books

Book SynopsisEthnomusicology, an academic discipline founded in 1950, has been defined as the study of the music of others. This definition, at once whimsical and very nearly true, is incomplete. Many of its strongest threads have emerged because a person or a people have wanted to understand themselves, their history, and their identity.Trade Review"Rice's short book delivers a well-structured and comparatively accessible look both into the development of ethnomusicology and into important areas of research, introduces influential studies and researchers, and can well be recommended as a concise alternative to Bruno Nettl's more comprehensive The Study of Ethnomusicology."--Die MusikforschungTable of ContentsList of illustrations ; Chapter 1: Defining ethnomusicology ; Chapter 2: A bit of history ; Chapter 3: Conducting research ; Chapter 4: The nature of music ; Chapter 5: Music and culture ; Chapter 6: Individual musicians ; Chapter 7: Writing music history ; Chapter 8: Ethnomusicology in the modern world ; Chapter 9: Ethnomusicologists at work ; References ; Further reading ; Suggestions for listening

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Book Synopsis"Tusk", the first record in history to cross the million dollar threshold in production costs, was the Fleetwood Mac's critically acclaimed, commercially disappointing 1979 double album. This book looks at one of the most unusual albums ever released by a major rock band.Trade Review[The] journalistic revelations and general insight add yet more layers to the double album's controversial standing. * The Austin Chronicle *Trucks doesn’t spend much time analyzing songs; the book is a tribute to the auteur spirit ... Readers may skim Trucks’ long digressions into his own autobiography, which is too bad because they contain some interesting anecdotes, especially regarding the popularity of the Buckingham Nicks album in the author’s native Alabama. The real draw of the book, however, are interpolated testimonials from indie rockers such as Camper Van Beethoven’s Jonathan Segel and Dave Portner of Animal Collective. -- Kirk Curnutt * Paste Magazine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Intro: The Warning Shot Chapter One What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven Chapter Three What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Walter Egan Chapter Five What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Kaki King Chapter Seven What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk A.C. Newman of the New Pornographers Chapter Nine What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Gretchen Heffler of the USC Spirit of Troy marching band Chapter Eleven What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Dan Boeckner and Hadji Bakara of Wolf Parade Chapter Thirteen What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Dave Portner, a/k/a Avey Tare, of Animal Collective Chapter Fifteen What We Talk About When We Talk About Tusk Michael G of Tusk, a Fleetwood Mac tribute band Chapter Seventeen

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Book SynopsisTakes a look at what many consider to be U2's most fully formed album through the prisms of politics, spirituality, and culture. This work features interviews with Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite, Flood, and more.Trade Review[Catanzarite has written] a surprisingly profound meditation on ‘Achtung Baby' as a metaphor for the Fall of Man. I told Bono, rather sceptically, that I had met a man who theorised that Achtung Baby was a metaphor for the fall of man ... and had just given a lecture on ‘the conservative voice in U2'. I thought Bono might get a kick out it, but I was surprised by his response. "Both theories sound bang on," he said. -- Neil McCormick * The Daily Telegraph *Stephen Catanzarite takes his readers on a metaphysical trip with Achtung Baby...The book reads like a well-written thesis, and Catanzarite is knowledgeable both musically and theologically. The songs are the bones on which the author fleshes out his theories, with the help of quotes by philosophers, poets, musicians (Axl Rose, of all people), and whole passages taken from books by religious scholars of different faiths. There are references to Neil Young, Led Zeppelin (the Tower of Babel is the original stairway to heaven), Bob Dylan and Morrissey for the rock cognoscenti, as well as a few Chinese proverbs thrown in for good measure. * @U2 *Stephen Catanzarite has reflected on a beloved Rock album and turned his reflections into a book. Not only that, but his book is theological, Christian, Catholic and concerned with humanity's place in the world. Ambitious, no? A lesser album would collapse under such ponderings, but U2's Achtung Baby is a "heavy mother," to quote the band's ever-quotable lead vocalist. And The Edge lists "betrayal" among the album's chief preoccupations, so bringing it all back home to Adam and Eve's betrayal of God does work. The book is a good primer on moral theology -- an oddity in the 33 1/3 book series. Our guide cites Augustine, Newman and more luminaries without any quote seeming irrelevant. And still the book stays connected to the music, delving into both words and instrumental landscape. Two quarrels: First, three taboos fascinate U2: sex, God and politics. Catanzarite describes an Adam and Eve losing and finding each other and their Maker in a neon city. That covers sex and God. But politics? In an epilogue Catanzarite mentions upheavals occurring in Achtung Baby's era but not a whisper elsewhere. He quotes the exquisite apocalypse of Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," but relates it not to chaos in wartime but to breakdowns in personal relationships. Second, Catanzarite praises "Mysterious Ways" as an ode to feminine inspiration. He challenges disrespect of women and yet never quotes a single woman author. It's a glaring omission in a Catholic-worldview book -- U2 themselves have spoken often of their indebtedness to, for instance, Flannery O'Connor. It would take 10 more books to maybe start to describe Achtung Baby. Catanzarite is brave to try. * CityBeat *If you don't already know about the Christianity present in U2, or have never heard Achtung Baby, find a copy and listen to it. And if you are interested in a thoughtful engagement by a Catholic with the best of modern rock, you might like Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall. -- Nathaniel Peters * First Things *...a surprisingly profound meditation on ‘Achtung Baby' as a metaphor for the Fall of Man (part of the excellent 33? series of books about albums)... * Neil McCormick *

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Book SynopsisProvides perspective on how Belle & Sebastian transformed themselves, over the space of a decade, from an underground, slightly shambolic cult secret into a polished, highly entertaining, mainstream pop group. This work includes interviews with band members, producers, management, and a range of fans.Trade ReviewPlagenhoef knows his subject matter inside and out and has gone the extra mile to research and contextualize the work- a necessary task, since the band refused to be interviewed for the project...it's nice to see a modern classic get some due recognition. * Under the Radar Magazine *

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForewords by Calvin Lewis, Myron Hodges, and Wayne Kramer List of Figures Note to the reader Introduction The Book as a Multi-Movement Musical Piece Uncovering Histories The Musicality of Prison A Brief Overview of Louisiana Behind Bars 1. Astonishment 2. Association 3. Politics 4. Surfaces 5. Inflection 6. Recapitulation Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat, exactly, gave Queen's songs their magical and distinct musical identity? Rock and Rhapsodies answers this question through a fascinating musicological study of the band's output.Trade ReviewBraae weaves music analysis, critical theory, and production techniques to investigate the band and their work from an impressively large range of angles. Not only is this book for those of us who think Queen is the greatest band to ever grace the world stage, but the ideas and methods herein are also incredibly useful to scholars interested in popular music analysis more generally. * Justin Williams, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Bristol *While Queen's output may now be historical, Braae draws upon and synthesizes a wide range of current theoretical positions, extending outside music itself, in order to encapsulate it. In asking many apposite questions, the book is excellent in seeing behind individual songs, towards what makes them tick as a body of work. It is also engagingly written, a model both for understanding Queen and for addressing any band's idiolect. * Allan F. Moore, Emeritus Professor in Music, University of Surrey *Braae's book is a brilliant analytical journey of how Queen created their unique and identifiable sound. It is an insightful, original and much-needed text that explores not just the notes, but also the historical, performative and production contexts that shaped their music. * Jadey O'Regan, Lecturer in Contemporary Music, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney *Table of ContentsNotes on Musical Examples Acknowledgements List of Tables and Figures 1. Introduction The Book The Study of Queen Issues of Style 2. Queen's Idiolect: A Primer Harmonic Structure and Gestures Textural Foundations and the Sound-Box Arrangement and Performance Gestures Sounds Like Queen, and other Conclusions 3. Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry: Queen's Structural Archetypes Introduction and Definitions Conventional Forms Variations on Conventional Forms Episodic Songs Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry 4. Temporal Processes in Queen's Large-Scale Songs Time and Popular Song Phrase and Intra-Sectional Linearity Sectional Temporality Closure Queen's Temporal Processes and Exceptions 5. Brian May and Roger Taylor Analyzing the Voice The Voices of Brian May and Roger Taylor May, Taylor, and Rock Authenticity 6. Freddie Mercury The Voices Structural Dynamics Stylistic Incongruities, Queer and Camp Voices, and the "Real" Freddie Mercury, Rock Authenticity, and Interpretation Coda 7. Hard Rock, Glam Rock and Progressive Rock in the 1970s Commentary and Conceptual Considerations Queen's "Dominant Voice": The Hard Rock Connection The Glam Rock Connection: Exaggeration, Irony, and Play Progressive Rock, and Interplay 8. The Musical World(s) of Queen A "Unique" Sonic Fingerprint and Pastiche in the 1970s Queen's Sonic Patterns and Stylistic Connections The Musical World(s) of Queen 9. A Day at the Races and the Gestural Unity of Queen Queen in 1976 and the Ideal of Evolution The Notion of Gestural Unity: Idiolect Revisited A Day at the Races The Gestural Unity of Queen 10. Was It All Worth It? Queen in the 1980s A Decade of Changing Fortunes From "Save Me" to "Staying Power" The Rock Ballads Revisited Hard Rock by Numbers Was It All Worth It? 11. Queen's Jubilee: The Late Style of Innuendo Introduction "Innuendo" "The Show Must Go On" A Late Style of Queen 12. Legacy Post-1991 Replacing Freddie "No One But You" We Will Rock You The Influence of Queen The End of the Story Bibliography Appendix A

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Book SynopsisThe music and sounds of video games have become an inescapable part of our world. Not only do these sonic elements profoundly shape the experiences of billions of players every day, but also the soundscapes of games have stretched out from our living rooms to encompass spaces as diverse as pinball arcades, concert halls, museums, and classrooms across the globe. Research on game music and sound is equally diverse-a vibrant, innovative, and multifaceted field that incorporates approaches from media studies, musicology, sound studies, music theory, psychology, and more. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe, The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound features nearly 50 chapters on topics ranging from the earliest pinball machines to the latest in virtual reality technology. The resulting volume provides both a comprehensive introduction to the study of game audio and an indispensable resource for experts.

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Book SynopsisUnderpinned by author John Rink''s internationally acclaimed scholarship and experience as a musician, this book addresses fascinating topics in the field of musical performance studies concerning the history, analysis and psychology of music, as well as artistic research. It offers manifold practical insights into musical performance, ranging from detailed technical features to overall shape. The volume has four main parts, focusing on performance and performance studies, historical performance, analysis and performance, and artistic research. Case studies of romantic piano pieces appear throughout, including Liszt''s ''Vallée d''Obermann'', Brahms''s Fantasien Op. 116, and select preludes and concertos by Rachmaninoff and Chopin. The book also includes discussions of recordings by such artists as Alfred Brendel, Artur Rubinstein and Nikita Magaloff along with some outstanding performances in the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2015.Rink explores issues surrounding Trade ReviewWritten in characteristically lucid and incisive prose this book is both a seminal and a culminating contribution to the field that Rink helped to define, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in musical performance. * Eric F. Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford *Building on and developing key writings published in a wide range of sources, this book provides an overview of Rink's thinking that will be equally indispensable for academics interested in performance and for performers seeking to understand and develop their creative agency. * Nicholas Cook, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Cambridge *A twelve-step scrutiny of music performance studies, John Rink's Music in Profile offers the reader an astute, insightful and subtly personalised perspective on the discipline. Approaching the subject as both scholar and musical practitioner, the author maps a conception of performers' strategies, analysis, and self-reflection. * Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli, Professor and Senior Researcher, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. *This book brings together three decades of John Rink's work rethinking and recasting scholarship on musical performance. His musicality, scholarship, and deep affection for Romantic piano music come through on every page. * Edward Klorman, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Music, McGill University *This collection of essays surveys the thinking of a pioneering figure in performance research, distinguished by methodological adventurousness, and steeped in love for the Romantic keyboard repertoire. * Natasha Loges, Professor at Hochschule für Musik Freiburg *John Rink explores how performance and scholarship-so unalike in their nature, culture and procedures-can communicate, interact, sometimes even merge. Judiciously and humanely, he enriches the reader's sense of how variously they may make music together. * Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Music, King's College London *Table of ContentsList of figures List of music examples List of tables Acknowledgements Credits Note to readers Preface Part 1 On performance and performance studies Chapter 1 The state of play in musical performance studies Chapter 2 Impersonating the music in performance Chapter 3 The work of the performer Part 2 On historical performance Chapter 4 Moments of truth: performing musicology Chapter 5 Translating musical meaning: the performer as narrator Chapter 6 Authentic Chopin Part 3 On analysis and performance Chapter 7 From analysis to 'performer's analysis' Chapter 8 Playing in time Chapter 9 Analysing motif and gesture in performance Chapter 10 The (f)utility of performance analysis Part 4 On artistic research Chapter 11 Judging Chopin: an evaluation of musical experience Chapter 12 Between practice and theory: performance studies and/as artistic research Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler''s Second Symphony, one of the composer''s most popular and most powerful works. It examines the symphony from several perspectives: Mahler''s struggle to create what he called the New Symphony; his innovative approaches to traditional musical form; how he addressed the daunting challenges of writing music on a monumental scale; and how he dealt with the ineluctable force of Beethoven''s symphonic precedent, especially that of the Ninth Symphony.The central focus of Inside Mahler''s Second Symphony is on the music itself: how it works, how it works its magic on the listener, how it translates the earnest existential concerns that motivate the symphony into powerful and highly expressive music. Beyond this, the book ushers the Listener''s Guide into the digital age with 185 dedicated audio examples. They are brief, accessible, and arranged to flow from one to another to simulate how the symphony mTrade ReviewReaders can prepare for an enlightened appreciation of the whole symphony in performance. * M. Dineen, CHOICE *This book offers an intriguing, engaging and provocative account of a monumental masterpiece. At one and the same time, Bernstein has written a closely argued guide to the work, helpful to the first-time listener, and also a sophisticated and often unconventional interpretation that can inspire the scholar and connoisseur to reflect not only on Mahler, but on how music creates and conveys meaning and helps to fashion beliefs, faith and values. This is a novel and valuable contribution to our understanding of an icon within the symphonic repertoire. * Leon Botstein, President, Bard College; Music Director, American Symphony Orchestra *It is as if the author were looking over Mahler's shoulder while he composed his extraordinary second symphony. I have never read such an illuminating, so detailed, yet always accessible analysis of this universal masterwork on life, suffering, death, and resurrection. Bernstein is able to convey his profound love for the piece majestically, revealing the true meaning of the music while sharing its composer's most intimate creative process. He is indeed the ultimate guide who, with the use of many audio examples online, invites everyone on a fascinating journey, to climb Mahler's formidable mountain and see the primeval light at the summit. * Stéphane Denève, Music Director, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Brussels Philharmonic *Bernstein proves an authoritative and engaging guide through Mahler's epic work. His book will be of great value to any listener or performer seeking a deeper appreciation of this keystone of the symphonic repertory. * Walter Frisch, Gumm/von Tilzer Professsor of Music, Columbia University *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Music Examples List of Audio Examples Acknowledgements Preface The Recording How to Use this Book Part One: Preliminaries Chapter 1 Setting the Stage for the Second Symphony Part Two: The Five Movements Chapter 2 First Movement: The Opening and a Two-part Exposition Chapter 3 First Movement: Development and Recapitulation Chapter 4 The Second Movement Chapter 5 A Song Serves as a Study for the Third Movement Chapter 6 The Third Movement: Scherzo and Trio Chapter 7 The Fourth Movement: "Urlicht" Chapter 8 How to Complete the Symphony Chapter 9 The Last Movement, Part 1: References to Judgment and the Airing of Themes Chapter 10 The Last Movement, Part 2: Judgment in Action, Musical Development, and Some Continuing Enigmas Chapter 11 The Last Movement, Part 3: Collapse, Climactic Resolution, a Stunning Reversal, and Celebration Appendices Appendix 1 The Formal Template for the First Movement: Sonata Form Appendix 2 Second-Movement Forms Appendix 3 The Origins, Character, and Form of the Scherzo Appendix 4 Complete Performances of Each Movement Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom folk music to worldbeat, world music holds the power to evoke the exotic and give voice to the voiceless. This new edition shows how dramatic political changes are affecting the ways in which people produce and listen to world music, and addresses how new technologies and the internet alter the way we disseminate and listen to it.Table of ContentsPreface 1: In the beginning: myth and meaning in world music 2: The West and the world 3: Between myth and history 4: Music of the folk 5: Music of the nations 6: Diaspora 7: Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music Further reading Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Varwig’s ambitious, highly original, beautifully crafted book dares to attempt a thorough and thoroughly believable phenomenological account of how humans in the long seventeenth century were likely to have experienced and understood music with their bodies as well as with their minds. Music in the Flesh is rich with implications for how we as a culture acquired and reified certain musical values. It is nothing less than a primer in a completely new way of thinking about scores, verbal descriptions of musical performances, and performances both live and recorded.” * Suzanne Cusick, New York University *“Varwig’s brilliant book brings to life—almost literally—the wonderfully vivid writing of early modern theorists on the entanglement of music with the ‘ensouled bodies’ of its listeners and makers. The result is a gripping account of an astonishing body of historical writing that has prescient connections with twenty-first-century thinking about music and the embodied mind, and which urges its readers to experience the music of that period in richly transformed ways. This is a book that will have wide appeal from historical musicology to the psychology and neuroscience of music and will inform and influence those fields for many years to come.” * Eric F. Clarke, University of Oxford *“Music in the Flesh helps us understand how the music of the so-called Baroque is as much of the body as of the mind. With a detailed consideration of how contemporary performers and listeners might have felt during a performance, we gain insights that have totally eluded most commentators on the era. This study will become mandatory reading for any scholars interested in the different stages of the relationship between music and the emerging modern world. It will help us to sense new ways in which this music can resonate with our embodied disposition in live experience today.” * John Butt, University of Glasgow *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Musical Examples A Note on Musical Examples and Translations Acknowledgments Preamble Part I: Embodiment 1. Words 2. Affektenlehre 3. Melisma 4. Quemadmodum desiderat cervus 5. Representation 6. Music 7. Bodies 8. Flow 9. Sound 10. Voices 11. Fili mi, Absalon Part II: Inspiration 12. Spirit 13. Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben 14. Hearing 15. Attention 16 Affections 17. Lament 18. Pulse 19. Contagion 20. Memory 21. Partien auf das Clavier Part III: Animation 22. Souls 23. Liquefaction 24. Softness 25. Liebe, sag, was fängst Du an? 26. Hearts 27. Chills 28. Pain 29. Beastliness 30. Mensa sonora Envoi Notes Primary Sources: Biographical Register and Works Cited Secondary Sources: Works Cited Recordings Index

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Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of one of the most important songwriters and performers of the last three decades. Dave Marsh has traced Springsteen's career from its beginning, through careful documentation and critical description of Springsteen's work. Trade Review"Few books have expressed what rock 'n' roll is all about as well." -- Seattle Times"Marsh captures the excitement of Springsteen's live performances, but what comes through strongest is his portrait of Springsteen's integrity in an often corrupting rock world." -- Cleveland Plain DealerTable of ContentsOut in the Street Independence Day 1. The E Street Shuffle 2. It's My Life 3. Greeting from Asbury Park, New Jersey 4. The Punk Meets the Godfather 5. The Saint in the City 6. Wild and Innocent 7. Freeze Out 8. Thundercrack 9. The Future Delayed 10. Prisoner of Rock and Roll 11. Thunder Road 12. "Hype" 13. Killers in the Sun 14. East of Eden 15. Raising Cain 16. Darkness 17. The Promise 18. The Price You Pay 19. Bringing It All Back Home The Songs The Shows Acknowledgments About the Author

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Book SynopsisImprove your theory! Grades 1 - 5 are the latest additions to the bestselling 'Improve your - ' series by Paul Harris. This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 2 ABRSM examination.Trade ReviewIn my opinion, Paul Harris has once again succeeded in proving the benefits of his “simultaneous learning” approach. These are publications which fit with a style of learning that today’s students are far more likely to engage with. That he managed this within the constraints of a dated exam syllabus just adds to his achievement. Paul has done us all a huge service by demonstrating that we can properly realise the true purpose of teaching music theory by making it interesting, useful and – above all – genuinely relevant to a player’s musical learning. Viewed in this context ‘Improve your Theory’ is not simply a triumph, it is a revolution. Andrew Eales, Pianodao (Online Blog)

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Book Synopsis(Berklee Guide). Melody is a subject too often neglected in the teaching of music. This unique resource gives melody that attention it deserves, and proves that melody writing is a skill that can be learned. Through proven tool and techniques, you will learn to write interesting melodies, how melodic rhythm influences rhyme, what makes harmony progress, and the many dynamic relationships between melody and harmony. This clear and comprehensive approach to songwriting unlocks the secrets of popular songs, revealing what really makes them work. Examples of great songs by such notable songwriters as Lennon and McCartney, Diane Warren, Robert Palmer, and more, provide a close-up illustration of the songwriting techniques employed by these masters of the industry. This is the book used in Songwriting classes at Berklee College of Music. The exercises provided make it a wonderful self-teaching manual and a great addition to any general theory course of any level. Use the tools presented in this book to help fine-tune your craft and start writing hits!

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Book Synopsis(Berklee Guide). This chord dictionary from the assistant chair of Berklee''s guitar department includes 100+ chord forms, from basic 7th chords to guide tone chords and triads over bass notes. It is organized to reveal chord relationships and help guitarists learn voicings quickly and thoroughly. Includes notes, fretboard diagrams and tab for each chord. 6 x 9

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Book SynopsisEcologies of Creative Music Practice: Mattering Music explores music as a dynamic practice embedded in contemporary ecological contexts, one that both responds to, and creates change within, the ecologies in which it is created and consumed. This highly interdisciplinary analysis includes theoretical and practical considerations from blockchain technology and digital platform commerce to artificial intelligence and the future of work, to sustainability and political ecology as well as contemporary philosophical paradigms, guiding its investigation through three main lenses: How can music work as a conceptual tool to interrogate and respond to our changing global environment? How have transformations in our digital environment affected how we produce, distribute and consume music? How does music relate to matters of political ecology and environmental change? Within this framework, music is positioned Trade Review‘Music matters. And, as Matthew Lovett argues in this compelling book, it cannot be understood without reference to matter, whether in the form of technological tools or wider physical environments. Taking an ecomusicological approach, Lovett joins the dots between Vaughan Williams and Justin Bieber, between blockchains and physical bodies, to position music as enmeshed, embedded, entangled – and entirely interdependent with other systems in both production and consumption.’Marcus O’Dair, Associate Dean, Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise, University of the Arts London ‘Ecologies of Creative Music Practice reminds us that music, before it is anything else, is interdependent and environmental, embedded in various systems, ecologies, and material networks as it is: this has always been the case, but in a context of naturing-culturing anthropocenes, capitalocenes and novacenes this sort of immanent critical approach to music is more timely than ever. Taking an intriguing, adaptive ecomusicological approach in which recent trends in new materialist thinking are applied to and within various musical and music business contexts, Ecologies of Creative Music Practice brings theory and matter – the matter of theory, the theory of matter – together to illuminate the practices of music and, in turn, to use those practices to help us think differently about broader questions of technology, materialism and philosophy, and the environment. Roving across everything from video games to speculative realism, AI and blockchain to François Laruelle, and ending with a vision of music as 'ecology in motion', the book is a must read for anyone interested in creative musical practice as an assemblage or nexus of big, knotty, heavy global challenges (and vice versa). This is an intriguing book that repays close attention.’Dr Stephen Graham, Head of School of Arts and Humanities, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of Contents1. Critical Perspectives on Mattering Music 2. Music and Material Creativity 3. Music, Rights and Revenue 4. Music and Digital Creativity 5. Music, Creative Labour and Artificial Creativity

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Book SynopsisHarmony at the Piano adapts the traditional study of keyboard harmony to the practical needs of modern piano students, using innovative exercises to help students practice their repertoire more deliberately, consciously, and creatively.The author introduces the essential elements of harmony through extensive examples from real piano music. Rooted in the understanding that the language of tonal harmony is best assimilated at the keyboard, this textbook: Gives students effective practice methods for learning repertoire, including techniques for memorizing music in a deliberate, analytical way. Connects harmony to musical expression, enabling students to make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of harmony. Contains extensive practice drills in each chapter, including chord progressions, figured bass, melody harmonization, reduction techniques, transposition, repertoire study, and more. Designed to support a full colTrade Review"Ken Johansen's teaching has provided a marvelous benefit to a great number of my piano students over the years. Harmony at the Piano is a truly valuable work which will help younger as well as the most advanced musicians to reach a higher understanding of our art."Benjamin Pasternack, Professor, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University "I think this is a superb textbook; it combines clear, practical and helpful information and directions for the students with a deep artistic sensibility—a rare combination, especially for a textbook. I appreciate how the author emphasizes the link between keyboard harmony and repertoire, and I especially like the advice for how to use this material for memorizing repertoire." Roger Graybill, New England ConservatoryTable of Contents1. Root Position Triads 2. First Inversion Triads 3. Sequences with Triads 4. Embellishing Tones 5. Second Inversion Triads 6. The Dominant 7th Chord in Root Position 7. Inversions of the Dominant 7th Chord 8. Secondary Dominant Chords 9. Diatonic Modulation 10. The Supertonic 7th Chord 11. Sequences with 7th Chords 12. The Leading Tone 7th Chord in Minor 13. Secondary Diminished Chords 14. The Leading Tone 7th Chord in Major 15. The Neapolitan 6th Chord 16. Augmented 6th Chords 17. Chromatic Voice-Leading Techniques

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Book SynopsisBlack Womenâs Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Womenâs Liberation Movement of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s was a unique combination of Black political feminism, Black literary feminism, and Black musical feminism, among other forms of Black feminism.This book critically explores the ways the soundtracks of the Black Womenâs Liberation Movement often overlapped with those of other 1960s and 1970s social, political, and cultural movements, such as the Black Power Movement, Womenâs Liberation Movement, and Sexual Revolution. The soul, funk, and disco music of the Black Womenâs Liberation Movement era is simultaneously interpreted as universalist, feminist (in a general sense), and Black female-focused. This musicâs incredible ability to be interpreted in so many different ways speaks to the importance and power of Black womenâs music and the fact that it has multiple meanings for a multitude of people. Within the worlds of both Black Popular Movement STrade Review"Reiland Rabaka is one of America’s foremost scholars of the African American experience. That he has turned his gaze to Black women and music can only be cause for excitement, as all his previous works carry the label: SOTA, or state of the art. Given the depth and scope of this work, it will readily become a standout ‘reference’ work. This represents an amazing accomplishment, even by Rabaka’s standards."William E. Cross, Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Denver and author of Shades of Black"Black Women’s Liberation Movement Music is in some ways an extension of themes that have figured prominently in Professor Rabaka’s previous books including The Hip Hop Movement, Hip Hop’s Inheritance, Hip Hop’s Amnesia, Civil Rights Music, and Black Power Music! In all, Rabaka speaks as a sociologist, musician, and social historian to confront head-on the tacit and pervasive marginalization and erasure of women’s agency in the tides of progressive social change, especially as these tides manifest themselves in music; and in all he dismantles the strategies of erasure and highlights a dazzling tapestry of Black women’s crucial contributions. But in this book, those themes find their fulfillment or even culmination. Although scholarly and popular study of this watershed period in cultural history has focused on men (White and Black), Black Women’s Liberation Movement Music demonstrates compellingly that the liberation movement of Black women, including its music, was a primary agent if not the primary agent of transformational societal changes during the period 1960-80. I recommend this beautifully structured and eloquently argued study to anyone interested not only in the Black Women’s Liberation Movement, but also in other movements including the Black Power movement, the women’s liberation movement, and the sexual revolution."John Michael Cooper, Professor of Music, Southwestern UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. The Musical Icons and Anthems of the Black Women’s Liberation Movement 1. The Black Women’s Liberation Movement 2. Black Musical Feminism 3. Soul Sisters 4. Black Feminist Funksters 5. Afro-Disco Divas Conclusion. On the Popular Music of Black Women’s Unpopular Movement

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Book SynopsisWhat is serialism? Defended by enthusiastic champions and decried by horrified detractors, serialism was central to twentieth-century art music, but riven, too, by inherent contradictions. The term can be a synonym for dodecaphony, Arnold Schoenberg''s ''method of composing with twelve tones which are related only to one another''. It can be more expansive, describing ways of composing systematically with parameters beyond pitch - duration, dynamic, and more - and can even stand as a sort of antonym to dodecaphony: ''Schoenberg is Dead'', as Pierre Boulez once insisted. Stretched to its limits, it can describe approaches where sound can be divided into discrete parameters and later recombined to generate the new, the unexpected, beginning to blur into a further antonym, post-serialism. This Companion introduces and embraces serialism in all its dimensions and contradictions, from Schoenberg and Stravinsky to Stockhausen and Babbitt, and explores its variants and legacies in Europe, theTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. Contexts 1: 1. Theorising serialism Catherine Nolans; 2. The aesthetics of serialism Marcus Zagorski; 3. Serialism in history and criticism Arnold Whittall; Part II. Composers: 4. Arnold Schoenberg and the 'Musical Idea' Jack Boss; 5. Alban Berg's eclectic serialism Silvio Dos Santos; 6. Rethinking late Webern Sebastian Wedler; 7. Milton Babbitt and 'Total' serialism Andrew Mead; 8. Pierre Boulez and the redefinition of serialism Catherine Losada; 9. The serial music of Karlheinz Stockhausen Imke Misch; 10. Luigi Nono and the development of serial technique Angela Ida de Benedictis and Veniero Rizzardi; 11. Stravinsky's path to serialism Maureen Carr; Part III. Geographies: 12. Serialism in western Europe Mark Delaere; 13. Serialism in Canada and the United States Emily Abrams Ansari; 14. Serialism in central and eastern Europe Iwona Lindstedt; 15. Serialism in the USSR Peter J. Schmelz; 16. Serialism in Latin America Björn Heile; 17. Serialism in east Asia Nancy Yunhwa Rao; Part IV. Contexts II: 18. Towards an authentic interpretation of serial music Peter O'Hagan; 19. Metamorphoses of the serial (and the 'Post-Serial Question') Charles Wilson; 20. Technologies and the serial attitude Jennifer Iverson; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisSound Art offers the first comprehensive introduction to sound art written for undergraduate students. Bridging and blending aspects of the visual and sonic arts, modern sound art first emerged in the early 20th century and has grown into a thriving and varied field. In 13 thematic chapters, this book enables students to clearly grasp both the concepts behind this unique area of art, and its history and practice. Each chapter begins with an exploration of key ideas and theories, followed by an in-depth discussion of selected relevant works, both classic and current. Drawing on a broad, diverse range of examples, and firmly interdisciplinary, this book will be essential reading for anyone studying or teaching the theory, history, appreciation, or practice of sound art.Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPreface1 Launching a Study of Sound Art2 How Sound Works (with Stephan Moore) 3 Sounds and Nature4 Voice and Language5 Sounds of the Body6 Captured Sound7 Transmitted Sound in Communication8 The Sounding Object 9 Acoustic Spaces10 Sonification 11 Noise and Sound Art12 Conservation and Documentation of Sound Art13 Making Sound Art AccessibleIndex

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Book SynopsisFrom the Grammy-nominated folk singer and songwriter, a treatise on making art. (Bust)Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny's old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Songs became lifelines to her, and she longed to write her own one day. Then, for a decade, while struggling with addiction, Gauthier put her dream away. Not until she got sober and went to an open mic with a friend did she realize that she not only still wanted to write songs, she needed to. Today, Gauthier is a decorated musical artist, with numerous awards and recognition for her songwriting, including a Grammy nomination. In Saved by a Song, Gauthier pulls the curtain back on the artistry of songwriting. Part memoir, part philosophy of art, part nuts and bolts of songwriting, her book celebrates the redemptive power of song to inspire and bring seemingly different kinds of people together.

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Book SynopsisIn the latest of his books exploring a lifetime's passion for music, bestselling author and philosopher Roger Scruton brings his immense critical faculties to bear on a panoply of different musical genres, both contemporary and classical.Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive science and German idealism, as well as recalling the author's struggle to encourage his students to distinguish the qualities of good music. Scruton then explains via erudite chapters on Schubert, Britten, Rameau, opera and film how we can develop greater judgement in music, recognising both good taste and bad, establishing musical values, as well as musical pleasures.As Scruton argues in this book, in earlier times, our musical culture had secure foundations in the church, the concert hall and the home; in the ceremonies and celebrations of ordinary life, religion and manners. Yet we no longer live in that world. Fewer people now play instruments and music is, for many, a form of largely solitary enjoyment. As he shows in Music as an Art, we live at a critical time for classical music, and this book is an important contribution to the debate, of which we stand in need, concerning the place of music in Western civilization.Trade ReviewScruton fastidiously argues for tonality and expression as significant components of musical compositions in this enlightening academic work. * Publishers Weekly *This is as clear an argument for the value of Western classical music as one will find. Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS 1 When is a Tune? 2 Music and Cognitive Science 3 Music and the Moral Life 4 Music and the Transcendental 5 Tonality 6 German Idealism PART II: CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS 7 Franz Schubert and the Quartettsatz 8 Rameua the Musician 9 Britten's Dirge 10 David Matthews 11 Reflections on Deaths in Venice 12 Pierre Boulez 13 Film Music 14 The Assault on Opera 15 Nietzsche on Wagner 16 The Music of the Future 17 The Culture of Pop Bibliography Acknowledgements Index A Note on the Author

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Book SynopsisPaul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author and editor of 11 books that span critical and cultural theory, rock, experimental and noise music, as well as audiovisual art including Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007), Rumour and Radiation (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annihilating Noise (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also Co-editor of Bloomsbury's Ex:Centrics series. Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author and editor of 14 books that span intellectual, cultural and literary history and the health humanities, including Neil Young: American Traveller (2015), Reframing 1968 (2018) and American Health Crisis (2021).Trade ReviewGenerously expanded to survey the various vibrant prog scenes of the last decade, and to encompass an even wider definition of the fertile borderlands of the genre, this new edition of Beyond and Before offers a gloriously definitive guide to this most eclectic and ambitious form of popular music. * Greg Walker, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK *Examining every aspect of progressive rock - words and music, theatre and politics - Hegarty and Halliwell deftly unpick the tangled threads of tradition and radicalism that make up the genre's tapestry. In this expanded update, the authors extend their analysis to adjacent genres and musicians not conventionally seen as 'prog,' making the book even more encompassing and definitive. * Simon Reynolds, author of the postpunk history Rip It Up and Start Again and the glam rock + art-pop study Shock and Awe *Beyond and Before provides a genuinely superb exploration of the amphibious identity of post-60s rock. As an artist who has navigated through various musical subcultures over the years, I am impressed with the broad scope and meticulous research of this comprehensive text. * Benjamin Vierling, painter and illustrator *Beyond and Before is the smartest book ever written on Progressive Rock – and in this expanded and updated edition it’s even bigger and better! In their impressively sweeping, transnational account, Hegarty and Halliwell take their readers on an exhilarating journey from the concept albums of Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington – part of a welcome reintegration of Black musicians into the wider story of Prog that embraces giants such as Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Janelle Monáe, Beyoncé, and Frank Ocean – through the seminal recordings of the Beatles, Beach Boys, and Moody Blues, to the classic Prog of Pink Floyd, ELP, PFM, Yes, and King Crimson, the Neo-Prog of Marillion, Kate Bush, and Pallas, and the 21st century work of Radiohead, Joanna Newsom, Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, and Sleep. Fascinating, informed, and insightful at every turn, the book rescues the oft-ridiculed Prog from the condescension of history and reminds us of what a protean and globally influential music it has always been – and will continue to be. * Brian Ward, Professor in American Studies, Northumbria University, UK, and author of Just My Soul Responding and A&R Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Music on Record *Beyond and Before ticks all the boxes in moving the whole discussion forward and providing a 360 degree view on where [progressive rock] began and, more importantly, where its future lies ... This [is a] hugely important book. The depth of detail is mind-blowing and it will take several revisits to even begin to take in many of the key points it makes in its examinations and analyses. You will emerge from it feeling even more enriched and enthused about prog rock. This is highly recommended. * Music Street Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Illustration Credits IntroductionProgressive Rock across Time and Genre Part 1: Before and During 1. Extended Form 2. Roots of Progressive Rock 3. Out of the Garden 4. The Concept Album 5. Myth and Modernity Part 2: Transitions 6. Progressive Fusion 7. Performance and Visuality 8. Social Critique 9. Responses to Punk 10. Neo-Progressive Part 3: Beyond 11. The Female Voice 12. Post-Progressive 13. The Return of Folk 14. The Metal Progression 15. The Concept beyond Concept Coda: The Future Now Discography Videography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBrings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history. This book presents a new theory of how to write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on Beethoven's heroic style. The first book-length theory of music history since Carl Dahlhaus's Foundations of Music History, it brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history. While the book engages with current thinking, it also goes further than the postmodern critique of history writing to find a new and positive basis for the writing of music history. In so doing the book revisits the philosophy of Alain Badiou: in place of a focus on the facts, the objects of history, whose problematic relation to history writing the theorists have demonstrated, the book proposes a focus instead on the subjects of history, the 'faithful', 'reactive, and 'obscure' responses to an 'Event' (a kind of rapture of ontology which brings the actors involved closer to a truth). It sees musical materials (the styles, techniques, and musical 'language' handed down to composers by history) in a dialectical relationship with the human beings who are music's manifold historical actors. Engagingly written, this new short theory of music history will be essential reading for scholars and students of the many area studies within music history. It will also attract those of neighbouring disciplines dealing with the philosophy of history or the history of historiography.Table of ContentsIntroduction Music history since the fall of the Berlin Wall What is a subject of music history? The absolute nothingness of music history Beethoven and the heroic Thing Beethoven's emergency brake Glimpsing Beethoven's truth content through analysis On a chord in the 'Kreutzer' Sonata Afterword: Beethoven's faithful, reactive, and obscure music Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisModel answers for sample papers for ABRSM's Theory exams Grade 3 Key features: * updated for the new format ABRSM Theory exams * clear and concise presentation

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Book SynopsisABRSM's official More Music Theory Sample Papers are additional resources for candidates preparing for our new online Music Theory exams. Providing more authentic practice material and a reliable guide as to what to expect in the exam. -Essential practice material for the new format ABRSM Grade 3 Theory exams -Includes four sample papers -Model answers also available separately

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Book SynopsisModel answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 5 Theory exams

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Book SynopsisABRSM's official Music Theory Practice Papers 2022 are essential resources for candidates preparing for our online Music Theory exams. They provide authentic practice material and are a reliable guide as to what to expect in the exam. -Essential practice material for ABRSM Grade 2 Theory exams -Model answers also available

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Book SynopsisModel answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 1 Theory exams

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Book SynopsisThe Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies attempts a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. The volume includes a wide range of methodologies, including semiotics, ethnography, psychology, intersectionality, archeology, livestreaming and esports. 30 b&w illus.

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Book SynopsisHave you ever listened to an incredible piece of music and wondered exactly why it makes you want to dance or cry? Are you mystified by how musicians just 'know' what notes to play next when they're improvising? Or why certain notes sound great together and others clash? Discover the answers in this ear-opening tour of how music works. John Powell, a classically-trained composer and a physics professor, decided to write this entertaining, pain-free guide to the ingredients of music when he discovered that all the other books on the subject gave him a headache. Here he reveals the often little-known facts and fascinating science behind what we listen to, explaining the basics of harmony, scales, chords, keys and rhythm in a way that's easy for everyone to understand. He also shows us why a note has a different sound to a normal noise, why Chinese people are more likely to have perfect pitch, and even why Beethoven and Led Zeppelin are musically similar. This book reveals things that people who play music should know but often don't, and will help all of us - even if we can't read a note - increase our listening pleasure.Trade ReviewThoroughly accessible, and occasionally revelatory ... It's hard to imagine how Powell could have done a better job * Spectator *

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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; 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 1 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 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 2 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 SynopsisProvides an introduction to the basic elements in harmony and musical structure. Includes separate chapters on voices, string instruments, woodwind and brass instruments, percussions and keyboard instruments, and instruments in combination. Also covers non-harmony notes, tonal harmony and chromatic chords, and musical structure.

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Book SynopsisExplores the heroic life and revolutionary music of the pioneering German saxophonist, and the radical social and political convictions that informed them. Peter Broetzmann is the first ever, full-length, English-language biography of one of the most fascinating and inspiring personalities in the history of Western improvised music - and one of the key artistic figures to emerge from the socio-cultural tumult of the 1960s. Drawing on extensive interviews with Broetzmann and key associates, it traces the German saxophonist's crucial role as a pioneer of European free jazz, his restless travels and collaborations and his eventual superstardom, examining the life and work of a fiercely uncompromising artist with a reputation for gruff intensity and total commitment. Digging deep into the history and aesthetics of free jazz in Europe and beyond, it provides detailed analysis of music by Broetzmann and other major figures, while positioning Broetzmann's work - and the wider free jazz

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