Theory of music and musicology Books
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd We Are Music An Existential Journey Toward
Book SynopsisWhat is music?Modern society has come to view music largely as entertainment and commodity. In response, We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity provides the reader with a holistic starting point. Music has unlimited potential to transform and enlighten, and is only impeded when bound by materialism, physicalism, and reductionism. We Are Music is an attempt to bring music back to the core of humanity as an agent of positive empowerment, self-actualization, and beyond.Embracing interconnectivity, music is more deeply experienced alongside the arts, science, social sciences, math, philosophy, history, and, above all, spirituality. An endless spiral, self-perception and identity can be vastly expanded, if not questioned and transcended.Music is an infinite field and any attempt to define and describe it is problematically finite and consequently limited. Herein lies the impossibility of the book which both excites and disturbs; the paradox of being and not being.A roadmap for music lovers toward self-realization, We Are Music is for those who desire to delve deeper into the power and illusion of self through music.
£85.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd We Are Music An Existential Journey Toward
Book SynopsisWhat is music?Modern society has come to view music largely as entertainment and commodity. In response, We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity provides the reader with a holistic starting point. Music has unlimited potential to transform and enlighten, and is only impeded when bound by materialism, physicalism, and reductionism. We Are Music is an attempt to bring music back to the core of humanity as an agent of positive empowerment, self-actualization, and beyond.Embracing interconnectivity, music is more deeply experienced alongside the arts, science, social sciences, math, philosophy, history, and, above all, spirituality. An endless spiral, self-perception and identity can be vastly expanded, if not questioned and transcended.Music is an infinite field and any attempt to define and describe it is problematically finite and consequently limited. Herein lies the impossibility of the book which both excites and disturbs; the paradox of being and not being.A roadmap for music lovers toward self-realization, We Are Music is for those who desire to delve deeper into the power and illusion of self through music.
£52.25
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Mathemusical Conversations: Mathematics And
Book SynopsisMathemusical Conversations celebrates the understanding of music through mathematics, and the appreciation of mathematics through music. This volume is a compilation of the invited talks given at the Mathemusical Conversations workshop that took place in Singapore from 13-15 February 2015, organized by Elaine Chew in partnership with Gérard Assayag for the scientific program and with Bernard Lanskey for the artistic program. The contributors are world experts and leading scholars, writing on the intersection of music and mathematics. They also focus on performance and composition, two topics which are foundational both to the understanding of human creativity and to the creation of tomorrow's music technologies. This book is essential reading for researchers in both music and mathematics. It will also appeal more broadly to scholars, students, musicians, and anyone interested in new perspectives on the intimate relationship between these two universal human activities.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Mathemusical Engagement: Without Our Consent (Paul Schoenfield); Approaches to Musical Expression in Harmonix's Video Games (Eran Egozy); Motion and Gravitation in the Musical Spheres (Elaine Chew); Mathemusical Creativity: Creative Dynamics of Improvised Musical Interaction (Gerard Assayag); Sound, Shape, Harmony (Jean-Pierre Bourguignon); Musical Creativity (Margaret Boden); Canons: Tiling Canons as a Key to Approaching Open Mathematical Conjectures? (Moreno Andreatta); Infinite Canons (Clifton Callender); Shaping Performance: Performing Musical Shape in Theory and in Practice (John Rink); Playing with Variables: Anticipating One Particular Performance of Bachs Goldberg Variations (Stephen Emmerson and Bernard Lanskey); Modeling Melodic Expression (Christopher Raphael); Mathemuscial Learning: Mathematical Thought and Empirical Approaches in Music Higher Education (Yang Jian); Action and Symbol: An Essential Tension (Jeanne Bamberger); Education the Mathemusical: Balancing the Equation (Don McLean); Geometries: What is Geometric about Music? (Richard Cohn); Vectors and Voice Leading (Dmitri Tymoczko); A Topological Approach of Musical Relationships (Jean-Louis Giavitto);
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Mathematical Music Theory: Algebraic, Geometric,
Book SynopsisQuestions about variation, similarity, enumeration, and classification of musical structures have long intrigued both musicians and mathematicians. Mathematical models can be found from theoretical analysis to actual composition or sound production. Increasingly in the last few decades, musical scholarship has incorporated modern mathematical content. One example is the application of methods from Algebraic Combinatorics, or Topology and Graph Theory, to the classification of different musical objects. However, these applications of mathematics in the understanding of music have also led to interesting open problems in mathematics itself.The reach and depth of the contributions on mathematical music theory presented in this volume is significant. Each contribution is in a section within these subjects: (i) Algebraic and Combinatorial Approaches; (ii) Geometric, Topological, and Graph-Theoretical Approaches; and (iii) Distance and Similarity Measures in Music.
£112.50
NUS Press Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities,
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on the music of migrant minorities in and from Japan examines the central role music plays in the ongoing adjustment, conciliation and transformation of newcomers and "hosts" alike. It is the first academic text to address music activities across a range of migrant groups in Japan-particularly those of Tokyo and its neighbouring areas. It is also the first to juxtapose such communities with those of Japanese emigrants as ethnic minorities elsewhere. It presents both archival and fieldwork-based case studies that highlight music in the dynamics of encounter and attempted identity making, under a unifying framework of migration.A radical change in policy with the 2019 introduction of a new "Specified Skilled Worker" visa category marked the beginning of Japan's "new immigration era" (imin gannen). The authors in this volume interrogate and shed light on the bureaucratically disseminated slogan of tabunka kyōsei, rendered in English as "multicultural coexistence". The concept itself and the many problems of realizing this ideal are examined through ethnography-based accounts of current minorities, including South Indians, Brazilians, Nepalis, Filipinos, Iranians and Ainu domestic migrants, and in light of comparative historical accounts of California and Australia. This volume will be of interest to ethnomusicologists, students of the cultures of migrant communities, and those engaged with cultural change and diversity in Japan and East Asia.Trade Review"Unsilent Strangers is a scholarly work that allows us to listen for ways by which music expresses minority identities in and through Japan. Together, these essays demonstrate ways by which music matters, as not merely a cultural idiom, but as a vital and fundamental part of our coexistence with each other." -- Christine Yano, University of Hawai`i, Manoa
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NUS Press Cosmopolitan Intimacies: Malay Film Music of the
Book SynopsisThe golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cosmopolitanism in the service of a nation-making process based on ideas of Malay ethnonationalism, initially fluid, increasingly homogenised over time. The commercial films of the period, and in particular their film music, from national cultural icons P. Ramlee and Zubir Said, remain important reference points for Malaysia and Singapore to this day. This is the first in-depth study of the film music of the period. It brings together ethnomusicological and cultural studies perspectives.Written in an engaging manner, thoroughly illustrated and incorporating musical scores, the book will appeal to dedicated film fans, musicians, composers and film-makers interested in Southeast Asia and the Malay world. But equally, the conceptual framework will be of interest to a broad range of scholars of Southeast Asia, as it brings together ideas of cosmopolitanism and cultural intimacy to narrate a history of nation-making in the region.Trade Review“Cosmopolitan Intimacies is the first overarching study of its kind. It fills an important lacuna and opens a new vista onto the multifaceted world of Malay film music and its ongoing meaning and relevance.” — Anna Morcom, Royal Holloway, University of London
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Elements Of Human Voice
Book SynopsisThis is a self-contained monograph on human voice. It systematically expounds a theory of voice production initiated by Leonhard Euler, through an analysis of large amount of human voice data, especially simultaneously acquired voice signals and electroglottograph signals, as well as temporal variations of pressures directly below and above the vocal folds. Its contents include the physics and physiology of human voice production, parametrical representations of voice signals, and technology applications. Background knowledge on general acoustics and mathematical tools pertinent to quantitative descriptions of human voice are explained in detail.Readers of this monograph include researchers, practitioners and students in the fields of physiology and medicine, acoustics, computer science, telecommunication, acoustic phonetics, and vocal music.Table of ContentsPreface; Physics and Physiology: Acoustic Waves; Voice Organs; Experimental Facts; Physics of Voice Production; Mathematical Representations: Timbron Extraction; Timbre Vectors; Waveform Recovery; Applications; Appendices: Kramers-Knonig Relations; Laguerre Functions; References; Index;
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Jenny Stanford Publishing Form vs. Work
Book SynopsisThe antinomy of musical work and musical form has been central for music theory for centuries. Musical work is complete and all-inclusive, which makes it an ideal object of study. However, the teaching of musical form, albeit selective, is self-sufficient and epistemologically sovereign. The book offers both the historical overview and the analytical discourse on this antinomy in both Western and Russian perspectives. It presents an insider's view of the latter and contains materials never previously published.
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Afram Publications (Ghana) Ltd Ethnomusicology and African Music: Modes of Inquiry and Interpretation: v. 1: Collected Papers
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Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Mashindano: Competitive Music Performance in East Africa
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Editio Musica Budapest ZenemAÂkiadAÂ Introduction and Dance
Book SynopsisIntroduction and Dance exploits the alto saxophone's characteristic sound and virtuosity. It starts with a slow, nascent music, which gives way to a very fast dance with aksak rhythm in an asymmetrically segmented 8/16 meter. The work was commissioned by and is dedicated to saxophonist Levente Puskas and pianist Judit Varadi, who premiered it in September 2020 in the Hungarian Radio, and then first performed in concert in November that year.Marton Kerekfy (b. 1981) studied musicology and composition at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest (2000-2007) and received his PhD in musicology (2015) from the same institution. In 2006 he spent one semester on an Erasmus Grant at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Marton is Senior Research Fellow at the Budapest Bartok Archives, Editor of the Bela Bartok Complete Critical Edition, and Editor-in-Chief at Editio Musica Budapest ZenemA kiado.
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Europe Books QUIN ES LA MSICA QU TE DA O QU TE QUITA Construir
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Hal Leonard Corporation Music Theory for Kids
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Sound Word Almanac
Book SynopsisBernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American literature and culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of An Art of Desire: Reading Paul Auster (1999) and An American BodyPolitic: A Deleuzian Approach (2010) and editor of The Farthest Place: The Music of John Luther Adams (2012) and DeleuzeGuattari & Ecology (2009). His latest publications include the collections The Films of Bill Morrison. Aesthetics of the Archive (2017), Film as Philosophy (2017), and Practical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2020).
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA SemiConducting
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA SemiConducting
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State University of New York Press Singing the Himalayan Crossroads
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Academic Studies Press Engaging Cultural Ideologies: Classical Composers
Book SynopsisEngaging Cultural Ideologies offers a recontextualization of the effects of Poland’s cultural practices, especially those concerning issues such as nationalism, elitism, and race, on the genesis and performance of contemporary Polish compositions from 1918 to 1956. Based on extensive archival research that includes the first comprehensive examination of concert programs in Poland as well as a series of case studies focused on composers’ challenges in the midst of nearly constant turmoil, Bylander brings fresh insights into the public and private power struggles concerning artistic freedom that were animated by similar points of contention across seemingly diverse historical eras.Trade Review"The book brings a new interpretation of archival materials, in as much as it includes the first such broad analysis of concert programs... Her knowledge of sources is impressive, as is her excellent insight into the meanderings of Polish culture."— Marta Szoka, Ruch Muzyczny (translated from the Polish)“As a synthesis of current Polish- and English-language scholarly debates, Engaging Cultural Ideologies is essential to scholars, students and Polish music enthusiasts looking for an entry point on the subject. Most of all, as promised in the book’s introduction, Bylander delivers a ‘penetrating picture of the life cycle and performance history of contemporary Polish compositions’ (p. 9) by providing an unparalleled overview of Polish composition and programming practices between 1918 and 1956.”— Marta Beszterda van Vliet, SEERTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Between the World Wars: Performing a Utopian Vision2. World War II: Continuity And Disruption3. From War to Socialism: Elitism versus Accessibility 1944–19484. Negotiating a New Path 1949–19535. Ideological Turbulence, Hopeful Composers 1954–19566. Socialist RamificationsBibliographyIndex
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Academic Studies Press “The Soul Seeks Its Melodies”: Music in Jewish
Book SynopsisThe connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one expression of it. This book is the first comprehensive research project on the encounter of music and Judaism in the theological and philosophical realms, tracing the historical evolution of the music motif in Jewish thought. It describes the course of music as a tool serving religious, psychological, and instrumental goals until it developed into an independent aesthetic experience. Discussions also encompass various assessments of music in Jewish thought and the special connection of the Jewish people to music. Table of ContentsIntroduction Methodological Aspects Assessing the Role of Music Music and the Jewish People Music as a Tool Toward Music as an Independent Field: Representation, Language, Dialogue Music, Zionism, Religion Summing Up By Way of an EpilogueSelected BibliographyIndex
£89.09
Academic Studies Press Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
Book SynopsisThis bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing affected musical style, Anna Maria Busse Berger explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music. Her fresh, innovative study shows that although writing allowed composers to work out pieces in the mind, it did not make memorization redundant but allowed for new ways to commit material to memory.
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Academic Studies Press Performing Tsarist Russia in New York: Music,
Book SynopsisOffering a rare look at the musical life of Russia Abroad as it unfolded in New York City, Natalie K. Zelensky examines the popular music culture of the post-Bolshevik Russian emigration and the impact made by this group on American culture and politics. By combining archival research with fieldwork and interviews with Russian emigres of various generations and emigration waves, this book presents a close historical and ethnographic examination of music’s potential as an aesthetic, discursive, and social space through which diasporans can engage with an idea of a mythologized homeland, and, in turn, the vital role played by music in the organization, development, and reception of Russia Abroad, from the 1920s until the present day.
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Academic Studies Press Music, Society, Agency
Book SynopsisMusicologists have increasingly taken a wide-angled lens on the study of music in society, to explore how it can be intertwined with issues of politics, gender, religion, race, psychology, memory, and space. Recent studies of music in connection with society take in a variety of musical phenomena from diverse periods and genres—medieval, classical, opera, rock, etc. This ten-chapter book not only asks how music and society are, and have been, intertwined and mutually influential, but it also examines the agents behind these connections: who determines musical cultures in society? Which social groups are represented in particular musical contexts? Which social groups are silenced or less well represented in music’s histories, and why?Table of ContentsIntroductionNancy NovemberPart One: Cultural and Cross-Cultural AgenciesThe Year the Music Died: Agency in the Context of Demise on Takū, Papua New GuineaRichard Moyle“One of the finest and best-appointed theatres in the colonies”: His Majesty’s Theatre and the Evolution of Entertainment in Dunedin, New ZealandSandra Crawshaw“In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room”: Musicalizing the South Pacific in Disney’s Theme ParksGregory CampPart Two: Vocal Music’s AgenciesFigaro Transmuted through the Agency of Neapolitan Social and Political Creatives: Niccolò Piccinni’s La serva onorataLawrence MaysJosephinism and Leopold Koželuh’s Masonic Cantata Joseph der Menschheit Segen Allan BadleyAgency, Politics, and Opera Arrangements in Fanny von Arnstein’s SalonsNancy NovemberPart Three: Performance and AgencyReflections on Aladdin’s Lamp: Developing a Framework for Creative Practice Research in-and-through Historically Informed PerformanceImogen MorrisWhen Your Heart Is Set on Both Broadway and the Met: An Exploration of Vocal Technique in Contemporary Musical TheatreChristopher McRaePart Four: Composition and Agency“Brows betwixt and between”: The Agents of the Cultural Middlebrow and the Use of Topoi in Benjamin Britten’s First Suite for Cello Eliana DunfordProvincializing Practice: Parsing Historical Influences on Contemporary Cross-Cultural Music in Aotearoa/New ZealandCeleste OramContributorsIndex
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Academic Studies Press Arnold Schoenbergs A Survivor from Warsaw in
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Haymarket Books Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History
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