Music category: 21679 books
Electronic and Experimental Music
Technology, Music, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, genres, and techniques used in analog and digital synthesis. This textbook has been extensively revised with the needs of students and instructors in mind....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organization was manifested, in part, by the introduction of music into powerful institutions, both out of belief in music's inherently beneficial properties, and also to promote music occupations...
The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct,...
The Transformation of Black Music
The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A. Floyd, Melanie...
Sounds of the Metropolis
The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris and Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The phrase "popular music revolution" may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth century, illustrating...
Writing through Music
Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters....
You Bring Out the Music in Me
Music in Nursing Homes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
An enlightening book, You Bring Out the Music in Me, explores how music motivates, enriches, touches, relaxes, and energizes the elderly in nursing homes. Practicing music therapists explain how music “speaks” to all of us, regardless of our language, culture, or abilities and how it can be used...
by Joseph P. Swain
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Nearly all religious traditions have reserved a special place for sacred music. Whether it is music accompanying a ritual or purely for devotional purposes, music composed for entire congregations or for the trained soloist, or music set to holy words or purely instrumental, in some form or another,...
Digital Music News
An Irresistible Look Into The World of Digital Music Distribution, Digital Music Recording, Digital Music Player, Digital Music Recorder, Digital Music System and Much More
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Discover everything you need to know about digital music news with this ultimate guide on digital music distribution, digital music recording, digital music player, digital music recorder, digital music system.
by J. Steve Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
As a professor, I am constantly concerned with equipping my students with a scriptural perspective of cutting edge issues in today's youth culture. When it comes to music, I have yet to find a more balanced and thorough work on the subject. -- Dr. Bill Jones, president, Columbia International University
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Reading Country Music
Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 1998
With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it’s also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country Music...
Liveness in Modern Music
Musicians, Technology, and the Perception of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music, where liveness is typically understood to represent...
A Geometry of Music
Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords? In this groundbreaking work, author...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
The field of Music Psychology has grown dramatically in the past 20 years, to emerge from being just a minor topic to one of mainstream interest within the brain sciences. However, until now, there has been no comprehensive reference text in the field. The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology is a...