Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
This innovative volume challenges the ways we look at both cinema and cultural history by shifting the focus from the centrality of the visual and the literary toward the recognition of acoustic culture as formative of the Soviet and post-Soviet experience. Leading experts and emerging scholars from...
Sonata Fragments
Romantic Narratives in Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs contrary to conventional theories of the...
by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
One of most important books in Western music. Detailed explanation of principles of diatonic harmonic theory. New 1971 translation by Philip Gossett of 1722 edition. Many musical examples.
by Christopher Hasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1997
In this book Christopher Hasty presents a striking new theory of musical duration. Drawing on insights from modern "process" philosophy, he advances a fully temporal perspective in which meter is released from its mechanistic connotations and recognized as a concrete, visceral agent of musical...
by Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism....
Extended Play
Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1994
In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn....
Performance and Cognition
Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2006
This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work,...
by Peter L. Hays
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
A master of short story, novel, and nonfiction prose, Ernest Hemingway has been the subject of countless books, articles, and biographies. The Nobel–prize winning author and his work continue to interest academics, whose studies of his personal life are frequently intertwined with examinations of...
GARAGE BAND THEORY - TOOLS the PRO'S USE to PLAY BY EAR
music theory-learn to read & play by ear, tab & notation for guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, piano, beginner & advanced lessons, improvisation, chords & scales for jazz and blues
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This is non-academic, practical, useful theory for living-room pickers and working musicians who want to be able to think coherently about music in order to ask questions and understand answers about the music they want to play.
The stuff in GBT is about understanding The Beatles and The Rolling...
Vodou in Haitian Memory
The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life...
Classical Music in a Changing Culture
Essays from The American Record Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Founded in 1935, The American Record Guide is America's oldest classical music review magazine. In 1987, when Donald Vroon assumed its editorship, he took on the Herculean task of writing editorials on a vast array of subjects, amassing a wealth of commentary and criticism on not only the foibles...
by Eleanor Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
This comprehensive introduction to the work of Homi K. Bhabha, a key figure in both postcolonial and post-structuralist theory, is accessible and engaging. It places Bhabha's work in context, considers his effect on contemporary criticism, offers readings of a range of texts to illustrate his theories, and features an interview with the theorist.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and...
by John Barber
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
In October 2016 a story was reported in most popular newspapers that using old-fashioned scholarship and 21st-century computerised tools to analyse texts a team of international scholars have established that Shakespeare’s collaboration with other playwrights was far more extensive than has been...