Theory Criticism category: 49531 books
by Alejandro L. Madrid
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In the 1920s, the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his pioneering role as one of the first proponents of microtonality within the Western art music tradition elevated Carrillo to iconic status among European...
Breaking Time's Arrow
Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Charles Ives (1874–1954) moved traditional compositional practice in new directions by incorporating modern and innovative techniques with nostalgic borrowings of 19th century American popular music and Protestant hymns. Matthew McDonald argues that the influence of Emerson and Thoreau on Ives's...
by Grigory Kogan, Svetlana Belsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known today as the composer of such works as the Second Violin Sonata, the incidental music for Gozzi's Turandot, and the most monumental piano concerto in the repertory (some eighty minutes long, with male chorus in the finale). But Busoni was also renowned in his...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade.
The guide is comprised of focused chapters...
Death in Winterreise
Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a...
A Musicology of Performance
Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
This book examines the nature of musical performance. In it, Dorottya Fabian explores the contributions and limitations of some of these approaches to performance, be they theoretical, cultural, historical, perceptual, or analytical. Through a detailed investigation of recent recordings of J. S. Bach’s...
by Paul Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism),...
Louise Talma
A Life in Composition
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected...
Understanding Rock
Essays in Musical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1997
Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny. Written by some of the best young scholars in musicology and music theory, the essays...
Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass
Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film canon, or in television and other media remains largely unexplored in any detail. Tristian Evans demonstrates...
by James R. Currie
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Over the past quarter century, music studies in the academy have their postmodern credentials by insisting that our scholarly engagements start and end by placing music firmly within its various historical and social contexts. In Music and the Politics of Negation, James R. Currie sets out to disturb...
An Understandable Guide to Music Theory
The Most Useful Aspects of Theory for Rock, Jazz, and Blues Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
This guide explains the most useful aspects of theory in clear, nontechnical language. Areas covered include scales (major, minor, modal, synthetic), chord formation, chord progression, melody, song forms, useful devices, (ostinato, mirrors, hocket, etc.), and instrumentation. It contains over 100 musical examples.
Music Theory Secrets
94 Strategies for the Starting Musician
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Rhythms, melodies, and harmonies are the building blocks of music. In Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician, Brent Coppenbarger offers a full range of methods to help musicians not only grasp but remember those key elements upon which the music they play is built: pitch, rhythm,...
Absolute Music
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence of "pure" or "absolute" music in ways that also account for its profound effect. In Absolute Music: The History of an Idea, Mark Evan Bonds traces the history of...