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  • Return to Riemann

    Tonal Function and Chromatic Music

    de J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Oliver Chandler ...
    Series series Royal Musical Association Monographs
    This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.First, in terms of music theory, it proposes a new theory of tonal function that returns to the theories of Hugo Riemann to rediscover a development of his thought that has been covered over by the recent project of neo-Riemannian theory. Second, in ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Music Studies

    Edición de J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Jim Samson ...
    Why study music? How much practical use is it in the modern world? This introduction proves how studying music is of great value both in its own terms and also in the post-university careers marketplace. The book explains the basic concepts and issues involved in the academic study of music, draws attention to vital connections across the field and encourages critical thinking over a broad range ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism

    Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton

    de J. P. E. Harper-Scott ...
    Series series Music in Context
    Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence against totalitarianism, yet some American critics consider it elitist, undemocratic and even unnatural. ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • Brian Ferneyhough

    de Lois Fitch, Martin Iddon ...
    One of contemporary music’s most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's complex and challenging music draws inspiration from painting, literature and philosophy, as well as music from the recent and distant past. His dense, multi-layered compositions intrigue musicians while pushing performer and instrument to the limits of their abilities. A wide-ranging survey of his life and ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • A Musicology of Performance

    Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin

    de Dorottya Fabian ...
    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 Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, she demonstrates that music performance functions as a ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music?

    Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard

    de Leigh Landy ...
    Series series Contemporary Music Studies
    Today's education and communications media are seen to be the main cause of the anonymity of contemporary music and suggestions are made to improve this situation. Leigh Landy investigates audio-visual applications that have hardly been explored, new timbres and sound sources, the discovery of musical space, new notations, musical politics, and the 'musical community' in an attempt to incite more ... Leer más

    $171.99 USD

  • Schnittke Studies

    Edición de Gavin Dixon ...
    Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) was arguably the most important Russian composer since Shostakovich, and his music has generated a great deal of academic interest in the years since his death. Schnittke Studies provides a variety of perspectives on the composer and his music. The field is currently diverse and vibrant, and this book demonstrates the range of academic approaches being applied to ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Music of Michael Nyman

    Texts, Contexts and Intertexts

    de Pwyll ap Siôn ...
    Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Si laces Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Analyzing Schubert

    de Suzannah Clark ...
    When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of Schubert's harmony ever since, outlining why Schubert's music occupies a curiously marginal position in the history of music theory. Analyzing Schubert traces how critics, analysts and historians from ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Music, Performance, Meaning

    Selected Essays

    de Nicholas Cook ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
    This selection of sixteen of Nicholas Cook's essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. In particular the two keywords of the title -Meaning and Performance- represent critical directions that expand to the point that, by the end of the book, they become coextensive: music is seen as social action and meaning as created by that ... Leer más

    $265.99 USD

  • A Geometry of Music

    Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice

    de Dmitri Tymoczko ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    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 Dmitri Tymoczko describes a new framework for thinking about music that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from medieval ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations

    In Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle

    Edición de Esti Sheinberg ...
    United in their indebtedness to the scholarship of Raymond Monelle, an international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this state of the art volume to investigate different ways in which music signifies. Music semiotics asks what music signifies as well as how the signification process takes place. Looking at the nature of musical texts and ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD