This book presents a social history of the violin in Australia from 1788 to 1914, exploring its pivotal role in colonial society and influence on local music-making and culture. It provides scholars with new insights into how musical instruments lik...Lasīt vairāk
A Music Transcription Method: Notating Recorded Music by Ear teaches how to leverage music dictation in the modern music industry. The books four parts cover aspects of preparation, process, interpretation, and industry resources related to notatin...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores what pulse phonation is, what it can do, and how it develops into a cultural practice. It presents a thorough investigation of pulse phonation to jointly take into consideration its sociocultural, bioacoustic, and creative dimensi...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a series of thought-provoking essays about music and the performing arts viewed from current Anthropocene-aware perspectives. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as well as a...Lasīt vairāk
This innovative volume explores the potential of alternative seating practices (ASP) to revolutionize orchestral music teaching in US schools and beyond, by improving musicians social and musical experiences, including peer mentorship....Lasīt vairāk
This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music in 19th-Century Spanish piano music, providing an exploration of specific folk-inspired works with an inquiry into the historical cross-pollination between popular and classical musical idioms....Lasīt vairāk
The Music Performers Lived Experiences seeks to widen this research area through close investigations of a variety of rich, and nuanced experiences classical music performers have qua performers, as they interact with musical scores and wider artist...Lasīt vairāk
The AI Music Problem: Why Machine Learning Conflicts With Musical Creativity asks why producing and constructing music is difficult for AI, with an investigation that straddles the technical, the musical, and the aesthetic....Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Handbook of Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production examines metal music composition as a distinct practice that combines a complex array of formal musical, expressive, and technological elements....Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the use of extended reality (XR) technologies to innovate the opera experience. It provides valuable contributions for undergraduate and postgraduate students, creative practice researchers, and professionals seeking to explor...Lasīt vairāk
Providing a thorough introduction to both choral and instrumental conducting, this textbook offers a complete package of teaching, study, and assessment materials to support a single-semester foundational conducting course....Lasīt vairāk
In seven richly illustrated chapters and a deft introduction, nine leading music and film scholars revisit the great theme of artistic collaboration from a heretofore unexplored angle: the relationship between film directors and composers in the Lon...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Choreomusicology: Dialogues in Music and Dance is a distinguished collection of essays by leading scholars presenting research that redefines and rethinks the question of what dance and music are, together and apart, and w...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1972, Medieval Song assembles the whole tradition of early European poetry, from the writings of the late Roman Empire to the time of the Hundred Years War. It covers a vast range of languages and cultures, beginning with the...Lasīt vairāk
Julius Korngold, critic at the highly influential newspaper Neue Freie Presse, was close to and supportive of Gustav Mahler and, for the first time, essays on the man and his music are made available in English. Those on his time at Viennas Imperial...Lasīt vairāk
Welsh Vocal Music: A Guide to Lyric Diction and Repertoire introduces readers to the vast vocal repertoire of Wales and provides them with the tools to accurately and confidently sing in the Welsh language....Lasīt vairāk
From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-making through the analysis of live and studio performances of orchestral and operatic repertoire conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first book to investigate systematically the diverse aspects and compositional approaches of Greek musical modernism. It will interest not only musicians, musicologists, and music theorists, but also cultural historians and other scholar...Lasīt vairāk
Weida Wang explores how Western classical music has become increasingly popular in China, framing the industry as a complex entity embedded within Chinas political landscape, cultural economy, and cultural industries. The study delves into the mecha...Lasīt vairāk
This study reassesses Cages multifaceted practice from an integrated transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions....Lasīt vairāk
Performer and researcher Peter OHagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed consideration of the ensemble work sur Incises, which stands at the heart of Boulezs later output....Lasīt vairāk
From the diverse proto-musicals of the mid-1800s, through the revues of the 1920s, the true musicals of the 1940s, the politicization of the 1960s, the mega-musicals of the 1980s, and the explosive jukebox musicals of the 2010s and 20s, every era in...Lasīt vairāk
This book, the first to look at Avisons music in depth, examines the influences on Avison and the circumstances around the composition of his music. It draws heavily upon his important treatise, An Essay on Musical Expression, and other writings, to...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslicks influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions reveal the philosophical foundations and subtleties of...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories and cultural cri...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringers biography of Brahms is generally regarded as one of the finest studies of the composer ever published in any language....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1963 and with a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin, this book begins with a study of the historical scene and the conditions under which Bach and his player colleagues lived, wrote and worked. It discusses the instruments then in use...Lasīt vairāk
When this volume was originally published in 1954 it was the first complete history of the Bach family from the 16th Century miller Veit to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst (1759-1845), Johann Sebastians grandson....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bachs music and the reasons for his borrowing, and adaptation within his oeuvre. This book, scrupulously uncontroversial in its manner, contains eviden...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1943 and subsequently as a revised and enlarged edition in 1978, Musical Instruments has long been held in high regard, not only for its erudition, but for its originality of approach....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times. The book begins with a...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been written. The third, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, has attracted less attention, in spite of her having occupied the greater p...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1970 this collection of essays by a renowned international musicologist is both imaginative in scope and authoritative in scholarship. The works of such famous composers as Joseph Haydn, Handel, J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach are...Lasīt vairāk
Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social history of an era whose everyday music has often been...Lasīt vairāk
Charles Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussys music through the lens of Bergsons philosophical perspective of durée, revealing his revolution in musical time....Lasīt vairāk
Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers readers a portrait of the interrelated music, drama and dance productions that characterized this rich period. By bringing together...Lasīt vairāk
The first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation and influence of the Psalms in the Atlantic world during 1400-1800, this volume showcases essays by scholars from literature, history, music and religious studies. The colle...Lasīt vairāk
Leonard Bernstein: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and research guide on this popular American composer and conductor. It includes annotations on Bernsteins writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary...Lasīt vairāk
This volume comprises selected articles from Francis Poulenc: Jécris ce qui me chante (Fayard, 2011) edited by Nicholas Southon. Many of these articles and interviews have not been available in English before and Roger Nichols translation, capturin...Lasīt vairāk
In recent years the music of minimalist composers has become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. This Companion provides an authoritative overview of research in this area and highlights the innovative work of the...Lasīt vairāk
The essays collected here explore themes and trends within Gerhards work and comprise the first full length scholarly work on this composer. Among the themes presented is the way Gerhards work was shaped by his Catalan heritage and his education und...Lasīt vairāk
Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England through a closely focused study of the role of music and the Reformation. By reintegrating music back into the study of the...Lasīt vairāk
Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its applications in polyphonic music within all major branches of Western liturgy. Throughout the remarkably persistent tradition of applyin...Lasīt vairāk
Innovative and collaborative in its approach, this volume engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In its attention to the gendering o...Lasīt vairāk
This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The articles span the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlight the range of approaches used by modern scholars. Taken togethe...Lasīt vairāk
This book tells three interrelated stories that radically alter our perspective on plainchant reform at the turn of the twentieth century and highlight the value of liturgical music history to our understanding of French government anticlericalism....Lasīt vairāk
Among the early works of Johannes Brahms are the neo-baroque Sarabande and Gavotte. These dances have not been properly recognised as constituting a distinct Brahms work before now, but manuscript evidence and their performance history indicate that...Lasīt vairāk
