Harvard Dictionary of Music
Author | : Willi Apel |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 968 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780674375017 |
Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.
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Author | : Willi Apel |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 968 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780674375017 |
Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.
Author | : Dale Purves |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2017-02-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674972961 |
The universality of musical tones has long fascinated philosophers, scientists, musicians, and ordinary listeners. Why do human beings worldwide find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that are possible? Why do differently organized scales elicit different emotions? Why are there so few notes in scales? In Music as Biology, Dale Purves argues that biology offers answers to these and other questions on which conventional music theory is silent. When people and animals vocalize, they generate tonal sounds—periodic pressure changes at the ear which, when combined, can be heard as melodies and harmonies. Human beings have evolved a sense of tonality, Purves explains, because of the behavioral advantages that arise from recognizing and attending to human voices. The result is subjective responses to tone combinations that are best understood in terms of their contribution to biological success over evolutionary and individual history. Purves summarizes evidence that the intervals defining Western and other scales are those with the greatest collective similarity to the human voice; that major and minor scales are heard as happy or sad because they mimic the subdued and excited speech of these emotional states; and that the character of a culture’s speech influences the tonal palette of its traditional music. Rethinking music theory in biological terms offers a new approach to centuries-long debates about the organization and impact of music.
Author | : Suzannah Clark |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Musical meter and rhythm |
ISBN | : 9780964031760 |
Music in Time probes the temporality of music from many perspectives, in response to Christopher F. Hasty's groundbreaking Meter as Rhythm. The essays bridge the conventional divides between theory, history, ethnomusicology, aesthetics, performance practice, cognitive psychology, and dance studies.
Author | : Eileen Southern |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780393018073 |
A narrative history of the music of African-Americans with emphasis on the folk music genres.
Author | : Harvard University. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carol June Bradley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1135476470 |
The literature of American music librarianship has been around since the 19th century when public libraries began to keep records of player-piano concerts, significant donations of books and music, and suggestions for housing music. As the 20th century began, American periodicals printed more and more articles on increasingly specialized topics within music studies. Eventually books were developed to aid the music librarian; their publication has continued over the course of nearly a century. This book reflects the great diversity of the literature of music librarianship. The main resources included are items of historical interest, descriptions of individual collections, catalogues of collections, articles describing specific library functions, record-related subjects, bibliographies designed for music library use, literature from Canada and Britain when relevant to U.S. library practices, key discographies, and information on specialized music research. The material is ordered by topic and indexed by author, subject, and library name.
Author | : John A. Emerson |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520370333 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.