Understanding Music

Understanding Music
Author: N. Alan Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-12-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781940771335

Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond!

Music-Study in Germany

Music-Study in Germany
Author: Amy Fay
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486173496

Famous letters by a young American pianist, dating from 1869 to 1875, uniquely describe study with Liszt, Tausig, and other luminaries. Fay offers firsthand impressions of performances by Rubinstein, Clara Schumann, Wagner (as conductor), Joachim, and many others.

Music, Sensation, and Sensuality

Music, Sensation, and Sensuality
Author: Linda Phyllis Austern
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135689784

Divided into three sections, Linda Phyllis Austern collects eighteen, cross-disciplinary essays written by some of the most important names in the field to look at this stimulating topic. The first section focuses on the cultural and scientific ways in which music and the sense of hearing work directly on the mind and body. Part Two investigates how music works on the socially constructed, representational or sexualized body as a means of healing, beautifying and maintaining a balance between the mental and physical. Finally, the book explores the action of music as it is heard and sensed by wider social units, such as the body politic, mass communication, from print to sound recording, and broadcast technologies.

Rhythm and Tempo

Rhythm and Tempo
Author: Curt Sachs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 391
Release: 1953
Genre: Musical meter and rhythm
ISBN: 9780231069113

A Morningside Edition, originally published by Norton in 1953. Sachs deals with the principles, and considers musical meter and rhythm from the primitive stage to rag and jazz. Non-western music is fairly represented. No unified bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Music of the Twentieth Century

Music of the Twentieth Century
Author: Ton de Leeuw
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9053567658

Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.

The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music
Author: Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1058
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316298299

Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.

The Cultural Study of Music

The Cultural Study of Music
Author: Martin Clayton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136754326

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Cambridge History of World Music

The Cambridge History of World Music
Author: Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 943
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316025667

Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly world music. Historically, world music emerged from ritual and religion, labor and life-cycles, which occupy chapters on Native American musicians, religious practices in India and Indonesia, and nationalism in Argentina and Portugal. The contributors critically examine music in cultural encounter and conflict, and as the critical core of scientific theories from the Arabic Middle Ages through the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Overall, the book contains the histories of the music of diverse cultures, which increasingly become the folk, popular and classical music of our own era.

Theft!

Theft!
Author: James Boyle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Copyright
ISBN: 9781535543675

"A tale of law and music that leads through the gates of time!"