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  • Conversational Musicology: A Composer's Perspective

    The book suggests that music research is suffering from too many experts with their own jargon, while practitioners wander off in dismay. Therefore, a new category is proposed - the Conversational Musicologist - who can serve as both spy and interpreter. The associated idea of accepting more casual forms of discussion while working in Big Picture mode is illustrated by the author's musings on ... Leer más

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  • Musicking

    The Meanings of Performing and Listening

    Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he terms "musicking," a verb that encompasses all musical activity from composing to performing to listening to a Walkman to singing in the shower ... Leer más

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  • Hollywood Harmony

    Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema

    de Frank Lehman ...
    Series series Oxford Music/Media Series
    Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Filmgoing is an intensely musical experience, one in which the soundtrack structures our interpretations and steers our emotions. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music theory, musicology, and music psychology in this first ever book-length analytical study of this ... Leer más

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  • Who Needs Classical Music?

    Cultural Choice and Musical Value

    During the last few decades, most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between "high" and "low" art is an artificial one, that Beethoven's Ninth and "Blue Suede Shoes" are equally valuable as cultural texts. In Who Needs Classical Music?, Julian Johnson challenges these assumptions about the relativism of cultural judgements. The author maintains that music is more than just "a ... Leer más

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  • Music Outside the Lines

    Ideas for Composing in K-12 Music Classrooms

    de Maud Hickey ...
    Music Outside the Lines is an informative and practical resource for all who are invested in making music composition an integral part of curriculum. Author Maud Hickey offers both a well-grounded justification for teaching music composition and also a compendium of useful instructional ideas and classroom activities. Hickey begins with a rationale for teachers to begin composition activities in ... Leer más

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  • Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    de Joanna Demers ...
    Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde electronic musicians is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there even a place for aesthetics in twenty-first-century culture? This book explores genres ... Leer más

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  • The Elements of Music Composition, 3rd Edition

    Organicism. Coherence. Comprehensibility.

    de Kevin Ure ...
    Series Libro 1 - Composing Music
    For Composers Who Want to Compose Effective MusicThe Elements of Music Composition gives composers the missing puzzle piece that makes it possible to create musical works that endure and become richer and more meaningful with each performance. Composers learn to create a composition that grows out of a single seed and connects the different disciplines within music composition. Applying the ... Leer más

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  • Form and Method: Composing Music

    The Rothschild Essays

    Series series Contemporary Music Studies
    First Published in 2007. This volume is a collection of a series of six illustrated lectures that demonstrate a picture of the author’s evolved thinking about the composing of music: both from a more general, overall perspective and from that of the particular moment-to-moment decision making that, gradually accumulating, brings a whole into being. ... Leer más

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  • Audio Culture, Revised Edition

    Readings in Modern Music

    The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of ... Leer más

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  • Free to Be Musical

    Group Improvisation in Music

    Free to Be Musical: Group Improvisation in Music is for those who lead musical experiences in the lives of children, youth, and adults. Offering a set of experiences to inspire creative musical expression, this book will prove useful for music education majors, practicing music teachers, community musicians, and music therapists alike. The experiences (or "events") are designed to reduce the ... Leer más

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  • Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes

    Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

    "Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning ... Leer más

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  • Music as Discourse

    Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music

    de Kofi Agawu ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur? Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse has become a standard and definitive work in musical semiotics. Working at the nexus of musicology, ... Leer más

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