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The Structure of Atonal Music

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"For some years now, a group of American composers and theorists including Babbitt, Teitelbaum, Martino, and Lewin, have been elaborating mathematically based procedures for the analysis of pitch structures in atonal music. In this book, Allen Forte expands the results of their …

The encyclopedia of popular music

by Larkin, Colin

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This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

Contemporary orchestration: a practical guide to instruments, ensembles, and …

by Miller, R. J., (Robert Joseph)

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Contemporary Orchestration: A Practical Guide to Instruments, Ensembles, and Musicians teaches students how to orchestrate for a wide variety of instruments, ensembles, and genres, while preparing them for various real-world professional settings ranging from the concert hall to…

Stalking the red headed stranger, or, How to get your songs into the hands of the artists who really matter t…: a practical handbook and historical portrait

by Poe, Randy

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Stalking the Red Headed Stranger is a guide to the art and history of professional song plugging. But this isn't your run-of-the-mill history book/instruction manual. It is an in-depth, up-close look into the real music business by industry insider and Grammy Award nominee Randy…

Musical bodies, musical minds: enactive cognitive science and the meaning of hum…

by Van der Schyff, Dylan, Schiavio, Andrea, Elliott, David J., (David James)

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"An attempt to explain musical cognition from the perspective of embodied cognitive science. Emphasizes interactive sense-making with the environment rather than internal neural mechanisms"--

Golden hits of the Shangri-Las

by Wolin, Ada

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"Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las. They were together only five years, but within that time they subverted pop standards and foreshadowed a generation of tough women in music. Critically, they are…

Schenkerian analysis: perspectives on phrase rhythm, motive and form

by Beach, David, Beach, David

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Schenkerian Analysis: Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm, Motive and Form, Second Edition is a textbook directed at all those--whether beginners or more advanced students--interested in gaining understanding of and facility at applying Schenker's ideas on musical structure. It begins…

The art of tonal analysis: twelve lessons in Schenkerian theory

by Schachter, Carl

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Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt in the classroom. At the…

Harmonic experience: tonal harmony from its natural origins to its mod…

by Mathieu, W. A.

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An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotionally and spiritually in the individual. W.A. Mathieu, an accomplished author and recording artist, presents a way of learning music…

Noise uprising: the audiopolitics of a world musical revolution

by Denning, Michael

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Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in a series of obscure recording sessions, as …

Music-in-Action: Selected Essays in Sonic Ecology

by DeNora, Tia

fromAshgate contemporary thinkers on critical musicology

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"This volume brings together DeNora's work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field. The chapters trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and the…

Double lives: film composers in the concert hall

fromRoutledge research in music

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Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with 'iconic' film composers who, perhaps to the surprise of many fans of film music, nevertheless maintained lifelong careers as composers for the concert hall. Featured composers include…

Materials and techniques of post-tonal music

by Kostka, Stefan M.

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Introduces basic concepts of contemporary post-tonal music theory. Provides a comprehensive text covering analytical and compositional aspects of post tonal music from the early 1900's through today. This text provides the most comprehensive analytical approach to post-tonal mus…

Tempo and tactus in the German Baroque: treatises, scores, and the performance of organ m…

by Dokter, Julia

fromEastman studies in music

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"Before the advent of the metronome ca. 1800, there was little in the way of a standardized, commonly accessible method for precisely communicating how fast musical compositions should be performed. Instead of absolute time (e.g., plottable on a metronome), Baroque musicians dev…