Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino is a companion volume to Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker: A Bibliography and Guide by David Damschroder and David Russell Williams (Harmonologia, No. 4, Pendragon Press). Like the previous work, the goal of the volume is to create a lo…
This book discusses important changes in attitudes toward music as seen in the writings of British and German philosophers, journalists, and musicians. Selecting four major aesthetic issues (the affections, imitation of nature, taste, and the imagination), Boomgaarden shows that…
Lange vor dem 'body turn' eröffnete Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) mit seiner musikpädagogischen Konzeption neue Perspektiven auf die Verkörperung von Musik. Die moderne Rhythmik befragt und erweitert die Vernetzung von Musik und Bewegung - auch in Verbindung mit transdiszipl…
Studies in applied nomadology : jazz improvisation and post-capitalist markets / Eugene Holland -- Is pop music? / Greg Hainge -- Deleuze, Adorno, and the composition of musical multiplicity / Nick Nesbitt -- Affect and individuation in popular electronic music / Drew Hemment --…
Drawing out the 'unwritten' book on music from which Deleuze left many clues, but no manuscript, the essays in this volume explore what he said and thought about music and how music informed his thinking.
Drawing out the 'unwritten' book on music from which Deleuze left many clues, but no manuscript, the essays in this volume explore what he said and thought about music and how music informed his thinking.
Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What impact can or should music have on individuals and on society as a whole? What…
"Tonal Pitch Space builds on, and in many ways completes, the project of Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Like the earlier volume, it is both an original music-theoretic treatise and a contribution to the cognitive science of musi…