Author : George Heussenstamm
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393955262
This book is designed to serve as a practical guide to music handwriting and music-writing procedures.
Author : W. A. Mathieu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1620554011
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 that reconnects modern-day musicians with the source from which music was originally generated. As the author states, "The rules of music--including counterpoint and harmony--were not formed in our brains but in the resonance chambers of our bodies." His theory of music reconciles the ancient harmonic system of just intonation with the modern system of twelve-tone temperament. Saying that the way we think music is far from the way we do music, Mathieu explains why certain combinations of sounds are experienced by the listener as harmonious. His prose often resembles the rhythms and cadences of music itself, and his many musical examples allow readers to discover their own musical responses.
Author : Gardner Read
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 1987-04-03
Category : Music
ISBN :
This is the first book to examine comprehensively the major systems of musical notation proposed during the past three centuries. Illustrating the many attempts to improve upon or replace the traditional system, this important work chronologically lists, describes, and critically analyzes the majority of the proposed reforms that have appeared over the years. No other book now available covers the subject in such depth or detail. It is not only a repository of suggested improvements in notation, but also a historical survey of the efforts made to simplify the standard practices.
Author : Elaine Gould
Publisher : Faber Music Ltd
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0571590039
Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor Elaine Gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles. This full eBook version is in fixed-layout format to ensure layout and image quality is consistent with the original hardback edition. Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules, conventions and themes to complex instrumental techniques, empowering the reader to prepare music with total clarity and precision. With the advent of computer technology, it has never been more important for musicians to have ready access to principles of best practice in this dynamic field, and this book will support the endeavours of software users and devotees of hand-copying alike. The author's understanding of, and passion for, her subject has resulted in a book that is not only practical but also compellingly readable. This seminal and all-encompassing guide encourages new standards of excellence and accuracy and, at 704 pages, it is supported by 1,500 music examples of published scores from Bach to Xenakis. This is the full eBook version of the original hardback edition.
Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2022-05-17
Category :
ISBN : 9780367359522
Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore an essential question in the current landscape of musicology: how can writing and reading music be understood as concrete, material practices in a wider cultural context? Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from musicology, media studies, performance studies, and more, the chapters in this volume offer a wide array of new perspectives that center the materiality of music notation. From digital scores to the transmission of manuscripts in the Middle Ages, the volume deliberately disrupts boundaries of discipline, historical period, genre, and tradition, by approaching notation's materiality through four key interrelated themes: knowledge, the body, identity, and technology. Together, the chapters capture vital new work in an essential emerging area of scholarship.
Author : James Grier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521898161
A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.
Author : Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 019803217X
This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the part these play in theories of musical organization. The first part of the book provides a detailed overview of the relevant work in cognitive science, framed around specific musical examples. The second part brings this perspective to bear on a number of issues with which music scholarship has often been occupied, including the emergence of musical syntax and its relationship to musical semiosis, the problem of musical ontology, the relationship between words and music in songs, and conceptions of musical form and musical hierarchy. The book will be of interest to music theorists, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists, as well as those with a professional or avocational interest in the application of work in cognitive science to humanistic principles.
Author :
Publisher : Guitar Lesson World
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 0978887700
Author : Kurt Stone
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393950533
In this comprehensive and definitive survey of current notation procedures, Kurt Stone has brought order to a field traditionally fraught with confusion and idiosyncrasy. He not only describes and recommends new methods for notating modern music, thereby establishing standard procedures for the present and future, but integrates them with traditional practices still in use. The result is a guide to all forms of notation used in serious music today.
Author : Theresa Sauer
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :
Drawing inspiration from John Cage's, Notations, Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. These spectacularly beautiful and fascinatingly creative visual pieces not only make for exciting music, but inspiring visual art as well. The scores are accompanied by written contributions from the artists that explore every facet of their creative processes, from inspiration to execution. Contributors include the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Earle Brown, Halim El-Dabh, Joan La Barbara, and Yuji Takahashi, as well as emerging composers whose compositions are also visually astounding and important. In the spirit of honoring the 40th anniversary of Cage's seminal book, while furthering it in a 21st century context, a portion of the sales will be donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.
