Everyday Tonality II
Author : Philip Tagg
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780990806806
Harmonic Experience
Author : W. A. Mathieu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1620554011
Book Description
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.
YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day
Author : Clemency Burton-Hill
Publisher : Headline Home
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1472251830
Book Description
As featured in the Telegraph and on Radio 4's Today programme. 'A magnificent treasury . . . a fascinating tour de force.' Observer 'Year of Wonder is an absolute treat - the most enlightening way to be guided through the year.' Eddie Redmayne Classical music for everyone - an inspirational piece of music for every day of the year, celebrating composers from the medieval era to the present day, written by award-winning violinist and BBC Radio 3 presenter Clemency Burton-Hill. Have you ever heard a piece of music so beautiful it stops you in your tracks? Or wanted to discover more about classical music but had no idea where to begin? Year of Wonder is a unique celebration of classical music by an author who wants to share its diverse wonders with others and to encourage a love for this genre in all readers, whether complete novices or lifetime enthusiasts. Clemency chooses one piece of music for each day of the year, with a short explanation about the composer to put it into context, and brings the music alive in a modern and playful way, while also extolling the positive mindfulness element of giving yourself some time every day to listen to something uplifting or beautiful. Thoughtfully curated and expertly researched, this is a book of classical music to keep you company: whoever you are, wherever you're from. 'The only requirements for enjoying classical music are open ears and an open mind.' Clemency Burton-Hill Playlists are available on most streaming music platforms including Apple Music.
Music's Meanings
Author : Philip Tagg
Publisher :
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2013-03-03
Category : Ethnomusicology
ISBN : 9780970168481
Book Description
“In addressing a pedagogical problem ―how to talk about music as if it meant something other than itself – Philip Tagg raises fundamental questions about western epistemology as well as some of its strategically mystifying discourses. With an unsurpassed authority in the field, the author draws on a lifetime of critical reflection on the experience of music, and how to communicate it without resorting to exclusionary jargon. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in music, for whatever reason: students, teachers, researchers, performers, industry and policy stakeholders, or just to be able to talk intelligently about the musical experience.” (Prof. Bruce Johnson)
Ten Little Title Tunes
Author : Philip Tagg
Publisher :
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Mass media and music
ISBN : 9780970168429
Book Description
Udvalgte musikeksempler gengivet med noder
Hearing Harmony
Author : Christopher Doll
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0472053523
Book Description
An original, listener-based approach to harmony for popular music from the rock era of the 1950s to the present
Everything in Its Right Place
Author : Brad Osborn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190629231
Book Description
Everything in its Right Place identifies the secret to Radiohead's immense commercial and critical success in the band's ability to navigate a sweet spot between expectation and surprise. The author uses tools from musical perception, semiotics, and music theory to demonstrate this reconciliation of extremes, and analyzes musical meaning with lyrics, biographical details, and intertextual relationships.
Pieces of Tradition
Author : Daniel Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 019024447X
Book Description
This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the history of compositional technique, Daniel Harrison contends that the tonal system did not simply die out with the dawn of twentieth century, but continued to supplement newer techniques as a compelling means of musical organization, even into current times. Well-known art music composers such as Bartok, Hindemith, Prokofiev, and Messiaen are represented alongside composers whose work moves outside the standard boundaries of art music: Leonard Bernstein, Murice Duruflé, Frank Martin, Xiaoyong Chen. Along the way, the book attends to military bugle calls, a trailer before a movie feature, a recomposition of a famous piece by Arnold Schoenberg, and the music of Neil Diamond, David Shire, and Brian Wilson. A celebration of the awesome variety of musical expressions encompassed in what is called tonal music, Pieces of Tradition is a book for composers seeking ideas and effects, music theorists interested in its innovations, and all those who practice the analysis of composition in all its modern and traditional variations.
The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics
Author : Peter Stockwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139916343
Book Description
Stylistics has become the most common name for a discipline which at various times has been termed 'literary linguistics', 'rhetoric', 'poetics', 'literary philology' and 'close textual reading'. This Handbook is the definitive account of the field, drawing on linguistics and related subject areas such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, educational pedagogy, computational methods, literary criticism and critical theory. Placing stylistics in its intellectual and international context, each chapter includes a detailed illustrative example and case study of stylistic practice, with arguments and methods open to examination, replication and constructive critical discussion. As an accessible guide to the theory and practice of stylistics, it will equip the reader with a clear understanding of the ethos and principles of the discipline, as well as with the capacity and confidence to engage in stylistic analysis.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research
Author : Allan Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1501330470
Book Description
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research is the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music, why is it studied, and how does it work, both as music and as cultural activity? This volume draws together 37 of the leading academics working on rock to provide answers to these questions and many more. The text is divided into four major sections: practice of rock (analysis, performance, and recording); theories; business of rock; and social and culture issues. Each chapter combines two approaches, providing a summary of current knowledge of the area concerned as well as the consequences of that research and suggesting profitable subsequent directions to take. This text investigates and presents the field at a level of depth worthy of something which has had such a pervasive influence on the lives of millions.
