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The Musical Topic
2006
The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western
European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle provides
an in-depth cultural and historical study of musical topics -- short melodic
figures, harmonic or rhythmic formulae carrying literal or lexical meaning --
through consideration of their origin, thematization, manifestation, and meaning.
The Musical Topic shows the connections of musical meaning to literature, social
history, and the fine arts.
Artistic experimentation in music : an anthology
This book is the first anthology of writings about the emerging subject of artistic experimentation in music. This subject, as part of the cross-disciplinary field of artistic research, cuts across boundaries of the conventional categories of performance practice, music analysis, aesthetics, and music pedagogy. The texts, most of them specially written for this volume, have a common genesis in the explorations of the Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM) in Ghent, Belgium. The book critically examines experimentation in music of different historical eras. It is essential reading for performers, composers, teachers, and others wanting to inform themselves of the issues and the current debates in the new field of artistic research as applied to music. The publication is accompanied by a CD of music discussed in the text, and by an online resource of video illustrations of specific issues.
K-pop
2014
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization—but also a description of K-pop as a system of economic innovation and cultural production. In doing so, he delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.
The classical music book
This original, graphic-led book explores and explains the key ideas underpinning the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions, defines their importance to the musical canon, and places them into their wider social, cultural, and historical context. The nineteenth title in DK's bestselling Big Ideas series, The Classical Music Book combines accessible, authoritative text with bold explanatory graphics to make the subject of classical music approachable to readers with an interest in the subject who want to learn more while still offering enough to appeal to music aficionados.
The Digital Musician
2012
The Digital Musician is a textbook for creative music technology and electronic music courses. It provides an overview of sound properties, acoustics, digital music, and sound design as a basis for understanding the compositional possibilities that new music technologies allow. Creative projects allow students to apply key concepts covered in each chapter. Topics covered include hardware hacking, live coding, interactive music, sound manipulation and transformation, software instruments, networked performance, as well as critical listening and analysis.
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Readers Guides outline the major topics in each chapter
Project boxes for both individuals and groups throughout each chapter
Annotated Listening Lists for each chapter, with accompanying playlists on the companion website
Recommended Further Reading and Discussion Questions at the end of each chapter
Case studies of actual composers, with contributed projects
Companion website includes reading lists, links to audio and video, and slides for use in the classroom.
Music and feeling : the art of unconscious calculation
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Korsakova-Kreyn, Marina, author
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Music and science.
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Music Acoustics and physics.
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Music Psychological aspects.
2021
This book is for music lovers who want to learn about the science of music. It will show the reader what music is made of, how musical sounds become melodies, and how music training imprints on the human brain. The book addresses a wide audience, from the general public to parents of young children, music therapists, music teachers, philosophers, and psychologists. It highlights the role of music in child development and in healing. Readers will also find some interesting facts about the history of music and the basics of the science of emotion.
Hip Hop Africa
2012
Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of drumming. Covering Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa, this volume offers unique perspectives on the presence and development of hip hop and other music in Africa and their place in global music culture.