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Visualizing Music
To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it
aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding
visually?
Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating
about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields
of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson
describes how graphical images can help us understand music. By
explaining the history of music visualizations through the lens of
human perception and cognition, Isaacson offers a guide to
understanding what makes musical images effective or ineffective
and provides readers with extensive principles and strategies to
create excellent images of their own. Illustrated with over 300
diagrams from both historical and modern sources, including
examples and theories from Western art music, world music, and
jazz, folk, and popular music, Visualizing Music explores
the decisions made around image creation.
Together with an extensive online supplement and dozens of
redrawings that show the impact of effective techniques,
Visualizing Music is a captivating guide to thinking
differently about design that will help music scholars better
understand the power of musical images, thereby shifting the
ephemeral to material.
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The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece
The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. It was the most important branch of Greek musical theory, studied by philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers as well as by musical specialists. This 2007 book examines its development during the period when its central ideas and rival schools of thought were established, laying the foundations for the speculations of later antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It concentrates particularly on the theorists' methods and purposes and the controversies that their various approaches to the subject provoked. It also seeks to locate the discipline within the broader cultural environment of the period; and it investigates, sometimes with surprising results, the ways in which the theorists' work draws on and in some cases influences that of philosophers and other intellectuals.
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Maqām
This edited volume is the result of the 8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group Maqam in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which brought together scholars from Germany, Turkey, Tunisia, Serbia, Malaysia, Finland, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In order to open up minds and to widen the horizons of discussions on historical traces and present music practices related to the maqam principle in Southern Europe and neighbouring regions, the general topic of the symposium, namely \"Maqam: Histor.
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Single-Voice Transformations
This study demonstrates how smooth voice leading in music can be effectively modeled using concepts from abstract algebra. Minute voice-leading displacements are explained as iterations of the basic operation, the single-semitone transformation (SST). The SST is a type of transformation in which only a single voice in a chord is transposed by a semitone. Unlike previous music theoretic studies, the SST model does not rely on twelve-tone operations on sets to determine voice-leading paths. SST.
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Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier
Bach'sWell-tempered Clavier(or the 48 Preludes and Fugues) stands at the core of baroque keyboard music and has been a model and inspiration for performers and composers ever since it was written. This invaluable guide to the 96 pieces explains Bach's various purposes in compiling the music, describes the rich traditions on which he drew, and provides commentaries for each prelude and fugue.In his text, David Ledbetter addresses the main focal points mentioned by Bach in his original 1722 title page. Drawing on Bach literature over the past three hundred years, he explores German traditions of composition types and Bach's novel expansion of them; explains Bach's instruments and innovations in keyboard technique in the general context of early eighteenth-century developments; reviews instructive and theoretical literature relating to keyboard temperaments from 1680 to 1750; and discusses Bach's pedagogical intent when composing theWell-tempered Clavier. Ledbetter's commentaries on individual preludes and fugues equip readers with the concepts necessary to make their own assessment and include information about the sources when details of notation, ornaments, and fingerings have a bearing on performance.
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Unequal Temperament: The Somatic Acoustics of Racial Difference in the Symphonic Music of John Powell
Along with musical skills, Powell absorbed the racialist nationalism circulating in Vienna, joining the Deutsche Wiener Turnerschaft (German Viennese Gymnastic Society), a youth fitness organization that, as Powell (1983, vii, 114) described to his sister, was for \"German Aryans only!\"1 Shortly after World War I compelled him to return to the United States, Powell joined with self-styled \"ethnologist\" Earnest Sevier Cox to found the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America, an organization dedicated to \"the preservation and maintenance of Anglo-Saxon ideals and civilization in America\" (Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America 1923, 2). The campaign for \"Racial Integrity,\" Powell's main occupation during the 1920s, translated the racial nationalism Powell became acquainted with in Europe into the context of the American South and combined it with the biology of the eugenics movement championed largely by northeastern elites (Sherman 1988; Smith 2002).2 In addition to gaining passage of the Racial Integrity Act, Powell's agitation was largely responsible for the legislature's acceptance of the Massenberg law, which made Virginia the only state that mandated \"public assemblages\"-such as concerts-be segregated (Sherman 1988, 84).3 Having used up his political capital, Powell retreated from politics in the 1930s and rededicated himself to music.
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