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How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twent……続きを見る

In "Descriptive Analyses of Piano Works," Edward Baxter Perry meticulously dissects a variety of significant piano compositions, providing readers with a rich tapestry of musical insights and critic……続きを見る

In "Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst" entwirft Ferruccio Busoni eine wegweisende Theorie zur Musikästhetik des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Autor, ein Zeitgenosse von kulturellen Umbrüchen,……続きを見る

In "How to Write Music: Musical Orthography," Clement A. Harris delivers a comprehensive guide to the intricacies of musical notation, exploring the theoretical underpinnings that govern the written……続きを見る

In "The Modes of Ancient Greek Music," D. B. Monro delves into the intricate tapestry of musical modes that framed the sonic landscape of ancient Greece. Through a careful examination of historical ……続きを見る

INSTANTLY UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE FILTERS AND FULLY MASTER YOUR SYNTHESIZER, EVEN IF YOU'RE A COMPLETE BEGINNER NEW: The ultimate 4-part series for sensational sound design Learning how to do synthesi……続きを見る

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integra……続きを見る

The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the ‘mature’ sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for a……続きを見る

Tune in to how music really works Whether you’re a student, a performer, or simply a fan, this book makes music theory easy, providing you with a friendly guide to the concepts, artistry, and techni……続きを見る

In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support whi……続きを見る

The study of music and the brain can be traced back to the work of Gall in the 18th century, continuing with John Hughlings Jackson, August Knoblauch, Richard Wallaschek, and others. These early res……続きを見る

Can music really arouse emotions? If so, what emotions, and how? Why do listeners respond with different emotions to the same piece of music? Are emotions to music different from other emotions? Why……続きを見る

What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as spectators with the audio-visual? Jean-Luc Godard understood……続きを見る

The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound" functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from the t……続きを見る

In the motets of Philippe de Vitry, Guillaume de Machaut, and their contemporaries, tenors have often been characterized as the primary shaping forces, prior in conception as well as in construction……続きを見る

Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences, a……続きを見る

Sébastien Erard and the firm that carried his name are seminal in the history of musical instruments. Erard's inventions - especially the double escapement for the piano and the double-action for th……続きを見る

Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most intangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significan……続きを見る

Winner of the IASPM Canada Book Prize 2019 Honorable Mention for PROSE Award for Excellence in Music and the Performing Arts 2018 When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relat……続きを見る

The Children's Music Studio provides music teachers, parents and early childhood educators a wealth of materials and a clear roadmap for applying Reggio Emilia principles and practices to preschool ……続きを見る

Awarded a Certificate of Merit at the ARSC Awards for Excellence 2018 In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think about, make and use popular music. From……続きを見る

A guided tour of the mathematical principles inherent in music. Taking a "music first" approach, Gareth E. Roberts's From Music to Mathematics will inspire students to learn important, interesting, ……続きを見る

This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insig……続きを見る

David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is recognized as the seminal work paving the way for current studies in mathematical and systematic approaches to music analysis. Lewi……続きを見る

How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Eucl……続きを見る

Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its applications in polyphonic music within all major branches of Western liturgy. Throug……続きを見る

Ein kleine Einführung in das Verwenden der sog. Tritonus-Stimmung bei Saiteninstrumenten. Insbesondere für Gitarre gedacht & gemacht, aber ohne Weiteres auf alle anderen Saiteninstrumente übertragba……続きを見る

Der zweite Teil der Reihe "Tritonus-Tuning für Gitarre & Saiteninstrumente, Eine kleine Einführung". Wer durch Teil I Geschmack an diesem Tuning gefunden hat, erhält hier einen tieferen Einblick in ……続きを見る

Late medieval motet texts are brimming with chimeras, centaurs and other strange creatures. In The Monstrous New Art, Anna Zayaruznaya explores the musical ramifications of this menagerie in the wor……続きを見る

Teach yourself how to play bass guitar with our easy rock bass guitar lessons for beginners. ***Comes with online access to free bass videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is ……続きを見る