This work celebrates composers and creators such as Harry Partch, Raymond Scott, Leon Theremin, and George Ives, who had to invent new instruments to capture the music heard in their mind's ear. It's subject is the artist's dilemma - how to deliver a new idea through existing media.
This volume offers a foundation course for use by students and teachers. You start at the beginning and advance to the point where you can harmonize and play satisfactory piano accompaniments to familiar tunes.
When the Holy People gave the Navajos the gift of music, they said, ""We'll be in your mountains, we'll be in your songs"". This collection of Navajo music and the accompanying recording is a remarkable collaboration between a university music professor and her one-time student, a traditional Navajo who teaches on the reservation. It is an ......
Musical-Rhetorical Figures in German Baroque Music
Musica Poetica provides an unprecedented examination of the development of Baroque musical thought. The initial chapters, which serve as an introduction to the concept and teachings of musical-rhetorical figures, explore Martin Luther's theology of music, the development of the Baroque concept of musica poetica, the idea of the affections in ......
This collection of essays argues that early music theory is more interesting than commonly held and that its broad and loose definition in antiquity and the Middle Ages allows for the inclusion of a plethora of intellectual pursuits under the heading of "Music Theory".
Ernst Kurth as Theorist and Analyst is the first book length study devoted to the writings of one of this century's most important music theorists. In contrast to previous discussions, Lee A. Rothfarb's study explains Kurth's theories in light of his analyses of specific musical examples. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Kurth approached music ......
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and ......
Do look after my music! Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their cue to reveal and ''look after'' the previously neglected contributions of women throughout the history of Western art music.The first work of its kind, Women Making Music presents ......
Argues that aesthetic theories have often been deficient because they have tried to be too inclusive. This book provides an argument against the relativism of aesthetic judgement in auditory art.
