The Grosse Fuge, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in his late period, has an involved and complicated history. Written for a string quartet but published as an independent work, the piece raises...
A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks...
Frederick Delius' (1862-1934) music has proved impervious to analytical definition. Delius's approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts are all highly individual, not to say...
What role did sacred music play in mediating Louis XIII's grip on power in the early seventeenth century? How can a study of music as 'sounding liturgy' contribute to the wider discourse on...
A particularly iconic image of German Reunification is that of Mstislav Rostropovich playing from J. S. Bach's cello suites in front of the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989. Thirty years on, it is...
If you are researching Arduino Music projects, you want to deeply study about instruments. Let's read this book, It can teach you about a Theremin, a Drum Machine, a Jukebox, Sequencer and more to...
Sound Art offers the first comprehensive introduction to sound art written for undergraduate students. Bridging and blending aspects of the visual and sonic arts, modern sound art first emerged in...
Phonographs, tapes, stereo LPs, digital remix - how did these remarkable technologies impact American writing? This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our...
Many educators already know that hip-hop can be a powerful tool for engaging students. But can hip-hop save our schools-and our society? Hip-Hop Genius 2.0 introduces an iteration of hip-hop...
In her follow-up to "Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers", Bonnie Blanchard offers students a set of tools for their musical lives that will help them stay engaged, even...
Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work...
If you are researching Arduino Music projects, you want to deeply study about instruments. Let's read this book, It can teach you about a Theremin, a Drum Machine, a Jukebox, Sequencer and more to...
The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory and practice. Musicians listen, play, and then listen more profoundly in order to play differently, adapt the body, and...
International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, through displays of physical objects, the full...
This collection investigates the concept of modernity in music and its multiple interpretations in Europe and Asia. Through contributions by both European and Asian musicologists it discusses how a...