Theory of music & musicology books

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Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum: A Musical and Metaphysical Analysis

Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum: A Musical and...

Author: Michael Gardiner
ISBN: 9780367586973
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Michael C. Gardiner examines how classical Neoplatonic hierarchies are established in the Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard...  Read More >>

From the chanson française to the canzone d'autore in the 1960s and 1970s: Authenticity, Authority, Influence

From the chanson française to the canzone d'autore in...

Author: Rachel Haworth
ISBN: 9780367598679
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions

Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies...

Author: Vesa Kurkela ,  Markus Mantere
ISBN: 9780367599393
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Contributors in this edited collection argue that the radical view of the ’impossibility of history’, as well as...  Read More >>

Music in Cyprus

Music in Cyprus

Author: Jim Samson ,  Nicoletta Demetriou
ISBN: 9780367598082
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This edited collection draws its authors from both sides of the island to give a rounded picture of musical culture...  Read More >>

Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados

Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados

Author: Sharon Meredith
ISBN: 9780367599430
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Barbadian tuk music, a type of fife and drum music, has been transformed in the post-independence period from a...  Read More >>

Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove

Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove...

Author: Elodie A. Roy
ISBN: 9780367597962
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Media, Materiality and Memory examines the entwinement of material music objects, technology and memory in relation...  Read More >>

The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes

The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes

Author: Anatole Leikin
ISBN: 9780367599492
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Chopin's Twenty-Four Preludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz...  Read More >>

The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms: The Fall and Rise of a Genre

The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms: The...

Author: Christopher Fifield
ISBN: 9780367599409
Format: Paperback
$83.99

It was Carl Dahlhaus who coined the phrase ’dead time’ to describe the state of the symphony between Schumann and...  Read More >>

The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland

The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland

Author: Michael Wright
ISBN: 9780367597498
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Drawing upon previously unknown written sources and piecing together thousands of fragments of information spanning...  Read More >>

Bulgarian Harmony: In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century

Bulgarian Harmony: In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music...

Author: Kalin S. Kirilov
ISBN: 9780367597856
Format: Paperback
$83.99

There has been to date no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities and an in-depth...  Read More >>

On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music by John Taverner

On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music by John...

Author: Joseph M. Ortiz
ISBN: 9780367586409
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World

SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World...

Author: Keith Howard
ISBN: 9780367597900
Format: Paperback
$83.99

SamulNori is a percussion quartet that has given rise to a genre, of the same name, which is arguably Korea’s most...  Read More >>

This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture

This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular...

Author: Katherine L. Turner
ISBN: 9780367599287
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, irony in popular music being especially...  Read More >>

Sounding Values: Selected Essays

Sounding Values: Selected Essays

Author: Scott Burnham
ISBN: 9780367602710
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume features Burnham's classic essays on mainstream Western music, music theory, aesthetics and criticism....  Read More >>

Small Musical Worlds in the Mediterranean: Ethnicity, Globalization and Greek Cypriot Children's Musical Identities

Small Musical Worlds in the Mediterranean: Ethnicity,...

Author: Avra Pieridou Skoutella
ISBN: 9780367598624
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This is a pioneering study of the complex topics of identity, ethnicity and global processes in children’s musical...  Read More >>

Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania

Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity...

Author: Eckehard Pistrick
ISBN: 9780367598334
Format: Paperback
$83.99

How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to construct social...  Read More >>

Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film

Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories...

Author: Kevin Whitehead (Jazz Critic, Jazz Critic, NPR's ^IFresh Air^R)
ISBN: 9780190847579
Format: Hardback
$83.95

A guide to and history of movies that tell stories about jazz, Play the Way You Feel looks at how on-screen depictions...  Read More >>

Musical Waves: West Coast Perspectives of Pitch, Narrative, and Form

Musical Waves: West Coast Perspectives of Pitch, Narrative,...

Author: Andrew Aziz ,  Jack Boss
ISBN: 9781527550384
Format: Hardback
$160.40

This volume draws together papers delivered at the 2018 meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and...  Read More >>

Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds

Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same...

Author: Daniel Koglin
ISBN: 9780367597320
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Life and Works of Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991)

The Life and Works of Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991)

Author: Beata Boles?awska ,  translated by Richard J. Reisner
ISBN: 9780367599249
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Beata BolesÅ‚awska presents the first book on the life and artistic output of one Poland's leading composers. The...  Read More >>

Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism

Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music,...

Author: Tristian Evans
ISBN: 9780367598044
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Gender, Age and Musical Creativity

Gender, Age and Musical Creativity

Author: Catherine Haworth ,  Lisa Colton
ISBN: 9780367599072
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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