Theory of music & musicology books

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Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan

Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian...
Author: Ashton Lazarus ISBN: 9780674303430 Format: Hardback	$86.95
What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression offers a new cultural... Read More >>

Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th-Century Underground Music

Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide...
Author: David Keenan ISBN: 9781399624961 Format: Paperback	$26.99
A collection of the multi-award-winning author's best music writing Read More >>

Toward Equity in School Music: Ideas for Practice in Music Teacher Education

Toward Equity in School Music: Ideas for Practice in...
Author: Mara E. Culp (Associate Professor of Music Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor of Music Teaching and Learning, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester) , Karen Salvador (Associate Professor of Music Education, Associate Professor of Music Education, Michigan State University) ISBN: 9780197769584 Format: Hardback	$259.95
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Vienna: A Musical History

Vienna: A Musical History
Author: Simon P. Keefe (University of Sheffield) ISBN: 9781009399463 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Vienna is world-famous for its unique musical ambience and status. This wide-ranging study probes the history underlying... Read More >>

Improvisation as Liberatory Praxis in Popular Music Education

Improvisation as Liberatory Praxis in Popular Music...
Author: Gareth Dylan Smith (Assistant Professor of Music, Music Education, Assistant Professor of Music, Music Education, Boston University) , Zack Moir (Professor of Learning and Teaching in Music, Professor of Learning and Teaching in Music, Edinburgh Napier University) ISBN: 9780197754283 Format: Hardback	$194.95
There is growing recognition that improvisation is a vital artistic and ontological practice that can promote developments... Read More >>

Tuning In: Acoustics of Emotion, Sound Archives, and Contemporary Aesthetics

Tuning In: Acoustics of Emotion, Sound Archives, and...
Author: Elisa Rusca , Paul-Henri Arni ISBN: 9782889157327 Format: Paperback	$57.95
A catalog published in conjunction with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum's exhibition on the... Read More >>

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival...
Author: Anne Sebba ISBN: 9781399610759 Format: Paperback	$24.99
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The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo: Language, Culture, and Song in South Africa

The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo: Language, Culture, and...
Author: Dr. Thomas Pooley (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Music, University of South Africa, South Africa) , Dr. Naomi André (David G. Frey Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) ISBN: 9798765113301 Format: Paperback	$59.99
The first book-length study of South African composer and choral director, Mzilikazi Khumalo, and his role within... Read More >>

Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial...
Author: Lucas Cantor Santiago ISBN: 9798765143179 Format: Hardback	$49.99
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Visual Music: A History and Theory of the Abstract Moving Image

Visual Music: A History and Theory of the Abstract Moving...
Author: Henry Balme (Independent Scholar, USA) ISBN: 9798765128701 Format: Hardback	$190.00
An interdisciplinary exploration of the abstract moving image across various media such as films, concert projections,... Read More >>

Electro Rap: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Reality in the Circuitry of Hip Hop

Electro Rap: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Reality in...
Author: Adam de Paor-Evans (University of Plymouth, UK) ISBN: 9781501354472 Format: Hardback	$180.00
The culture of hip hop shifted dramatically soon after the first wave of studio-recorded vinyl releases at the turn... Read More >>

Ontology of the Musical Work: Scored Music, Jazz, Pop, and Rock

Ontology of the Musical Work: Scored Music, Jazz, Pop,...
Author: Laurent Cugny , Bérengère Mauduit ISBN: 9781496861047 Format: Paperback	$80.99
A redefining of the musical work through a new theory of production and an elevation of recording's unique role... Read More >>

Invoking the Wild Soul of Music

Invoking the Wild Soul of Music
Author: Hélène Grimaud , Stéphane Barsacq ISBN: 9798888502150 Format: Paperback	$39.99
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Ontology of the Musical Work: Scored Music, Jazz, Pop, and Rock

Ontology of the Musical Work: Scored Music, Jazz, Pop,...
Author: Laurent Cugny , Bérengère Mauduit ISBN: 9781496861030 Format: Hardback	$254.00
A redefining of the musical work through a new theory of production and an elevation of recording's unique role... Read More >>

Body of Work: How the album outplayed the algorithm and survived playlist culture

Body of Work: How the album outplayed the algorithm...
Author: Keith Jopling ISBN: 9781917516334 Format: Paperback	$32.99
An alternative history of the album, focussing on the format’s turbulent life through the digital music era since... Read More >>

The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music: Re-envisioning a National Tradition

The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music: Re-envisioning...
Author: Anna Morcom (Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, University of California, Los Angeles) ISBN: 9780197825457 Format: Paperback	$92.95
The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music explores the dynamic social and economic world of North Indian raga-based... Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies
Author: Thomas F. DeFrantz (Professor of Performance Studies and Theatre, Professor of Performance Studies and Theatre, Northwestern University) ISBN: 9780197600832 Format: Hardback	$364.95
The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies encompasses the thinking that considers how people in motion craft worlds... Read More >>

Richard Strauss – Klangfarbe der Moderne: Die Entwicklung der Instrumentationstechniken in den Tondichtungen

Richard Strauss – Klangfarbe der Moderne: Die Entwicklung...
Author: Bardia Charaf ISBN: 9783662729625 Format: Paperback	$131.97
Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht, wie sich Instrumentationstechniken im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert... Read More >>

Soiled Amplitudes: My Musical Composition and Notational Aesthetic in Five Seasons

Soiled Amplitudes: My Musical Composition and Notational...
Author: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz ISBN: 9798295594984 Format: Paperback	$145.20
Soiled Amplitudes is a lively exploration of present-day music composition, traditional and graphical music notation,... Read More >>

Ennio Morricone and the Western Genre

Ennio Morricone and the Western Genre
Author: Dr. Hugh Maloney (Doctoral researcher, Independent Scholar, Germany) ISBN: 9798765126578 Format: Hardback	$180.00
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Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga
Author: Julia Titus , David Racker ISBN: 9783032139993 Format: Hardback	$343.17
Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within... Read More >>

Divine Arabesque: The Influence of Poe, Wagner, and Baudelaire on Debussy's Modernist Aesthetics

Divine Arabesque: The Influence of Poe, Wagner, and...
Author: Matthew Brown ISBN: 9780253074560 Format: Paperback	$197.00
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Unpredictable Encounters: Reconsidering Russian Music

Unpredictable Encounters: Reconsidering Russian Music...
Author: Pauline Fairclough , Peter J. Schmelz ISBN: 9780253075437 Format: Paperback	$116.00
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Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse: Haydn's London Symphonies and Late String Quartets

Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse: Haydn's...
Author: Lauri Suurpää ISBN: 9780253075277 Format: Paperback	$92.99
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Divine Arabesque: The Influence of Poe, Wagner, and Baudelaire on Debussy's Modernist Aesthetics

Divine Arabesque: The Influence of Poe, Wagner, and...
Author: Matthew Brown ISBN: 9780253074553 Format: Hardback	$346.00
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