Theory of music & musicology books

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The Orphic I: A Philosophical Approach to Musical Collaboration

The Orphic I: A Philosophical Approach to Musical Collaboration...

Author: Geoffrey Dean ,  Stefania de Kenessey
ISBN: 9783838216294
Format: Paperback
$66.00

This book offers a new interpretation of the Orpheus myth. It suggests a model for thinking about creative interactions...  Read More >>

Streaming Sounds: Musical Listening in the Digital Age

Streaming Sounds: Musical Listening in the Digital Age...

Author: Michael James Walsh (University of Canberra, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032226163
Format: Paperback
$75.99

In a time when music streaming has become the dominant mode of consuming music recordings, this book interrogates...  Read More >>

Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment and Music in Higher Education

Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment and Music...

Author: Sally Macarthur ,  Julja Szuster
ISBN: 9783031503870
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This edited book considers the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship in a higher education...  Read More >>

The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music: Aesthetic of Ambivalence

The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music: Aesthetic of...

Author: Taylor A. Greer (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9780253069283
Format: Hardback
$195.99

At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from...  Read More >>

Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity

Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity

Author: Jan-Olof Gullö ,  Russ Hepworth-Sawyer (York St John University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367633363
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity is a groundbreaking...  Read More >>

Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity

Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity

Author: Jan-Olof Gullö ,  Russ Hepworth-Sawyer (York St John University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367633370
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity is a groundbreaking...  Read More >>

Kalimba. 45 Simple Songs Around the World: Play by Number

Kalimba. 45 Simple Songs Around the World: Play by Number...

Author: Helen Winter
ISBN: 9798880572595
Format: Paperback
$48.81

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Rockin' in the Ivory Tower: Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties

Rockin' in the Ivory Tower: Rock Music on Campus in...

Author: James M. Carter
ISBN: 9781978829398
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Analysing campus archives and college newspapers, historian James Carter traces connections between rock fandom...  Read More >>

Music in Edwardian London

Music in Edwardian London

Author: Simon McVeigh
ISBN: 9781837651603
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon...  Read More >>

Music Making Community

Music Making Community

Author: Tony Perman ,  Stefan Fiol
ISBN: 9780252045806
Format: Hardback
$163.00

Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging...  Read More >>

Music in Edwardian London

Music in Edwardian London

Author: Simon McVeigh
ISBN: 9781837651344
Format: Hardback
$207.00

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Joy Notes: Balancing the Trauma with Triumph

Joy Notes: Balancing the Trauma with Triumph

Author: Niobis Queiro ,  Elizabeth Ann Atkins
ISBN: 9781956879513
Format: Hardback
$87.09

"An inspiring and engaging self-help guide by an Afro-Cuban immigrant and motivational speaker who uses music and...  Read More >>

The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings: Sounds of Home in the Fantasy Franchise

The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings:...

Author: Daniel White
ISBN: 9781032034140
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Author: Heikki Uimonen (University of Eastern Finland) ,  Kaarina Kilpiö (University of the Arts Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781009374675
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element focuses on how music is experienced, articulated, and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. It...  Read More >>

Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana

Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among...

Author: Giorgio Scalici (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy,)
ISBN: 9781350236257
Format: Hardback
$170.00

"""This book explores how the Wana people use music and religion to control their emotions in situations of emotional...  Read More >>

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Author: Heikki Uimonen (University of Eastern Finland) ,  Kaarina Kilpiö (University of the Arts Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781009486934
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element focuses on how music is experienced, articulated, and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. It...  Read More >>

Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music

Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular...

Author: Toby Manning
ISBN: 9781913462673
Format: Paperback
$59.99

From rock’n’roll to contemporary pop, Mixing Pop and Politics is a provocative and entertaining mash-up of music...  Read More >>

Helen Buchholtz: Komponieren zwischen zwei Welten

Helen Buchholtz: Komponieren zwischen zwei Welten

Author: Noemi Deitz
ISBN: 9783412529642
Format: Hardback
$150.48

Leben und Werk einer eigenwilligen Komponistin  Read More >>

Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology: Pioneers and Discourses

Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology: Pioneers...

Author: Iryna Dovhalyuk ,  Tamila Dzhani-zade
ISBN: 9783205219170
Format: Hardback
$229.68

New perspectives on the early European history of what was later coined as “ethnomusicology”.  Read More >>

Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude: On the Genius of the Mass in B Minor

Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude: On the Genius of the...

Author: James Crooks
ISBN: 9780228020639
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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The Musician as Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978

The Musician as Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde,...

Author: Michael Gallope
ISBN: 9780226831763
Format: Paperback
$57.95

An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions...  Read More >>

Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude: On the Genius of the Mass in B Minor

Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude: On the Genius of the...

Author: James Crooks
ISBN: 9780228020622
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has...  Read More >>

The Musical Relationship between Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky

The Musical Relationship between Claude Debussy and...

Author: Professor Mark McFarland
ISBN: 9781648250903
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Stravinsky's influence on Debussy in 1910-13 is demonstrated here in the many modernistic features of such works...  Read More >>

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