Author: John PaynterPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415086950
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought
Author: John PaynterPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415086950
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought: People and music. Music and people : the import of structure and form
Author: John PaynterCompanion to Contemporary Musical Thought
Author: John PaynterCompanion to Contemporary Musical Thought
Author: John PaynterThe Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical
Author: Jessica SternfeldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138684614
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary American Stage Musical is dedicated to the stage musical¿s changing, evolving relationship to American culture in the very late 20thand early 21st centuries. In the past decade-and-a-half, international scholars from an ever-widening number of disciplines and specializations have been actively contributing to the burgeoning, consciously interdisciplinary field of musical theater studies. American musicals have served to mirror the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural tenor of the times¿not just reflecting culture, they have helped shape and influence it. A genre that may seem, at first glance, to be light-hearted and escapist serves also as a bold commentary on society. Forty-five essays examine the American stage musical as an ever-shifting product of an ever-changing culture, and collectively shed new light on the American musical as a thriving, contemporary performing arts genre that could have died out in the post-Tin Pan Alley era, but instead has managed to remain culturally viable and influential, in part by newly embracing a series of complex contradictions. At present, the American stage musical is a live, localized, old-fashioned genre that has simultaneously developed into an increasingly globalized, tech-savvy, intensely mediated mass entertainment form. Similarly, as it has become increasingly international in its scope and appeal, the stage musical has also become more firmly rooted to Broadway¿the idea, if not the place¿and thus branded as a quintessentially American entertainment.
Time in Contemporary Musical Thought
Author: Jonathan D. KramerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134350937
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The articles in this collection create an interdisciplinary perspective. While attempting no unified vision, it approaches the subject from a variety of perspectives: aesthetics, psychology, sociology, ethnomusicology, compositional practice, and semiotics. While all composers are necessarily concerned with time, and while all theorists deal at least indirectly with music as a temporal phenomenon, the study of musical time has been fragmented. It is appropriate that no clear paradigm, model or direction has yet emerged in the study of muscial time, since time itself is both pervasive and elusive.
Poetry of Reality
Author: Katherine NormanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135304319
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Renaissance Music
Author: Kenneth KreitnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351551477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
We know what, say, a Josquin mass looks like but what did it sound like? This is a much more complex and difficult question than it may seem. Kenneth Kreitner has assembled twenty articles, published between 1946 and 2009, by scholars exploring the performance of music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection includes works by David Fallows, Howard Mayer Brown, Christopher Page, Margaret Bent, and others covering the voices-and-instruments debate of the 1980s, the performance of sixteenth-century sacred and secular music, the role of instrumental ensembles, and problems of pitch standards and musica ficta. Together the papers form not just a comprehensive introduction to the issues of renaissance performance practice, but a compendium of clear thinking and elegant writing about a perpetually intriguing period of music history.
Classical and Romantic Music
Author: David MilsomPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351571745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
This volume brings together twenty-two of the most diverse and stimulating journal articles on classical and romantic performing practice, representing a rich vein of enquiry into epochs of music still very much at the forefront of current concert repertoire. In so doing, it provides a wide range of subject-based scholarship. It also reveals a fascinating window upon the historical performance debate of the last few decades in music where such matters still stimulate controversy.
Understanding the Art of Sound Organization
Author: Leigh LandyPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262260905
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The first work to propose a comprehensive musicological framework to study sound-based music, a rapidly developing body of work that includes electroacoustic art music, turntable composition, and acoustic and digital sound installations. The art of sound organization, also known as electroacoustic music, uses sounds not available to traditional music making, including prerecorded, synthesized, and processed sounds. The body of work of such sound-based music (which includes electroacoustic art music, turntable composition, computer games, and acoustic and digital sound installations) has developed more rapidly than its musicology. Understanding the Art of Sound Organization proposes the first general foundational framework for the study of the art of sound organization, defining terms, discussing relevant forms of music, categorizing works, and setting sound-based music in interdisciplinary contexts. Leigh Landy's goal in this book is not only to create a theoretical framework but also to make the work more accessible—to suggest a way to understand sound-based music, to give a listener what he terms “something to hold on to,” for example, by connecting elements in a work to everyday experience. Landy considers the difficulties of categorizing works and discusses such types of works as sonic art and electroacoustic music, pointing out where they overlap and how they are distinctive. He proposes a “sound-based music paradigm” that transcends such traditional categories as art and pop music. Landy defines patterns that suggest a general framework and places the studies of sound-based music into interdisciplinary contexts, from acoustics to semiotics, proposing a holistic research approach that considers the interconnectedness of a given work's history, theory, technological aspects, and social impact. The author's ElectroAcoustic Resource Site (EARS, www.ears.dmu.ac.uk), the architecture of which parallels this book's structure, offers updated bibliographic resource abstracts and related information.