Musikteori & musikvetenskap

Written late in his life, J. S. Bachs The Art of Fugue has long been admiredin some quarters reveredas one of his masterworks. Its last movement, Contrapunctus 14, went unfinished, and the enigma of its incompleteness still preoccupies scholars an...

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There have been numerous publications in the last decades on the Bible in literature, film, and art. But until now, no reference work has yet appeared on the Bible as it appears in Western music. In The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works...

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The Classical Revolution studies the recent emergence of a new brand of classical music, one rooted in pre-modern tonal traditions. Through polemical essays on the conflict between re-emergent tradition and the usual, bland modern music in which a...

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In 2003, the Korean singing tradition of pansori joined the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a distinctive honor bestowed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Pansori is a mu...

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Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in her Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), Tracy Heavners Saxophone Secrets pr...

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Rock n roll infuses the everyday life of the American adult, but for the first, complete generation of rock n roll fansbaby boomers born between 1946 and 1964it holds a special kind of value, playing a social personality-defining role that is uniq...

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With its unique focus on pacifism, The Big Country was an unusual Western for audiences of the 1950s. Produced in 1958, this epic film featured an all-star cast that included Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, and Oscar-winner Burl Ives. One of the mo...

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The musical scores of Stanley Kubricks films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an important part in his productions, however, the ways in which Kubrick used music to great effect is still somewhat myst...

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Experiencing Berlioz: A Listeners Companion is an in-depth entre into the sound world of Hector Berlioz, recognized today as one of the most profoundly original and engaging composers in 19th-century Europe. Melinda ONeal offers the non-specialist...

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In this innovative resource, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions related to the Philippines during the American colonial era from 1898 to 1946. For the guide, Walsh...

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