Oxford Studies in Music Theory – serie
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Who Listens?
Experience, Cognition, and Musical Meaning
Av Janet Bourne
Häftad, 2025
345 kr
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Imagine someone who attended a Beethoven Symphony in 1805. Now imagine a listener attending the same symphony today. Both create meanings by relying on previous experiences, but no one assumes they leave their concerts with the same experience. Yet, when analyzing music, we often rely on "ideal …
Pieces of Tradition
An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music
Inbunden, 2016
846 kr
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This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the history of compositional technique, Daniel Harrison contends that the …
A Blaze of Light in Every Word
Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice
Inbunden, 2020
1865 kr
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The human singing voice holds immense power - to convey mood, emotion, and identity in songs, provide music's undeniable "wow" moments, and communicate a pop song's meaning perhaps more than any other musical parameter. And unlike the other aspects of musical content - like harmony, form, melody, …
A Blaze of Light in Every Word
Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice
Häftad, 2020
401 kr
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The human singing voice holds immense power - to convey mood, emotion, and identity in songs, provide music's undeniable "wow" moments, and communicate a pop song's meaning perhaps more than any other musical parameter. And unlike the other aspects of musical content - like harmony, form, melody, …
Enacting Musical Time
The Bodily Experience of New Music
Inbunden, 2020
959 kr
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What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does it enter into our experience, and how do we capture it in our analyses? A compelling approach among works on temporality, phenomenology, and the ecologies of the new sound worlds, Enacting Musical Time argues that musical time is itself the …
Music as Discourse
Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music
Av Kofi Agawu
Häftad, 2014
921 kr
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The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur? Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse has …
Songs in Motion
Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied
Häftad, 2014
884 kr
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Scholars, critics, and performers alike have long been fascinated by the distinctive blend of music and text in the German Lied. Covering works by Fanny Hensel, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf, Songs in Motion synthesizes the most recent developments in song analysis …
Tonality and Transformation
Av Steven Rings
Häftad, 2014
884 kr
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Tonality and Transformation is a groundbreaking study in the analysis of tonal music. Focusing on the listener's experience, author Steven Rings employs transformational music theory to illuminate diverse aspects of tonal hearing - from the infusion of sounding pitches with familiar tonal qualities …
Exploring Musical Spaces
A Synthesis of Mathematical Approaches
Av Julian Hook
Inbunden, 2022
1568 kr
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Exploring Musical Spaces is a comprehensive synthesis of mathematical techniques in music theory, written with the aim of making these techniques accessible to music scholars without extensive prior training in mathematics. The book adopts a visual orientation, introducing from the outset a number …
In the Process of Becoming
Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music
Häftad, 2017
920 kr
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With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's …
Music at Hand
Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition
Inbunden, 2017
1087 kr
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From prehistoric bone flutes to pipe organs to digital synthesizers, instruments have been important to musical cultures around the world. Yet, how do instruments affect musical organization? And how might they influence players' bodies and minds?Music at Hand explores these questions with a …
Performing Knowledge
Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance
Av Daphne Leong
Inbunden, 2020
1582 kr
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How do musical analysis and performance relate? In a unique collaborative approach to this question, theorist-pianist Daphne Leong partners with internationally renowned performers to interpret twentieth-century repertoire. Imaginative explorations of music by Ravel, Schoenberg, Bartók, Schnittke, …
Foundations of Musical Grammar
Inbunden, 2017
921 kr
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In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology. In the culmination of a vast body of research undertaken since his influential and award-winning Conceptualizing Music (OUP 2002), …
Flow
The Rhythmic Voice in Rap Music
Inbunden, 2019
616 kr
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From its dynamic start at dance parties in the South Bronx in the late 1970s, hip hop and rap music have exploded into a dominant style of popular music in the United States and a force for activism and expression all over the world. So, too, has scholarship on hip hop and rap music grown. Yet much …
Organized Time
Rhythm, Tonality, and Form
Av Jason Yust
Inbunden, 2018
2894 kr
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Organized Time is the first attempt to unites theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory of musical form-author Jason Yust …
Hearing Homophony
Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
Inbunden, 2020
1582 kr
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The question of tonality's origins in music's pitch content has long vexed many scholars of music theory. However, tonality is not ultimately defined by pitch alone, but rather by pitch's interaction with elements like rhythm, meter, phrase structure, and form. Hearing Homophony investigates the …
Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era
Häftad, 2018
686 kr
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Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about time in music and science from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Centered on theories of musical meter, the book investigates the interdependence between theories of …
Sweet Thing
The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular Form
Inbunden, 2021
1197 kr
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As children, many of us learn to sing, "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands." But despite the familiarity of this tune, few of us realize that what we're singing is actually part of a pervasive - and centuries-old - musical scheme. This particular pattern, the "Sweet Thing" scheme, has …
Desire in Chromatic Harmony
A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Siècle Tonality
Inbunden, 2020
905 kr
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How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically complex. Desire in Chromatic …
Form as Harmony in Rock Music
Av Drew Nobile
Inbunden, 2020
2045 kr
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Overturning the inherited belief that popular music is unrefined, Form as Harmony in Rock Music brings the process-based approach of classical theorists to popular music scholarship. Author Drew Nobile offers the first comprehensive theory of form for 1960s, 70s, and 80s classic rock repertoire, …
Form as Harmony in Rock Music
Av Drew Nobile
Häftad, 2020
503 kr
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Overturning the inherited belief that popular music is unrefined, Form as Harmony in Rock Music brings the process-based approach of classical theorists to popular music scholarship. Author Drew Nobile offers the first comprehensive theory of form for 1960s, 70s, and 80s classic rock repertoire, …
In the Process of Becoming
Analytical and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music
Inbunden, 2011
1701 kr
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With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's …
Studies in Music with Text
Av David Lewin
Inbunden, 2006
1884 kr
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Hailed by the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2nd edition) as "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation," David Lewin (1933-2003) explored for over four decades how composers in the German tradition set poetry and drama to music. He conceived Studies in Music with Text as a …
A Geometry of Music
Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice
Inbunden, 2011
1583 kr
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Most listeners prefer tonal music to atonal music, but what exactly is the difference between them? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko identifies five basic musical features that jointly contribute to the sense of tonality, and shows how these features recur throughout the history …
Songs in Motion
Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied
Inbunden, 2010
1893 kr
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Qualities of motion and emotion in song come from poetic images, melody, harmony, and voice leading, but they also come from rhythm and metre-the flow and articulation of words and music in time. This book explores rhythm and metre in the nineteenth-century German Lied, including songs for voice …
Tonality and Transformation
Av Steven Rings
Inbunden, 2011
1110 kr
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Tonality and Transformation is a groundbreaking study in the analysis of tonal music. Focusing on the listener's experience, author Steven Rings employs transformational music theory to illuminate diverse aspects of tonal hearing - from the infusion of sounding pitches with familiar tonal qualities …
Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart
Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791
Av Danuta Mirka
Inbunden, 2009
1601 kr
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Playing with Meter makes a significant contribution to music theory and to the growing conversation on metric perception and musical composition. Focusing on the chamber music of Haydn and Mozart produced during the years 1787 to 1791, the period of most intense metric experimentation in the output …
Studies in Music with Text
Av David Lewin
Häftad, 2010
905 kr
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Hailed by the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2nd edition) as "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation," David Lewin (1933-2003) explored for over four decades how composers in the German tradition set poetry and drama to music. He conceived Studies in Music with Text as a …
How Sonata Forms
A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form
Inbunden, 2022
1595 kr
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Traditional approaches to musical form have always adopted a top-down perspective whereby a work's form organizes and unifies the individual parts of the work through an overarching logic. How Sonata Forms turns this view on its head, proposing instead that it was the parts that conditioned and …
Organized Time
Rhythm, Tonality, and Form
Av Jason Yust
Häftad, 2020
1058 kr
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Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory of musical form--author Jason Yust …
