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The Music in the Data - Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions (Hardcover): Christopher White The Music in the Data - Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions (Hardcover)
Christopher White
R3,785 Discovery Miles 37 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research. The author argues that as well as providing objective evidence, music corpora can themselves be treated as texts to be subjectively read and creatively interpreted, allowing new levels of understanding and insight into music traditions. Each chapter in this book asks how we define a core music-theory topic, such as style, harmony, meter, function, and musical key, and then approaches the topic through considering trends within large musical datasets, applying a combination of quantitative analysis and qualitative interpretation. Throughout, several basic techniques of data analysis are introduced and explained, with supporting materials available online. Connecting the empirical information from corpus analysis with theories of musical and textual meaning, and showing how each approach can enrich the other, this book provides a vital perspective for scholars and students in music theory, musicology, and all areas of music research.

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada (Hardcover): Heather Sparling Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada (Hardcover)
Heather Sparling
R3,771 Discovery Miles 37 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 600 songs relating to Atlantic Canadian disasters from 1891 up until the present and describes the characteristics that define them as intangible memorials. The book demonstrates the relationship between vernacular memorials - informal memorials collectively and spontaneously created from a variety of objects by the general public - and disaster songs. The author identifies the features that define vernacular memorials and applies them to disaster songs: spontaneity, ephemerality, importance of place, motivations and meaning-making, content, as well as the role of media in inspiring and disseminating memorials and songs. Visit the companion website: www.disastersongs.ca.

Classical Concert Studies - A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance (Hardcover): Erik Dorset Classical Concert Studies - A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance (Hardcover)
Erik Dorset; Edited by Martin Troendle
R6,488 Discovery Miles 64 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interdisciplinary field of Concert Studies, offering fresh ways of understanding the classical music concert in the twenty-first century. It brings together essays, research articles, and case studies from scholars and music professionals including musicians, music managers, and concert designers. Gathering both historical and contemporary cases, the contributors draw on approaches from sociology, ethnology, musicology, cultural studies, and other disciplines to create a rich portrait of the classical concert's past, present, and future. Based on two earlier volumes published in German under the title Das Konzert (The Concert), and with a selection of new chapters written for the English edition, this companion enables students, researchers, and practitioners in the classical and contemporary music fields to understand this emerging field of research, go beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and methodologies, and spark a renaissance for the classical concert.

A Philosophy of Playing Drum Kit - Magical Nexus (Paperback): Gareth Dylan Smith A Philosophy of Playing Drum Kit - Magical Nexus (Paperback)
Gareth Dylan Smith
R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The author is a drummer with experience in a variety of musical genres and contexts, with emphasis on rock and related styles. This auto ethnographic Element presents the author's philosophy of playing drum kit. The text explains how playing drum kit matters to this musician and may resonate with others to whom making music matters in similar ways. The Element contains audio files of music in which the author plays drum kit in the ensemble settings described. There are photos of the author's drums and of him drumming. Based on June Boyce-Tillman's non-religious model of holistic spirituality and Tim Ingold's notion of correspondences, the author describes how playing drum kit enables him to experience transcendence - the magical nexus at which Materials, Construction, Values/Culture and Expression meet. Each of these domains, and the magic derived from their combination, is illustrated through examples of the author's live and recorded musical collaborations.

Classical Recording - A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition (Paperback): Caroline Haigh, John Dunkerley, Mark Rogers Classical Recording - A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition (Paperback)
Caroline Haigh, John Dunkerley, Mark Rogers
R1,275 Discovery Miles 12 750 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Classical Recording: A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition is the authoritative guide to all aspects of recording acoustic classical music. Offering detailed descriptions, diagrams, and photographs of fundamental recording techniques such as the Decca tree, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the essential skills involved in successfully producing a classical recording. Written by engineers with years of experience working for Decca and Abbey Road Studios and as freelancers, Classical Recording equips the student, the interested amateur, and the practising professional with the required knowledge and confidence to tackle everything from solo piano to opera.

Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres - Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony (Paperback): Jacomien Prins, Maude Vanhaelen Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres - Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony (Paperback)
Jacomien Prins, Maude Vanhaelen
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates concerning the relationship between music, philosophy, and science, and challenges the view that Renaissance discussions on cosmic harmony are either mere repetitions of ancient music theory or pre-figurations of the 'Scientific Revolution'. Utilizing this interdisciplinary approach, Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony offers a new perspective on the reception of an important classical theme in various cultural, sequential and geographical contexts, underlying the continuities and changes between Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This project will be of particular interest within these emerging disciplines as they continue to explore the ideological significance of the various ways in which we appropriate the past.

Fryderyk Chopin - A Life and Times (Paperback): Alan Walker Fryderyk Chopin - A Life and Times (Paperback)
Alan Walker
R872 R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Save R207 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Voices Found - Free Jazz and Singing (Paperback): Chris Tonelli Voices Found - Free Jazz and Singing (Paperback)
Chris Tonelli
R1,344 Discovery Miles 13 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz voice. It pieces together a history of free jazz voice that spans from sound poetry and scat in the 1950s to the more recent wave of free jazz choirs. The author traces the developments and offers a theory, derived from interviews with many of the most important singers in the history of free jazz voice, of how listeners have experienced and evaluated the often unconventional vocal sounds these vocalists employed. This theory explains that even audiences willing to enjoy harsh sounds from saxophones or guitars often resist when voices make sounds that audiences understand as not-human. Experimental poetry and scat were combined and transformed in free jazz spaces in the 1960s and 1970s by vocalists like Yoko Ono (in solo work and her work with Ornette Coleman and John Stevens), Jeanne Lee (in her solo work and her work with Archie Shepp and Gunter Hampel), Leon Thomas (in his solo work as well as his work with Pharoah Sanders and Carlos Santana), and Phil Minton and Maggie Nicols (who devoted much of their energy to creating unaccompanied free jazz vocal music). By studying free jazz voice we can learn important lessons about what we expect from the voice and what happens when those expectations are violated. This book doesn't only trace histories of free jazz voice, it makes an attempt to understand why this story hasn't been told before, with an impressive breadth of scope in terms of the artists covered, drawing on research from the US, Canada, Wales, Scotland, France, The Netherlands, and Japan.

Easy Organ Classics (Paperback): Rollin Smith Easy Organ Classics (Paperback)
Rollin Smith
R419 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R64 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Selected from authoritative sources by musicologist and organist Rollin Smith, this compilation features such famous works as J. S. Bach's "Pastorale, BWV 590"; Couperin's "Chaconne in F"; and Handel's "Concerto No. 13," "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale." Other well-known selections include compositions by Brahms, Gounod, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Vierne, and Widor.

Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work - The Classical Music Profession (Paperback): Christina Scharff Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work - The Classical Music Profession (Paperback)
Christina Scharff
R1,353 Discovery Miles 13 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender, racial, and class inequalities in the classical music profession? What happens when musicians become entrepreneurial and think of themselves as a product that needs to be sold and marketed? Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work explores these and other questions by drawing on innovative, empirical research on the working lives of classical musicians in Germany and the UK. Indeed, Scharff examines a range of timely issues such as the gender, racial, and class inequalities that characterise the cultural and creative industries; the ways in which entrepreneurialism - as an ethos to work on and improve the self - is lived out; and the subjective experiences of precarious work in so-called 'creative cities'. Thus, this book not only adds to our understanding of the working lives of artists and creatives, but also makes broader contributions by exploring how precarity, neoliberalism, and inequalities shape subjective experiences. Contributing to a range of contemporary debates around cultural work, Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies.

Classical Music Encyclopedia - New & Expanded Edition (Hardcover, New & Expanded ed): Stanley Sadie Classical Music Encyclopedia - New & Expanded Edition (Hardcover, New & Expanded ed)
Stanley Sadie; Foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy; Edited by (consulting) Charles Wilson
R636 R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Save R110 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Classical Music Encylopedia, now fully updated, traces the development of Western music from medieval times through to the twenty-first century. Each chapter begins with an Introduction to the era, followed by an A to Z of the key composers and musicians of the era, with an expert's recommended recording for each entry. Within these, the musical greats - from Mozart to Stravinksy - have more extensive entries. The Styles and Forms sections discuss the many different styles of music, from the earliest notation to the minimalism of the twentieth century, while the development of each era's Instruments is also extensively investigated. Written by many of the world's leading experts in the field, this invaluable encyclopedia is comprehensive, easy-to-use and highly informative - an essential guide for readers of all levels.

Yann Tiersen - Piano Works - 1994-2003 (Paperback): Yann Tiersen - Piano Works - 1994-2003 (Paperback)
R939 R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Save R199 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Piano). 23 piano works from the French musician and composer Yann Tiersen (b. 1970). Includes 6 songs from Amelie (Comptine D'ete No. 2, La Dispute, Sua Le Fil, La Valse D'Amelie, Comptine D'un Autre Ete: L'Apres-Midi, Le Moulin).

Imagining Musical Pasts - The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson (Hardcover):... Imagining Musical Pasts - The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson (Hardcover)
Kristin M. Franseen
R2,845 Discovery Miles 28 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women and Music in Ireland (Hardcover): Laura Watson, Ita Beausang, Jennifer O'Connor-Madsen Women and Music in Ireland (Hardcover)
Laura Watson, Ita Beausang, Jennifer O'Connor-Madsen; Contributions by Laura Watson, Jennifer O'Connor-Madsen, …
R2,146 Discovery Miles 21 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explores the world of women's professional and amateur musical activity as it developed on and beyond the island of Ireland. In a story which spans several centuries, the book highlights representative composers and performers in classical music, Irish traditional music, and contemporary art music whose contributions have been marginalised in music narratives. As well as investigating the careers of public figures, this edited collection brings attention to women who engaged with and taught music in a variety of domestic settings. It also shines a spotlight on women who worked behind the scenes to build infrastructures such as festivals and educational institutions which remain at the heart of the country's musical life today. The book addresses and reconsiders ideas about the intersections of music, gender, and Irish society, including how the national emblem of the harp became recast as a symbol of Irish womanhood in the twentieth century. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 surveys women musicians in Irish society of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Part 2 discusses women and practice in Irish traditional music. Part 3 studies gaps and gender politics in the history of twentieth-century women composers and performers. Part 4 situates discourses of women, gender, and music in the twenty-first century. The book's contributors encompass musicologists, cultural historians, composers, and performers.

Bending the Rules of Music Theory - Lessons from Great Composers (Hardcover): Timothy Cutler Bending the Rules of Music Theory - Lessons from Great Composers (Hardcover)
Timothy Cutler
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For students learning the principles of music theory, it can often seem as though the tradition of tonal harmony is governed by immutable rules that define which chords, tones, and intervals can be used where. Yet even within the classical canon, there are innumerable examples of composers diverging from these foundational "rules." Drawing on examples from composers including J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Brahms, and more, Bending the Rules of Music Theory seeks to take readers beyond the basics of music theory and help them to understand the inherent flexibility in the system of tonal music. Chapters explore the use of different rule-breaking elements in practice and why they work, introducing students to a more nuanced understanding of music theory.

The Music in the Data - Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions (Paperback): Christopher White The Music in the Data - Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions (Paperback)
Christopher White
R1,257 Discovery Miles 12 570 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research. The author argues that as well as providing objective evidence, music corpora can themselves be treated as texts to be subjectively read and creatively interpreted, allowing new levels of understanding and insight into music traditions. Each chapter in this book asks how we define a core music-theory topic, such as style, harmony, meter, function, and musical key, and then approaches the topic through considering trends within large musical datasets, applying a combination of quantitative analysis and qualitative interpretation. Throughout, several basic techniques of data analysis are introduced and explained, with supporting materials available online. Connecting the empirical information from corpus analysis with theories of musical and textual meaning, and showing how each approach can enrich the other, this book provides a vital perspective for scholars and students in music theory, musicology, and all areas of music research.

Expanding the Canon - Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom (Paperback): Melissa Hoag Expanding the Canon - Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom (Paperback)
Melissa Hoag
R1,251 Discovery Miles 12 510 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Provides examples that instructors can readily apply in their teaching, enabling deeper inclusion of Black composers in the music theory curriculum on a practical level This book includes discussion of a wide variety of genres, including: jazz and popular music (including R&B, funk, and pop), string quartets, piano pieces, concertos, symphonies, and art songs Addresses Black composers and musicians working in a wide range of musical styles, including classical and popular works

Music at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr (Hardcover): Deborah Kauffman Music at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr (Hardcover)
Deborah Kauffman
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The history of music at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr - the famous convent school founded by Madame de Maintenon and established by Louis XIV in 1686 as a royal foundation - is both rich and intriguing; its large repertory of music was composed expressly for young female voices by important composers working within significant contemporary musical genres: liturgical chant, sacred motets, theatrical music, and cantiques spirituels. While these genres reflect contemporary styles and trends, at the same time the works themselves were made to conform to the sensibilities and abilities of their intended performers. Even as Jean-Baptiste Moreau's music for Jean Racine's biblical tragedies Esther and Athalie shows a number of similarities to contemporary tragedies lyriques, it departs from that more public genre in its brevity, generally simpler solo writing, and the integral use of the chorus. The musical style of the choral numbers closely parallels that of other choral music in the repertory at Saint-Cyr. The liturgical chant sung in the church was composed by Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, and is an example of plain-chant musical, a type of new ecclesiastical composition written during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, primarily for female religious communities in France. The large repertory of petits motets (short sacred Latin pieces for solo voice), mostly composed by Nivers and Louis-Nicolas Clerambault, are simpler and more restrained than works by their contemporaries. A close study of the motets reveals much about changes to musical style and performance practices at Saint-Cyr during the eighteenth century. The cantique spirituel, a song with a spiritual text in the vernacular French language, played a significant role in both the education and recreation of the girls at Saint-Cyr. Cantiques composed for the girls vary widely in terms of their style and difficulty, ranging from simple strophic melodies to more sophisticated works in the style of contemporary airs. In all cases, the stylistic features of the music for Saint-Cyr reflect a careful consideration of the needs and capabilities of the young singers of the school, as well as an awareness of the rigorous requirements of Madame de Maintenon, who kept a close watch over the propriety of all things relating to the piety, behavior, and image of her charges.

Hans Richter (Hardcover): Christopher Fifield Hans Richter (Hardcover)
Christopher Fifield
R1,771 R1,539 Discovery Miles 15 390 Save R232 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Christopher Fifield's remarkable study explores the personality, life and work of a conductor who influenced and inspired the leading composers, singers and instrumentalists of his day. The Austro-Hungarian Hans Richter (1843-1916) was the first career-conductor to gain international fame. His first appointment was to Budapest, and he went on to dominate music-making in Vienna, Bayreuth, London, Manchester (withthe Halle Orchestra) and other towns and cities in Britain and Europe between 1865 and 1912. Richter gave first performances of works by Wagner, Brahms, Elgar, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Stanford and Parry and helped to further the careers of Dvorak, Sibelius, Bartok and Glazunov. Christopher Fifield's remarkable study explores the personality, life and work of a conductor who influenced and inspired the leading composers, singers and instrumentalists of his day. Originally published in 1993, this revised and expanded edition contains extensive new material in the form of Richter's conducting books. Translated and reproduced in full, they detail every one of the 4,351 public performances Richter gave in a professional life spanning 47 years. Drawing on Richter's own diaries, the book also presents his correspondence with many contemporary composers (Wagner in particular) and performers. Fifield's biography of this seminal figure provides a revealing insight into British and European music and concert life during the long nineteenth century. CHRISTOPHER FIFIELD is a conductor, music historian, lecturer and broadcaster.He is the editor and author of the Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier and Max Bruch: His Life and Works, both published in new editions by The Boydell Press. He has also written Ibbs & Tillett - The rise andfall of a Musical Empire and The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms.

Nocturnes - Piano Solo (Paperback): Frederic Chopin Nocturnes - Piano Solo (Paperback)
Frederic Chopin; Edited by Ignacy Jan Paderewski
R789 R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Save R134 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Preludes - Chopin Complete Works Vol. I (Paperback): Frederic Chopin Preludes - Chopin Complete Works Vol. I (Paperback)
Frederic Chopin; Edited by Ignacy Jan Paderewski
R665 R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Save R104 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Studies - Chopin Complete Works Vol. II (Sheet music): Frederic Chopin Studies - Chopin Complete Works Vol. II (Sheet music)
Frederic Chopin; Edited by Ignacy Jan Paderewski
R891 R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Save R160 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Come Day, Go Day, God Send Sunday - The songs and life story, told in his own words, of John Maguire, traditional singer and... Come Day, Go Day, God Send Sunday - The songs and life story, told in his own words, of John Maguire, traditional singer and farmer from Co. Fermanagh. (Paperback)
Robin Morton
R1,028 Discovery Miles 10 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1973. Folk-life and folk-culture, usually the preserve of the scholar, have been brought vividly and entertainingly to life in these recollections and stories of one man's life in the Irish countryside. This book tells the life story of John Maguire, who died in 1975, including over 50 of the songs he sang, with full musical transcriptions. He was a fine singer, firmly within the Irish tradition, and his songs are the record of a people, their history and traditions, their joys and sufferings, their comedies and tragedies. John Maguire's fascinating story, skilfully and unobtrusively collated by Robin Morton, is full of material that will interest singers and students of folksongs. His songs and music will be of value to all those interested in traditional music and song.

Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work - The Classical Music Profession (Hardcover): Christina Scharff Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work - The Classical Music Profession (Hardcover)
Christina Scharff
R3,895 Discovery Miles 38 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender, racial, and class inequalities in the classical music profession? What happens when musicians become entrepreneurial and think of themselves as a product that needs to be sold and marketed? Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work explores these and other questions by drawing on innovative, empirical research on the working lives of classical musicians in Germany and the UK. Indeed, Scharff examines a range of timely issues such as the gender, racial, and class inequalities that characterise the cultural and creative industries; the ways in which entrepreneurialism - as an ethos to work on and improve the self - is lived out; and the subjective experiences of precarious work in so-called 'creative cities'. Thus, this book not only adds to our understanding of the working lives of artists and creatives, but also makes broader contributions by exploring how precarity, neoliberalism, and inequalities shape subjective experiences. Contributing to a range of contemporary debates around cultural work, Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies.

Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland (Paperback): Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland (Paperback)
Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger
R1,056 Discovery Miles 10 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1977. The Travellers, from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in Anglo-Romani.

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