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Suspended Music

Author : Lothar von Falkenhausen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520911079
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Suspended Music written by Lothar von Falkenhausen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-03-16 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese made the world's first bronze chime-bells, which they used to perform ritual music, particularly during the Shang and Zhou dynasties (ca. 1700-221 B.C.). Lothar von Falkenhausen's rich and detailed study reconstructs how the music of these bells—the only Bronze Age instruments that can still be played—may have sounded and how it was conceptualized in theoretical terms. His analysis and discussion of the ritual, political, and technical aspects of this music provide a unique window into ancient Chinese culture. This is the first interdisciplinary perspective on recent archaeological finds that have transformed our understanding of ancient Chinese music. Of great significance to the understanding of Chinese culture in its crucial formative stage, it provides a fresh point of departure for exploring later Asian musical history and offers great possibilities for comparisons with music worldwide.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory

Author : Michael Miller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781592574377
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory written by Michael Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1992, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theoryhas proven itself as one of Alpha's best-selling books and perhaps the best-selling trade music theory book ever published. In the new updated and expanded second edition, the book includes a special CD and book section on ear training. The hour-long ear-training course reinforces the basic content of the book with musical examples of intervals, scales, chords, and rhythms. Also provided are aural exercises students can use to test their ear training and transcription skills. The CD is accompanied by a 20-page section of exercises and examples.

Harmony and the Science of Music

Author : Henry Wylde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Harmony and the Science of Music written by Henry Wylde and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music Theory Handbook

Author : Charlie Leadon
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 166573423X
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Music Theory Handbook written by Charlie Leadon and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Theory Handbook is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to mastering music theory for different instruments, providing a ready reference to terminology, sight reading, ear training, directives, and sound. Charlie Leadon, a classical piano child prodigy, wrote the handbook at age ten to help others discover the stimulating, always interesting world of music theory. Learning music theory can improve coordination with the arts and other subjects. As the great philosopher, Plato, said: “I could teach philosophy, science, mathematics, and art, but most of all, I would teach music, for music is all of them.” Highlights of the handbook include a chapter on frequency and decibels, a complete dictionary of musical terms, a complete dictionary of musical directives, and a table of music mastery. In short, this handbook has it all! Whether you’re just getting started playing the piano or need a refresher as you continue your journey, you’ll find this handbook to be an essential resource.

How to Read Music

Author : Terry Burrows
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312241599
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book How to Read Music written by Terry Burrows and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Europe's biggest selling music authors offers an oversize, boldly designed tutorial with CD that teaches how to read music for any instrument. 1,000 illustrations.

The Music Sound

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6042 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music Sound written by Nicolae Sfetcu and published by Nicolae Sfetcu. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 6042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.

New York Musical Gazette

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Musical Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Liveness in Modern Music

Author : Paul Sanden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136155287
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Liveness in Modern Music written by Paul Sanden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music, where liveness is typically understood to represent performance and to stand in opposition to recording, amplification, and other methods of electronically mediating music. The book argues that liveness itself emerges from dynamic tensions inherent in mediated musical contexts—tensions between music as an acoustic human utterance, and musical sound as something produced or altered by machines. Sanden analyzes liveness in mediatized music (music for which electronic mediation plays an intrinsically defining role), exploring the role this concept plays in defining musical meaning. In discussions of music from both popular and classical traditions, Sanden demonstrates how liveness is performed by acts of human expression in productive tension with the electronic machines involved in making this music, whether on stage or on recording. Liveness is not a fixed ontological state that exists in the absence of electronic mediation, but rather a dynamically performed assertion of human presence within a technological network of communication. This book provides new insights into how the ideas of performance and liveness continue to permeate the perception and reception of even highly mediatized music within a society so deeply invested, on every level, with the use of electronic technologies.

Contemporary Music Theory - Level One

Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1476827699
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Music Theory - Level One written by Mark Harrison and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano). The Music Theory series is designed from the ground-up to explain the terminology and musical structures needed for modern applications. Level One is an introductory course which covers music notation, key signatures, basic scales, intervals, modes, diatonic relationships and 3-and 4-part chords. Includes reference appendices, a complete glossary of terms, and hundreds of written theory exercises with answers.

Milton and Music

Author : Seth Herbst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000881547
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Milton and Music written by Seth Herbst and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton’s poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton’s intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that everything in the universe—even the human soul—is made of matter. The Milton who emerges is a forward-thinking visionary who leaped past his contemporaries in conceiving music as a material phenomenon that exists simultaneously as sound and metaphor. Part II: Milton in Music follows two daring composers in investigating whether Milton’s visionary concept of music can be realized in actual musical sound. In Samson, an oratorio adaptation of Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Handel resists Miltonic music theory, suggesting that music struggles to function as both sound and metaphor. By contrast, the twentieth-century Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki composes an iconoclastic opera of Paradise Lost that develops a soundworld of fractured dissonance in which music acts as both sound and metaphor. Recovering Milton’s own high estimation of music from a critical tradition that has subordinated it to the poet’s political and religious convictions, Herbst reveals Milton as an interdisciplinary thinker and overlooked figure in the study of words and music. Driven by bold claims about the comparative treatment of literature and music, Milton and Music revises our understanding of what makes this canonical poet an intellectual revolutionary.

A Handbook of Examinations in Music

Author : Ernest Alfred Dicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Examinations in Music written by Ernest Alfred Dicks and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Handbook of Examinations in Music Containing 650 Questions

Author : Ernest Alfred Dicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Examinations in Music Containing 650 Questions written by Ernest Alfred Dicks and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God in Sound and Silence

Author : Danielle Anne Lynch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532641494
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book God in Sound and Silence written by Danielle Anne Lynch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music, by its indeterminate levels of meaning, poses a necessary challenge to a theology bound up in words. Its distinctive nature as temporal and embodied allows a unique point of access to theological understanding. Yet music does not exist in a cultural vacuum, conveying universal truths, but is a part of the complex nature of human lives. This understanding of music as theology stems from a conviction that music is a theological means of knowing: knowing something indeterminate, yet meaningful. This is an exploration of the means by which music might say something otherwise unsayable, and in doing so, allow for an encounter with the mystery of God.

A Handbook of Examinations in Music Containing 600 Questions, with Answers, in Theory, Harmony, Counterpoint, Form, Fugue, Acoustics, Musical History, Organ Construction, and Choir Training, Together with Miscellaneous Papers as Set by Various Examining Bodies

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Author : Ernest Alfred Dicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Examinations in Music Containing 600 Questions, with Answers, in Theory, Harmony, Counterpoint, Form, Fugue, Acoustics, Musical History, Organ Construction, and Choir Training, Together with Miscellaneous Papers as Set by Various Examining Bodies written by Ernest Alfred Dicks and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Such Freedom, If Only Musical

Author : Peter J Schmelz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190450991
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Such Freedom, If Only Musical written by Peter J Schmelz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life. A broad group of intellectuals and artists in Soviet Russia were able to take advantage of this, and in no realm of the arts was this perhaps more true than in music. Students at Soviet conservatories were at last able to use various channels--many of questionable legality--to acquire and hear music that had previously been forbidden, and visiting performers and composers brought young Soviets new sounds and new compositions. In the 1960s, composers such as Andrey Volkonsky, Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Valentin Silvestrov experimented with a wide variety of then new and unfamiliar techniques ranging from serialism to aleatory devices, and audiences eager to escape the music of predictable sameness typical to socialist realism were attracted to performances of their new and unfamiliar creations. This "unofficial" music by young Soviet composers inhabited the gray space between legal and illegal. Such Freedom, If Only Musical traces the changing compositional styles and politically charged reception of this music, and brings to life the paradoxical freedoms and sense of resistance or opposition that it suggested to Soviet listeners. Author Peter J. Schmelz draws upon interviews conducted with many of the most important composers and performers of the musical Thaw, and supplements this first-hand testimony with careful archival research and detailed musical analyses. The first book to explore this period in detail, Such Freedom, If Only Musical will appeal to musicologists and theorists interested in post-war arts movements, the Cold War, and Soviet music, as well as historians of Russian culture and society.

Elements of Music, Harmony & Counterpoint, Rhythm, Analysis, & Musical Form

Author : Thomas Handel Bertenshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Music, Harmony & Counterpoint, Rhythm, Analysis, & Musical Form written by Thomas Handel Bertenshaw and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sound of Stones

Author : Fang Xueyang
Publisher : Ekho Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3944415442
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Sound of Stones written by Fang Xueyang and published by Ekho Verlag. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on researching the chime stone, a percussion instrument carved from stone that originated in ancient China. In antiquity, people regarded the chime stone as an important musical instrument because its presence indicated the wealth and status of the tomb owners. In the late Neolithic Age, people discovered the differences between each type of stone and their sound qualities. Chime stone manufacture focused on the timbre of the natural stone, as opposed to both materials and sounding based selection in later periods, which formed a part of making a perfect and delicate chime stone. In the earlier period the chime stone was only a musical instrument for producing rhythmic sound, but as time went by, chime stones gradually became melodic instruments and were played with string, wind, and other percussion instruments in ensemble. The book is divided into 10 chapters. Chapter 1 provides a comprehensive view of existing research, sets out the aims of the present research alongside material sources and methodology, elaborates the theoretical framework of the book, and clarifies terminology in both English and Chinese. A summary of the main chime stone finds of the Yellow River andthe Yangtze River valley areas, together with geographical features of these distributions, is provided in Chapter 2. Chapters 3 to 8 contain an in-depth discussion of the chime stones unearthed from those regions, including classification and typology, shape, manufacture, assemblage and performance of the chime stones as well as the detailed tone measurementand analysis. Chapter 9 examines the acoustic properties of chime stones. Chapter 10 looks at the use and function of chime stones, which includes the role of chime stones in ancient ensembles, cultural context, use in ritual music, and the symbolic meaning of chime stones in ancient China.