Author: Friend to Stoughton collection of church musicPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Design of Music
Author: Friend to Stoughton collection of church musicPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Design of Music
Author: A. friend to Stoughton collection of church musicPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Inquiry Into the Nature & Design of Music; Being a Series of Numbers, First Pub. in the American Traveller, Signed A Friend to Stoughton Collection of Church Music
Author: Music and Materialism
Author: Robert FinkThe Threshold of Music
Author: William WallacePublisher: London : Macmillam and Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
On Repeat
Author: Elizabeth Hellmuth MargulisPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199990824
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
On Repeat offers an in-depth inquiry into music's repetitive nature. Drawing on a diverse array of fields, it sheds light on a range of issues from repetition's use as a compositional tool to its role in characterizing our behavior as listeners, and considers related implications for repetition in language, learning, and communication.
On Repeat
Author: Elizabeth Hellmuth MargulisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199990859
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music Theory Winner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAP What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" burrowing through your mind like a broken record-repetition is nearly as integral to music as the notes themselves. Its centrality has been acknowledged by everyone from evolutionary biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch, who has called it a "design feature" of music, to the composer Arnold Schoenberg who admitted that "intelligibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition." And yet, stunningly little is actually understood about repetition and its role in music. On Repeat offers the first in-depth inquiry into music's repetitive nature, focusing not on a particular style, or body of work, but on repertoire from across time periods and cultures. Author Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis draws on a diverse array of fields including music theory, psycholinguistics, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology, to look head-on at the underlying perceptual mechanisms associated with repetition. Her work sheds light on a range of issues from repetition's use as a compositional tool to its role in characterizing our behavior as listeners, and then moves beyond music to consider related implications for repetition in language, learning, and communication. Written in engaging prose, and enlivening otherwise complex concepts for the specialist and non-specialist alike, On Repeat will captivate scholars and students across numerous disciplines from music theory and history, to psychology and neuroscience-and anyone fascinated by the puzzle of repetition in music.
Singing for Equality
Author: Cheryl C. BootsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786472596
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Before the American Civil War, men and women who imagined a multiracial American society (social visionaries) included Protestant sacred music in their speeches and writings. Music affirmed the humanity and equality of Indians, whites and blacks and validated blacks and Indians as Americans. In contrast to dominant voices of white racial privilege, social visionaries criticized republican hypocrisy and Christian hypocrisy. Many social visionaries wrote hymns, transcending racial lines and creating a sense of equality among singers and their audience. Singing and reading Protestant sacred music encouraged community formation that led to American human rights activism in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Book of Music and Nature
Author: David RothenbergPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819564085
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A provocative book and CD explore the relationship of music and the natural world.
Music and the Making of Modern Science
Author: Peter PesicPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262543907
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory. In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science—that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptual force in its own right. Pesic explores a series of episodes in which music influenced science, moments in which prior developments in music arguably affected subsequent aspects of natural science. He describes encounters between harmony and fifteenth-century cosmological controversies, between musical initiatives and irrational numbers, between vibrating bodies and the emergent electromagnetism. He offers lively accounts of how Newton applied the musical scale to define the colors in the spectrum; how Euler and others applied musical ideas to develop the wave theory of light; and how a harmonium prepared Max Planck to find a quantum theory that reengaged the mathematics of vibration. Taken together, these cases document the peculiar power of music—its autonomous force as a stream of experience, capable of stimulating insights different from those mediated by the verbal and the visual. An innovative e-book edition available for iOS devices will allow sound examples to be played by a touch and shows the score in a moving line.