Treatise on Musical Objects
Treatise on Musical Objects

Author: Pierre Schaeffer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 0520967461

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The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the recording studio. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also on philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, Schaeffer’s essay summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition. Translators Christine North and John Dack present an important book in the history of ideas in Europe that will resonate far beyond electroacoustic music.

Musica Getutscht
Musica Getutscht

Author: Sebastian Virdung

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-07-30

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0521308305

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This early German 'do-it-yourself' manual tells us about music-making in the years just before the Reformation.

Book on Music
Book on Music

Author: Florentius

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780674049437

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Edited here for the first time is Florentius de Faxolis' music treatise for Cardinal Ascanio Sforza. The richly illuminated small parchment codex bears witness to the musical interests of the cardinal, himself an avid singer. The author's unusual insights into the musical thinking of his day are discussed in the ample commentary.

The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft
The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

Author: Professor Ross W Duffin

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-07-28

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0754667308

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Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Book of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist, composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: A Briefe Discourse (1614), and 'A Treatise of Practicall Musicke' (c.1607), which remains in manuscript. This is the first book to bring together both theoretical works by this important Jacobean musician and to provide critical studies and transcriptions of these treatises.

The The Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV
The The Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV

Author: Francesco Galeazzi

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2012-06-21

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0252037081

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A virtuoso violinist, conductor, composer, and a professor of mathematics and botany, Francesco Galeazzi (1758–1819) firmly believed that musical education should be clear, demonstrable, and practical. In 1791 and 1796, he published the two volumes of his Elementi teorico-practici di musica, a treatise that demonstrated both his thorough grounding in the work of earlier theorists and his own approach to musical study. The first volume gave precise instructions on the violin and how to play it; the second demonstrated his command of other instruments and genres and provided comprehensive introductions to music theory, music history, and music aesthetics. The treatise also addresses the nature of compositional process and eighteenth-century concerns about natural and acquired talent and creativity. This volume offers an unprecedented English translation of the second volume of Elementi teorico-practici di musica, with annotations and commentary. The translation is introduced with a study of Galeazzi's life and milieu, the genesis and sources for the Elementi, and its reception through the present day.

ENYA
ENYA

Author: Chilly Gonzales

Publisher: Rough Trade Books

Published: 2020-11-18

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1912722879

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Chilly Gonzales is one of the most exciting, original, hard-to-pin-down musicians of our time. Filling halls worldwide at the piano in his slippers and a bathrobe—in any one night he can be dissecting the musicology of an Oasis hit, giving a sublime solo recital, and displaying his lyrical dexterity as a rapper. In his book about Enya, he asks: Does music have to be smart or does it just have to go to the heart? In dazzling, erudite prose Gonzales delves beyond her innumerable gold discs and millions of fans to excavate his own enthusiasm for Enya's singular music as well as the mysterious musician herself, and along the way uncovers new truths about the nature of music, fame, success and the artistic endeavour.

A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing
A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing

Author: Leopold Mozart

Publisher: Early Music

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780193185135

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Leopold Mozart's Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing was the major work of its period on the violin and comparable in importance to Quantz's treatise on the flute and P.E. Bach's on the piano. This translation by Editha Knocker was the first to appear in English and remains scholarly and eminently readable.

Music
Music

Author: Herb Galewitz

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-09

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 0486110761

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More than 400 memorable quotes about the world of music, from Fred Allen to Oscar Wilde, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Florian Zabach. Wonderful for public speakers or just browsing.