Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies
Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies

Author: Antoine Hennion

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1000381951

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This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor completely relative, but emerge from an intensely collective process of construction. Applied to the study of music, this approach enables us to reconcile the human, social, factual, and technological aspects of the musical world, and opens the prospect of new areas of inquiry in musicology and sound studies. Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies draws together a wide range of both leading and emerging scholars to offer a critical survey of STS applications to music studies, considering topics ranging from classical music instrument-making to the ethos of DIY in punk music. The book’s four sections focus on key areas of music study that are impacted by STS: organology, sound studies, music history, and epistemology. Raising crucial methodological and epistemological questions about the study of music, this book will be relevant to scholars studying the interactions between music, culture, and technology from many disciplinary perspectives.

Studies in Music with Text
Studies in Music with Text

Author: David Lewin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-01-05

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0198040180

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Throughout his career, David Lewin labored to make even the most abstract theory speak to the experience of the ordinary listener. This book combines many of Lewin's classic articles on song and opera with newly drafted chapters on songs of Brahms, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Milton Babbitt. Bound together by Lewin's cogent insight, the resulting collection constitutes a major statement concerning the methodological problems associated with interpretation of texted music.

The Act of Musical Composition
The Act of Musical Composition

Author: Dr Dave Collins

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-12-28

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1409471314

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The study of musical composition has, in the main, been informed by anecdotal after-the-event accounts or post hoc analyses of composition. This book presents the first coherent exploration around this unique aspect of human creative activity. The central threads, or key themes - compositional process, creative thinking and problem-solving - are integrated by the combination of theoretical understandings of creativity with innovative empirical work.

Analytical Studies in World Music
Analytical Studies in World Music

Author: Michael Tenzer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-05-25

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780198039587

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Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, Analytical Studies in World Music offers fresh perspectives for thinking about how musical sounds are shaped, arranged, and composed by their diverse makers worldwide. Eleven inspired, insightful, and in-depth explanations of Iranian sung poetry, Javanese and Balinese gamelan music, Afro-Cuban drumming, flamenco, modern American chamber music, and a wealth of other genres create a border-erasing compendium of ingenious music analyses. Selections on the companion website are carefully matched with extensive transcriptions and illuminating diagrams in every chapter. Opening rich cross-cultural perspectives on music, this volume addresses the practical needs of students and scholars in the contemporary world of fusions, contact, borrowing, and curiosity about music everywhere.

Advances in Social-psychology and Music Education Research
Advances in Social-psychology and Music Education Research

Author: Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1409422771

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"A festschrift that honors the career of Charles P Schmidt on the occasion of his retirement from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. It includes chapters that recognize the influence of Schmidt as a researcher, a research reviewer, and a research mentor, and contributes to the advancement of the social-psychological model."--Publisher.

Hearing Luxe Pop
Hearing Luxe Pop

Author: John Howland

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0520300106

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"Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that has long thrived in American popular music. John Howland presents an alternative music history that centers on shifts in timbre and sound through innovative uses of media, orchestration, and arranging. He travels from symphonic jazz to the Great American Songbook; teenage symphonies of the Motown label and 1960s girl groups to the emerging "countrypolitan" sound of Nashville; the sunshine pop and baroque pop of the Beach Boys to the blending of soul and funk into 1970s disco; the hip-hop-with-orchestra events of Jay-Z and Kanye West to indie rock bands with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The luxe aesthetic merges popular-music idioms with lush string orchestrations, big-band instrumentation, and symphonic instruments. This book attunes readers to hearing the discourses that gathered around the music and its associated images, and in turn examines pop's relations to aspirational consumer culture, spectacle, theatricality, glamour, sophistication, cosmopolitanism, and "classy" lifestyles"--

Case Studies in Music Education
Case Studies in Music Education

Author: Frank Abrahams

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781579995911

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This book is about making the journey as a music teacher, about the critical real-world problems and conflicts music teachers face that rarely seem to get any notice in college or graduate school music courses. How should a music teacher balance learning and performing? What is the best way to handle an angry parent? What are the consequences of the grades teachers assign? What are the best ways to discipline students? How should teachers relate to the administrators and to other teachers? What if the school is breaking copyright laws? These are just a few of the issues covered in this book. The emphasis here is not on the solution, but on the process. There are many viable approaches to nearly every obstacle, but before any meaningful long-term solutions can be made, teachers must identify their own personal philosophy of music education and recognize those traits that are admirable in another's style. This book is one that will engage you and help you become a more effective music teacher.

Performative Analysis
Performative Analysis

Author: Jeffrey Swinkin

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1580465269

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This book proposes a new model for understanding the musical work, which includes interpretation -- both analysis- and performance-based -- as an integral component.

Music Education
Music Education

Author: Clint Randles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1317692179

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Education involving music is a multifaceted and ever-altering challenge. As new media, technologies, and pedagogies are developed, academics and practitioners must make sure that they are aware of current trends and where they might lead. This book features studies on the future of music education from emerging scholars in the field. These studies are then supplemented by commentaries from established leaders of the music education community. Music Education covers topics such as music and leisure, new forms of media in music teaching and learning, the role of technology in music learning, popular music tuition in the expansion of curricular offering, and assessment of music education research. As such, it is an excellent reference for scholars and teachers as well as guide to the future of the discipline.

Musical Creativity: Insights from Music Education Research
Musical Creativity: Insights from Music Education Research

Author: Dr Oscar Odena

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-01-28

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1409495086

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How do we develop musical creativity? How is musical creativity nurtured in collaborative improvisation? How is it used as a communicative tool in music therapy? This comprehensive volume offers new research on these questions by an international team of experts from the fields of music education, music psychology and music therapy. The book celebrates the rich diversity of ways in which learners of all ages develop and use musical creativity. Contributions focus broadly on the composition/improvisation process, considering its conceptualization and practices in a number of contexts. The authors examine how musical creativity can be fostered in formal settings, drawing examples from primary and secondary schools, studio, conservatoire and university settings, as well as specialist music schools and music therapy sessions. These essays will inspire readers to think deeply about musical creativity and its development. The book will be of crucial interest to music educators, policy makers, researchers and students, as it draws on applied research from across the globe, promoting coherent and symbiotic links between education, music and psychology research.