Capturing Music
Capturing Music

Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0393064964

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An accessible history of how musicians learned to record music discusses the work of five centuries of religious scholars while demonstrating how people developed methods for measuring rhythm, melody and precise pitch, leading to the technological systems of notation in today's world.

Rationalizing Culture
Rationalizing Culture

Author: Georgina Born

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1995-09-08

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0520202163

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As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. She gives a unique portrait of IRCAM's composers, computer scientists, technicians, and secretaries, interrogating the effects of the cultural philosophy of the controversial avant-garde composer, Pierre Boulez, who directed the institute until 1992.

The Notation of Medieval Music
The Notation of Medieval Music

Author: Carl Parrish

Publisher: New York : Norton

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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This work studies the development of musical notation from the ninth to the fifteenth century.

A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music
A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music

Author: Stewart Carter

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012-03-21

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 0253005280

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Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.

Counterpoint
Counterpoint

Author: Knud Jeppesen

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0486318877

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First paperback edition of classic introductory text features history of contrapuntal theory, technical features, "species" exercises in 2-, 3- and 4-part counterpoint; canon, motet, Mass, more. Includes many musical examples.