Music Theory, Analysis, and Society

Music Theory, Analysis, and Society

Author: RobertP. Morgan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1351557149

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Robert P. Morgan is one of a small number of music theorists writing in English who treat music theory, and in particular Schenkerian theory, as part of general intellectual life. Morgan‘s writings are renowned within the field of music scholarship: he is the author of the well-known Norton volume Twentieth-Century Music, and of additional books relating to Schenkerian and other theory, analysis and society. This volume of Morgan‘s previously published essays encompasses a broad range of issues, including historical and social issues and is of importance to anyone concerned with modern Western music. His specially written introduction treats his writings as a whole but also provides additional material relating to the articles included in this volume.


Conceptualizing Music

Conceptualizing Music

Author: Lawrence M. Zbikowski

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002-11-14

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 019803217X

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This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the part these play in theories of musical organization. The first part of the book provides a detailed overview of the relevant work in cognitive science, framed around specific musical examples. The second part brings this perspective to bear on a number of issues with which music scholarship has often been occupied, including the emergence of musical syntax and its relationship to musical semiosis, the problem of musical ontology, the relationship between words and music in songs, and conceptions of musical form and musical hierarchy. The book will be of interest to music theorists, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists, as well as those with a professional or avocational interest in the application of work in cognitive science to humanistic principles.


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.


A Theory of Music Analysis

A Theory of Music Analysis

Author: Dora A. Hanninen

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1580461948

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This book introduces a theory of music analysis that one can use to explore aspects of segmentation and associative organization in a wide range of repertoire including Western classical music from the Baroque to the present, with potential applications to jazz and popular music, and some non-Western musics. Rather than a methodology, the theory provides analysts with precise language and a broad, flexible conceptual framework through which they can formulate and investigate questions of interest and develop their own interpretations of individual pieces and passages. The theory begins with a basic distinction among three domains of musical experience and discourse about it: the sonic (psychoacoustic); the contextual (or associative, sparked by varying degrees of repetition); and the structural (guided by a specific theory of musical structure or syntax invoked by the analyst). A comprehensive presentation of the theory, with copious musical illustrations, is balanced with close analyses of works by Beethoven, Debussy, Nancarrow, Riley, Feldman, and Morris. Dora A. Hanninen is professor of music theory at the University of Maryland. She received the 2010 Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory.


The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory

Author: Alexander Rehding

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 849

ISBN-13: 0190454741

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Music Theory operates with a number of fundamental terms that are rarely explored in detail. This book offers in-depth reflections on key concepts from a range of philosophical and critical approaches that reflect the diversity of the contemporary music theory landscape.


Music and Embodied Cognition

Music and Embodied Cognition

Author: Arnie Cox

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0253021677

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Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of the "mimetic hypothesis," the notion that a large part of our experience and understanding of music involves an embodied imitation in the listener of bodily motions and exertions that are involved in producing music. Through an often unconscious imitation of action and sound, we feel the music as it moves and grows. With applications to tonal and post-tonal Western classical music, to Western vernacular music, and to non-Western music, Cox's work stands to expand the range of phenomena that can be explained by the role of sensory, motor, and affective aspects of human experience and cognition.


Analyzing Classical Form

Analyzing Classical Form

Author: William E. Caplin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 759

ISBN-13: 0199987297

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Analyzing Classical Form offers an approach to the analysis of musical form that is especially suited for classroom use at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Students will learn how to make complete harmonic and formal analyses of music drawn from the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.


Composing Capital

Composing Capital

Author: Marianna Ritchey

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-08-05

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 022664023X

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The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage of a wealthy few is being replaced by that of corporations, leading to new unions of classical music and contemporary capitalism. In Composing Capital, Marianna Ritchey lays bare the appropriation of classical music by the current neoliberal regime, arguing that artists, critics, and institutions have aligned themselves—and, by extension, classical music itself—with free-market ideology. More specifically, she demonstrates how classical music has lent its cachet to marketing schemes, tech firm-sponsored performances, and global corporate partnerships. As Ritchey shows, the neoliberalization of classical music has put music at the service of contemporary capitalism, blurring the line between creativity and entrepreneurship, and challenging us to imagine how a noncommodified musical practice might be possible in today’s world.


The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory

Author: Danuta Mirka

Publisher: Oxford Handbooks

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 719

ISBN-13: 0199841578

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Consolidates the research field of topic theory by clarifying its basic concepts and exploring its historical foundations.