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  • Music Psychology

    by Ernst Kurth ...
    Translated by Christoph Neidhöfer ...
    Series series Classic European Studies in the Science of Music
    The first edition of Ernst Kurth’s Musikpsychologie appeared in 1931, and was regarded by contemporaneous psychologists as no less than the foundation for a new systematic approach to the perception and cognition of music. Time has hardly diminished Kurth’s standing as an original scholar with a distinctive point of view. Music theorists, both in Europe and North America, regard him as an ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

    Edited by Thomas Christensen ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
    The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical ... Read more

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  • Mahler

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    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Edmund Jephcott ...
    Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that began with his childhood response to the marches and folk tunes of his native Bohemia.Since its ... Read more

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  • Music, the Arts, and Ideas

    Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture

    by Leonard B. Meyer ...
    Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the direction of music in 1967. ... Read more

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  • Brian Ferneyhough

    by Lois Fitch, Martin Iddon ...
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  • Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes

    Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

    by Robert S. Hatten ...
    "Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning ... Read more

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  • Music as Discourse

    Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music

    by Kofi Agawu ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur? Kofi Agawu's Music as Discourse has become a standard and definitive work in musical semiotics. Working at the nexus of musicology, ... Read more

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  • Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts

    by Ronald Bogue ...
    Series series Deleuze and the Arts
    Bogue provides a systematic overview and introduction to Deleuze's writings on music and painting, and an assessment of their position within his aesthetics as a whole. Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts breaks new ground in the scholarship on Deleuze's aesthetics, while providing a clear and accessible guide to his often overlooked writings in the fields of music and painting. ... Read more

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  • Beethoven

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    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote extensive notes, essay fragments and aides-memoires on the subject of Beethoven's music. This book brings together all of Beethoven's music in relation to the society in which he lived.Adorno identifies three periods in Beethoven's work, arguing that ... Read more

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    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
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  • The Origins of Music

    by Carl Stumpf ...
    Translated by David Trippett ...
    The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and mathematics, Stumpf became one of the most influential psychologists of the late 19th century. He was the founding father of Gestalt psychology, ... Read more

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