Diese Arbeit wurde mit dem Akademiepreis der Nordrhein-Westfalischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Dusseldorf ausgezeichnet. Die Renaissancebestrebungen in der Musikgeschichte einzelner Lander lassen sich in der Wende vom 15. zum 16. Jahrhundert im Verbund mit einer Neuorientierung der Kunste und Wissenschaften erkennen. Dabei gilt auch fur Frankreich, was fur die anderen europaischen Lander festgestellt werden kann: All das, was man gemeinhin unter -Humanismus- und -Renaissance- versteht, ist...
The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's "New Wave" as engaged with the vitality of sensory experience and the affective imagination. As author Daniel Bishop shows, the soundtracks of several key films of the New Hollywood Cinema of the late 1960s and 70s cultivated an array of sensibilities regarding the American past. This importance of the past exceeded the New Hollywood's acknowledged use of genre revisionism as a vehicle for timely ideological commentary. There was a...
The sounds comprising music were selected by hearing. If we survey what was selected from the beginning to make simple western music, and how it developed, it raises a series of questions about intervals and scales, the tone of instruments, pitch, loudness and time, the answers to which must lie in the nature of our hearing mechanism. Not least, this review throws doubt on the role normally attributed to harmonics. A simplified account of how musical sounds are coded by the ear, and of the proce...
For five short years in the 1980s, a four-piece Manchester band released a collection of records that had undeniably profound effects on the landscape of popular music and beyond. Today, public and critical appreciation of The Smiths is at its height, yet the most important British band after The Beatles have rarely been subject to sustained academic scrutiny. Why pamper life's complexities?: Essays on The Smiths seeks to remedy this by bringing together diverse research disciplines to place the...
Flute (Improve Your Scales!) (Improve Your Sight-Reading!)
by John Davies and Paul Harris
Paul Harris's brilliant series of workbooks uses 'finger fitness' exercises, scale arpeggio study pieces, and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence, as well as promoting a solid basis for the learning of repertoire and for sight-reading. An invaluable resource for students!
Three Papers on Handel
A Handbook for studies in 18th-century English Music XXV
Theory of Music Exams 2010 Model Answers, Grade 8
A helpful and practical resource for students and teachers preparing for Theory exams, coinciding with the release of Theory of Music papers 2010. Provides a list of correct answers where appropriate, a selection of likely options where the answer can be expressed in a variety of ways and a single exemplar where a composition-style answer is required.
La serie La teoria musical en la practica, un gran exito de ventas, contiene todo lo que necesitamos saber para cada uno de los grados de los examenes de teoria musical del ABRSM.
Includes the four separate papers from the 2007 Theory exams for this grade, providing essential practice material for all ABRSM Theory candidates.
Der Neue Orpheus Op. 16
Symphonie Nr.5
German language edition of Music Theory in Practice, Grade 4 which contains a detailed list of the requirements for the Grade 4 Theory of Music examination, information which may be needed in the context of the examination, specimen questions and exercises, and guidance on their solutions. Provides a sound foundation for anyone wishing to understand music theory as it is used in practice. Includes a wide variety of music examples are used to illustrate the texts and to provide exercises.
While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming. Either way, a film's score is integral to successful world building. This book lifts the curtain on the elusive yet thrilling art form, examining the birth of the Hollywood film score, its turbulent evolution throughout the decades and the multidimensional challenges to musicians that lie ahead. The history of the film score is illuminated by extraordinary talents (like John William...