Musical Structure and Performance
Author | : Wallace Berry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780300237771 |
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Author | : Wallace Berry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780300237771 |
Author | : Wallace Berry |
Publisher | : New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780300043273 |
Author | : Peter Howell |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
This volume provides a wide ranging and up-to-date account of human perception and production of musical structures, with a strong emphasis on empirical investigation, and the cognitive psychological principles underlying the intuitively based theorizing prevalent within the fields of music study. The first two thirds of the book focus mainly on music perception while the final third considers instrumental and vocal production. Topics covered include models of musical structure, recall of melodies, the perception and production of rhythm, the use of contour and internal information in melody recognition, and many more. The integration of state-of-the-art research with relevant background information provides a volume that will be essential reading for graduates, researchers, and advanced undergraduates in music psychology and of great relevance to musicologists and music students. FROM THE PREFACE: Music plays an important part in the lives of people of many cultures, serving as a component of ritual and as a source of recreation. The forms it may take vary from culture to culture and change over time. One integral feature of music that remains constant is that it involves the patterning or structuring of sound. Music theory provides ways of describing structure in music, but to comprehend musical structure fully we must focus on the human activities and capacities that give rise to and respond to it. The chapters in this volume describe recent advances in our understanding of musical structure as it exists in perception and performance. The scope of the volume is intended to be broad. The content ranges from an analysis of systems of pitch organisation in music theory to an account of the constraints on musical structure that may be imposed by the human motor system. The emphasis is on empirical investigation, and the need to base theoretical accounts of musical structure on extramusical principles relating to human cognition. Though the primary purpose of this volume is to convey the "state of the art" in the study of musical cognition, many of the chapters should be accessible to undergraduate students of music and psychology, and contain sufficient background material to provide an introduction to important topics within the field.
Author | : Emily Petermann |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1571135928 |
Analyzes two groups of "musical novels" -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Michael Ondaatje, and novels based on Bach's Goldberg Variations. What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar tothose of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible, essential aspects of music (rhythm, timbre, the simultaneity of multiple voices) to microstructural (jazz riffs, call and response, leitmotifs) and macrostructural elements (themes and variations, symphonies, albums). The musical novel also evokes the performance context by imitating elements of spontaneity that characterize improvised jazz or audience interaction. The Musical Novel builds upon theories of intermediality and semiotics to analyze the musical structures, forms, and techniques in two groups of musical novels, which serve as case studies. The first group imitates an entire musical genre and consists of jazz novels by Toni Morrison, Albert Murray, Xam Wilson Cartiér, Stanley Crouch, Jack Fuller, Michael Ondaatje, and Christian Gailly. The secondgroup of novels, by Richard Powers, Gabriel Josipovici, Rachel Cusk, Nancy Huston, and Thomas Bernhard, imitates a single piece of music, J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. Emily Petermann is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Konstanz.
Author | : Erwin Stein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeffrey Swinkin |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1580465269 |
This book proposes a new model for understanding the musical work, which includes interpretation -- both analysis- and performance-based -- as an integral component.
Author | : Grosvenor W. Cooper |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1963-04-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780226115221 |
In this book, the authors develop a theoretical framework based on a Gestalt approach, viewing rhythmic experience in terms of pattern perception or groupings. Musical examples of increasing complexity are used to provide training in the analysis, performance, and writing of rhythm.
Author | : Peter Howell |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
A study of musical representation and cognition which discusses formal representations of musical structure, addressing pitch, tone, jazz improvization, generative theories, schemata, and performance and metrical structure.
Author | : Cedric T. Davie |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2014-05-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0486172767 |
Clear, elementary explanation of basic forms, Renaissance to 1900, with many works analyzed. Nature and function of concerto, sonata, etc., clarified with nonmusical analogies; illustrated in detailed analysis of specific piece of music.
Author | : Alan H. D. Watson |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2009-01-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0810863758 |
Music performance requires a high degree of physical skill, yet until recently, musical training has paid little attention to the considerable demands made on the mind and body. The Biology of Musical Performance and Performance-Related Injury presents singers and instrumentalists with accurate information on the physical processes that underlie their craft. The book provides a concise overview of the biological principles associated with performance technique while assuming no prior scientific knowledge, making it accessible to both musicians and to health professionals who treat performance-related medical conditions. Author Alan H. D. Watson explains the concepts and techniques of music performance, discussing themes such as posture and the back; movements of the arm and hand and associated problems; breathing in singers and wind players; the embouchure and respiratory tract in wind playing; the larynx and vocal tract in singers; the brain and its role in skill acquisition and aural processing; and stress and its management. Watson offers performers and teachers the tools they need to create a rational approach to the development and communication of technique. He also provides insight into the origins of performance-related injury, helping to reduce the risk of such problems by encouraging a technique that is sustainable in the long term. Each chapter includes several illustrations and an extensive bibliography for further reading. To support the text, a CD-Rom is included, featuring original diagrams that clearly illustrate the relevant aspects of body structure and function, explaining and illuminating key concepts through an extensive set of animations, sound files, and videos.