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Tonal Elements in Music Theory: A Step-by-Step Approach

Autor: Pasquale De Marco

Número de Páginas: 167

"Tonal Elements in Music Theory: A Step-by-Step Approach" is a comprehensive guide to the intricacies of tonal harmony, providing a structured and accessible pathway for musicians of all levels to master this fundamental aspect of music theory. Embark on a journey through the building blocks of tonal harmony, from the basics of major and minor keys to the construction and function of triads, seventh chords, cadences, and harmonic progressions. Delve deeper into harmonic structures, exploring harmonic analysis, embellishments, modulation, rhythm, and texture to gain a profound understanding of how harmony shapes musical architecture. Unlock the expressive potential of harmonic color through extended chords, altered chords, polychords, bitonality and polytonality, and atonality. Discover how these advanced concepts expand the harmonic palette, enabling composers and musicians to create music that is both captivating and evocative. Explore the practical applications of harmonic principles in various musical contexts. Learn how harmony contributes to harmonic accompaniment, counterpoint, development, form, and expression, empowering you to harness harmony as a tool for shaping musical ...

A concise treatise on Music, Musical Harmony, and Thoroughbass

Autor: William Groome

Número de Páginas: 46

The Elements of Tonal Harmony

Autor: Gerald Lefkoff

Número de Páginas: 166

Workbook for Tonal Harmony, with an Introduction to Twentieth-century Music

Autor: Stefan Kostka , Dorothy Payne

Número de Páginas: 246

Tonal Harmony for the Keyboard

Autor: Gary E. Wittlich , Deborah S. Martin

Número de Páginas: 308

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Workbook for Tonal Harmony, with an Introduction to Twentieth-century Music

Autor: Stefan M. Kostka , Dorothy Payne

Número de Páginas: 328

Music, Gestalt, and Computing

Autor: Marc Leman

Número de Páginas: 548

This book presents a coherent state-of-the-art survey on the area of systematic and cognitive musicology which has enjoyed dynamic growth now for many years. It is devoted to exploring the relationships between acoustics, human information processing, and culture as well as to methodological issues raised by the widespread use of computers as a powerful tool for theory construction, theory testing, and the manipulation of musical information or any kind of data manipulation related to music.

Tonal Structures in Early Music

Autor: Cristle Collins Judd

Número de Páginas: 420

Discussion of tonal structure has been one of the most problematic and controversial aspects of modern study of Medieval and Renaissance polyphony. These new essays written specifically for this volume consider the issue from historical, analytical, theoretical, perceptual and cultural perspectives.

Music, Society, Education

Autor: Christopher Small

Número de Páginas: 249

Cited by Soundpost as "remarkable and revolutionary" upon its publication in 1977, Music, Society, Education has become a classic in the study of music as a social force. Christopher Small sets out to examine the social implications of Western classical music, effects that until recently have been largely ignored or dismissed by most musicologists. He strives to view the Western musical tradition "through the mirror of these other musics [Balinese and African] as it were from the outside, and in so doing to learn something of the inner unspoken nature of Western culture as a whole." As series co-editor Robert Walser writes, "By pointing to the complicity of Western culture with Western imperialism, Small challenges us to create a future that is more humane than the past. And by writing a book that enables us to rethink so fundamentally our involvements with music, he teaches us how we might get there."

Musical Theory in the Renaissance

Autor: Cristlecollins Judd

Número de Páginas: 631

This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the differing approaches to this body of work by modern scholars, including: historical and theoretical perspectives; consideration of the broader cultural context for writing about music in the Renaissance; and the dissemination of such work. Selected from a variety of sources ranging from journals, monographs and specialist edited volumes, to critical editions, translations and facsimiles, these previously published articles reflect a broad chronological and geographical span, and consider Renaissance sources that range from the overtly pedagogical to the highly speculative. Taken together, this collection enables consideration of key essays side by side aided by the editor‘s introductory essay which highlights ongoing debates and offers a general framework for interpreting past and future directions in the study of historical music theory from the Renaissance.

The Neural Code of Pitch and Harmony

Autor: Gerald D. Langner

Número de Páginas: 243

Introducing the neuronal mechanisms of pitch and harmony, and the role of neuronal oscillations for brain and mind, this unique title demonstrates that musical pitch is a temporal and not a spectral phenomenon, and musical harmony is not a cultural heritage but a mathematical necessity based on neurobiological mechanisms.

Structural and Ornamental Diatonic Harmony in Western Music, c.1700 – 1880

Autor: Zelda Potgieter

Número de Páginas: 244

This book provides first-year university students majoring in western art music with a thorough study of both structural and ornamental diatonic harmony in the Common Practice Period (c.1700 until the late 1800s). It provides one of the most comprehensive coverages of the topic of ornamental diatonic harmony published to date, and offers ample musical examples to illustrate the concepts explained, as well as exercises in creative four-part writing, analysis, aural development and keyboard harmony to practice the application of these concepts. Understanding the difference between the way chords act at the structural level and the ornamental level explains why rules that apply to one do not necessarily apply to the other, providing novel insights into the interplay between harmony and melody and renewed appreciation for the ingenious ways in which composers throughout the Common Practice Period exploited these techniques.

Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality

Autor: Carl Dahlhaus

Número de Páginas: 406

Carl Dahlhaus was without doubt the premier musicologist of the postwar generation, a giant whose recent death was mourned the world over. Translated here for the first time, this fundamental work on the development of tonality shows his complete mastery of the theory of harmony. In it Dahlhaus explains the modern concepts of harmony and tonality, reviewing in the process the important theories of Rameau, Sechter, Ftis, Riemann, and Schenker. He contrasts the familiar premises of chordal composition with the lesser known precepts of intervallic composition, the basis for polyphonic music in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Numerous quotations from theoretical treatises document how early music was driven forward not by progressions of chords but by simple progressions of intervals. Exactly when did composers transform intervallic composition into chordal composition? Modality into tonality? Dahlhaus provides extensive analyses of motets by Josquin, frottole by Cara and Tromboncino, and madrigals by Monteverdi to demonstrate how, and to what degree, such questions can be answered. In his bold speculations, in his magisterial summaries, in his command of eight centuries of...

Music Theory Demystified: Unlocking the Secrets of Harmony

Autor: Harry Tekell

Número de Páginas: 129

Music Theory Demystified: Unlocking the Secrets of Harmony is your comprehensive guide to understanding the intricate world of music theory. This book breaks down complex concepts into easy-to-understand sections, making it accessible for musicians of all levels. From the basics of reading sheet music and understanding rhythm to advanced harmony and contemporary techniques, this book covers it all. Each chapter is filled with practical exercises, real-world examples, and insightful analyses of famous compositions, helping you apply what you learn directly to your music-making process. Whether you're a beginner looking to build a solid foundation or an experienced musician seeking to deepen your knowledge, Music Theory Demystified provides the tools and inspiration you need to enhance your musical journey. Unlock the secrets of harmony and discover the power of music theory in shaping your compositions and performances. Dive in and start your journey towards musical mastery today!

The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony

Autor: Nancy A. Ritter , Harry Van Der Hulst

Número de Páginas: 1153

This handbook provides a detailed account of the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a pattern according to which all vowels within a word must agree for some phonological property or properties. Vowel harmony has been central in the development of phonological theories thanks to its cluster of remarkable properties, notably its typically 'unbounded' character and its non-locality, and because it forms part of the phonology of most world languages. The five parts of this volume cover all aspects of vowel harmony from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Part I outlines the types of vowel harmony and some unusual cases, before Part II explores structural issues such as vowel inventories, the interaction of vowel harmony and morphological structure, and locality. The chapters in Part III provide an overview of the various theoretical accounts of the phenomenon, as well as bringing in insights from language acquisition and psycholinguistics, while Part IV focuses on the historical life cycle of vowel harmony, looking at topics such as phonetic factors and the effect of language contact. The final part contains 31 chapters that present data and analysis of vowel harmony...

Music Theory for Beginners

Autor: Aventuras De Viaje

Número de Páginas: 126

Play in Perfect Harmony! Music Theory for Beginners is a thorough yet accessible guide. It’s written without confusing terms or jargon, and you can use the concepts to play any instrument in any style or genre. Rather than telling you what to do, it trains your ears and hands to express yourself. You can even use what you learn to produce your own original music on a laptop! Discover how to express yourself through rhythm and notes, because music theory doesn’t have to be intimidating or tedious. Get it now. In this music theory guide, you’ll discover: * How to combine notes and chords in a pleasing way * The history of music theory from the invention of the octave in ancient Greece * How to train your ears for sound, pitch, timbre, and tone * Everything you need to know about intervals—major and minor, chromatic and diatonic * Scales, key signatures, and how they make your song sound lighter or more melancholic * Tempo, bar, and time signatures, and how to use an advanced-level polyrhythm * Steps to transpose any composition from one key to another * Dissonance, consonance, and other creative techniques to build intensity and drama * Tips to compose your own music—or...

Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay

Autor: Kevin N. Moll

Número de Páginas: 442

During the 1950s and 1960s, Austro-German scholars made decisive advances in developing concepts to account for harmonic processes in late medieval music. Despite the considerable potential these ideas hold for analysis and criticism of early music, they have hitherto exerted little influence outside their countries of origin. In order to render this valuable literature more immediately accessible to English-speaking students and scholars, this book presents translations of twelve seminal articles that originally appeared during the years 1948-1967, along with a comprehensive introductory chapter detailing the evolution of competing theories and terminology.

Basic Harmony and Musicianship

Autor: Joe Procopio

Número de Páginas: 67

Basic Harmony And Musicianship is the easiest, least expensive and very best book you can have for Music Harmony and Musicianship because it has an exclusive system developed by the author to reduce almost all chord progressions to two simple chords - on sight! Basic Harmony And Musicianship unlocks the artistry and techniques of some of the world's greatest musicians and answers all your questions about 2, 3, and 4 part harmony, chords, progressions, musical form and more. Clearly. Precisely. Easily. Basic Harmony And Musicianship is the perfect follow-up for the text Basic Music Theory by the same author and teaches you the purpose and function of harmony, chords, progressions, and forms - what they mean, how to use them, how to make them your own - from Bach to the Guitar Boogie - from the Blues to Beethoven.

Mathematics and Computation in Music

Autor: Timour Klouche , Thomas Noll

Número de Páginas: 546

This volume comprises a selection of papers presented at the first International C- ference on Mathematics and Computation in Music – mcm2007. The conference took place at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung PK – National Institute for Music Research in Berlin during May 18–20, 2007 and was jointly organized by the National Institute for Music Research Berlin and the Society of Mathematics and Computation in Music. The papers were selected for the conference by the program committee and classfied into talks and posters. All papers underwent further selection, revision and elaboration for this book publication. The articles cover a research field which is heterogeneous with respect to content, scientific language and methodology. On one hand, this reflects the heterogeneity and richness of the musical subject domain itself. On the other hand, it exemplifies a t- sion which has been explicitly intended by both the organizers and the founders of the society, namely to support the integration of mathematical and computational - proaches to music theory, composition, analysis and performance. The subdivision into three parts reflects the original structure of the...

Computer Supported Education

Autor: H. Chad Lane , Susan Zvacek , James Uhomoibhi

Número de Páginas: 664

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2019, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May 2019. The 30 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions. The papers cover wide research fields including authoring tools and content development, AV-communication and multimedia, classroom management, e-Learning hardware and software, blended learning, critical success factors in distance learning.

Harmony: A Psychoacoustical Approach

Autor: Richard Parncutt

Número de Páginas: 216

My first encounter with the theory of harmony was during my last year at school (1975). This fascinating system of rules crystallized the intuitive knowledge of harmony I had acquired from years of piano playing, and facilitated memorization, transcription, arrangement and composition. For the next five years, I studied music (piano) and science (Physics) at the Univer sity of Melbourne. This "strange combination" started me wondering about the origins of those music theory "rules". To what extent were they determined or influenced by physics? mathematics? physiology? conditioning? In 1981, the supervisor of my honours project in musical acoustics, Neville Fletcher, showed me an article entitled "Pitch, consonance, and harmony", by a certain Ernst Terhardt of the Technical University of Munich. By that stage, I had devoured a considerable amount of (largely unsatisfactory) material on the nature and origins of harmony, which enabled me to recognize the significance of Terhardt's article. But it was not until I arrived in Munich the following year (on Terhardt's invitation) that I began to appreciate the conse quences of his "psychoacoustical" approach for the theory of harmony....

Whole Body Interaction

Autor: David England

Número de Páginas: 219

Whole Body Interaction is “The integrated capture and processing of human signals from physical, physiological, cognitive and emotional sources to generate feedback to those sources for interaction in a digital environment” (England 2009). Whole Body Interaction looks at the challenges of Whole Body Interaction from the perspectives of design, engineering and research methods. How do we take physical motion, cognition, physiology, emotion and social context to push boundaries of Human Computer Interaction to involve the complete set of human capabilities? Through the use of various applications the authors attempt to answer this question and set a research agenda for future work. Aimed at students and researchers who are looking for new project ideas or to extend their existing work with new dimensions of interaction.

Form as Harmony in Rock Music

Autor: Drew Nobile

Número de Páginas: 297

Overturning the inherited belief that popular music is unrefined, Form as Harmony in Rock Music brings the process-based approach of classical theorists to popular music scholarship. Author Drew Nobile offers the first comprehensive theory of form for 1960s, 70s, and 80s classic rock repertoire, showing how songs in this genre are not simply a series of discrete elements, but rather exhibit cohesive formal-harmonic structures across their entire timespan. Though many elements contribute to the cohesion of a song, the rock music of these decades is built around a fundamentally harmonic backdrop, giving rise to distinct types of verses, choruses, and bridges. Nobile's rigorous but readable theoretical analysis demonstrates how artists from Bob Dylan to Stevie Wonder to Madonna consistently turn to the same compositional structures throughout rock's various genres and decades, unifying them under a single musical style. Using over 200 transcriptions, graphs, and form charts, Form as Harmony in Rock Music advocates a structural approach to rock analysis, revealing essential features of this style that would otherwise remain below our conscious awareness.

Learning and Collaboration Technologies

Autor: Panayiotis Zaphiris , Andri Ioannou

Número de Páginas: 300

This three-volume set LNCS 14722-14724 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference, LCT 2024, held as part of the 26th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2024 (HCII 2024), was held as a hybrid event in Washington DC, USA, during June/July 2024. The total of 1271 papers and 309 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 5108 submissions. The LCT 2024 conference addresses theoretical foundations, design, and implementation, as well as effectiveness and impact issues related to interactive technologies for learning and collaboration, including design methodologies, developments and tools, theoretical models, learning design or learning experience (LX) design, as well as technology adoption and use in formal, non-formal and informal educational contexts.

Music Education: An Artificial Intelligence Approach

Autor: Matt Smith , Alan Smaill , Geraint A. Wiggins

Número de Páginas: 177

The research fields of "artificial intelligence and music" and "cognitive musicology" are relative newcomers to the many interdisciplinary groupings based around the centre of AI and cognitive science. They are concerned with the computational study and emulation of human behaviour with respect to music, in many aspects, and with varying degrees of emphasis on psychological plausibility. Recent publications have included work in such diverse areas as rhythm and pitch perception, performance, composition, and formal analysis. Music shares with language the property of giving access to human mental behaviour in a very direct way. As such, it has the potential to be a very useful domain for AI work. Furthermore, in the course of time, AI related work will surely throw light back onto some or all of the fields to which it is applied. Indeed, we are already beginning to feel the benefits of the application of AI techniques to music technology. It is not surprising, therefore, that one of the first areas interest for of musical AI study is that of music education. There are many ways in which an artificial intelligence or cognitive science approach to music education may be applied -...

Musical Revolutions in German Culture

Autor: M. Hall

Número de Páginas: 226

Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persistence of a critical-deconstructive approach to musical production, consumption, and reception in the German cultural sphere of the last two centuries.

Propuestas pedagógicas e interdisciplinares sobre el análisis y la teoría musical

Autor: María Elena Cuenca Rodríguez , Miguel Ángel Ríos Muñoz , Francisco Ruiz Montes , John Griffiths

Número de Páginas: 403

El presente libro es el fruto de numerosas investigaciones sobre las disciplinas del análisis y la teoría musical, áreas de conocimiento que se complementan y se retroalimentan, ya que el análisis musical se basa en la teoría musical para fundamentar sus criterios y métodos, y la teoría musical se nutre del análisis musical para ampliar y revisar sus conceptos y categorías. Las dos disciplinas constituyen herramientas esenciales tanto en el ámbito académico como en el investigador, para el desarrollo de la educación musical, la creación artística, la psicología de la música, la interpretación y otras áreas afines. Este libro no solo ofrece diferentes perspectivas y propuestas analíticas desde el punto de vista didáctico para todos los lectores, sino que también representa una llamada a la acción para impulsar las investigaciones sobre análisis y teoría musical desde diferentes metodologías innovadoras. Estas servirán para abarcar un prisma cada vez más amplio de planteamientos distintos acerca del objeto musical y que responda cada vez más preguntas más amplias, críticas y ambiciosas de los investigadores sobre cualquier tipo de objeto de estudio...

Music, Mind, and Embodiment

Autor: Richard Kronland-martinet , Mitsuko Aramaki , Sølvi Ystad

Número de Páginas: 492

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2015, held in Plymouth, UK, in June 2015. The 30 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. This year’s post symposium edition contains peer-reviewed and revised articles centered around the conference theme “Music, Mind, and Embodiment”. It is divided into 6 sections devoted to various sound and technology issues with a particular emphasis on performance, music generation, composition, analysis and information retrieval, as well as relations between sound, motion and gestures and human perception and culture.

In Praise of Harmony

Autor: Floyd Kersey Grave

Número de Páginas: 358

In Praise of Harmony is the first critical and biographical study of Vogler to appear in English.

Metaphors of Depth in German Musical Thought

Autor: Holly Watkins

Número de Páginas: 351

What does it mean to say that music is deeply moving? Or that music's aesthetic value derives from its deep structure? This study traces the widely employed trope of musical depth to its origins in German-language music criticism and analysis. From the Romantic aesthetics of E. T. A. Hoffmann to the modernist theories of Arnold Schoenberg, metaphors of depth attest to the cross-pollination of music with discourses ranging from theology, geology and poetics to psychology, philosophy and economics. The book demonstrates that the persistence of depth metaphors in musicology and music theory today is an outgrowth of their essential role in articulating and transmitting Germanic cultural values. While musical depth metaphors have historically served to communicate German nationalist sentiments, Watkins shows that an appreciation for the broad connotations of those metaphors opens up exciting new avenues for interpretation.

Musicking

Autor: Christopher Small

Número de Páginas: 241

Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he terms "musicking," a verb that encompasses all musical activity from composing to performing to listening to a Walkman to singing in the shower. Using Gregory Bateson's philosophy of mind and a Geertzian thick description of a typical concert in a typical symphony hall, Small demonstrates how musicking forms a ritual through which all the participants explore and celebrate the relationships that constitute their social identity. This engaging and deftly written trip through the concert hall will have readers rethinking every aspect of their musical worlds.

The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures

Autor: David Temperley

Número de Páginas: 432

In this book, David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition: how do we extract basic kinds of musical information, such as meter, phrase structure, counterpoint, pitch spelling, harmony, and key from music as we hear it? Taking a computational approach, Temperley develops models for generating these aspects of musical structure. The models he proposes are based on preference rules, which are criteria for evaluating a possible structural analysis of a piece of music. A preference rule system evaluates many possible interpretations and chooses the one that best satisfies the rules. After an introductory chapter, Temperley presents preference rule systems for generating six basic kinds of musical structure: meter, phrase structure, contrapuntal structure, harmony, and key, as well as pitch spelling (the labeling of pitch events with spellings such as A flat or G sharp). He suggests that preference rule systems not only show how musical structures are inferred, but also shed light on other aspects of music. He substantiates this claim with discussions of musical ambiguity, retrospective revision, expectation, and music outside the Western canon (rock and...

Musical Networks

Autor: Niall Griffith , Peter M. Todd

Número de Páginas: 422

This volume presents the most up-to-date collection of neural network models of music and creativity gathered together in one place. Chapters by leaders in the field cover new connectionist models of pitch perception, tonality, musical streaming, sequential and hierarchical melodic structure, composition, harmonization, rhythmic analysis, sound generation, and creative evolution. The collection combines journal papers on connectionist modeling, cognitive science, and music perception with new papers solicited for this volume. It also contains an extensive bibliography of related work. Contributors Shumeet Baluja, M.I. Bellgard, Michael A. Casey, Garrison W. Cottrell, Peter Desain, Robert O. Gjerdingen, Mike Greenhough, Niall Griffith, Stephen Grossberg, Henkjan Honing, Todd Jochem, Bruce F. Katz, John F. Kolen, Edward W. Large, Michael C. Mozer, Michael P.A. Page, Caroline Palmer, Jordan B. Pollack, Dean Pomerleau, Stephen W. Smoliar, Ian Taylor, Peter M. Todd, C.P. Tsang, Gregory M. Werner