Theory of Music & Musicology

Underpinning this project is the attempt to grasp the notion behind improvisation and to understand what is actually meant by improvisation its nat...

This study demonstrates how smooth voice leading in music can be effectively modeled using concepts from abstract algebra. Minute voice-leading dis...

This book is an English re-writing of the original Hebrew edition, published by Dvir Publishing House, in 2007, and written jointly with the late H...

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of...

The importance of F.T. Vischer on 19th-century music criticism Musics status as an art form was distrusted in the context of German idealist philos...

How the ordering of the sensible world continues to suggest a reality that no notes or letters can fully transcribe. An ancient tradition holds ...

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All Ab...

From the classical violinist to the hip hop producer, creating music pays homage to principles of harmony. It is not just the sum of the musical pa...

Covering works from the common practice and contemporary periods, the Score Anthology to Accompany The Complete Musician includes eighty-four compl...

Exploring experimental attitudes in musicExperimental Affinities in Music brings together diverse artistic, musicological, historical, and philosop...

Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has pl...

In this, the fifth biography in our 'Extraordinary Lives' series, Beethoven expert Professor Barry Cooper provides a fascinating and compact summar...

In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to ...

Lost for decades, the manuscript of Hermann Beckh's final lectures on the subject of music present fundamentally new insights into its cosmic origi...

Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds. Drawing on...

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents t...

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner''s The Art of Mbira documents ...