Theory of Music & Musicology

’An absolutely masterly work’ Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reve...

Cultural Technologies: Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the Performing Arts presents a diverse range of perspectives from leading scholars and...

For more than 150 years, individuals have traveled the countryside with pen, paper, tape recorders, and even video cameras to document versions of ...

Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, wher...

In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. ...

In this lively examination of youth and their relationship to music, first published in 1994, contributors cover issues ranging from the place of m...

Sound Art offers the first comprehensive introduction to sound art written for undergraduate students. Bridging and blending aspects of the visual ...

For more than 150 years, individuals have traveled the countryside with pen, paper, tape recorders, and even video cameras to document versions of ...

'Communicative Musicality' explores the intrinsic musical nature of human interaction. The theory of communicative musicality was developed from gr...

Western music reached China nearly four centuries ago, with the arrival of Christian missionaries, yet only within the last century has Chinese mus...

Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond represents the first interdisciplinary volume of chapters on an intricate cultural field that can be exper...

Although La Monte Young is one of the most important composers of the late twentieth century, he is also one of the most elusive. Generally recogni...

Cultural Technologies: Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the Performing Arts presents a diverse range of perspectives from leading scholars and...

Earle Brown (1926–2002) was a crucial part of a group of experimental composers known as the New York School, and his music intersects in fascinati...

Body and space refer to vital and interrelated dimensions in the experience of sounds and music. Sounds have an overwhelming impact on feelings of ...