Empirical Musicology
Title | Empirical Musicology PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Clarke |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2004-09-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0198037422 |
The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality. But in musicology, the kinds of empirical approaches familiar in the social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being generally restricted to inter-disciplinary areas such as psychology and sociology of music. Rather than advocating a new kind of musicology, Empirical Musicology provides a guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation into the contemporary musicologist's toolkit. Its nine chapters cover perspectives from music theory, computational musicology, ethnomusicology, and the psychology and sociology of music, as well as an introduction to musical data analysis and statistics. This book shows that such approaches could play an important role in the further development of the discipline as a whole, not only through the application of statistical and modeling methods to musical scores but also--and perhaps more importantly--in terms of understanding music as a complex social practice.
Empirical Musicology
Title | Empirical Musicology PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Clarke |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2004-09-02 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 019516749X |
Rather than advocating a new kind of musicology, 'Empirical Musicology' aims to provide a practical guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation into the contemporary musicologist's toolkit.
Experience and Meaning in Music Performance
Title | Experience and Meaning in Music Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Clayton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199811326 |
This book explores how the immediate experience of musical sound relates to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation. A unique multi-authored work that both draws on and contributes to current debates in ethnomusicology, musicology, psychology, and cognitive science, it presents a novel and productive view of how cultural practice relates to the experience and meaning of musical performance.
Systematic Musicology
Title | Systematic Musicology PDF eBook |
Author | Albrecht Schneider |
Publisher | Peter Lang Pub Incorporated |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9783631635537 |
This volume contains articles most of which present empirical studies in the field of systematic musicology. Contributions in particular deal with aspects of melody including modeling and computer-assisted analysis as well as with various issues in sound and music perception, musical acoustics and psychoacoustics. Topics range from loudness perception in 'Techno' music to sound radiation in classical singing styles, and from timbre research to wave field synthesis and room acoustics. One focus of this volume is on pop and rock music, another is on ethno and folk music. In addition to empirical investigations, theoretical and methodological issues are addressed including some fundamental concepts in ethnomusicology and folk music scholarship.
A Musicology of Performance
Title | A Musicology of Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Dorottya Fabian |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2015-08-17 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 178374152X |
This book examines the nature of musical performance. In it, Dorottya Fabian explores the contributions and limitations of some of these approaches to performance, be they theoretical, cultural, historical, perceptual, or analytical. Through a detailed investigation of recent recordings of J. S. Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, she demonstrates that music performance functions as a complex dynamical system. Only by crossing disciplinary boundaries, therefore, can we put the aural experience into words. A Musicology of Performance provides a model for such a method by adopting Deleuzian concepts and various empirical and interdisciplinary procedures. Fabian provides a case study in the repertoire, while presenting new insights into the state of baroque performance practice at the turn of the twenty-first century. Through its wealth of audio examples, tables, and graphs, the book offers both a sensory and a scholarly account of musical performance. These interactive elements map the connections between historically informed and mainstream performance styles, considering them in relation to broader cultural trends, violin schools, and individual artistic trajectories. A Musicology of Performance is a must read for academics and post-graduate students and an essential reference point for the study of music performance, the early music movement, and Bach’s opus.
Expressiveness in Music Performance
Title | Expressiveness in Music Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Dorottya Fabian |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199659648 |
This book brings together researchers from a range of disciplines that use diverse methodologies to provide new perspectives and formulate answers to questions about the meaning, means, and contextualisation of expressive performance in music.
Musicology: The Key Concepts
Title | Musicology: The Key Concepts PDF eBook |
Author | David Beard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2016-01-22 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1317298098 |
Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including: Autobiography Music and Conflict Deconstruction Postcolonialism Disability Music after 9/11 Masculinity Gay Musicology Aesthetics Ethnicity Interpretation Subjectivity With all entries updated, and suggestions for further reading throughout, this text is an essential resource for all students of music, musicology, and wider performance related humanities disciplines.