Music Theory

The contributions in this volume focus on the ways in which silence and music relate, contemplate each other and provide new avenues for addressing and gaining understanding of various realms of human endeavour. The book maps out this little-explored aspect of the sonic arena with the intention of d..

The contributions in this volume focus on the ways in which silence and music relate, contemplate each other and provide new avenues for addressing and gaining understanding of various realms of human endeavour. The book maps out this little-explored aspect of the sonic arena with the intention of d..

It is the contention of the editors and contributors of this volume that the work carried out by Gilles Deleuze, where rigorously applied, has the potential to cut through much of the intellectual sedimentation that has settled in the fields of music studies. Deleuze is a vigorous critic of the West..

It is the contention of the editors and contributors of this volume that the work carried out by Gilles Deleuze, where rigorously applied, has the potential to cut through much of the intellectual sedimentation that has settled in the fields of music studies. Deleuze is a vigorous critic of the West..

In the contemporary world, the role of the commercial composer has grown to include a wide range of new responsibilities. Modern composers not only write music, but also often need to perform, record, and market their own works. The Craft of Contemporary Commercial Music prepares today’s music stude..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

An introduction and workbook for the analysis and composition of tonal counterpoint. Using examples from J.S.Bach, the author takes students through a series of carefully graded, cumulative exercises that stress analysis and writing. The exercises cover a range of formats, including error detection,..

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Giles Hooper considers a number of issues central to recent debates about the nature and direction of contemporary musicology. The author's underlying aim throughout is to question whether, and how, it is possible to develop a mode of musicological enquiry that is both epistemologically robust and a..

Giles Hooper considers a number of issues central to recent debates about the nature and direction of contemporary musicology. The author's underlying aim throughout is to question whether, and how, it is possible to develop a mode of musicological enquiry that is both epistemologically robust and a..

Richard Dawkins's formulation of the meme concept in his 1976 classic The Selfish Gene has inspired three decades of work in what many see as the burgeoning science of memetics. This study is the first musicologically-orientated attempt systematically to apply the theory of memetics to music. In con..