E-book Music : Arts Education

The arts are organised expressions of ideas, feelings and experiences in images, in music, in language, in gesture and in movement. They provide for sensory, emotional, intellectual and creative enrichment and contribute to the child’s holistic development. Much of what is finest in society is developed through a variety of art forms which contribute to cultural ethos and to a sense of well-b…

E-book Music and its Narrative Potential

“Music and its Narrative Potential” is a book about musical stories. It is a collection of thoughts on how music evokes narratives through its own medium-specific strategies. This book is a versatile consideration of narratives expressed through music. There are several threads that flow and recur through its different chapters, namely contemporary music, interdisciplinary approaches, conte…

E-book The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century

In recent research, there has been growing emphasis on the collaborative, social, and collective nature of musical behaviour and practices. Among the emerging hypotheses in this connection are the idea that listening to music is always listening together and being with the other; that music making is a matter of intercorporeality, mutuality, and emphatic attunement; and that creative agency in …

E-book The Performance Practice of Electroacoustic Music : The Studio di Fono…

fter more than 60 years, the term performance practice in the context of elec-troacoustic music seems to be established in professional circles.1 However, the notion of the interpretation of electroacoustic music, at least of its purely electronic, non-instrumental parts, is not self-evident for experienced audiences and even for professional musicians who are not familia…

E-book Musician Vol. 1

Music notation is a symbolic language that is designed to illustrate the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic elements of music. Pitch refers to the relative highness or lowness of a performed sound. In western tonal music, these pitches have designated note names C, D, E, F, G, A and B that occur in ascending and descending fashion. In music notation, note symbols are used to describe the particula…

E-book The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old Cat…

E-book The Classical Music Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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E-book The Legacy of Elise Hall : Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and the…

It was in November 2021 that we shared the intriguing idea of co-editing a book project on the historical figure of saxophonist Elise Hall. After sending several messages back and forth, we finally found a mutually agreeable time for a video meeting. Kurt was at his home in Brussels, while Adrianne was in Chicago, a sev-en-hour time difference. We had first met at a conference in 2016, “Prepo…

E-book Hip-hop History : From the Streets to the Mainstream

Hip hop is more than music; it’s a cultural movement that incorporates different elements of art. Four foundational elements characterize hip hop culture. The original four main pillars of hip hop include DJing/turntablism, MCing/rapping, Bboying/breaking, and visual/graffiti art. These forms of expression have also developed into further subcultures with lasting legacies. The intersection of…

E-book History of Rock & Roll 1950

By the mid-1950s, rock and roll had become wildly popular across the color line. A number of factors contributed: This was in part because white teens secretly tuned in to black radio stations to hear the new sound. Scrambling to fill airtime due to increasing competition from television, white radio networks were more willing to turn to music which was outside of the mainstream, including up-a…