Companion to contemporary musical thought / [print]
edited by John Paynter ... [and others.
- London ; New York : Routledge, (c)1992.
- 2 volume (xxxviii, 1208 pages) : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Volume 1. Music, the modern world, and the burden of history Part I : People and music. Music and people : the import of structure and form Music, non-music and the soundscape Music in concert and music in the background : two poles of musical realization Public performance and the concert as categories of musical action What makes music musical? / Keith Swanwick -- The action value of musical experience and learning Music as cultural text Music and the arts in pre-Renaissance and Renaissance worship : a question of "expression" / Peter Le Huray -- Handel's ghost : the composer's posthumous reputation in the eighteenth century On patronage : "Musick, that mind-tempering art" / Anthony Rooley -- Cloverleaf : a little narrative with several "off-ramps" / Lou Harrison -- Speculative music : the numbers behind the notes Text, context, music On making music out of music Verso-l'uno Wilfrid Mellers -- John Paynter -- R. Murray Schafer -- Hanns-Werner Heister -- Imgard Bontinck -- Thomas A. Regelski -- John Shepherd -- Ellen T. Harris -- Joscelyn Godwin -- Istvan Anhalt -- Edwin London -- Walter Branchi. Part II : The technology of music. Musical, cultural and educational implications of digital technology A technological approach to music Towards a new age in the technology of computer music Electroacoustic music and the soundscape : the inner and outer world Composition with machines Artistic necessity, context orientation, configurable space Flying through a musical space : about real-time composition Music and image on film and video : an absolute alternative New musical instruments in the computer age : amplified performance systems and related examples of low-level technology The listening imagination : listening in the electroacoustic era Composers and audiences : new relationships in the technological age Music and technology : problems and possibilities Composing sounds with computers Richard Orton -- F. Richard Moore -- Peter Manning -- Barry Truax -- Curtis Roads -- Craig R. Harris -- Joel Chadabe -- David Kershaw -- Hugh Davies -- Denis Smalley -- Bruce Pennycook -- Trevor Wishart -- Jean-Claude Risset. Volume 2. Part III : The structure of music. Does it really mean anything? Some aspects of musical meaning Musical analysis : commentaries Analysis and psychoanalysis : Wagner's musical metaphors Analysis and performance : the search for a middleground Analysis and the computer New directions : the conception and development of a composition Morty Feldman is dead From improvisation to composition Improvisation Improvisation, cognition and education Psychological structures in music : core research 1980-1990 Aural training : material and method Aspects of melody : an examination of the structure of Jewish and Gregorian chants Music, number and rhetoric in the early Middle Ages Lorentz Reitan -- Jonathan Dunsby -- Christopher Wintle -- Tim Howell -- Robert Sherlaw-Johnson -- Jonathan Harvey -- James Fulkerson -- Richard Orton -- Neil Sorrell -- Eric F. Clarke -- John A. Sloboda -- George Pratt -- Yehezkel Braun -- John Stevens. Part IV : The interpretation of music. Oratory and performance Present and past : intermediaries and interpreters Performance practice studies : some current approaches to the Early Music phenomenon Renaissance attitudes to performance : a contemporary application Musical instruments and performers of the past Pst ... Pst ... are you listening? Hearing voices from yesterday Historical approaches to violin playing Vocal consort style and tunings Authentic pronunciation for Early Music Liturgical reconstructions : an apologia and some guidelines Producer for Early Music : a cog in the mechanism of musical life Lutoslawski and a view of musical perspective Peter Seymour -- Wilfrid Mellers -- Peter Williams -- Anthony Rooley -- Francis Baines -- Istvan Anhalt -- Duncan Druce -- Rogers Covey-Crump -- Alison Wray -- Graham Dixon -- "Anthemes for Versus and Chorus ... apt for Viols and Voyces" : the development of the English consort anthem, with some approaches to performance practice John Bryan -- "An Addicion of Wyer Stringes beside the Ordenary Stringes" : the origin of the baryton Peter Holman -- Klaus L. Neumann -- Philip Wilby.
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Music--History and criticism. Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.