Companion to contemporary musical thought / edited by John Paynter ... [and others. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Volume 1. Music, the modern world, and the burden of history Wilfrid Mellers -- Part I : People and music. Music and people : the import of structure and form John Paynter -- Music, non-music and the soundscape R. Murray Schafer -- Music in concert and music in the background : two poles of musical realization Hanns-Werner Heister -- Public performance and the concert as categories of musical action Imgard Bontinck -- What makes music musical? / Keith Swanwick -- The action value of musical experience and learning Thomas A. Regelski -- Music as cultural text John Shepherd -- 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 Ellen T. Harris -- 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 Joscelyn Godwin -- Text, context, music Istvan Anhalt -- On making music out of music Edwin London -- Verso-l'uno Walter Branchi.

Part II : The technology of music. Musical, cultural and educational implications of digital technology Richard Orton -- A technological approach to music F. Richard Moore -- Towards a new age in the technology of computer music Peter Manning -- Electroacoustic music and the soundscape : the inner and outer world Barry Truax -- Composition with machines Curtis Roads -- Artistic necessity, context orientation, configurable space Craig R. Harris -- Flying through a musical space : about real-time composition Joel Chadabe -- Music and image on film and video : an absolute alternative David Kershaw -- New musical instruments in the computer age : amplified performance systems and related examples of low-level technology Hugh Davies -- The listening imagination : listening in the electroacoustic era Denis Smalley -- Composers and audiences : new relationships in the technological age Bruce Pennycook -- Music and technology : problems and possibilities Trevor Wishart -- Composing sounds with computers Jean-Claude Risset.

Volume 2. Part III : The structure of music. Does it really mean anything? Some aspects of musical meaning Lorentz Reitan -- Musical analysis : commentaries Jonathan Dunsby -- Analysis and psychoanalysis : Wagner's musical metaphors Christopher Wintle -- Analysis and performance : the search for a middleground Tim Howell -- Analysis and the computer Robert Sherlaw-Johnson -- New directions : the conception and development of a composition Jonathan Harvey -- Morty Feldman is dead James Fulkerson -- From improvisation to composition Richard Orton -- Improvisation Neil Sorrell -- Improvisation, cognition and education Eric F. Clarke -- Psychological structures in music : core research 1980-1990 John A. Sloboda -- Aural training : material and method George Pratt -- Aspects of melody : an examination of the structure of Jewish and Gregorian chants Yehezkel Braun -- Music, number and rhetoric in the early Middle Ages John Stevens.

Part IV : The interpretation of music. Oratory and performance Peter Seymour -- Present and past : intermediaries and interpreters Wilfrid Mellers -- Performance practice studies : some current approaches to the Early Music phenomenon Peter Williams -- Renaissance attitudes to performance : a contemporary application Anthony Rooley -- Musical instruments and performers of the past Francis Baines -- Pst ... Pst ... are you listening? Hearing voices from yesterday Istvan Anhalt -- Historical approaches to violin playing Duncan Druce -- Vocal consort style and tunings Rogers Covey-Crump -- Authentic pronunciation for Early Music Alison Wray -- Liturgical reconstructions : an apologia and some guidelines 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 -- Producer for Early Music : a cog in the mechanism of musical life Klaus L. Neumann -- Lutoslawski and a view of musical perspective Philip Wilby.

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