Choice Outstanding Academic Title A survey of intervals and scales, tone pitch, loudness and time in Western music raises many questions about the...
This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute. It...
The Psychology of Music serves as an introduction to an interdisciplinary field in psychology, which focuses on the interpretation of music through...
The Psychology of Music draws together the diverse and scattered literature on the psychology of music. It explores the way music is processed by the...
Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music is a collaborative work that discusses musical perception in the context of medical science...
Lies and Epiphanies offers case studies of "inspiration" in five composers -- Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss, and...
The work of Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935), widely regarded as the most important music theorist of the twentieth century, has shaped the teaching of...
The American Academy in Rome launched its Rome Prize in Musical Composition in 1921, a time in the United States of rapidly changing ideas about...
By upbringing, family connections, and education, Felix Mendelssohn was ideally positioned to contribute to the historical legacies of the German...
Keyboard arrangements of vocal music flourished in England between1560 and 1760. Songs without Words, by noted harpsichordist and early-music...