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Musicology

Paperback. Through an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings. Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 284 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360612
ISBN
9780822360612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.48

Hardback. Through an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings. Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360469
ISBN
9780822360469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.59

Hardcover. Num Pages: 178 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 265 x 186 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
178
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
Sixth Edition, (Unjacketed)
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520074309
ISBN
9780520074309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.62
€ 53.22

Paperback. Set against the legendary 1980s scene, this book maps the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom, with an energy and exuberance which is as fresh today as when it was written. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241968314
ISBN
9780241968314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

Paperback.
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780227174159
ISBN
9780227174159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.76

Hardback. This text proposes a way of thinking about music that is faithful to the experience of playing or listening during a real performance. It refers to the rhythm of a piece, the way it shapes the succession of events, and the choice of details that can affect the way time appears to flow. Num Pages: 240 pages, 165 musical examples, footnotes, index. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810847514
ISBN
9780810847514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.45

Paperback. Series: Improve Your Teaching!. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 252 x 5. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Faber Music Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571538683
ISBN
9780571538683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.54

Paperback. Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AVA; HRLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190672232
ISBN
9780190672232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.14

Paperback. Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M R James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360. The Mediumship of the Listener. 272 pages. Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M R James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441155870
ISBN
9781441155870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.47

Sheet music. .
Publisher
Trinity College London Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857361127
ISBN
9780857361127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.43

Paperback. The academic community is now well placed to discuss exactly what is going on in any example of popular music and the theoretical foundation for such analytical work has also been laid, although there is as yet no general agreement over all the details. This title presents a study of recorded popular song, from the recordings of the 1920s onwards. Series Editor(s): Scott, Professor Derek B.; Hawkins, Professor Stan; Burns, Professor Lori. Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Num Pages: 434 pages, Includes 3 b&w illustrations and 94 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 768. Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. 434 pages, includes 94 music examples, 3 b&w figures & 7 tables. The academic community is now well placed to discuss exactly what is going on in any example of popular music and the theoretical foundation for such analytical work has also been laid, although there is as yet no general agreement over all the details. This title presents a study of recorded popular song, from the recordings of the 1920s onwards. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVA. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 26. Weight: 766.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
434
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409438021
ISBN
9781409438021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.56

Paperback. The last twenty years or so have seen a surge of interest in the philosophy of music. However there is comparatively little philosophical literature devoted specifically to songs, singing and vocal music in general. Series: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 175 x 6. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118524671
ISBN
9781118524671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: AVA; CF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276536
ISBN
9780520276536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AVA; CF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276529
ISBN
9780520276529
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.65
€ 72.70

Paperback. .
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851623511
ISBN
9780851623511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 348. 112 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVA; AVG. Dimension: 277 x 216 x 8. Weight: 342.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Berklee Press
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780793511808
ISBN
9780793511808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.42

Paperback. An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality--when sound helps produce a bad vibe. Series: Technologies of Lived Abstraction. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 172 x 14. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262517959
ISBN
9780262517959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.79

Sheet music. Series: Sound at Sight: Sample Sightreading Tests. BIC Classification: AVA; AVQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 73 x 2. Weight in Grams: 98.
Publisher
Trinity College London Press United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857361189
ISBN
9780857361189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.32

Sheet music. Series: Sound at Sight: Sample Sightreading Tests. Num Pages: 20 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 226 x 2. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Trinity College London Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
20
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857361028
ISBN
9780857361028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.82

Paperback. Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays in this book, all of which concern musical matters, he displays an astonishing range of cultural reference, demonstrating that music is invariably social, political, even ethical. Translator(s): Livingstone, Rodney. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735582
ISBN
9780804735582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's engagements with audio phenomena in video games-from sonic violence to synthesized operas, from democratic musical performances to verbal sexual harassment. Series: Oxford Music/Media Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 music examples, 46 figures, and 9 tables. BIC Classification: AVA; AVX; UDM; UDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199969975
ISBN
9780199969975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.58

Paperback. Discussing how music possesses expressive properties, this title incorporates the text of "The Corded Shell", answering various criticisms. Series: The Arts & Their Philosophies S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877226772
ISBN
9780877226772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.28

Paperback. Sound Unseen explores the phenomenon of acousmatic sound - a sound that one hears without seeing its source-and presents a powerful argument for the central yet overlooked role of acousmatic sound in music aesthetics, sound studies, literature, philosophy and the history of the senses. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190632212
ISBN
9780190632212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.74

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823251391
ISBN
9780823251391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.41

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