The demands of tuning (attaining the perfect scale) and temperament (the compromises necessary for composing in every key) have challenged musicians from the earliest civilizations onward. This guide surveys these longstanding problems, devoting a chapter to each principal theory and offering a running account of the complete history of tuning and temperament. Organized chronologically, the book features a helpful glossary and numerous illustrative tables, and it requires minimal background in music theory. This new reissue is currently the only edition in print of a much-quoted classic. 9 figures. 180 tables. Reprint of the Michigan State College Press, East Lansing, Michigan, 1953 edition. - See more at: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486434060.html#sthash.q8xlNSm7.dpuf

Mesures composées-?tude du Rythme is an educational tool proposed by Georges Dandelot (1895-1975) a French composer agreeing with the concept that rhythm is the foundation on which melody and harmony are then layered. It was conceived to progressively teach musicians how to deal with complicated rhythms such as those used by Bartok or Ravel. This volume is the second of five composing a step-by-step method to learn and master rhythm in music. It introduces more complexity with simple exercises and melodies. The third one should help pianists to play different rhythms with each hand and the volumes four and five use complex combinations of rhythms and melody withbinary and tertiary tempos.

Description Modulation - the change from one key to another - is a subject of critical importance to performers and composers in their study of harmony. This concise guide by a progressive early modernist offers valuable insights and instruction. Suitable for musicians at all levels. Newly typeset and engraved.

A concise yet comprehensive survey of 20th Century music for both students and the general public. Written by Graham Hearn who states 'my aim has been to highlight where composers have pushed boundaries stretched ourcredibility and shown such leaps of imagination as to make us remember that the 20th Century is possibly the most extraordinary of them all.'

Le but principal de cette rencontre entre chercheurs et enseignants provenant d'horizons divers (sociologues, musicologues, compositeurs, musiciens, etc,) porte sur les thématiques suivantes :- Interaction oral-écrit, étude des processus et stratégies créatifs, implication de la mémoire collective et individuelle dans la création et dans la réception musicales,- Répercussions de la tradition orale dans le domaine de l'improvisation et remise en cause des conceptions concernant l'acte créateur, laquelle soulève des problématiques utiles à étudier : liens entre composition et performance orale, processus cognitifs mis en jeu, etc, - Rapports entre oralité et écriture, oralité et création, oralité et performance, oralité et improvisation, oralité et mémorisation et et oralité et perception,- Questionnements au sujet de l'impact de l'oralité sur le rapport subjectif à la création et à l'objet artistique,- Mémoire en acte dans les interactions humaines (entre musiciens, maître et disciple) - processus d'improvisation en tant que porteurs d'attitudes et contenus créatifs spécifiques,Ces interrogations seront traitées selon des approches différentes et engageront, par ailleurs, des disciplines voisines de la musicologie autour de l'acte créateur en musique et de son interaction avec la culture, l'identité, la société, l'épistémologie, etc, Il s'agit d'interroger en effet l'histoire du bassin méditerranéen, l'anthropologie de l'oralité, la géopolitique, etc, SOMMAIRE Michel Imberty ?Introduction : L'oralité, une réalité musicale oubliée Alessandro Arbo?Qu'est-ce qu'une oeuvre musicale orale ?Jean During?Montage, officialisation et démontage de quelques répertoires d'Asie intérieure Jean-Marc ChouvelTradition et création?Mondher Ayari ?L'acte créateur entre culture de l'oralité et cognition musicale Jacques Viret ?L'oralité retrouvée d'un corpus : chanter le grégorien aujourd'hui Marcel Pérès?Le chant vieux-romain révélerait-il le ' corpus de l'oralité ' du chant grégorienDamien Poisblaud?La restauration du chant grégorien : comment imaginer des sons à partir de l'écrit Ignazio Macchlarella?Su trazzu e su Te Deum : créativité musicale contemporaine dans un village sarde Antonio Lai ?La nouvelle musique sarde entre tradition écrite et tradition orale Anne-Florence Borneuf?Composer avec le chant, composer avec les hommes : performances au pays de la ganga (Croatie, Bosnie-Herzégovine) Francis Gayte?Archéologie Vocale du Misteri d'Elx Jean-Claude Chabrier?Analyse de musiques d'Orient : des majorités aux liturgies des chrétiens Lara Molaeb?Sketching Models of Arabic Violin Traditional Interpretations of Precomposed Instrumental Phrases in the Age of Nahda Hefedh Lejmi?Oralité et scripturalité dans l'enseignement de la musique tunisien Fikret KarakayaLa tradition turque du taksim Bar?? Bozkurt?Pitch Histogram based analysis of Makam Music in Turkey Olivier Lartillot?Nécessités et principes d'une analyse musicale systématisée et informatisée Xavier Hascher ?Propositions théoriques pour l'analyse de la monodie modale : une introduction à l'étude du répertoire tunisien traditionnel  Livre en français et anglais Collection Culture et cognition musicale / Formation Musicale

Third Corrected Edition. This guide presents 231 of the best-known most frequently performed pieces of chamber music by 55 outstanding composers including Bartok string quartets Beethoven piano trios and string quartets Haydn string quartets and works by Barber Mozart Debussy Borodin Aretsky and Mendelssohn. For each composer a brief biography is followed by discussions of the individual compositions in chronological order. A practical sourcebook for chamber music players performers and teachers.

Corrigé des devoirs-French composer Julien Falk (1902-1987) was a famous composition teacher at the Paris Conservatory. He wrote many popular theoretical music books ?Technique Compl?te Et Progressive De L'Harmonie?being no exception. Compiled in 1969 the second volume of Falk's?Technique Compl?te Et Progressive De L'Harmonie?addresses figured bass and chorale writing. Moreover ?Technique Compl?te Et Progressive De L'Harmonie?includes examples of homework which have been explained and corrected commenting on how it could have been improved.Falk's harmony theoretical guide is essential to all musicians undergoing advanced harmonic musical studies.

Bent Lorentzen: Værkliste Og Bibliografi Lars Ole Bonde is the extensive work list and biography of Danish composer Bent Lorentzen.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Britainâ??s greatest composers Sir Edward Elgar renowned Elgar scholar J.P.E. Harper-Scott casts new and frequently surprising light on Elgar chronicling his rise to the forefront of early twentieth-century modernism in this concise and absorbing volume. Hailed by the June 2007 BBC Music Magazine as 'possibly the best first stop for learning about Elgar's life ' this fascinating and accessible history is suitable for both students and Elgar enthusiasts alike. J.P.E. Harper-Scott takes a combative swipe at many of the critical myths and prejudices that have attached themselves to the figure of Elgar revealingboth a surprisingly elusive personality and a deeper often darker message within his works. Questions answered include How did the son of a provincial piano tuner rise to international fame? Was the English countryside the principle inspiration for Elgar's music? Was this moustachioed red-blooded imperialist all that he seemed? And more!

This is part 2 of the cycle A Ribbon Of Time. It was composed for the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Chamber-scale Composition 2002.