The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass as Practiced in the XVIIth & XVIIIth Centuries : Volume II

F. T. Arnold
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A solid grounding in musical techniques of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is essential to a complete understanding of Baroque music. Arnold's legendary work is a comprehensive survey of the topic, covering every issue of significance to tod ...

The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass as Practiced in the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries : Volume I

F. T. Arnold
Paperback - $37.95

A solid grounding in musical techniques of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is essential to a complete understanding of Baroque music. Arnold's legendary work is a comprehensive survey of the topic, covering every issue of significance to tod ...

Harmonograph : A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music

Anthony Ashton
Hardcover - $15.95

Ashton presents a short, illustrated introduction to the evolution of simple harmonic theory. Illustrations.

The Music of the Troubadours

Elizabeth Aubrey
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The Music of the Troubadours is the first comprehensive critical study of the 315 extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It begins with an overview of the social and political milieu of the late medie ...

Queering the Pitch : The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology

Philip Brett
Paperback - $71.95

When the first edition of "Queering the Pitch" was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. The first collection of its kind, its contributors covered a wide range of subje ...

Playing with History : The Historical Approach to Musical Performance

John Butt
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Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this challenging study, John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the early music movement, calling upon a seemingl ...

Empirical Musicology : Aims, Methods, Prospects

Eric Clarke
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This book provides a practical guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation in the contemporary musicologist's toolkit, including perspectives from music theory, computational musicology, ethnomusicology, and the psychology and soci ...

The Roots of Texas Music

Lawrence Clayton
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"The music of Texas and the American Southwest is as diverse and distinctive as the many different groups who have lived in the region over the past several centuries." writes Gary Hartman in his introduction to this refreshingly different look at va ...

Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo : A Film Score Handbook

David Cooper
Hardcover - $153.95

Herrmann's collaboration with Hitchcock spanned eleven years and nine films, and his film score for Veritgo is widely recognized as being one of his finest. This in-depth musicological and critical study examines how Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfr ...

Curiosities of Music : A Collection of Facts Not Generally Known, Regarding the Music of Ancient and Savage Nations

Louis Charles Elson
Hardcover - $72.95