Companion to contemporary musical thought / Edited by John Paynter [and others].
| Other author | Paynter, John. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 1992. |
| Description | 2 volumes (xxxviii, 1208 pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Contemporary musical thought. |
| Series | Routledge reference Routledge reference. ^A244294 |
| Contents | Volume 1. Music, the modern world, and the burden of history / Wilfrid Millers -- 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 / Irmgard Botinck -- What makes music musical? / Keith Swanwick -- The action value of musical experience and learning / Thomas A. Regelski -- Musical as cultural context / John Shepherd -- Music and the arts in pre-Renaissance and the 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 -- |
| Contents | 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 composer / 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. |
| Abstract | What do the people who are most closely involved with music think about the experience of music? In answering this question, this book identifies a number of factors that influence people's appreciation of music, including the ability to understand differences in musical style, past and present; the reasoning behind the exploration, development and acceptance of new resources for music; performers' attitudes to interpretation; and the investigations and general critical writings of scholars. In fifty-seven articles by internationally respected musicologists, composers, performers, educators and music analysts, this book presents a comprehensive survey of current thinking about the study and practice of music. Within the broad framework of cultural, technological, structural and interpretational viewpoints, contributors have focused on topics of particular importance to the international music community. The articles enable exploration of the subject from a great variety of angles, stimulating study and debate, and promoting a richer understanding of music. This book's bibliographies and extensive detailed index make it an essential information source. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | gb 91020118 |
| ISBN | 0415019907 : |
| ISBN | 0415072247 (v. 1) |
| ISBN | 0415072255 (v. 2) |