基本説明
In 57 articles by musicologists, composers, performers, music sociologists and educationists from around the world, this Companion presents the most comprehensive survey of current musical thought.
Full Description
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Contents
PART 1 PEOPLE AND MUSIC Music, non-music and the soundscape; Public performance and the concert as categories of musical action; What makes music musical?; Musical as cultural text; Music and the arts in pre-Renaissance and Renaissance worship: a question of `expression'; On Patronage: `Musick, that mind-tempering art' PART 2 THE TECHNOLOGY OF MUSIC Towards a new age in the technology of computer music; Composition with machines; Artistic necessity, context orientation, configurable space; Music and image on film and video: an absolute alternative; New (musical) instruments in the computer age: amplified performance systems and related examples of low-level technology; The listening imagination: listening in the electroacoustic era; Composing sounds with computers PART 3 THE STRUCTURE OF MUSIC Musical analysis; Analysis and the composer; New directions: The conception and development of a composition; Psychological structures in music; Aural training: material and method PART 4 THE INTERPRETATION OF MUSIC Performance practice studies: some current approaches to the early music phenomenon; Musical instruments and performers of the past; Vocal consort style and tunings; Authentic pronunciations for early music; Producer for early music: a cog in the mechanism of musical life.
