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Notes: preface by Eero Tarasti

Annotation: This book is an introduction to Eero Tarasti's works on music, as well as musical semiotics in general. It covers a wide range of sources from multiple disciplinary fields in order to familiarize the reader with the basic language and common references of semiotic inquiries in music. Starting with the basics of structural and Peircean semiotics, theories of discourse, topic theory and others, and their application to music, the book moves on to discuss their interpretation in Tarasti's decade-long oeuvre.

Identifier: 9789526906157

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Annotation: A collection of essays dedicated to Gino Stefani

Identifier: 9791220071956

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Annotation: This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes. Musicological reflections on musically expressive content have been pursued for some decades now, in spite of the formalist prejudices that can still hindermusicians and music lovers. The author organizes this body of research so that both professionals and everyday listeners can benefit from it – in plain English, but without giving up the level of depth required by the subject matter. Two criteria have guided his choice among the many ways to speak about musical meaning: its relevance to performance, and its suitability to the teaching context. The legacy of the so-called art music, without an interpretive approach that links ancient traditions to our present, runs the risk of missing the link to the new generations of musicians and listeners. Complementing the theoretical, systematic content, each chapter includes a wealth of examples, including the so-called popular music.

Identifier: 9783030524951

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Other title information: Between Music and Philosophy

Annotation: This book provides a new approach to the intersections between music and philosophy. It features articles that rethink the concepts of musical work and performance from ontological and epistemological perspectives and discuss issues of performing practices that involve the performer’s and listener’s perceptions.

Identifier: 9783030144708

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Other title information: New York Sky-Line Melody e Sinfonia No. 6 de Heitor Villa-Lobos

Annotation: The 20th century produced a significant number of geniuses. In music, we had Strawinsky, Debussy, Puccini, Strauss, to name just a few from different countries, and our own Villa-Lobos. His presence in the music scene is of great importance. Villa-Lobos, a profound observer of life, never missed an opportunity to invent new processes of musical creation for himself and for the teachers of Orpheonic Singing. Thus, in 1934, a method of creating melodies coming from nature itself emerged: the Chart to record the Melody of the Mountains of Brazil. "The maestro sought a kind of representation of Brazil based on these geographical symbols", as Dr. Rodrigo Felicíssimo points out in his doctoral thesis, which was promptly transformed into a book.

Identifier: 9783330765054

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Other title information: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest

Annotation: This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.

Identifier: 9783319505374

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Annotation: De la mise en musique de la poésie à la reprise qui resémantise, de la littérature qui se réinvente en deux minutes trente aux grandes figures de la chanson qu’on traduit parce qu’on les admire, des covers caricaturales aux arrangements qui redéfinissent un chant connu, on parlera ici de toutes les formes d’interprétation en chanson : traduire, (re)chanter, renouveler la musique, donner un sens nouveau, donner le même sens avec d’autres mots ou d’autres sons.

Identifier: 9791032000960

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Other title information: Numanistic Approaches to Music

Annotation: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.

Identifier: 9783319470597

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Other title information: Du Collectif a l'intime

Annotation: Impossible d'enumerer les circonstances qui font de la chanson, de sa creation a sa reception, un art collectif. Intermediale, sa fabrication, mele souvent plusiers talents et la forme la plus accoplie de sa performance, son expression sur scene, se fait devant un auditoire.

Identifier: 9791032000717

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Other title information: Bibliografinis sąvadas

Annotation: This publication is a bibliographic compendium of Lithuanian sheet music from 1990 to 2015 compiled in chronological order and presented to readers. The difficult period of restored independence, when sheet music publishing underwent fundamental changes, brought chaos to the field of registration. The ISMN Lithuanian agency began to operate only in 1994, and some publishers even after 1994 did not register their publications with the ISMN agency. As a result, there has been a gap in the registration of publications published aborad, which were registered electronically or in a fragmentary manner. The purpose of this bibliography is to collect and systematise all information about publications of Lithuanian sheet music since 1990, published both in Lithuania and abroad, and to describe them according to international standards. (translated with Google translate)

Identifier: 9786090212349

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Other title information: Transitions/continuities

Annotation: This collection of papers looks closer to different aspects of musical transitions and continuities from a musicological perspective.

Identifier: 9788688619738

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Other title information: traditions and innovations in contemporary music

Notes: This book was originally published under the title Musica mathematica. Tradicijos ir inovacijos šiuolaikineje muzikoje by Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (Vilnius: Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija, 2013, ISBN 978-609-8071-10-8)

Annotation: The concept of musica mathematica seeks to accurately examine the itnersection of two seemingly radically different subject areas. From the perspective of a European perception, the definition of the science of music was a result of the Pythagorean concept of universal harmony. The Pythagoreans were the first in European culture to raise the issue of uniting music and mathematics, sound and number. In the three parts of the monograph, versatile cases of the itnersection of music and mathematics are displayed, moving from philosophical and aesthetic considerations about mathesis to practical studies, discussing the interaction between music and other kinds of art (architecture, painting, poetry and literature) and providing a practical research of contemporary music compositions.

Identifier: 9783631713815

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Other title information: early Soviet musical culture and the musicological theory of Boris Asafiev (1884–1949)

Annotation: This is the first English language analytical and critical monograph to examine Asafiev's literary output during 1916-1930. The author explores Asafiev's critical and musicological works both against the backfrop of Russian cultural history, an within the Western Europen intellectual historical context. She demonstrates how Asafiev became an established Soviet cultural theorietician of music, a celebrated but also a persecuted Soviet musicologist.

Identifier: 9789526825779

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Other title information: Acoustics, Cognition, and contexts

Annotation: This book presents a cross-cultural perspective on Lithuanian traditional music, with the aim of revealing the phenomena of musical scales from acoustics, cognitive and contextual viewpoints.

Identifier: 9786098081855

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Other title information: musical microhistories

Annotation: In the current global world the interaction between cultures penetrates into musical practices and discourses, radically affecting the sociocultural imagination and altering the established shapes of cultural territories. Yet the history of music demonstrates that the dynamics of cultural encounters and segregations has always been a key factor in the formation of individual and collective identities and in the understanding of other cultures. Cultural expansions and, conversely, the trajectories of displacement of cultural expression are to a varied extent affected by the political, economic, technological and other dimensions of dissemination of musical practices and traditions. In the modern age, the extramusical factors are of equal significance to textual (creation) and contextual (dissemination and reception) configurations of sociocultural interactions. The understanding of sociocultural interactions and borders plays an important role in the appropriation of the musical past and the revival of cultural memory.

Identifier: 9786098071290

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Annotation: In the years 2008-2009 The Finnish Academy of Sciences funded a research project entitled PHILOSOPHIES OF PERFORMANCE - Finnish music, art and avant-garde. The project focused on temporal, i.e. performing arts, their background philosophies and signifying processes. The empirical material was mostly about Finnish art. Yet, the idea was to develop also "universal" theoretical models relevant to other traditions and fields. Music served as the core phenomenon but it was also scrutinised in its intertextual connections. This anthology offers some results but also contributions from other scholars whom the project stimulated. The authors are Aurea Dominiguez, Joan Grimalt, Sergio Lanza, Otto Lehto, Grisell Macdonel Dario Martinelli, Bogumila Mika, Lina Navickaté-Martinelli, Pärttyli Rinne, Filip Sikorski, Eero Tarasti, Juha Torvinen, Alessia R. Vitale and Nayden Yotof.

Identifier: 9525431371

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Other title information: proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Musical Signification, 27 IX – 2 X 2010, Krakow, Poland, Volume 2

Annotation: Proceedings of the 11th international congress on musical signification ICMS XI.

Identifier: 9788362743193

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Annotation: The monograph systematizes archival information about the 16th-19th centuries. masters who built the organ in Lithuania in the first half. After identifying the aspects of the formation and establishment of the Vilnius School of Handicrafts, the features of the originality of this school and the questions of the instrument's originality are analyzed in detail. The book presents a classification of typical Vilnius School organ prospectuses, analyzes the authentic eighteenth-century ones stored in the Old and Rare Prints section of the VDA library. organ projects-sketches of the second half. Using the arguments of the hypothetical reconstruction of prospectuses and instruments, the Vilnius St. Authorship of the organ of St. John's Church and Vilnius Archcathedral.

Identifier: 9786099548500

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Annotation: The present volume by Oana Andreica is the fruitful result of some theoretical and practical musical investigations, excelling in psychoanalytical, musicological, rhetorical and aesthetic values

Identifier: 9789735308346

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Other title information: The world of Music in Relation to itself

Annotation: This book is a collection of scientific studies by Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, Tijana Popović Mlađenović, Tiana Marković, Ivana Ili and Marija Masnikosa. Identities: The World of Music in Relation to Itself is interdisciplinary work in musicology which presents analytical ans synthetic studies of music and cultural identities.

Identifier: 9788688619219

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Annotation: Zawartość: I. W perspektywie czasu i miejsca na ziemi 1. Sztuka w objęciach historii 2. O drodze twórczej, jej progach i fazach, przemianach i fiksacjach – po raz wtóry II. Szymanowski i inni 3. Szymanowskiego „ścieżki nocy” 4. Każde niech żyje! zawiera w sobie precz z! III. Wspomnienia, zadziwienia, zamyślenia 5. Kisielewski: muzyka i polityka 6. Wspominając Lutosławskiego 7. Świat Henryka Mikołaja Góreckiego 8. Prostota, światło i głębia. W zamyśleniu nad muzyką Marka Stachowskiego IV. Z archiwum 9. Miłość Józefa Kofflera 10. Konstantego Regameya Pieśni perskie 11. Ekspresja i forma u Lutosławskiego 12. Siedem pytań wokół Pendereckiego Nota źródłowa Indeks nazwis

Identifier: 9788362743063

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Other title information: Rozmowy z Mieczysławem Tomaszewskim

Annotation: Zapis 20 godzin rozmów z Profesorem Mieczysławem Tomaszewskim, wybitnym muzykologiem i autorem licznych publikacji z obszaru teorii i historii muzyki XIX i XX wieku, w szczególności chopinologii, liryki romantycznej i muzyki polskiej. Książka Krzysztofa Droby to odczytywanie na nowo samego Mieczysława Tomaszewskiego. Rozmowa dotyka nie tylko tematów zawodowych, ale także przybiera charakter osobistych wyznań.„Mieczysław Tomaszewski jest niezaprzeczalnym autorytetem w środowisku, znanym z wystąpień na kongresach, sympozjach, seminariach, z wykładów na wielu polskich uczelniach, z działań edytorskich, z wieloletniej aktywności jako genialny szerzyciel kultury (określenie Marii Dąbrowskiej sprzed 60 lat!) i wreszcie, last but not least, ze swego imponującego dorobku naukowego w postaci książek. W każdej z tych domen ujawnia oryginalną, wyrazistą osobowość. Ale mało jest świadectw i nie tak wielu świadków jego prywatności. W naszych rozmowach chodziło więc o utrwalenie właśnie tego osobistego, prywatnego tonu. Tonu jedynego, tak jak jedyną w swoim rodzaju jest droga Profesora przez życie."

Identifier: 9788322409329

Status: Available

Annotation: In this study, Gabriel Pareyon presents a theory of musical meaning formation in the context of intersemiosis, that is, the translation of meaning from one cognitive domain to another cognitive domain (e.g. from mathematics to music, or to speech or graphic forms). From this perspective, the degree of coherence of a musical systems relies on a synecdochic intersemiosis: a system of related signs within other comparable and correlated systems. The author analyzes the modalities of such correlations, exploring their general and particular traits, and their operational bounds. Accordingly, the notion analofy is used as a rich concept through its two definitions quoted by the classical literature - proportion and paradigm, enormously valuable in establishinf mesurement, likeness and affinity criteria. At the same time, original arguments by Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010) are revised, alongside a systematic critique of the literature on the subject. In fact, connecting Charles S. Peirce!s synechism with Mandelbrot's fractality is on of the main developnets of the presents study.

Identifier: 9789525431322

Status: Available

Annotation: This book is an entry into the symbolicism of music. The book consists of three chapters. In the first, I deal with the concept of the symbol itself. I discuss its genesis, history changing understanding, and above all - it's functioning in contemporary thought in such fields as sociology, cultural anthropology, semiotics or semiology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and musicology. In the second chapter I present the problem of symbol and meaning in European music in a historical outline. The third chapter is my analysis of musical interpretations.

Identifier: 9788362743018

Status: Available

Other title information: Muzyka Wobec Poezji i Nauczania Karola Wojtyły i Jana Pawła II

Annotation: The second volume of publishing series carried out by the Academy of Music in Krakow in cooperation with the John Paul II Institute of Intercultural Dialogue in Krakow includes articles presenting the results of research on works that are in various ways related to the person of the Polish Pope.

Identifier: 9788362743087

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Annotation: Representing a new trend in European Anthropology, this book examines how people adjust to their different experiences of the new Europe. The role of culture, religion, and ideology, as well as insiders' social and professional practices, are all shown to shed light on the cultural logic sustaining the institutions and policies of the European Union

Identifier: 9788660510275

Status: Available

Other title information: proceedings from the 10th International congress of the International project on musical signification : Vilnius, 21-25 October 2008

Annotation: A collection of conference papers from the 10th International congress of the International project on musical signification, focused on "archeology" of music and its after-life

Identifier: 9789986503934

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Annotation: The pupose of this book is twofold: First, being epistemological in nature, it is concerned with identifying methodologically and philosophically valuable achievements of contemporary musical semiotics. The second purpose is a pragmatic one. It stems from the need to interpret the theoretical thought of Eero Tarasti. There is no doubt that today's semiotic-musical thought, in the most general terms, is dominated by two central names and the theories behind them. The names are Jean-Jacques Nattiez and Eero Tarasti. While reconstructing Tarasti's theory, I use the text interpretation method suggested by Gunter Grimm. It originaterd with the general theory of reception formulated by E.D. Hirsch.

Identifier: 9789525431278

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Other title information: essays on music radio and radio music in Finland

Annotation: This book brings together research reports and essays on radio music in Finland. The main focus in the writings is one the breakthrough of popular music in local radioscape. The chapters reaise a number of highly important issues in the resent history of radio breoadcasting in Finland: regulation of broadcasting, ideologies of local radio, concentration of ownership, homogenisation of musical contant, patterns of change in radio speech, and processes of music selection. This book is an outcome of the reseach project "Music Cultures and Corporate Cultures: Changes in Music Broadcasting in Finland, 2963-2005", financed by the Academy of Finland.

Identifier: 9789514479724

Status: Available

Other title information: Essays in honour of Gino Stefani

Annotation: Essay collection in honor of Gino Stefani

Identifier: 9789525576085

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Annotation: This book covers the life, work and critics perception of a Polish composer Ludomir Michał Rogowski

Identifier: 9788387182854

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Other title information: Arvo Pärt's pre-existing music in film

Notes: Kaire Maimets-Volt's dissertation

Annotation: The principal aim of this dissertation is to examine the use of Arvo Part's pre-existing tintinnabuli compositions in contemporary film soundtracks in order to determine the aesthetic reception of this music in film art. This will be achieved primarily through film analyses that explore the functions of tintinnabuli music in film, and the expressive meanings this music is considered suitable to communicate (with).

Identifier: 9789985979761

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Other title information: an abductive theory of the musical composition process

Annotation: Space in Musical semiotsis examines key issues of musical signification. It employs C. S. Peirce's semiotics and cognitive metaphor theories to establish a theory of the musical composisiton process, an epitome of musical signification.

Identifier: 9789525431285

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Other title information: inspiracja malarska w twórczości Zygmunta Krauzego

Annotation: Zygmunt Krauze is the founder of a new current in art: unistic (unitary) music. He developed this concept in the first period of his artistic work, inspired by the unistic paintings of Władysław Strzemiński. Traces of this style are also detectable in Krauze’s later post-unistic works. Unistic music is characterised by a paradoxical unity in diversity. Most of the composer’s statements collected in this paper refer to specific features of unism in music. Other, more general comments concern the essence of music, the composer’s personal stance, the creative process, the autonomy of the composer, the audience and the performers, etc. Two longer texts by Zygmunt Krauze have been quoted in full. One can be considered as a unistic manifesto, while the other is a kind of personal credo.

Identifier: 9788387182779

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Annotation: The book stems from the author's thesis, which attempts to demonstrate the usefulness of incomporating tonal and modal elements into a pitch-web analysis of Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

Identifier: 9789521038372

Status: Available

Annotation: This essay is the third in a series of works devoted to musical hermeneutics. In the first, I dealt with the basic concepts of music ontology: movement, play, being and time, drawing inspiration from the hermeneutical philosophy of Schleiermacher, Diltey, Heidegger and Gadamer. Then, inspired by the thought of Paul Ricoeur, I analysed the conceptual category of musical narrative. Even then, in these considerations, the category of space appeared many times, inseparable from human experience in its temporal and spatial structure and, as it turns out, inextricably linked to the experience of music. In the reception of music, we are undoubtedly given a certain "temporal" sound-musical space.

Identifier: 9788387182731

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Annotation: This is a collection of works that look closer to the topic of the chamber symphony genre

Identifier: 9789731910086

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Accompanying materials: Includes a CD

Annotation: Miten atomi? Milliasta on avaruuden mussikki? Mita sikio kuulee? Minakalaista musiikikia tekevat robotit ja mita ovat musibotit? Aanen eXtreme on uraaurtava esitys aanimaailman ihmeista. Se luo katsauksen aanien tuottamisen historiaan, kokooa yhteen viimeisinta tietoa aanituutkimuksen, aanitaiteen ja digitaalisen musiikin ulottuvuuksista seka kartoittaa aanimaailmojen reuna-alueita tietessa ja taitessa. Teoksen hahmottelemassa aaniversumissa perinteiset kasitykset musiikista menettavat merkityksena ja lukja sinkoutuu ulottuvuuksiin, joissa korvaa ei saastella.

Identifier: 9524717131

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Other title information: Studien und Interpretationen

Annotation: a compilation of three event proceedings: Internationale Musikwissenschaftliche Symposien - Krakow 2003, Warszawa 2004 and 2005 in Rahmen des Ludwig van Beethoven Osterfestivals Konferenzbericht

Identifier: 8387182621

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Annotation: Individando nel pensiero musicale del Seicento archetipi correnti della comunicazione passionale attraverso i suoni, il volume ricompone le fila di un dibattito ideale sull'identita del segno musicale che lo misurava con quello linguistico o con la creaziobne poetica, non senza riportarlo al codice espressivo degli animali o al canto degli uccelli.

Identifier: 8820731991

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Other title information: Précis de sémiotique musicale

Notes: Edited and expanded edition partly of the book Signs of Music (2002), added is a then not published text about synesthesia.

Annotation: This volume is intended to serve as a "practical guide" to musical semiotics, that is, to the study of music as sign and communication. It includes both a history of this relatively new discipline as well as new contributions of my own invention. The book was originally much longer, but some chapters, such as those dealing with Wagner, have been deleted, and reserved for another volume. I hope that what is retained here will encourage readers, whether they are students of music, musicology, or semiotics, more established researchers, or inquiring minds of any kind, to learn more about musical semiotics. The field is currently undergoing fascinating processes of formation, growth, and diversity.

Identifier: 2296004091

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Other title information: Volume II

Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.

Identifier: 9525431096

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Other title information: Twórczość i osobowość

Annotation: The presented book is mainly devoted to the work, primarily musical, but also painting, of Zbignew Bujarski. Although the author's main interest is the work of art: music and painting, the case of the composer-painter is considered to be important, to a greater extent than usual, the problem of the artist's personality. Thus, creativity remains in a constant relationship to personality.

Identifier: 8387182648

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Parallel title: Parallel title: Santi, animali e suoni

Accompanying materials: Includes a CD

Annotation: A Tricarico e San Mauro Forte, in occasione della festa di S. Antonio Abate (17 gennaio), gioro di inizio del Carnevale, le strade vengono invase da gruppi di scampanatori mascherati. In questo volume viene presentata l'eccezionale documentazione sonora e fotografica di questi due eventi, realizzata da Steven Feld e Stefano Vaja nel corso di una ricerca coodinata da Nicola Scaldaferri. Alle fotografie e alle registrazioni si sono aggiunti i contributi di Febo Guizzi, Francesco Marano e Fernando Mirizzi.

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Other title information: markedness, correlation, and interpretation

Annotation: Materials of International Symposium Krzysztof Penderecki`s Music for the 70th anniversary of his birthday. A Symposium - organized by Academy Music of Kraków, Jagiellonian University and Polish Academy of Arts and Scinces - was held in December 2003.

Identifier: 8387182591

Status: Available

Accompanying materials: Includes a CD

Annotation: Grazie al supporte della Presidenza del Consiglio Regionale della Basilicata, viene publicata que la registratione integrale del concerto conclusivo dell'atelier, corredata da transcrizioni e analisi musicali e accompagnata da materiali fotografici e documentari sulle due comunità arbëshe lucane che ancora oggi mantengono tracce significative della loro origine.

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Other title information: virtues and vices of vocal translation

Annotation: Vocal translation is an old art, but the interpretive feeling, skill and craft have expanded into a relatively new area in translation studies. Vocal translation is the translation of the poetic discourse in the hybrid art of the musicopoetic (or poeticomusical) forms, shapes and skills. This symbiotic construct harmonizes together the conflicting roles of music and language in face-to-face singing performances. The artist sings in an accurate but free flow, but sung in a language different from the original lyrics.

Identifier: 9042016876

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Annotation: This book presents a study of music notation and its computer representation. Music notation is prehaps the most complex notational system invented by a man. As a consequence, its processing by the computer poses complex, but nevertheless interesting problems. The author addresses the question of computer representation of music notation with the aid of another representation tool: object-oriented analysis.

Identifier: 952543107X

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Annotation: Systems of Musical Sense breathes new life into the field of music semiotics in its intuitive mix of logical rigor and hermeneutical interpretation and unique approach to paradigmatic analysis (Ruwet, Nattiez) and established theories of tinal music (Schoenberg). More significantly, te authors lay out an entirely new and innovative theory in their concept of musical homestasis, a phenomenon closely related to the fundamental law of physics which states that all things set in motion, organic and inorganic, tend to return to their initial point of rest. In tonal music, which also incorporates teology, this can take place at different levels, embodied by various parameters. The sensitive analyses here demonstrate ramifications of this axiom and cast new light on the structuring and effects de sens of tinal genres ranging in diversity from Bach chorales to Wagnerian opera. The culmination of mera tha a decade of research by this tea of widely published music scholars, the book is also a starting point: cognitivists, theorists, musicologists, and others can use the analytic methos "as is", develop it further, or transform it.The systems unvailed here need not be confined to tonal, "common-practice" art music. As universal axiom at least as dependable as the gestaltists "law of good continuation", the theory of homeostasis reveals new dimensions in earlier musical style and thos of more contemporary vintage.

Identifier: 9525431061

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Annotation: Polish biography and musical analysis of Andrzej Panufnik

Identifier: 8387182370

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