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Title Companion to contemporary musical thought / edited by John Paynter [and three others]
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1992
©1992

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Description 2 volumes (xxxviii, 1208 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Routledge reference
Routledge reference.
Contents 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
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
Volume 1. Music, the modern world, and the burden of history / Wilfrid Mellers -- 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 / Imgard Bontinck -- What makes music musical? / Keith Swanwick -- The action value of musical experience and learning / Thomas A. Regelski -- Music as cultural text / John Shepherd -- Music and the arts in pre-Renaissance and 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
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 computer / 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
Analysis Music
Music
Music
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Computer music -- History and criticism.
Music theory -- 20th century.
Music -- History and criticism.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Notated music.
Author Paynter, John, editor
LC no. 92156441
ISBN 0415019907
0415030927
0415072247
0415072255
9780415019903
9780415030922
9780415072243
9780415072250
(v. 2)
Other Titles Contemporary musical thought
Contemporary musical thought