Search Results - "melody"

Pitch and melody / by Bevan Clifford

Subjects: “…Melody.…”

Melody, harmony, tonality : a book for connoisseurs and amateurs / by Helm, E. Eugene

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Verdi and the French aesthetic verse, stanza, and melody in nineteenth-century opera / by Giger, Andreas, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Rhythm and stanza in French and Italian librettos ; French and Italian melodic aesthetics and practice ca. 1830-1870 ; Episode: Design, middleground rhythm, and phrase -- French melody in Verdi's operas. Jérusalem and its influence on the subsequent Italian operas ; Les Vêpres siciliennes and its influence on the subsequent Italian operas ; Don Carlos and after.…”
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Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish how Yiddish songs and synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood / by Gottlieb, Jack

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Mysticism and madness the religious thought of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav / by Mark, Zvi

Table of Contents: “…Imagination, prophecy and faith : the role of the imagination in religious life, and the character of Bratslavian faith -- On the character of mystical experiences -- Unification : hints, sparks and melody : on the Bratslavian service of God -- Silence and melody facing the void : on the place of the mystic melody in the confrontation with heresy in the writings of R. …”
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Music, language, and the brain by Patel, Aniruddh D.

Table of Contents: “…Sound elements: pitch and timbre -- Rhythm -- Melody -- Syntax -- Meaning -- Evolution.…”
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The music effect music physiology and clinical applications / by Schneck, Daniel J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Physiologic entrainment -- Rhythm in music and physiology -- Melody : the pitch of human emotion -- Timbre, harmony and dynamics : adding richness and depth to rhythm and melody -- Form : creating aesthetic wholeness -- Nature expressed through nurture -- Coda : where are they now?…”
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New perspectives on music and gesture

Table of Contents: “…Psychobiology of musical gesture : innate rhythm, harmony and melody in movements of narration / Colwyn Trevarthen, Jonathan Delafield-Butt, and Benjamin Schögler -- Gestures in music-making : action, information, and perception / W. …”
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The most musical nation Jews and culture in the late Russian empire / by Loeffler, James Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Emancipating sounds : Anton Rubinstein and the rise of the Russian Jewish musician -- National voices, imperial echoes : Joel Engel and the Russian Jewish musical fin de siècle -- The most musical nation : the birth of the Society for Jewish Folk Music -- Frozen folk songs : modern Jewish culture between art and commerce -- The neighbors' melodies : the politics of music in war and revolution.…”
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Music and philosophy by Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973

Table of Contents: “…Augustine (1943) -- Response to the inquiry into "musical images" (1945) -- Music and the marvelous (1948) -- Meditation on music (1952) -- The irruption of melody (1953) -- Humanism and music (1954).…”
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Communication in eighteenth-century music

Table of Contents: “…. -- Part I : Communication and verisimilitude in the eighteenth century / Paul Cobley -- Listening to listeners / Mark Evan Bonds -- Mannichfaltige Abweichungen von der gewohnlichen Sonaten-form : Beethoven's 'piano-solo' op. 31 no. 1 and the challenge of communication / Claudia Maurer Zenck -- Part II : Musical grammar -- Metre, phrase structure and manipulations of musical beginnings / Danuta Mirka -- National metrical types in music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / William Rothstein -- Schoenberg's 'second melody', or, 'Meyer-ed' in the bass / William E. Caplin -- Part III : Rhetorical form and topical decorum -- A metaphoric model of sonata form : two expositions by Mozart / Michael Spitzer -- Beethoven's op. 18 no. 3, first movement : two readings, with a comment on analysis / Kofi Agawu -- Mozart's K331, first movement : once more, with feeling / Wye J. …”
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Systematic musicology empirical and theoretical studies /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski -- Techno, decibels, and politics : an empirical study of modern dance music productions, sound pressure levels, and "loudness perception" / Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski -- Polynomial functions as a representation of melodic phrase contour / Daniel Müllensiefen, Geraint Wiggins -- Meloworks : an integrated retrieval, analysis and e-learning platform for melody research / Klaus Frieler, Frank Höger, Jörg Korries -- Perception of musical intervals at very low frequencies : some experimental findings / Albrecht Schneider, Valeri Tsatsishvili -- Nasality in musical sounds - a few intermediate results / Robert Mores -- Air modes in stringed lute-like instruments from Africa and China / Florian Pfeifle -- Psychoacoustic effects in wave field synthesis applications / Tim Ziemer -- Sound radiation patterns in classical singing styles / Orie Takada -- Some observations on a Stein-Conrad Hammerflügel from 1793 / Andreas Beurmann, Albrecht Schneider -- Playing "live" at the Star-Club : reconstructing the room acoustics of a famous music hall / Rolf Bader, Albrecht Schneider -- "You don't see the stitching" : some comments on stylistic diversity in rock using the example of Jethro Tull / Till Strauf -- Comments about Joni Mitchell's composing techniques and guitar style / Jan Clemens Moeller -- Egalitarianism and elitism in ethnomusicology and folk music scholarship / Ulrich Morgenstern -- Buddhism, animism, and entertainment in Cambodian melismatic chanting smot : history and tonal system / Rolf Bader -- Concerning the question of "loosely-knit" roughly equidistant scale in traditional music / Rytis Ambrazevičius.…”
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Music and institutions in nineteenth-century Britain

Table of Contents: “…The management of nineteenth-century Dublin music societies in the public and private spheres : the Philharmonic Society and the Dublin Musical Society / Catherine Ferris -- Three Madrigal Societies in Early nineteenth-Century England / James Hobson -- 'A Melodious Phenomenon' : the Institutional Influence on Town-Hall Music-Making / Rachel E. …”
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