Companion to contemporary musical thought
Choice Reviews Online · 1993
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.