Music Theory

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The Bastard Instrument

A Cultural History of the Electric Bass

By Brian F. Wright
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, American Studies, Music Theory, Music Composition, Jazz
Series: Tracking Pop

Centering the electric bass in popular music history

Here for the Hearing

Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater

Edited by Michael Buchler & Gregory John Decker
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, Musicology
Series: Tracking Pop

A scholarly music analysis book specifically focused on musical theater

On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone

By Philip Ewell
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Exposing the racial injustices of music theory

Uncharted

Creativity and the Expert Drummer

By Bill Bruford
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, Music Composition, Jazz
Series: Tracking Pop

Renowned rock drummer Bill Bruford analyzes the creative processes of drumming, using his own— and other famous musicians’— expertise and insights

Beyond Notation

The Music of Earle Brown

By Rebecca Y. Kim
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Music Theory, Composition

The first comprehensive survey of the groundbreaking work of Earle Brown, augmented with several newly published items from his personal archive

 

Algorithmic Composition

A Guide to Composing Music with Nyquist

By Mary Simoni & Roger B Dannenberg
Subjects: Music, Music Theory

Algorithmic Composition offers new ways of thinking about the organization of sound that we call music

Bytes and Backbeats

Repurposing Music in the Digital Age

By Steve Savage
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, Media Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

An examination of how musical activity has been transformed by contemporary production practices

Theater as Music

The Bunraku Play “Mt. Imo and Mt. Se

By C. Andrew Gerstle, C. Gerstle, Kiyoshi Inobe, and William Malm
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Music Theory, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines Bunraku in performance and brings together musical, dramatic, and historical analyses into one study

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