A Balanced Approach

By Sumy Takesue

Music Fundamentals is both a textbook and a workbook written for students who want to learn the basics of music. Keeping in mind the student with very little or no prior knowledge of music, musical concepts are reinforced by numerous examples including global music, along with a comprehensive website for students to practice their knowledge, and a CD with audio examples. The music examples range from Stevie Wonder songs to Beethoven symphonies, from rhythmically challenging African songs and syncopated Brazilian choro songs, to humorous Filipino ballads and Schubert lieder.

Features:

• A variety of exercises to help the student transform knowledge into practice.

• Listen and Sing exercises for ear training
• Keyboard Drills to be played on a real keyboard or piano, or the keyboard insert provided in the inside cover
• Clapping and Counting exercises are included so that students not only have a cerebral understanding, but also a visceral feeling for pulse and rhythm
• Review Exercises at the end of each module facilitate progress to the next module.
• Cultural Notes discuss musical genres or place musical examples in a cultural context.
• Historical Notes place material in an historical context.
• Vocabulary Notes discuss musical signs or terms. These notes provide contextual background and give students a richer appreciation and understanding of musical concepts
• An Instructor’s manual offers suggestions for classroom exercises.

The companion website is under construction and will launch in June 2010. It will offer a varitey of student and instructor resources, including interactive tutorials, additional appendices, and an instructor's manual that will offer tips on using the book and more.

ISBN: 9780415873376

Published March 09 2010 by Routledge.

By J. Scott Goble

What’s So Important About Music Education? addresses the history of rationales provided for music education in the United States. J. Scott Goble explains how certain factors stemming from the nation's constitutional separation of church and state, its embrace of democracy and capitalism, and the rise of recording, broadcast, and computer technologies have brought about changes in the ways music teachers and concerned others have conceptualized music and its importance in education. In demonstrating how many of the personal and societal benefits of musical engagement have come to be obscured in the nation’s increasingly diverse public forum, Goble also argues for the importance of musical engagement in human life and for the importance of music in education. The book concludes with recommendations for teaching the musical practices of the nation's constituent cultural communities in schools in terms of their respective cultural meanings.

ISBN: 9780415800549

Published February 18 2010 by Routledge.

A Holistic Approach to Sight Singing and Ear Training

By Kent Cleland, Mary Dobrea-Grindahl

ISBN: 9780415802437

Published February 04 2010 by Routledge.

A Research and Information Guide

By John H. Baron

Chamber Music: A Research and Information Guide is a reference tool for anyone interested in chamber music. It is not a history or an encyclopedia but a guide to where to find answers to questions about chamber music. The third edition adds nearly 600 new entries to cover new research since publication of the previous edition in 2002. Most of the literature is books, articles in journals and magazines, dissertations and theses, and essays or chapters in Festschriften, treatises, and biographies. In addition to the core literature obscure citations are also included when they are the only studies in a particular field. In addition to being printed, this volume is also for the first time available online. The online environment allows for information to be updated as new research is introduced. This database of information is a "live" resource, fully searchable, and with active links. Users will have unlimited access, annual revisions will be made and a limited number of pages can be downloaded for printing.

ISBN: 9780415994187

Published January 11 2010 by Routledge.

A Guide to Research

Edited by Denise Gallo

Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is designed as a tool for those beginning to study the life and works of Gioachino Rossini as well as for those who wish to explore beyond the established biographies and commentaries. The first edition was published in 2001, and represented a survey of some 878 publications relating to the composer’s life and works. The second edition is revised and updated to include the more than 150 books and articles written in the field of Rossini studies since then. Contents range from sources published in the early decades of the nineteenth century to works currently in progress. General subject areas include Rossini's biography, historical and analytical studies of his operatic and non-operatic compositions, his personal and professional associations, and the reassessment of his role in the development of nineteenth-century music.

ISBN: 9780415994576

Published January 11 2010 by Routledge.

Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

By Matthew Santa

Hearing Form is a textbook for upper-level undergraduate college courses on the analysis of musical forms. It reviews concepts such as score reading, instrumental transposition, cadences, phrase structure, harmonic sequences, and modulation while at the same time introducing a style of phrase diagramming and an approach to hearing without the score that is used consistently throughout the book. The goal of this book is to teach students to:

• Identify phrase endings and cadence types in music with or without a score
• Identify harmonic sequence types in music with or without a score
• Identify modulations in music with or without a score
• Identify formal sections in music with or without a score
• Identify musical forms with or without a score

Hearing Form includes a workbook, a score anthology, and a companion web site. The workbook is bound together with the textbook and has perforated pages for the convenience of students and instructors alike. The companion website provides supplementary materials for the course, including recordings for all of the pieces in the anthology, quizzes, assignments, and additional scores not included in the anthology.

ISBN: 9780415872621

Published December 21 2009 by Routledge.

Sound, Movement, and Meaning

Edited by Rolf Inge Godøy, Marc Leman

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating it to our body movements, or form an image in our minds of body movements. Musical Gestures is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sound and movement. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science.

ISBN: 9780415998864

Published December 18 2009 by Routledge.

Listening to Fear

Edited by Neil Lerner

Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. Frightening images and ideas can be made even more intense when accompanied with frightening musical sounds, and music in horror film frequently makes its audience feel threatened and uncomfortable through its sudden stinger chords and other shock effects. The essays in this collection address the presence of music in horror films and their potency within them. With contributions from scholars across the disciplines of music and film studies, these essays delve into blockbusters like The Exorcist, The Shining, and The Sixth Sense together with lesser known but still important films like Carnival of Souls and The Last House on the Left. By leading us with the ear to hear these films in new ways, these essays allow us to see horror films with fresh eyes.

ISBN: 9780415992022

Published December 16 2009 by Routledge.

Edited by Ross Parry

The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online is as important as their physical presence on site.

However, ‘digital heritage’ (as an area of practice and as a subject of study) does not exist in one single place. Its evidence base is complex, diverse and distributed, and its content is available through multiple channels, on varied media, in myriad locations, and different genres of writing.

It is this diaspora of material and practice that this Reader is intended to address. With over forty chapters (by some fifty authors and co-authors), from around the world, spanning over twenty years of museum practice and research, this volume acts as an aggregator drawing selectively from a notoriously distributed network of content. Divided into seven parts (on information, space, access, interpretation, objects, production and futures), the book presents a series of cross-sections through the body of digital heritage literature, each revealing how a different aspect of curatorship and museum provision has been informed, shaped or challenged by computing.

Museums in a Digital Age is a provocative and inspiring guide for any student or practitioner of digital heritage.

ISBN: 9780415402613

Published December 07 2009 by Routledge.

An Introduction for Future Teachers

By Michael L. Mark, Patrice Madura

Designed for Introduction to Music Education courses, this textbook provides an overview of the music education system , illuminating the many topics that music educators need to know, including technology, teaching methods, curricular evolution, legislation, and a range of societal needs from cultural diversity to evolving tastes in music. It encompasses a broad picture of the profession, and how the future of music education rests in the hands of today’s student teachers as they learn how to become advocates for music in our schools.

ISBN: 9780415800891

Published November 18 2009 by Routledge.