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Music studies composition, performance, theory, and cultural impact of sound.
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Hermann von Helmholtz's On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music stands…
Mach's book re-presents Helmholtz's theory for readers without advanced physics training, especially musicians and music-lovers.
The work consists of two lectures addressed to a general, educated audience rather than to specialists, in which…
Het visconcert is the Dutch translation of Brekkukotsannáll, a novel by Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, first published in…
Adorno diagnoses a crisis in mid-20th-century music, where advanced techniques isolate new music from its audience under late…
The work consists of roughly seventy musical compositions, each set to Hildegard's own original poetic texts.
D'Alembert's mathematical clarity made the work influential among Enlightenment thinkers and musicians.
A series of organ concerts commemorates Bach's death through his final compositions, arranged in a liturgical arc from…
This book is a comprehensive biographical and critical study of the life and works of the Viennese composer…
Music at Night is a collection of essays by Aldous Huxley, assembled from pieces written across the late…
Detours is a work of fiction by Hermann Hesse, presented in the form of a first-person narrative.
This text is a compilation of entries from an encyclopedia, presented as a list of contributors and the…
This collection of 186 songs reveals Tagore's fusion of folk melodies with classical ragas, blending earthly love and…
Augustine argues that a true musician is defined by rational understanding of modulation, not mere performance skill, establishing…
Rousseau declares his intention to speak plainly on the matter of French versus Italian opera, cutting through national…
