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This pioneering book offers a statistical approach to analysing the styles of the Trinity of Carnatic music. It demonstrates that Indian music, adhering to the Markov property, is neither deterministic nor random, opening new avenues for research in comparative music.
This book, designed for an international audience, offers a comprehensive glossary of music terms with a focus on Indian music, which traces its roots to the Vedas. Using a wealth of compositions, it explores the statistical approach to analysing the styles of the Trinity of Carnatic music. Key topics such as notes, ragas, talas, ornamentation, and the limitations in analysing gamakas are included. The study methods are clearly outlined, shedding light on sonant-consonance relationships and explaining why Shannon’s entropy is neither a style nor raga characteristic. The text discusses periodicity in variograms and the hole effect due to variations / sangathis. It demonstrates that Indian music, adhering to the Markov property, is neither entirely deterministic nor random. New methods are introduced to quantify determinism and define convolute scales’ ascent and descent, including substitutability analysis. This is a pioneering work with “originality”, a good reference book opening up new avenues for research in comparative music.
This anthology of Ukrainian carols is a prism through which Ukraine’s history, culture, and vibrant spirit are revealed. It includes the original “Carol of the Bells,” music scores, translations, and the gripping narratives of choral activism that helped a nation survive.
Sonic Mediations is a collection of essays that invites readers to rethink mediation by examining the relationships between the body, sound, and technology. It addresses key questions about performance, perception, and the role of the listener.
Once a titan of opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer’s legacy was all but erased. Based on newly recovered private papers, this definitive biography reveals the man behind the myth, charting his downfall and modern rediscovery.
The first major book to apply the timely notion of “glocality” to music, it offers a distinctive theoretical perspective and advanced insights into how music is impacted by the interaction of global forces with local conditions.
This collection of essays provides valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome.
Ludwig Minkus is one of music’s biggest mysteries. An influential composer for Imperial Russia’s ballet, he was scorned by critics. Now his works Don Quixote and La Bayadère are taking the world by surprise. This study discovers the man behind the powerful music.
Pauline Viardot was a seminal 19th-century opera singer, composer, and teacher whose friends included Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner. Loved by Ivan Turgenev, she was a fascinating woman at the heart of her age. This volume covers her later years.
Esteemed composer Jennifer Higdon writes fascinating and profound choral music. This book explores her works, citing the extensive relationship of the music to the texts. It presents compositional characteristics, analysis, and insights directly from the composer.
The role of scents in opera and its influence on perfumery has long been neglected. In the first book-length study on the topic, Professor Mary May Robertson explores the previously undiscussed connection between the two, revealing their ultimate marriage in Operatic Perfumes.
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary provides a collection of portraits of the greatest singers of the French language and describes how they have contributed to the musical landscape in both France and the larger francophone community and the world as a whole.
This book covers mineral resource estimation, from classic geometric to modern geostatistical techniques. It includes essential theory, mine planning, international codes, and extensive diagrams. A comprehensive textbook and reference for students and mining geologists.
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