The Coolidge legacy / by Barr, Cyrilla

Table of Contents: “…A message from the Librarian of Congress -- Foreword / Jon Newsom -- The Coolidge legacy -- Musical compositions by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge -- Chronology of festivals, competitions, and commissions -- Commissions, dedications, and prize-winning compositions.…”

Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer : a study of his creative life and works / by Verhaalen, Marion

Table of Contents: “…The man -- Evolving a national music -- Compositional style -- Music for solo piano -- Music for piano and orchestra -- Songs and smaller choral works -- Dramatic choral works -- Music for solo and chamber strings -- Music for strings with orchestra -- Music for wind instruments -- Music for orchestra.…”

Music and ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / by Palisca, Claude V.

Table of Contents: “…Musical change and intellectual history -- Universal harmony -- Sense over reason : the anti-theoretical tradition -- The poetics of musical composition -- Humanist revival of the modes and genera -- Humanist reaction to polyphony -- Theories of monody and dramatic music -- Music and scientific discovery -- Ancient and modern : styles and genres -- Theories of the affections and imitation -- Music and rhetoric.…”

Eagle minds : selected correspondence of Istvan Anhalt and George Rochberg, 1961-2005 / by Anhalt, István, Rochberg, George

Table of Contents: “…A new friendship (1961-1964) -- pt. 2. Musical composition (1965-1976) -- pt. 3. The aesthetics of survival and alternative voices (1981-1985) -- pt. 4. …”
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Medieval music and the art of memory / by Berger, Anna Maria Busse

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the first great dead white male composer -- The construction of the memorial archive -- Tonaries : a tool for memorizing chant -- Basic theory treatises -- The memorization of organum, discant, and counterpoint treatises -- Compositional process in polyphonic music -- Compositional process and transmission of Notre Dame polyphony -- Visualization and the composition of polyphonic music.…”

Medieval music and the art of memory / by Berger, Anna Maria Busse

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the first great dead white male composer -- The construction of the memorial archive -- Tonaries : a tool for memorizing chant -- Basic theory treatises -- The memorization of organum, discant, and counterpoint treatises -- Compositional process in polyphonic music -- Compositional process and transmission of Notre Dame polyphony -- Visualization and the composition of polyphonic music.…”
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Music and ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / by Palisca, Claude V.

Table of Contents: “…Musical change and intellectual history -- Universal harmony -- Sense over reason : the anti-theoretical tradition -- The poetics of musical composition -- Humanist revival of the modes and genera -- Humanist reaction to polyphony -- Theories of monody and dramatic music -- Music and scientific discovery -- Ancient and modern : styles and genres -- Theories of the affections and imitation -- Music and rhetoric.…”
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The aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach / by Pirro, André, 1869-1943

Table of Contents: “…Direction of motifs -- Formation of motifs -- Rhythmic formation of motifs -- Simultaneous melodies -- Commentary from the instrumental accompaniment -- Orchestration -- Interpretation of the text -- The principal forms of composition in Bach's vocal music -- Compositions joined, successively, to texts of different natures -- Expression in Bach's instrumental music -- Bach and early music ; Bach and foreign music -- Johann Sebastian Bach, German cantor.…”

Harmony. by Piston, Walter, 1894-1976

Communication in eighteenth-century music /

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Giuseppe Verdi

The life, poetry, and music of the Provençal troubadour Perdigon : texts, translations, and interpretations / by Perdigó, Luisa Marina

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The written poems -- The biographies -- About the troubadours and literature of the period -- Perdigon's poetic style -- Perdigon's musical compositions and the miniatures -- Additional works attributed to Perdigon -- Perdigon's influence -- Conclusion -- End Notes -- Appendices. …”
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On Mozart /

Table of Contents: “…/ Howard Gardner -- Mozart and the transformational imperative / David Henry Feldman -- On the economics of musical composition in Mozart's Vienna / William J. Baumol and Hilda Baumol -- Mozart was a working stiff / Neal Zaslaw -- The challenge of blank paper : Mozart the composer / Christoph Wolff -- Marianne Mozart : "carissima sorella mia" / Maynard Solomon -- Mozart's piano concertos and their audience / Joseph Kerman -- Mozart's tunes and the comedy of closure / Wye J. …”

Musical networks : parallel distributed perception and performance /

Table of Contents: “…Katz -- Neural network music composition by prediction : exploring the benefits of psychoacoustic contraints and multi-scale processing / Michael C. …”
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Cybersonic arts adventures in American new music / by Mumma, Gordon, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Selective list of Gordon Mumma's musical compositions.…”
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Cybersonic arts : adventures in American new music / by Mumma, Gordon, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Selective list of Gordon Mumma's musical compositions.…”
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Sondheim on music : minor details and major decisions / by Horowitz, Mark Eden

Choral masterpieces : major and minor / by Tarling, Nicholas

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The why of music : dialogues in an unexplored region of appreciation / by Ferguson, Donald N. 1882-1985

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; A GLEAM IN THE EYE; "SOMETHING MORE"; THE MUSICAL IMAGE; HOW THE MUSICAL IMAGE IS PORTRAYED; HOW FORM CONTRIBUTES TO THE IMAGE; SOME HOWS AND WHYS OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION; SOME HOWS AND WHYS OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE; STYLE AND TASTE; IMAGE AND STYLE IN BACH; CLASSICISM IN HAYDN AND MOZART; ROMANTICISM IN BEETHOVEN; BEETHOVEN: THE SECOND PERIOD; BEETHOVEN: THE THIRD PERIOD; VERBAL AND MUSICAL IMAGES IN THE SONG; THE MUSICAL IMAGE IN THE LEADING-MOTIVE; TWO NEW QUESTIONERS; A COMMON MUSICAL IDIOM; WHAT MAKES GOOD MUSIC GREAT?…”
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