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  • Human Societies

    An Evolutionary Introduction to Cultural Sociology

    by Bernhard Giesen, Werner Binder, Kim-Claude Meyer, Francis Le Maitre ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    What if humanity’s past isn’t really past? Bernhard Giesen, during his lifetime one of the most prominent voices of German cultural sociology, believed that social and cultural forms that originated in earlier societies have not simply vanished but continue to shape our lives in often surprising ways. Consequently, he conducted his yearly introduction to cultural sociology as a tour de force ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Word Art + Gesture Art = Tone Art

    The Relationship Between the Vocal and the Instrumental in Different Arts

    Edited by Hanns-Werner Heister, Hanjo Polk, Bernhard Rusam ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental in music and other arts and in everyday communication alike. Presenting an in-depth systematical and historical analysis of the evolution of word and gesture art, it gives extensive information on the anthropological, biological, and physiological influences and interactions in music ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2021 International Workshops

    CoDecFin, DeFi, VOTING, and WTSC, Virtual Event, March 5, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Matthew Bernhard, Andrea Bracciali, Lewis Gudgeon, Thomas Haines, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Daniel Perez, Massimiliano Sala, Sam Werner ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of four workshops held at the 25th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2021, held virtually, in March 2021.The workshops are as follows:CoDecFin: The Second Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized FinanceDeFi 2021 : First Workshop on Decentralized FinanceVOTING 2021: Sixth Workshop on Advances in Secure ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Towards a Northeast Asian Security Community

    Implications for Korea's Growth and Economic Development

    Edited by Bernhard Seliger, Werner Pascha ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The Northeast Asian security environment is closely linked to Korea’s growth perspectives for the future. The spectacular rise of the South Korean economy in the past half century, also known as “Miracle on the Han River,” has been duly highlighted as one of the most successful cases of economic development worldwide. However, among the factors curbing South Korea’s growth perspectives has been, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

    Edited by Thomas Christensen ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
    The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt

    Edited by Andrew Shenton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Arvo Pärt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world, has been used in award-winning films, and pieces such as Für Alina and Spiegel im Siegel have become ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Music as Thought

    Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

    by Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • New Music at Darmstadt

    Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez

    by Martin Iddon ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of the idea of the Darmstadt School, showing how participants in the West German new music scene, including Herbert Eimert ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Composed Theatre

    Aesthetics, Practices, Processes

    Edited by David Roesner, Matthias Rebstock ...
    A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatre explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. In addition to insightful essays by a stellar group of international contributors, this volume also includes interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre. ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Origins of Music

    by Carl Stumpf ...
    Translated by David Trippett ...
    The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and mathematics, Stumpf became one of the most influential psychologists of the late 19th century. He was the founding father of Gestalt psychology, ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise'

    Edited by Marjorie W. Hirsch, Lisa Feurzeig ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Organized in five parts, this Companion enhances understanding of Schubert's Winterreise by approaching it from multiple angles. Part I examines the political, cultural, and musical environments in which Winterreise was created. Part II focuses on the poet Wilhelm Müller, his 24-poem cycle Die Winterreise, and changes Schubert made to it in fashioning his musical setting. Part III illuminates ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Reading Mahler

    German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

    by Carl Niekerk ...
    Gustav Mahler's music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of departure the many references to literature, philosophy, and the visual arts that Mahler uses to illustrate the meaning of his music, Reading Mahler helps audiences, critics, and those ... Read more

    $17.99 USD