Théorie de la musique

Pier Francesco Tosi’s ‘Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers’ is a comprehensive examination of the art of singing, both in historical context and as it wa …

Jessie Fothergill’s historical novel ‘The First Violin’ is a captivating exploration of the intersecting lives of a talented young violinist and those around her in 19th-century Germany. Fothergill’s …

Clement A. Harris’s ‘How to Write Music: Musical Orthography’ is a comprehensive guide to understanding the fundamentals of writing music. The book delves into various aspects of musical notation, pr …

In ‘Principles of Orchestration’ by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, readers are presented with a comprehensive guide to the art of orchestrating music. This influential work delves into the intricacies of a …

The term choro is a complex expression of a genre, a style and a cast. This diversity is complemented by regionality and forms a special appearance with the choro tradition in the Brazilian state of …

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Principles of Orchestration’ is a seminal work that provides a comprehensive guide to the art of orchestrating music. Written in a clear and detailed manner, Rimsky-Korsako …

‘Cats and Flowers’ book is the first part of Solfa Net Web material, which is the English version of the originally Finnish Prima Vista series. The preparatory material includes a 35 Ear training tas …

Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works is a book by a famous Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, member of the group of composers known as The Five. The boo …

Out of roiling French feminist theory in the 1970s, philosopher and writer Hélène Cixous developed the practice of lecture feminine – based on the notion of écriture féminine – as an analytic approac …

This book is about the aesthetics of the tonal music. It therefore deals with sound forms such as consonance, dissonance, tonality, bar, counterpoint or motif. Thereby, it shows that all harmonic, rh …