Aberrant Nuptials explores the diversity and richness of the interactions between artistic research and Deleuze studies. “Aberrant nuptials” is the expression Gilles Deleuze uses to refer to productive encounters between systems characterised by fundamental difference. More than imitation, representation, or reproduction, these encounters foster creative flows of energy, generating new material configurations and intensive experiences. Within different understandings of artistic research,...

The elusive and ungraspable in Rihms's music.

Wolfgang Rihm ( b. Karlsruhe, 1952) is the most performed living German composer. With his personal, expressive, and versatile music, he became the most prominent representative of his generation. His individual approach to music was established in the 1980s and he continues to explore and enlarge his original concepts today. His 1980s work is at the core of this book, more specifically his instrumental music: the Chiffre cycle and the string quar...

Welke werkwijze kan het beste worden gevolgd bij het schrijven van een canon? Aan welke voorwaarden moet een goed fugathema voldoen? Hoe zet men een divertiment op, dat twee ontwikkelingen in een fuga met elkaar verbindt? Praktische vragen voor iedereen, die zich bezig gaat houden met de belangrijkste polyfone compositietechnieken.

Muziektheorie voor Dummies biedt je alle informatie die je nodig hebt om beats te produceren als een pro, om partituren te kunnen lezen en om te zien waar een muziekstuk thuishoort in het muzikale spectrum - of je nu zelf een stuk schrijft of dat van een ander leest. Componeer harmonieën en begeleiden melodieën voor instrumenten en stemmen, schrijf je eigen akkoorden en beheers toonladders, intervallen en tempo. Of je nu een carrière in de muziek ambieert of gewoon graag muziek luistert, m...

'New Paths', the seventh volume in the Writings of the Orpheus Institute, is a result of the third International Orpheus Academy for Music Theory. Five renowned scholars discuss a variety of topics related to romanticism, focusing especially on the years 1800–1840. In a much-needed historical and critical overview of the concept of organicism, John Neubauer ranges from its origins in Enlightenment biology to its aftermath in postmodernism.

Janet Schmalfeldt shows that Beethoven’s op.47 not o...

Ben je het beu om met je mede bandleden te vechten omdat je elkaars instrumenten niet begrijpt?

Alle ongelooflijke kleurenafbeeldingen van Muziektheorie: de taal van het geluid geschreven voor gitaar en bas op één plek! De kleurenafbeeldingen verbinden de fretboards van een gitaar en basgitaar met het pianotoetsenbord en de bladmuziek, waardoor het waardevol gereedschap is, niet alleen voor gitaristen en bassisten, maar voor elk lid in een band. Snel en handig voor elke student muziektheorie...

Music Theory: The Language of Sound, reveals the secrets of the guitar and bass guitar. It can be scary to get into music theory for a guitarist or bassist but this is a great place to start. You will never need another chord book or theory book again. The Language of Sound teaches you how to build chords from the root and play melodies in any Key. The graphics tie the fretboards of a guitar and bass guitar to the piano keyboard and sheet music, making it a valuable tool not just for guitaris...

Deleuze's and Guattari's philosophy in the field of artistic research.

Gilles Deleuze's intriguing concept of the dark precursor refers to intensive processes of energetic flows passing between fields of different potentials. Fleetingly used in Difference and Repetition, it remained underexplored in Deleuze's subsequent work. In this collection of essays numerous contributors offer perspectives on Deleuze's concept of the dark precursor as it affects artistic research, providing a wide-rangin...

Beyond resemblance: creative divergence in music performance.

What does it mean to produce resemblance in the performance of written music? Starting from how this question is commonly answered by the practice of interpretation in Western notated art music, this book proposes a move beyond commonly accepted codes, conventions and territories of music performance. Appropriating reflections from post-structural philosophy, visual arts and semiotics, and crucially based upon an artistic research ...

Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Drawing on a variety of historical and recent approaches to musical form (e.g., Marxian and Schoenbergian Formenlehre, Caplin’s theory of formal functions, and Hepokoski and Darcy’s Sonata Theory), it begins by developing an original theoretical framework for the analysis of this type...