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What am I hearing? Analysis of music recordings

A guide for those who wish to understand different types of music recordings.

Ternhag, Gunnar

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A guide for those who wish to understand different types of music recordings.

Many of today's educations in music, music production and media introduce students to music technology. Part of the training in this art involves listening to existing music recordings and through analysis trying to uncover their history.

Gunnar Ternhag's book is laid out so that the reader first gets an introduction to the subject, where various questions are discussed: Why do we listen to recorded music so much today? How do we listen? Where do we listen? Then different analysis methods are presented. And finally, some concrete analyzes of music from different genres are given - a hit by Sven-Olof Sandberg, a blast from Älvdalen, a pop song by the 60s group Tages and a folk rock recording by Hedningarna.

Gunnar Ternhag is professor of sound and music production at Dalarna University and visiting professor at Örebro Academy of Music.

“What am I hearing? is a useful and readable book that builds much-needed bridges between the disciplines of sound and music production and musicology; it brings musicological and humanistic perspectives into the first-mentioned, practically oriented discipline, and hopefully at the same time makes musicology more aware of the rich and fascinating field of research that recordings of music offer.” Toivo Burlin, Swedish Journal of Music Research