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Philip Tagg
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- EVERYDAY TONALITY II (2015/2021)
- TEN LITTLE TITLE TUNES (2003)
(with Bob Clarida)
- KOJAK: 50" OF TV MUSIC (1979/2000)
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2012
- Music's Meanings: a modern musicology for non-musos (2012-2013)
New York & Huddersfield: Mass Media Music Scholars' Press. 710 pp. e-book ISBN 978-0-9701684-5-0; hard copy (2013) ISBN 978-0-9701684-8-1. [html].
- Lettre ouverte à propos des musiques « noires », « afro-américaines » et « européennes »;
Open Letter about 'Black', 'Afro-American' and 'European' Music, Part 2. Artéfact, 1 16-31 (2012-08-31): première version française. Meilleure traduction, en deux parties, dans Artéfact, 1, 16-31 (2012-08-31)) et 2.
Slightly abridged version, in two parts, of Tagg (1989).
- Tagg's Tonal Terminology Tour Diary (2012-02-22) My unacademically written academic gig tour diary. Reactions I’ve recently received from different people in different institutions reveal a lot about the state of music studies among different types of academic audience. With reactions ranging from elitist disdain and outright boycott via strong objections, epistemic discomfort, partial scepticism, all the way through to intellectual relief, gratitude and enthusiasm.
- Unsystematic notes about vocal persona sources (16 Jan 2012) Unformatted, ad hoc notes from online searches about voice, vocal persona, vocal personality, etc.; in raw text format (*.txt).
- The
phonetic anomalies of standard UK English (2010) (table,
1 p. only, incl. phonetic script [90k PDF]
2011
- Trouble with Tonal Terminology. Article submitted 2011-12-06 for publication in Festschrift for Coriún Aharonián and Graciela Paraskevaidis. Updated April 2012 and revised version February 2013. [HTML dummy]. >> see later version (2015).
- Dominants and Dominance: A video contribution to discussions in Montevideo about musicology and colonialism. Música/Musicología y colonialismo (ed. Aharonián). Montevideo: Centro Nacional de Documentación Musical Lauro Ayesterán. Written synthesis pp. 67-71 and DVD attachment (22 mins.) (2012): video produced 2009 for Montevideo conference.
- Caught on the Back Foot: epistemic inertia and invisible music (keynote presentation, IASPM 16th Biennial Conference, Grahamstown, 2011-06-27; slightly revised 2013-02-15). [HTML dummy];
also in IASPM @ Journal, 2/1-2 (2011/2012; not updated and less reader-friendly).
- La tonalità di tutti i giorni (2011, Milano: Saggiatore), hard-copy Italian version of Everyday Tonality (2009).
- Music, Moving Image and the "Missing Majority": how vernacular media competence can help music studies move into the digital era. Text accompanying keynote address at conference Music & The Moving Image,
2011-05-21, Steinhardt School, New York University [HTML dummy 61k]
- Musicology and the Silent Majority in the Digital Era. Abstract of lectures held in Oslo and Kristiansand, January 31-Feb 1 2011 (raw text only)
2010
2000-2009
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2009
- Everyday
Tonality —towards a tonal theory of what most people hear. WITHDRAWN. Please use Everyday Tonality II (2015)
- The Yes
We Can Chords (26 pp, 2009), Chapter 15 in Everyday
Tonality II . G B Em C simply strummed on a metal-6-string
acoustic guitar in 4/4 at 100 bpm: what does it ‘mean’? What
does the chord sequence have to do with the Obama campaign, or with
hope, encouragement, determination and a sense of community (‘Yes
we can’) in the face of hardship and difficulty? [Chapter 15 as HTML dummy].
2008
2007
- La
película del libro de la música/The film of the book of the
music. Sobre la necessidad de repensar las maneras de explicar el significado
musical.On the neceesity of rethinking ways of explaining musical
meaning. Texto incluido en la ponencia presentada en el sptimo congreso
de la IASPM-AL, La Habana, junio de 2006. I am unable to find the English
original of this text translated into Spanish by Marta Garcia. This version
is therefore 65% in Spanish and 35% in English. It will appear entirely
in Spanish in the Actas of IASPM-AL's Havana conference and I will try soon
to translate Marta’s Spanish back into English. Using Lakoff’s
notion of functional embodiment, I argue that awareness of music’s
semiotic functions in contemporary media cannot be generated through mere
verbal deconstruction or theorising. If important theoretical or ideological
lessons are to be learnt… they must be rooted in knowledge intrinsic
to the modes of perception under investigation. Footage produced and discussed: Intel Inside, Atomic Power Montage and Breakfast at Ibotirama (Fernando the Flute, Chapter 1). Click
here to access those clips. PDF 490k. Dummy
HTML.
2006 2006
2005
- Musical
microcosms and the political economy. Provisional text part only
(7 mins.) of 20-min. presentation delivered at 13th IASPM international
conference, Rome, 2005 [html 15k].
- Faciliter
l’étude de la musique populaire est un enjeu démocratique. Entrevue
réalisée par Julie Fortier; Sforzando, 9/2 (printemps
2005), p. 9 [html 11k]
- Review
of Volume 1 of Musiques: une encyclopédie pour le XXIe sicle (ed. J-J Nattiez) [html 97k; PDF 232k]
- Gestural
interconversion and connotative precision. Film International #13/2005:1, Submitted Nov-Dec 2004 [dummy
html] " Versione italiana.
- Musical
meanings, classical and popular. Revised English original of text submitted for publication in Einaudi’s Enciclopedia della musica. (ed. J-J Nattiez, to be translated into Italian
and French) [PDF 286k; dummy
html 50k]. Was called ‘What use is a museme?’. Slightly shorter,
less ideological, but more theoretical variant of ’Film
music, antidepressants and anguish’ and ‘Antidepressants
and musical anguish management’ (both 2004). N.B. Italian version
in l'Enciclopedia
della musica,
published by Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino.
2004
- Gestural conversion and connotative precision. Article published in Film International, December 2004.
- Film
music, antidepressants and anguish management. Slightly reworked version
of next paper on list. Done for a volume edited by Jochen Eisentraut (Bangor,
Wales). [html dummy 48k; correct pdf version 330k incl. notated music examples].
- Para
que serve um musema? Antidepressivos e a gestão musical da angóstia Conferência Philip Tagg, Universidade de Montréal V Congresso da IASPM-LA,
Rio de Janeiro, 22 de Junho de 2004. Tradução preliminar (Henrique Wesley).
- Antidepressants
and musical anguish management. Keynote speech, IASPM Latin America
conference, Rio de Janeiro, June 2004. [html
70k with short MP3 links; pdf
version 169k incl. notated music examples].
- Mostrar
lo extraña que es la normalidad (‘Normality is so weird’).
Existe una definición positiva de música popular? Cuál
é la utilidad del análisis musical? Qué lugar tiene la autenticidad
como juicio de valor? Qué papel podra cumplir un tipo de subversión que actuara
en la música misma, una especie de boicot de la normalidad en la música
popular? (Entrevista por
Guilherme Alencar de Pinto, Uruguay, 2004-07-12. Published in Brecha (Montevideo), Friday 30 July 2004 [html 21k]
2003
2002
2001
- Music
analysis for ‘non-musos’ — Popular perception as a basis
for understanding musical structure and signification. Paper delivered
at Popular Music Analysis Conference, University of Cardiff 17 Nov. 2001.
Updated for translation into Portuguese (Brazilian journal Per Musi), October
2009. [PDF 348k] [HTML dummy].
- Background
dates to Popular Music Studies [upd. June 2001, 338k HTML]
- Twenty
Years After — Founder’s Event, 11th International IASPM
Conference, Turku , 8 July 2001 [HTML]
- Foreword to Popular
music as a possible medium in secondary school education (May 2001,
plus complete original text and statistics from May 1966) html
- The
Sonic Aesthetics of the Industrial: Re-Constructing Yesterday’s
Soundscape for Today’s Alienation and Tomorrow’s Dystopia,
co-authored by Karen E Collins. Paper delivered at UK/EIR Soundscape
Conference, Dartington, February 2001. HTML (75k) & PDF (39k,
8 pp. A4 2 cols.).
- Music,
moving image, semiotics and the democratic right to know. Longer
article based on shorter paper given at conference ‘Music and Manipulation’,
Stockholm, September 1999 [24 pp., 118k PDF]
2000
- High
and Low, Cool and Uncool, Music and Knowledge — Conceptual falsifications
and the institutionalisation of popular music studies. Keynote speech,
IASPM UK. July 2000 [HTML]
- High
and Low, Cool and Uncool — Aesthetic and historical falsifications
about music in Europe. Keynote speech, IASPM Bulgaria, June 2000 [34k
HTML]
‘Modality’
and other short articles for EPMOW'
SUPERSEDED AND REPLACED BY CHAPTERS IN EVERYDAY TONALITY.
Melody
and Accompaniment — 2 longer entries for EPMOW (2000)'
SUPERSEDED AND REPLACED BY CHAPTERS IN EVERYDAY TONALITY and MUSIC'S MEANINGS.
- An
ethical approach to media culture in music education. Response to
questions from Luca Marconi for Italian music teachers’ magazine.
Published in Italian as ‘Un approccio etico alla cultura mediale’
in Musica Domani no. 116 (EDT, Torino, 2000), pp. 30-31
Harmony
Handout
Entries for EPMOW (Encyclopedia
of Popular Music of the World): includes articles on Circle of Fifths,
Chord, Counterpoint, Harmony, Heterophony, Lead Sheet, Lead Sheet Chord
Shorthand, Polyphony, Turnaround (2000) [581k, 50 pages PDF, 41 music
examples, 12 tables]
SUPERSEDED AND REPLACED BY CHAPTERS IN EVERYDAY TONALITY.
- Kojak
- 50 Seconds of TV Music - Towards the analysis of affect in popular
music (2nd edition of PhD thesis from 1979, 424 pp. ISBN 978-0- 9701684-9-8) [html]
- Fernando
the Flute (144 pp. 7 - 10" = 177×254 mm., illustrated, numerous music
examples. ISBN 0-9701684-1-1.) [html]
- Music
and a Sense of Place (initial statistics only), Sept. 2000.
- Personal
statement in memory of Gaston Rochon (May 2000).
1990-1999
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1997-1995
1994-1990
- Tagg’s
Diatribe or Tagg’s Nag or Phil’s Whinge
— in IPM (University of Liverpool) news bulletin, 1994 [16k HTML]
- Popular Music: da Kojak al rave (1994); cura/trad. Roberto Agostini e Luca Marconi; 440 pagine, ISBN 978-88-809-1044-2; Bologna: CLUEB.
- Subjectivity
and soundscape, motorbikes and music— paper delivered at soundscapes studies conference, Virrat (Finland),
1994 [58k HTML]
- From
refrain to rave — the decline of figure and the rise of ground.
In Popular Music (1994) [37k HTML]. Earlier version in ReR Quarterly 0402 (1992).
- ‘Universal’
music and the case of death. In Critical Quarterly, 1993
[PDF] [HTML dummy] (updated 2015-09-22)
- Towards
a sign typology of music — paper delivered at second European Music Analysis Conference, Trento
(1991) [53k HTML] [PDF, 8 pp. A4]
- Vers
une musicologie de la télévision— paper delivered at Colloque Ferdinand Gonseth, La Chaux du Fonds, (1990) [120k HTML]
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1984-81
- Reading
sounds — written for L'Unità (Rome), summer 1986
[57k HTML]
- Address
on the State of the Association— speech at 3rd international IASPM conference, Montréal, July
1985 [HTML] [PDF]
- Musikvetenskap
och populärmusikens semiotik (1984) (PDF 33 pp., ed. 2015) [original, 110k html]
- Why
IASPM? Which Tasks?— paper at 2nd international IASPM conference, Reggio Emilia, September
1983 [HTML] [PDF]
- Understanding
‘Time Sense’ — for Jan Ling’s 50th birthday Festschrift Tvärspel,
1983; revised and expanded 1996 [PDF] (dummy
HTML)
- Nature
as a Musical Mood Category — 1982 [103k PDF] html
- Analysing
Popular Music: theory, method and practice. Article for Popular Music, 2 (1982, revised 2015) [23 pp. A4
PDF] (dummy HTML); original 1982 version (solely for archival reasons, PDF) (dummy HTML).
- Music
Teacher Training Problems and Popular Music Research.
Paper for first IASPM conference, Amsterdam, 1981 [37k HTML]
- Proposals
concerning the establishment of an International Society for Popular Music
Research. Discussion document for the first International Conference
on Popular Music Studies (Amsterdam, 1981) when IASPM was founded [HTML | PDF]
before 1980
1979
1966
Course materials (written,
edited or compiled by P. Tagg unless otherwise indicated)
- See
also courses pages on this site.
- See
also Essential external links. See
also Audiovisual materials
General pedagogical tools
Epistemology of music (music, popular music studies, etc.)
"Absolute" music (problems of)
REPLACED BY MUSIC'S MEANINGS, CHAPTER 3. (2012).
- Adorno
on Popular Music; see also 'Socio' section of Chapter 4 in Music's Meanings (2012).
- Century
of the Self Indispensable viewing and 4 short texts about propaganda, ‘advertising’and consumer
manipulation.
- Chester, A. 1970. For
a rock aesthetic and Second
thoughts about a rock aesthetic
- Definition
of popular music from Kojak:
50 Seconds of TV Music.
- Fabbri, F. 1981. A
Theory of Musical Genres: Two Applications [95k]; superseded by Fabbri (1999).
- Fabbri, F. 1999. Browsing Music Spaces - Categories and the Musical Mind [pdf 78k]; see also Chapter 8 in Music's Meanings (2012).
- Hamm, C. 1981. Some
thoughts on the Meausurement of Popularity in Music [54k]
- Mattelart & Neveu: Introduction aux cultural studies. Paris:
Coll. Repéres, éd. La Découverte, 2003, 122 p. € 7,95 (en ligne).
‘Music’, definition of (notes, March 2002)
REPLACED BY MUSIC'S MEANINGS, CHAPTER 2. (2012)
- Popular
Music Studies: a brief presentation (Simplified PowerPoint presentation
for The Rayson Huang Lecture, Department of Music, University of Hong
Kong, 2003)
- Troubles with Tonal Terminology (2011).
- Williams, Raymond. 1976. Definitions of 'Popular'
- Ten
Little Title Tunes: Chapter
1 — The rise of musical absolutism; Chapter
2 — The decline of musical absolutism? (Tagg & Clarida, PDF 34 + 56 pp.). Download Ten Titles for peanuts.
Popular Music History
Music Analysis and Semiotics
- Analyse
sémiotique (simplifiée) de la musique populaire présentation
PowerPoint, 50% en français)
- Basic
pop guitar notation (1994 by Brad Sheward, ed. Tagg)
- Björnberg, Alf. On aeolian harmony in contemporary popular
music (original English version, 1984)
- Björnberg, Alf (1992).
Music video and the semiotics of popular
music [was html 37k]
- Chandler, D. Semiotics for Beginners (essential basic reading)
- British
blue notes and backbeats- musicological missing links. An example of
how musicology can contribute to the defalsification of canonic consensus
in the history of North American popular music [This PowerPoint presentation
should be viewed/heard in conjunction with the Open
Letter about “black music”. Ce document n'est accessible
qu’ à ceux en possession du mot de passe et du code d’identification
corrects / This document can only be accessed by those in possession of
the correct user-ID and password]
- Burns, G. 1987. Typology
of 'hooks' in popular records [pdf 84k]
- Nic Thompson: Drumkit
notation key
- *** Everyday Tonality II (2015).
- "Form", its problems and meanings: see Chapters 11-12 in Music's Meanings (2012).
- Fernando
the Flute (book info and extracts)
- Guide
du travail d’analyse de la musique populaire
Introductory notes to the semiotics of music (1997)
REPLACED BY replaced by Chapters 5-14 in Music's Meanings (2012).
- Kojak:
50 Seconds of TV Music (book info); transcription, table of musemes, definition
of popular music
- Lead sheets and lead sheet chord shorthand were in Tagg’s
Harmony Handout (2000). Now in "Chords" chapter of Everyday Tonality (2009: 145-158)
- *** Music's Meanings (2012), chapters 5 (semiotics), 6-7 (intersubjective and interobjective), 8-9 (parameters of musical expression),
10 (vocal persona), 11-12 ("form" and meaning), 13 (sign typology), 14 (film music analysis).
Melody
in Everyday Tonality II ;
Melody & accompaniment
chapters 4 & 12 in Music's Meanings (2012: 425-446).
Semiotics and the semiotics of music
chapters 5-14 in Music's Meanings (2012).
- Semiotics
of popular music assignment notes
- Signal
treatment recognition examples/Recognition d’effets de traitement
sonore
- Subjectivity
and soundscape, motorbikes and music; included as part of Chapter 12 in Music's Meanings.; see also video Buzz, Roar, Click, Crash.
Tagg’s Harmony Handout
all contained in Everyday
Tonality II and/or Music's Meanings.
Timbre
Chapter 1 in Everyday Tonality II;
Chapter 9 in Music's Meanings (2012)
Tonality
passim in Everyday
Tonality II.
- 'Universal' music and the case of death [96k PDF] html
- Vocal persona: Chapter 10 in Music's Meanings (2012).
Music and Moving Image
Encyclopædia
entries for EPMOW
(Encyclopædia
of Popular Music of the World, Vol II, pp. ix, 521-601; ISBN 978-0-8264-6322-7)
Harmony is on pp. 521-549;
Melody on pp. 560-601
All substantial EPMOW articles are now contained in Everyday
Tonality II and/or in Music's Meanings
Those EPMOW entries were: ACCOMPANIMENT, ANTIPHONY, CHORD, CIRCLE OF FIFTHS, COUNTERPOINT, DRONE, HARMONY, HETEROPHONY, HOMOPHONY, LEAD SHEET CHORD SHORTHAND, MELISMA, MELODY, MODALITY/MODE[s], NOTE, OCTAVE, PICTH, TUNING and TURNAROUND.
The two books also contain explanations of: AESTHESIC, AFFECT, ALOGOGENIC, ANACRUSIS, ANAPHONE, ANAPHORA, ARBITRARY SIGN, ATONAL, ATONICAL, AURAL STAGING, BEAT, BODYISM, CHORUS, COMMUTATION, CONNOTATION, CROSS-DOMAIN REPRESENTATION, CUE, DENOTATION, DIATAXIS, DIATONIC, DISTORTION, ECHO, EMOTION, ENVELOPE, EPISODIC MARKER, EPISTROPHE, EXTENDED PRESENT, FEELING, ‘FORM’, GENRE, GENRE SYNECDOCHE, GESTURAL INTERCONVERSION, GROOVE, ICON, INDEX, INTEROBJECTIVE, INTERSUBJECTIVE, INTERVALS, IOCM, JAZZ STANDARD, KINETIC, LIBRARY MUSIC, LOGOGENIC, LOUDNESS, MELODY-ACCOMPANIMENT DUALISM, METAPHOR, METRE, MOOD, MOTIF, MOTORIC, MUSOGENIC, NOTATION, PENTATONIC, PERIODICITY, PHRASE, PMFC, POÏETIC, POLYSEMY, QUARTAL, RANGE, REGISTER, RESPONSORIAL, REVERB, RHYTHM, RIFF, SEMANTICS, SEMIOSIS, SEMIOTICS, SIGN, SONATA FORM, SPATIALITY, SPEED, STYLE, STYLE FLAG, SUBBEAT, SURFACE RATE, SYNAESTHETIC, SYNCRISIS, SYNTAX, THEME, TEMPO, TERTIAL, TIMBRE, TITLE MUSIC, TONAL, TONALITY, TONE, TONIC, TONICAL, UNDERSCORE, VOCAL PERSONA, VVA.
See also the Glossary on this site.
The following short encyclopædia articles are available separately on line:
▪ Changes ▪ Drone ▪ Hocket ▪ Lead sheet ▪ Melisma ▪ Note ▪ Plagiarism (by Bob Clarida) ▪ Polyphony (general def.)
in other languages than English
Čeština
- ‘Přioda jako kategorie hudebni nalady’. Opus musicum, 1983/10: 295-304. Brno: Vydávi Státni filharmonie, Český hudebni fond.

中文 (Chinese)
Dansk
- ‘Fernando - Analyse af affekt i ABBA's Fernando’ . Dansk Musiktidskrift, 1979/3: 124-156. 1979, København: Dansk Tonekunstnerselskab.
Deutsch
- Zur Analyse von populärer Musik. Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 1985/3-4: 241-264. 1985, Berlin: Verlag Neue Musik.
- Beitrag zu einer Typologie des musikalischen Zeichens. Forum Musik Wissenschaft, 1: 35-46, ed. Markus Heuger, Matthias Prell. 1995, Regensburg: ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft.
Eesti
Español
- ¡Toca más fuerte, no oigo!. La Brecha, 1989-09-15: 13 (1989), Montevideo.
- La
película del libro de la música. Sobre la necessidad de
repensar las maneras de explicar el significado musical. Texto
incluido en la ponencia presentada en el séptimo congreso de
la IASPM-AL, La Habana, junio de 2006. I
am unable to find the English original of this text translated into
Spanish by Marta Garcia. This version is therefore 65% in Spanish and
35% in English. It will appear entirely in Spanish in the Actas of IASPM-AL's
Havana conference and I will try soon to translate Marta’s Spanish
back into English. Using Lakoff’s notion of functional embodiment,
I argue that awareness of music’s semiotic functions in contemporary
media cannot be generated through mere verbal deconstruction or theorising.
If important theoretical or ideological lessons are to be learnt…
they must be rooted in knowledge intrinsic to the modes of perception
under investigation. Footage produced and discussed: Intel Inside,
Atomic Power Montage and Breakfast at Ibotirama (Fernando
the Flute, Chapter 1). Click here to access those clips.
- ¿Para qué
sirve un musema? Antidepresivos y la gestión musical de la angustia (Traducción provisional), Conferencia
V Congresso da IASPM-LA, Rio de Janeiro, 22 de Junio de 2004. En Musica popular na América
Latina - Pontos de escuta, ed. Martha Ulhôa & Ana Maria Ochoa, 2005, Porto Alegre:
Editora da Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul: 22-51.
- Mostrar
lo extraña que es la normalidad Existe
una definición positiva de música popular? Cuál
la utilidad del análisis musical?Qué lugar tiene la autenticidad
como juicio de valor? Qué papel podra cumplir un tipo de subversión que
actuara en la música misma, una especie de boicot de la normalidad
en la música popular? (Entrevista
por Guilherme Alencar de Pinto, Uruguay, 2004-07-12. En Brecha (Montevideo), 30/07/2004 [html 21k]
- Philip
Tagg: perfíl basico(short) and in Brecha (Montevideo), 2004-07-30.
- Las formas de producción de sentido en la música popular; entrevista por Alexander Laluz in Brecha (Montevideo), 2004-07-30.
Metodologa
de la investigación artistica - música: la perspectiva musicolgica
de Philip Tagg, UNC (Chile), 2000.
‘Poner
el dedo sobre la llaga’ — entrevista (Olavo Alén). (La Ventana, La Habana, 22 de Junio del 2006)
« Hace falta una educación musical » (Viernes 24 de agosto de 2012, 12:08, Diario Jaén, Noticias Provinciales, por Imma Soria (Baeza), p. 29).
- Carlos
Vega: ‘Mesomusica un ensayo sobre la música de todos’ (ed. Aharonián). Revista musical chilena, jul. 1997, vol.51,
no.188: 75-96.
- Introducción a las presentaciones PowerPoint sobre los problemas de la terminología tonal (Granada y Cáceres, 2012).

Français
- La musicologie et la sémantique de la musique populaire. Analytica. Studies in the Description and Analysis of Music: 77-96. Stockholm: Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien.
- Vers une musicologie de la télévision (1990)[120k HTML]
- Voir aussi matériaux d’enseignement pour les 4 cours suivants :
Italiano
- Musica popolare, innovazione, tecnologia. Musica/realtá, 13: 89-98. 1984, Milano: Unicopli.
- Il 'senso del tempo' nella musica. Definizioni, esempi, proposte. Musica e sistema dell'informazione in Europa: 103-129, ed. Francesco Rampi. 1985, Milano: Unicopli.
- Perché la IASPM? Quali compiti? What is Popular Music? Quaderni di Musica/realtà, 8: 539-546. 1985, Milano: Unicopli.
- Musicologia, semiotica, ‘popular music’. Il senso in musica: 139-150, ed. Luca Marconi, Gino Stefani. 1987, Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna.
- Le città sono come impianti stereo a bassa fedeltà. Essere, 16 (agosto 1987): 60-69. 1987, Torino: Essere.
- Leggere i suoni. Saggio sul paesaggio sonore e la musica, la conoscenza, la società. Musica/Realtà, 25: 145-160. 1988, Milano: Unicopli.
- Lettera aperta sulla ‘musica nera’ , ‘afro-americana’ ed ‘europea’. Musica/Realtà, 29: 53-80. 1989, Milano: Unicopli.
- Musica popolare, innovazione, tecnologia. Quaderni di Musica/Realtà, 23: 34-43. 1989, Milano: Unicopli.
- Leggere i suoni. Saggio sul paesaggio sonoro e la musica, la conoscenza, la società. Quaderni di Musica/Realtà, 23: 168-183. 1989, Milano: Unicopli.
- Un approccio antropologico per gli stereotipi presenti nella musica della TV. Musica/Realtà, 33: 85-116. 1990, Milano: Unicopli.
- Muzak, sigle televisive, temi conduttori e musiche da film. Cinema & cinema, 18/60: 77-86 (Audiofane - Voci, rumori e musica del cinema). 1991, Bologna: CLUEB: 77-86.
- Tramonta la figura, emerge lo sfondo. La musica del rave. Progetto Uomo - Musica, 5 (Identità musicali): 95-99. 1994, Assisi: Edizioni Musicali Pro Civitate Christiana.
- Un
approccio antropologico per gli stereotipi presenti nella music della TV.Musica/Realtà,
33 (1990): 85-116 (ZIP, 17 jpg, 12 Meg)
- Popular Music: da Kojak al rave (1994); cura/trad. Roberto Agostini e Luca Marconi; 440 pagine, ISBN 978-88-809-1044-2; Bologna: CLUEB.
- Dal ritornello al `rave': tramonta la figura, emerge lo sfondo. Annali del Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna, 2/1994: 158-175, ed. Elisabeta Collini, Simona Granelli. 1995, Bologna: Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna: 158-175.
- La musica nel 2017. Un'utopia britannica rovesciata. Musica/Realtà, 50: 13-19. 1996, Lucca: Libreria musicale italiana: 13-19.
- Un approccio etico alla cultura mediale. Musica Domani, 116. 2000, Torino: EDT: 30-31.
- Frammenti di musicologia della popular music. L'esperienza musicale (intervista). Per una femnomenologia dei suoni: 13-26, ed. Luca Nostro. 2002, Roma: Montag/Manifestolibri.
- Interconversione gestuale e precisione connotativa. Musica/Realtà, 76. 2005, Lucca: LIM: 89-120.
- Significati musicali, classici e popular. Il caso dell’ angoscia. Enciclopedia della musica V: L'unità della musica, ed. J-J Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. 2005, Torino: Einaudi: 1037-1064.
- Interconversione
gestuale e precisione connotativa.
Musica/Realtà 76 (2005): 89-120; trad. Simona Mentisci (PDF imagini scanerizzate, 26 Meg). Testo ingl. orig. Gestural interconversion and connotative precision (2004).
- La tonalità di tutti i giorni: armonia, modalità, tonalità nella popular music: un manuale. A cura e con un' introduzione di Franco Fabbri. Traduzione di Jacopo Conti. 2011, Milano: Il Saggiatore, serie La Cultura, 742; 432 pagine;
ISBN 978-88-428-1669-0. Also in English.
日本語 (Japanese)
- [Analysing Popular Music (1982). In What is Popular Music? (ed. Toru Mitsui) ISBN 4-276-23051-9.
Nederlands
- Muzikale wasverzachters: Beïnvloeding door populaire muziek. Amersfoort: NSKV, schrift 17 (1981, 15 pp.).
Polski
- Analiza muzyki czołowki filmowej jako metoda dekodawania ukrytego przekazu ideologicznego. Przekazy i opinie, 3 (25) 66-79 (1981). Warszawa: OBOPSP.
- Od refrenu do rave-u: pomniesjazanie figury i uwydatnianie tła przełożył... (tr. Ireneusz Socha); Studium, 15-16, Nr 1-2, 1999: 208-236. Krakow: Młoda Literatura czeska i słowacka.
- (with Karen Collins) Industrialna estetyka dźwiȩkowa (rekonstrukcja dźwiękowych przeszlości z perspektywy wspóczesnej alienacji przyszlej dystopii). Gośiniec Sztuki, 1/8 Rok VII, Płock: Płocki Ośrodek Kultury i Sztuki: 34-47. ISBN 1505-5299/.
Português
- Ulhôa, Martha Tupinambà de; Tagg, Philip. Entrevista com Philip Tagg. Debates, 3 (Março de 1999) 1999, Rio de Janeiro: Centro de Letras e Artes, Uni-Rio: 81-96.
- Analisando a músical popular: teoria, método e prática (2003, 1994; tradução do orig. inglés (Tagg, 1982) de Martha Ulhôa)
Em Pauta v. 14, n. 23 (2003).
- Para
qué serve um musema? Antidepressivos e a gestão musical da angústia Conferência, V Congresso da IASPM-LA, Rio de Janeiro, 22 de Junho de 2004.
Verso espanhola em Musica popular na América Latina - Pontos
de escuta. Ulhôa, Martha Tupinambá de (ed); Ochoa, Ana Maria (ed). 2005,
Porto Alegre: Editora da Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul: 22-51.
- Melisma (EPMOW, 4 pp;) - tradução de Jorge de Jesus Gomes Leandro
(obrigado!)
- Os acordes de Yes we can do vídeo da campanha presidencial de Barak Obama (2008) Translated by Fausto Borém. Per musi [online]. 2010, n.22, pp. 7-21. ISSN 1517-7599.
- Análise musical para "não-musos": a percepção popular como base para a compreensão de estruturas e significados musicais. Tradução de Fausto Borém, Professor Titular da Escola de Música da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) (original title Music analysis for "non-musos": popular perception as a basis for understanding musical structure and signification (2009). Portuguese translation, published in Per musi ãno.23,Belo Horizonte, Jan-June 2011 (ISSN 1517-7599).
Русский
- ФИЛИП ТАГГ: ИНТЕРВЬЮ Медиамузыка (электронньй научный журнал, Москва 2015-06-01: in Russian and English).
Suomi
- Populaarimusiikin affektianalyysi: rapporti musiikin sisältöanlyysin uusista menetelmistä. Musiikin Soivat Muodot: 147-180, ed. Eero Tarasti. 1982, Jyväskylä: Yliop:n mus.tt:n laitoks. A/2: 147-180.
Svenska
- Pop i örat. 1975, Stockholm: Sveriges Radio/UTR Prod. Nr. 5924 (26 + 62 pp.).
- [with Dan Malmström and Lars Silén] Country and Western. Sohlmans musiklexikon, 2: 141-144. 1975, Stockholm: Sohlmans Förlag.
- Kompkompendium + Supplement no.1 till Kompkompendium. 1977, Göteborg: Musikhögskolan (51 + 22 pp.).
- [with Krister Malm, Martin Tegen and Lars Silén] Popmusik. Sohlmans musiklexikon, 5: 90-100. Stockholm: Sohlmans Förlag: 90-100.
- De musikaliska kodernas makt. Musikdramatik, 5/6: 24-25. 1979, Stockholm: Tidskriften Musikdramatik.
- Musik till bild - ett världspråk av stereotyper. Bild och Musik: 7-17, ed. Bertil Allander, 1980, Stockholm: Sveriges Radio Personalutbildning.
- [ed] Från motkultur till företagsamhet. 1980, Göteborg: Stencilled Papers from the Musicology Department (33 pp.).
- Natur i massmediemusik. Naturen som symbol. : 161-199, ed. Jens Allwood, Tore Frängsmyr and Uno Svedin (ed). 1982, Stockhom: Liber.
- Musikvetenskap
och populärmusikens semiotik (1984, 110k html)
- [with Krister Malm] Musiken i massmediautvecklingen. Tonfallet, 1984/4: 4-5. Stockholm: Rikskonseter.
- Musiken - språket som alla förstår? Fallet med dödsmusiken. Tvärkulturell kommunikation: 220-248, ed. Jens Allwood. 1985, Göteborg: Lingvistiska institutionen, PAL 12.
- Musikvetenskap och populärmusikens semiotik. 1986, Göteborg: Stencilled Papers from the Musicology Department, 8601 (38 pp.).
- Musik som kommunikation. Mänsklig kommunikation: 116-131, ed. Jens Allwood. 1986, Göteborg: Skriftserien GULING Nr 14.
- Musiken som kommunikationsform. Kulturmöten, kommunikation, skola: 133-153, ed. Sven Strömqvist and Göran Strömqvist. 1988, Stockholm: Nordstedts.
Books
= e-book
= hard copy
= out of print/unavailable
Everyday Tonality II
(2016-17: replaces 2009 version) (dummy html)
Music's Meanings: a modern musicology for non-musos (
|
hard copy | 2012-3 dummy html)
Everyday Tonality (2009): replaced by Everyday Tonality II
La tonalità di tutti i giorni (
Milano: Saggiatore; cura F Fabbri, trad. J Conti); Trad. da Everyday Tonality (2009))
Ten Little Title Tunes (by Ph Tagg & Bob Clarida (2003) (dummy HTML
of Index)
Fernando the Flute (1st publ. 1992) (ebook | dummy html)
Kojak — Fifty Seconds
of Television Music (2000, replaces first edition, 1979) (ebook | dummy html)
Popular Music: da Kojak al rave (trad/cura: Roberto Agostini, Luca Marconi); Bologna: CLUEB).
Kojak — Fifty Seconds of Television Music (1979, replaced by2000 edition)
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