Music-Instruction & Study -Appreciation

Questions of musical accessibility are relevant to most musical contexts but what does this term mean, how do we make contact with music and how do we decide what music to listen to? In The Accessibility of Music Jochen Eisentraut argues that musical judgements...

Music is a complex creative process involving many individuals, from performers to improvisers to composers to listeners and beyond. Yet, music analysis has often focused on individual composers' processes, much to the exclusion of a myriad of other activities that occur during the music...

Integrating Music Across the Secondary Curriculum supports middle school and high school teachers as they bring music into the teaching of other subjects. It contains detailed, practical ideas and examples, including full lesson plans and more than one hundred teaching ideas and strategies for...

An easy-to-understand resource for anyone interested in learning to play an instrument or sing. This book covers the basics from A-Z and answers the most commonly asked questions people have. If you've ever thought about music lessons for yourself or your child, you should...

IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition analyses the prescribed works for IB Diploma Programme music through to 2019 - broken down into individual segments on the elements of music. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of musical styles and cultures and contains revision tips...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1875 Edition.Author: Hermann HelmholtzISBN-10: 1498119840ISBN-13: 9781498119849Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 598Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.74lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.21d

""Plays for the High Holidays: With Incidental Music and Dancing"" by Janet E. Tobitt is a collection of plays specifically written for the Jewish High Holidays, including Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The book includes four plays, each with its own unique story and...

Author: James L. Mursell,AnonISBN-10: 0837145007ISBN-13: 9780837145006Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/1971Pages: 389Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

Through a series of vivid case studies, Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings: Does Music Matter? documents the ways in which music brings humanity to sterile healthcare spaces, and its significance for people dealing with major illness. It also considers the notion of the...

WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF MUSIC THEORY'S 2019 CITATION OF SPECIAL MERIT FOR MULTI-AUTHORED VOLUMESThe Routledge Companion to Music Cognition addresses fundamental questions about the nature of music from a psychological perspective. Music cognition is presented as the field that investigates the psychological, physiological,...

The Life of Philidor: Musician and Chess-Player is a biographical work written by George Allen in 1863. The book explores the life and career of Fran�����ois-Andr����� Danican Philidor, a French musician and chess player who lived in the 18th century. Philidor was a renowned...

A music instruction book designed for pianists, stick and touchstyle guitarists, percussionists and anyone who wishes to develop the rhythmic independence of their hands. This volume concentrates on quarter, eighth and sixteenth note rhythms and is a thesaurus of rhythmic patterns. The exercises in...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.Author: Frederick R. BurtonISBN-10: 1498056008ISBN-13: 9781498056007Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.78d

This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.Author: Eva Augusta Vescelius,Louise Vescelius-SheldonISBN-10: 1494011875ISBN-13: 9781494011871Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.26d

""The History of Music"" by Anne Shaw Faulkner is a comprehensive guide to the evolution of music from ancient times to the present day. The book covers the major eras of music, including medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary. It explores the cultural...

DIVISIONAL COUNTERPOINT is a step-by-step course intended to point the student in the direction of Bach's coutrapuntal style. It begins like most other counterpoint texts, but after STEPS 1 and 2 the similarity ends. Here there is a blending of the techniques of Species...

This book assumes a modest music reading ability and some familiarity with basicclassic guitar technique. A comprehensive, exploration of the requirements for developing effortless and musically sensitive guitar technique.Author: Christopher BergISBN-10: 078662373XISBN-13: 9780786623730Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 03/04/1997Format: OtherWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 11.71h x 8.72w...

Author: Kristina KnowlesISBN-10: 0197668240ISBN-13: 9780197668245Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2025Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.33h x 6.51w x 0.94d

We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much of music's power lies in its...

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in 16 essays how noise offers a way of thinking critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing way...

For advanced soprano recorder or intermediate flute: 41 arrangements based on spirituals, folk songs, dance tunes, and melodies by African-American composers, plus five solos composed for this collection. Composers include Basile Bars, A. J. R. Conner, Henry Hart, Francis Johnson, and J. W. Postlewaite....

Do you struggle to coordinate both hands or read music fluently? Ever feel overwhelmed by theory, rhythm, and technique all at once? Now, with a clear, guided plan that actually makes sense for adults, you can break free from your past doubt and take...

Every Cover Band Hits a Wall. This Book Shows You How to Smash Right Through. YOUR BAND IS A WAR MACHINE is built for the crews who want to walk into every venue and own the room, not just play the songs. It's a...

Resulta que la música no es sólo entretenimiento: es un medio de comunicación profundamente arraigado y sutilmente poderoso. Las canciones resuenan con tus patrones de ondas cerebrales e impulsan cambios en tu cerebro: creando tus estados de ánimo, consolidando tus recuerdos, fortaleciendo tus hábitos...

The Music Performers' Lived Experiences seeks to widen this research area through close investigations of a variety of rich, and nuanced experiences classical music performers have qua performers, as they interact with musical scores and wider artistic and cultural discourses, norms and beliefs.Author: Mine...

Musicality for Modern Humans propels music appreciation into the 21st century. It's a self-enrichment book about the inner game of sound-based art for curious people who wish they could get deeper into music, including those who feel confused, overwhelmed, or intimidated. It's for anyone...

Everything You Need To Know About Making Music In One Place!Grab your chance to own this comprehensive guide by Tommy Swindali. Including Songwriting: Apply Proven Methods, Ideas and Exercises to Kickstart or Upgrade Your Songwriting Music Production: How to Produce Music, The Easy to...

Wood Notes Wild: Notations Of Bird Music is a book written by Simeon Pease Cheney and first published in 1892. The book is a collection of musical notations of the songs and calls of various bird species found in North America. Cheney was an...

My journey into music has been like a spiritual awakening. From my first song Soul-African-Study to the multicultural experiences documented in my Soulsa & now Classical periods; learning more about myself, my Self Actualization is sharing Music Appreciation & Literacy as much as I...

Author: Joseph HaydnISBN-10: 3795765676ISBN-13: 9783795765675Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2011Pages: 92Format: OtherWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.75h x 6.25w x 0.24d

A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species.Even those of us who can't play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. Research shows that all humans possess the trait of musicality. We are a musical species--but...

Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops "possible world theory" in relation to sound. David K Lewis' Possible World is juxtaposed with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life-world, to produce a meeting of the...

""What We Hear In Music: A Course Of Study In Music Appreciation And History"" by Anne Shaw Faulkner is a comprehensive guide to understanding and appreciating music. The book covers a wide range of topics related to music, including the elements of music, the...

We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much of music's power lies in its...

""The Helston Furry Day, An Account Of Its Origin And Celebration: With The Music Of The Ancient Furry Dance"" is a book written by William Bentinck Forfar in 1885. The book provides a detailed account of the Helston Furry Day, a traditional festival celebrated...

Included in this special edition is the original patent application for A. Wallace Rimington's Colour Organ, his 1895 speech announcing the new art of colour-music, and the full text of his 1912 book discussing his art in detail, complete with photographs of the Colour...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Are you struggling to teach or learn piano scales quickly?The Last-Minute Scale Book is a creative and accessible method designed to help students and teachers master scales more quickly and confidently - especially under time pressure.Instead of focusing on traditional fingerings from the start,...

In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic. Scientific research and new neuro-imaging technologies have provided extraordinary new insights into how music affects our brains and bodies, and researchers in fields ranging from psychology and music...

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the flute was the most commonly played wind instrument by both amateurs and virtuosos. Thanks to the flute's popularity, countless instruments, flute compositions, and flute methods were produced, many of which are still preserved today. The...

An easy-to-understand resource for anyone interested in learning to play an instrument or sing. This book covers the basics from A-Z and answers the most commonly asked questions people have. If you've ever thought about music lessons for yourself or your child, you should...

Thematic Guide Through The Music Of Parsifal (1891) is a book written by Hans Von Wolzogen that provides a comprehensive guide to the music of Richard Wagner's opera, Parsifal. The book is organized thematically, highlighting the various musical motifs and themes that are present...

This book invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor in conversation with one another. In Looking and Listening, conductor and art connoisseur Brenda Leach explores unique pairings of well-known visual art works and musical compositions from the...

James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher, and a composer - Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel, and Beethoven - developed an idea of self-consciousness based on music at the turn of the nineteenth century. This idea became an enduring cultural belief: the understanding of...

Recent encounters with structuralist and poststructuralist critical theory, linguistics, and cognitive sciences have brought the theory and analysis of music into the orbit of important developments in present-day intellectual history. Without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either theory or analysis, this book...

Most musicians focus on learning technique (learning how to play an instrument), rather than on developing an individual, unique voice. Creative Music Making focuses on the creative development of musicians from all levels of experience and in all styles of music. Based on the...

The famous quip I don't know much about art, but I know what I like sums up many people's ideas about how to judge a work of art; but there are inherent limitations if we rely on immediate impressions in judging what should be...

Music, Language, and Cognition is the third collection of Peter Kivy's seminal papers in the philosophy of music. In essays which span his earliest work in the field and his more recent contributions to journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings, Kivy considers the origin of...

When we think of rock stars - particularly those in rough, "edgy" bands - we are entrained to think of them as having come from regular, working-class backgrounds, and having worked their way up the slippery pole to success through hard work and talent...

Musicality for Modern Humans propels music appreciation into the 21st century. It's a self-enrichment book about the inner game of sound-based art for curious people who wish they could get deeper into music, including those who feel confused, overwhelmed, or intimidated. It's for anyone...