Music-Instruction & Study -Appreciation

Oglesby was a songwriter and work alongside various musician, in the 1960's thought the 1990's. He used to tell me stories about the 1960s and 1970s when I use to visit him. He passed away recently, and left a vault of original written songs...

Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art? What was the artist's inspiration, and how did that idea become a reality? Cultural products inevitably arise from a context, a submerged landscape that is often not easily accessible....

Emotion is an integral aspect of musical experience; music has the power to take us on an emotional and intellectual journey, transforming the listener along the way. The aim of this book is to examine the nature of this journey, using a variety of...

The Sound Books series is a picture book collection designed to visually represent musical concepts for young learners. Its original artwork is created and arranged to clearly depict sound ideas with few or no words required. The unique approach encourages students to bring together...

The Sound Books series is a picture book collection designed to visually represent musical concepts for young learners. Its original artwork is created and arranged to clearly depict sound ideas with few or no words required. The unique approach encourages students to bring together...

The Sound Book series is a picture book collection designed to visually represent musical concepts for young learners. Its original artwork is created and arranged to clearly depict sound ideas with few or no words required. The unique approach encourages students to bring together...

Edited collection including contributions from scholars and popular music educators in response to the question "what are the place and purpose of popular music education?" The book aims to broaden and diversify the conversation and community around popular music education globally. 7 b&w illus.Author:...

We make or listen to music for the powerful effect it has on our emotions, and we can't imagine our lives without music. Yet we tend to know nothing about the intricate networks that neurons create throughout our brains to make music possible. The...

This book provides an overview of professional musicians working within the healthcare system and explores programs that bring music into the environment of the hospital. Far from being onstage, musicians in the hospital provide musical engagement for patients and healthcare providers focused on life-and-death...

The term "viola bastarda" refers to both an instrument and a style of playing that is one of the crowning achievements of musical mannerism. The Italian repertory for the solo viola da gamba in the 16th and early 17th centuries was largely music played...

How is it possible to talk or write about music? What is the link between graphic signs and music? What makes music meaningful? In this book, distinguished scholar Leo Treitler explores the relationships among language, musical notation, performance, compositional practice, and patterns of culture...

Musical identity raises complex, multifarious, and fascinating questions. Discussions in this new study consider how individuals construct their musical identities in relation to their experiences of formal and informal music teaching and learning. Each chapter features a different case study situated in a specific...

David McGill has assembled an exhaustive study that uses the musical concepts of the legendary Marcel Tabuteau as a starting point from which to develop musical thought. McGill methodically explains the frequently misunderstood "Tabuteau number system" and its relationship to note grouping-the lifeblood of...

"In this new edition of Historical Anthology of Music by Women, Briscoe offers an indispensable resource for our own moment. . . . He has commissioned new biographical and critical essays by leading musicologists such as Thomas J. Mathiesen, Elizabeth Aubrey, Suzanne Cusick, Ellen...

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of...

Teach Yourself to Compose Music!Learning music theory and writing sheet music will allow you to better hone your skills as a singer and a composer.This guide offers both beginners and more advanced singers and songwriters the skills and information to learn how to read,...

Teach Yourself to Compose Music!Learning music theory and writing sheet music will allow you to better hone your skills as a singer and a composer.This guide offers both beginners and more advanced singers and songwriters the skills and information to learn how to read,...

Even before the Beatnik Riots of 1961, New York City's Greenwich Village was the epicenter of revolutionary movements in American music and culture. But, in the early 1960s and throughout the decade, a new wave of writers and performers inspired by the folk music...

(Easy Piano Play-Along). Each volume in the Easy Piano Play-Along series comes with audio tracks of orchestrated arrangements, and includes matching custom arrangements in easy piano format. This edition features 8 songs from the classic musical: America * Cool * I Feel Pretty *...

This handbook of musical alchemy emphasizes the role of music in raising consciousness to benefit body and mind.Author: R. J. StewartISBN-10: 0892813121ISBN-13: 9780892813124Publisher: Destiny BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1990Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.27w x 0.48d

Teaches you how to hear and play Louie Louie, Satisfaction, I Walk the Line, Letit Be, Light My Fire, and Smells Like Teen Spirit.*Includes chords, strum patterns, guitar lines and improvising scales.*Presents history of each songwith photos of key recording artists.*Contains appendices with rock...

What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the oral road to the unconscious, Melodies of the Mind invites the reader to...

An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more. Musical Bodies, Musical Minds offers an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science. The...

My Journey My Music: Beginner Piano Lessons for Kids by Melissa Chin is designed to teach children to read and play music on the piano or keyboard. It is an easy-to-follow book created for school-aged children who want to begin playing music right away....

In an age of ubiquitous music and countless new songs releasing every minute, the Great American Songbook endures. After all, the Songbook--that sprawling canon of popular songs, standards, and show tunes from roughly the 1920s through the 1950s--is a foundational text of American pop...

Write better songs with the help of the third edition of The Songwriting Sourcebook. Author: Rikky RooksbyISBN-10: 1493065386ISBN-13: 9781493065387Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2022Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.49d

Spearheads a new field for the combined study of religion and music, drawing upon theories and methods of the social sciences, ethnomusicology, philosophy, theology, liturgical studies, and cognitive studies.Author: Guy L. BeckISBN-10: 1438493118ISBN-13: 9781438493114Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight:...

(Yorktown). A wonderful collection of waltzes, tangos and polkas from Beethoven to Joplin, Albeniz to Agay.Author: Denes AgayISBN-10: 0825681030ISBN-13: 9780825681035Publisher: Yorktown PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1997Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 11.89h x 9.01w x 0.27d

A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos, knotty avant-garde masterworks and (most welcome) jazz."--Richard Fairman, Financial Times,...

Ever wondered why most classical music concerts are such stuffy affairs? Had to bluff your way through classical music conversations? Trying to get a handle on music by modern composers? Failed to convince teenagers of the merits of Beethoven or Bach? Or just want...

An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more--from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon--explore the influence of music on their lives and work Contributors include: Laurie Anderson ● Jamie Barton ● Daphne...

(E-Z Play Today). Nine songs from the adored score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim in our world-famous notation: America * Cool * I Feel Pretty * I Have a Love * Maria * One Hand, One Heart * Promenade from the Dance at...

(Vocal Selections). This revised edition celebrates the legacy of one of the most famous musicals of all time with 13 newly engraved songs, a show biography and plot notes, facsimiles of Bernstein's original manuscripts, and 16 pages of photos from various productions. Songs include:...

Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective. Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I'm Alive shows how music is...

Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective. Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I'm Alive shows how music is...

The beauty of Argentine tango musicality lies in its depth and variety. Starting with a clear explanation of double and half-time, this book then explores the five Din疥ica: Stacatto, Legato, Yum, Elastic, and Raindrops. Practical illustrations of how to use weight-changes, rebounds, rock-steps, projections,...

Noted music educator Bennett Reimer has selected 24 of his previously published articles from a variety of professional journals spanning the past 50 years. During that time, he's tackled issues such as generating core values for the field of music education; the core in...

An exploration of the meaning and reception of "modernist" music. The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century: from Strauss's Elektra and Webern's Symphony Op.21 to John Cage's renegotiation of musical control, the unusual musical practices of the Velvet Underground, and...

"The History and Design of the Violin Bow" is a collection of vintage articles on the subject of the violin, with a particular focus on the bridge. The articles explore a range of topics from the history and origins of the violin to notable...

The psychology of music aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and musical experience. A must read for all fans of music as a complete experience and science. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now...

Looking and Listening: Conversations between Modern Art and Music invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor into an open dialog. Although the worlds of music and visual art often seem to take separate paths, they are usually...

This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and F駘ix Guattari and the rich developments in cultural studies of music and sound. The book takes seriously the intellectual and political challenge that the process philosophy of Deleuze and...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1917 Edition.Author: Felix FoxISBN-10: 1498175937ISBN-13: 9781498175937Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.10d

This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.Author: Arthur Jr. MeekerISBN-10: 1494083752ISBN-13: 9781494083755Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.67d

This Guide Book for the Saxophone Teacher will provide you with a different approach to teaching music, one that includes the creativity of the student. It is not a method book, but rather a personal description of the decades of experience teaching not only...

Originally published in 1919, this guide is addressed - '.not to students and connoisseurs, but to plain simple people who like music but are a little bewildered by its complexity and by the pace at which it passes across their attention. He opens the...

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...

Lessons In Musical History is a book written by John Comfort Fillmore and originally published in 1888. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of music, from ancient times to the 19th century. The author takes the reader on a journey through...

The Early History Of Manchester: An Address Delivered In Music Hall, Manchester, Vermont (1876) is a book written by Loveland Munson. This book is a historical account of the early years of Manchester, Vermont. The author delivers an address in Music Hall, Manchester, Vermont,...

""The Girl From Kay's"" is a musical play written by Owen Hall and first published in 1903. The play is set in London and follows the story of a young woman named Molly who works at a department store called Kay's. Molly dreams of...