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  • Music for Little Mozarts Meet the Music Friends: 5 Introductory Music Lessons for Ages 4--6 (Teacher Book), Book & CD by Barden, Christine H.
    Christine H. Barden

    Music for Little Mozarts Meet the Music Friends: 5 Introductory Music Lessons for Ages 4--6 (Teacher Book), Book & CD

    Meet the Music Friends provides an introduction to music and the piano for four- and five-year olds. It consists of a series of five lessons that include singing, listening, movement, rhythm activities and beginning activities at the keyboard. Mozart Mouse, Beethoven Bear, and Clara...
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  • Guitar Expressions Student Edition: Student Book by Alfred Music
    Alfred Music

    Guitar Expressions Student Edition: Student Book

    Guitar Expressions is a complete class guitar curriculum that incorporates multiple learning styles -- combining music literacy-based learning with creative rote and aural learning. In addition to core guitar skills, students are exposed to a variety of musical styles and to the cultures from...
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  • Piano for Busy Teens, Book 2: 12 Pieces with Study Guides to Maximize Limited Practice Time by Bober, Melody
    Melody Bober

    Piano for Busy Teens, Book 2: 12 Pieces with Study Guides to Maximize Limited Practice Time

    This method is designed for teens who still enjoy music and want to continue their study but have limited practice time. Each book includes solo pieces in varied styles, a Hanon study to develop technical skills and a duet that students can play with...
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  • Martha Mier's Favorite Solos, Bk 1: 10 of Her Original Piano Solos by Mier, Martha
    Martha Mier

    Martha Mier's Favorite Solos, Bk 1: 10 of Her Original Piano Solos

    The contents of this book have been personally selected by Martha Mier as some of her all-time favorite sheet music solos. Many of the solos are among the most requested by piano teachers and students alike. The varied styles of each piece make this...
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  • Music of the High Medieval Era by McWilliams, John Daniel
    John Daniel McWilliams

    Music of the High Medieval Era

    This collection of scores is based on The Resounding Project's first album, Music of the High Medieval Era Performed on Period Instruments. The Resounding Project researches and reconstructs early musical instruments and uses them to recreate authentic early music. The work uses the period...
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  • Hear Me Out by Iannucci, Armando
    Armando Iannucci

    Hear Me Out

    A celebration of music from the creator of Alan Partridge, The Thick of It, Veep and The Death of Stalin. All my days, I've felt pressurized by the anonymous Keepers of the Cool who tell us what we should be wearing this year, what...
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  • Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World by Lebrecht, Norman
    Norman Lebrecht

    Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

    Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler's every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his...
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  • The Art Of Transcribing For The Organ: A Complete Textbook For The Organist In Arranging Choral And Instrumental Music (1922) by Ellingford, Herbert F.
    Herbert F. Ellingford

    The Art Of Transcribing For The Organ: A Complete Textbook For The Organist In Arranging Choral And Instrumental Music (1922)

    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...
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  • The American Indians and Their Music by Densmore, Frances
    Frances Densmore

    The American Indians and Their Music

    ""The American Indians and Their Music"" is a comprehensive study of the traditional music of Native American tribes, written by ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore. The book delves into the cultural significance of music in various tribes, including the Sioux, Chippewa, and Navajo, among others. Densmore...
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  • Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby (1910) by O'Neill, Francis
    Francis O'Neill

    Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby (1910)

    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...
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  • Requiem Services: Containing The Music For Vespers And Mass, Together With The Order For The Burial Of The Dead (1903) by Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society
    Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society

    Requiem Services: Containing The Music For Vespers And Mass, Together With The Order For The Burial Of The Dead (1903)

    Requiem Services: Containing The Music For Vespers And Mass, Together With The Order For The Burial Of The Dead (1903) is a book published by the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society. The book contains a collection of music for the requiem services, including vespers...
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  • Musical Garland: A New Collection Of First Class Duets For The Violin And Piano (1874) by Winner, Septimus
    Septimus Winner

    Musical Garland: A New Collection Of First Class Duets For The Violin And Piano (1874)

    Musical Garland is a book of duets for the violin and piano, first published in 1874 by Septimus Winner. This collection features a variety of first-class duets that are suitable for intermediate to advanced players. The book contains a total of 35 duets, each...
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  • Songs And Excerpts From It Happened In Nordland: A Musical Extravaganza (1905) by Mac Donough, Glen
    Glen Mac Donough

    Songs And Excerpts From It Happened In Nordland: A Musical Extravaganza (1905)

    Songs and Excerpts from It Happened in Nordland: A Musical Extravaganza (1905) is a collection of musical pieces written by Mac Donough and Glen. The book features songs and excerpts from the musical extravaganza, It Happened in Nordland, which was first performed in 1905....
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  • In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy (1902) by Shipp, Jesse A.
    Jesse A. Shipp

    In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy (1902)

    In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy is a book written by Jesse A. Shipp in 1902. It tells the story of two African American men who travel to Dahomey, a country in West Africa, in search of wealth and adventure. The book is a...
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  • The Boston Music Company Digest Of Piano Pieces: For The Left Hand Alone (1917) by Fox, Felix
    Felix Fox

    The Boston Music Company Digest Of Piano Pieces: For The Left Hand Alone (1917)

    The Boston Music Company Digest Of Piano Pieces: For The Left Hand Alone is a book of sheet music compiled by Felix Fox and originally published in 1917. The book contains a collection of piano pieces that are meant to be played using only...
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  • Wonderland: A Musical Extravaganza (1905) by Macdonough, Glen
    Glen Macdonough

    Wonderland: A Musical Extravaganza (1905)

    Wonderland: A Musical Extravaganza is a book written by Glen MacDonough and first published in 1905. The book is a musical extravaganza that tells the story of a young girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole and enters a magical world filled...
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  • The Psychology of Musical Development by Hargreaves, David
    David Hargreaves

    The Psychology of Musical Development

    The Psychology of Musical Development provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the latest theory, empirical research and applications in the study of musical development, an important and emerging field of music psychology. After considering how people now engage with music in the digital...
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  • On This Day in Black Music History by Warner, Jay
    Jay Warner

    On This Day in Black Music History

    Whether it's rhythm & blues, hip-hop, rap, jazz, soul, blues or gospel, each genre is covered in the pages of On This Day in Black Music History. A book in a calendar format, it covers over 60 years of mind-tickling trivia, history and events...
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  • Music And Moonlight: Poems And Songs (1874) by O'Shaughnessy, Arthur
    Arthur O'Shaughnessy

    Music And Moonlight: Poems And Songs (1874)

    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...
    $24.95
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  • The Record Book: A Music Lover's Guide To The World Of The Phonograph by Hall, David
    David Hall

    The Record Book: A Music Lover's Guide To The World Of The Phonograph

    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...
    $54.95
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  • The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listening by Hoffman, Miles
    Miles Hoffman

    The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listening

    Do you enjoy classical music but wish you knew more about it? Do you buy CDs, tune in to radio programs, go to concerts, and sometimes wonder just what, precisely, all those Italian musical terms mean? In this wonderfully engaging guide, Miles Hoffman demystifies...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan by Dettmar, Kevin J. H.
    Kevin J. H. Dettmar

    The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

    A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative output. The first...
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  • The Thought of Music by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    The Thought of Music

    What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions--questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future....
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  • Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity by Kassabian, Anahid
    Anahid Kassabian

    Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity

    How does the constant presence of music in modern life--on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television--affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only partially present to us, is the act of listening degraded by such...
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  • Psychology of Music by Seashore, Carl E.
    Carl E. Seashore

    Psychology of Music

    Between the physical world of vibration and the world of consciously heard music lies a third area, which is the province of the psychology of music. This introduction, first published in 1938, by the developer of the Seashore test of musical ability, is a...
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  • Nicolas Slonimsky: Writings on Music: Early Writings by Yourke, Electra
    Nicolas Slonimsky

    Nicolas Slonimsky: Writings on Music: Early Writings

    Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) was an influential and celebrated writer on music. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1894, in his 101 years he taught and coached music; conducted the premieres of several 20th century masterpieces; composed works for piano and voice; and oversaw the...
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  • On Music by Gracyk, Theodore
    Theodore Gracyk

    On Music

    Opinionated and example-filled, this extremely concise and accessible book provides a survey of some fundamental and longstanding debates about the nature of music. The central arguments and ideas of historical and contemporary philosophers are presented with the goal of making them as accessible as...
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  • Harmony in Western Music by Goldman, Richard Franko
    Richard Franko Goldman

    Harmony in Western Music

    Author: Richard Franko GoldmanISBN-10: 0393332551ISBN-13: 9780393332551Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1965Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d
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  • New Worlds of Dvorak: Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life by Beckerman, Michael B.
    Michael B. Beckerman

    New Worlds of Dvorak: Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life

    Focusing on Dvorák's eventful stay in the United States from 1892 to 1895, this book explores the world behind the public legend, offering fresh insights into the composer's music. We see the traditional image--that of a simple Czech fellow with a flair for composing...
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  • The Metropolitan Opera: Stories of the Great Operas by Freeman, John
    John Freeman

    The Metropolitan Opera: Stories of the Great Operas

    The opera-goer's indispensable guide. About to see Rossini's William Tell, Verdi's I Lombardi, Gluck's Alceste, Philzner's Palestrina, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream? The stories of these operas and 120 others are told, clearly and concisely, in this companion volume to the highly successful Metropolitan...
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  • Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning by Clarke, Eric
    Eric Clarke

    Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning

    In recent years, many psychologists and cognitive scientists have published their views on the psychology of music. Unfortunately, this scientific literature has remained inaccessible to musicologists and musicians, and has neglected their insights on the subject. In Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke explores...
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  • Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide by Whitehead, Kevin
    Kevin Whitehead

    Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide

    What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively, insightful answers to these and many other fascinating questions, offering...
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  • Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work by Stock, Kathleen
    Kathleen Stock

    Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work

    Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Music is an increasingly popular object of reflection for professional philosophers, as it raises special questions...
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  • Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception by Grimshaw, Mark
    Mark Grimshaw

    Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception

    In Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception, authors Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner introduce a novel theory that positions sound within a framework of virtuality. Arguing against the acoustic or standard definition of sound as a sound wave, the book builds a case for...
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  • The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan: 20th Anniversary Edition by Bradley, Ian
    Ian Bradley

    The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan: 20th Anniversary Edition

    Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the authorized and definitive 'Bible' for all those interested in the Savoy operas. Originally published in two Penguin paperbacks in the 1980's, a single-volume comprehensive compendium, hailed widely as "easily...
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  • Handbook of Music, Adolescents, and Wellbeing by McFerran, Katrina
    Katrina McFerran

    Handbook of Music, Adolescents, and Wellbeing

    Many young people rely on music to guide them through the good and bad times of their lives. Whether immersing themselves in music to process emotions or creating music as a means of self-expression, it provides a powerful outlet that can help young people...
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  • Introduction to a Philosophy of Music by Kivy, Peter
    Peter Kivy

    Introduction to a Philosophy of Music

    Philosophy of music has flourished in the last thirty years, with great advances made in the understanding of the nature of music and its aesthetics. Peter Kivy has been at the center of this flourishing, and now offers his personal introduction to philosophy of...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1 by Lewis, George E.
    George E. Lewis

    The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1

    Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies...
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  • In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence by Walton, Kendall L.
    Kendall L. Walton

    In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence

    In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprising ways. By exploring connections among them,...
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  • Hearing Bach's Passions by Melamed, Daniel R.
    Daniel R. Melamed

    Hearing Bach's Passions

    Johann Sebastian Bach's two surviving passions--St. John and St. Matthew--are an essential part of the modern repertory, performed regularly both by professional ensembles and amateur groups. These large, complex pieces are well loved, but due to our distance from the original context in which...
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  • Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training Before Balanchine by Zeller, Jessica
    Jessica Zeller

    Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training Before Balanchine

    In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the sole creator of American...
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  • Winding It Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings by Hammel, Alice M.
    Alice M. Hammel

    Winding It Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings

    Winding it Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings is a collaborative effort written by practicing music educators, teacher educators, pedagogy experts, researchers, and inclusion enthusiasts with a combined one hundred plus years in the field of music education. The...
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  • Philosophy and the Analysis of Music: Bridges to Musical Sound, Form, and Reference by Ferrara, Lawrence
    Lawrence Ferrara

    Philosophy and the Analysis of Music: Bridges to Musical Sound, Form, and Reference

    A musical experience is marked by the synthesis of passion and rationality, emotion and understanding, and body and mind. Ferrara demonstrates that each method of musical analysis confines musical significance to a single level: formal methods explain musical syntax; phenemonological methods describe the sound-in-time;...
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  • Texas Music by Koster, Rick
    Rick Koster

    Texas Music

    The Definitive History of Texas Music From the 1920s to the Present Texas is the land of Buddy Holly and Janis Joplin, Roy Orbison, and Ornette Coleman. It's where Stevie Ray Vaughn wailed his blues, and where Kirk Franklin praised the Lord. Texas Music...
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  • The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience by Manning, Sean
    Sean Manning

    The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience

    In The Show I'll Never Forget, writer Sean Manning has gathered an amazing array of unforgettable concert memories from a veritable A-list of acclaimed novelists, poets, biographers, cultural critics, and songwriters. Their candid, first-person recollections reveal as much about the writers' lives at the...
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  • What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis by Stephenson, Ken
    Ken Stephenson

    What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis

    In this concise and engaging analysis of rock music, music theorist Ken Stephenson explores the features that make this internationally popular music distinct from earlier music styles. The author offers a guided tour of rock music from the 1950s to the present, emphasizing the...
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  • The Stratification of Musical Rhythm by Yeston, Maury
    Maury Yeston

    The Stratification of Musical Rhythm

    There are many books on counterpoint and harmony, but few indeed on the theory of rhythm. Those few approach it through its graphic notation, or in terms of metrical feet, as if it were poetry. Maury Yeston treats rhythm instead in the context of...
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  • Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy by Hermand, Jost
    Jost Hermand

    Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy

    The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy--echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"--resonate with heightened intensity during the period of modernity that extends from early German Idealism to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. This...
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  • Why Music Moves Us by Bicknell, J.
    J. Bicknell

    Why Music Moves Us

    Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who...
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  • Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology by Meyer, Leonard B.
    Leonard B. Meyer

    Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology

    Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He explores why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and...
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