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Vendor: William Willis Moseley
The Quantity And Music Of The Greek Chorus Discovered (1847)
The Quantity And Music Of The Greek Chorus Discovered is a book written by William Willis Moseley in 1847. The book is a comprehensive study of the Greek chorus and its role in ancient Greek drama. Moseley explores the quantity and music of the...- $24.95
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Vendor: Ernst Von Elterlein
Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas: Explained For The Lovers Of The Musical Art (1879)
""Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas: Explained For The Lovers Of The Musical Art"" is a book written by Ernst Von Elterlein and published in 1879. The book provides a comprehensive explanation of Beethoven's pianoforte sonatas, which are considered some of the greatest works of classical music....- $21.95
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Vendor: Vasco Hexel
50 Movie Music Moments
50 Movie Music Moments comprises a wide-ranging collection of analyses of some of the most fascinating uses of music in modern Hollywood cinema. Considering narrative strategies, filmmaking techniques, cultural implications, and intertextuality, the case studies gathered here introduce music as a crucial element of...- $180.00
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Vendor: Esti Sheinberg
The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification
The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject.Examinations of music signification have been an essential component in thinking about music for...- $62.99
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Vendor: Stephen Downes
Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism's significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value...- $56.99
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Vendor: Peter Szendy
Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox
Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what apple has convinced us is "the soundtrack of our lives." How does music come to inhabit us, to possess and haunt us? What does it mean that a piece of music can insert...- $95.00
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Vendor: Marcel Cobussen
Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music
In Thresholds Marcel Cobussen rethinks the relationship between music and spirituality. The point of departure is the current movement within contemporary classical music known as New Spiritual Music, with as its main representatives Arvo Pärt, John Tavener, and Giya Kancheli. In almost all respects,...- $190.00
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Vendor: Matthew Riley
Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder and Astonishment
The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book to examine the concept of attention in the history of musical thought and its foundations in the writings of German...- $190.00
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Vendor: Aubertine Woodward Moore
For Every Music Lover: A Series Of Practical Essays On Music (1902)
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...- $27.95
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Vendor: J. P. Dabney
The Musical Basis Of Verse: A Scientific Study Of The Principles Of Poetic Composition
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...- $43.95
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Vendor: Oscar Thompson
How to Understand Music
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...- $48.95
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Vendor: Roger W. H. Savage
Hermeneutics and Music Criticism
Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our current understandings of music's transformative...- $190.00
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Vendor: John Rahn
Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics
Drawn from the influential journal Perspectives of New Music, these essays reflect a variety of artistic viewpoints and critical perspectives. The contributors include composers Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Milton Babbitt, literary scholar Douglas Collins, anthropologist Eric Gans, philosopher Michel Foucault, and poet Delmore...- $30.00
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Vendor: Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
Anthology of Post-Tonal Music: For Use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music
This anthology of over 40 scores and excerpts represents a wide range of music from across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, from pieces by Debussy, Stravinsky, and Bartok to works by Arvo Pärt, Thomas Adès, and Kaija Saariaho. Showcasing the vast...- $190.00
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Vendor: Francesco Galeazzi
Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV
A virtuoso violinist, conductor, composer, and a professor of mathematics and botany, Francesco Galeazzi (1758-1819) firmly believed that musical education should be clear, demonstrable, and practical. In 1791 and 1796, he published the two volumes of his Elementi teorico-practici di musica, a treatise that...- $77.00
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Vendor: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction
Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a philosopher, and Oliver Fürbeth, a musicologist, here fill this important gap for musical...- $127.00
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Vendor: John J. Sheinbaum
Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide
Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music--highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original--and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals. In Good Music,...- $99.00
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Vendor: Kristin Harney
Integrating Music Across the Secondary Curriculum
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...- $140.00
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Vendor: Johannes Bronkhorst
The Body of the Musician: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Piṇḍotpatti-Prakaraṇa of Śārngadeva's Sangītaratn
The Sangītaratnākara ( The Ocean of Music ) written by Śārngadeva in the 13th century is the most important theoretical work on Indian classical music. Its prologue, the Pindotpatti-prakarana ( The Section of the Arising of the Human Body ), deals with the Indian...- $130.30
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Vendor: Irène Deliège
Musical Creativity: Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice
This collection initiates a resolutely interdisciplinary research dynamic specifically concerning musical creativity. Creativity is one of the most challenging issues currently facing scientific psychology and its study has been relatively rare in the cognitive sciences, especially in artificial intelligence. This book will address the...- $180.00
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Vendor: Bennett Reimer
Seeking the Significance of Music Education: Essays and Reflections
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 generating core values for the field of music education; the core in larger societal and...- $166.00
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Vendor: Arnold Walter
Aspects of Music in Canada
The last few years have seen a tremendous increase in almost every area of musical life in Canada; more orchestras are playing longer seasons; Canadian composers are winning recognition at home and abroad; opera is coming into its own; the National Arts Centre in...- $36.95
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Vendor: Ronald A. Pellegrino
Realizing Electronic Dreams: A Composer's Notes And Themes
The book functions as a guided tour through the creative process that fuels a lifelong experimental music composer. It sheds light on the compositional processes and the physical settings of the six new CDs that make up Part Three of the Emergent Music And...- $15.99
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Vendor: George Henschel
Musings And Memories Of A Musician (1919)
Musings and Memories of a Musician is a memoir written by George Henschel, a celebrated musician and conductor of the late 19th and early 20th century. The book, published in 1919, is a collection of Henschel's personal recollections and reflections on his life and...- $51.95
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Vendor: Francis Taylor Piggott
The Music And Musical Instruments Of Japan (1893)
The Music and Musical Instruments of Japan is a detailed book written by Francis Taylor Piggott in 1893. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the traditional music of Japan, including its history, development, and cultural significance. It also examines the various musical instruments...- $30.95
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Vendor: John Henry Cornell
A Primer Of Modern Musical Tonality: Intended For Self-Study, As An Introduction To The Study Of Harmony (1876)
A Primer Of Modern Musical Tonality: Intended For Self-Study, As An Introduction To The Study Of Harmony (1876) is a comprehensive guide to understanding modern musical tonality written by John Henry Cornell. The book is designed to be used as a self-study tool for...- $21.95
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Vendor: Tony Pappas
Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar
Take your music to the next level with Prosonic Charts, a new series of cutting-edge books designed to give your playing a boost! Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar will expand your tonal color palette, giving you more ways to express yourself through the guitar.Imagine...- $47.99
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Vendor: Robin James
Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music
The Conjectural Body combines continental philosophy with musicology, popular music studies, and feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theories to offer a unique perspective on issues of gender, race, and the philosophy of music. It is one of the few books in philosophy to take...- $120.00
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Vendor: 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...- $95.00
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Vendor: Andrew Dell'antonio
Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy
The early seventeenth century, when the first operas were written and technical advances with far-reaching consequences-such as tonal music-began to develop, is also notable for another shift: the displacement of aristocratic music-makers by a new professional class of performers. In this book, Andrew Dell'Antonio...- $85.00
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Vendor: Lawrence Kramer
Interpreting Music
Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully-"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning-even...- $95.00
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Vendor: Joseph Jr. McClinton
Love Lost
The story is driven by the duality of JoJoJr's existence: his soaring ambition is perpetually layered with the poignant ache of a first love forever lost. The narrative explores universal experiences of love and loss, resilience, and authenticity that define us all. Music as...- $20.99
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Vendor: Bruce E. Arnold
Contemporary Rhythms Volume Two
The exercises in the second volume concentrate on sixteenth note rhythmic patterns, touching upon modern innovations commonly found in twentieth century classical music and preparing the student to deal confidently with complex rhythmic situations. Additionally, the Muse-Eek Publishing Company hosts two online resources in...- $24.99
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Vendor: W. L. Hubbard
The American History and Encyclopedia of Music: Musical Biographies V1
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.Author: W. L. HubbardISBN-10: 1498112692ISBN-13: 9781498112697Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 550Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.11d- $47.95
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Vendor: David Monro
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.Author: David MonroISBN-10: 1497965306ISBN-13: 9781497965300Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.34d- $26.95
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Vendor: Stefani Gosselink
A Medieval Venture Through Music
Who were the people who created the music? This book investigates every day life in the Medieval world. It makes an attempt to demonstrate connections between all things Medieval and the music that was created.Author: Stefani GosselinkISBN-10: 1975601424ISBN-13: 9781975601423Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $15.00
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Vendor: Carl Stumpf
The Origins of Music
The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and mathematics, Stumpf became...- $96.00
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Vendor: R. J. Stove
A Student's Guide to Music History
R. J. Stove's A Student's Guide to Music History is a concise account, written for the intelligent lay reader, of classical music's development from the early Middle Ages onwards. Beginning with a discussion of Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century German nun and composer, and...- $8.00
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Vendor: Jochen Eisentraut
The Accessibility of Music
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...- $127.00
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Vendor: Chris Stover
Making Music Together: Analytical Perspectives on Musical Interaction
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...- $140.00
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Vendor: Kristin Harney
Integrating Music Across the Secondary Curriculum
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...- $29.99
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Vendor: Marty Fort
The Ultimate Guide to Music Lessons: For Parents, Students or Anyone Who's Ready to Play Music!
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...- $9.95
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Vendor: Roger Paul
IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition: Everything You Need to Prepare for the Music Listening Examination (Standard and Higher Level 2016-2019)
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...- $25.95
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Vendor: Hermann Helmholtz
On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music
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- $49.95
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Vendor: Janet E. Tobitt
Plays For The High Holidays: With Incidental Music And Dancing
""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...- $23.95
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Vendor: James L. Mursell
The Psychology of Music.
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- $95.00
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Vendor: Hilary Moss
Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings: Does Music Matter?
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...- $29.99
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Vendor: Richard Ashley
The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition
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,...- $300.00
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Vendor: George Allen
The Life Of Philidor: Musician And Chess-Player (1863)
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...- $24.95
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Vendor: Bruce E. Arnold
Independence
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...- $19.99
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