Music-Instruction & Study-Composition

Since 2013, Embleton has released a number of recordings of compositions, such as: 'Contemporary Works for Solo Flute', 'Contemporary Works for Solo Guitar' Volumes 1 & 2, 'Contemporary Works for Solo Lute', 'Fragments of a Lake', 'Journey in C-Minor', 'Late Night Sky', 'Music for...

Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since Rodgers and Hammerstein, in a brand new way.Identifying the theatrical approach that renders their musical dramaturgy unique, this book explores their importance within, and contribution to, musical...

A Music Transcription Method: Notating Recorded Music by Ear teaches how to leverage music dictation in the modern music industry. The book's four parts cover aspects of preparation, process, interpretation, and industry resources related to notating recorded music by ear.Taking a modular approach, the...

This book is written from a composer's point of view and is intended to be a reference book for the analysis of arranging techniques. Its aim is to helpcomposers and arrangers improve their compositional skills as well as theirunderstanding of various musical styles. Through...

How do composers build sustainable careers, ensuring their work aligns with their financial goals and personal well-being? Composing a Living is a practical and empowering guide for composers navigating the intersection of music, money, and business. Drawing on extensive industry experience and twenty-eight interviews...

Can you turn a soulful ballad into a hit dance track, or make any Billboard hit your own? Whether you're a professional DJ or producer, or are just beginning to mix tracks, this step-by-step guide brings you through the entire process of making your...

Author: William J. CallaghanISBN-10: 1968396071ISBN-13: 9781968396077Publisher: Wjcallaghan, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/29/2025Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d

Do you make house, trance, techno or down-tempo? From inception to conception, this book will help give you a workflow to channel your muse using LMMS. Readers are presented with a brief lesson on dance music history before being guided through the process of...

"A Hundred Light Years" by Leila Naseri is a heartfelt tribute to the enduring legacy of Iran and the Pahlavi dynasty, marking the centennial anniversary of its establishment. Drawing on the richness of Iran's ancient past from the Pishdadian and Achaemenid empires to the...

This essential companion book to Level B: Repertoire is designed to reinforce the concepts and skills introduced in this level.The Cadenza Piano Method is an age-neutral, comprehensive beginner piano method that takes students from reading finger numbers on black keys to reading two-handed music...

This essential companion book to Level A: Repertoire is designed to reinforce the concepts and skills introduced in this level.The Cadenza Piano Method is an age-neutral, comprehensive beginner piano method that takes students from reading finger numbers on black keys to reading two-handed music...

Harmonic Siblings: Expanding Your Chord ProgressionsBy Paul Wilkinson Discover a fresh approach to harmony with Harmonic Siblings, a groundbreaking concept from pianist, composer, and educator Paul Wilkinson. This book explores how chords-like siblings-share harmonic DNA, offering new ways to create expressive, dynamic progressions.Drawing from...

Emmanuel Saboro's study on memories of the slave era in northern Ghana is a most welcome addition to a long and storied scholarly tradition examining song lyrics associated with the institution of slavery. As one might expect, the vast majority of such studies focus...

Learn to Produce EDM Like a Pro & Take Your Music To A Whole New Level Why do some producers make great music after just one year, while others still sound average?The answer? It's how they learn and practice. The most successful EDM producers...

Music Theory Simplified: A Beginner-Friendly Guide for Producers and Musicians by M. TellierMusic Theory Simplified is a clear, visual introduction to the fundamentals of music theory, written specifically for self-taught musicians, producers, and anyone seeking a structured way to learn how music works. Whether...

The School of Musical Composition is a comprehensive guide to the art of music composition, presented in a clear and accessible manner. It covers everything from the basics of music theory to the nuances of harmonic structures and counterpoint, making it an indispensable resource...

8.5 x 11 portrait Black/White Print softbackMusic theory won't be a secret for you anymore!Strings & Ivory: Chords & Inversions is a college level music reference book you can grow with. As you progress in your understanding of music with new techniques, concepts and...

For the novice plucker or experienced virtuoso. An excellent nautical gift for the musician in your life.Author: Elias JamesISBN-10: 172318750XISBN-13: 9781723187506Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2018Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.46d

This dissertation introduces a new design for a computer-aided algorithmic music composition system. Rather than exploring specific algorithms, this study focuses on system and component design. The design introduced here is demonstrated through its implementation in athenaCL, a modular, polyphonic, poly-paradigm algorithmic music composition...

From recent decades' digitization have emerged a myriad of techniques for mapping musical life, identifying patterns in sound or musico-cultural practices, and compiling labels, names, tags, and classes on an unprecedented scale. Proliferating genre catalogs in the context of digital platforms and the conjunction...

Author: Matt XavierISBN-13: 9798998680625Publisher: Integrated PsychedelicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2025Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Apply theory into practice with more than 300 exercises created to strengthen your grasp of notes, rests, measures, scales, and rhythm.Explore the world of piano music with our detailed guide, Piano Note Reading Workbook. Specifically designed for beginners, this book breaks down the fundamentals...

From first note to final master, your complete guide to transforming music production with Studio One Pro 7Key Features: - Eliminate technical barriers to create and arrange music effortlessly with Studio One's intuitive workflows- Produce professional-quality sound using built-in virtual instruments and effects without...

This book is written for composers of original music-mostly or completely within the world of concert or classical music--as a one-stop resource of relevant information on earning income from music that they write. Drawing on a breadth of experience, Stephen L. Rosenhaus addresses a...

Music poses unique and complex challenges for artificial intelligence, even as 21st-century AI grows ever more adept at generating compelling content. The AI Music Problem: Why Machine Learning Conflicts With Musical Creativity probes the challenges behind AI-generated music, with an investigation that straddles the...

The Psychedelic DJ: A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Music Curation and Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy is a groundbreaking book dedicated to showing practitioners how to harness the profound synergy between music curation and psychedelic therapy. Drawing from his extensive experience as a professional DJ, mental health...

Author: Starr MeneelyISBN-10: 1803522887ISBN-13: 9781803522883Publisher: Pianoforte MethodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2025Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 11.00w x 0.19d

Benjamin Britten (1913-76) changed the course of English music with highly original works such as his opera Peter Grimes. While his music is performed more widely than those of any other English composer, his international success did not prevent him from continuing to draw...

Author: Bruce AdolpheISBN-10: 0197821650ISBN-13: 9780197821657Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2025Pages: 168Format: Paperback

François-Auguste Gevaert (1828-1908) was Director of the Brussels Royal Conservatory, a Prix de Rome winner, a prolific author on music history and theory, and a successful composer of light opera. His 1890 Methodical Course in Orchestration, together with his previous volume on instrumentation, was...

Unlock the secrets of rhythmic mastery with Rhythmic Realms: An Odyssey Through Polyrhythms, Syncopation, and Complex Metrical Structures in Music Composition. This comprehensive guide embarks on a captivating exploration of rhythm's intricacies, equipping you with the tools to transform your musical creations.Begin with the...

Drawing from 40+ years of combined experience, authors Marco Galvan and Christopher Bolte take your sound and music production skills to the next level using REAPER's versatile features and intuitive user interfaceKey Features: - Set up REAPER to record high-quality audio on your computer-...

Our contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for theologians to explore the resources of art for enriching our understanding and experience of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Annunciations: Sacred Music for the twenty-First...

Whether you're a musician with no previous experience in computer programming, or a computer hobbyist interested in learning about music, Automated Music Composition has something to offer. The book contains BASIC language tutorials for beginning programmers; an overview of computer music applications; a systematic...

Incorporating technology in music classrooms can take the mystery out of improvisation. What music technology does is establish a strong foundation for chord, scale, phrase, ear training, and listening exercises, creating a solid backdrop for student expression. As author and educator Mike Fein shows,...

Music theory done as a science. No more gatekeeping. It is an upgrade and contains unique views and a more accurate representation of reality for music based on some interesting findings. This is a better system and more accurate to our reality. Centuries of...

Embark on a musical odyssey with STRINGS OF BRILLIANCE: MASTERING MELODY AND HARMONY DEVELOPMENT FOR GUITAR COMPOSITION a captivating guide to mastering the art of melody and harmony development for guitar composition. Delve into the heart of musical expression as you uncover the secrets...

What does a one-hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas share with a series of glitch-noise electronic tracks by Pan Sonic? This book proposes that, despite their differences, they share a particular understanding of sound found across several quite distinct genres of contemporary...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, creative communities were faced with unprecedented challenges and forced to embark upon a re-evaluation of traditional approaches to artistic collaboration. In the wake of these discussions and experiments, New Directions in Musical Collaborative Creativity asks how new technology can be...

5 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Play Guitar, How to Play Piano, How to Play Ukulele, How to Play Chords and How to Play Scales!Book 1)How to Play Guitar: In 1 Day - The Only 7 Exercises You Need to Learn Guitar...

Easy Patterns to Play BouzoukiA Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Bouzouki Techniques, Strumming, and Playing by Ear for Beginners and BeyondAre you eager to learn the bouzouki but don't know where to start? Easy Patterns to Play Bouzouki is the ultimate step-by-step guide designed for...

Discover the ultimate tribute to one of the greatest bands of all time with Oasis: A Sheet Music Collection for True Fans - Piano, Vocal, Guitar Edition. This expertly crafted songbook features 23 iconic Oasis tracks, including Wonderwall, Don't Look Back in Anger, Champagne...

In Hip-Hop Civics, Jabari Evans demonstrates how Hip-Hop can be deployed in revamping formal civic education for Black and Brown youth. Based on an original ethnographic study of a Hip-Hop-based education program, the Songwriting and Production Program (SWP) administered by the Foundation of Music...

This book examines Luigi Dallapiccola's groundbreaking works created alongside the masterpieces of many Florentine artists and literati who guided his daily steps and his embrace of twelve-tone serialism as a spiritual dogma.Author: Mario Ruffini Mario Ruffini, Franco SciannameoISBN-10: 1666948683ISBN-13: 9781666948684Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2025Pages:...

The Technique of Orchestration, Seventh Edition, is the definitive textbook on the study of orchestration, offering a concise, straight-to-the-point approach that prepares students to score their own compositions with confidence. Updated to reflect developments in instruments and orchestral best practices, this seventh edition features:...

When progressive rock band King Crimson released Starless and Bible Black in 1974, very few recognized the astonishing virtuosity captured in the album's 11-minute instrumental capstone, "Fracture." Three minutes into the piece, guitarist Robert Fripp begins playing a quiet, non-stop barrage of notes called...

Unlock the secrets behind the music you love with Music Theory Mysteries: Sound Science Decoded. This book explores the fascinating intersection of science and art, delving into the fundamental principles that govern music. From the physics of sound waves and the intricacies of harmony...

Author: Dexter ArtmanISBN-13: 9798302949332Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2024Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.36d

Author: Scott WilsonISBN-10: 0262049708ISBN-13: 9780262049702Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 832Format: Hardcover

Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II and remained so at least through the mid-1970s. In 1961, Ann Phillips Basart published the pioneering bibliographic work in the field.Author: Stephan D. LindemanISBN-10: 0415976197ISBN-13: 9780415976190Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/23/2006Pages: 664Format: HardcoverWeight:...