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Vendor: Brian Kane
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice
Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher Pythagoras lectured to his...- $42.99
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Vendor: Lina Ng
My Second Music Theory Book
A colorful, imaginative, and highly absorbing introduction to music theory for the younger student. Packed with exciting exercises and entertaining characters, this is the ideal introduction to theory for a young instrumentalist.Author: Lina NgISBN-10: 9679856062ISBN-13: 9789679856064Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.60h...- $5.99
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Vendor: Jennifer Rushworth
Song in the Novel
Song in the Novel investigates the variety of types of songs present in novels, from French romances, ballads, folk songs, opera, and op?ra-comique, to caf?-concert music, blues and jazz, and more recent popular music. Throughout, literary scholars, musicologists, and cultural historians analyse novels written...- $100.00
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Vendor: Angelo Berardi
Arcani Musicali
Arcani Musicali is a comprehensive treatise on music theory and composition. Written by Angelo Berardi, a renowned Italian composer and music theorist of the 17th century, this book covers a wide range of topics including harmony, counterpoint, and composition techniques. Arcani Musicali is an...- $13.95
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Vendor: Roman Fire
Guitar Scales: What They Are and the Best Exercises to Learn Them Easily
If You Want to Learn the Guitar Scales Easily and Give Personality to Your Music, Then Keep Reading...With the study of the scales you can acquire mastery, technique, safety, and precision to improvise and compose the quality of the sound.Mastering the scales makes the...- $15.99
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
LEVEL 7 Supplemental Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory: LEVEL 7 Supplemental Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory (identical to the LEVEL 7 Supplemen
The LEVEL 7 Supplemental Answer Book (Ultimate Music Theory) is easy to use and is identical to the LEVEL 7 Supplemental Workbook. Bonus - Free Resources - Videos for all music history listening activities in the workbook.The LEVEL 7 Supplemental Workbook is designed to...- $19.97
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
Advanced Rudiments Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory: Advanced Music Theory Answer Book (identical to the Advanced Theory Workbook), Saves Time for
The Advanced Music Theory Answer Book (Ultimate Music Theory) is easy to use and is identical to the Advanced Music Theory Workbook (Ultimate Music Theory).Advanced Music Theory Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory features these concepts and more!Ultimate Music Theory's time-saving accelerated learning techniques...- $34.97
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Vendor: William J. Coppola
Egotism, Elitism, and the Ethics of Musical Humility
Egotism, Elitism, and the Ethics of Musical Humility examines how cultures of superiority pervade our musical lives and explores ways in which we can challenge them. Combining philosophical inquiry, empirical research, and pop culture examples, William J. Coppola takes a look at how striving...- $99.00
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Vendor: Ethan Hayes
Guitar Music Theory: Tips and Tricks to Guitar Mastery
If you have started reading this book with the intention of mastering your guitar skills, then I believe that congratulations are in order. Welcome to one of the most exciting things you can do with your time. You can be sure of a thrilling...- $19.99
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Vendor: Alexander Wood
The Physical Basis Of Music
An in-depth exploration of the scientific principles behind music, including the physics of sound and the physiology of the human ear. This book is an essential resource for music students and professionals wishing to gain a deeper understanding of their craft.This work has been...- $31.95
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Vendor: Judith Lang Zaimont
The Musical Woman: An International Perspective Volume III: 1986-1990
Emphasizing group dynamics, The Musical Woman series charts the accomplishments of women in the field of music in almost every capacity. Moving beyond the exception, articles highlight the group presence of musical women. The series equally commits itself to highlighting creative individuals, surveying particular...- $83.00
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Vendor: Ron Ngoun
Exercises To Develop Guitarists: Legato, Rhythm And Expressive Techniques: Step By Step To Develop Guitar Rhythm
To learn how to play the guitar well, you first have to learn the basics. This book destroys the notion that aspiring players must spend all their practice time accelerating through progressively more difficult and obscure exercises. This book focuses on only the exercises...- $9.99
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
LEVEL 5 Supplemental Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory: LEVEL 5 Supplemental Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory (identical to the LEVEL 5 Supplemen
The LEVEL 5 Supplemental Answer Book (Ultimate Music Theory) is easy to use and is identical to the LEVEL 5 Supplemental Workbook. Bonus - Free Resources - Videos for all music history listening activities in the workbook.The LEVEL 5 Supplemental Workbook is designed to...- $19.97
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
LEVEL 2 Supplemental Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory: LEVEL 2 Supplemental Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory (identical to the LEVEL 2 Supplemen
The LEVEL 2 Supplemental Answer Book (Ultimate Music Theory) is easy to use and is identical to the LEVEL 2 Supplemental Workbook. Bonus - Free Resources - Videos for all music history listening activities in the workbook.The LEVEL 2 Supplemental Workbook is designed to...- $19.97
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
LEVEL 8 Supplemental Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory: LEVEL 8 Supplemental Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory (identical to the LEVEL 8 Supplemen
The LEVEL 8 Supplemental Answer Book (Ultimate Music Theory) is easy to use and is identical to the LEVEL 8 Supplemental Workbook. Bonus - Free Resources - Videos for all music history listening activities in the workbook.The LEVEL 8 Supplemental Workbook is designed to...- $19.97
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Vendor: Mya Scarlato
Remixing the Classroom in Practice: Stories from the Field
"Remixing the Classroom" In Practice engages directly with Randall Allsup's groundbreaking Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education by sharing what democratic, creative, and student-centered approaches to music education look like when applied in the field.Through narrative essays covering a spectrum...- $35.00
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Vendor: Mya Scarlato
Remixing the Classroom in Practice: Stories from the Field
"Remixing the Classroom" In Practice engages directly with Randall Allsup's groundbreaking Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education by sharing what democratic, creative, and student-centered approaches to music education look like when applied in the field.Through narrative essays covering a spectrum...- $85.00
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Vendor: Kevin J. Donnelly
Haunted Soundtracks: Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound
The turn of the millennium has heralded an outgrowth of culture that demonstrates an awareness of the ephemeral nature of history and the complexity underpinning the relationship between location and the past. This has been especially apparent in the shifting relationship between landscape, memory...- $39.95
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Vendor: Annegret Fauser
Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma
Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma looks at the roles music can play in public commemorations of traumatic events...- $34.95
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Vendor: Leonard Ellinwood
The Musica of Hermannus Contractus
The renowned treatise on music, by an eleventh-century monk, in a critical edition with annotated English translation, introduction, and detailed indexes. Long recognized as one of the most important medieval treatises on music, the Musica of Hermannus Contractus is here presented in a newly...- $110.00
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Vendor: Glen Haydon
Introduction To Musicology: A Survey Of The Fields, Systematic And Historical, Of Musical Knowledge And Research
Introduction to Musicology: A Survey of the Fields, Systematic and Historical, of Musical Knowledge and Research is a comprehensive guide to the academic study of music. Written by Glen Haydon, this book provides an overview of the various branches of musicology, including historical musicology,...- $48.95
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Vendor: Kyle Morris
The Big Banger Theory: The essential elements and language of music for the modern producer
Save time producing better music and rid yourself of the headaches and frustration of always playing the guessing game. What if you could learn all major and minor chords by learning just 7 chords and 2 concepts? Imagine the next time an artist comes...- $14.99
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Vendor: Ben Winters
Korngold in America: Music, Myth, and Hollywood
Korngold in America offers new ways of listening to the film scores and post-Hollywood concert works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), a Viennese-raised Austro-Hungarian composer who left Europe for Hollywood in the mid-1930s to write for Warner Bros. It reassesses Korngold's place in twentieth-century...- $39.99
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Vendor: Abigail Gardner
Listening, Belonging, and Memory
Listening, Belonging, and Memoryputs connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why. Arguing that listening has to be understood in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing, and memory, it uses examples from...- $39.95
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Vendor: Jared E. Davis
Music Theory For Fretboarders
Music Theory For Fretboarders is a college level lecture on how to see and understand music theory on the fretboard of your guitar. This book begins with the most basic fundamentals of music theory and continues all the way to advanced jazz concepts. You...- $13.99
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Vendor: Megan Kaes Long
Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
The question of tonality's origins in music's pitch content has long vexed many scholars of music theory. However, tonality is not ultimately defined by pitch alone, but rather by pitch's interaction with elements like rhythm, meter, phrase structure, and form. Hearing Homophony investigates the...- $110.00
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Vendor: Constantin Floros
Gustav Mahler and the Symphony of the 19th Century: Translated by Neil K. Moran
The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas.Author: Constantin FlorosISBN-10: 3631626894ISBN-13: 9783631626894Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der WLanguage:...- $104.60
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Vendor: Jason Yust
Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form
Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory of musical form--author Jason...- $200.00
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Vendor: Robert Gauldin
Workbook: For Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, Second Edition
Written exercises--The Second Edition includes new exercises for each chapter that reflect changes in the text, in particular changes in the chapters on fundamentals and diatonic harmony. Exercises require students to fill in short harmonic progressions, complete sequential patterns, realize figured basses, harmonize melodies,...- $44.25
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Vendor: Anahid Kassabian
Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music
Music is central to any film, creating a tone for the movie that is just as vital as the visual and narrative components. In recent years, racial and gender diversity in film has exploded, and the making of musical scores has changed drastically. Hearing...- $61.99
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Vendor: Joseph Kerman
Listen
Listen combines close, analytic listening to great music with revealing examination of the cultural and historical context in which it was created. And now, with the Norton Illumine Ebook, a marriage of sound and prose creates a seamless experience that brings the music and...- $95.00
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Vendor: Frank Lehman
Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score
Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the film music repertoire. Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score offers the first collection of essays dedicated to the close investigation of musical structure and meaning...- $39.99
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Vendor: Harold Owen
Music Theory Resource Book
Ideal as a core or supplementary text for the standard two-year music theory course and for graduate courses in theory review, Music Theory Resource Book covers all the topics typically studied in the basic music theory sequence. Concise and accessible, it features a basic...- $149.99
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Vendor: Anthony Garone
Failure to Fracture: Learning King Crimson's Impossible Song
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...- $89.95
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Vendor: Denny Genovese
The Natural Harmonic Series as a practical approach to Just Intonation
This book provides a foundation for understanding and realizing Just Intonation in music. Just Intonation allows for precise control of consonance and dissonance, supports the ability to express subtle moods and provides resonant qualities that are unequaled in conventional tuning. The Natural Harmonic Series...- $15.00
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Vendor: David Darling
A Perfect Harmony: Music, Mathematics and Science
From the earliest of civilisations, humans have found ways to make music, whether through makeshift drums or artfully drilled bone flutes. But how did music - effectively little more than a series of certain tones and rhythms - become so integral to the human...- $18.95
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Vendor: Barry Michael Wehrli
Mastering Intervals
Author: Barry Michael WehrliISBN-10: 0967382696ISBN-13: 9780967382692Publisher: Wehrli PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2010Pages: 162Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.35d- $19.95
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Vendor: Constantin Floros
New Ears for New Music: Translated by Kenneth Chalmers
20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century's intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they prompted. In this book, renowned musicologist...- $73.70
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Vendor: Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics
Well-known contributors analyze the ways in which Marxist thought enters into music discourse. Exploring everything from Marxism in hip-hop to feudal properties of Hindustani music to revolutionary music of Central America, the essays in this book find surprising, paradigm-shifting revelations. This book will revolutionize...- $66.99
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Vendor: Preston Hoffman
Fretboard Theory: For Beginners - Bundle - The Only 3 Books You Need to Learn Fretboard Music Theory, Ukulele and Guitar Fretboard Technique Today
3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: Music Theory, How to Play Guitar and How to Play Ukulele!Book 1)Music Theory: For Beginners - The Only 7 Exercises You Need to Learn Music Fundamentals and the Elements of Written Music TodayYou will learn the following: -A...- $27.99
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Vendor: Jenefer M. Robinson
Music and Meaning: Lean Production and Its Discontents
In order to promote new ways of thinking about musical meaning, this volume brings together scholars in music theory, musicology, and the philosophy of music, disciplines generally treated as separate and distinct. This interdisciplinary collaboration, while respecting differences in perspective, identifies and elaborates shared...- $130.00
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Musical Meaning and Expression
We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But what does music mean, and how does it mean? Stephen Davies addresses these questions in this sophisticated and...- $37.95
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Vendor: Robert Wannamaker
James Tenney: Writings and Interviews on Experimental Music
This volume collects, for the first time, essential interviews and aesthetic writings from throughout James Tenney's five-decade artistic career. The eminent American-Canadian composer James Tenney (1934-2006) made groundbreaking contributions to sampling culture, digital sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, minimalism, spectral music, music in non-standard tuning...- $120.00
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Vendor: Al James
Music theory for drummers Book 1: An introduction to rhythm
The Music Theory for Drummers series provides a clear path for drummers who want to learn music theory in focused steps, working through practical exercises designed specifically for drummers. Book 1: An introduction to rhythm is an accessible introduction to the established conventions in...- $30.00
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Vendor: Joseph A. Labuta
Basic Conducting Techniques
Now in its eighth edition, Basic Conducting Techniques provides a clear and intelligible introduction to the art of conducting an ensemble. It has been updated with a greater diversity of repertoire, including contemporary examples and more music by underrepresented composers.Over the course of 14...- $160.00
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Vendor: Daniel Ira Goldmark
Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema
This groundbreaking collection by the most distinguished musicologists and film scholars in their fields gives long overdue recognition to music as equal to the image in shaping the experience of film. Refuting the familiar idea that music serves as an unnoticed prop for narrative,...- $34.95
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Vendor: Steven Laitz
Workbook to Accompany the Complete Musician: Workbook 1: Writing and Analysis
The two workbooks that accompany The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Fourth Edition, feature an organization designed specifically for flexibility: Workbook 1: Writing and Analysis, is dedicated exclusively to written and analytical activities; Workbook 2: Skills and Musicianship, focuses...- $116.99
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Vendor: Victoria Williams
Ten Tests for Grade 1 Music Theory
Ten Tests for ABRSM Grade 1 Music Theory Candidates.These tests are laid out in the format of the new (from 2020) digital theory exams.Ten tests, each scored out of 75 points.Each test covers all topics on the grade 1 syllabus.Answers included at the end....- $9.85
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Vendor: Carl Dahlhaus
Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality
Carl Dahlhaus was without doubt the premier musicologist of the postwar generation, a giant whose recent death was mourned the world over. Translated here for the first time, this fundamental work on the development of tonality shows his complete mastery of the theory of...- $57.00
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Vendor: Damian Hermann
Piano Note Reading Workbook: Draw and Practice with 300+ Exercises
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...- $15.99
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Music Instruction Study Theory Books
Music instruction study theory books are a diverse collection of resources designed to assist musicians of all levels in expanding their knowledge and skills in music theory and performance. These books cover a wide range of musical subjects, ranging from basic music theory to advanced instrumental techniques.
One of the primary purposes of music instruction study theory books is to teach musicians the fundamental principles of music theory. This includes topics such as notation, rhythm, harmony, and melody. In addition to theory, music instruction study theory books also focus on developing practical skills in various instruments and musical styles. There are books dedicated to specific instruments, such as piano, guitar, violin, and many more. These instrument-specific books provide detailed instruction on technique, fingerings, and exercises to improve proficiency and mastery of the instrument. They delve into the specific techniques, styles, and improvisation methods associated with each genre, enabling musicians to broaden their musical horizons and explore new avenues of expression. Furthermore, music instruction study theory books often include comprehensive exercises and practice materials. These exercises are designed to reinforce the concepts and techniques taught in the book, allowing musicians to develop a solid foundation and improve their musical abilities through regular practice.
Whether you are a beginner just starting your musical journey or an advanced musician looking to deepen your understanding and skills, music instruction study theory books offer a wealth of knowledge and guidance. They are ideal for self-study or can be used as supplementary materials in music lessons or classes.
Intermediate and advanced musicians can also benefit from our extensive collection. We have books that delve deeper into music theory, offering in-depth explanations of topics such as harmony, counterpoint, composition techniques, and more. These resources are designed to challenge and inspire you, helping you expand your repertoire and unlock new artistic possibilities.
At White Rain Book House, we believe that music instruction study theory books should be comprehensive and informative, but also engaging and enjoyable to read. That's why we carefully curate our collection, ensuring that each book we offer is written by knowledgeable and experienced authors who have a passion for their subject matter. We want to provide you with books that not only teach but also inspire and ignite your creativity.