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Author:Shaun Baxter
Dominant Pentatonic Scale Guitar Soloing: Discover The Secret Weapon For Advanced Modern Soloing On Dominant Chords
Struggling to play smooth, connected solos over dominant chords? Do you find it challenging to instantly create dynamic solos? Solo Over Any Dominant Chord With EaseDive into the world of modern guitar improvisation with Dominant Pentatonic Scale Guitar Soloing, a cutting-edge guide by the...- $19.99
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Author:Maurice Windleburn
John Zorn's File Card Works: Hypertextual Intermediality in Composition and Analysis
This book is the first study of John Zorn's 'file card' works, with special focus made on the pieces Godard (1985), Spillane (1986), Interzone (2010), and Liber Novus (2010).Author: Maurice WindleburnISBN-10: 103234122XISBN-13: 9781032341224Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2024Pages: 140Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44dAbout...- $170.00
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Author:Gary Motley
Harmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz Pianist: An Imaginative Approach
Harmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz Pianist serves as a guide for harmonic expansion and development for jazz piano, offering pianists both a rationale and methods to improve contrapuntal hand techniques.The text focuses on the relationship between theory and execution and both...- $59.95
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Author:Martin Lohse
Bach Counterpoint: Two-part invention I
'Bach Counterpoint - Two-part invention' is a textbook in two volumes. The aim of this book is to explain Bach's compositional methods in an accessible manner, using methods and tools specially developed for this purpose. The two-part Bach inventions are a natural starting point,...- $19.83
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Author:Karel Janec̆ek
Foundations of Modern Harmony
Translated into English for the first time, Foundations of Modern Harmony, by composer and music theorist Karel Janec̆ek, addresses the analysis and composition of music not based on the tonal harmony that was common language until the early 20th century. Discussing this newer music...- $59.99
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Author:Nico Sch?er
On Methods of Music Theory and (Ethno-) Musicology: From Interdisciplinary Research to Teaching
Although all research makes use of specific research methods, much music scholarship is being published without any reference to, or reflection on, the premises of the methods employed. In other words, published articles and books are often lacking a discussion of the scope and...- $79.90
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Author:Patricia F. Robinson
Music Theory for the Very Young Musician
Music Theory book for the very young musician. Written by Patricia F. Robinson. Illustrated by Al Johnson. Designed by Mary Z.Author: Patricia F. RobinsonISBN-10: 1477561684ISBN-13: 9781477561683Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2012Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.16dAbout the AuthorPatricia F. Robinson...- $6.99
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Author:Steve Larson
Musical Forces: Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music
Steve Larson drew on his 20 years of research in music theory, cognitive linguistics, experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence--as well as his skill as a jazz pianist--to show how the experience of physical motion can shape one's musical experience. Clarifying the roles of analogy,...- $49.95
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Author:Willard A. Palmer
Alfred's Basic Piano Library Lesson Book, Bk 1a: Book & CD
The Universal Edition is designed for all English-speaking countries outside of the United States, including Canada, the U. K., and Australia. This edition uses the British system of terminology for rhythmic values such as crotchet for quarter note. This course is most effective when...- $10.99
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Author:Jeff Colella
Love Music: And It Will Love You Back
From top-performing Jazz pianist Jeff Colella comes this groundbreaking book on music theory, skill development, and the art of improvisation.Jeff Colella is one of California's most in-demand Jazz pianists. His post-bop style has granted him multiple tours, a faculty position, and a widely successful...- $21.99
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Author:Juan Chattah
Film Music: Cognition to Interpretation
Film Music: Cognition to Interpretation explores the dynamic counterpoint between a film's soundtrack, its visuals and narrative, and the audience's perception and construction of meaning. Adopting a holistic approach covering both the humanities and the sciences--blending cognitive psychology, musical analysis, behavioral neuroscience, semiotics, linguistics,...- $49.95
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Author:Jeff Colella
Love Music: And It Will Love You Back
From top-performing Jazz pianist Jeff Colella comes this groundbreaking book on music theory, skill development, and the art of improvisation.Jeff Colella is one of California's most in-demand Jazz pianists. His post-bop style has granted him multiple tours, a faculty position, and a widely successful...- $12.99
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Author:Brian Kane
Hearing Double: Jazz, Ontology, Auditory Culture
When we talk about a jazz "standard" we usually mean one of the many songs that jazz musicians repeatedly play as part of their core repertoire. But unlike musical works in the tradition of so-called classical music, standards--whether plucked from the "Great American Songbook"...- $49.99
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Author:Craig Fraedrich
Practical Jazz Theory for Improvisation Exercise Workbook: Bass Clef
"Practical Jazz Theory for Improvisation Treble Clef Workbook" is a stand-along exercise workbook that is also a direct companion text to the "Practical Jazz Theory for Improvisation" text. Originally conceived as the Jazz Theory/Improvisation text and curriculum for the 2014 National Jazz Workshop, it...- $19.99
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Little Music Lessons for Kids: Lesson 10 - Musical Dominoes: DIY Game for Kids
In this lesson, you can use one of the most important and strongest pedagogical methods-the direct involvement of the child in the study of learning material. If your young musician is able to hold scissors in his hands, he will make music from domino...- $15.95
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Author:Adrian Allen
Harmonic and Melodic Music Theory and Method for the 21st Century
The summary of the series this is the partial text only edition, a manual for many new methods of composition and new music theory including: studies into modal diatonicism, modes, diatonic variants, harmonic minor, harmonic major, Hungarian gypsy, Hungarian minor, melodic minor, and their...- $35.00
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Author:Miles Neville
Folk Music of the British Isles: Key Stage 3 Music Projects
These books are designed to provide students with information on the diverse and varied range of music found on our planet. The books contain factual information, various student tasks, suggestions for listening, ideas for composition, pieces to perform and self-assessment grids. They are intended...- $30.49
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Author:Byron Alm駭
Theory of Musical Narrative
Byron Alm駭 proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory, resulting in a significant critical reorientation of the field. This volume includes an extensive survey of traditional approaches to musical narrative illustrated by a...- $39.95
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Author:Byron Alm駭
Approaches to Meaning in Music
Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of Pythagoras. This collection brings together essays...- $49.95
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Author:Janet Schmalfeldt
In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music
With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet...- $51.00
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Author:Neil Thomas Smith
Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation
This volume brings together contributions from a wide range of international academics and practitioners. It traces innovations within classical music practice, showing how these offer divergent visions for its future. The interdisciplinary contributions to the volume highlight the way contrasting ideas of the future...- $47.95
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Author:Maureen Cox
Blast Off with Music Theory! Book 5
Includes: pentatonic and whole tone scales, alto and tenor clefs, orchestral instruments, 64th notes, double-dotted notes, plagal and authentic cadences, and more.Author: Maureen CoxISBN-10: 1569390886ISBN-13: 9781569390887Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2023Pages: 999Format: Paperback- $5.95
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Author:Farhad Bathaee
Hand-Pan Complete Manual for all Scales: دوره جامع آموزش هن&
Hand pan is one of the interesting and unique instruments that captivates every listener with its beautiful and special sound.This newly developed instrument with its clear and soulful sounds emitted by the different steel shells has a magical power to connect directly with emotions...- $29.99
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Author:Hyun-Ah Kim
Music and Religious Education in Early Modern Europe: The Musical Edification of the Church
Exploring the nexus of music and religious education involves fundamental questions regarding music itself, its nature, its interpretation, and its importance in relation to both education and the religious practices into which it is integrated. This cross-disciplinary volume of essays offers the first comprehensive...- $119.00
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Author:Johanna Petsche
Gurdjieff and Music: The Gurdjieff/de Hartmann Piano Music and Its Esoteric Significance
In Gurdjieff and Music Johanna Petsche examines the large and diverse body of piano music produced by Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) in collaboration with his devoted pupil Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956). Petsche draws on a range of unpublished materials and data...- $166.00
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Author:William Lovelock
The Examination Fugue
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $30.95
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Author:Neil Thomas Smith
Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation
This volume brings together contributions from a wide range of international academics and practitioners. It traces innovations within classical music practice, showing how these offer divergent visions for its future. The interdisciplinary contributions to the volume highlight the way contrasting ideas of the future...- $63.95
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Author:Ken Joy
Guitar Tab Workbook
Guitar players and songwriters will love this new compact workbook filled with guitar tablature manuscript paper: 6 two-staff systems comprised of a standard five-line staff with treble clef, and a six-line TAB staff below. Extra-thin staff lines makes your pen and pencil notation easy...- $13.95
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Author:Sidney Finkelstein
Composer and Nation
Sidney Finkelstein's contribution to the understanding of music with Composer and Nation is unusual in some respects, and well worth presenting again to a new audience. Only rarely have recent music writers looked at long spans of history. With the proliferation of scholars and...- $19.99
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Author:Jim Cech
Backstage Pass
Author: Jim CechISBN-10: 1441515003ISBN-13: 9781441515001Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2009Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d- $19.99
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Author:William Duckworth
Cengage Advantage: A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals
A CREATIVE APPROACH TO MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS, Advantage Edition, 11th Edition is a reader-friendly, creative book that focuses on music fundamentals through written and aural exercises. In addition, the book strives to teach users how to create music through learning rhythm, melody, scales, intervals, and...- $144.95
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Author:Arthur Foote
Theory Of Music
This classic book on music theory has been a staple of music education for over a century. Written by composer Arthur Foote, it covers topics such as harmony, melody, and rhythm, providing a comprehensive overview of the principles of music.This work has been selected...- $36.95
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Author:Ray Fields
Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet: Analysis, Aesthetics, and Experience of a 20th-Century Masterpiece
Written in 1985, the year before Feldman's death, this single movement 80-minute composition is heralded by many to be the composer's crowning achievement. The book is a complete analysis of the work, including the aural experience, and includes interviews with notable Feldman performers: David...- $40.00
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Author:Jane Piper Clendinning
The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis [With Access Code]
The most pedagogically sophisticated text on the market, The Musician's Guide is the most complete resource for the theory curriculum that anyone can use. Successful online Know It? Show It! pedagogy and a comprehensive workbook help students develop theory skills inside the classroom and...- $142.25
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Author:Miller Puckette
Between the Tracks: Musicians on Selected Electronic Music
A collection that goes beyond the canon to analyze influential yet under-examined works of electronic music.This collection of writings on electronic music goes outside the canon to analyze influential works by under-recognized musicians. The contributors, many of whom are composers and performers themselves, offer...- $50.00
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Author:Glory St Germain
LEVEL 4 Supplemental - Ultimate Music Theory: The LEVEL 4 Supplemental Workbook is designed to be completed with the Basic Rudiments Workbook.
The LEVEL 4 Supplemental Workbook (Ultimate Music Theory) is designed to be completed with the Step-by-Step Basic Rudiments Workbook.Bonus - Free Resources - Videos for all music history listening activities in the workbook.UMT Basic Rudiments Workbook plus the LEVEL 4 Supplemental = RCM Theory...- $19.97
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Author:Michael Dominik Trler
"pi" in Music: Formulas and Tables
This book shows a link between "pi" and music; a link between: temperament/tuning, metronome, and pitch A4.Author: Michael Dominik TrlerISBN-10: 3741292427ISBN-13: 9783741292422Publisher: Books on DemandLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2018Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.08dAbout the AuthorMichael Dominik Troehler was born 1962 in Solothurn,...- $9.50
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Author:Tobe a. Richards
The Ukulele Chord Bible: D6 Tuning 2,160 Chords
The Ukulele Chord Bible (D6 Tuning), with its 2,160 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by...- $24.95
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Author:Jaime Kardontchik
Modulation in Beethoven's Sonatas
"How did he do it"? As when one stands in front of a great novel or mystery book, this question comes to mind when listening to Beethoven's music. Why do his piano sonatas sound so different from Haydn's and Mozart's sonatas? What rules did...- $19.50
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Author:John Williams
Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Piano Solo Songbook). Star Wars composer John Williams returned to compose the soundtrack to the latest installment of this blockbuster franchise, and he has approved the piano solo arrangements in this songbook. Includes 12 selections: Ahch-To Island * The Battle of Crait * Canto...- $17.99
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Author:Joseph Turrin
Music in Film: Settling the Score
Music in Film: Settling the Score introduces students to the dynamic world of film and, more specifically, the art of film music. The text explores the various reasons for including music in film, the essentials of sound, the origins of film, scoring techniques, the...- $102.79
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Author:Chris Brungardt
Minor Pentatonic Avatar
Extremely easy program for learning the minor pentatonic scale over the entire fretboard by memorizing only five shapes of four notes. This method blows away the traditional "box pattern" approach that many players use for the minor pentatonic scale, all for less than the...- $19.99
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Author:Robin Maconie
Musicologia: Musical Knowledge from Plato to John Cage
This is the first study of its kind to address the presence of musical and acoustical metaphor in western science and philosophy from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present. The most difficult and controversial ideas of 20th century music are shown...- $97.00
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Author:Cora S. Palfy
Musical Agency and the Social Listener
In this book, Palfy contends that music has the potential to engage us in social processes and that those processes can be experienced as a social interaction with a musical agent.Author: Cora S. PalfyISBN-10: 0367770857ISBN-13: 9780367770853Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.21h x...- $52.95
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Author:John W. Schaum
Note Speller, Bk 1
The Schaum Note Speller has the unqualified testimonial of thousands of teachers who pronounce it 'The Best.' Musical facts, beginning with line and space numbers are taught. Students learn by doing, since this book is in workbook form. This saves valuable lesson time, and...- $8.99
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Author:John Eastes
Music Made Easy. The Rudiments Of Music
This classic textbook provides an accessible introduction to the basics of musical theory and notation, suitable for students of all ages and levels of experience. Written with clarity and precision by the renowned music educator John Eastes, it covers essential topics such as scales,...- $26.95
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Author:John Wall Callcott
Musical Grammar, in Four Parts
This classic work on music theory and composition first appeared in the late 18th century and has remained a popular resource for composers and musicians ever since. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the essential elements of music, including melody, harmony, and rhythm....- $18.95
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Author:Robert Brown
Rudiments of Harmony and Counterpoint
This comprehensive guide to the principles of harmony and counterpoint provides a detailed introduction to the basics of music theory, and includes numerous examples and exercises for students. Suitable for beginners and advanced students alike, this classic work has been used as a textbook...- $15.95
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Author:Stephen Lee Naish
Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper
Across his directorial films, American filmmaker Dennis Hopper used music and sound to propel the narrative, signpost the era in which the films were made, and delineate the characters' place within American culture. This book explores five of Hopper's films to show how this...- $64.95
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Author:Michael Betancourt
Thomas Wilfred's Clavilux
This anthology brings together the few essays on Lumia that were published during Thomas Wilfred's lifetime. Wilfred, an artist who experimented with a form of visual music he called "Lumia" developed an entire aesthetic system that could either be performed live, or set-up as...- $24.95
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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.