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Vendor: Thomas Pankhurst
Schenkerguide: A Brief Handbook and Website for Schenkerian Analysis
SchenkerGUIDE is an accessible overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music. The book has emerged out of the widely used website, www.SchenkerGUIDE.com, which has been offering straightforward explanations of Schenkerian analysis to undergraduate students since 2001. Divided...- $56.95
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Vendor: Dolores Pesce
The Malmari馥 in the Thirteenth-Century Motet
This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmari馥 or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory, a vocal genre characterized by several different texts sounding simultaneously over a foundational Latin chant. Part I examines the malmari馥 motets from...- $59.95
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Vendor: Geoffrey Kidde
Learning Music Theory with Logic, Max, and Finale
Learning Music Theory with Logic, Max, and Finale is a groundbreaking resource that bridges the gap between music theory teaching and the world of music software programs. Focusing on three key programs-the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) Logic, the Audio Programming Language (APL) Max, and...- $46.95
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Vendor: John Riley
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film
Author: John RileyISBN-10: 1850434840ISBN-13: 9781850434849Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/26/2004Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.12h x 5.98w x 0.48d- $30.95
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Vendor: Sonata Fox
Piano Scales FOR KIDS: A Comprehensive Beginner's Guide for Kids to Learn about the Realms of Piano Scales and Music from A-Z
Children have a unique ability to assimilate new information at an impressive rate. In other words, they can learn new things quickly, creating a need for constant knowledge. It is the goal of this book to provide such knowledge as it relates to piano...- $19.99
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Vendor: Timothy A. Johnson
Foundations of Diatonic Theory: A Mathematically Based Approach to Music Fundamentals
Foundations of Diatonic Theory: A Mathematically Based Approach to Music Fundamentals is an introductory, undergraduate-level textbook that provides an easy entry point into the challenging field of diatonic set theory, a division of music theory that applies the techniques of discrete mathematics to the...- $73.00
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Vendor: Tom Manoff
The Music Kit
By encouraging students to be active learners and providing for varied learning styles, The Music Kit has continued to foster the development and mastery of the basic skills needed for further study in music. Students perform frequent exercises, listen to music while examining music...- $137.25
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Vendor: Karin S. Hendricks
The Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education
The notion of care is at times misunderstood in the context of music education--equated simply with kindness or associated with lowered expectations--and is often dismissed without consideration of its full value to music learning. When viewed through a student "deficit" perspective, concepts of care...- $165.00
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Vendor: Maureen Cox
Music Theory is Fun: Book 3
Music Theory is Fun Book 3, is the third in the five-book series by Maureen Cox, newly revised to include North American terms. Using an attractive layout with clear examples and illustrations together with activities to reinforce learning and understanding, this book covers in...- $5.95
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Vendor: Thomas Tapper
First Year Harmony
This classic music textbook provides an introduction to the principles of harmony, with a focus on classical music theory and composition. Suitable for beginners and experienced musicians alike, this book covers everything from the basics of chord structure and harmonic progression to more advanced...- $31.95
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Vendor: Joanna K. Love
Soda Goes Pop: Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music
From its 1939 "Nickel, Nickel" jingle to pathbreaking collaborations with Michael Jackson and Madonna to its pair of X Factor commercials in 2011 and 2012, Pepsi-Cola has played a leading role in drawing the American pop music industry into a synergetic relationship with advertising....- $94.95
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Vendor: Walter Piston
Orchestration
Again he draws upon his own wide knowledge and experience as composer and teacher to present all phases of the subject. No practical aspect of instrumentation for the orchestra is neglected, and comprehensive treatment is given to each significant component. The author approaches orchestration...- $91.00
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Vendor: Adrian Daub
James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism
Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song that sounds like...- $38.99
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Vendor: Tatiana Bandurina
Little Music Lessons for Kids: Lessons 1-5: Five Sweet Stories about the Musical Notes, Piano Keyboard, Treble Clef and Musical Staff
Here is the package of five unforgettable stories from the series "Little Music Lessons for Kids". Interesting content, vivid images and practical exercises help parents and musical teachers make a child's start in the magic world of music easy and fun. To learn the...- $39.95
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Vendor: John Thompson
Theory Drill Games - Book 2: Elementary Level
(Willis). Theory Drill Games is designed to teach musical rudiments in an interesting and attractive manner. Pages are perforated so all the work may be completed at home and the teacher can quickly evaluate student efforts as work sheets are turned in at the...- $7.99
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Vendor: Jered Cutler
Tonality, Measured: The Specific Sounds of Scales & Chords
Musicians have the encouragement to "just feel it" in their creative process. While that should always remain a factor, now you can have an encyclopedic knowledge of various scales and chords to inform your music-making decisions. This book expands upon pre-existing concepts of tonality...- $43.49
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Vendor: Victoria Rogers
Postgraduate Research in Music: A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing a Thesis
Postgraduate Research in Music: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Thesis is an essential text for music students who are undertaking postgraduate research. Unique in its approach and scope, this is a "how to" book, a practical guide that sets out, step-by-step, how to...- $29.95
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Vendor: Frances Clark
The Music Tree Activities Book: Part 1
The Activities books are closely correlated, unit-by-unit with the Music Tree series. They provide extensive reinforcement in all the new Music Tree discoveries, plus they offer an exciting new program of sight-playing, guaranteed to develop successful sight-readers from the start.Author: Frances Clark, Louise Goss,...- $8.99
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Vendor: Guerino Mazzola
Cool Math for Hot Music: A First Introduction to Mathematics for Music Theorists
Part I: Introduction and Short History.- The 'Counterpoint' of Mathematics and Music.- Short History of the Relationship Between Mathematics and Music.- Part II: Sets and Functions.- The Architecture of Sets.- Functions and Relations.- Universal Properties.- Part III: Numbers.- Natural Numbers.- Recursion.- Natural Arithmetic.- Euclid...- $69.99
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Vendor: Tobe a. Richards
The Baritone Guitar Chord Bible: Low A Tuning 1,728 Chords
The Baritone Guitar (Low A Tuning) Chord Bible, with its 1,728 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...- $21.95
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Vendor: Xavier Ray Jefferson
Easy Composing for Piano: Create Your Own Songs In A Snap
Inside these pages, you'll embark on a musical adventure, uncovering the power of diatonic chords and their ability to bring your melodies to life. With step-by-step instructions and clear explanations, you'll learn how to harness the expressive potential of these chords on the piano....- $19.98
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Vendor: Joseph Alexander
Guitar Scales Collection - Pentatonic & Guitar Mode Soloing Connections: Go From Pentatonics to Modes & Solo All Over the Guitar Neck in this Three-Bo
Master Pentatonic & Modal Scales and Achieve Complete Fretboard Freedom!Three best-selling modern guitar method books in one definitive collection: Minor Pentatonic Soloing ConnectionsFrom Pentatonic Scales to ModesGuitar Mode Soloing ConnectionsJoseph Alexander is the most popular and highly rated guitar author on Amazon.In this collection...- $49.99
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Vendor: Cristle Collins Judd
Reading Renaissance Music Theory: Hearing with the Eyes
This groundbreaking book offers a new perspective on a central group of music theory treatises that have long formed a background to the study of Renaissance music. Taking theorists' music examples as a point of departure, it explores fundamental questions about how music was...- $34.99
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Vendor: Adam Tetlow
The Diagram: Harmonic Geometry
How do you divide a line into three? Or five? Or seven? Is there a simple way to marry harmony and geometry? What is the secret diagram alluded to by writers of antiquity? In this groundbreaking book, philosopher Adam Tetlow reveals the long lost...- $8.95
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Vendor: Ruth Crawford Seeger
The Music of American Folk Song: And Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music
This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they should be played so that they remain a living partof the American musical tradition. This...- $34.95
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Vendor: David Harrison
Hal Leonard Rhythm and Counting: The Practical Handbook for Mastering Rhythm Book/Online Audio
(Music Instruction). This essential, practical handbook for mastering rhythm has been designed for students of any instrument or voice providing them a comprehensive and systematic approach to understanding rhythms, rhythmic devices, and how to count them. Packed full of practical exercises, this book also...- $14.99
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Vendor: Kim Burwell
Studio-Based Instrumental Learning
In Studio-Based Instrumental Learning, Kim Burwell investigates the nature of lesson interactions in instrumental teaching and learning. Studio lesson activity is represented as a private interaction, dealing with skill acquisition and reflecting a tradition based in apprenticeship, as well as the personal attributes and...- $170.00
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Vendor: T疉irih Motazedian
Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Volume 4
Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identity--so why isn't it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film is the first book to investigate film...- $34.95
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Vendor: Klara Moricz
Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music Volume 8
Jewish Identities mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about "Jewish music," which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. Kl疵a Micz scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity...- $85.00
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Vendor: Nicholas Cook
Rethinking Music
Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimensions of musical study, revealing a range of concerns that are shared across the discipline: the nature of musicological practice, its...- $79.00
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Vendor: Joshua S. Walden
Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music
Joshua S. Walden's Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music explores the wide-ranging but under-examined genre of musical portraiture. It focuses in particular on contemporary and experimental music created between 1945 and the present day, an era in which conceptions...- $115.00
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Vendor: Arnie Cox
Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking
Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of...- $50.00
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Vendor: Randall Everett Allsup
Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education
In a delightfully self-conscious philosophical "mash-up," Randall Everett Allsup provides alternatives for the traditional master-apprentice teaching model that has characterized music education. By providing examples across the arts and humanities, Allsup promotes a vision of education that is open, changing, and adventurous at heart....- $27.00
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Vendor: Isabella Van Elferen
Timbre: Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics
Timbre is among the most important and the most elusive aspects of music. Visceral and immediate in its sonic properties, yet also considered sublime and ineffable, timbre finds itself caught up in metaphors: tone "color", "wet" acoustics, or in Schoenberg's words, "the illusory stuff...- $40.95
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Vendor: Sazi Dlamini
Musical Bows of Southern Africa
Musical Bows of Southern Africa brings together current scholarly research that documents a rich regional diversity as well as cultural relationships in bow music knowledge and contemporary practices. The book is framed as a critical appraisal of traditional ethnomusicological studies of the region -...- $40.95
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Vendor: Philip L. Miller
The Ring of Words: An Anthology of Song Texts
An anthology unlike any other, The Ring of Words assembles lyrics of the most famous art songs of Europe with literal line-by-line English translations printed on the facing pages. The editor-translator, a renowned music scholar and critic, has contributed an introductory essay on the...- $32.50
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Vendor: Graham Tippett
Melodic Soloing in 10 Days
Have you ever seen those guitarists that sound like they know exactly what they're doing when they're improvising? They just seem to hit all the right notes while their playing sounds crisp and melodic, as if they'd planned it all out beforehand, or were...- $10.99
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Vendor: Chad Johnson
Hal Leonard Guitar Music Theory Book/Online Audio
(Guitar Tab Method). Guitar Music Theory teaches fundamental music theory concepts in a fun, engaging way by using popular riffs and songs, including "Helter Skelter," "My Girl," "No Woman No Cry," and "Smoke on the Water." Written in easy-to-follow guitar tablature with online audio...- $17.99
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Vendor: Janet K. Halfyard
The Music of Fantasy Cinema
Fantasy has had a modern resurgence in cinema due largely to the success of superhero narratives and the two major fantasy series, the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Often regarded as mere escapism, works of both literature and cinema wishing to be...- $29.99
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Vendor: Heinrich Schenker
The Art of Performance
Heinrich Schenker's The Art of Performance shows this great music theorist in a new light. While his theoretical writings helped transform music theory in the twentieth century, this book draws on his experience as a musician and teacher to propose a sharp reevaluation of...- $83.00
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Vendor: Lauren Lewandowski
Ready for Theory Level 1 Violin Workbook
Ready for Theory(R) Violin Workbooks are comprehensive and include theory, terms, forms, and technique. Each new theory topic in Ready for Theory workbooks includes instructional pages with examples. All workbooks include ample review to reinforce theory topics.Teachers and students of all ages love the...- $14.95
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Vendor: Nick Kadajski
Jazz Theory for High School Students: Vol 1 Major Scale Modes and Harmony
This book is intended for students who have two to three years of musical training under their belt, and are just beginning to become interested in the world of jazz. There are many questions that arise when students of this art form first see...- $30.00
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Vendor: Kathryn Kalinak
Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema. The first projected moving images were accompanied by music through a variety of performers--from single piano players to small orchestras--that brought images to life. Film music has since become its...- $12.99
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Vendor: Caroline Lumsden
Right@sight for Violin, Grade 1 [Incl. CD]: A Progressive Sight-Reading Course, Incl. Duet Parts and a CD of Piano Acc.
Author: Caroline LumsdenISBN-10: 0577085549ISBN-13: 9790577085548Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2022Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.60w x 0.30d- $12.95
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Vendor: Michael Arwood
How to Sing: Practical Exercises for Smooth Singing (A Complete Guide to Creating Stronger Performances)
This quick easy to read guide will have you singing better without spending years, thousands of dollars, and experiencing hours of frustration.You don't have to be embarrassed to sing along at a birthday party or make up excuses to avoid karaoke night. With the...- $19.95
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Vendor: Roger Pierce
Deepening Musical Performance Through Movement: The Theory and Practice of Embodied Interpretation
Alexandra Pierce singles out elements of music such as melody, meter, and phrase, and investigates the defining quality of each through movement. Although simple, these exercises engage the listening attention in complex ways and can be integrated into a musician's daily practice. Practicing movements...- $24.95
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Vendor: Nils Grosch
Italian Migration and Urban Music Culture in Latin America
19th century migration from Europe was the other side of the picture from nation building and the rise of nationalism. Between 1870 and 1930, the age of mass migration, about twenty million people left Italy, a quarter of them for South America. During this...- $47.00
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Vendor: John a. Allocca
Music and Nature
Why does everyone love music? Where did it come from? What does it mean? How is it related to nature? These are just some of the questions that will be answered in this exciting and innovative book.The book includes topics on the electromagnetic spectrum,...- $6.95
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Vendor: Christopher White
The Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions
Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research. The author argues...- $49.95
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Vendor: Judy Lochhead
Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought
What is postmodern music and how does it differ from earlier styles, including modernist music? What roles have electronic technologies and sound production played in defining postmodern music? Has postmodern music blurred the lines between high and popular music? Addressing these and other questions,...- $62.95
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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.