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Vendor: Mattias Lundberg
Tonus Peregrinus: The History of a Psalm-Tone and Its Use in Polyphonic Music
Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its applications in polyphonic music within all major branches of Western liturgy. Throughout the remarkably persistent tradition of applying this melody to polyphony, from the ninth century right up...- $170.00
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Vendor: Stewart MacPherson
Form in Music
Contents Include: Accent, Time and Rhythm Phrases and Sentences The Half-Phrase, or Section Rythmic Extension and Contraction The Construction of Complete Movements-The Simple Binary, or Two-Part Form The Simple Ternary, or Three-Part Form The Binary and Ternary Forms(Continued) The Evolution of the Ternary Idea:...- $34.99
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Vendor: Melissa Hoag
Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom
Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula, Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom aims to both demonstrate why diversification is badly needed and help faculty expand their teaching with practical, classroom-oriented lesson plans that focus on...- $49.95
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Vendor: Brett Clement
Rock Tonality Amplified: A Theory of Modality, Harmonic Function, and Tonal Hierarchy
Rock Tonality Amplified presents an in-depth exploration of rock tonality. Building on several decades of research, this book develops a comprehensive music theory designed to make sense of several essential components of tonality. Within, readers learn to locate the chords they hear through various...- $160.00
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Vendor: Don J. MacLean
The World of Scales: A Compendium of Scales for the Modern Guitar Player
Unlock the Fretboard Now: How to Totally Understand and Apply Guitar Scales and ModesThe World of Scales: A Compendium of Scales for the Modern Guitar Player has been written for guitar players of all levels and musical styles. All of the theoretical concepts necessary...- $25.95
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Vendor: Lisa Scoggin
The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music: Making Movement Sing
In both video games and animated films, worlds are constructed through a combination of animation, which defines what players see on the screen, and music and sound, which provide essential cues to action, emotion, and narrative. This book offers a rich exploration of the...- $160.00
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Vendor: Kent D. Cleland
The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy: Before, In, and Beyond Higher Education
The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy offers a comprehensive survey of issues, practice, and current developments in the teaching of aural skills. The volume regards aural training as a lifelong skill that is engaged with before, during, and after university or conservatoire studies...- $52.95
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Vendor: Arthur Foote
Theory Of Music (1908)
Theory of Music is a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of music theory, written by Arthur Foote and first published in 1908. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the basics of musical notation, scales, intervals, chords, and harmony. It also delves...- $35.95
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Vendor: Brad Rosten
Drop 2 and Drop 3 Chords Applied: Volume 1
Drop 2 and Drop 3 Chords Applied is a practical approach for learning and utilizing drop 2 and drop 3 guitar voicings. The exercises begin as positional studies for each string set, then progress to ascending and descending studies for the chord progression of...- $16.95
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Vendor: Jenny Doctor
Silence, Music, Silent Music
The contributions in this volume focus on the ways in which silence and music relate, contemplate each other and provide new avenues for addressing and gaining understanding of various realms of human endeavour. The book maps out this little-explored aspect of the sonic arena...- $68.95
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Vendor: Heather Laing
The Gendered Score: Music in 1940s Melodrama and the Woman's Film
Heather Laing examines, for the first time, the issues of gender and emotion that underpin the classical style of film scoring, but that have until now remained unquestioned and untheorized, thus providing a benchmark for thinking on more recent and alternative styles of scoring....- $68.95
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Vendor: Liz Giuffre
Music in Comedy Television: Notes on Laughs
The study of television and music has expanded greatly in recent years, yet to date no book has focused on the genre of comedy television as it relates to music. Music in Comedy Television: Notes on Laughs fills that gap, breaking new critical ground....- $200.00
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Vendor: James Jeans
Science and Music
Sir James Jeans has used his remarkable gifts of exposition to set out all that is relevant in the science of acoustics to the art of music. He offers a simple but precise account (illustrated with well-chosen photographs and diagrams) of the anatomical origin...- $44.99
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Vendor: Stefano Mengozzi
The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory: Guido of Arezzo Between Myth and History
Modern scholars have often portrayed the method of hexachordal solmization - the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo - as the diatonic foundation of early music. Stefano Mengozzi challenges this view by examining a representative sample of the primary sources...- $49.99
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Vendor: Matthias Range
Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations: From James I to Elizabeth II
Coronations are the grandest of all state occasions. This is the first comprehensive in-depth study of the music that was performed at British coronations from 1603 to the present, encompassing the sixteen coronations that have taken place in Westminster Abbey and the last two...- $121.00
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Vendor: Marek Korczynski
Rhythms of Labour
Whether for weavers at the handloom, laborers at the plough, or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to explore the rich history of music at work in Britain...- $89.99
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Vendor: Machiko Yamane Musgrave
Doctor Mozart Music Theory Workbook Level 3: In-Depth Piano Theory Fun for Children's Music Lessons and HomeSchooling - For Beginners Learning a Music
What's Inside? You can see some sample pages from this Doctor Mozart workbook at DoctorMozart.com/LookInside.php Help Your Child Succeed with Music Music theory knowledge is essential for your child's success. Doctor Mozart's keyboard-based approach to music theory can help your child succeed with any...- $10.98
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Vendor: Paul Christopher Musgrave
Doctor Mozart Music Theory Workbook Level 2C: In-Depth Piano Theory Fun for Children's Music Lessons and HomeSchooling - For Beginners Learning a Musi
What's Inside? You can see some sample pages from this Doctor Mozart workbook at DoctorMozart.com/LookInside.php Help Your Child Succeed with Music Music theory knowledge is essential for your child's success. Doctor Mozart's keyboard-based approach to music theory can help your child succeed with any...- $9.98
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Vendor: Paul Christopher Musgrave
Doctor Mozart Music Theory Workbook Level 2A: In-Depth Piano Theory Fun for Children's Music Lessons and HomeSchooling - For Beginners Learning a Musi
What's Inside? You can see some sample pages from this Doctor Mozart workbook at DoctorMozart.com/LookInside.php Help Your Child Succeed with Music Music theory knowledge is essential for your child's success. Doctor Mozart's keyboard-based approach to music theory can help your child succeed with any...- $9.98
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Vendor: Jerry Bloom
The More Black Than Purple Interviews
For more than ten years the Ritchie Blackmore magazine More Black than Purple has featured many interviews within its pages. First published in 2007, and now back in print, The More Black than Purple Interviews collects 12 of the best and most rivetting of...- $24.95
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Vendor: Margaret S. Brandman
Harmony Comes Together Book 1
Harmony Comes Together is designed to equip the student with the necessary skills to write both four-part and three-part classical harmony and to cross the divide between contemporary popular, jazz and contemporary classical writing styles with ease and understanding, all the while giving experience...- $35.00
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Vendor: Margaret Susan Brandman
Contemporary Theory Primer
Contemporary Theory Primer provides an enjoyable and practical introduction to music theory for the novice musician from age 5 and up. The accelerated learning concepts in the book help students gain a thorough grounding in 'general interval' recognition and writing plus an understanding of...- $18.00
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Vendor: Christopher Morris
Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema
Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new 'cult of mountains' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated with modern culture, defining and reinforcing...- $170.00
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Vendor: Easley Blackwood
The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings
In a comprehensive work with important implications for tuning theory and musicology, Easley Blackwood, a distinguished-composer, establishes a mathematical basis for the family of diatonic tunings generated by combinations of perfect fifths and octaves. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the...- $53.00
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Vendor: Jon W. Finson
Robert Schumann: The Book of Songs
Arguably no other nineteenth-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Jon W. Finson challenges long-standing assumptions about Schumann's Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. He argues against the belief that the "Year of Song" simply reflects...- $78.00
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Vendor: Bruce Benson
The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music
Whereas most books on the philosophy of music focus on the creation and reproduction of music, Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers a radical thesis that improvization is of primary importance at the moment of music...- $86.00
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Vendor: Ian Bent
Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: Volume 1, Fugue, Form and Style
This book demonstrates, in fascinating diversity, how musicians in the nineteenth century thought about and described music. The analysis of music took many forms (verbal, diagrammatic, tabular, notational, graphic), was pursued for many different purposes (educational, scholarly, theoretical, promotional) and embodied very different approaches....- $34.99
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Vendor: Johann Friedrich Daube
The Musical Dilettante
This is the first English translation of Johann Friedrich Daube's Musical Dilettante: A Treatise on Composition (Vienna, 1773). Written as a practical, comprehensive guide for aristocratic dilettantes wishing to compose instrumental chamber music for their social entertainment, the treatise covers genres from duets to...- $62.99
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Vendor: Suzannah Clark
Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century
Music theorists of almost all ages employ a concept of "Nature" to justify observations or statements about music. The understanding of what "Nature" is, however, is subject to cultural and historical differences. In tracing these explanatory strategies and their changes in music theories between...- $49.99
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Vendor: Anna Maria Busse Berger
Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and Society of Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy...- $39.95
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Vendor: Timothy J. Cooley
Surfing about Music
This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to consider the musical practices of surfers...- $29.95
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Vendor: Thomas Benjamin
The Craft of Modal Counterpoint
"The Craft of Modal Counterpoint" is the companion book to Benjamin's "The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint," recently republished in a second edition by Routledge. Modal counterpoint is the style of composition that was employed until the "tonal" revolution pioneered by Bach; it is the...- $74.95
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Vendor: William S. Newman
The Sonata in the Baroque Era
Now available in paperback for the first time, William S. Newman's monumental "History of the Sonata Idea" is the indispensable standard work on the subject for the student, teacher, performer, and music lover. Each volume deals with the historical evolution of the form and...- $30.00
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Vendor: Makis Solomos
From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th- and 21st-Century Music
From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and showing how music had begun a change of paradigm, moving from a culture centred on the...- $180.00
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Vendor: Allen Cohen
Howard Hanson in Theory and Practice
In this exciting new study of a largely overlooked but nevertheless extremely important figure in American music, author Allen Cohen explores the relationship between theory and practice in the works of Howard Hanson, a prominent twentieth-century composer, conductor, and educator. In Hanson's book Harmonic...- $95.00
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Vendor: Kate Daubney
Max Steiner's Now, Voyager: A Film Score Guide
Max Steiner's contribution to the formulation of early Hollywood scoring techniques is significant, particularly through his music for King Kong (1933) and The Informer (1935). The Academy Award winning score for Now, Voyager reflects the maturation of the composer's understanding of the dramatic function...- $44.00
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Vendor: Quentin Faulkner
Wiser Than Despair: The Evolution of Ideas in the Relationship of Music and the Christian Church
This book addresses a highly complex and elusive matter: why the Christian Church was able to contribute so generously to music from its earliest days through the 18th century and why it has suffered since that time from a creeping artistic paralysis. Modern attitudes...- $95.00
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Vendor: Alfred Mann
The Study of Fugue
Author: Alfred Mann, UnknownISBN-10: 0313226237ISBN-13: 9780313226236Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/1981Pages: 341Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.18w x 0.98d- $95.00
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Vendor: Audrey Ekdahl Davidson
Olivier Messiaen and the Tristan Myth
Following the second World War, Olivier Messiaen, previously known primarily for his religious music, composed three works inspired by the medieval love story of Tristan and Iseult: Harawi, Turangal Dla-symphonie, and Cinq rechants. Though the song cycle, symphony, and choral work each consider their...- $75.00
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Vendor: Heinrich Schenker
Harmony
Harmony, Heinrich Schenker's first published work, originally appeared in German in 1906 as "New Musical Theories and Phantasies, by an Artist." Its unusual title indicates what was to be the rationale of Schenker's lifework, that artistic problems call for artistic solutions. Schenker's dedication to...- $46.00
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Vendor: Joan Titus
The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich
In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers. With his first score for the silent film New Babylon (1928-29) and the many sound scores that followed, he was situated to observe and participate in the changing politics...- $78.00
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Vendor: Joseph P. Swain
Harmonic Rhythm: Analysis and Interpretation
An accessible exploration of an important and understudied music theory topic, Swain's book examines the dimensional technique of analyzing harmonic rhythm. Simply defined, harmonic rhythm is the relationship between changes in harmony and perceived changes in rhythm. This phenomenon plays a large role in...- $145.00
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Vendor: Michael Marissen
Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion: With an Annotated Literal Translation of the Libretto
Bach's St. John Passion is surely one of the monuments of Western music, yet performances of it are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of the powerful and highly emotional music and a text that includes passages from a...- $83.00
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Vendor: Stephanie L. Standerfer
Line by Line: Progressive Staff Method Arrangements for Elementary Music Literacy
In Line by Line, author Stephanie L. Standerfer harnesses years of pedagogical expertise in a practical guide to promote music learning by experience rather than imitation and memorization. Using well-known songs and a variety of instrumental accompaniments for all skill levels, lesson plans encourage...- $38.99
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Vendor: Kofi Agawu
Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music
The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur?...- $49.99
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Features Of The Perception And Construction Of Melodies
Most people in the Western world listen to music because of emotions. They want to create or experience emotions. But music is made of tones, tones are sound waves and sound waves are physics. How is it possible that physics becomes psychology, because emotions...- $67.99
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Vendor: John Robertson
Note Reading on the Grand Staff
Originally created as a supplement for beginning piano lessons, this book is an excellent resource for any music student, regardless of their instrument. After orienting the student to the Grand Staff, it introduces them to 10 "landmark notes" and 4 other "symmetries," and then...- $28.95
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Vendor: Emilio Audissino
The Film Music of John Williams: Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style
From the triumphant "Main Title" in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores--while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations. This updated and revised edition of Emilio Audissino's groundbreaking volume takes...- $29.99
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Sing Your Way Through Theory a Music Theory Workbook for the Contemporary Singer Book/Online Audio
(Music Sales America). Learn the essential elements of music theory for vocalists performing contemporary music, be it jazz, pop, rock, gospel or R&B. This self-study book is for singers who aspire to perform or who may already be leading a band, going to jam...- $27.50
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The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening
With a focus on music in context and a wealth of in-text and online exercises, The Complete Musician offers a complete program for teaching and learning undergraduate music theory. Rather than rote learning of concepts and memorizing terms, the text asks students to explore...- $133.99
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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.
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