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Vendor: Nan Mogar
Guitar Intervals Unleashed: The "NANDI" Method (Left Handed): A Visual Interval Training Method
New improved version Is your knowledge of intervals, chords and scales based only on memorized shapes and patterns?Would you like to have the ability to visualize any interval from any note on the guitar without memorization?Finally A book that demystifies the logic of the...- $12.99
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Vendor: Ellie M. Hisama
Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon
This book explores the work of three significant American women composers of the twentieth century: Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer and Miriam Gideon. It offers information on both their lives and music and skillfully interweaves history and musical analysis in ways that both the specialist...- $58.99
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Vendor: Lawrence Sherman
Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music
Whenever a person engages with music--when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest gets down on the dance floor--countless neurons are firing. Playing an instrument requires all...- $22.00
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Vendor: Tim Summers
Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music through Twenty Games
Tim Summers provides an engaging introduction to video game music aimed at gamers, music enthusiasts, budding composers, music professionals, and anyone with an interest in the topic. Pixel Soundtracks explore a wide variety of topics, including: the history of game music sound technology and...- $95.00
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Vendor: Daniel Turner
Keyboard Lessons: Tips and Tricks on Playing Keyboard Chords and Scales to Perfection
The keyboard is one of the most impressive, versatile, and rewarding instruments. It looks sleek, modern, and sounds delightful. If you have always wanted to learn the keyboard but did not know where to begin, this book will prove to be an asset for...- $19.99
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Vendor: David Lewin
Studies in Music with Text
Hailed by the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2nd edition) as "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation," David Lewin (1933-2003) explored for over four decades how composers in the German tradition set poetry and drama to music. He conceived Studies in...- $60.00
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Vendor: Levi Clay
Guided Guitar Scale Practice Routines: Master Every Essential Guitar Scale in this Comprehensive 10-Week Course
The Comprehensive Guide to Practicing Scales on GuitarFeel like you're wasting time in the practice room?Don't know which guitar scales you should be working on? Embark on Your Scale Mastery Journey with Guided Guitar Scale Practice Routines. This comprehensive 10-week course designed by Levi...- $19.99
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Vendor: Levi Clay
Guided Guitar Chord Practice Routines: Master Every Essential Guitar Chord in this Comprehensive 10-Week Course
Author: Levi Clay, Joseph AlexanderISBN-10: 1789334535ISBN-13: 9781789334531Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.22d- $19.99
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Vendor: Taylor A. Greer
The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music: Aesthetic of Ambivalence
At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice. As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic polyglot, combining elements of literature, visual...- $45.00
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Vendor: Greg Steinke
Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music: A Programmed Course, Part 1
Created for introductory courses in basic music theory and harmonic practice, Part 1 of this self-paced, auto-instructional standalone text that comes in two volumes has become a "classic" in the field. Since the students work independently through the programmed format of the text, instructors...- $199.99
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A dozen songs from the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy, released in 2013, are included in this folio of piano/vocal/guitar arrangements. It features the Grammy-nominated lead song "Atlas" by Coldplay, plus: Silouettes (Of Monsters and Men) * We Remain (Christina...- $16.99
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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....- $66.99
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Vendor: Chris Zoupa
Outside Shred Guitar Techniques: 100 Outside Guitar Licks Using Chromatics, Substitutions & Advanced Scale Concepts
Are you struggling to take your rock guitar solos beyond the same old scales?Ready to master a dynamic range of chromatic and altered approaches that will enrich your musical expression?Dive into the vibrant world of Outside Shred Guitar Techniques, a compelling guide that'll transform...- $19.99
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Vendor: Tim Summers
Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music Through Twenty Games
Tim Summers provides an engaging introduction to video game music aimed at gamers, music enthusiasts, budding composers, music professionals, and anyone with an interest in the topic. Pixel Soundtracks explore a wide variety of topics, including: the history of game music sound technology and...- $36.00
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Vendor: Maureen Cox
Music Theory is Fun: Book 2
Music Theory is Fun Book 2, is the second in the newly revised five-book series by Maureen Cox. Using an attractive layout with clear examples and illustrations together with activities to reinforce learning and understanding, this book covers in an easy step-by-step approach: Major...- $6.45
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Vendor: George Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw on Literature
A collection of literary criticism from the Nobel Prize-winning playwright behind such classics as Saint Joan and Pygmalion.The Critical Shaw: On Literature is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw's ideas and opinions on a wide range of literary...- $17.99
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Vendor: George Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw on Religion
From the Nobel Prize-winning playwright behind Pygmalion and Saint Joan, a collection of his critical writings on religion.The Critical Shaw: On Religion is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw's pronouncements--many of them deliberately inflammatory--on all facets of religion...- $17.99
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Vendor: Rosie Perkins
Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing
There is compelling evidence that music can enhance parental wellbeing, yet to date there have been few attempts to bring together current endeavours in the field. Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing provides readers from music, health, and beyond, with a new and comprehensive opportunity...- $60.00
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Vendor: Howard 1896-1981 Hanson
Harmonic Materials of Modern Music; Resources of the Tempered Scale
An in-depth study of the use of harmony and the tempered scale in modern music, with analysis and examples from a variety of genres.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as...- $38.95
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Vendor: Stewart MacPherson
Form in Music: With Special Reference to the Designs of Instrumental Music
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,...- $22.95
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Vendor: Adam Ockelford
Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music
How does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn't) music? We are all instinctively musical, but why? Adam Ockelford has the answers. A tap of the foot, a rush of emotion, the urge to hum a tune; without instruction or training we all respond...- $17.95
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Vendor: Rob Silver
The Hungarian Major Scale and its Modes for Guitar
This guide maps out THE HUNGARIAN MAJOR SCALE and its Modes, including: THE HUNGARIAN MAJOR SCALE, ALTERED bb6 bb7, LOCRIAN NATURAL 2 NATURAL 7, ALTERED NATURAL 6, MELODIC AUGMENTED, DORIAN b2 #4, LYDIAN AUGMENTED #3 for you on 6 string guitar in standard tuning.Each...- $10.99
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Vendor: Ruth Gurgel
Taught by the Students: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Deep Engagement in Music Education
Ruth Gurgel presents and analyzes the perspectives of eight students and their teacher in a pluralistic 7th grade choir classroom at Clark Middle School, located in a large Midwestern urban school district. Through the eyes of the students, music teachers gain insight into the...- $47.00
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Vendor: Siglind Bruhn
Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love
These new essays written specifically for this volume explore the various aspects of Olivier Messiaen's spiritually committed musical language, drawing on his own remarks in subheadings and prefaces, his biblical and theological citations, his allusions to works of visual art, and on the language...- $61.99
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Vendor: Fletcher Burge Epperson
Guitar Logic: Patterns For Creative Expression
Understand the guitar completely like never before.This innovative musical system easily integrates the Blues and Rock into the Western musical system.Written by a guitarist for the guitarist with step-by-step instruction from over 40 years of teaching.This guitar book of instruction provides a rich source...- $29.99
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Vendor: Henry Cowell
New Musical Resources
Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognized as one of the few seminal technical studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer. In 1971, Virgil Thomson hailed it as "a classic." For this new edition, David Nicholls...- $120.00
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Vendor: Daniel Chua
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
This book examines the intellectual history of instrumental music, in particular the idea of absolute music. It tries to show how certain ideas in philosophy, theology and the sciences affect the meaning and, indeed, the existence of instrumental music, and how, in turn, instrumental...- $29.99
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Vendor: Kevin Bartig
Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film
Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Gloria Swanson tempted him with commissions, and arguably more people heard...- $48.99
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Vendor: Michael Miller
Music Theory Note by Note: Your Guide to How Music Works--From Notes and Rhythms to Complete Compositions
Take note: You can enjoy music analysis. This concise and clear guide to simplified music theory teaches readers who play music by ear how to read musical notation by guiding them through the basics of reading and composing music to share with others. In...- $25.99
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Vendor: Nathan Hesselink
Finding the Beat: Entrainment, Rhythmic Play, and Social Meaning in Rock Music
Finding the Beatexplores humankind's ability, propensity, and enjoyment in finding the beat in live and recorded experiences of music-making through the lens of entrainment, the human capacity to perceive a beat and to synchronize to it. Anyone who has attended a concert, gone to...- $39.95
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Vendor: Inessa Bazayev
Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music: Tonality, Modernism, Serialism
This volume brings together analyses of works by thirteen Russian composers from across the twentieth century, showing how their approaches to tonality, modernism, and serialism forge forward-looking paths independent from their Western counterparts. Russian music of this era is widely performed, and much research...- $51.99
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Vendor: Janet K. Halfyard
Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and depth of the academic critical response. This volume, the first devoted to the show's imaginative and widely varied use of music,...- $54.95
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Vendor: William Kinderman
Beethoven
Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth...- $55.00
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Vendor: Jeffrey Carl
Strings and Ivory: Chord Progressions
8.5 x 11 portrait Black/White Softcover PrintNow, for the first time, chord progression flow charts provide an exciting new approach that encourages creativity and innovation... and allows each musician to create their own unique progressions!Whether you are an intermediate or advanced musician or songwriter,...- $28.99
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Vendor: Nicolás Puyané
Liszt Recomposed: Exploring Intertextual Fluidity in Song
Explores Liszt's compositional processes and methods of revision as the product of the composer's interactions with a large variety of social, cultural, personal and political forces. Franz Liszt (1811-86) is mostly known for his virtuosic piano works, but his compositional achievements in the genre...- $115.00
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Vendor: Bratz
An Incomplete Crash Course in Contemporary Music Theory: The Fundamentals
"An Incomplete Crash Course in Contemporary Music Theory: The Fundamentals" is a comprehensive guide providing an accessible introduction to music theory fundamentals. You will embark on a journey through the essential elements of music, exploring notes and duration, counting, the imaginary bar line, rests,...- $19.99
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Vendor: Michael R. Dodds
From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory
From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from the Renaissance modes to the major and minor keys of the high Baroque. The system Glarean proposed in his...- $110.00
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Vendor: Timothy J. Moore
Music in Roman Comedy
The plays of Plautus and Terence were profoundly musical: large portions of all the plays were sung to accompaniment, and variations in melody, rhythm and dance were essential elements in bringing both pleasure and meaning to their performance. This book explains the nature of...- $51.99
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Vendor: Mark Brend
The Sound of Tomorrow
London, 1966: Paul McCartney met a group of three electronic musicians called Unit Delta Plus. McCartney was there because he had become fascinated by electronic music, and wanted to know how it was made. He was one of the first rock musicians to grasp...- $30.95
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Vendor: Eduardo Reck Miranda
Quantum Computer Music: Foundations, Methods and Advanced Concepts
This book explores music with respect to quantum computing, a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly. There is a long history of research into using computers for music since the 1950s. Nowadays, computers are essential for the music economy. Therefore, it is very likely...- $219.99
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Vendor: Shawn Toms
Guide To Pianos: Types Of Pianos Playing Explained: Learning Piano For Beginners
If you can already play songs hands together it'll take you about 4 months to get good at playing piano by ear. If you're a complete beginner and you've never played a song hands together before, it'll take you about 6 months because you'll...- $8.99
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Vendor: Tobe a. Richards
The Cittern Chord Bible: Fifths, Irish and Modal D Shortscale Tunings 3,024 Chords
The Cittern Shortscale Chord Bible, with its 3,024 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 many...- $21.95
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Vendor: Matthew Brown
Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond
A defense of Schenkerian analysis of tonality in music. A wide range of music -- from Bach to Mozart and Brahms -- is marked by its use of some form of what is generally called "tonality" the tendency of music to focus melodically on...- $135.00
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Vendor: Theodor Adorno
Essays on Music
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and-more than any other subject-music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most influential contributor to the development of qualitative musical sociology which,...- $78.95
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Vendor: John Williams
Star Wars: The Piano Anthology - Music by John Williams Featuring Themes from All Nine Films Deluxe Hardcover Edition with a Foreword by Mike Matessin
(Piano Solo Songbook). The ultimate collection of the most iconic movie music of all time! Star Wars: The Piano Anthology is a hardcover collector's edition featuring 36 piano solo arrangements of John Williams' beloved themes from all nine films: The Phantom Menace, Attack of...- $59.99
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Vendor: John Shepherd
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8: Genres: North America
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 8 is one of six volumes within the 'Genre' strand of the series. This volume discusses the genres of North America in relation to their cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of...- $400.00
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Vendor: Timothy Rice
Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians: Essays in Honor of Robert Garfias
Designed as a tribute to Robert Garfias, who has conducted field work in more cultures than any other living ethnomusicologist, this volume explores the originating encounter in field work of ethnomusicologists with the musicians and musical traditions they study. The nineteen contributors provide case...- $200.00
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Vendor: Anna Harriet Heyer
Historical Sets, Collected Editions, And Monuments Of Music: A Guide To Their Contents
Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to Their Contents is a comprehensive reference book written by Anna Harriet Heyer. The book provides detailed information on the contents of various historical sets, collected editions, and monuments of music. It covers a...- $55.95
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Vendor: Derek Pardue
Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night
This edited volume demonstrates and interprets contemporary migrant musics as sonic signatures constitutive of the city at night. The distinct contribution is the articulation of migrancy and emplacement practices to the scholarship on urban musicology and the burgeoning field of night studies. 49 b/w...- $122.95
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Perspectives on Music, Sound and Musicology: Research, Education and Practice
This book gathers a set of works highlighting significant advances in the areas of music and sound. They report on innovative music technologies, acoustics, findings in musicology, new perspectives and techniques for composition, sound design and sound synthesis, and methods for music education and...- $179.99
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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.

