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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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Vendor: Lu?a Correia Castilho
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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Vendor: Rikky Rooksby
How to Write Melodies
How to Write Melodies is the only guide you'll ever need for demystifying and perfecting the art of melody writing. Author: Rikky RooksbyISBN-10: 1493073397ISBN-13: 9781493073399Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2023Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.41d- $22.95
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Vendor: Jerald Simon
100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know: Play the Same Song 100 Different Ways
100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know (Play the Same Song 100 Different Ways) by Music Mentor Jerald Simon, is one of the books from the Music Motivation(R) Series. This book was created to help piano students of all ages and skill...- $16.95
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Vendor: R. Jourdain
Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
What makes a distant oboe's wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically interweaving discoveries...- $17.99
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Vendor: David Reed
Improvise for Real: The Complete Method for All Instruments
Improvise for Real is about much more than learning to improvise. It's about truly understanding music and being able to enjoy creating it yourself. Maybe you dream of improvising your own solos in concerts and jam sessions. Or maybe you imagine yourself playing songs...- $44.00
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Vendor: Herbert Spencer
The Direction And Rhythm Of Motion
The Direction and Rhythm of Motion is a book written by Herbert Spencer, a prominent philosopher, sociologist, and biologist of the 19th century. In this book, Spencer explores the concept of motion and its direction and rhythm. He argues that all motion has a...- $19.95
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Vendor: Shelagh McKibbon-U'Ren
Preparatory Music Theory Exams Set #1 - Ultimate Music Theory Exam Series: Preparatory Music Theory Exams Set 1 Workbook contains Four Exams, Plus UMT
The Preparatory Music Theory Exams Set 1 Workbook - Ultimate Music Theory Exam Series is a "MUST" for successful preparation for the Advanced Music Theory Exam.Preparing for nationally recognized exams including the Royal Conservatory of Music Exams, just got easier!For maximum learning, complete both...- $12.00
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
Intermediate Rudiments Workbook - Ultimate Music Theory: Intermediate Music Theory Workbook (Ultimate Music Theory) includes UMT Guide & Chart, 12 Ste
The Intermediate Music Theory Workbook (Ultimate Music Theory) is an impressive workbook that includes 12 Lessons, Review Tests, a Music Theory Guide & Chart PLUS 80 Free Flashcards.Intermediate Music Theory Workbook - Ultimate Music Theory features these concepts and more!Ultimate Music Theory's time-saving accelerated...- $34.97
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Vendor: Tatiana Bandurina
Little Music Lessons for Kids: Lesson 3 - Learning the Line Notes: A Story about How Musical Notes Got their Apartments
This is the third lesson in the series of "Little Music Lessons for Kids" for children 3-9 years old. Does your child know that, once upon a time, the musical notes were homeless? Once they read the ad placed by the lonely note "G",...- $11.95
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Vendor: Kay Dickinson
Movie Music, The Film Reader
Bringing together material from the areas of documentary, fandom and animation, Movie Music, the Film Reader comprises an important first collection of writings about film music. It is divided into four sections, each with an introduction by the editor. Essays in The Meanings of...- $160.00
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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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). It explains the unique creative process behind these compositions, contextualizing them in relation to the...- $170.00
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Vendor: 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.Author: Gary MotleyISBN-10: 1032399236ISBN-13: 9781032399232Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2023Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 11.00h...- $59.95
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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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 0.16d- $6.99
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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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. Author: Juan ChattahISBN-10: 1138586714ISBN-13: 9781138586710Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2023Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.55d- $49.95
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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.

