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Vendor: Lauren Lewandowski
Ready for Theory: Piano Workbook, Level 2
Students will learn how to notate major and harmonic minor scales ascending and descending in addition to tonic, subdominant, and dominant chords in root position and inversions. Students will also learn to name intervals with major or minor qualities. Other topics in this workbook...- $14.95
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Vendor: Lauren Lewandowski
Ready for Theory: Piano Workbook Level 1
✓Ready for Theory(R) is a comprehensive music theory workbook series. All concepts introduced have instructional pages in addition to ample review for students. ♥Teachers and students love the clean, organized layout of Ready for Theory!Topics in the Level 1 Piano Workbook include: Identify treble...- $14.95
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Vendor: James G. Beckwith
Take Control: For Guitar-Using Music Theory to Connect Chords, Scales, Songs & Riffs Together to Achieve Your Goals.
Too much information? You really can't learn all of the thousands of scales, chords, and song lessons available today. What you need is a way to handle it. "Take Control: For Guitar" gives you a system that lets you make intelligent choices about what...- $15.95
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Vendor: Margaret Susan Brandman
Contemporary Theory Workbook - Book Two
The Contemporary Theory Workbook series is a comprehensive course which provides a practical approach to music theory, from the basics of Major scale construction right through to modes and harmonic understanding, for application to the study of either classical or modern repertoire. Following on...- $22.00
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Vendor: Anthony Bushard
Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide
Released in 1954, On the Waterfront is considered one of the greatest films of all time, winning eight Academy Awards--including Best Picture--and placing in the top 20 on the American Film Institute's 100 Films survey. The film's Oscar-nominated score represented a rare venture into...- $62.00
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Vendor: Heather Laing
Gabriel Yared's The English Patient: A Film Score Guide
This resource offers the most in-depth examination to date of the work of composer Gabriel Yared, through a uniquely interdisciplinary analysis that integrates film theory and musicology.Author: Heather LaingISBN-10: 0810849658ISBN-13: 9780810849655Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/27/2003Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.44w x 0.74d- $74.00
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Vendor: Calvin R. Stapert
My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the Music of Bach
In the history of Western music, J. S. Bach is unsurpassed in mastery of technique and profundity of thought. He was also a devout Lutheran with a broad knowledge of Scripture and theology. Given Bach's combination of musical prowess, personal devotion, and theological depth,...- $25.50
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Vendor: Jerrold Levinson
The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994
Author: Jerrold LevinsonISBN-10: 0801430593ISBN-13: 9780801430596Publisher: Cornell University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/1996Pages: 328Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d- $130.00
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Vendor: Karen Collins
From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media
Digital interactive audio is the future of audio in media - most notably video games, but also web pages, theme parks, museums, art installations and theatrical events. Despite its importance to contemporary multi-media, this is the first book that provides a framework for understanding...- $54.95
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Vendor: Kathi Meyer-Baer
Music of the Spheres and the Dance of Death: Studies in Musical Iconology
The roots and evolution of two concepts usually thought to be Western in origin-musica mundana (the music of the spheres) and musica humana (music's relation to the human soul)-are explored. Beginning with a study of the early creeds of the Near East, Professor Meyer-Baer...- $65.00
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Vendor: Lorraine Chai
Stringstastic Level 3 - Viola
Ensemble series provides students (ages 6-11) with a solid foundation in music theory through the eyes of a violin, viola or cello player.This series is designed so that they can be used hand in hand with each other in a beginner ensemble or group...- $16.99
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Vendor: Lorraine Chai
Stringstastic Level 2 - Violin USA
Ensemble series provides students (ages 6-11) with a solid foundation in music theory through the eyes of a violin, viola or cello player.This series is designed so that they can be used hand in hand with each other in a beginner ensemble or group...- $16.99
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Vendor: Lorraine Chai
Stringstastic Level 1 - Violin USA
Ensemble series provides students (ages 6-11) with a solid foundation in music theory through the eyes of a violin, viola or cello player.This series is designed so that they can be used hand in hand with each other in a beginner ensemble or group...- $17.99
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Vendor: Lorraine Chai
Stringstastic Grade 2
Graded series provides students of all ages and young players who are interested in doing music theory exams with a solid foundation in music theory through the eyes of a violin, viola or cello player.These interactive books are designed where the main reference point...- $19.97
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Vendor: Lorraine Chai
Stringstastic Grade 1
Graded series provides students of all ages and young players who are interested in doing music theory exams with a solid foundation in music theory through the eyes of a string player.These interactive books are designed where the main reference point is through the...- $19.99
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Vendor: R. a. Chappell
Musicarta Modes Workbook
The musical modes present an attractive focus for both musical exploration and music theory development. Modes are scales with a different order of whole-tone and semi-tone steps to those found in the modern Western major scale. The modes are used both as scales for...- $14.95
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Vendor: William T. Newton
Understanding Chords: You Can Learn to Find the Notes to Any Chord from Its Name
The book and worksheets show a simple and unique method of quickly determing the notes to any chord by applying a few simple rules. Notes are in the most practical form (usually 3 or 4 notes), even for the most complex chords. A small...- $12.95
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Vendor: Sean Wilson
The Sound of Cinema: Hollywood Film Music from the Silents to the Present
While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming. Either way, a film's score is integral to successful world building. This book lifts the curtain on the elusive yet thrilling art form, examining the birth...- $39.95
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Vendor: Robert Wannamaker
The Music of James Tenney: Volume 1: Contexts and Paradigms Volume 1
Parsing the works of the experimental music pioneer Robert Wannamaker's monumental two-volume study explores the influential music and ideas of American composer, theorist, writer, performer, and educator James Tenney. Delving into the whole of Tenney's far-ranging oeuvre, Wannamaker provides in-depth, aurally grounded analyses of...- $65.00
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Vendor: Gordon Sly
Twentieth- And Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike....- $49.95
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Vendor: Rob Silver
The Harmonic Major Scale and its Modes for Guitar
This guide maps out THE HARMONIC MAJOR SCALE and its Modes, including: THE HARMONIC MAJOR SCALE, DORIAN b5, PHRYGIAN b4, LYDIAN b3, MIXOLYDIAN b2/DOMINANT b2, LYDIAN AUGMENTED #2 and LOCRIAN bb7 for you on 6 string guitar in standard tuning.Each scale or mode is...- $9.99
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Vendor: Karen Ann Krieger
Group Piano: Proficiency in Theory and Performance
(Educational Piano Library). Group Piano Proficiency in Theory and Performance is a comprehensive group piano course for adult beginners. Each of the 28 chapters begins with a chart of clearly outlined objectives so students have a snapshot of what skills they will learn and...- $39.99
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Vendor: Gabriele Baldini
The Story of Giuseppe Verdi: Oberto to Un Ballo in Maschera
Abitare la battaglia, Gabriele Baldini's study of the operas of Verdi from Oberto to Un ballo in maschera, has, since its posthumous publication in 1970, received much critical acclaim both in Italy and elsewhere. Its lack of technical language makes it easily accessible to...- $41.99
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Vendor: Norton Dudeque
Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization
Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras demonstrates how the composer achieved his own Brazilian neoclassical style in a group of works, nine suites in total, that is arguably one of the best examples of homage to J.S. Bach's music in the twentieth century. In this book,...- $170.00
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Vendor: Thomas Licata
Electroacoustic Music: Analytical Perspectives
Electroacoustic music, a flourishing medium for over half a century, remains today, in a wide array of technological forms, one of the major areas of creative activity in music. However, it has long been overlooked in theoretical studies--possibly in part because it does away...- $119.00
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Vendor: Vincenzo Galilei
Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music
Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, published in 1581 or 1582 and now translated into English for the first time, was among the most influential music treatises...- $95.00
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Vendor: Joachim Burmeister
Musical Poetics
Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first to systematically explore the connection between rhetoric and music that became a cornerstone of Baroque musical thought....- $78.00
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
LEVEL 1 Supplemental - Ultimate Music Theory: The LEVEL 1 Supplemental Workbook is designed to be completed after the Prep 1 Rudiments and Prep Level
The LEVEL 1 Supplemental Workbook is designed to be completed with the Step-by-Step Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook!Bonus - Free Resources - Videos for all music history listening activities in the workbook.UMT Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook plus the PREP LEVEL Supplemental = RCM Preparatory Level.Note:...- $19.97
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Vendor: Aaron Hayes
Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music
Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music gives a historical and philosophical account of the discussions of the nature of time and music during the mid-twentieth century. The nature of time was a persistent topic among composers in Paris and Darmstadt in the decades...- $52.95
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Vendor: Kenneth M. O'Gorman
Jazz Improvisation Fundamentals: Color Edition
There are three fundamentals to any great solo: Chords, Scales, and Tone Selection. Learn to use the fundamentals as your three-step approach to jazz improvisation. Over 80 images for Treble and Bass Clef. This book is perfect for beginners, struggling intermediates, and jazz instructors...- $39.99
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Vendor: Victor Shevtsov
Read the Notes Workbook: Part Two
Read the Notes Workbook is written in response to the needs of students to facilitate the process of learning to read the notes at the initial phase of studying the piano. The primary purpose of this workbook is the development of student's ability to...- $10.95
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Vendor: Terumi Narushima
Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson
This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It is the first publication to offer a broad discussion of this influential theorist whose innovations have far-reaching ramifications for microtonal tuning systems. This study addresses...- $170.00
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Vendor: Randall D. Larson
Music from the House of Hammer: Music in the Hammer Horror Films, 1950-1980
Hammer Film Productions produced Horror/Fantasy films with a unique sound. The musicians and the work they did are chronicled here in careful detail.Author: Randall D. LarsonISBN-10: 0810829754ISBN-13: 9780810829756Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/1996Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.68h x 5.46w x 0.72d- $82.00
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Vendor: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Musica Ficta: (Figures of Wagner)
This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problems of mimesis, between presentation and re-presentaion. Four "scenes" comprise the book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger...- $120.00
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Vendor: Nicholas Baragwanath
The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century
How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition, a music education...- $89.00
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Vendor: Gary Peters
The Philosophy of Improvisation
Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of clich駸. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, The Philosophy of Improvisation ranges across the arts--from music to theater, dance to comedy--and considers the improvised...- $35.00
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Vendor: Kevin Holm-Hudson
Music Theory Remixed: A Blended Approach for the Practicing Musician
Designed for today's undergraduate music students, Music Theory Remixed: A Blended Approach for the Practicing Musician presents tonal music theory through a dual lens of works from the Western canon and examples from popular music, including rock, jazz, techno, film soundtracks, and world music....- $137.99
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Vendor: Nicholas Cook
Music, Imagination, and Culture
Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This gap between image and the experience it models offers a source of compositional creativity; different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as...- $120.00
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Vendor: Emily Zazulia
Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing
The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing...- $60.00
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Vendor: Peter Schubert
Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style
An exceptional text for undergraduate and graduate music students, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style uses a wide variety of carefully graded exercises to present guidelines for writing and analyzing 16th-century music. The only species counterpoint text that draws directly on Renaissance treatises, it provides a...- $149.99
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Vendor: Eric Arbiter
The Way of Cane: The Science, Craft, and Art of Bassoon Reed-Making
As the sound-producing mechanism for the bassoon, the reed is a vital component in the sound of the entire instrument. While pre-manufactured reeds are widely available for purchase at music stores, this one-size-fits-all option hardly does justice to the unique needs of the musician...- $42.99
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Vendor: Carl Dahlhaus
Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music
The music of the nineteenth century was - and still is - thought of as a 'romantic' art, whereas the main current of the literature and fine arts of the age was 'realist' from about 1830. Yet some works are consistently described as 'realistic':...- $46.99
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Vendor: Georgina Born
Music, Sound and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience
Music, Sound, and Space is the first collection to integrate research from musicology and sound studies on music and sound as they mediate everyday life. Music and sound exert an inescapable influence on the contemporary world, from the ubiquity of MP3 players to the...- $135.00
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Vendor: A. B. Marx
Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven: Selected Writings on Theory and Method
A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. This volume offers a generous selection of the most salient of his writings, the majority presented in English for the first time. It features the oft-cited but little understood...- $58.99
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Vendor: Joseph Kerman
The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries,...- $39.95
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Vendor: Alton Augustus Adams
The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy Volume 12
Alton Augustus Adams, Sr., was a musician, writer, hotelier, and the first black bandmaster of the United States Navy. Born in the Virgin Islands in 1889, Adams joined the U.S. military in 1917. Although naval policy at the time restricted blacks to menial jobs,...- $40.00
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Vendor: Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Music Divided: Bart's Legacy in Cold War Culture Volume 7
Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical,...- $85.00
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Vendor: Marc Perlman
Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory
The gamelan music of Central Java is one of the world's great orchestral traditions. Its rich sonic texture is not based on Western-style harmony or counterpoint, but revolves around a single melody. The nature of that melody, however, is puzzling. In this book, Marc...- $85.00
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Vendor: David Brackett
Interpreting Popular Music
There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? David Brackett draws from the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how listeners form opinions about...- $31.95
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Vendor: George Perle
Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition
In this classic work, George Perle argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements. These elements collectively imply a new tonality as "natural" and coherent as the major-minor tonality that was the basis of a common musical...- $73.95
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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.