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Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music
Since the days of silent films, music has been integral to the cinematic experience, serving, variously, to allay audiences' fears of the dark and to heighten a film's emotional impact. Yet viewers are often unaware of its presence. In this bold, insightful book, film...- $37.95
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Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, Sixth Edition, Revised
Widely recognized as the definitive work in its field ever since its original publication in 1962, Serial Composition and Atonality remains an unsurpassed introduction to the technical features of what is probably the most revolutionary body of work since the beginnings of polyphony. In...- $68.95
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Film Music: A History
Film Music: A History explains the development of film music by considering large-scale aesthetic trends and structural developments alongside socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and philosophical circumstances. The book's four large parts are given over to Music and the "Silent" Film (1894--1927), Music and the Early...- $68.95
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Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory
This new series of Norton books, devoted to informed discussion of contemporary music, draws principally upon articles first published in Perspectives of New Music, which Richard Kostelanetz has described as "among the most consistently interesting magazines in America." The Perspectives books will comprise a...- $22.95
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Music--Psychoanalysis--Musicology
There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to studying and researching music. Bringing together established scholars within the field, as well as emerging voices, this collection outlines and advances psychoanalytic approaches to our understanding of a range of musics--from the romantic...- $54.95
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Music Theory in the Safavid Era: The taqsīm al-naġamāt
The Safavid era (1501-1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, including miniature paintings that frequently represent singers and instrumentalists. Their presence reflects a sophisticated tradition of music making that was an...- $54.95
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Howard Hawks: Music as Communication in Film
Known for creating classic films including His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks is one of the best-known Hollywood 'auteurs', but the important role that music plays in his films has been generally neglected by film...- $24.95
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Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625
Presupposing no specialist musical knowledge, this book offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic role of music in the plays of Shakespeare and his early seventeenth-century contemporaries. Simon Smith argues that many plays used music as a dramatic tool, inviting culturally familiar responses to...- $120.00
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Vendor: William Gibbons
Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies
Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies offers the first scholarly approach focusing on music in the broad class of video games known as role-playing games, or RPGs. Known for their narrative sophistication and long playtimes, RPGs have long been celebrated by players...- $56.95
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Vendor: Charles Leinberger
Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Film Score Guide
This guide demonstrates Morricone's unique and enduring contributions to the art of film music through a discussion of his compositional and orchestrational processes, many of which are evident in his music for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in a way that can...- $50.00
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Vendor: Jerrold Levinson
The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994
Author: Jerrold LevinsonISBN-10: 0801482267ISBN-13: 9780801482267Publisher: Cornell University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/1996Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.05h x 6.09w x 0.81d- $44.95
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Vendor: Susan McClary
Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal
In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music...- $39.95
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Vendor: Franco Sciannameo
Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy
Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone's position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music within the frame work of his cinematic compositions. The Italian composer has reached world fame...- $39.99
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Vendor: Tom Anderson
Rhythm Read & Play Activities for Classroom Instruments Book/Online Audio (with Reproducible Pages) [With CD (Audio)]
(Music Express Books). Grab those metals, woods and membranes because it's time for some percussion discussion Actively involve your students with easy-to-follow read and play parts to accompany familiar folk songs, marches, spirituals, holiday favorites and more. More advanced readers play from musical notation,...- $21.99
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Vendor: Ying Ying Ng
Music Theory for Young Children, Bk 2
This series of books uses a fun and novel way to teach children the fundamentals of music theory. Games and stickers are used to introduce all of the essentials such as staves, clefs, note identification, time signatures, key signatures, note values, and rest values....- $9.95
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Vendor: John Williams
Harry Potter -- Sheet Music from the Complete Film Series: Easy Piano
With the Harry Potter film series now complete, Alfred Music and Warner Bros. Entertainment are proud to present easy piano arrangements from the eight epic films together in one collectible volume. For the first time ever, 37 sheet music selections by John Williams, Patrick...- $27.99
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Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context
Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. The musical examples are drawn from classical, popular, and folk traditions from around the globe. These examples are organized into thematic chapters, each of which explores a...- $49.99
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Workbook to Accompany the Complete Musician: Workbook 2: Skills and Musicianship
The two workbooks that accompany The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Fourth Edition, feature an organization designed specifically for flexibility: Workbook 1: Writing and Analysis, is dedicated exclusively to written and analytical activities; Workbook 2: Skills and Musicianship, focuses...- $116.99
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Music in Disney's Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the Jungle Book
In Music in Disney's Animated Features James Bohn investigates how music functions in Disney animated films and identifies several vanguard techniques used in them. In addition, he also presents a history of music in Disney animated films, as well as biographical information on several...- $35.00
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How Sonata Forms: A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form
Traditional approaches to musical form have always adopted a top-down perspective whereby a work's form organizes and unifies the individual parts of the work through an overarching logic. How Sonata Forms turns this view on its head, proposing instead that it was the parts...- $80.00
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General Music: Dimensions of Practice
General Music: Dimensions of Practice is a practical guide for music teachers and teaching artists who strive to teach music holistically. The book begins by framing general music as a holistic music education that is comprehensive, meaningful, and relevant to diverse learners in school...- $43.99
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Workbook to Accompany the Complete Musician: The Essentials
This workbook accompanies the authors' textbook, The Complete Musician: The Essentials. Designed for maximum accessibility, it presents a variety of activities in each chapter that progress from very introductory exercises to more advanced ones. Offering instructors more than enough material to choose from, each...- $44.95
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Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111: Beethoven's Last Piano Sonatas, an Edition with Elucidation, Volume 3
Heinrich Schenker ranks among the most important figures in the development of western music theory in the twentieth century. His approach to the analysis of music permeates nearly every aspect of the field and continues to this day to be a topic of great...- $110.00
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Piano Sonata in Ab, Op. 110: Beethoven's Last Piano Sonatas, an Edition with Elucidation, Volume 2
Heinrich Schenker ranks among the most important figures in the development of western music theory in the twentieth century. His approach to the analysis of music permeates nearly every aspect of the field and continues to this day to be a topic of great...- $110.00
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Vendor: K. J. Donnelly
Occult Aesthetics: Synchronization in Sound Film
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed film music author Kevin Donnelly offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization in sound film. Donnelly addresses the manner in which the lock of the audio and the visual exerts a perceptible synergy, an aesthetic he dubs occult: a...- $43.99
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Vendor: Kate McQuiston
We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Unique and often startling encounters between music and the moving image in the films of Stanley Kubrick are trademarks of his style; witness the powerful effects of Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" in 2001: A Space Odyssey and of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in A Clockwork...- $41.99
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Vendor: Nathan Platte
Making Music in Selznick's Hollywood
Through the rise and fall of the Hollywood studio system, David O. Selznick reigned as Hollywood's preeminent producer. His reputation depended in large part on music. The orchestral cacophony of King Kong, the pulsing electronic sonorities of Spellbound, and the Tara theme from Gone...- $66.00
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Music as Creative Practice
Until recently, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the lone genius. But the last decade has witnessed a sea change: musical creativity is now overwhelmingly thought of in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. Music as Creative Practice is...- $110.00
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Vendor: Alfred D?r
Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion: Genesis, Transmission, and Meaning
This book (published in German by B舐enreiter in 1988 and now available in English translation for the first time) is a comprehensive guide to the genesis, transmission, structure, meaning, and performance considerations of Bach's St John Passion. One of Bach's most fascinating works, its...- $235.00
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Vendor: Julie Brown
Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context
The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run almost continuously since 1942, and represents a unique record of the changing place of music in British society. In 2011, recognising its iconic status, the BBC created an online archive that includes podcasts of all programmes...- $105.00
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Vendor: David Lewin
Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations
David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is recognized as the seminal work paving the way for current studies in mathematical and systematic approaches to music analysis. Lewin, one of the 20th century's most prominent figures in music theory, pushes the boundaries of the...- $84.00
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Vendor: Gunther Schuller
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat...- $80.00
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Vendor: Lisa Huisman Koops
Parenting Musically
Parents use music in family life to accomplish practical tasks, make relational connections, and guide their children's musical development. Parenting Musically portrays the musicking of eight diverse Cleveland-area families in home, school, and community settings. Themes from interviews focused on the families' hopes and...- $42.99
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Vendor: Ted Gioia
Love Songs: The Hidden History
The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how...- $31.99
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Vendor: Lee Rothfarb
Eduard Hanslick's on the Musically Beautiful: A New Translation
Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful (Vom Musikalisch-Schen, 1854), written and published before the author turned 30, is a watershed document in the history of aesthetics, and of thought about music generally. The notion of "absolute music," which lies at the heart of the...- $34.99
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Vendor: Daphne Leong
Performing Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance
How do musical analysis and performance relate? In a unique collaborative approach to this question, theorist-pianist Daphne Leong partners with internationally renowned performers to interpret twentieth-century repertoire. Imaginative explorations of music by Ravel, Schoenberg, Bart, Schnittke, Milhaud, Messiaen, Babbitt, Carter, and Morris illuminate focal...- $86.00
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Vendor: Sandy Feldstein
Practical Theory: Complete, Spiral-Bound Book
A combination text and workbook in three volumes. All areas of music theory are covered in a concise and practical manner and each level contains 28 lessons.Author: Sandy FeldsteinISBN-10: 0882842250ISBN-13: 9780882842257Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1982Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 11.40h x 8.80w x 0.30d- $16.99
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Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to...- $11.95
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Vendor: Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka
Commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, Stravinsky's score for the ballet Petrushka was an immediate sensation at its Paris premiere in 1911. Brilliantly orchestrated in bold, unheard-of instrumental colors, this work is filled with Russian folksongs as well as new and striking...- $11.95
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Vendor: Joseph N. Straus
Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory
Now published by Norton, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, with additional coverage of transformational theory and voice leading. The Fourth Edition helps students identify key theoretical points and guides them through the process...- $118.25
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Do-It-Yourself Music Theory: The Best Step-By-Step Guide to Start Learning - Book with Online Audio by Tom Fleming
(Do It Yourself). Do-It-Yourself Music Theory is a fun way to get started understanding music on your own. Using well-known music from pop, classical, and many other styles, you will be given step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to get started. You'll...- $24.99
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Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres, from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard, have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns for composition and improvisation. Think about this...- $13.95
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Star Wars for Beginning Piano Solo
(Beginning Piano Solo). Piano students will love these easy arrangements that will let them play the themes they recognize from all of the Star Wars movies Ten songs in all: Across the Stars * Cantina Band * Duel of the Fates * The Imperial...- $14.99
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The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World
The soundscape--a term coined by the author--is our sonic environment, the ever-present array of noises with which we all live. Beginning with the primordial sounds of nature, we have experienced an ever-increasing complexity of our sonic surroundings. As civilization develops, new noises rise up...- $16.95
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music--its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it--and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than...- $18.00
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Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives
Emmanuel Saboro's study on memories of the slave era in northern Ghana is a most welcome addition to a long and storied scholarly tradition examining song lyrics associated with the institution of slavery. As one might expect, the vast majority of such studies focus...- $126.00
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Plucky Bunny's Silly Staff Songs
Plucky Bunny's Silly Staff Songs contains eight silly songs to help remember the lines and spaces on the treble and bass clefs. It is notated on the grand staff, and so can be played on piano or harp, but melodic instruments can also learn...- $12.50
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Play and Sing TV Music Theory Unlocked for Guitar and Piano: Fully Understand Music Theory, Nashville Number, Transposition, Capos with Reference Char
Don't be shaking in your boots the next time you have to transpose a song before rehearsal. Understanding music theory is the first step in gaining confidence as a musician. I absolutely loved music theory classes in college because I started seeing patterns that...- $12.99
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Vendor: Emmanuel Amiot
Music Through Fourier Space: Discrete Fourier Transform in Music Theory
Discrete Fourier Transform of Distributions.- Homometry and the Phase Retrieval Problem.- Nil Fourier Coefficients and Tilings.- Saliency.- Continuous Spaces, Continuous Fourier Transform.- Phases of Fourier Coefficients.Author: Emmanuel AmiotISBN-10: 331945580XISBN-13: 9783319455808Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2016Pages: 206Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d- $84.99
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Vendor: Pere Soto Tejedor
PERE SOTO REALBOOK vol I
A collection of 500 tunes and songs of Pere SotoAuthor: Pere Soto TejedorISBN-10: 1795831979ISBN-13: 9781795831970Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2019Pages: 590Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.97lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.19d- $55.15
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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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