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Vendor: Arthur H. Benade
Horns, Strings, and Harmony
A fascinating excursion into an area too often ignored by the musical practitioner. -- Music Library Association Notes.If you've ever wondered how a musical instrument produces the sound it does, this book explains the physics of musical instruments in an engaging and understandable way....- $12.95
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Vendor: Tobe a. Richards
The Guitar Chord Bible: Standard Tuning 3,024 Chords
The Guitar 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 jazz...- $24.95
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Vendor: Chad Johnson
Visual Guitar Theory: An Easy Guide to Recognizing and Understanding Essential Fretboard Patterns
(Guitar Educational). Many guitarists spend years, or entire lives, feeling their way around the guitar neck in the dark. But it doesn't have to be that way! Experiencing the freedom that comes with a little theoretical knowledge is not as difficult as it may...- $15.99
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Vendor: Nicolas Slonimsky
Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns
A reference book of scales and melodic patterns, presented in the form of piano scales and melodic studies; arranged according to the principal interval of each particular section.Author: Nicolas SlonimskyISBN-10: 1258454165ISBN-13: 9781258454166Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2012Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x...- $32.95
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Vendor: Ariane Cap
Music Theory for the Bass Player: A Comprehensive and Hands-on Guide to Playing with More Confidence and Freedom
Music Theory for the Bass Player Comes with 89 videos that are viewable online.Have you always wanted to learn music theory but felt it was too overwhelming a task? Perhaps all the books seem to be geared toward pianists or classical players? Do you...- $34.95
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Vendor: Helen Cooper
The Basic Guide to How to Read Music
The Basic Guide to How to Read Music will teach you the principles of reading music in staff notation quickly and painlessly. If you could once read music but have forgotten how, it will refresh your memory. It contains all the terms and symbols...- $13.00
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Vendor: Joseph Alexander
The Circle of Fifths for Guitarists
The Circle of Fifths for Guitarists shows how every key, scale, chord and modulation works in music. It's essential knowledge of any aspiring musician. You will not only learn how The Circle works, but you will also learn to build it yourself and gain...- $14.99
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Vendor: Tobe a. Richards
The Tres Cubano Chord Bible: Cuban and Puerto Rican Tunings 1,536 Chords
The Tres Cubano Chord Bible, with its 1,536 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...- $24.95
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Vendor: Tobe a. Richards
The Venezuelan Cuatro Chord Bible: Traditional 'D6' Tuning 1,728 Chords
The Venezuelan Cuatro Chord Bible, with its 1,728 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...- $24.95
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Vendor: Tobe a. Richards
The Cavaquinho Chord Bible: DGBD Standard Tuning 1,728 Chords
The Cavaquinho Chord Bible, with its 1,728 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 jazz...- $24.95
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Vendor: Steve Betts
The Music Tree Time to Begin Activities
Edition adapted for British and Australian students. Time to Begin Activities" is colorful, cheerful and a delight for students to complete either at the lesson or at home. Activities reinforce reading, rhythm and theory introduced in Time to Begin. Each unit includes at least...- $9.99
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Vendor: Rob Silver
Pentatonic and Blues Scales for Guitar
This guide maps out various Pentatonic and Blues Scales including: THE MINOR PENTATONIC SCALE, THE MAJOR PENTATONIC SCALE, THE MINOR BLUES SCALE, THE MAJOR BLUES SCALE, THE VOODOO BLUES SCALE, THE INDIAN PENTATONIC SCALE, THE DOMINANT PENTATONIC SCALE, and THE DORIAN PENTATONIC SCALE for...- $12.99
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Vendor: Philip A. Johnston
Scales Bootcamp: The fastest, clearest way to get to know your scales, and then master them.
*NEW Color Edition!* You've never seen a scales manual like this. Full color, super-clear fingering diagrams, packed with thousands of creative, bite-sized practice challenges to complete. Scales Bootcamp makes practicing scales fun, as you tick your way to mastery, one Achievement at a time....- $24.99
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Vendor: Troy Stetina
The Ultimate Scale Book
(Pocket Guide). Everything you ever wanted to know about scales, but were afraid to ask This book fills you in on major and minor scales; the modes; the blues scale; harmonic minor, melodic minor, chromatic, whole tone & diminished scales; other exotic and ethnic...- $7.99
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Vendor: John Harris
The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock
'The loveliest - and certainly the most human - book about pop music I've ever read ... A delightful and humane soap opera, a real page-turner, full of rounded and entirely recognisable characters.'Jon Ronson, Daily TelegraphTHE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BRITPOP - BLUR, OASIS, ELASTICA,...- $14.99
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Vendor: Heinrich Schenker
Five Graphic Music Analyses
The concepts of theorist Heinrich Schenker offer a unique method of structural analysis that differentiates between harmonic and contrapuntal functions of chords, emphasizing the relative significance of all tones in terms of motion and direction in the achievement of organic tonal unity.These sketches study...- $14.95
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Vendor: Ross W. Duffin
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"--the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method?...- $16.95
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Vendor: Mark McGrain
Music Notation
(Berklee Methods). Learn the essentials of music notation, from fundamental pitch and rhythm placement to intricate meter and voicing alignments. This book also covers the correct way to subdivide rhythms and notate complex articulations and dynamics. An excellent resource for both written and computer...- $29.99
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Vendor: Ross Trottier
Music Theory in One Lesson: Discover How Easy Music Theory Can Be!
This powerful little 52 page music theory book is a great place to start for any music lover wanting to understand how music works. Also a YouTube sensation with over a quarter million students, this method shines a fresh light on music theory. The...- $19.99
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Vendor: Rose Bridges
Yoko Kanno's Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
Cowboy Bebop is one of the most beloved anime series of all time, and if you ask its fans why, you can expect to hear about its music. Composer Yoko Kanno created an eclectic blend of jazz, rock, lullabies, folk and funk (to list...- $24.95
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Vendor: John Powell
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond [With CD (Audio)]
"Any readers whose love of music has somehow not led them to explore the technical side before will surely find the result a thoroughly accessible, and occasionally revelatory, primer."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell...- $17.99
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Vendor: David Alexander A. Thomas
The King's Notes
David Alexander Thomas was purposefully named by his parents after his paternal grandfather's middle name and after a man who was after God's own heart as well as Israel's greatest king. His paternal grandmother marked him as and held him to the standard of...- $22.95
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Vendor: Jimmy Sica
How To Read Drum Music
A quick, easy approach to reading drum music. Maybe you're a brand new drummer, or maybe you've been playing for years; in either case, you want to learn to read drum music. Whether you're a novice performer or a professional musician, Stu and Jimmy's...- $12.95
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Vendor: Jarmila Mildorf
Radio Art and Music: Culture, Aesthetics, Politics
This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other programs in North American, English, Spanish, Greek,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Melanie Fritsch
The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music
Video game music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years. Now, reaching billions of listeners, game music encompasses a diverse spectrum of musical materials and practices. This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of video game music by a diverse group of...- $34.99
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Vendor: Tobe a. Richards
The Baritone Ukulele Chord Bible: DGBE Standard Tuning 2,160 Chords
The Baritone Ukulele Chord Bible, with its 2,160 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...- $24.95
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Vendor: Joseph Alexander
The Complete Technique, Theory and Scales Compilation for Guitar
This compilation brings together three best-selling books that will help you master the essential rudiments of playing the guitar; Technique, Theory and the Application of all the Essential Scales in Music. It contains over 400 notated audio examples and 60 backing tracks that demonstrate...- $39.99
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Wedding & Love Fake Book: Over 500 Songs for All C Instruments
(Fake Book). When love is in the air, these 500 plus songs are the perfect complement This spiral-bound collection includes melody, lyrics and chords for all C instruments. Songs include: All of Me * Ave Maria * Bless the Broken Road * Clair De...- $35.00
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Vendor: Jeff Brent
Modalogy: Scales, Modes & Chords: The Primordial Building Blocks of Music
(Jazz Instruction). Primarily a music theory reference, Modalogy presents a unique perspective on the origins, interlocking aspects, and usage of the most common scales and modes in occidental music. Anyone wishing to seriously explore the realms of scales, modes, and their real-world functions will...- $24.99
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Vendor: Eli Maor
Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century Music is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote music explicitly...- $17.95
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Vendor: Gergely Hubai
Torn Music: Rejected Film Scores, a Selected History
A film is nearly finished when one or more of its prime movers producer, director, studio brass decides that it just doesn't 'feel" right and hits the brakes. What can be done quickly to alter the movie's complexion? The most obvious option is to...- $24.95
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Vendor: Steve Khan
Pentatonic Khancepts: Book & Online Audio
In this book, Steve takes a potentially very complex subject -- the creation of new, different, and creative melodies -- and shows how using two very simple and very guitaristic pentatonic scales, you can unleash an inexhaustible supply of new colors and ideas. A...- $25.99
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Vendor: Dennis Alexander
Premier Piano Course Theory, Bk 1a
Correlated page-for-page with the Lesson Book, each new musical concept is reinforced through fun-filled writing, listening and playing exercises. With games and puzzles added to compositional and creative activities, students retain concepts more easily and learn more thoroughly.Author: Dennis Alexander, Gayle Kowalchyk, E. L....- $9.99
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Vendor: Leon Harkleroad
The Math Behind the Music [With CDROM]
Mathematics has been used for centuries to describe, analyze, and create music. In this book, Leon Harkleroad explores the math related aspects of music from its acoustical bases to compositional techniques to music criticism, touching on - overtones, scales, and tuning systems - the...- $34.99
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Vendor: Harold F. Abeles
Critical Issues in Music Education: Contemporary Theory and Practice
Critical Issues in Music Education: Contemporary Theory and Practice provides a current introduction to key issues facing music educators. Designed as the main text for a Music Education Theory course or as a supplement for introductory courses on Music Education and Music Education Methods,...- $107.99
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Vendor: Machiko Yamane Musgrave
Doctor Mozart Music Theory Workbook Answers for Level 1 and Older Beginners
This book contains the answers for the exercises found in Levels 1A, 1B, 1C, and Older Beginners. Unlike the actual workbooks, which are printed in color, this answer book is printed in black and white, to make it more affordable. The answers provided are...- $9.98
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Vendor: Steve Vai
Vaideology (Spanish Edition): Vaideology - Teoria Musical Basica Para Guitarristas Por Steve Va
(Guitar Educational). Experimenta lo esencial del conocimiento y sabiduria musical a traves del lente altamente enfocado del legendario virtuoso de la guitarra Steve Vai. Este libro didactico en todo color escrito por el propio Steve Vai incluye profundas discusiones de los fundamentos de la...- $24.99
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Vendor: Robin Frederick
Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting: 126 Proven Techniques for Writing Songs That Sell
Here are 126 Shortcuts that will take your songs from good to great! Discover the melody and lyric writing techniques of today's top songwriters and learn how you can use the very same secrets to give your songs the power and edge that will...- $34.95
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Vendor: Philip V. Bohlman
World Music: A Very Short Introduction
The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with...- $12.99
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Vendor: James Gaines
Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of 'outdated' music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a turbulent...- $11.99
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Vendor: Robert Lopez
Frozen 2 Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). The sequel to the uber-popular Disney film Frozen is here, and the soundtrack features more songs from Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Our matching songbook includes fantastic color photos from the film, the new breakout song "Into the Unknown," a continuation from...- $19.99
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Vendor: Marc Schonbrun
The Everything Essential Music Theory Book: A Guide to the Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Understanding Music
Master musical skills quickly and easily! From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life. Whether you're an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major, The Everything Essential Music Theory Book is a...- $14.99
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Vendor: Jason Martineau
The Elements of Music: Melody, Rhythm, & Harmony
This groundbreaking book presents the elements of music in a way that is pedagogically clear and comprehensible, by building upon simple principles of proportion and relationship. These in turn are corresponded to language as musical metaphor. This, in combination with novel graphics and symbols,...- $14.00
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Vendor: Douglas Wadle
Einstein's Violin: The Love Affair Between Science, Music, and History's Most Creative Thinkers
Music brings great joy to many of us. But its other benefits often go underappreciated. Numerous studies and historical anecdotes highlight how powerfully music alters the human mind. Two characteristics drive most of music's cognitive benefits: It builds a faster highway between the right...- $16.99
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Vendor: Barrett Tagliarino
Guitar Fretboard Workbook: Essential Concepts Series
(Musicians Institute Press). Navigate the guitar neck better than ever before with this easy-to-use book Designed from Musicians Institute core curriculum programs, it covers essential concepts for players of every level, acoustic or electric. A hands-on guide to theory, it will help you learn...- $24.99
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Vendor: James Shipway
No Bull Music Theory for Guitarists: Master the Essential Knowledge all Guitarists Need to Know
Volume 1 in the 'Music Theory for Guitarists' series: Unlock essential guitar theory to boost your ability and confidence as a guitarist.Easy language. Music reading not required. Includes free downloadable audio!Inside the 12 chapters of this guitar theory book you'll learn about intervals, triads,...- $18.98
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Vendor: Robert Rawlins
Jazzology: The Encyclopedia of Jazz Theory for All Musicians
(Jazz Instruction). A one-of-a-kind book encompassing a wide scope of jazz topics, for beginners and pros of any instrument. A three-pronged approach was envisioned with the creation of this comprehensive resource: as an encyclopedia for ready reference, as a thorough methodology for the student,...- $24.99
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Vendor: Nicolas Carter
Guitar Scales: An Extremely Effective Guide To Understanding Music Scales And Modes & How To Use Them To Solo, Improvise And Create B
The Ultimate Guide To Understanding Music Scales And Modes With Ease Finally Understand How To Use Scales And Their Modes To Solo, Improvise And Create Beautiful Melodies On Guitar - Have you ever wanted to really understand scales and how they work on guitar?...- $9.68
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Vendor: Mark Harrison
Contemporary Music Theory - Level One: A Complete Harmony and Theory Method for the Pop and Jazz Musician
(Piano). The Music Theory series is designed from the ground-up to explain the terminology and musical structures needed for modern applications. Level One is an introductory course which covers music notation, key signatures, basic scales, intervals, modes, diatonic relationships and 3-and 4-part chords. Level...- $34.99
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Vendor: Carl Schroeder
Hal Leonard Pocket Music Theory: A Comprehensive and Convenient Source for All Musicians
(Book). Following in the footsteps of the popular Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary, this handy pocket-sized book is the most contemporary music theory book on the market A step-by-step guide to harmony and theory for every musician, it includes thorough, yet to easy-to-understand analysis...- $9.99
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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.