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Vendor: Audrey Ekdahl Davidson
Olivier Messiaen and the Tristan Myth
Following the second World War, Olivier Messiaen, previously known primarily for his religious music, composed three works inspired by the medieval love story of Tristan and Iseult: Harawi, Turangal Dla-symphonie, and Cinq rechants. Though the song cycle, symphony, and choral work each consider their...- $75.00
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Vendor: Heinrich Schenker
Harmony
Harmony, Heinrich Schenker's first published work, originally appeared in German in 1906 as "New Musical Theories and Phantasies, by an Artist." Its unusual title indicates what was to be the rationale of Schenker's lifework, that artistic problems call for artistic solutions. Schenker's dedication to...- $46.00
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Vendor: Joan Titus
The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich
In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers. With his first score for the silent film New Babylon (1928-29) and the many sound scores that followed, he was situated to observe and participate in the changing politics...- $78.00
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Vendor: Joseph P. Swain
Harmonic Rhythm: Analysis and Interpretation
An accessible exploration of an important and understudied music theory topic, Swain's book examines the dimensional technique of analyzing harmonic rhythm. Simply defined, harmonic rhythm is the relationship between changes in harmony and perceived changes in rhythm. This phenomenon plays a large role in...- $145.00
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Vendor: Michael Marissen
Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion: With an Annotated Literal Translation of the Libretto
Bach's St. John Passion is surely one of the monuments of Western music, yet performances of it are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of the powerful and highly emotional music and a text that includes passages from a...- $83.00
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Vendor: Stephanie L. Standerfer
Line by Line: Progressive Staff Method Arrangements for Elementary Music Literacy
In Line by Line, author Stephanie L. Standerfer harnesses years of pedagogical expertise in a practical guide to promote music learning by experience rather than imitation and memorization. Using well-known songs and a variety of instrumental accompaniments for all skill levels, lesson plans encourage...- $38.99
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Vendor: Kofi Agawu
Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music
The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur?...- $49.99
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Vendor: Peter Herborn
Features Of The Perception And Construction Of Melodies
Most people in the Western world listen to music because of emotions. They want to create or experience emotions. But music is made of tones, tones are sound waves and sound waves are physics. How is it possible that physics becomes psychology, because emotions...- $67.99
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Vendor: Steven G. Laitz
The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening
With a focus on music in context and a wealth of in-text and online exercises, The Complete Musician offers a complete program for teaching and learning undergraduate music theory. Rather than rote learning of concepts and memorizing terms, the text asks students to explore...- $133.99
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Vendor: Rick McKeon
How to Play the 3-String Cigar Box Guitar
Less Is MoreHaving only three strings to work with, the 3-String CBG might seem limited, but its limitations are also its greatness!We need to make the most of what we have. This means that we need to play each note with expression, and feeling....- $14.99
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Vendor: Philip Jackson
The Circle of Fifths
Ready for a great leap forward in applying theory to your musical practice? Discover techniques to help bring your visual memory into play. Have you suffered from traditional teaching approaches relying solely on aural memory? Do your ears let you down when it comes...- $20.45
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Vendor: Constantino Maeder
Music, Analysis, Experience: New Perspectives in Musical Semiotics
Musical semiotics no longer ignores the fundamental challenges raised by cognitive sciences, ethology, or linguistics. Creation, action, and experience play an increasing role in how we understand music, a sounding structure impinging upon our body, our mind, and the world we live in. An...- $89.50
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Vendor: Rajiv Vijayakar
Main Shayar Toh Nahin: The Book of Hindi Film Lyricists
With the advent of sound, Hindi songs acquired a grammar of their own, thanks to the introduction of songs as a part of the narrative - a tradition that is unique to Hindi cinema. This gave rise to a class of professionals who acquired...- $17.00
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Vendor: Steven Alexander
Method-Man Guitar
Number System for the Major and Natural Minor Scales.The method that will be presented will give you a clear understanding of the fretboard.This book is based on learning and playing the Major and Natural Minor Scales.This method will greatly reduce the time for learning...- $17.99
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Method-Man Guitar
Number System for the Minor/ Major Pentatonic Scales.The method that will be presented will give you a clear understanding of the fretboard.The concepts presented in this book, will enable beginner or intermediate guitarist. That has been struggling with scales, and confusing on how to...- $17.99
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Vendor: Matthew Ellul
How to Read Music in 30 Days: Music Theory for Beginners - with exercises & online audio
Do you want to learn how to read music notation with easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons? Did you ever try to learn music theory but got frustrated with complicated jargon and mysterious terms? If so, this book is perfect for you!This best-selling book offers a unique...- $17.90
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Vendor: Simon Warner
Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture
Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years - the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical energies of rock and its attendant culture. Simon Warner examines the interweaving strands,...- $29.95
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Vendor: Sylvia Kahan
In Search of New Scales: Prince Edmond de Polignac, Octatonic Explorer
The first publication and exploration of a pathbreaking treatise on what would become a crucial element in the music of Stravinsky and Ravel: the octatonic scale. In 1879, French amateur composer Edmond de Polignac (1834-1901) painstakingly devised a new way to create melodies and...- $135.00
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Vendor: Salomé Voegelin
Uncurating Sound: Knowledge with Voice and Hands
Uncurating Sound performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge and normativity. It foregrounds the perfidy of norms and engages in the curatorial as a colonial knowledge project, whose economy of exploitation draws a straight line from Enlightenment's desire for objectivity, through...- $80.00
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Vendor: Leigh Vanhandel
The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy
Today's music theory instructors face a changing environment, one where the traditional lecture format is in decline. The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy addresses this change head-on, featuring battle-tested lesson plans alongside theoretical discussions of music theory curriculum and course design. With the...- $56.95
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Vendor: Igor Stravinsky
Expositions and Developments
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...- $95.00
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Vendor: Igor Stravinsky
Expositions and Developments
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...- $39.95
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Vendor: Philip Ewell
On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, whiteness and maleness are woven into the fabric of the field, and BIPOC music theorists face enormous hurdles due to their...- $85.00
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Vendor: Philip Ewell
On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, whiteness and maleness are woven into the fabric of the field, and BIPOC music theorists face enormous hurdles due to their...- $34.95
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Vendor: Lorraine Chai
Stringstastic Grade 3
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...- $15.99
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Vendor: Jayne Price
Teaching Secondary Music
Designed to support teachers in developing new strategies and pedagogies for teaching music, and for teacher education students requiring a comprehensive overview of the subject, Teaching Secondary Music provides a modern and accessible of key issues in music education at secondary level. Focusing on...- $62.00
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Vendor: Rob Silver
Modes for Guitar: A brief introduction
The first thing that I want to say about modes is that Modes are not a difficult concept. What they are is a very difficult concept to explain.Once it clicks, you'll not believe how simple and easily applicable an idea they are. That's not...- $13.99
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Vendor: Clint Randles
Music Teacher as Music Producer: How to Turn Your Classroom Into a Center for Musical Creativities
Never has there been such an exciting time to be a music teacher. Band, choir, and orchestra are ubiquitous in schools and have come to be known as the primary mode that students experience music at the secondary level. Similarly, elementary school classrooms feature...- $37.99
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Vendor: Yolanda Brown
The ABCs of Music: My First Music Book: UK Version
(General Music). Journey into the wonderful world of music with YolanDa Brown and The ABCs of Music: My First Music Book. Perfect for children aged 6-11, it is the ideal book for parents and teachers looking to facilitate those first musical steps. Discover all...- $12.99
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Vendor: Heather Milnes
Piano Club: Easy Piano Solos for Adults Piano Sheet Music and Music Theory Course
If you have a little experience of playing piano, or maybe you have played well in the past and are now a little rusty, this book of well known songs could be just right for you. The tunes are carefully graded so that they...- $9.95
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Vendor: Kathryn Kalinak
Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier
Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier presents essays from both film studies scholars and musicologists on core issues in western film scores: their history, their generic conventions, their operation as part of a narrative system, their functioning within individual filmic texts and...- $48.95
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Vendor: Robert Wannamaker
The Music of James Tenney: Volume 2: A Handbook to the Pieces Volume 2
A work-by-work guide to the composer's groundbreaking music 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 offers close, aurally grounded analyses of...- $75.00
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Vendor: Salomé Voegelin
Uncurating Sound: Knowledge with Voice and Hands
Uncurating Sound performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge and normativity. It foregrounds the perfidy of norms and engages in the curatorial as a colonial knowledge project, whose economy of exploitation draws a straight line from Enlightenment's desire for objectivity, through...- $24.95
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Vendor: Lorraine Chai
Stringstastic Level 2 - Violin
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: Tom Van Geld
Ear Training - A Complete Course for the Jazz, Rock & Pop Musician: Book/3-CD Pack
(Schott). Tom van der Geld's Eartraining is encyclopedic in its coverage from A to Z of the basics of jazz theory; it is systematic to such a degree that a student can work by him or herself with the book alone; it can be...- $49.00
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Vendor: Heiner Ruland
Expanding Tonal Awareness: A Musical Exploration of the Evolution of Consciousness - From Ancient Tone Systems to New Tonalities - Guided by the
"Rudolf Steiner believed that an expansion of our tone-system was a necessity.... In this book of Ruland's, we have for the first time an account that is penetrating enough and of sufficiently large scope to enable us to understand why." --J?gen SchrieferHeiner Ruland charts...- $44.00
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Vendor: Massimo Zicari
The Voice of the Century: The Culture of Italian Bel Canto in Luisa Tetrazzini's Recorded Interpretations
The fields of performance studies, empirical musicology, and the musicology of recordings have seen a tremendous development in recent years, shedding new light on the recent history of our performing tradition and conveying essential information to music practitioners, critics and audiences. This innovative work...- $51.95
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Vendor: Massimo Zicari
The Voice of the Century: The Culture of Italian Bel Canto in Luisa Tetrazzini's Recorded Interpretations
The fields of performance studies, empirical musicology, and the musicology of recordings have seen a tremendous development in recent years, shedding new light on the recent history of our performing tradition and conveying essential information to music practitioners, critics and audiences. This innovative work...- $36.95
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Vendor: Dan Maske
Counterpoint Explained - Concepts in Writing Two or More Melodies, Sounded at the Same Time by Dan Maske (Book with Onlin Audio of Counterpoint Analys
(Explained). Counterpoint is the technique of composing two or more melodic lines that are sounded at the same time. Whether a guitar riff against a vocal melody, a bass line against a keyboard melody, or a violin and cello duet, in good counterpoint, these...- $19.99
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Vendor: Matthias Range
Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations
Coronations are the grandest of all state occasions. This is the first comprehensive in-depth study of the music that was performed at British coronations from 1603 to the present, encompassing the sixteen coronations that have taken place in Westminster Abbey and the last two...- $27.99
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
PREP LEVEL Supplemental - Ultimate Music Theory: Preparatory Theory Level is EASY with the PREP LEVEL Supplemental Workbook (Ultimate Music Theory) -
The PREP LEVEL Supplemental Workbook is designed to be completed with the Step-by-Step Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook!Bonus: Free Resources and Videos for all music history listening activities in the workbook.UMT Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook plus the PREP LEVEL Supplemental = RCM Preparatory Level.Note: Additional...- $19.97
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Vendor: Aventuras De Viaje
The Fundamentals of Music Composition: Learn Music Composition Step by Step
Teach Yourself to Compose Music!Learning music theory and writing sheet music will allow you to better hone your skills as a singer and a composer.This guide offers both beginners and more advanced singers and songwriters the skills and information to learn how to read,...- $12.99
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The Fundamentals of Music Composition: Learn Music Composition Step by Step
Teach Yourself to Compose Music!Learning music theory and writing sheet music will allow you to better hone your skills as a singer and a composer.This guide offers both beginners and more advanced singers and songwriters the skills and information to learn how to read,...- $20.99
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Vendor: James Shipway
No Bull Barre Chords for Guitar: Learn and Master the Essential Barre Chords that all Guitar Players Need
Master all the guitar barre chords you need to know to play literally hundreds of songs on the guitar with this step-by-step guitar method book, including downloadable audio practice tracks.Many guitar players struggle with barre chords for months or even years... but with No...- $24.99
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Vendor: Douglas MacMillan
The Small Flute Concerto in Early Eighteenth-Century London
Douglas MacMillan is an organologist, music historian, and recorder player. He began to play the recorder in his teenage years and subsequently founded and directed the Baroque ensemble Camerata Oriana. Encouraged by Carl Dolmetsch, he began a pioneering study of the history of the...- $16.50
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Vendor: Tobe a. Richards
The Cittern Chord Bible: Fifths, Irish & Modal D Shortscale Tunings 3,024 Chords
The Cittern Chord Bible (Shortscale), 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...- $24.95
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The Waldzither Chord Bible: CGCEG Standard C Tuning
The Waldzither 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...- $21.95
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The Portuguese Guitar Chord Bible: Lisboa Tuning 1,728 Chords
The Portuguese Lisboa Guitar 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...- $21.95
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The Cittern Chord Bible: Fifths, Irish and Modal G Longscale Tunings 3,024 Chords
The Cittern Longscale 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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The Puerto Rican Cuatro Chord Bible: BEADG Standard Tuning 1,728 Chords
The Puerto Rican 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...- $21.95
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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.

