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Vendor: Stephen C. Stone
Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approach
Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approachpresents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music theory through an emphasis on melody and counterpoint. This focus explains the "why" of musical construction more clearly than the traditional approach of beginning with chords. By starting with a single...- $94.00
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Descendants 2: Music from the Disney Channel Original TV Movie Soundtrack
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This souvenir songbook features 11 songs from the soundtrack and full-color photos from the sequel to the Disney Channel hit original movie Descendants: Wicked World . Songs include: Better Together * Chillin' like a Villain * Evil * It's Goin' Down *...- $19.99
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Vendor: Chad Johnson
Guitarist's Guide to Scales Over Chords: The Foundation of Melodic Soloing [With CD (Audio)]
(Guitar Educational). Lots of guitar players know several scales, but how many really know what to do with them? With Guitarist's Guide to Scales Over Chords, you'll learn how to apply the most commonly used scales in a musical manner. This book examines how...- $22.99
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Vendor: Nicolas Slonimsky
Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns
The Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns is a comprehensive reference book written by Nicolas Slonimsky. The book contains a vast collection of scales and melodic patterns that are organized in a systematic manner. It is an essential resource for musicians, composers, and music...- $43.95
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Vendor: Matthew Bribitzer-Stull
Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music
The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the...- $46.99
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Vendor: Nicomachus of Gerasa
The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean
In ancient Greek thought, the musical scale discovered by the philosopher Pythagoras was seen as a utopian model of the harmonic order behind the structure of the cosmos and human existence. Through proportion and harmony, the musical scale bridges the gap between two extremes....- $18.00
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Vendor: David P. Nelson
Konnakkol Manual: An Advanced Course in Solkattu
David Nelson wrote and compiled Konnakkol Manual to assist teaching an advanced course in the rhythmic compositions of Karnatak (South Indian) music. This new instructional book picks up where his previous book, Solkattu Manual, left off. It includes advanced exercises for developing control of...- $34.95
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Vendor: Felix Salzer
Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music
Written by a pupil of the late Heinrich Schenker, this outstanding work is the most thorough exposition in English of Schenker's work. Developing and extending the Schenker approach to include modern music, it explores the phenomenon of tonal organization in Western music by means...- $29.95
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Vendor: Tommy Swindali
Piano Music Theory: Swiftly Learn The Piano & Music Theory Essentials and Save Big on Months of Private Lessons! Chords, Intervals, Scales
If you want to learn the exact theory and techniques you need to play the piano without boring or complicated lessons then keep on reading.Traditionally, piano lessons can be very boring and require a fixed time. Then many books are either too complex or...- $19.99
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Vendor: Michael Zager
Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students
In an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century, the guidance of a skilled music producer is quickly becoming indispensable for producing a great recording.Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Third...- $142.00
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Vendor: Phillip Johnston
Silent Films/Loud Music: New Ways of Listening to and Thinking about Silent Film Music
Silent Films/Loud Musicdiscusses contemporary scores for silent film as a rich vehicle for experimentation in the relationship between music, image, and narrative. Johnston offers an overview of the early history of music for silent film paired with his own first-hand view of the craft...- $130.00
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Vendor: Rich Stitzel
DrumMantra: The Foundational Series
Rich Stitzel, Creator of the DrumMantra Practice System, shares his method for sharpening your concept of time, fine-tuning your accuracy, improving your pulse awareness, enhancing your knowledge of time signatures, deepening your coordination, and informing your understanding of polymeters. The DrumMantra Practice System utilizes...- $19.95
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Vendor: Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
Understanding Post-Tonal Music
Understanding Post-Tonal Music is a student-centered textbook that explores the compositional and musical processes of twentieth-century post-tonal music. Intended for undergraduate or general graduate courses on the theory and analysis of twentieth-century music, this book will increase the accessibility of post-tonal music by providing...- $120.00
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Vendor: Thomas A. Regelski
Curriculum Philosophy and Theory for Music Education PRAXIS
Curriculum decisions are the foundation of education. They determine the knowledge, understandings, skills, attitudes, and values deemed necessary for today's students. Beyond musical competencies, a curriculum is, therefore, the most important responsibility facing music educators--one that goes well beyond the skills of simply delivering...- $32.99
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Vendor: Paul Oliver
Screening the Blues
The noted blues scholar Paul Oliver here examines the many different skeins of the blues form, relating them to other black traditions--musical and religious--and tracing the origin of the blues through the dense, many-colored warp and weft of influences and inspiration. He describes "the...- $21.99
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Vendor: James Buhler
Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History
Hearing the Movies, Second Edition, combines a historical and chronological approach to the study of film music and sound with an emphasis on building listening skills. Through engaging, accessible analyses and exercises, the book covers all aspects of the subject, including how a soundtrack...- $137.99
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Vendor: Jon Burlingame
The Music of James Bond
The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full and extraordinary...- $35.99
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Vendor: Peter Cheyne
The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics
Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience--particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and literary studies--has yet to explore this...- $58.00
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Vendor: Kurt Stone
Music Notation in the Twentieth Century: A Practical Guidebook
In this comprehensive and definitive survey of current notation procedures, Kurt Stone brought order to a field traditionally fraught with confusion and idiosyncrasy. The text not only describes and recommends new methods for notating modern music, thereby establishing standard procedures for the present and...- $71.95
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Vendor: Andrew Eales
How to Practice Music by Andrew Eales with a Foreword by Paul Harris
(Instructional). The essential, pocket-sized companion for every musician! Accessible and authoritative, How to Practice Music is an ideal guide for anyone learning to play music. Suitable for instrumentalists and vocalists of any genre, this comprehensive handbook will give you a better idea of how...- $10.99
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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,...- $26.29
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Vendor: Paul Christopher Musgrave
Doctor Mozart Music Theory Workbook Level 1C: In-Depth Piano Theory Fun for Children's Music Lessons and HomeSchooling - For Beginners Learning a Musi
What's Inside? You can see some sample pages from this Doctor Mozart workbook at DoctorMozart.com/LookInside.php Help Your Child Succeed with Music Music theory knowledge is essential for your child's success. Doctor Mozart's keyboard-based approach to music theory can help your child succeed with any...- $9.98
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Vendor: Paul Hindemith
The Craft of Musical Composition, Book 2: Exercises in Two-Part Writing
(Schott). Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith's remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians, these were produced by a man who could play every instrument of the orchestra, could compose...- $22.95
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Vendor: W. A. Mathieu
The Musical Life
Being musical does not necessarily mean being a musician; it doesn't mean playing the piano at parties or composing songs for lovers. It is a way of being awake, an angle of perception, a tilt of the ear. The musical ear knows it is...- $24.95
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Vendor: Katherine Teck
Ear Training for the Body: A Dancer's Guide to Music
An approach to music from the dancer's viewpoint, this book offers a two-part exploration of music as it relates to dance, beginning with an introduction to aspects of musicality that dancers--and other music lovers--can explore and put into practice immediately.Author: Katherine TeckISBN-10: 0871271923ISBN-13: 9780871271921Publisher:...- $29.95
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Vendor: James Buhler
Music and Cinema: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s
Music and Cinema brings together leading scholars from musicology, music theory, film studies, and cultural studies to explore the importance of music in the cinematic construction of ideologies. The 15 essays include "Songlines: Alternative Journeys in Contemporary European Cinema" by Wendy Everett; "Strategies of...- $29.95
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Vendor: Marta Arkossy Ghezzo
Solfege, Ear Training, Rhythm, Dictation, and Music Theory: A Comprehensive Course [With CDROM]
One of the most highly acclaimed resources for the study of ear training in music education today Solfege has become one of the most highly acclaimed resources for the study of ear training in music education today. This revised and expanded third edition includes...- $49.95
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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...- $30.00
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Vendor: Bruce Ellis Benson
The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music
Whereas most books on the philosophy of music focus on the creation and reproduction of music, Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers a radical thesis that improvization is of primary importance at the moment of music...- $29.99
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Vendor: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Treatise on Harmony
The Trait de l'harmonie of Jen-Philippe Rameau is one of the most important books in the history of Western music. Written while Rameau was still a relatively obscure organist and music master at Clermont-Ferrand, the book received but one printing during Rameau's life, in...- $21.95
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Vendor: John Covach
Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music
"A variety of approaches are brought to bear on fascinating repertoire, but with the underlying aim of better understanding some brilliant music. There's nothing more exciting in music writing than something which entices you to listen to what's familiar to you in a new...- $30.95
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Vendor: Gregory Clark
Music: The Ultimate 3 in 1 Music Box Set: Book 1: Piano + Book 2: Guitar + Book 3: Ukulele
The Ultimate 3 in 1 Musical Instrument Learning Guide Learn everything you need to know about learning to play the piano, guitar and ukulele Take a Glimpse below into the first book " Piano " This is a 3 in 1 Book ( Piano,...- $7.99
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Vendor: Rob Silver
Japanese Scales for Guitar
The guide maps out a variety of traditional Japanese scales for guitar.Included are the THE KUMOI SCALE, THE HIROJOSHI SCALE, THE IWATO SCALE, THE IN-SEN SCALE, THE YO SCALE and THE IN SCALE.Author: Rob SilverISBN-10: 1505645727ISBN-13: 9781505645729Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2014Pages: 26Format:...- $9.99
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Vendor: Kunio Hara
Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro is a long-standing international icon of Japanese pop culture that grew out of the partnership between the legendary animator Miyazaki Hayao and the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi. A crucial step in the two artists' collaboration was the creation of the album,...- $80.00
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Vendor: Todd Milne
Scales & Modes of World Music: A Scale-Mode-Chord Matrix Containing 252 Musical Scales
A Scale-Mode-Chord Matrix Containing 252 Musical Scales Illustrating Structure, Relationships and Applications Includes Chord Harmonization and an Index of Traditional Names FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS - INCLUDES GUITAR FRETBOARD MAPS The Matrix Contains 4 Layers of Information: 1) Scales - interval recipes for 252 unique...- $14.99
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Fifty Shades of Grey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 14 songs from the sultry soundtrack to the hit motion picture are featured in this songbook, including the hit "Love Me like You Do" from Ellie Goulding and "Earned It" from The Weeknd. Also includes: Beast of Burden * Crazy in Love...- $16.99
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Vendor: Erich Andreas
How to Read Music: Beginner Fundamentals of Music and How to Read Musical Notation
Have you ever wanted to quickly learn how to read music? Today you will begin to read How to Read Music. This book will have you on your way to reading all types of music for guitar and piano. How to Read Music: Beginner...- $8.99
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Vendor: Samuel Ramos
Scales, Chords & Arpeggios for the Puerto Rican Cuatro: Samuel Ramos
Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of classical music with our comprehensive guide to the Puerto Rican Cuatro (Cuatro Puertorrique), written by musician Samuel Ramos. This all-encompassing book is your passport to mastering the scales, chords, and arpeggios that define this distinctive instrument.From the...- $17.95
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Vendor: Aryeh Nielsen
Visualizing Harmonic Experience: Diagrams of melodic and harmonic tension
This book helps you visualize how melody creates musical impact through harmonic tension, melodic tension and melodic tendency. This book is intended as a supplement to W. A. Mathieu's book, Harmonic Experience. It is an advanced exploration of certain ideas in that book, not...- $19.50
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Vendor: Siu-Lan Tan
Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance
In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different manifestations across cultures. In their second edition, the authors apply the same richness of depth and...- $74.95
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Vendor: Joseph N. Straus
Twelve-Tone Music in America
Most histories of American music have ignored the presence of twelve-tone music before and during the Second World War, and virtually all have ignored its presence after 1970, even though so many major composers continued (and continue) to compose serially. This book provides a...- $32.99
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Vendor: Mervyn Cooke
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music
This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Citing examples from a variety of historical periods, genres and film industries - including those of the USA,...- $34.99
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Vendor: Dameon Keller
Solar Spectrum Pitch & Temperament Frequency Charts with Intervals and Cymatics: 2nd Edition
Charts of the varying pitches and temperaments, with correlative color-octaves and intervals. Includes perimeters for defining notes by their color-octaves, and cymatics images. Purchase of paperback includes free Kindle download for portable referencing and easy printing.Author: Dameon KellerISBN-10: 1726272281ISBN-13: 9781726272285Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...- $12.00
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Vendor: Kevin G. Pace
Major & Minor Scales and the Chords That Go With Them: For Piano and Keyboard Players
The Major & Minor Scales and the Chords That Go With Them book for Piano & Keyboard Players was written specifically for pianists with little knowledge of scales. This book contains all 12 Major keys and all 12 of their relative minors (natural, harmonic,...- $11.10
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Vendor: Raymond A. R. MacDonald
The Art of Becoming: How Group Improvisation Works
At a time of unprecedented interest in improvisation across the arts, The Art of Becoming boldly asserts that everyone can and should improvise. Drawing on emerging psychological literature as well as their own research with musicians, authors Raymond MacDonald and Graeme Wilson - both...- $26.99
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Vendor: Kevin O'Brien Chang
Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music
"From Kumina to Mento, Ska to Rocksteady, Reggae to Dancehall, Roots to Ragga - this is the authentic story of Jamaican popular music, told for the first time by Jamaicans. In Jamaica, Reggae is more than music - it is the nation's main collective...- $24.95
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Vendor: Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Minqar-I Musiqar: Hazrat Inayat Khan's Classic 1912 Work on Indian Musical Theory and Practice
Hazrat Inayat Khan's classic 1912 work on Indian musical theory and practice. The Minqār-i Mūsīqār is prized as much for the quality of its content as for its distinguished author. This book communicates the musical learning and enthusiasms of the twenty-five-year-old Inayat Khan, whose...- $34.00
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Vendor: Tobe a. Richards
The Guitalele Chord Bible: ADGCEA Standard Tuning 1,728 Chords
The Guitalele 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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The Tenor Banjo Chord Bible: CGDA Standard 'Jazz' Tuning 1,728 Chords
The Tenor Banjo 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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The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible: Standard and Irish Tuning 2,880 Chords
The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible, with its 2,880 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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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.