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Vendor: Nick Tosches
Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll
Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry...- $21.99
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Vendor: Harry Partch
Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots, and Its Fulfillments, Second Edition
Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901-1974) and music embody most completely the quintessential American rootlessness, isolation, pre-civilized cult of experience, and dichotomy of practical invention and transcendental visions. Having lived mostly in the remote deserts of...- $25.99
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Vendor: Joseph N. Straus
Elements of Music
Elements of Music, Fourth Edition, is an introduction to music fundamentals for music majors and non-majors. Organized into brief, digestible, self-contained lessons, each of which is followed by exercises and in-class activities, the text offers instructors flexibility in how they teach music fundamentals. Unmatched...- $127.99
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Vendor: Andrew Schartmann
Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab environment-replacing it with one in which game sounds constituted a legitimate form...- $14.95
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HarperCollins College Outline Music Theory
Elementary Acoustics and the Properties of Sound, Music Notation, Intervals and Scales, Chords, Symbolization, Expression Marks and Foreign-Language Terms, Tonality and Key Feeling, Melody Writing, Four-Part Vocal Texture (SATB), Chord Connection, Chord Choice, Harmonizing a Melody, Nonharmonic Tones, Seventh and Ninth Chords, Altered Chords...- $20.00
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Vendor: Anna L. Wood
Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music
Based upon Cantometrics: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music (1976), by Alan Lomax, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music is a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analyzing the formal...- $35.00
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Vendor: Charles Cooke
Playing the Piano for Pleasure: The Classic Guide to Improving Skills Through Practice and Discipline
Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to...- $14.95
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Vendor: Edward T. Cone
Musical Form and Musical Performance
Author: Edward T. ConeISBN-10: 0393097676ISBN-13: 9780393097672Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1968Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 7.88h x 5.39w x 0.29d- $20.73
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Vendor: David Hollander
Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music
In the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required. Unusual Sounds is a deep dive into...- $55.00
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Vendor: Nicolas Carter
Guitar Fretboard Mastery: An In-Depth Guide to Playing Guitar with Ease, Including Note Memorization, Music Theory for Beginners, Chords, Scales
Get ready to unlock the secrets of guitar fretboard and learn how to massively improve your guitar playing skills with the power of understanding. This is an amazing 170+ page guitar learning book with pictures, diagrams and tabs. Don't miss out on the amazing...- $10.82
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Vendor: Ben Ratliff
Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty
What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across musical languages and generations, from Detroit techno to jam bands to baroque opera--or to dive deeper into the set of tastes that...- $17.00
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Vendor: James Shipway
Music Theory for Ukulele: Master the Essential Knowledge with this Easy, Step-by-Step Method for Beginner to Intermediate Players
Learn all you'll ever really need to know as a ukulele player in this step-by-step, easy-to-understand, entry level introduction to music theory (includes free online video demos).No music reading necessary, just confusion-free language with diagrams and hands on examples to put theory into practice.This...- $18.99
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Vendor: Tom Kolb
Connecting Pentatonic Patterns: The Essential Guide for All Guitarists [With CD (Audio)]
(Guitar Educational). If you've been finding yourself trapped in the pentatonic box, then Connecting Pentatonic Patterns is for you This hands-on instructional book with online audio access offers examples for guitar players of all levels, from beginner to advanced. The only prerequisites are a...- $24.99
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Vendor: Josef Pischna
Technical Studies (60 Progressive Exercises): Pischna - Technical Studies Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 7
A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...- $10.99
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Vendor: J. Murray Barbour
Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey
The demands of tuning (attaining the perfect scale) and temperament (the compromises necessary for composing in every key) have challenged musicians from the earliest civilizations onward. This guide surveys these longstanding problems, devoting a chapter to each principal theory and offering a running account...- $15.95
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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.

