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Vendor: Glory St Germain
Prep 1 Rudiments - Ultimate Music Theory: Prep 1 Music Theory Workbook Ultimate Music Theory includes UMT Guide & Chart, 12 Step-by-Step Lessons & 12
The Prep 1 Music Theory Rudiments Workbook by Ultimate Music Theory is an impressive workbook with 12 Lessons, Review Tests, a Guide & Chart PLUS 80 Flashcards.The Ultimate Music Theory Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook features these concepts and more!Ultimate Music Theory's time-saving accelerated learning...- $34.97
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Vendor: Michael Hewitt
Microtonality in Ancient Greek Music
This book represents a study of the fascinating subject of the musical scales and modes of ancient Greek music. Although it is well known that the West inherited it's musical scales from ancient Greece via the church, less well known perhaps, is the fact...- $21.00
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Vendor: Karol Szymanowski
Szymanowski on Music: Selected Writings of Karol Szymanowski
The first comprehensive selection of Szymanowski's writings to be published in English, containing all the most important of the composer's essays and interviews. Karol Szymanowski [1882-1937] is now widely acknowledged to be the most important Polish composer since Chopin. He was also a considerable...- $29.95
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Vendor: Alain Dani駘ou
Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness
Music has always been esteemed for its power to speak directly to our higher consciousness, a power founded in the purity of simple harmonic ratios. In this book, Alain Danielou traces the development of musical scales and tuning from their origins in both China...- $29.99
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Vendor: Sandy Feldstein
Practical Theory, Vol 1
A three-volume theory text designed to be used with or without the correlated software diskettes. Perfect for classroom use. Students learn new concepts in class with the workbook, then may review and reinforce those concepts in a computer lab. A combination text and workbook...- $8.99
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Vendor: Leon Stein
Structure & Style: The Study and Analysis of Musical Forms
Structure and Style, first published in 1962 and expanded in 1979, fills the need for new ways of analysis that put 20th-century music in perspective. It spans forms in use before 1600 through forms and techniques in use today. Anthology of Musical Forms provides...- $18.95
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Vendor: Helen Cooper
The Basic Guide to How to Read Music
(Music Sales America). This basic guide takes the reader through rhythm, scales and intervals, keys, and tonality, right through to score reading.Author: Helen CooperISBN-10: 082562309XISBN-13: 9780825623097Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 10.02h x 7.04w x 0.25d- $12.99
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Vendor: Arnie Berle
Theory & Harmony for the Contemporary Musician
(Music Sales America). This essential guide is a full course for today's musician. It covers everything from the fundamentals of sound and music notation to popular song forms and chord scales for improvisation.Author: Arnie BerleISBN-10: 0825614996ISBN-13: 9780825614996Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1996Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize:...- $19.99
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Vendor: Michael Zager
Writing Music for Commercials: Television, Radio, and New Media
In Writing Music for Commercials: Television, Radio, and New Media, professor, composer, arranger, and producer Michael Zager describes the process of composing and arranging music specifically for commercials across the growing variety of media formats. Writing music for commercials requires composers not only learn...- $66.00
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Vendor: Janet K. Halfyard
Danny Elfman's Batman: A Film Score Guide
This resource is the most in-depth scholarly resource available on Danny Elfman. It integrates a careful study of Elfman's scoring technique with a detailed analysis of the film itself.Author: Janet K. HalfyardISBN-10: 0810851261ISBN-13: 9780810851269Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2004Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 7.84h x 5.44w...- $50.00
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Vendor: Peter Kivy
Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience
What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics. He considers here what he believes to...- $32.95
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Vendor: Aaron Ridley
The Philosophy of Music: Theme and Variations
New and distinctive approaches to five central topics in musical aesthetics are provided in this outstanding book. The topics are: understanding, representation, expression, performance and profundity.Author: Aaron RidleyISBN-10: 0748609024ISBN-13: 9780748609024Publisher: Edinburgh University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2004Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.42d- $40.95
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Vendor: Milton Babbitt
The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt
Like his compositions, Milton Babbitt's writings about music have exerted an extraordinary influence on postwar music and thinking about music. In essays and public addresses spanning fifty years, Babbitt has grappled profoundly with central questions in the composition and apprehension of music. These writings...- $53.00
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Vendor: Victor Zuckerkandl
The Sense of Music
This book is addressed to the listener whose enjoyment of music is filled with questions and whose curiosity makes him eager to grasp the sense of music, despite a lack of theoretical training. Unlike the usual listener's guide, which begins with a discussion of...- $48.00
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Vendor: John J. Watkins
The Art of the Conductor: The Definitive Guide to Music Conducting Skills, Terms, and Techniques
"John Watkins has used his years of experience on both sides of the baton to create a charming introduction to the art of conducting. There are not many reference books that deal with the 'how to' of directing a group of musicians. This practical...- $11.95
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Vendor: Joseph N. Straus
Stravinsky's Late Music
This book is the first to be devoted to the music of Stravinsky's last compositional period. In the early 1950s, Stravinsky's compositional style began to change and evolve with astonishing rapidity. He abandoned the musical neoclassicism to which he had been committed for the...- $29.99
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Vendor: Henry Cowell
New Musical Resources
Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognized as one of the few seminal technical studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer. In 1971, Virgil Thomson hailed it as "a classic." For this new edition, David Nicholls...- $49.99
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Vendor: Ralph P. Locke
Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections
A Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian-'Gypsy' fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don Jos - portrayals of people and places that are considered somehow 'exotic' have been ubiquitous from 1700 to today, whether in opera, Broadway musicals, instrumental music, film scores,...- $58.99
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Vendor: Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century
Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nation captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultural critique, Charles Hiroshi Garrett examines a dazzling array of...- $34.95
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Vendor: Daniel Ira Goldmark
Tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon
In the first in-depth examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s, Daniel Goldmark provides a brilliant account of the enormous creative effort that went into setting cartoons to music and shows how this effort shaped the characters...- $26.95
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Vendor: Anna Maria Busse Berger
Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an...- $85.00
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Vendor: Paul Mathews
Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings
Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings is designed to be a primary or ancillary text for college-level music majors. Although there are several 'how to' textbooks aimed at this market, there is little available that traces the history of orchestration through the writings of composers...- $68.95
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Vendor: L. Poundie Burstein
Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony
Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony has successfully introduced thousands of students to music theory. With the new Second Edition, Burstein and Straus have made the text better than ever by listening to professors and students and adding new coverage of post-tonal theory and more...- $160.00
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Vendor: Alfred Mann
The Study of Fugue
Author: Alfred MannISBN-10: 0393096750ISBN-13: 9780393096750Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1966Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.79d- $27.95
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Vendor: Juan G. Roederer
The Physics and Psychophysics of Music: An Introduction
This introductory text deals with the physical systems and biological processes that intervene in what we broadly call "music. " We shall analyze what obj- tive, physical properties of sound patterns are associated with what subjective, psychological sensations of music. We shall describe how...- $69.99
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Vendor: David Morgan
Knowing the Score
This collection of interviews with Hollywood composers offers the most intimate look ever at the process of writing music for the movies. From getting started in the business to recording the soundtrack, from choosing a musical style to collaborating with directors, including Martin Scorsese,...- $20.99
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Vendor: Kathryn Kalinak
Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film
Beginning with the earliest experiments in musical accompaniment carried out in the Edison Laboratories, Kathryn Kalinak uses archival material to outline the history of American music and film. Focusing on the scores of several key composers of the sound era, including Erich Wolfgang Korngold's...- $31.25
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Vendor: Edward Said
Musical Elaborations
Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work,...- $28.00
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Vendor: Grosvenor Cooper
The Rhythmic Structure of Music
In this influential book on the subject of rhythm, the authors develop a theoretical framework based essentially on a Gestalt approach, viewing rhythmic experience in terms of pattern perception or groupings. Musical examples of increasing complexity are used to provide training in the analysis,...- $33.00
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Vendor: David Hunter
Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers
Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers explains the formal structure of the French language and sets out the basics of French versification, using examples drawn from a wide range of well-known song settings. In clear and concise style, it explains the Alexandrine meter...- $45.99
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Vendor: Philip Ball
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until...- $37.99
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Vendor: James Hepokoski
Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata
Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800. This foundational study draws upon the joint strengths of current music history and music theory to outline a new, up-to-date paradigm for...- $87.00
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Vendor: Philip Ball
Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until...- $58.00
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Vendor: Micheal Houlahan
From Sound to Symbol: Fundamentals of Music
The ONLY text that uses sound first as a more natural and organic way to learn music theory Designed for a one-semester musical fundamentals course, From Sound to Symbol: Fundamentals of Music, Second Edition, clearly covers all essential topics, but with a unique, sound-to-symbol...- $209.99
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Vendor: Edward Gollin
The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories
In recent years Hugo Riemann's ideas have thoroughly captured the music-theoretical imagination, both in the United States and abroad. Neo-Riemannian theory has proven particularly adept at explaining features of chromatic music where other theoretical approaches have failed, and in so doing has established itself...- $58.00
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Vendor: John Fauvel
Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals
From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations. This collection of wide ranging, comprehensive and fully-illustrated papers, authorized by leading scholars, presents the link between these two subjects in a...- $53.00
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Vendor: Peter Townsend
The Evolution of Music Through Culture and Science
The Evolution of Music by Culture and Science aims to recognise the impact of science on music, why it occurs, how we respond, and even to tentatively see if we can predict future developments. Technology has played an immense role in the development of...- $40.99
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Vendor: W. Royal Stokes
Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers
A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz, he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started...- $35.99
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Vendor: Steven G. Laitz
Graduate Review of Tonal Theory: A Recasting of Common-Practice Harmony, Form, and Counterpoint [With CD (Audio)]
Building on the same pedagogy that informed The Complete Musician, this Graduate Review of Tonal Theory is the first book to review music theory at a level that is sophisticated enough for beginning graduate students. Steven G. Laitz and Christopher Bartlette address students as...- $106.99
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Vendor: Eric Booth
The Music Teaching Artist's Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator
When the artist moves into the classroom or community to educate and inspire students and audience members, this is Teaching Artistry. It is a proven means for practicing professional musicians to create a successful career in music, providing not only necessary income but deep...- $41.99
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Vendor: David J. Elliott
Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education
Why is music significant in life and education? What shall we teach? How? To whom? Where and when? The praxial philosophy espoused in Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education offers an integrated sociocultural, artistic, participatory, and ethics-based concept of the natures and values...- $169.99
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Vendor: Mervyn Cooke
The Hollywood Film Music Reader
A rich and informative look at the experiences of composers working under high pressure in the US film industry, The Hollywood Film Music Reader brings readers from film's earliest days to the modern blockbuster era. Beginning with the origins of movie music in the...- $60.00
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Vendor: Richard Taruskin
Text and ACT: Essays on Music and Performance
Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which now classics in...- $83.00
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Vendor: Alice M. Hammel
Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource
Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource brings together theory, policy, and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms. The resource is a result of collaboration between K-12 teachers, outstanding undergraduate and graduate music education students, and professionals in the field. The...- $44.99
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Vendor: Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Foundations of Musical Grammar
In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology. In the culmination of a vast body of research undertaken since his influential and award-winning Conceptualizing Music (OUP 2002), Lawrence M....- $62.00
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Vendor: William Gibbons
Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music
Classical music is everywhere in video games. Works by composers like Bach and Mozart fill the soundtracks of games ranging from arcade classics, to indie titles, to major franchises like BioShock, Civilization, and Fallout. Children can learn about classical works and their histories from...- $39.99
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Vendor: David Neumeyer
The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies
Music has been an integral part of film exhibition from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century. With the arrival of sound film in the late 1920s, music became part of a complex multimedia text. Although industry, fan-oriented, and scholarly literatures on film music...- $54.00
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Vendor: Steven Rings
Tonality and Transformation
Tonality and Transformation is a groundbreaking study in the analysis of tonal music. Focusing on the listener's experience, author Steven Rings employs transformational music theory to illuminate diverse aspects of tonal hearing - from the infusion of sounding pitches with familiar tonal qualities to...- $46.99
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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...- $99.00
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Vendor: Aventuras Viaje
Music Theory for Beginners: Essential Music Theory Made Easy for All Musicians
Play in Perfect Harmony!Music Theory for Beginners is a thorough yet accessible guide.It's written without confusing terms or jargon, and you can use the concepts to play any instrument in any style or genre.Rather than telling you what to do, it trains your ears...- $17.99
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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.