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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...- $9.99
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Metafilm Music in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema
Hailed as a leading innovator of visual montage, unique storytelling style, and ground-breaking cinematography, Jean-Luc Godard is a prominent pioneer in sculpting complex soundtracks altering the familiar relationship between sound and image, but his achievements in sound have been largely overlooked. Such a lacuna...- $48.99
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Vendor: Per Dahl
Modes of Communication in Stravinsky's Works: Sign and Expression
Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas. There are many examples of discrepancies between his literate statements about music and musicians and his musical compositions and activity. Per Dahl presents a model of communication that unveils a clear and logical...- $170.00
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Vendor: Will Metz
Music Theory for the Self-Taught Musician: Level 2: Harmony, Composition, and Improvisation
Will Metz's main ambition in his first book, Music Theory for Self-Taught Musicians: Level 1: The Basics, was to define and introduce all the main concepts used in music theory (intervals, chords, scales, modes, etc.). He refers to these notions as "tools" because they...- $34.95
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Vendor: Somangshu Mukherji
Rītigaula: A Study of Improvisation and Discourse in Indian Music
This book, authored by the late Princeton music scholar Harold Powers, discusses a single Indian rāga called Rītigaula. Rītigaula's pitch structure, conventions surrounding its performance, and its treatment in historical Indian music treatises are comprehensively described. Powers's unique approach to theorizing rāga examines rāga...- $170.00
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Vendor: Lauren Lewandowski
Ready for Theory: Piano Workbook, Prep A
Ready for Theory(R) is a comprehensive music theory workbook series. All concepts introduced have instructional pages in addition to ample review for students.Teachers and students love the clean, organized layout of Ready for Theory! Topics in the Prep A Piano Workbook include: Steps &...- $12.95
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Vendor: David Copeland
Music and the Atomic Bomb on American Television, 1950-1969
Music and the Atomic Bomb on American Television, 1950-1969 is the first book to consider the important role that music and sound play in the destruction narratives about the Bomb on Cold War-era television.Author: David Copeland, Reba WissnerISBN-10: 1433146681ISBN-13: 9781433146688Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International...- $52.75
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Vendor: Andy Schneider
Seeing Music on the Left-Handed Guitar: A visual approach to playing music
Just for Lefties Unlock Your Imagination and Start Making New Music - YOUR music - with Complete Knowledge of How Chords, Scales and Melodies Are All Related.Seeing Music on the Left-Handed Guitar is the first book of its kind: Using an easy, visual method...- $16.99
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Vendor: Dylan Sax
Understanding music theory: Easy reading music guide for beginners: how to learn step by step music without difficulty!
Understand Music Theory An easy-read, educational beginners' guide to learning musicHave you wanted to learn more about music?Are you considering pursuing it as a passion? Are you lost on what to do and where to start?If even one of these questions was yes from...- $14.99
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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...- $111.00
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Vendor: Kevin G. Pace
The Comprehensive Book of Modes and Scales: For Piano and Keyboard Players, 2nd edition
The Comprehensive Book of Modes and Scales for Piano and Keyboard Players, 2nd edition was written specifically for classically trained pianists with little knowledge of scales. This book contains over 70 scales and modes including major, minor, jazz modes, pentatonic, bebop, octatonic, etc. Each...- $26.78
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Vendor: Jane Piper Clendinning
The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis
The Musician's Guide series is the complete package of theory and aural skills that covers everything students need to know for the AP(R) exam. Featuring a wider range of repertoire than ever, the AP(R) textbook discusses music that will be relevant to every musician,...- $183.50
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Vendor: Frank Abrahams
The Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy
As the landscape of choral education changes - disrupted by Glee, YouTube, and increasingly cheap audio production software - teachers of choral conducting need current research in the field that charts scholarly paths through contemporary debates and sets an agenda for new critical thought...- $54.00
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Vendor: Maria Renold
Intervals, Scales, Tones: And the Concert Pitch C = 128 Hz
Why is it that certain intervals, scales, and tones sound genuine, while others sound false? Is the modern person able to experience a qualitative difference in a tone's pitch? If so, what are the implications for modern concert pitch and how instruments of fixed...- $50.00
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Vendor: Knud Jeppesen
Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century
2020 Reprint of the 1939 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. In music theory counterpoint is the relationship between voices which are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour. It has been most commonly...- $13.95
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Vendor: Ariel J. Ramos
The Universal Encyclopedia of Scales Volume 4: Scales with 5 modes
This is Volume 4 of 12 of the Universal Encyclopedia of Scales.Volume 4 covers Scales with 5 modes. The complete encyclopedia is also available as a book set of 12 volumes.A complete encyclopedia of scales has always been on every musician's wish-list. There are...- $28.62
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Vendor: Franz Sauter
Tonal Music: Anatomy of the Musical Aesthetics
This book is about the aesthetics of the tonal music. It therefore deals with sound forms such as consonance, dissonance, tonality, bar, counterpoint or motif. Thereby, it shows that all harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic sound figures are essentially relations in which similar sound components...- $17.50
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Vendor: James Wierzbicki
The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook
The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated, thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film music dating from its beginnings to the present, from the US and other select countries around the globe. The documents represent a wide variety...- $220.00
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Vendor: Dmitri N. Smirnov
The Anatomy of Theme in Beethoven's Piano Sonatas
"It is impossible to fully understand any composition that belongs to any epoch, either before or after Beethoven, if you do not proceed from Beethoven. ...] Only at the level that form had reached in the music of Beethoven could this form ...] reveal...- $20.00
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Vendor: Elvine Robert
How to Play Piano Professionally: A complete guide for beginners, All in one: The Gateway to Perfection
Are you in love with the piano? If you are, even for a tiny little bit, then, you'd be looking to take this new found love a step further!How to Play the Piano Professionally is a well-written book with illustrations taking you from a...- $24.99
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Vendor: Edward Nowacki
Greek and Latin Music Theory: Principles and Challenges
A long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages. Long recognized as a foundation of musical composition, criticism, pedagogy, and appreciation, the literature of ancient and...- $105.00
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Vendor: Justin Patch
Re-Making Sound: An Experiential Approach to Sound Studies
Re-Making Sound is concise and flexible primer to sound studies. It takes students through six ways of conceptualizing sound and its links to other social phenomena: soundscapes; noise; sound and semiotics of the voice; sound and/through/in text; background sound/sound design; and sound art. Each...- $29.95
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Vendor: Aileen Dillane
Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives
Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive, cutting-edge companion guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from a range of fields, it explores a wide range of examples of, and contexts for, songs and their performance that have...- $67.00
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Vendor: Miguel Mera
The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound
The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with forms of narrative media such as television, videogames, and film. The inclusive framework of...- $56.95
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Vendor: Jennifer Snodgrass
Teaching Music Theory: New Voices and Approaches
In recent years, music theory educators around the country have developed new and innovative teaching approaches, reintroducing a sense of purpose into their classrooms. In this book, author and veteran music theory educator Jennifer Snodgrass visits several of these teachers, observing them in their...- $36.99
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Vendor: Stephen Kennedy
Future Sounds: The Temporality of Noise
What can the sounds of today tell us about the future? Can an analysis of sound and sonic practices allow us to make reliable predictions in relation to wider social phenomena? And what might they tell us about technology in a world where futurology...- $44.95
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Vendor: Scott Su
Your Training Notebook On Pop Music Special Chord Progressions: A must-owned tool book for Composition / Learning / Harmony / Arrangement (Suitable fo
★ Carefully Selected Songs, Understand The Uniqueness Well-chosen 7 classic domestic and international pop music songs with unique chord progressions ★ Viewing From Pop Music Aspects, Easy To Learn And Use Complete sum-ups of harmony techniques in pop music applications and convenient to look-up...- $15.99
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Vendor: Ewald Demeyere
Johann Sebastian Bach's "art of Fugue": Performance Practice Based on German Eighteenth-Century Theory [With Score]
With the Art of Fugue, Bach delivered a polyphonic composition for keyboard of unprecedented proportions and complexity. Notwithstanding that the existing literature on this brilliant work is vast, a performer does not often find answers to practical questions such as, "Why is this note...- $55.00
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Vendor: Thomas Christensen
Partimento and Continuo Playing in Theory and in Practice
This volume reflects a multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music performance and music theory. Thomas Christensen, in his contribution, shows how the development of tonal harmonic theory went hand in hand with the practice of thoroughbass. Both Robert Gjerdingen and...- $41.50
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Vendor: William E. Caplin
Musical Form, Forms, and Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflections
In Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflections, three eminent music theorists consider the fundamentals of musical form. They discuss how to analyze form in music and question the relevance of analytical theories and methods in general. They illustrate their basic concepts and...- $38.00
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Vendor: Steven G. Laitz
The Complete Musician: The Essentials
Based on Steven G. Laitz's highly acclaimed The Complete Musician, this volume offers a streamlined and exceptionally approachable introduction to key topics of music theory. In a brief package that includes a workbook, online recordings of all examples, and two online video demonstrations for...- $74.95
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
LEVEL 5 Supplemental - Ultimate Music Theory: The LEVEL 5 Supplemental Workbook is designed to be completed after the Basic Rudiments and LEVEL 4 Supp
The LEVEL 5 Supplemental Workbook - Ultimate Music Theory is designed to be completed after the Step-by-Step Basic Rudiments Workbook and the LEVEL 4 Supplemental Workbook.Learn music history, melody writing, analysis and more.UMT Basic Rudiments Workbook plus the LEVEL 4 Supplemental = RCM Theory...- $19.97
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
Preparatory Music Theory Exams Set #2 Answer Book Ultimate Music Theory Exam Series: Preparatory, Basic, Intermediate & Advanced Exams Set #1 & Set #2
The Preparatory Music Theory Exams Set 2 Answer Book Ultimate Music Theory Exam Series is a "must-have" teacher resource for instantly marking all Four Exams in the Preparatory Music Theory Exams Set 2 Workbook.The UMT Exam Series is the ONLY exam series with matching...- $14.97
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
Intermediate Rudiments Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory: Intermediate Music Theory Answer Book (identical to the Intermediate Theory Workbook), Sav
The Intermediate Music Theory Answer Book is easy to use and is identical to the Intermediate Music Theory Workbook.Intermediate Music Theory Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory features these concepts and more!Ultimate Music Theory's time-saving accelerated learning techniques will empower you to: Build Knowledge...- $34.97
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Vendor: Mehmet Ali Alkus
Scales, Modes & Maqam Scales with Listening Samples
This book is part of a series composed of 4 books: "Measures in Music", "Intervals in Temperament & Arel-Ezgi Systems", "Scales, Modes & Maqam Scales" and "Chords & Fourth Harmony Chords". In this book, most frequently used scales and modes in temperament system; ajnas...- $73.44
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Vendor: Andrzej Rychard
Music and Genocide
What is the music of genocide? Can the experience of ultimate terror be expressed in music? How does music reflect on genocide? How do we perceive music after genocide? What is music and what is silence in a world marked by mass killings? Is...- $78.75
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Vendor: Constantin Floros
Gyoergy Ligeti: Beyond Avant-garde and Postmodernism. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
The first part of the book centers on questions of biography, art and music theory, the psychology of creation and general aesthetics and concerns basic traits of Ligeti's personality and work. The more extensive second part comprises discussions of his most representative works, with...- $74.05
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Vendor: Guerino Mazzola
Cool Math for Hot Music: A First Introduction to Mathematics for Music Theorists
Part I: Introduction and Short History.- The 'Counterpoint' of Mathematics and Music.- Short History of the Relationship Between Mathematics and Music.- Part II: Sets and Functions.- The Architecture of Sets.- Functions and Relations.- Universal Properties.- Part III: Numbers.- Natural Numbers.- Recursion.- Natural Arithmetic.- Euclid...- $99.99
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Vendor: Preston Hoffman
Fretboard Theory: For Beginners - Bundle - The Only 3 Books You Need to Learn Fretboard Music Theory, Ukulele and Guitar Fretboard Techn
3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: Music Theory, How to Play Guitar and How to Play Ukulele Book 1) Music Theory: For Beginners - The Only 7 Exercises You Need to Learn Music Fundamentals and the Elements of Written Music Today Do you get...- $27.99
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Vendor: David Matthew Shere Ph. D.
Tools For Improvisation Part II (Bass Clef): Minor scale modes and harmony
This book is the second in a series, a well-organized, comprehensive theory book which addresses the most fundamental tools necessary for a good foundation in jazz improvisation: Minor scale modes and harmony. The tools in this manual can also be applied to any other...- $19.95
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Music Theory for Beginners: The Only 7 Exercises You Need to Learn Music Fundamentals and the Elements of Written Music Today
All You Need to Understand the Fundamentals of Music Theory and Unlock Your Music Potential Are you struggling to learn about notes, scales, chords, keys, and other critical elements of music theory? Do you get overwhelmed by all the complex concepts and want a...- $17.99
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Vendor: Don Linke
Pitch Name / Scale Degree: Essential Tools For Fingerboard Recognition and Improvisation
Author: Don LinkeISBN-10: 1978255217ISBN-13: 9781978255210Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2018Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.10d- $25.00
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Vendor: John Fitzgerald
Scales and Modes for Bass Improvisation
'Scales and Modes for Bass Improvisation' provides Bass Players with a comprehensive reference collection of scales and modes in all keys. The book can be used in conjunction with the mobile app Chordbot, online backing tracks or looping software / pedal to provide backings...- $10.44
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Vendor: Jeff Gardner
Popular Music Harmony Vol. 1 - Cycles
A complete all-instruments guide to cycles in popular music including guide tones, voicings with and without roots, Drop 2, passing chords, and melodic phrases based on pairs of seventh chords in all keys moving through the cycle of fifths. Features charts on visualization techniques...- $18.90
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Vendor: Mauro Pantin
Get Ready for the Real Book: The Basic Foundations for Jazz Guitar
Last year I had a chance to discuss guitar, guitar books, and music theory content with the Argentinean guitarist Mauro Pantin, and I immediately thought that we should find ways to collaborate, beyond the obvious performance angle. This new project - Get Ready for...- $12.24
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Vendor: Graham Tippett
Hacking the CAGED System: Book 1
The Hacking the CAGED System series was inspired by my own, and other guitarist's frustrations with the infamous CAGED System for learning guitar. It all started back in Music College in the early 2000s, at the ACM in Guildford (UK) to be precise, where...- $14.99
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Vendor: Frances Clark
The Music Tree English Edition Activities Book: Part 2a
The Music Tree is the most carefully researched and laboratory-tested series for elementary piano students available. This edition contains a natural, child-oriented sequence of learning experiences combined with new music of unprecedented variety and appeal. Great pedagogy and great music---a winning combinationAuthor: Frances Clark,...- $7.95
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Vendor: François de Médicis
Debussy's Resonance
Some of Debussy's most beloved pieces, as well as lesser-known ones from his early years, set in a rich cultural context by leading experts from the English- and French-speaking worlds. The music of Claude Debussy has always been widely beloved by listeners and performers...- $170.00
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Vendor: Jack Douthett
Music Theory and Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transformations
Essays in diatonic set theory, transformation theory, and neo-Riemannian theory -- the newest and most exciting fields in music theory today. The essays in Music Theory and Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transformations define the state of mathematically oriented music theory at the beginning of...- $115.00
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Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy
A generously illustrated examination of pentatonic ("black-key scale") techniques in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western art-music. Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy offers the first comprehensive account of a widely recognized aspect of music history: the increasing use of pentatonic ("black-key...- $145.00
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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.