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Vendor: Ruth Barton
Music and Sound in Silent Film: From the Nickelodeon to The Artist
Despite their name, the silent films of the early cinematic era were frequently accompanied by music and other sound elements of many kinds, including mechanical instruments, live performers, and audience sing-alongs. The 12 chapters in this concise book explore the multitude of functions filled...- $49.95
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Music Theory Essentials: A Streamlined Approach to Fundamentals, Tonal Harmony, and Post-Tonal Materials
Music Theory Essentials offers an antidote to music theory textbooks that are overly long and dense. Focusing on the essentials, this text provides a clear-cut guide to the key concepts of music theory. Beginning with no assumptions about music theory knowledge, the book covers...- $74.95
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Understanding Video Game Music
Understanding Video Game Music develops a musicology of video game music by providing methods and concepts for understanding music in this medium. From the practicalities of investigating the video game as a musical source to the critical perspectives on game music - using examples...- $32.99
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Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897-2017
Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897-2017 constitutes the first comprehensive study of music for screen productions from or relating to the island. It identifies and interprets tendencies over the first 120 years of a field comprising the relatively distinct yet often overlapping areas...- $170.00
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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...- $135.00
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Vendor: Jonathan Kregor
Program Music
Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems, the tone poems of Strauss and...- $95.00
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Vendor: Peter Townsend
Music Flash Card Book: Notes & Symbols
More than 100 double sided music theory flash cards.Useful for both music/instrument teachers and students.Contents pages showing topics and numbers/codes for each card.In a handy book - no more jumbled or lost flash cards Includes: - note values (including dotted)- rest values- clefs- key...- $12.71
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Vendor: Andy Schneider
Seeing Music on the Guitar: A visual approach to playing music
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 Guitar is the first book of its kind: Using an easy, visual method to teach practical music...- $16.99
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Vendor: Karen Harrington
Notespeller for Piano, Book 3: Hal Leonard Student Piano Library
(Educational Piano Library). Students join Spike and Party Cat as they explore the sights and tourist attractions in Music City . Their visit includes assignments that help students sharpen their music reading skills, learn to read ledger-line notes, and identify intervals, half and whole...- $8.99
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Vendor: Bryan Delauney
Interval and Major Scale Theory
"Unlock the Essentials of Music with 'Interval and Major Scale Theory'"Return to the core principles of music with "Interval and Major Scale Theory." This insightful guide is designed to lead you back to the fundamentals of music, providing a strong foundation for expanding your...- $10.99
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Vendor: Julia Winterson
Music Theory -- The Essential Guide
Music Theory: The Essential Guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. Written and structured to make content as easily digestible as possible, this indispensable guide introduces key musical concepts such as pitch, tempo, rhythm,...- $11.95
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Vendor: Jeremy S. Begbie
Theology, Music and Time
Theology, Music and Time shows ways in which music can deepen our understanding of the Christian God and his involvement with the world. Without assuming any specialist knowledge of music, the author explores rhythm, meter, resolution, repetition and improvisation, and through them opens up...- $47.99
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Vendor: Thomas Christensen
Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment
This is the first intellectual biography of the French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. Rameau synthesised the vocabulary and grammar of musical practice into a concise scientific system, earning himself the popular title of 'Newton of the Arts'. Ranging widely over the musical and...- $34.99
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Vendor: Jeremy S. Begbie
Theology, Music and Time
Theology, Music and Time shows ways in which music can deepen our understanding of the Christian God and his involvement with the world. Without assuming any specialist knowledge of music, the author explores rhythm, meter, resolution, repetition and improvisation, and through them opens up...- $95.00
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Vendor: Andrew Barker
The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece
The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. It was the most important branch of Greek musical theory, studied by philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers as well as by...- $65.99
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Vendor: Ian Bent
Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism
Twelve authors probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music. They provide a searching examination of writings by music theorists, critics, aestheticians, philosophers, and commentators from 1800 to 1875. In doing so, they wield new critical tools as well as...- $49.99
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Vendor: Bill Bruford
Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer
What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres? Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the...- $29.95
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Vendor: Christopher Doll
Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era
Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic schemas. The identification of these schemas, as...- $39.95
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Vendor: Neil Lerner
Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear
Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. Frightening images and ideas can be made even more intense when accompanied with frightening musical...- $54.95
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Vendor: Philip Brett
Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology
When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of...- $68.95
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Vendor: Fred Karlin
On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring
On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's aesthetic vision with the needs of...- $105.00
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Vendor: Edward T. Cone
Perspectives on Notation and Performance
This series of Norton books, devoted to informed discussion of contemporary music, draws principally upon articles first published in Perspectives of New Music, which Richard Kostelanetz has described as "among the most consistently interesting magazines in America." The Perspectives books comprise a repository of...- $21.95
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Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary
Provides information on the structure, origin, and playing of musical instruments throughout the world from prehistory to modern times.Author: Sibyl MarcuseISBN-10: 0393007588ISBN-13: 9780393007589Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1975Pages: 628Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.39d- $35.00
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Vendor: Eric Clarke
Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning
In recent years, many psychologists and cognitive scientists have published their views on the psychology of music. Unfortunately, this scientific literature has remained inaccessible to musicologists and musicians, and has neglected their insights on the subject. In Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke explores...- $46.99
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Vendor: David Lewin
Musical Form and Transformation: Four Analytic Essays
Distinguished music theorist and composer David Lewin (1933-2003) applies the conceptual framework he developed in his earlier, innovative Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations to the varied repertoire of the twentieth century in this stimulating and illustrative book. Analyzing the diverse compositions of four canonical...- $44.99
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Vendor: Nicholas Cook
The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-De-Si鐵le Vienna
Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical...- $60.00
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Vendor: Justin London
Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter
Our sense that a waltz is "in three" or a blues song is "in four with a shuffle" comes from our sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of our musical experience from a psychological point of view. Musical meter...- $63.00
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Vendor: Benjamin R. Levy
Metamorphosis in Music: The Compositions of Gygy Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s
From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Hungarian composer Gy�rgy Ligeti went through a remarkable period of stylistic transition, from the emulation of his fellow countryman B�la Bart�k to his own individual style at the forefront of the Western-European avant-garde. Through careful study of the...- $110.00
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Vendor: Wayne Bowman
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education
Music education thrives on philosophical inquiry, the systematic and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions. Yet philosophy, often considered abstract and irrelevant, is often absent from the daily life of music instructors. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, editors Wayne D....- $58.00
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Vendor: Noriko Manabe
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima
Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the 1950s, and in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the conflict has only grown. Government agencies and the nuclear industry continue to push a nuclear agenda, while the mainstream media...- $42.99
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Vendor: John A. Sloboda
The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music
In this survey of our current knowledge concerning the cognitive psychology of music, the author--a psychologist and practicing musician--examines the mental processes involved in composing, performing, listening to, and "understanding" music, and shows how such skills are acquired.Author: John A. SlobodaISBN-10: 0198521286ISBN-13: 9780198521280Publisher: Clarendon...- $96.00
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Vendor: Deryck Cooke
The Language of Music
First published in 1959, this original study argues that the main characteristic of music is that it expresses and evokes emotion, and that all composers whose music has a tonal basis have used the same, or closely similar, melodic phrases, harmonies, and rhythms to...- $77.00
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Vendor: Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis
This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the...- $58.00
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Vendor: Deborah Stein
Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis
The first collection of its kind, Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis includes twenty-two selections by highly esteemed contemporary music theorists, sixteen of which were written especially for this volume. Featuring work by such luminaries as Charles Burkhart, Edward T. Cone, Allen Forte, David...- $139.99
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Vendor: Ann McCutchan
The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process
The Muse That Sings is a unique behind-the-scenes look at both twentieth-century music and the nuts and bolts of creative work. Here, twenty-five of America's leading composers--from Adams to Zorn, from Bolcom to Vierk--talk candidly about their craft, their motivations, their difficulties, and how...- $83.00
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Vendor: Charles M. Atkinson
The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music
The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered in order to work within the then-operative modal system. To unravel this mystery, Charles Atkinson creates a...- $94.00
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Vendor: Carl Schachter
The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory
Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt in the classroom....- $46.99
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Vendor: Danijela Kulezic-Wilson
Sound Design Is the New Score: Theory, Aesthetics, and Erotics of the Integrated Soundtrack
The practice of blurring the line between score and sound design has transformed contemporary film soundscape by challenging not only the long-established hierarchical relationships between dialogue, music, and sound effects, but also the modes of perception shaped by classical soundtrack practices. The methods of...- $49.99
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Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm
Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing. Editors Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty address a productive...- $73.00
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Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach
Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire. The book provides philosophical frameworks, primary-source analysis, and clear, actionable practices and exercises aimed at recovering the improvisatory and inventive...- $37.99
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Music for Analysis: Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Century
Offering 477 pieces of music from the Baroque period to the present, Music for Analysis, Eighth Edition, is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind. The book is organized by music theory concept, so it can easily be linked to any introductory theory course....- $198.99
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The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory
Topics are musical signs developed and employed primarily during the long eighteenth century. Their significance relies on associations that are clearly recognizable to the listener with different genres, styles and types of music making. Topic theory, which is used to explain conventional subjects of...- $54.00
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One Handed: A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand
This guide to the piano literature for the one-handed pianist surveys over 2,100 individual piano pieces which include not only concert literature but pedagogical pieces as well. Following the introduction are four chapters cataloguing original works for the right hand alone, original works for...- $83.00
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Vendor: Arthur Weisberg
Performing Twentieth-Century Music: A Handbook for Conductors and Instrumentalists
Even the most accomplished musicians are often defeated by the demands of the modern repertory. Yet until now, no practical manual has addressed the performance problems specific to twentieth-century music. This concise, straightforward handbook by the renowned conductor and instrumentalist Arthur Weisberg will guide...- $29.00
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The Stratification of Musical Rhythm
There are many books on counterpoint and harmony, but few indeed on the theory of rhythm. Those few approach it through its graphic notation, or in terms of metrical feet, as if it were poetry. Maury Yeston treats rhythm instead in the context of...- $62.00
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Vendor: Hugh Aitken
The Piece as a Whole: Studies in Holistic Musical Analysis
Designed to serve music students at the college level, this informal approach to music theory relates the technical aspects of music with the expressive character of the art. The approach is holistic in the sense that it focuses on the interrelationships between the piece...- $35.00
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Music and Musical Thought in Early India
Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures, formal...- $32.00
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Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession
Ritual trance has always been closely associated with music--but why, and how? Gilbert Rouget offers and extended analysis of music and trance, concluding that no universal law can explain the relations between music and trance; they vary greatly and depend on the system of...- $53.00
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This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music
This Will End in Tears is the first ever and definitive guide to melancholy music. Author Adam Brent Houghtaling leads music fans across genres, beyond the enclaves of emo and mope-rock, and through time to celebrate the albums and artists that make up the...- $16.99
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Classical Cooks: A Gastrohistory of Western Music
CLASSICAL COOKS: A GASTROHISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC by Ira Braus The expression, "Classical music is an acquired taste" takes on new meaning in Ira Braus's Classical Cooks: A Gastrohistory of Western Music. Unlike most classical music guides, Classical Cooks links music and food synaesthetically....- $20.99
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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.
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