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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: 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: 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: 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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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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Vendor: Michael Baumgartner
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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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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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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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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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.

