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Vendor: Ira Braus
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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Vendor: Edward Watson
Braille Music and Its Problems, What the National Institute for the Blind Has Accomplished: A Record of Fifty-Seven Years of English Effort
This fascinating history of braille music and its development offers a detailed and nuanced view into the challenges and successes of efforts to create accessible musical notation for blind and visually impaired musicians. The book focuses on the pioneering work of the National Institute...- $26.95
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Vendor: Robert Raines
Composition in the Digital World: Conversations with 21st Century American Composers
American composers are at the forefront of a renaissance in concert music, in the process expanding the very definition of the category. The impact of digital technology on the creative process and the unprecedented diversity of contemporary composers are arguably among the catalysts driving...- $73.00
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Charles-Simon Catel's Treatise on Harmony and the Disciplining of Harmony at the Early Paris Conservatory
This book traces the formation of the discipline of harmony at the Paris Conservatory, focusing on the seminal work of Charles-Simon Catel, and outlines the processes that would determine the content and scope of the discipline for much of the nineteenth century.Author: Michael J....- $100.00
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Vendor: Preston Hoffman
Chord Theory: For Beginners - Bundle - The Only 2 Books You Need to Learn Chord Music Theory, Chord Progressions and Chord Tone Solo
2 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: Music Theory and How to Play Chords Book 1)Music Theory: For Beginners - The Only 7 Exercises You Need to Learn Music Fundamentals and the Elements of Written Music TodayAre you struggling to learn about notes, scales, chords,...- $23.99
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
COMPLETE LEVEL Supplemental Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory: COMPLETE Supplemental Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory (identical to the COMPLETE
The COMPLETE Supplemental Answer Book (Ultimate Music Theory) is easy to use and is identical to the COMPLETE Supplemental Workbook. Bonus - Free Resources - Videos for all music history listening activities in the workbook.The COMPLETE Supplemental Workbook is designed to be completed with...- $44.97
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Vendor: Stephen Darlington
Composing Music for Worship
Graham Kendrick, John Bell and John Harper join other top names in religious music in this manual for church musicians which covers all tastes and styles. They explore what kind of music will speak in today's consumerist, multi-cultural, post-modern society where church attendance is...- $23.00
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Vendor: J. T. Carrodus
Chats to Violin Students in How to Study the Violin
Perfect for any student of the violin, full of helpful and easy to follow exercises that will have you enjoying and progressing in your play.Author: J. T. CarrodusISBN-10: 1444617982ISBN-13: 9781444617986Publisher: Chapman PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2009Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d- $19.99
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
Complete Rudiments Workbook - Ultimate Music Theory: Complete Music Theory Workbook (Ultimate Music Theory) includes UMT Guide & Chart, 12 Step-by-Ste
The Complete Music Theory Workbook (Ultimate Music Theory) includes all concepts from Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Music Theory levels and prepares students for college and theory exams.This impressive workbook includes 12 Comprehensive Lessons, 12 Review Tests, Music Theory Guide & Chart, plus 80 Free...- $49.97
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Vendor: W. A. Mathieu
Bridge of Waves: What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World
Music is, in one sense, merely a series of fleeting vibrations that arise and subside. How could it be that something so insubstantial fills us, and calms us, and makes us weep? Because, says W. A. Mathieu, music bridges mind and heart, self and...- $28.95
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Vendor: Phil Powrie
Composing for the Screen in Germany and the USSR: Cultural Politics and Propaganda
Despite the long history of music in film, its serious academic study is still a relatively recent development and therefore comprises a limited body of work. The contributors to this book, drawn from both film studies and musicology, attempt to rectify this oversight by...- $21.95
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Vendor: Fernando Orejuela
Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection
Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with songs such as Kendrick Lamar's "Alright," J. Cole's "Be Free," D'Angelo and the Vanguard's "The Charade," The Game's "Don't Shoot," Janelle Monae's "Hell You Talmbout," Usher's "Chains," and...- $25.00
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Vendor: Brad Rosten
Book of Arpeggios for Guitar
Book of Arpeggios for Guitar is a comprehensive collection of arpeggios for guitar players at every skill level. The arpeggios are presented in six positions of the fretboard, with parent scales and chords displayed on the same page. Some arpeggios are presented with alternate...- $16.95
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Vendor: Helen Winter
Chromatic Hand Signs: Glover, Curwen, Kodaly Solfege Chart
This is a set of chromatic hand signs (Glover - Curwen - Kodaly) perfect for music teachers and choir directors.Cut out the gestures charts and use them as a visual aid for yourself, your kids or your students. The size of the cut-out will...- $11.98
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Vendor: Matthew McDonald
Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives
Charles Ives (1874-1954) moved traditional compositional practice in new directions by incorporating modern and innovative techniques with nostalgic borrowings of 19th century American popular music and Protestant hymns. Matthew McDonald argues that the influence of Emerson and Thoreau on Ives's compositional style freed the...- $45.00
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Vendor: Youn Kim
Body and Force in Music: Metaphoric Constructions in Music Psychology
Our understanding of music is inherently metaphorical, and metaphoricity pervades all sorts of musical discourses, be they theoretical, analytical, philosophical, pedagogical, or even scientific. The notions of "body" and "force" are the two most pervasive and comprehensive scientific metaphors in musical discourse. Throughout various...- $170.00
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Vendor: P. Samuel Rubio
Classical Polyphony
The name of P. Samuel Rubio is known to students of Renaissance polyphony for his scholarly articles in learned periodicals, his editorship of different collections of sacred polyphony, and through his edition of the motets of Victory -- Tom s Luis de Victoria, Motetes,...- $26.95
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Vendor: Amiri Baraka
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Author: Amiri BarakaISBN-10: 0313225192ISBN-13: 9780313225192Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/1980Pages: 259Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.70w x 0.82d- $110.00
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Vendor: Evangelos C. Sembos
Chord Symbols in Jazz and Popular Music
In this book you will learn how to read and play chord symbols, and enjoy their full sound without restrictions in fingering. You will find 63 chords for each of the 14 keys (tonalities). This is a total of 882 chords with 882 keyboard...- $36.95
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Vendor: Chance Thomas
Composing Music for Games: The Art, Technology and Business of Video Game Scoring
Composing Music for Games is a guidebook for launching and maintaining a successful career as a video game composer. It offers a pragmatic approach to learning, intensified through challenging project assignments and simulations. Author Chance Thomas begins with the foundation of scoring principles applicable...- $68.95
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Vendor: Benjamin Britten
Complete Folksong Arrangements: 61 Songs for High Voice
(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). This landmark publication includes 61 songs, combining the contents of the seven published books of Britten folksong arrangements in High and Low Voice editions. Some of the songs have never before been transposed. The songs of Volume 6, for voice...- $37.99
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Vendor: Ted MacKenzie
Buddy Rich's Modern Interpretation of Snare Drum Rudiments Book/Online Audio [With DVD]
(Drum Instruction). Buddy Rich's Modern Interpretation of Snare Drum Rudiments contains systematic instruction for the beginner student who wants to learn to play drums. It is also a great value to the teacher and professional drummer who wishes to increase his knowledge of rudiments....- $34.99
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Vendor: Mike Rowe
Chicago Blues: The City and the Music
Chicago has always had a reputation as a "wide open town" with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues-more sophisticated, cynical, and street-smart...- $19.99
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Vendor: Stacy Wolf
Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical
From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre...- $43.99
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Vendor: Jorge Variego
Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition
Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition provides an innovative approach to the instruction of the craft of music composition based on tailored exercises to help students develop their creativity. When composition is condensed to a series of logical steps, it can...- $26.99
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Vendor: William E. Caplin
Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis...- $75.00
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Vendor: Ennio Morricone
Composing for the Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film
With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for such films as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon...- $69.00
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Vendor: Tara Boykin
Cascade Method NoteMatch Book 1 Learn to Read Music for Piano Beginners: The Best Method Book to Teaching Piano Beginners How to Read Music From the S
The Easiest Way to Learn How to Read Notes The Cascade Method NoteMatch Book 1 is the only piano book you need to teach beginner students how to read sheet music all while having FUN Learn how to Draw, Write and Read Music with...- $16.00
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Vendor: Rob Silver
Complete Mode Diagrams for Guitar
This guide maps out all of the Greek or Church modes for you.All the diagrams include the intervals within the scales rather than just dots to help you understand what you are playing, not just tell you where you need to put your fingers.For...- $10.99
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Vendor: Eddie Landsberg
Chord Construction and Harmonic Mastery for Acing The Real Book
"The Real Book" has set the gold standard for Jazz fake books. This book aims at giving you the rich harmonic vocabulary that you need to benefit from its lead sheets, as well as effectively utilize any fake book that requires you to be...- $14.95
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Vendor: Dan Maske
Circle of Fifths Explained: Understanding the Basics of Harmonic Organization
(Explained). The circle of fifths is a familiar tool known by many musicians. Although this device usually receives nothing more than a brief explanation in most music theory books, the circle illustrates the foundation that organizes much of Western tonal music and is therefore...- $14.99
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Vendor: Eros Mungal
Claire's Workbook Music Theory and Exercises
Ever wanted to read and play music and unable to have lessons, or having lessons but want to progress more rapidly? This book was co-written with a young lady with several years' teaching experience - you too can teach yourself to play the keyboard...- $21.12
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Vendor: David Kopp
Chromatic Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Music
David Kopp's book develops a model of chromatic chord relations in nineteenth-century music by composers such as Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms. The emphasis is on explaining chromatic third relations and the pivotal role they play in theory and practice. Drawing on tenets...- $65.99
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Vendor: Fred Lerdahl
Composition and Cognition: Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind
In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as...- $34.95
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Vendor: Aaron Horne
Brass Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography
Aaron Horne provides the most comprehensive guide to brass music written by black composers. He covers composers from around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Included in the book is biographical information; commission, duration, instrumentation, date of publication, premiere, publisher, discography for...- $83.00
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Vendor: Aaron Hayes
Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music
Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music gives a historical and philosophical account of the discussions of the nature of time and music during the mid-twentieth century. The nature of time was a persistent topic among composers in Paris and Darmstadt in the decades...- $170.00
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Vendor: Julian Johnson
Classical Music: A Beginner's Guide
Pick up where Classic FM leaves off What does classical music mean to the Western World? How has it transformed over the centuries? With such a rich tradition, what relevance does it have today? Julian Johnson inspires readers to explore the field, and examines...- $14.99
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Vendor: Ira Braus
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....- $30.99
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Vendor: Rob Silver
Complete Mode Diagrams for Seven String Guitar
This guide maps out the "Greek" or "Church" modes: IONIAN, DORIAN, PHRYGIAN, LYDIAN, MIXOLYDIAN, AEOLIAN and LOCRIAN for you on 7 string guitar in standard tuning. (B, E, A, D, G, B, E.)Each mode is mapped out all over the neck, as a 4...- $11.99
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Vendor: Rob Silver
Complete Mode Diagrams for Eight String Guitar
This guide maps out the "Greek" or "Church" modes: IONIAN, DORIAN, PHRYGIAN, LYDIAN, MIXOLYDIAN, AEOLIAN and LOCRIAN for you on 8 string guitar in standard tuning. (F#, B, E, A, D, G, B, E.)Each mode is mapped out all over the neck and as...- $12.99
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Vendor: Sean Alexander Luciw
Chaos in Boxes
In Chaos In Boxes, author Sean Luciw crams the square peg of music theory into the round holes of Egyptian folklore, astronomy, numerology, babooshkas, poetry, diarrhea, and the long-lost Solfeggio matrix. Parallels abound in our universe. Chaos In Boxes is a collection of experiments,...- $15.00
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Vendor: Fred Lerdahl
Composition and Cognition: Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind
In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as...- $95.00
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Vendor: Gregory D. Booth
Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios
Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as composers, arrangers,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Christoph Neidhofer
Baroque Counterpoint: Revised and Expanded Edition
Christoph Neidher is Associate Professor in the Department of Music Research at McGill University. Peter Schubert is Professor in the Department of Music Research at McGill University.Author: Christoph Neidhofer, Peter SchubertISBN-10: 1438493258ISBN-13: 9781438493251Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2023Pages: 502Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.35lbsSize:...- $69.95
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Vendor: Kim Perlak
Berklee Guitar Theory
(Berklee Guide). Become a more musical guitar player! This book will help you learn and use chords, scales, and other building blocks of music from a guitarist's perspective. It applies concepts of music theory directly to your instrument, using the time-honored teaching approaches of...- $26.99
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Vendor: David Young
Beethoven Symphonies Revisited: Performance, Expression and Impact
Beethoven Symphonies Revisited guides the reader -- music student, concert goer, or general music lover -- through the movements in a way that renews the novelty and excitement that listeners must have felt at the first performances. Stylistic discussion concentrates on the unusual features...- $130.00
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Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint
This book offers new interpretations of many of Bach's late compositions which include complex musical techniques such as canon. These techniques held great significance for Bach and his contemporaries not only on account of the great skill they demanded but because of the meanings...- $120.00
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Beethoven's Diabelli Variations
The Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120, represent Beethoven's most extraordinary achievement in the art of variation-writing. In their originality and power of invention, they stand beside other late Beethoven masterpieces such as the Ninth Symphony, the Missa Solemnis, and the...- $49.99
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Basic Music Theory Exams Set #1 - Ultimate Music Theory Exam Series: Preparatory, Basic, Intermediate & Advanced Exams Set #1 & Set #2 - Four Exams in
The Basic Music Theory Exams Set 1 Workbook Ultimate Music Theory Exam Series is a "MUST" for successful preparation for the Basic Music Theory Exam.Preparing for nationally recognized exams including the Royal Conservatory of Music Exams, just got easier!For maximum learning, complete both Set...- $14.97
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Basic Music Theory: A Beginner's Guide
Dive into the wonderful world of music and music theory with this fun and engaging activity-filled workbook Learn to draw clefs, identify key and time signature and read notes. This is the perfect book for beginners of all ages. With a gentle yet instructive...- $8.99
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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.

