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Vendor: Theodor W. Adorno
Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music
Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote extensive notes, essay fragments and aides-memoires on the subject of Beethoven's music. This book brings together all of Beethoven's...- $31.25
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Authenticity and Early Music
Nothing has more profoundly influenced the development of music making over the last two decades than the growth of the historical performance movement. Perceived by some as a threat, an indication of our loss of faith in our powers of musical creation, and by...- $77.00
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Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era
Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about time in music and science from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Centered on theories of musical meter, the book investigates the interdependence between theories of...- $41.99
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Vendor: Paul Hegarty
Beyond and Before, Updated and Expanded Edition: Progressive Rock Across Time and Genre
The original edition of Beyond and Before extends an understanding of "progressive rock" by providing a fuller definition of what progressive rock is, was and can be. Called by Record Collector "the most accomplished critical overview yet" of progressive rock and one of their...- $34.95
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Bebop Guitar Improv Series VOL 2- Workbook: A Comprehensive Guide To Jazz Improvisation
ABOUT THE BEBOP GUITAR IMPROV SERIESDeveloped over a 10 year period by its author and used as an instructional method in various music schools, The Bebop Guitar Improv Series consists of two volumes with multi-media materials. It is intended as a guide to lead...- $20.00
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Vendor: Richard Glover
Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality
Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton...- $150.00
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Beginner's Guide to Music Reading and Basic Theory
Originally published in 1920 in "The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Picture and Story," this course of simple lessons forms an excellent foundation for instruction on any instrument. It intends to make clear the terminology and notation of music, and some of the simpler...- $5.99
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
Basic Music Theory Exams Set #2 Answer Book - Ultimate Music Theory Exam Series: Preparatory, Basic, Intermediate & Advanced Exams Set #1 & Set #2 - F
The Basic Music Theory Exams Set 2 Answer Book is a "must have" teacher resource for instantly marking all Four Exams in the Basic Music Theory Exams Set 2 Workbook.The UMT Exam Series is the ONLY exam series with matching Answer books!UMT Exams are...- $14.97
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Bass Fretboard Theory - At a Glance [With CD (Audio)]
(At a Glance). The At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic, and the hi-def DVD lessons feature on-screen music....- $9.99
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Vendor: Pete Martin
Bebop Scales For Mandolin and Violin
An in depth study of the scales used by great jazz improvisors of the bebop era. Formatted for the mandolin and violin.Author: Pete MartinISBN-10: 1468085042ISBN-13: 9781468085044Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/25/2011Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.55d- $35.00
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Vendor: Pete Martin
Bebop Mandolin and Violin: Target Notes and Chromatic Approaches
An in depth study of Jazz improvisation strategies used by great players of the Bebop era. Specifically formatted for mandolin and violin.Author: Pete MartinISBN-10: 1468131842ISBN-13: 9781468131840Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/27/2011Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.33d- $35.00
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Vendor: Joseph A. Labuta
Basic Conducting Techniques
Basic Conducting Techniques, Seventh Edition, provides a clear and intelligible introduction to the art of conducting an ensemble. Over the course of fourteen chapters, the authors explicate the elements of conducting, supplementing their teachings with an extensive selection of musical examples from the classical...- $220.00
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Vendor: Timothy Cutler
Bending the Rules of Music Theory: Lessons from Great Composers
For students learning the principles of music theory, it can often seem as though the tradition of tonal harmony is governed by immutable rules that define which chords, tones, and intervals can be used where. Yet even within the classical canon, there are innumerable...- $69.95
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Vendor: Berlioz
Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise: A Translation and Commentary
Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise (1843) is a classic textbook by a master of the orchestra, which has not been available in English translation for over a century. This is a book by and about Berlioz, since it provides not only a new translation but also...- $34.99
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Vendor: Juniper Hill
Becoming Creative: Insights from Musicians in a Diverse World
How are our ability and motivation to be creative shaped by the world around us? Why does creativity seem to flourish in some environments, while others seem to stifle it? Many societies value creativity as an abstract concept and many, perhaps even most, individuals...- $38.99
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Vendor: David Cooper
Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook
This in-depth musicological and critical study examines how Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo plays a crucial role in the articulation and development of the film's narrative and how it affects readings of the film. Herrmann's collaboration with Hitchcock spanned eleven years and...- $91.00
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Vendor: Robert Stewart
An Introduction to Sixteenth Century Counterpoint and Palestrina's Musical Style
Presents a systematic approach to polyphonic composition in the ecclesiastical style of Palestrina. It is designed for use in beginning and intermediate level courses in modal counterpoint and helps students develop a systematic and reliable method to compare individual composers and stylistic trends of...- $97.00
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Vendor: Lee Lee Rothfarb
August Halm: A Critical and Creative Life in Music
The first detailed study of a prolific and influential early twentieth-century composer, critic, educator-a true sage of music. In the early 1900s, August Halm was widely acknowledged to be one of the most insightful and influential authors of his day on a wide range...- $120.00
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Vendor: David Price
All the Chords: Types - Notes - Functions - Names
Discover the scope and power of chords with this comprehensive and in-depth book! It includes every possible harmonic combination of notes from the even-tempered chromatic scale. All the Chords clearly explains chord theory with many examples and a chart for each chord type. These...- $14.53
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Vendor: Nancy Fuller Scoggin
AP Music Theory Premium, Fifth Edition: 2 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Audio
Be prepared for exam day with Barron's. Trusted content from AP experts! Barron's AP Music Theory Premium, Fifth Edition includes in-depth content review and practice as well as online audio. It's the only book you'll need to be prepared for exam day. Written by...- $44.99
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Vendor: Darla Crispin
Artistic Experimentation in Music: An Anthology
This book is the first anthology of writings about the emerging subject of artistic experimentation in music. This subject, as part of the cross-disciplinary field of artistic research, cuts across boundaries of the conventional categories of performance practice, music analysis, aesthetics, and music pedagogy....- $79.50
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Vendor: Dietrich Bartel
Andreas Werckmeister's Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse: A Well-Tempered Universe
Andreas Werckmeister (1645 - 1706), a late seventeenth-century German Lutheran organist, composer, and music theorist, is the last great advocate and defender of the Great Tradition in music, with its assumptions that music is a divine gift to humanity, spiritually charged yet rationally accessible,...- $105.00
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Vendor: Costas I. Karageorghis
Applying Music in Exercise and Sport
Music has been intertwined with exercise and sport for many decades, and recent advancements in digital technology and personal listening devices have significantly strengthened that bond. Applying Music in Exercise and Sport combines contemporary research, evidence-based practice, and specific recommendations to help exercise and...- $47.00
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Vendor: Inessa Bazayev
Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music: Tonality, Modernism, Serialism
This volume brings together analyses of works by thirteen Russian composers from across the twentieth century, showing how their approaches to tonality, modernism, and serialism forge forward-looking paths independent from their Western counterparts. Russian music of this era is widely performed, and much research...- $170.00
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Vendor: Silvina Milstein
Arnold Schoenberg: Notes, Sets, Forms
In this thought provoking study, Silvina Milstein proposes a reconstruction of Schoenberg's conception of compositional process in his twelve-tone works, which challenges the prevalent view that this music is to be appropriately understood exclusively in terms of the new method. Her claim that in...- $41.99
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Vendor: Michiel Schuijer
Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts
An engaging study -- the first ever -- of the principles used by noted scholars to unravel the masterpieces of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and other modernists. For the past forty years, pitch-class set theory has served as a frame of reference for the study of...- $125.00
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Vendor: Paul Duncan
Alfred Hitchcock. the Complete Films
The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspense--that is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling suspense. With triumphs such as Rebecca, Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho, Hitchcock (1899-1980) fashioned a new level of cinematic intrigue and fear through careful pacing, subtlety, and...- $40.00
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Vendor: Mark Harrison
All about Music Theory: A Fun and Simple Guide to Understanding Music Online Audio Access
(Music Instruction). If you wish there was a fun and engaging way to help you understand the fundamentals of music, then this is it. Whether it's learning to read music, understanding chords and scales, musical forms, or improvising and composing, this enjoyable guide will...- $24.99
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Vendor: Cameron Powers
Arabic Musical Scales: Basic Maqam Notation
Musicians desiring to play the Dance music, the Sacred music or the Folk music of the Arab and Turkish worlds must study these scales. Discover the musical basis for the incredibly rich emotions associated with Middle Eastern music. Forty-Five Arabic Musical Scales are taught...- $19.95
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Vendor: Allen Cadwallader
Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach
In this highly anticipated new edition of Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach, authors Allen Cadwallader, David Gagné, and Frank Samarotto use specific, memorable compositions to explain structural principles. This approach teaches students how to think about, critically examine, understand, and perform great...- $172.99
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Vendor: William E. Caplin
Analyzing Classical Form: An Approach for the Classroom
Analyzing Classical Form builds upon the foundations of the author's critically acclaimed Classical Form by offering an approach to the analysis of musical form that is especially suited for classroom use. Providing ample material for study in both undergraduate and graduate courses, Analyzing Classical...- $140.00
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Vendor: Irving R. Irving
Artistic Trumpet: Technique and Study
2018 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Illustrated. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Irving Bush was a former faculty member of Los Angeles College and a remarkable trumpet player of his day. In 1962 he wrote and published a...- $9.95
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Vendor: Michael Tenzer
Analytical Studies in World Music
Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, Analytical Studies in World Music offers fresh perspectives for thinking about how musical sounds are shaped, arranged, and composed by their diverse makers worldwide. Eleven inspired, insightful, and in-depth explanations of Iranian sung poetry, Javanese and...- $48.99
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Vendor: Friedrich Heinrich Kern
An Exploration of Compositional Technique in the Operas of Kaija Saariaho and Christian Jost
This dissertation essay examines two contemporary operas, L'Amour de loin by Kaija Saariaho and Hamlet by Christian Jost. It describes the influences on each composer that led to their respective operas. In Chapter 1 of the essay, Kern presents both composers' biographies with particular...- $49.90
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Anthology of Post-Tonal Music: For Use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music
This anthology of over 40 scores and excerpts represents a wide range of music from across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, from pieces by Debussy, Stravinsky, and Bartok to works by Arvo P rt, Thomas Ad s, and Kaija Saariaho. Showcasing...- $66.99
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Vendor: Constantin Floros
Anton Bruckner: The Man and the Work. 2. revised edition
While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler - in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner the man, however, is still extreme...- $70.50
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Vendor: Martin Kielty
Apollo Memories
The Apollo legend retold... When the rock'n'roll revolution came, Scotland was in the thick of the action. Every big name in the business wanted to be there for one reason: the Glasgow Apollo. Between 1973 and 1985 the 'Purple Palace' played host to everyone...- $22.58
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Vendor: Ebenezer Prout
Applied Forms
Applied Forms is the sequel to Musical Form. Contents: Introduction Pianoforte Writing The Dance Forms The Smaller Instrumental Forms The Variation Forms The Older Rondo Form The Sonata Form: The Exposition The Sonata Form: The Development, and Recapitulation Modified Sonata Forms The Modern Rondo...- $14.99
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Vendor: Simha Arom
African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology
In this detailed study Simha Arom takes a new and original approach to the understanding of the complex and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm that characterise African music. Considering in particular the harp, sanza, xylophone and percussion music of Central Africa, Simha Arom...- $49.99
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Vendor: Gardner Read
20th-Century Microtonal Notation
No other book has covered the subject of 20th-century microtonal notation in such depth as this comprehensive guide book. 20th-Century Microtonal Notation surveys the many attempts to notate various microtonal divisions of the octave in our western music. The concerts, festivals, and journals devoted...- $113.00
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Vendor: Ned Bennett
A New Tune a Day - Alto Saxophone, Book 1 [With CD and DVD]
(Music Sales America). Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune a Day series has revolutionized music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C. Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely...- $24.99
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Vendor: Ming Tsao
Abstract Musical Intervals: Group Theory for Composition and Analysis
This book is an introduction to GIS (Generalized Interval Systems) theory that includes the major results of pitch-class theory. It provides mathematicians with applications of group theory to music and music theorists with the essential connections betwAuthor: Ming TsaoISBN-10: 1430308354ISBN-13: 9781430308355Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2007Pages:...- $24.95
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A Short and concise analysis of Mozart's twenty-two pianoforte sonatas, with a description of some of the various forms
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks...- $8.45
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Vendor: Joseph Davis
A Modern Approach to Naming Guitar Chords Ed. 4
Finally-an intuitive, single-source standardization for naming guitar chords in the 21st century!A honing of guitar theory as a subcategory of music theory.Commonsense approach to all things guitar chord, including how to label alternate chord voicings.New concepts, including natural harmonics chords, unison chords, and octaval...- $69.99
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A Modern Approach to Naming Guitar Chords Ed. 4
Finally-an intuitive, single-source standardization for naming guitar chords in the 21st century!A honing of guitar theory as a subcategory of music theory.Commonsense approach to all things guitar chord, including how to label alternate chord voicings.New concepts, including natural harmonics chords, unison chords, and octaval...- $79.99
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A Modern Approach to Naming Guitar Chords
Finally--an intuitive, single-source standardization for naming guitar chords in the 21st century A honing of guitar theory as a subcategory of music theory. Commonsense approach to all things guitar chord, including how to label alternate chord voicings. New concepts, including natural harmonics chords, unison...- $69.99
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A Modern Approach to Naming Guitar Chords Ed. 3
Finally--an intuitive, single-source standardization for naming guitar chords in the 21st century! A honing of guitar theory as a subcategory of music theory. Commonsense approach to all things guitar chord, including how to label alternate chord voicings. New concepts, including natural harmonics chords, unison...- $79.99
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Vendor: Randolph Jordan
Acoustic Profiles: A Sound Ecology of the Cinema
In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the vocabulary and methods of environmental studies, specifically exploring the potential of a model based on acoustic ecology. Jordan uses close readings of films to connect the diverse fields...- $35.00
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Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment: Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch
The writings of Sulzer and Koch represent a significant confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch creatively adapted many of Sulzer's abstract philosophical ideas to concrete questions of musical pedagogy, showing how they could be usefully applied to the teaching...- $58.99
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Vendor: Ruth Katz
A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music
The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous--and enormously influential--dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, A Language of Its Own traces the past millennium of this ongoing exchange.Ruth Katz...- $38.00
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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.

