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Mahler's Seventh Symphony
Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony stands out as one of the most provocative symphonic statements of the early twentieth century. Throughout its performance history, it has often been heard as "existing in the shadow" of the Sixth Symphony or as "too reminiscent" of Richard Wagner's...- $120.00
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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...- $30.99
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The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music
Since its emergence in sixteenth-century Germany, the magician Faust's quest has become one of the most profound themes in Western history. Though variants are found across all media, few adaptations have met with greater acclaim than in music. Bringing together more than two dozen...- $175.00
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Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music
This is an analysis of popular music from a musical, as opposed to a sociological, biographical or political point of view. The author surveys Western popular music in all its forms - blues, ragtime, music hall, waltzes, marches, parlour ballads and folk music -...- $100.00
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Basic Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis
Basic Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis gives students a thorough, clear, and methodical introduction to post-tonal music theory and its application to music composed since 1900. Designed for students studying post-tonal music at the end of a required theory sequence or taking a stand-alone upper-division...- $137.99
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Music Theory for Young Children, Bk 1
This series of books uses a fun and novel way to teach children the fundamentals of music theory. Games and stickers are used to introduce all of the essentials such as staves, clefs, note identification, time signatures, key signatures, note values, and rest values....- $10.99
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The American Tiple Chord Bible: Standard 'D' Tuning 1,728 Chords
The American Tiple Chord Bible, with its 1,728 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by many...- $24.95
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Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past
In recent decades, increased specialization has sharply separated music theory from historical musicology. Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past brings together a group of essays-written by theorists and musicologists-that seek to bridge this gap. This collection shows that music theory can join...- $68.00
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Vendor: Bryan Gilliam
Richard Strauss's Elektra
Elektra was the fourth of fifteen operas by Strauss and opened his successful partnership with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Gilliam's study of this major work examines its musical-historical context and also provides a detailed analysis of some of its musical features. He establishes...- $72.00
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Vendor: Fred Lerdahl
Tonal Pitch Space
Building on the foundation of Lerdahl and Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, this volume presents a multidimensional model of diatonic and chromatic spaces that quantifies listeners' intuitions of the relative distances of pitches, chords, and keys from a given tonic. The...- $89.00
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Vendor: Derek B. Scott
From the Erotic to the Demonic: On Critical Musicology
From the Erotic to the Demonic demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity. This book will serve as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. The clear and lively arguments are...- $83.00
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Vendor: Eric Clarke
Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects
The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality. But in musicology, the kind of empirical approaches familiar in the social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being...- $110.00
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Vendor: Holly Rogers
The Music and Sound of Experimental Film
This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in experimental cinema and rethinks screen music discourse in light of the...- $60.00
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Vendor: Greg Steinke
Basic Materials in Music Theory: A Programed Approach
NOTE: This ISBN is for a Pearson Books a la Carte edition: a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf text. In addition to the flexibility offered by this format, Books a la Carte editions offer students great value, as they cost significantly less than a bound textbook....- $133.32
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Tipbook Music on Paper: Basic Theory
Music on Paper is a handy, accessible guide to reading music and the basics of music theory, for musicians in any style, playing any instrument, at any level. Tipbook Music on Paper teaches you how to read music, covering, pitch, staffs, clefs, time signatures,...- $19.00
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Vendor: Preston Hoffman
Guitar Theory: For Beginners - Bundle - The Only 2 Books You Need to Learn Guitar Music Theory, Guitar Method and Guitar Technique To
2 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: Music Theory and How to Play Guitar!Book 1)Music Theory: For Beginners - The Only 7 Exercises You Need to Learn Music Fundamentals and the Elements of Written Music TodayYou will learn the following: -A brief history of music-Why...- $23.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Rhodes Lee
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of...- $54.99
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Basic Musicianship: Workbook and Text
covers the basics, how to read notes on the staff, intervals, major and minor scales, key signatures, triads, inversions, basic rhythms and song forms, chord charts and lead sheets. Designed for complete beginners regardless of instrument. It's the same text I use in my...- $30.00
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Theory for Today's Musician Textbook
Theory for Today's Musician, Third Edition, recasts the scope of the traditional music theory course to meet the demands of the professional music world, in a style that speaks directly and engagingly to today's music student. It uses classical, folk, popular, and jazz repertoires...- $140.00
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Vendor: William Kinderman
Wagner's Parsifal
William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "last card," explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career. This book offers a reassessment of the ideological and political...- $53.00
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Vendor: Isador Miller
Becoming Talented: A Systematic Method for the Development of Ear Training and Music Reading Skills
Have you ever felt like you lacked musical talent? Becoming Talented is here to help. Becoming Talented contains an unprecedented self-guided method to rewire your brain so that understanding musical sound and notation becomes easy. With Becoming Talented, you can achieve the musical mastery you...- $41.99
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Ukulele: For Beginners - Bundle - The Only 4 Books You Need to Learn Ukulele Lessons, Ukulele Chords and How to Play Ukulele Mu
4 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Play Ukulele, Music Theory, How to Read Music and How to Play Chords!Book 1)How to Play Ukulele: In 1 Day - The Only 7 Exercises You Need to Learn Ukulele Chords, Ukulele Tabs and Fingerstyle Ukulele...- $30.99
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Vendor: Percy Goetschius
Lessons in Music Form
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $31.95
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Vendor: Isabella Anna Maria Van Elferen
Timbre: Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics
Timbre is among the most important and the most elusive aspects of music. Visceral and immediate in its sonic properties, yet also considered sublime and ineffable, timbre finds itself caught up in metaphors: tone "color", "wet" acoustics, or in Schoenberg's words, "the illusory stuff...- $130.00
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Vendor: Rob Silver
The Bebop Major Scale and its Modes for Guitar
This guide maps out BEBOP MAJOR and its Modes, including BEBOP MAJOR, DORIAN ADD b5, PHRYGIAN add 3, LYDIAN add b3, MIXOLYDIAN ADD b2, LYDIAN AUGMENTED #2 ADD b2, AEOLIAN ADD 7 and LOCRIAN ADD 6 for you on 6 string guitar in standard...- $10.99
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Vendor: Frans Wiering
The Languages of the Modes: Studies in the History of Polyphonic Modality
The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. The volume codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. For...- $160.00
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Vendor: Blake Howe
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan,...- $65.00
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Vendor: Matthew D. Nielsen
The Technique of Choral Writing: A Comprehensive Guide to Composing and Arranging for Vocal Ensembles
Discover the principles and techniques of vocal writing with The Technique of Choral Writing. This singular, methodical textbook explains the fundamentals of composing and arranging choral music including: How to set words to musicAn introduction to the human voiceUnderstanding different types of choral ensemblesExploring...- $55.00
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Vendor: Damian Hermann
Major Minor Scales: The Piano Teacher: Book 1 - Step by step instructions for beginners
Are you looking for a piano guide to help you improve at the essential scales 'major+minor' on the piano?Do you want the benefits of creating better music, learning songs faster, and expressing yourself more on the keyboard?If yes, then "Major Minor Scales" is your...- $19.95
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Two-Dimensional Sonata Form: Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg and Zemlinsky
Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Drawing on a variety of historical and recent approaches to musical form...- $39.00
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Vendor: Simon Zagorski-Thomas
Practical Musicology
Practical Musicology outlines a theoretical framework for studying a broad range of current musical practices and aims to provoke discussion about key issues in the rapidly expanding area of practical musicology: the study of how music is made. The book explores various forms of...- $39.95
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Vendor: Graham Tippett
Hacking the CAGED System: Diatonic Harmony
Hacking the CAGED System: Diatonic Harmony is both a stand-alone ingenious system that teaches you to construct all the components of any key signature on the guitar fretboard, as well as following on nicely from Hacking the CAGED System - Book 1. This book...- $17.99
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AP Music Theory Exam Secrets Study Guide: AP Test Review for the Advanced Placement Exam
***Includes Practice Test Questions*** AP Music Theory Exam Secrets helps you ace the Advanced Placement Exam, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive AP Music Theory Exam Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and...- $72.99
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Vendor: M. Schottenbauer
Where Does Sound Come From? Data & Graphs for Science Lab: Volume 2
In this book, readers gain access to real scientific data pertaining to the science of sound production, promoting graph-reading, comparison, contrast, and calculation skills. Graphs show data from the following scientific instruments: Sound Level Meter and Tuner. The musical instruments in this book include...- $10.00
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Vendor: Brian Kehlenbach
Mastery of Music Theory, Book 3: Chromatic Materials, 2nd ed.
The second edition of Mastery of Music Theory, Book 3 covers the concepts of chromatic harmonization including voice leading, chord progression, and analysis. This edition includes expanded content on introductory topics from the beginning of the 20th century. The format is presented as a...- $27.00
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Vendor: Damian Hermann
Piano Scales Chords: The Piano Teacher: Book 2 - Advancing in scales with confidence
Are you ready to elevate your piano-playing skills to the next level? Look no further than "Piano Scales Chords." This guide is your roadmap to excellence. Enhance your musical journey, whether you're an absolute beginner, a student, a self-learner, a producer, or just picking...- $22.95
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Analyzing Music in Advertising: Television Commercials and Consumer Choice
The study of music in commercials is well-suited for exploring the persuasive impact that music has beyond the ability to entertain, edify, and purify its audience. This book focuses on music in commercials from an interpretive text analytical perspective, answering hitherto neglected questions: What...- $58.99
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Vendor: Nan Mogar
Guitar Intervals Unleashed: The "NANDI" Method (Left Handed): A Visual Interval Training Method
New improved version Is your knowledge of intervals, chords and scales based only on memorized shapes and patterns?Would you like to have the ability to visualize any interval from any note on the guitar without memorization?Finally A book that demystifies the logic of the...- $12.99
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Vendor: Ellie M. Hisama
Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon
This book explores the work of three significant American women composers of the twentieth century: Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer and Miriam Gideon. It offers information on both their lives and music and skillfully interweaves history and musical analysis in ways that both the specialist...- $58.99
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Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music
Whenever a person engages with music--when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest gets down on the dance floor--countless neurons are firing. Playing an instrument requires all...- $22.00
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Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music through Twenty Games
Tim Summers provides an engaging introduction to video game music aimed at gamers, music enthusiasts, budding composers, music professionals, and anyone with an interest in the topic. Pixel Soundtracks explore a wide variety of topics, including: the history of game music sound technology and...- $95.00
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Keyboard Lessons: Tips and Tricks on Playing Keyboard Chords and Scales to Perfection
The keyboard is one of the most impressive, versatile, and rewarding instruments. It looks sleek, modern, and sounds delightful. If you have always wanted to learn the keyboard but did not know where to begin, this book will prove to be an asset for...- $19.99
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Studies in Music with Text
Hailed by the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2nd edition) as "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation," David Lewin (1933-2003) explored for over four decades how composers in the German tradition set poetry and drama to music. He conceived Studies in...- $60.00
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Vendor: Levi Clay
Guided Guitar Scale Practice Routines: Master Every Essential Guitar Scale in this Comprehensive 10-Week Course
The Comprehensive Guide to Practicing Scales on GuitarFeel like you're wasting time in the practice room?Don't know which guitar scales you should be working on? Embark on Your Scale Mastery Journey with Guided Guitar Scale Practice Routines. This comprehensive 10-week course designed by Levi...- $19.99
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Guided Guitar Chord Practice Routines: Master Every Essential Guitar Chord in this Comprehensive 10-Week Course
Author: Levi Clay, Joseph AlexanderISBN-10: 1789334535ISBN-13: 9781789334531Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.22d- $19.99
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Vendor: Taylor A. Greer
The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music: Aesthetic of Ambivalence
At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice. As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic polyglot, combining elements of literature, visual...- $45.00
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Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music: A Programmed Course, Part 1
Created for introductory courses in basic music theory and harmonic practice, Part 1 of this self-paced, auto-instructional standalone text that comes in two volumes has become a "classic" in the field. Since the students work independently through the programmed format of the text, instructors...- $199.99
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A dozen songs from the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy, released in 2013, are included in this folio of piano/vocal/guitar arrangements. It features the Grammy-nominated lead song "Atlas" by Coldplay, plus: Silouettes (Of Monsters and Men) * We Remain (Christina...- $16.99
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Vendor: Liz Giuffre
Music in Comedy Television: Notes on Laughs
The study of television and music has expanded greatly in recent years, yet to date no book has focused on the genre of comedy television as it relates to music. Music in Comedy Television: Notes on Laughs fills that gap, breaking new critical ground....- $66.99
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Outside Shred Guitar Techniques: 100 Outside Guitar Licks Using Chromatics, Substitutions & Advanced Scale Concepts
Are you struggling to take your rock guitar solos beyond the same old scales?Ready to master a dynamic range of chromatic and altered approaches that will enrich your musical expression?Dive into the vibrant world of Outside Shred Guitar Techniques, a compelling guide that'll transform...- $19.99
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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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