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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 kinds of empirical approaches familiar in the social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being...- $73.00
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Vendor: Ian Davies
Guitar Fretboard Mastery for Beginners: No-Guesswork Guide to Memorizing Every Note on the Neck in a Day
Master Every Note on the Guitar Neck in Just One Day (Without Guessing)Feeling lost on the fretboard? You're not alone.Most beginner guitarists avoid the fretboard like it's some secret code because no one ever explains it in a way that actually sticks. But here's...- $19.99
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Vendor: Brian Kehlenbach
Mastery of Music Theory, Book 2: Diatonic Harmonization. 2nd Ed.
The Mastery of Music Theory series by Brian Kehlenbach is a comprehensive set of three volumes covering Fundamentals of Music (Book 1), Diatonic Harmonization (book 2), and Chromatic Harmonization (book 3). The format is presented as a text and workbook, providing explanations and examples...- $27.00
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Vendor: Swati Bisht
Guru Granth Sahib The Essential Reference: A Detailed Exploration of Sikh Scripture, Philosophy, and the 31 Musical Ragas of the Eternal Shabad Guru
Author: Swati BishtISBN-13: 9798244743364Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2026Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d- $9.99
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Vendor: Michael Hewitt
Music Theory for Computer Musicians: Second Edition
Author: Michael HewittISBN-10: 1919387900ISBN-13: 9781919387901Publisher: Stereo Output LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2026Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.27lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.91d- $29.99
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Vendor: Miles Corbyn
Easy Guitar Exercise for Beginners: Essential Techniques for Mastering Chords, Strumming, Fingerstyle, and Playing Your Favorite Tunes
Author: Miles CorbynISBN-13: 9798242350687Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2026Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.16d- $14.99
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Vendor: Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Composing for Silent Film
Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts. This book helps today's composers better understand...- $28.99
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Vendor: Ariel J. Ramos
The Universal Encyclopedia of Scales Volume 12: Master Index
This is Volume 12 of 12 of the Universal Encyclopedia of Scales.Volume 12 is the Master Index. The complete encyclopedia is also available as a book set of 12 volumes.A complete encyclopedia of scales has always been on every musician's wish-list. There are many...- $22.66
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
Intermediate Music Theory Exams Set #1 - Ultimate Music Theory Exam Series: Preparatory, Basic, Intermediate & Advanced Exams Set #1 & Set #2 - Four E
The Intermediate Music Theory Exams Set 1 Workbook Ultimate Music Theory Exam Series is a "MUST" for successful preparation for the Intermediate 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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Vendor: Ryan Brasseaux
Accordions Fiddles Two-Step & Swing: A Cajun Music Reader
Author: Ryan BrasseauxISBN-10: 1887366717ISBN-13: 9781887366717Publisher: University of LouisianaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2016Pages: 535Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d- $25.00
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Vendor: Marc Shaiman
Mary Poppins Returns: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). The 2018 movie musical sequel to the classic Disney film from 1964 features a top-notch team including Director Rob Marshall ( Chicago ), Lin-Manuel Miranda ( Hamilton ) and music from Hairspray 's award-winning songwriting team of Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman....- $22.99
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Vendor: Sanne Krogh Groth
Audio Paper: Using Sound to Create New Approaches to Research
Audio Paper offers a conceptual and practice-based approach for researchers across a wide range of disciplines to integrate auditory culture into their published work in the form of the audio paper. The audio paper is an academic text presented as an audio production. Introducing...- $75.00
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Vendor: Holly Rogers
Music and Sound in Documentary Film
This collection of fourteen essays provides a rich and detailed history of the relationship between and music and image in documentary films, exploring the often overlooked role of music in the genre and its subsequent impact on an audience's perception of reality and fiction....- $200.00
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Vendor: Gordon Sly
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, offering "ways into" the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike.Author: Gordon SlyISBN-10: 0367220253ISBN-13: 9780367220259Publisher:...- $200.00
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Vendor: Barend Van Heusden
Musical Semantics: Second Printing
Music offers a new insight into human cognition. The musical play with sounds in time, in which we share feelings, gestures and narratives, has fascinated people from all times and cultures. The author studies this semiotic behavior in the light of research from a...- $123.75
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Vendor: Nicholas Attfield
Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear
In his 1985 book The Idea of Music: Schoenberg and Others, Peter Franklin set out a challenge for musicology: namely, how best to talk and write about the music of modern European culture that fell outside of the modernist mainstream typified by Schoenberg, Berg,...- $190.00
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Vendor: Bernie Williams
Rhythms of the Game: The Link Between Musical and Athletic Performance
Bernie Williams' ability to play major league baseball at a high level was directly influenced by his musical training and his deep understanding of the similarities between musical artistry and athletic performance. Through a series of conversations, narratives, and sidebars, the authors (Bernie Williams,...- $32.00
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Vendor: Kendra Preston Leonard
Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western
Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western examines the use and function of musical tropes and gestures traditionally associated with the American Western in new and different contexts ranging from Elizabethan theater, contemporary drama, space opera and science fiction, Cold War era European filmmaking, and...- $190.00
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Vendor: Bryan Parkhurst
Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory: Essays in Honor of Kevin Korsyn
Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. He has published widely and influentially in areas as diverse as Beethoven and Brahms studies, chromatic tonality, disciplinarity and metatheory, history of theory, musical...- $54.99
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Vendor: Nicholas Cook
Music, Performance, Meaning: Selected Essays
This selection of sixteen of Nicholas Cook's essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. In particular the two keywords of the title -Meaning and Performance- represent critical directions that expand to...- $255.00
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Vendor: David Harold Cox
Irwin Bazelon: A Bio-Bibliography
Irwin Bazelon, one of the most original figures in American music in the second half of the 20th century, devoted his life to the art of composition. He was also well known for his musical compositions for films, television, commercials, and documentaries. His music...- $44.00
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Vendor: Maciej Golab
The Musical Rhetoric of the Polish Baroque: The Musical Rhetoric of the Polish Baroque
Musical rhetoric is an important phenomenon in Polish baroque music. The achievements of old Polish masters were determined by the main trends of the baroque era. Polish music provides examples of almost all rhetorical figures known at that time, largely reflecting the European repertoire...- $110.50
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Vendor: Stephen G. Nichols
The Power and Value of Music: Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory
This book provides the most comprehensive overview available about the effect and ethos of music in antiquity and discusses many related questions of scholarly interest. It includes numerous references provided in the original language with translation, ample empirical material for further research, and an...- $142.25
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Vendor: Josh Epstein
Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
What is the significance of noise in modernist music and literature?When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh...- $57.95
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Vendor: Erin Minear
Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton: Language, Memory, and Musical Representation
In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or remembered-to infiltrate language. Such infected language reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects. Shakespeare's and Milton's understanding of...- $200.00
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Vendor: Nicola Spelman
Popular Music and the Myths of Madness
Studies of opera, film, television, and literature have demonstrated how constructions of madness may be referenced in order to stigmatise but also liberate protagonists in ways that reinforce or challenge contemporaneous notions of normality. But to date very little research has been conducted on...- $200.00
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Vendor: Ken McLeod
We Are the Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music
Sports and popular music are synergistic agents in the construction of identity and community. Posing unique challenges to notions of mind - body dualities, nationalism, class, gender, and racial codes and sexual orientation, Ken McLeod illuminates the paradoxical and often conflicting relationships associated with...- $190.00
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Vendor: Dermot Gault
The New Bruckner: Compositional Development and the Dynamics of Revision
The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and analysis. Dr Dermot Gault conveys a broad chronological narrative of Bruckner's compositional development, interpolating analytical commentaries on the works and critical accounts of...- $200.00
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Vendor: Marcus Cheng Chye Tan
Acoustic Interculturalism: Listening to Performance
Acoustic Interculturalism is a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound's performativity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines an akoumenological reception of sound to postulate the need for an acoustic knowing - an awareness of how sound shapes...- $54.99
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Vendor: Jayson Beaster-Jones
Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity
Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity provides a rich and detailed look into the unique dimensions of music in Indian film. Music is at the center of Indian cinema, and India's film music industry has a far-reaching impact on popular, folk, and...- $190.00
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Vendor: Benjamin Nagari
Music as Image: Analytical Psychology and Music in Film
Through a theoretical and practical exploration of Jungian and post-Jungian concepts surrounding image, this book moves beyond the visual scope of imagery to consider the presence and expression of music and sound, as well as how the psyche encounters expanded images - archetypal, personal...- $200.00
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Vendor: Roger Savage
Music, Time, and Its Other: Aesthetic Reflections on Finitude, Temporality, and Alterity
Music, Time, and Its Other explores the relation between the enigmatic character of our temporal experiences and music's affective power. By taking account of competing concepts of time, Savage explains how music refigures dimensions of our experiences through staking out the borderlines between time...- $190.00
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Vendor: Timothy Cutler
Bending the Rules of Music Theory: Lessons from Great Composers
Drawing on examples from composers including J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Brahms, and more, Bending the Rules of Music Theory seeks to take readers beyond the basics of music theory and help them to understand the inherent flexibility in the system of...- $190.00
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Vendor: Ernest H. Sanders
French and English Polyphony of the 13th and 14th Centuries: Style and Notation
First published in 1998, this volume brings together the most part of the author's work on medieval polyphony. The most significant advance in music during the period in the High Gothic was the development of a system of rhythm and of its notation, the...- $170.00
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Vendor: Jason W. Solomon
Music Theory Essentials: A Streamlined Approach to Fundamentals, Tonal Harmony, and Post-Tonal Materials
Music Theory Essentials offers an antidote to music theory textbooks that are overly long and dense. Focusing on the essentials, this text provides a clear-cut guide to the key concepts of music theory. Beginning with no assumptions about music theory knowledge, the book covers...- $190.00
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Vendor: C. a. 1857-1921 Alchin
Applied Harmony, a Text-book for Those who Desire a Better Understanding of Music and an Increase in Power of Expression - Either in Performance or Cr
This classic music textbook has been used by generations of students to improve their understanding of harmony and musical composition. Alchin's clear and concise explanations of chords, scales, and other fundamental concepts make this an accessible and practical guide for students of all levels....- $32.95
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Vendor: Norman Demuth
An Anthology of Musical Criticism
Author: Norman Demuth,UnknownISBN-10: 0837155762ISBN-13: 9780837155760Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/1971Pages: 428Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d- $95.00
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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...- $160.00
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Vendor: Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics
Well-known contributors analyze the ways in which Marxist thought enters into music discourse. Exploring everything from Marxism in hip-hop to feudal properties of Hindustani music to revolutionary music of Central America, the essays in this book find surprising, paradigm-shifting revelations. This book will revolutionize...- $190.00
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Vendor: Siglind Bruhn
Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love
These new essays written specifically for this volume explore the various aspects of Olivier Messiaen's spiritually committed musical language, drawing on his own remarks in subheadings and prefaces, his biblical and theological citations, his allusions to works of visual art, and on the language...- $190.00
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Vendor: David Cram
John Wallis: Writings on Music
John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts -...- $200.00
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Vendor: Benjamin Wardhaugh
John Birchensha: Writings on Music
John Birchensha (c.1605-?1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he claimed would enable even those without...- $200.00
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Vendor: Briane Power
The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music: Essays in Honour of Timothy J. McGee
The experience of music performance is always far more than the sum of its sounds, and evidence for playing and singing techniques is not only inscribed in music notation but can also be found in many other types of primary source materials. This volume...- $200.00
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Vendor: David Burnand
European Film Music
The vast majority of writing on film music is concentrated on Hollywood in particular and on a canon of North American scores and films more generally. Recent scholarship acknowledges other traditions of film scoring but little has been written about European film music specifically....- $190.00
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Vendor: Kevin C. Karnes
A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song by William Bathe
Although unjustly neglected by modern writers, William Bathe's contributions to music pedagogy in late sixteenth-century England were profound. Bathe's A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song (1596) not only includes the first explication of a four-syllable, non-hexachordal solmization method published by an English...- $190.00
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Vendor: Annette Davison
Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s
Relatively little has been written about film scores and soundtracks outside of Hollywood cinema. Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice addresses this gap by looking at the practices of film soundtrack composition for non-Hollywood films made after 1980. Annette Davison argues that since the mid-1970s the...- $190.00
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Vendor: Theodor W. Adorno
Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction: Notes, a Draft and Two Schemata
This book collects together Adorno's manifold implications for musical interpretation. His reflections lead to a fundamental study of the nature of notation and musical sense. However, it is the quality of uncertainty in his reflections that indicates the scope of the discourse and its...- $78.00
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Vendor: F. J. Smith
Experiencing of Musical Sound: A Prelude to a Phenomenology of Music
First Published in 1979. This book represents the work done by its author to begin to lay the ground musically and philosophically for enormous tasks that still remain to be done and may require a team of researchers in various fields relating to experiential...- $190.00
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Vendor: Oscar Thompson
How to Understand Music
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $48.95
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Vendor: Neil Lerner
Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music
Disability, understood as culturally stigmatized bodily difference (including physical and mental impairments of all kinds), is a pervasive and permanent aspect of the human condition. While the biology of bodily difference is the proper study for science and medicine, the meaning that we attach...- $69.99
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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.
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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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