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Vendor: Thomas Pankhurst
Schenkerguide: A Brief Handbook and Website for Schenkerian Analysis
SchenkerGUIDE is an accessible overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music. The book has emerged out of the widely used website, www.SchenkerGUIDE.com, which has been offering straightforward explanations of Schenkerian analysis to undergraduate students since 2001.Divided into...- $190.00
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The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint
The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook that combines practical, "how-to" guidance in 18th-century techniques with extensive historical examination of contrapuntal works and genres. Beginning with an introductory grounding in species counterpoint, tonal harmony, and figured bass, students progress through...- $200.00
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The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint
Covering modal music from Gregorian chant through the seventeenth-century, The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook combining stylistic composition, theory and analysis, music history, and performance. By supplementing a modified species approach with a wealth of complete musical examples and...- $190.00
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Vendor: Paolo Susanni
Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality: Harmonic Progression Based on Modality and the Interval Cycles
This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire. It does so in a simple,...- $200.00
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Vendor: K. J. Donnelly
Music in Science Fiction Television: Tuned to the Future
The music for science fiction television programs, like music for science fiction films, is often highly distinctive, introducing cutting-edge electronic music and soundscapes. There is a highly particular role for sound and music in science fiction, because it regularly has to expand the vistas...- $190.00
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Vendor: Leo Kraft
A New Approach to Ear Training
This set of four compact discs has been prepared specially for this edition. Here students will, for the first time, experience actual performances of ear training excerpts played on a variety of instruments or sung by a four-part vocal choir. CD 1 contains all...- $68.75
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Vendor: Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
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 Pärt, Thomas Adès, and Kaija Saariaho. Showcasing the vast...- $190.00
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Vendor: Nachum Schoffman
From Chords to Simultaneities: Chordal Indeterminancy and the Failure of Serialism
One of the momentous events in twentieth century music was the advent of atonality and serialism, and the consequent proliferation of such avant-garde genres as total serialism, electronic music, and aleatory music. This book examines serialism and its progeny, formulates criteria that are applicable...- $75.00
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Vendor: Allen Forte
The Structure of Atonal Music
"For some years now, a group of American composers and theorists including Babbitt, Teitelbaum, Martino, and Lewin, have been elaborating mathematically based procedures for the analysis of pitch structures in atonal music. In this book, Allen Forte expands the results of their work into...- $31.00
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Vendor: Kyle Gann
The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician
"Tuning is the secret lens through which the history of music falls into focus," says Kyle Gann. Yet in Western circles, no other musical issue is so ignored, so taken for granted, so shoved into the corners of musical discourse. A classroom essential and...- $110.00
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Vendor: Herve Vanel
Triple Entendre: Furniture Music, Muzak, Muzak-Plus
Triple Entendre discusses the rise and spread of background music in contexts as diverse as office workplaces, shopping malls, and musical performance. Hervé Vanel examines background music in several guises, beginning with Erik Satie's "Furniture Music" of the late 1910s and early 1920s, which...- $52.00
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Vendor: Francesco Galeazzi
Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV
A virtuoso violinist, conductor, composer, and a professor of mathematics and botany, Francesco Galeazzi (1758-1819) firmly believed that musical education should be clear, demonstrable, and practical. In 1791 and 1796, he published the two volumes of his Elementi teorico-practici di musica, a treatise that...- $77.00
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Vendor: Gary Peters
The Philosophy of Improvisation
Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of clichés. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, The Philosophy of Improvisation ranges across the arts--from music to theater, dance to comedy--and considers the improvised...- $99.00
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Vendor: Thomas Christensen
Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis
Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist François-Joseph Fétis (1784-1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the term in the nineteenth century. Thomas Christensen weaves a rich...- $59.00
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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...- $99.00
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Vendor: Emily Pillinger
Music as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity
Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical sources--myth, epic, lyric, history, philosophy, archaeology--to demonstrate the enduring importance...- $130.00
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Vendor: Siu-Lan Tan
Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance
Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance takes readers on a wide-ranging exploration of this vibrant multidisciplinary field of study. Now in its third edition, the book emphasizes meaningful links between academic learning and real-world contexts, pointing readers towards intriguing strands of research. Author:...- $77.99
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Vendor: Philip Rupprecht
Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice
Tonality - or the feeling of key in music - achieved crisp theoretical definition in the early 20th century, even as the musical avant-garde pronounced it obsolete. The notion of a general collapse or loss of tonality, ca. 1910, remains influential within music historiography,...- $64.00
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Vendor: Albertine Fox
Godard and Sound: Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard
What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as spectators with the audio-visual? Jean-Luc Godard understood the importance of the soundtrack in cinema and relied heavily on...- $160.00
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Vendor: Bennett Reimer
Seeking the Significance of Music Education: Essays and Reflections
Noted music educator Bennett Reimer has selected 24 of his previously published articles from a variety of professional journals spanning the past 50 years. During that time, he's tackled generating core values for the field of music education; the core in larger societal and...- $166.00
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Vendor: T. J. H. McCarthy
Aribo, de Musica and Sententiae
Music was central to the medieval church's public worship: it was the essential medium of the Mass and the Divine Office. In this new critical edition, T. J. H. McCarthy presents the Latin text and the first English translation of Aribo's musical treatise, De...- $34.95
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Vendor: James Tobias
Sync: Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time
In "Sync, "James Tobias examines the development of musical sound and image in cinema and media art, indicating how these elements define the nature and experience of reception. Placing musicality at the center of understanding streaming media, Tobias presents six interwoven stories about synchronized...- $56.50
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Vendor: Gareth Dylan Smith
I Drum, Therefore I Am: Being and Becoming a Drummer
Despite their central role in many forms of music-making, drummers have been largely neglected in the scholarly literature on music and education. But kit drummers are increasingly difficult to ignore. While exponents of the drum kit are frequently mocked in popular culture, they are...- $210.00
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Vendor: Sarah Hibberd
Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama
The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en...- $200.00
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Vendor: Alan R. Thrasher
Qupai in Chinese Music: Melodic Models in Form and Practice
Presenting the latest research in the area, this volume explores the fundamental concept of qupai 曲牌, melodic models upon which most traditional Chinese instrumental music (and some vocal music) is based. The greater part of the traditional instrumental repertoire has emerged from qupai models...- $220.00
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Vendor: Alfred Blatter
Revisiting Music Theory: Basic Principles
Revisiting Music Theory: Basic Principles, Second Edition, surveys the basics of music theory and explains the terms used in harmonic and formal analysis in a clear and concise manner. Students will find Revisiting Music Theory to be an essential resource for review or reference,...- $210.00
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Vendor: Judy Lochhead
Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music: New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis
This book studies recent music in the western classical tradition, offering a critique of current analytical/theoretical approaches and proposing alternatives. The critique addresses the present fringe status of recent music sometimes described as crossover, postmodern, post-classical, post-minimalist, etc. and demonstrates that existing descriptive languages...- $210.00
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Vendor: Frédéric Louis Ritter
Musical Dictation: A Practical Guide For Musical Students, Part 1
A guide to the practice of musical dictation, aimed at students of all levels. Covering topics from basic notation and rhythm to advanced harmony and analysis, this book provides a valuable resource for music students looking to improve their ear training.This work has been...- $15.95
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Vendor: Ian Sapiro
Ilan Eshkeri's Stardust: A Film Score Guide
Matthew Vaughn's 2007 fantasy Stardust, based on the novel by acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, was one the highest grossing films in the UK. Aninstant hit with fans of fantasy and science-fiction films, Stardust features an all-star cast including Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and...- $73.00
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Vendor: Peter Rothbart
Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films
In The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films, Peter Rothbart examines a handful of motion pictures to convey how a variety of elements work together to create a singular experience. Rothbart considers the aural and visual aspects of...- $129.00
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Vendor: Kendra Preston Leonard
Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations
Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations examines the use of music in the three political tragedies of William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear. Each chapter presents the musical treatment of individual characters afflicted with or feigning madness-Hamlet, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth,...- $66.00
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Vendor: Marilyn Gombosi
Catalog of the Johannes Herbst Collection
Preserved in the Archives of the Moravian Church in America is a rich, largely unexplored treasure of manuscripts containing sacred and secular music performed in eighteenth-century Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Carolina. This collection was the private library of manuscript scores compiled...- $60.00
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Vendor: Theodor W. Adorno
Sound Figures
Theodor Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays in this book, all of which concern musical matters, he displays an astonishing range of cultural reference, demonstrating that music is...- $105.00
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Vendor: Millie Taylor
Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment
What is it about musical theatre that audiences find entertaining? What are the features that lead to its ability to stimulate emotional attachment, to move and to give pleasure? Beginning from the passion musical theatre performances arouse and their ubiquity in London's West End...- $210.00
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Vendor: Bethany Klein
As Heard on Tv: Popular Music in Advertising
The use of popular music in advertising represents one of the most pervasive mergers of cultural and commercial objectives in the modern age. Steady public response to popular music in television commercials, ranging from the celebratory to the outraged, highlights both unresolved tensions around...- $210.00
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Vendor: Benjamin Wardhaugh
Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653-1705
How, in 1705, was Thomas Salmon, a parson from Bedfordshire, able to persuade the Royal Society that a musical performance could constitute a scientific experiment? Or that the judgement of a musical audience could provide evidence for a mathematically precise theory of musical tuning?...- $210.00
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Vendor: Peter Hauge
'The Temple of Music' by Robert Fludd
Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work, The Metaphysical, Physical and Technical History of both Major and Minor Worlds, in which music plays an important role in his system of neoplatonic correspondences: the harmony of...- $210.00
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Vendor: Eva Mantzourani
The Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas
Nikos Skalkottas is perhaps the last great 'undiscovered' composer of the twentieth century. In the 1920s he was a promising young violinist and composer in Berlin, and a student of Schoenberg, who included him among his most gifted pupils. It was only after his...- $210.00
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Vendor: Beth E. Levy
Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West Volume 14
Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions...- $95.00
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Vendor: Ben Winters
Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film: Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction
This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively articulates music's importance to...- $200.00
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Vendor: Adam Krims
Music and Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Adam KrimsISBN-10: 9057013215ISBN-13: 9789057013218Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/1998Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.05h x 6.08w x 0.98d- $56.99
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Vendor: Ralph Turek
Theory for Today's Musician Textbook
Theory for Today's Musician, Fourth 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...- $170.00
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Vendor: Rolando Newman
Learn How to Play Spinet Beginners Guide: A Step-By-Step Handbook To Mastering The Spinet For New Musicians With Easy-To-Follow Lessons, Practice Tips
"LEARN HOW TO PLAY SPINET: BEGINNERS GUIDE" In his fifties, my uncle-a busy accountant with no musical training-decided to pick up the spinet on a whim. At first, he struggled with the unfamiliar keyboard and complex techniques. But armed with determination and this very...- $10.99
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Music Theory: For Beginners - Bundle - The Only 3 Books You Need to Learn Music Theory Worksheets, Chord Theory and Scale Theory Tod
3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: Music Theory, How to Play Chords and How to Play Scales!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...- $27.99
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Vendor: Bruce E. Arnold
Contemporary Rhythms Volume Two
The exercises in the second volume concentrate on sixteenth note rhythmic patterns, touching upon modern innovations commonly found in twentieth century classical music and preparing the student to deal confidently with complex rhythmic situations. Additionally, the Muse-Eek Publishing Company hosts two online resources in...- $24.99
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Vendor: Henry Bahrou
Three-Note-Per-String Fretboard System: A 3-Note-Per-String Scale Collection for Guitarists
Three-Note-Per-String Fretboard System: A 3-Note-Per-String Scale Collection for Guitarists is a complete visual reference for players who want to understand scale shapes, fretboard layout, and modal patterns with clarity and consistency. Designed as a clean, practical, and easy-to-navigate resource, this book presents every major...- $13.99
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Vendor: Frank Davies
Hexadecimal & Binary Scale Notation
The purpose of this book is to help folks understand and use this new hexadecimal or 'hex' notation for scales.It is an introduction, covering binary and hexadecimal numbers and their use in naming and illustrating scales.It is intended to be suitable for novice and...- $24.95
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Rhythmic Theories and Practices in Arabic and Persian Sources from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century
The book deals with rhythmic theories and practices in Arabic and Persian sources from the 10th to the 15th century. Sources prior to the 10th century are summarized as a basis for the theories that follow from the 10th to the 15th century. They...- $190.00
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Vendor: Richard Middleton
Musical Belongings: Selected Essays
One of the pioneers of popular music studies, Richard Middleton has made an important contribution not only to this particular field but also to the critical and cultural theory of music more generally. Sixteen of his essays, dating from the late 1970s to the...- $62.99
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Vendor: Francis William Galpin
Textbook of European Musical Instruments: Their Origin, History, and Character
Author: Francis William Galpin,Brian J. Galpin,John L. GalpinISBN-10: 083718648XISBN-13: 9780837186481Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/1976Pages: 278Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d- $65.00
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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.

