Music-Instruction & Study -Appreciation

Bridging the gap between scholarly and popular images of Mozart, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of all of his important works; the reception of his music since his death; the contexts which inform his work and his significance as a performer. It paints a...

Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) was an influential and celebrated writer on music. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1894, in his 101 years he taught and coached music; conducted the premieres of several 20th century masterpieces; composed works for piano and voice; and oversaw the...

The first cognitivist theory of the nature of ineffable, or verbally inexpressible, musical knowledge.Taking a novel approach to a longstanding problem in the philosophy of art, Diana Raffman provides the first cognitivist theory of the nature of ineffable, or verbally inexpressible, musical knowledge. In...

Praised in The Economist as "heartfelt and finely reasoned...wise, perceptive and inspiring," Who Needs Classical Music? offers a fresh and balanced defense of the value of classical music in contemporary culture. Challenging the many cultural critics who contend that the division between "high" and...

The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what information was made available to the public....

The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this meaning occur?...

The Sound Books series is a picture book collection designed to visually represent musical concepts for young learners. Its original artwork is created and arranged to clearly depict sound ideas with few or no words required. The unique approach encourages students to bring together...

(Easy Piano Vocal Selections). 5 simplified piano arrangements by William Stickles, including: America * I Feel Pretty * Maria * One Hand, One Heart * Tonight. Includes lyrics.Author: Stephen SondheimISBN-10: 1495029670ISBN-13: 9781495029677Publisher: Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Co.Language: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 18Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 11.80h x...

Saam Trivedi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.Author: Saam TrivediISBN-10: 1438467168ISBN-13: 9781438467160Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2018Pages: 205Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

It is through their music that the Indigo Girls build upon the theological idea of community-building and solidarity-forming, in order to tell the stories, to relate the authentic experience of human struggle and reconciliation, of human love and pain. Further, they work outward, convicted...

MUSIC HEALS US. It can provide solace in difficult times, and help us celebrate moments of joy. The transformative power of music is at the heart of this compilation of intimate recollections by Canadians from every province and territory. In these remarkable stories, Canadians...

The Musician Healer resurrects a long-forgotten role for musicians and provides clear guidance for preparation and self-development as a musician healer in order to reactivate this role for the modern world. It begins with the author's personal musical story that draws upon her Mi'kmaq/Abenaki...

John Bell Young explores some of the richest and most memorable instrumental music ever written. How did this prolific musician compose more than a thousand masterpieces in a career that spanned less than two decades? Young's colorful analysis of a Schubert's greatest orchestral, piano...

From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salomé Voegelin expands 'possible world theory' to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds, articulated principally via David...

An authoritative yet easy-to-understand method that teaches various strum patterns and song accompaniment styles.Author: Jerry SilvermanISBN-10: 1562224239ISBN-13: 9781562224233Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/28/1993Pages: 95Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 11.73h x 8.76w x 0.28d

Learn to practice the right way. Zero in on your goals and become a better guitar player faster.The guitar is in your lap. It's tuned. You're ready. An hour goes by and you feel like you've accomplished so little. In fact, a good chunk...

Piano LOVE Songs for Adults - is a great songbook for a pianist beginner. Inside you will find 10 familiar, favorites that are some of the most popular melodies in the world.★ All songs is presented twice: once with letters inside the note heads...

The music industry is a broad category that includes a variety of businesses and organizations involved in the production, distribution, and promotion of music. The industry includes record labels, music publishers, music venues, artist development and artists management companies, concert promoters and many more....

Oglesby was a songwriter and work alongside various musician, in the 1960's thought the 1990's. He used to tell me stories about the 1960s and 1970s when I use to visit him. He passed away recently, and left a vault of original written songs...

Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art? What was the artist's inspiration, and how did that idea become a reality? Cultural products inevitably arise from a context, a submerged landscape that is often not easily accessible....

Emotion is an integral aspect of musical experience; music has the power to take us on an emotional and intellectual journey, transforming the listener along the way. The aim of this book is to examine the nature of this journey, using a variety of...

The Sound Books series is a picture book collection designed to visually represent musical concepts for young learners. Its original artwork is created and arranged to clearly depict sound ideas with few or no words required. The unique approach encourages students to bring together...

The Sound Books series is a picture book collection designed to visually represent musical concepts for young learners. Its original artwork is created and arranged to clearly depict sound ideas with few or no words required. The unique approach encourages students to bring together...

The Sound Book series is a picture book collection designed to visually represent musical concepts for young learners. Its original artwork is created and arranged to clearly depict sound ideas with few or no words required. The unique approach encourages students to bring together...

Edited collection including contributions from scholars and popular music educators in response to the question "what are the place and purpose of popular music education?" The book aims to broaden and diversify the conversation and community around popular music education globally. 7 b&w illus.Author:...

We make or listen to music for the powerful effect it has on our emotions, and we can't imagine our lives without music. Yet we tend to know nothing about the intricate networks that neurons create throughout our brains to make music possible. The...

This book provides an overview of professional musicians working within the healthcare system and explores programs that bring music into the environment of the hospital. Far from being onstage, musicians in the hospital provide musical engagement for patients and healthcare providers focused on life-and-death...

The term "viola bastarda" refers to both an instrument and a style of playing that is one of the crowning achievements of musical mannerism. The Italian repertory for the solo viola da gamba in the 16th and early 17th centuries was largely music played...

How is it possible to talk or write about music? What is the link between graphic signs and music? What makes music meaningful? In this book, distinguished scholar Leo Treitler explores the relationships among language, musical notation, performance, compositional practice, and patterns of culture...

Musical identity raises complex, multifarious, and fascinating questions. Discussions in this new study consider how individuals construct their musical identities in relation to their experiences of formal and informal music teaching and learning. Each chapter features a different case study situated in a specific...

David McGill has assembled an exhaustive study that uses the musical concepts of the legendary Marcel Tabuteau as a starting point from which to develop musical thought. McGill methodically explains the frequently misunderstood "Tabuteau number system" and its relationship to note grouping-the lifeblood of...

"In this new edition of Historical Anthology of Music by Women, Briscoe offers an indispensable resource for our own moment. . . . He has commissioned new biographical and critical essays by leading musicologists such as Thomas J. Mathiesen, Elizabeth Aubrey, Suzanne Cusick, Ellen...

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of...

Teach Yourself to Compose Music!Learning music theory and writing sheet music will allow you to better hone your skills as a singer and a composer.This guide offers both beginners and more advanced singers and songwriters the skills and information to learn how to read,...

Teach Yourself to Compose Music!Learning music theory and writing sheet music will allow you to better hone your skills as a singer and a composer.This guide offers both beginners and more advanced singers and songwriters the skills and information to learn how to read,...

Even before the Beatnik Riots of 1961, New York City's Greenwich Village was the epicenter of revolutionary movements in American music and culture. But, in the early 1960s and throughout the decade, a new wave of writers and performers inspired by the folk music...

(Easy Piano Play-Along). Each volume in the Easy Piano Play-Along series comes with audio tracks of orchestrated arrangements, and includes matching custom arrangements in easy piano format. This edition features 8 songs from the classic musical: America * Cool * I Feel Pretty *...

This handbook of musical alchemy emphasizes the role of music in raising consciousness to benefit body and mind.Author: R. J. StewartISBN-10: 0892813121ISBN-13: 9780892813124Publisher: Destiny BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1990Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.27w x 0.48d

Teaches you how to hear and play Louie Louie, Satisfaction, I Walk the Line, Letit Be, Light My Fire, and Smells Like Teen Spirit.*Includes chords, strum patterns, guitar lines and improvising scales.*Presents history of each songwith photos of key recording artists.*Contains appendices with rock...

This reproducible book will encourage and enable your students to develop solid rhythmic reading skills. It features 100 pages containing 575 rhythm exercises in a variety of time signatures. New concepts are introduced and combined together to challenge and motivate your students. The comb...

This course is designed for teens who want to further develop their skills in music theory but have limited time to study it. It includes eight units devoted to the following subject areas -- rhythm, intervals, major scales, major key signatures, musical terms and...

This course is designed for teens who want to further develop their skills in music theory but have limited time to study it. It includes eight units devoted to the following subject areas -- rhythm, intervals, major scales, major key signatures, musical terms and...

This method is designed for teens who still enjoy music and want to continue their study but have limited practice time. Each book includes solo pieces in varied styles, a Hanon study to develop technical skills and a duet that students can play with...

This method is designed for teens who still enjoy music and want to continue their study but have limited practice time. Each book includes solo pieces in varied styles, a Hanon study to develop technical skills and a duet that students can play with...

What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the oral road to the unconscious, Melodies of the Mind invites the reader to...

An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more. Musical Bodies, Musical Minds offers an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science. The...

My Journey My Music: Beginner Piano Lessons for Kids by Melissa Chin is designed to teach children to read and play music on the piano or keyboard. It is an easy-to-follow book created for school-aged children who want to begin playing music right away....

In an age of ubiquitous music and countless new songs releasing every minute, the Great American Songbook endures. After all, the Songbook--that sprawling canon of popular songs, standards, and show tunes from roughly the 1920s through the 1950s--is a foundational text of American pop...

Write better songs with the help of the third edition of The Songwriting Sourcebook. Author: Rikky RooksbyISBN-10: 1493065386ISBN-13: 9781493065387Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2022Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.49d

Each exercise in this valuable resource is designed to reinforce fundamental vocal concepts for choral and solo singers of any age. Organized in 12 focused categories, the purpose of every warm-up is evident, and clearly stated directions optimize growth. Supportive piano accompaniments, including progressive...