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  • Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay Across Disciplinesvolume 20 by Schaeffer, Pierre
    Pierre Schaeffer

    Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay Across Disciplines Volume 20

    The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concr te to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting...
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  • Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning by Godøy, Rolf Inge
    Rolf Inge God

    Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning

    We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement-when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating it to our body movements, or form an image in our minds of body movements. Musical Gestures is a collection...
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  • This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says about You by Rogers, Susan
    Susan Rogers

    This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says about You

    This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in...
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  • Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day by Burton-Hill, Clemency
    Clemency Burton-Hill

    Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day

    "Year of Wonder is an absolute treat--the most enlightening way to be guided through the year." -- Eddie RedmayneA unique celebration of classical music that showcases one inspirational piece each day of the year, written by an award-winning violinist and BBC Radio personalityClassical music...
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  • Titans of Bass: The Tactics, Habits, and Routines from Over 130 of the World's Best by Jensen, Kj
    Kj Jensen

    Titans of Bass: The Tactics, Habits, and Routines from Over 130 of the World's Best

    Titans of Bass takes the experience of over 130 of the world's top bassists to help the beginning bassist learn and play their first song.Author: Kj JensenISBN-10: 1493062875ISBN-13: 9781493062874Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2022Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.05h x 6.04w x 0.65d
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  • Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context by Morgan-Ellis, Esther M.
    Esther M. Morgan-Ellis

    Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context

    Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. The musical examples are drawn from classical, popular, and folk traditions from around the globe. These examples are organized into thematic chapters, each of which explores a...
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  • Raising Musical Kids: A Guide for Parents by Cutietta, Robert A.
    Robert A. Cutietta

    Raising Musical Kids: A Guide for Parents

    Does music make kids smarter? At what age should a child begin music lessons? Where should you purchase an instrument? What should parents expect from a child's teachers and lessons? How can you get kids to practice? Raising Musical Kids answers these and many...
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  • Handbook of Musical Identities by MacDonald, Raymond
    Raymond MacDonald

    Handbook of Musical Identities

    Music is a tremendously powerful channel through which people develop their personal and social identities. Music is used to communicate emotions, thoughts, political statements, social relationships, and physical expressions. But, just as language can mediate the construction and negotiation of developing identities, so music...
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  • In Performance by Bailey, Wayne
    Wayne Bailey

    In Performance

    In Performance teaches music appreciation by focusing on how all listeners first encounter music--through its performance. By emphasizing where music is heard or performed, this text aims to create lifelong, active music listeners who understand the value of different types of music and the...
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  • Music as Creative Practice by Cook, Nicholas
    Nicholas Cook

    Music as Creative Practice

    Until recently, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the lone genius. But the last decade has witnessed a sea change: musical creativity is now overwhelmingly thought of in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. Music as Creative Practice is...
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  • Music in the Andes: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] by Turino, Thomas
    Thomas Turino

    Music in the Andes: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)]

    Music in the Andes is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival by Bithell, Caroline
    Caroline Bithell

    The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival

    Revival movements aim to revitalize traditions perceived as threatened or moribund by adapting them to new temporal, spatial, and social contexts. While many of these movements have been well-documented in Western Europe and North America, those occurring and recurring elsewhere in the world have...
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  • Music As An Asset To Spirituality by Richards, Laura J.
    Laura J. Richards

    Music As An Asset To Spirituality

    Music As An Asset To Spirituality is a book written by Laura J. Richards. The book explores the relationship between music and spirituality, and how music can be used as a tool to enhance one's spiritual journey. The author delves into the history of...
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  • The Bohemians, New York Musicians' Club: A Historical Narrative And Record (1921) by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
    Henry Edward Krehbiel

    The Bohemians, New York Musicians' Club: A Historical Narrative And Record (1921)

    The Bohemians, New York Musicians������� Club: A Historical Narrative And Record is a book written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published in 1921. The book is a detailed historical account of the Bohemians, a social club of musicians in New York City that was...
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  • The Masonic Harmonia: A Collection Of Music, Original And Selected, For The Use Of The Masonic Fraternity by Cutler, Henry Stephen
    Henry Stephen Cutler

    The Masonic Harmonia: A Collection Of Music, Original And Selected, For The Use Of The Masonic Fraternity

    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...
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  • Music Listening Today by Hoffer, Charles
    Charles Hoffer

    Music Listening Today

    Best-selling MUSIC LISTENING TODAY, 6e leads you on an enchanting journey through the history of music from the early Western period to the present day--teaching you how to listen as you go. Its unique chronological framework helps you understand and appreciate different styles, forms,...
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  • Nina Simone's Gum by Ellis, Warren
    Warren Ellis

    Nina Simone's Gum

    From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious...
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  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Sacks, Oliver
    Oliver Sacks

    Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. "Powerful and compassionate. . ....
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  • The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music by Wooten, Victor L.
    Victor L. Wooten

    The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

    From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes...and feeling them. The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be...
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  • Teaching Dyslexics How to Read and Write Music by Aloba, Deborah
    Deborah Aloba

    Teaching Dyslexics How to Read and Write Music

    Singer Deborah Aloba has been teaching singing and music for over 20 years. She managed a small opera company for 12 years and has run opera workshops in schools and prisons. She has a diverse student base, which includes students with dyslexia and other...
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  • Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire by Pelosi, Francesco
    Francesco Pelosi

    Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire

    Explores the philosophical import and use of musical notions in crucial moments and authors of the Roman Imperial period.Author: Francesco PelosiISBN-10: 1108940951ISBN-13: 9781108940955Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2022Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d
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  • Reading Franz Liszt: Revealing the Poetry Behind the Piano Music by Roberts, Paul
    Paul Roberts

    Reading Franz Liszt: Revealing the Poetry behind the Piano Music

    A look beyond the virtuosity of Romanticism's piano superstar.Pianist Paul Roberts recasts Franz Liszt as a composer of poetic feeling rather than just a purveyor of technical brilliance. Reading Franz Liszt: Revealing the Poetry behind the Piano Music immerses readers in Liszt's world through...
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  • West Side Story by Sondheim, Stephen
    Stephen Sondheim

    West Side Story

    (Piano Solo Songbook). Intermediate piano solo arrangements of ten songs from this Bernstein/Sondheim masterpiece: America * Cha-Cha from the Dance at the Gym * Cool * I Feel Pretty * I Have a Love * Maria * One Hand, One Heart * Something's Coming...
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  • Introduction and Practical Guide to Music Education by Dornberger, Laura M.
    Laura M. Dornberger

    Introduction and Practical Guide to Music Education

    Author: Laura M. DornbergerISBN-10: 1516555716ISBN-13: 9781516555710Publisher: Cognella Academic PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
    $228.50
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  • The Vintage Guide to Classical Music: An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music by Swafford, Jan
    Jan Swafford

    The Vintage Guide to Classical Music: An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music

    The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond. The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively...
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  • What to Listen for in Music by Copland, Aaron
    Aaron Copland

    What to Listen for in Music

    Now in trade paperback: "The definitive guide to musical enjoyment" (Forum). In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most...
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  • Symphonies for the Soul: Classical Music to Cure Any Ailment by Condy, Oliver
    Oliver Condy

    Symphonies for the Soul: Classical Music to Cure Any Ailment

    An A-Z of ailments - physical, mental and spiritual - and the classical music that will cure the body and soothe the soul They say that music has charms to soothe a savage beast, but can it cure a broken heart? Oliver Condy takes...
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  • Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination by Jourdain, R.
    R. Jourdain

    Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination

    What makes a distant oboe's wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tracking the unsuspecting gazelle? Lyrically interweaving discoveries...
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  • Zen Guitar by Sudo, Philip Toshio
    Philip Toshio Sudo

    Zen Guitar

    Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Eastern wisdom and applies it to music and performance. Each of us carries a song inside us, the song that makes us human. Zen Guitar provides the key...
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  • Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces by Burnham, Scott
    Scott Burnham

    Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces

    An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more--from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon--explore the influence of music on their lives and work Contributors include: Laurie Anderson ● Jamie Barton ● Daphne...
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  • How to Play Keyboard for Kids: a definitive and complete keyboard book for beginners by Nelson, David
    David Nelson

    How to Play Keyboard for Kids: a definitive and complete keyboard book for beginners

    Teach your child how to play the keyboard with the help of this incredible guide Do you want to teach your child how to play the keyboard? Looking for a practical guide which explains all the fundamentals in an easy-to-understand way? Then keep reading...
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  • The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues by Wooten, Victor L.
    Victor L. Wooten

    The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues

    Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten's inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today's world. We may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all that it...
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  • The Pattern System for the Bass Player by Cap, Ariane
    Ariane Cap

    The Pattern System for the Bass Player

    ���� An epic journey and a revolutionary concept teaching fretboard proficiency, combined with improvisation and mental practice. ���� 330 pages densely packed with information, beautiful diagrams, and mind-bending exercises���� Improvised Explorations and Scalar Drills to open up your music and technique���� 111 Videos streaming...
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  • Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer by Reed, Ted
    Ted Reed

    Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer

    Voted second on Modern Drummer's list of 25 Greatest Drum Books in 1993, Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer is one of the most versatile and practical works ever written for drums. Created exclusively to address syncopation, it has earned its place...
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  • On the Sensations of Tone by Helmholtz, Hermann
    Hermann Helmholtz

    On the Sensations of Tone

    On the Sensations of Tone is one of the world's greatest scientific classics. It bridges the gap between the natural sciences and music theory and, nearly a century after its first publication, it is still a standard text for the study of physiological acoustics...
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  • How to Listen to Jazz by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    How to Listen to Jazz

    A "radiantly accomplished" music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal) In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us...
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  • What to Listen for in Music by Copland, Aaron
    Aaron Copland

    What to Listen for in Music

    Whether they listen to Mozart or Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland invites readers to ask two basic questions: Are they hearing everything that is going on? Are they really being sensitive to it? With his provocative suggestions, Aaron Copland guides readers through a deeper appreciation...
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  • The Perpetual Beginner: a musician's path to lifelong learning by Isaacs, Dave
    Dave Isaacs

    The Perpetual Beginner: a musician's path to lifelong learning

    The Perpetual Beginner is part memoir, part musical instruction manual. Relating stories of his experiences as a young musician and music student in 1980's New York, author Dave Isaacs describes the key lessons that shaped his musical life and how they can help any...
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  • The Joy of Music by Bernstein, Leonard
    Leonard Bernstein

    The Joy of Music

    This classic work is perhaps Bernstein's finest collection of conversations on the meaning and wonder of music. This book is a must for all music fans who wish to experience music more fully and deeply through one of the most inspired, and inspiring, music...
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  • Music Production Mastery: All You Need to Know About Producing Music, Songwriting, Music Theory and Creativity (Two Book Bundle) by Swindali, Tommy
    Tommy Swindali

    Music Production Mastery: All You Need to Know About Producing Music, Songwriting, Music Theory and Creativity (Two Book Bundle)

    Everything you need to know about making music in one place Grab your chance to own this two book bundle by Tommy Swindali. Covering Everything you need to know about Music Production, Songwriting, Music Theory and Creativity. Including: Music Production The Advanced Guide on...
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  • Music, Physics and Engineering by Olson, Harry F.
    Harry F. Olson

    Music, Physics and Engineering

    Now thoroughly revised and enlarged, this book offers the most comprehensive coverage available of all aspects of the production, reception, and reproduction of sound. Written clearly and concisely, all its chapters can be understood without specialized training in music, physics, engineering, or mathematics.Dr. Olson...
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  • Just A.S.I.P. (accenting symmetrical intervallic patterns) of Coffee & The Chromatic Scale by Pastorius, Felix X.
    Felix X. Pastorius

    Just A.S.I.P. (accenting symmetrical intervallic patterns) of Coffee & The Chromatic Scale

    This is the third of three music theory books written by Felix Pastorius. "Just A.S.I.P. (accenting symmetrical intervallic patterns) of Coffee & The Chromatic Scale" breaks down the aforementioned scale into even notational distances using subtraction and addition.Author: Felix X. PastoriusISBN-10: 0692982906ISBN-13: 9780692982907Publisher: Felix...
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  • Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life by Marsalis, Wynton
    Wynton Marsalis

    Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

    In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize--winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he's learned from a lifetime in jazz-lessons that can help us all move to higher ground. With wit and candor he demystifies the music that is the birthright of every...
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  • Music Fundamentals for Musical Theatre by Riley, Christine
    Christine Riley

    Music Fundamentals for Musical Theatre

    Musical theatre students and performers are frequently asked to learn musical material in a short space of time; sight-read pieces in auditions; collaborate with accompanists; and communicate musically with peers, directors, music directors and choreographers. Many of these students and performers will have had...
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  • Music with Feelings: Music Lesson Plans for Teachers With or Without Musical Experience by Payne, Mary K.
    Mary K. Payne

    Music with Feelings: Music Lesson Plans for Teachers With or Without Musical Experience

    This guide was designed specifically for substitute teachers who may find themselves in an uncomfortable situation if they get called to teach an elementary school music class for which they have no training. Within its easy-to-read pages, the author shows how to conduct entertaining...
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  • Middle Eastern Flute Magic: Play the Nay: Finger Charts for Arabic Music Scales by Powers, Cameron
    Cameron Powers

    Middle Eastern Flute Magic: Play the Nay: Finger Charts for Arabic Music Scales

    Learn to play the ancient Middle Eastern reed flute known as the nay. Famous in Sufi poetry for its wailing soulful sound, it is not hard to fall totally in love with this instrument. However, it is not so easy to play. Musicians who...
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  • Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music by Chusid, Irwin
    Irwin Chusid

    Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music

    Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure--figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry...
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  • Hear the Beat, Feel the Music: Count, Clap and Tap Your Way to Remarkable Rhythm by Joseph, James
    James Joseph

    Hear the Beat, Feel the Music: Count, Clap and Tap Your Way to Remarkable Rhythm

    How do you count music? What's an 8-count? How do you find the beat in a song?This book, along with more than 20 YouTube videos, will teach you how to count music the easy way--using the 8-count, the way dancers count. If you struggle...
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  • If You're Feeling Sinister by Plagenhoef, Scott
    Scott Plagenhoef

    If You're Feeling Sinister

    If You're Feeling Sinister shows how Belle & Sebastian transformed themselves over the space of a decade, from a slightly shambolic cult secret into a polished, highly entertaining, mainstream pop group. Along the way, the book shows how the internet has revolutionized how we...
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  • Kate Bush The Dreaming: In-depth by Shenton, Laura
    Laura Shenton

    Kate Bush The Dreaming: In-depth

    When Kate Bush shot to fame in 1978, her public image was that of a sweet young woman who sang about Cathy out on the windy moors, full of melancholy and yearning for Heathcliff. It was charming, inoffensive and, although eccentric, subtle enough to...
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