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Vendor:Brian Kane
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice
Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher Pythagoras lectured to his...- $42.99
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Vendor:James Shipway
Music Theory for Guitarists, Volume 3: Guitar Theory and Fretboard Concepts to Help Intermediate to Advanced Players Master Scales, Modes and Chord Pr
Volume 3 in the 'Music Theory for Guitarists' series: Intermediate to advanced music theory & guitar fretboard concepts explained in 100% confusion-free language with no music reading necessary! Learn about modal improvisation, the CAGED System, the harmonic minor scale, extended chords, key changes/modulation techniques...and...- $17.99
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Vendor:Janet K. Halfyard
The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV
The Palgrave Handbook to Music and Sound in Peak TV charts the transformation of television's sonic storytelling during the new "golden age" of televisual narrative from the late 1990s to the early 2020s. Grounded in close analytical, critical, and theoretical work identifying the key...- $299.99
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Vendor:Timothy Koozin
Embodied Expression in Popular Music: A Theory of Musical Gesture and Agency
Theory in popular music has historically tended to approach musical processes of rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, and form as abstractions, without very directly engaging the intimate connection between the performer and instrument in popular music performance. Embodied Expression in Popular Music illuminates under-researched aspects of...- $90.00
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Vendor:David Beach
Bach to Brahms: Essays on Musical Design and Structure
Bach to Brahms presents current analytic views by established scholars of the traditional tonal repertoire, with essays on works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms. The fifteen essays are divided into three groups, two of which focus primarily on the...- $130.00
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Vendor:Elizabeth West Marvin
Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies
Interdisciplinary articles bridge the gulf between classical and popular music. Modern musical-analytical techniques are applied to a wide range of Western music, disregarding barriers between different kinds of music. Topics discussed fall into three sections: compositional poietics (poietics being the pre-compositional activities of composer...- $49.95
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Vendor:Martin Bernstein
An Introduction to Music
""An Introduction to Music"" is a comprehensive guide to the world of music written by the renowned composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein and musicologist Martin Bookspan. The book is designed to help readers understand the fundamentals of music theory and history, as well as...- $36.95
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Vendor:Jayson Beaster-Jones
DIL Chahta Hai Soundtrack
The 2001 buddy film Dil Chahta Hai (dir. Farhan Akhtar), had arguably the first rock soundtrack in Bollywood. The award-winning soundtrack is an entry point into the relationship between Bollywood film songs, Hindi language music, and the Indi-pop movement of the '80s and '90s....- $22.95
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Vendor:Anirudha Bhattacharjee
Lata Mangeshkar: My Favourites, Vol. 2
A history of Hindi film music recounted from a list of 50 of Lata Mangeshakar's songs that she chose as her favorites. Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's all-time most influential singers was known as "the Nightingale of India." For her album My Favourites, Vol....- $22.95
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Vendor:Stefan ?stersj?
Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research
Higher Music Performance Education, as taught and learned in universities and conservatoires in Europe, is undergoing transformation. Since the nineteenth century, the master-apprentice pedagogical model has dominated, creating a learning environment that emphasises the development of technical skills rather than critical and creative faculties....- $70.95
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Vendor:Jayson Beaster-Jones
Dil Chahta Hai Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the film Dil Chahta Hai (2001) was arguably the first hit soundtrack in Bollywood created by a rock band. Through interviews and analysis of the soundtrack, this book provides insights into the relationships between Bollywood films, their songs, and new production...- $80.00
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Vendor:Clement A. Miller
Msd 32 Jerome Cardan, Writings on Music, Introduction, Translation, and Edition by Clement A. Miller: Volume 32
For more information, see http: //www.corpusmusicae.com/msd/msd_cc032.htmAuthor: Clement A. Miller, Jerome CardanISBN-10: 1595512691ISBN-13: 9781595512697Publisher: American Institute of MusicologyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1973Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.80w x 0.90d- $60.00
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Vendor:Amy Lynn Wlodarski
Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation
This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn Wlodarski analyses the compositional processes and conceptual frameworks...- $41.99
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Vendor:Harris M. Berger
Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience
A lively comparison of musical meaning in Ohio's Jazz, metal, and hard rock scene.This vivid ethnography of the musical lives of heavy metal, rock, and jazz musicians in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio shows how musicians engage with the world of sound to forge meaningful...- $27.95
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Vendor:Leon Stefanija
Sociology of Music: History, Theory, Methodology and Practice
The textbook provides students with insight into and overview of the basics of social research on music. It addresses the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How of music research through four perspectives from the sociological study of music: a historical survey of the social...- $79.99
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Vendor:Makis Solomos
From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th- and 21st-Century Music
From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and showing how music had begun a change of paradigm, moving from a culture centred on the...- $54.99
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Vendor:Paul Hegarty
Beyond and Before, Updated and Expanded Edition: Progressive Rock Across Time and Genre
The original edition of Beyond and Before extends an understanding of "progressive rock" by providing a fuller definition of what progressive rock is, was and can be. Called by Record Collector "the most accomplished critical overview yet" of progressive rock and one of their...- $130.00
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Vendor:Michael Aaron
Michael Aaron Piano Course Theory: Primer
A new addition to the successful Michael Aaron Piano Course lesson books. These new Theory books are centered around Michael Aaron's original Lesson books and are focused on his original teaching concepts.Author: Michael AaronISBN-10: 0898988543ISBN-13: 9780898988543Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1994Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 11.60h...- $7.99
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Vendor:James Bohn
Music in Disney's Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the Jungle Book
In Music in Disney's Animated Features James Bohn investigates how music functions in Disney animated films and identifies several vanguard techniques used in them. In addition, he also presents a history of music in Disney animated films, as well as biographical information on several...- $110.00
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Vendor:Amy Hite
Music Note Story Speller: Sea Creatures (Treble Clef Notes)
Sea Creatures is part of the Music Note Story Speller Series collection. This series is designed to help music students enjoy learning to read their notes. It is often helpful to take the music away from the instrument and practice note reading on its...- $9.99
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Vendor:Leigh Landy
Making Music with Sounds
Making Music with Sounds offers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions with sounds and facilitates creativity in school age children, with the activities primarily for 11-14 year old students. It can also be...- $63.99
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Vendor:Amy M. Simpson
Music on Your Mind: What Musicians Need to Know to Play with Success
This book provides musicians, students, and teachers a practical guide for optimal music learning, practice, memorization, and performance by the application of modern neuro-music research. Uncover the best, scientifically researched techniques, supported by researchers and musicians alike, that will empower you to learn thoroughly,...- $44.99
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Vendor:David B. Doty
The Just Intonation Primer
Author: David B. DotyISBN-10: 0972681000ISBN-13: 9780972681001Publisher: David B, DotyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2024Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.26d- $15.00
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Vendor:Roman Fire
Guitar Fretboard: The Guide with Theory and Exercises to Easily Memorize the Fretboard
Does Learning and Playing All the Notes of the Fretboard in a Short Seems Impossible?The biggest obstacle for a guitarist is learning the fretboard. It is a common problem that slows down and confuses guitarists on their learning path.Many people don't even know the...- $16.99
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Vendor:Nan Mogar
Guitar Intervals Decoded - Left-Handed
Is your knowledge of the fretboard based solely on memorizing interval shapes in scales and chords? Do you often find yourself translating known notes into numbers whenever you want to locate an interval? Would you like to have the ability to locate any interval...- $10.99
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Vendor:Michael Cherlin
Music's Making: The Poetry of Music, the Music of Poetry
As a work of musical theory, or meta-theory, Music's Making draws extensively on work done in philosophy and literary criticism in addition to the scholarship of musicologists and music theorists. Music's Making is divided into two large parts. The first half develops global attitudes...- $34.95
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Vendor:Karol Szymanowski
Szymanowski on Music: Selected Writings of Karol Szymanowski
The first comprehensive selection of Szymanowski's writings to be published in English, containing all the most important of the composer's essays and interviews. Karol Szymanowski [1882-1937] is now widely acknowledged to be the most important Polish composer since Chopin. He was also a considerable...- $49.95
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Vendor:Sander Van Maas
Thresholds of Listening: Sound, Technics, Space
Thresholds of Listening addresses recent and historical changes in the ways listening has been conceived. Listening, having been emancipated from the passive, subjected position of reception, has come to be asserted as an active force in culture and in collective and individual politics. The...- $39.00
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Vendor:Julian Gerstin
Rhythm: Pattern in Time
What is the difference between a downbeat, an offbeat, and a backbeat? What is the cross-rhythm in a polyrhythm? Are odd meters really odd? Why is the mysterious 3-3-2 rhythm so popular all over the world? In this one-of-a-kind pocket book, top rhythm dude...- $8.95
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Vendor:Steve Horowitz
The Theory and Practice of Writing Music for Games
Along with music composition theory, this book includes a multitude of clearly defined hands-on projects and exercises, designed to prepare the reader to go out into the field with a complete understanding of the art and craft of music composition for games and visual...- $79.95
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Vendor:Ian Bent
Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: Volume 2, Hermeneutic Approaches
In this second volume of nineteenth-century music analyses, Ian Bent provides a further selection of newly translated writings of nineteenth-century music critics and theorists, including composers such as Wagner, Schumann and Berlioz, and critics such as A. B. Marx and E. T. A. Hoffmann....- $34.99
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Vendor:David P. Neumeyer
Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema
By exploring the relationship between music and the moving image in film narrative, David Neumeyer shows that film music is not conceptually separate from sound or dialogue, but that all three are manipulated and continually interact in the larger acoustical world of the sound...- $90.00
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Vendor:Robert S. Hatten
Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
"Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them...- $38.00
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Vendor:Christopher Sutton
Musicality: How you too can learn music like a gifted prodigy, unlock your musical instinct, and unleash your inner natural.
The 'missing manual' which every musician and music-learner should have been handed on day one.Have you ever wondered how the musical "greats" do what they do?Whether it's the child prodigy who masters instrument technique and new music ultra-fast... the creative genius who can conjure...- $49.95
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Vendor:Blake Howe
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies
The Oxford Handbook of 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, through the...- $235.00
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Vendor:Mark Hijleh
Towards a Global Music Theory: Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communications and travel. We live now in a world of global musical practice that will only continue to...- $69.99
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Vendor:Emily I. Dolan
Oxford Handbook of Timbre
Despite its importance as a central feature of musical sounds, timbre has rarely stood in the limelight. First defined in the eighteenth century, denigrated during the nineteenth, the concept of timbre came into its own during the twentieth century and its fascination with synthesizers...- $195.00
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Vendor:Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli - Cinema
(Vocal Piano). International superstar Andrea Bocelli returns with his new eagerly awaited album Cinema which celebrates the greatest movie songs of all time and reunites a team of musical legends including David Foster, Humberto Gatica and Tony Renis. Our matching folio includes all 12...- $17.99
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Vendor:Remi C. Engels Ph. D.
Guitar Chord Theory Tutorial: A Simple Guide to Chord Theory for the Guitar
To become an accomplished guitar player it is essential to acquire some knowledge of chord theory. This tutorial aims at giving the reader a sound foundation in chord building theory starting from scratch. The book consists of two major parts: the triadic and the...- $24.50
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Vendor:Tommaso Sabbatini
Music, the Market, and the Marvellous: Parisian F?erie, 1864-1900
Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines f?erie, the French fairy play, in the last third of the nineteenth century. It is among the first book-length studies on the genre, the first in a language other than French, and the first from a musicological...- $115.00
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Vendor:Stefan ?stersj?
Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research
Higher Music Performance Education, as taught and learned in universities and conservatoires in Europe, is undergoing transformation. Since the nineteenth century, the master-apprentice pedagogical model has dominated, creating a learning environment that emphasises the development of technical skills rather than critical and creative faculties....- $53.95
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Vendor:Sublime Studio
Guitar Music Theory: An Essential Beginner's Guide To Learn The Realms Of Guitar Music Theory From A-Z
This insightful book is about guitar music theory. Therein, we have examined the ways in which beginners at playing the guitar can become proficient in this act. In writing the book, several topics were taken into consideration which include the parts and types of...- $19.99
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Vendor:Tristian Evans
Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism
The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film canon, or in television and other media remains largely unexplored in any detail. Tristian Evans...- $54.99
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Vendor:Kevin G. Pace
The Comprehensive Book of Chords: For Piano and Keyboard Players
The Comprehensive Book of Chords for Piano and Keyboard Players was written specifically for pianists, but could be used by anyone. This book contains over 100 chords. Each chord is shown with its interesting features, scales that may be used with it, and several...- $29.99
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Vendor:Ebenezer Prout
Musical Form
CONTENTS Introduction Rhythm--Sentences and Phrases The Subdivisions of a Musical Sentence-- Sections and Motives Modulation-- Key-Relationship The Means of Modulation-- Modulation by Means of Triads The Construction of Simple Sentences with Regular Rhythm Irregular and Complex Rhythms The Simple Binary Form The Simple Ternary...- $19.99
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Vendor:Juozas Rimas
Etudes on the Philosophy of Music
Drawing on the author's four decades of experience as a concert oboist, this open access book studies a number of foundational issues in the philosophy of music, such as musical meaning and expression, musical ontology and the existence of the musical work, the relation...- $59.99
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Vendor:August Haupt
Haupt's Theory Of Counterpoint, Fugue, And Double Counterpoint: Prepared Expressly For The Royal Institute For Church Music, At Berlin, Prussia
This classic treatise on counterpoint is an essential resource for music students and scholars, offering clear explanations and practical exercises that illuminate the principles of this challenging art form.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the...- $15.95
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Vendor:Abigail Shupe
War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory
This book studies Crumb's Winds of Destiny and Black Angels as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumb's output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions and challenges to traditional narratives of...- $54.99
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Vendor:Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton
Rhythm
This book provides a fascinating exploration of the nature of rhythm in music and poetry. The author delves into the mechanics of rhythm, its role in various forms of artistic expression, and its emotional impact on listeners and readers. Readers with an interest in...- $15.95
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Vendor:Lorraine Chai
Stringstastic Level 1 - Double Bass USA
The ensemble series provides students (ages 6-11) with a solid foundation in music theory through the eyes of a violin, viola, cello, and double bass player.This series is designed so that they can be used hand in hand with each other in a beginner...- $16.99
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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.
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.