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Vendor:Massimo Zicari
The Voice of the Century: The Culture of Italian Bel Canto in Luisa Tetrazzini's Recorded Interpretations
The fields of performance studies, empirical musicology, and the musicology of recordings have seen a tremendous development in recent years, shedding new light on the recent history of our performing tradition and conveying essential information to music practitioners, critics and audiences. This innovative work...- $36.95
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Vendor:Dan Maske
Counterpoint Explained - Concepts in Writing Two or More Melodies, Sounded at the Same Time by Dan Maske (Book with Onlin Audio of Counterpoint Analys
(Explained). Counterpoint is the technique of composing two or more melodic lines that are sounded at the same time. Whether a guitar riff against a vocal melody, a bass line against a keyboard melody, or a violin and cello duet, in good counterpoint, these...- $19.99
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Vendor:Matthias Range
Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations
Coronations are the grandest of all state occasions. This is the first comprehensive in-depth study of the music that was performed at British coronations from 1603 to the present, encompassing the sixteen coronations that have taken place in Westminster Abbey and the last two...- $27.99
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Vendor:Eric J. McKee
Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz: A Study of Dance-Music Relations in 3/4 Time
Much music was written for the two most important dances of the 18th and 19th centuries, the minuet and the waltz. In Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz, Eric McKee argues that to better understand the musical structures and expressive meanings of...- $45.00
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Vendor:Nicholas Baragwanath
The Italian Traditions & Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera
In this groundbreaking survey of the fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories during the 19th century, Nicholas Baragwanath explores the compositional significance of tradition in Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Boito, and, most importantly, Puccini. Taking account of some 400...- $49.95
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Vendor:Raymond Monelle
The Musical Topic: Hunt, Military and Pastoral
The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle provides an in-depth cultural and historical study of musical topics--short melodic figures, harmonic or rhythmic formulae carrying literal or lexical meaning--through consideration of...- $35.00
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Vendor:Michael L. Klein
Intertextuality in Western Art Music
"The outstanding originality of this book lies in the detail and perspicuity with which interrelations are traced between texts, it even seems that relations sometimes work backwards. Above all, this book does not offer a 'theory of intertextuality.' Rather, it is a many-sided survey...- $44.95
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Vendor:Naomi Cumming
The Sonic Self: Musical Subjectivity and Signification
"Semioticians began by looking at literature but have gradually applied their techniques to other disciplines, including music. The late Naomi Cumming . . . based this consideration of the sources of musical expression on her experiences as a performer--with interesting, if rarely surprising, results."...- $39.99
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Vendor:Lucy Green
Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity: Voices Across Cultures
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...- $27.95
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Vendor:George Houle
Meter in Music, 1600-1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation
"All practising musicians with an interest in the baroque owe it to themselves to be exposed to the ideas contained in this book." --Continuo"This is a book from an excellent musician in the early field who turns out also to be a most persistent...- $22.00
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Vendor:Eric Isaacson
Visualizing Music
To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding visually?Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson describes...- $30.00
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Vendor:John Paul Ito
Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body
Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with...- $25.00
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Vendor:Alexis Anja Kallio
Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements
Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. As in broader educational studies, research in music education has tended to sidestep the religious dimensions of teaching and learning, often reflecting common...- $40.00
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Vendor:Inna Naroditskaya
Music in the American Diasporic Wedding
Music in the American Diasporic Wedding explores the complex cultural adaptations, preservations, and fusions that occur in weddings between couples and families of diverse origins. Discussing weddings as a site of negotiations between generations, traditions, and religions, the essays gathered here argue that music...- $36.00
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Vendor:Alexandra Kertz-Welzel
Globalizing Music Education: A Framework
How do globalization and internationalization impact music education around the world? By acknowledging different cultural values and priorities, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel's vision challenges the current state of international music education and higher education, which has been dominated by English-language scholarship. Her framework utilizes an interdisciplinary...- $26.00
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Vendor:Arnie Cox
Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking
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...- $35.00
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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...- $36.00
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Vendor:Glory St Germain
PREP LEVEL Supplemental - Ultimate Music Theory: Preparatory Theory Level is EASY with the PREP LEVEL Supplemental Workbook (Ultimate Music Theory) -
The PREP LEVEL Supplemental Workbook is designed to be completed with the Step-by-Step Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook!Bonus: Free Resources and Videos for all music history listening activities in the workbook.UMT Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook plus the PREP LEVEL Supplemental = RCM Preparatory Level.Note: Additional...- $19.97
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Vendor:Aventuras De Viaje
The Fundamentals of Music Composition: Learn Music Composition Step by Step
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,...- $12.99
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Vendor:Aventuras De Viaje
The Fundamentals of Music Composition: Learn Music Composition Step by Step
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,...- $20.99
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Vendor:James Shipway
No Bull Barre Chords for Guitar: Learn and Master the Essential Barre Chords that all Guitar Players Need
Master all the guitar barre chords you need to know to play literally hundreds of songs on the guitar with this step-by-step guitar method book, including downloadable audio practice tracks.Many guitar players struggle with barre chords for months or even years... but with No...- $24.99
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Vendor:Douglas MacMillan
The Small Flute Concerto in Early Eighteenth-Century London
Douglas MacMillan is an organologist, music historian, and recorder player. He began to play the recorder in his teenage years and subsequently founded and directed the Baroque ensemble Camerata Oriana. Encouraged by Carl Dolmetsch, he began a pioneering study of the history of the...- $16.50
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Vendor:Tobe a. Richards
The Cittern Chord Bible: Fifths, Irish & Modal D Shortscale Tunings 3,024 Chords
The Cittern Chord Bible (Shortscale), with its 3,024 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by many...- $24.95
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Vendor:Tobe a. Richards
The Waldzither Chord Bible: CGCEG Standard C Tuning
The Waldzither Chord Bible, with its 1,728 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by many jazz...- $21.95
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Vendor:Tobe a. Richards
The Portuguese Guitar Chord Bible: Lisboa Tuning 1,728 Chords
The Portuguese Lisboa Guitar Chord Bible, with its 1,728 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by...- $21.95
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Vendor:Tobe a. Richards
The Cittern Chord Bible: Fifths, Irish and Modal G Longscale Tunings 3,024 Chords
The Cittern Longscale Chord Bible, with its 3,024 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by many...- $21.95
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Vendor:Tobe a. Richards
The Puerto Rican Cuatro Chord Bible: BEADG Standard Tuning 1,728 Chords
The Puerto Rican Cuatro Chord Bible, with its 1,728 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by...- $21.95
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Vendor:Jeffrey George
Guitar Smarter
This intermediate method presents a number of increasingly challenging tasks for the guitarist who wants to move beyond the beginner experience. Advanced concepts of fingerboard harmony and applied music theory are imparted through the practical application in songs from four decades of popular music....- $15.50
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Vendor:Bruce E. Arnold
Contemporary Rhythms Volume One
In order to be prepared to read through any piece of music, the serious musician must be able to recognize, read and play rhythms fluidly. This volume concentrates on eighth note rhythms and is a thesaurus of rhythmic patterns. Each exercise uses one pitch...- $24.99
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Vendor:Bruce Arnold
Music Theory Workbook for Guitar Volume Two
Have you ever wondered how the true masters of guitar can - at the drop of a hat - transform their sound from one mood to another - and mezmerize their audience? What is the source of their amazing ability to touch the hearts...- $24.99
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Vendor:Dan Siegel
Harmonic Mechanisms: Exercises for Improvisation and Composition
Pianist and composer Dan Siegel brings you "Harmonic Mechanisms", a valuable book that offers an exploration and analysis of various harmonic structures that can be applied as vehicles for improvisation and composition. The text can be employed as supplemental material for intermediate to advanced...- $25.00
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Vendor:Andrew Sutherland
Revolutions in Music Education: Historical and Social Explorations
The teaching and learning of music around the world have evolved in diverse ways as social, industrial, and cultural developments have influenced the ways humans understand, organize, and collectivize music education. Revolutions in Music Education: Historical and Social Explorations chronicles major changes in music...- $130.00
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Vendor:Soubhik Chakraborty
The Influence of Hindustani Classical Music on Bollywood Songs. A Statistical Outlook
Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, grade: 8.5, language: English, abstract: The present work attempts to study the impact of Hindustani Classical Music on Bollywood in a legitimate manner using a statistical approach emphasizing on statistical modeling of...- $51.90
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Vendor:Maureen Cox
MUSIC THEORY IS FUN Puzzles, Quizzes & Tests Books 1 - 5 Answers
Music Theory is Fun Books 1 to 5, is the newly revised series by Maureen Cox. Using an attractive layout with clear examples and illustrations together with activities to reinforce learning and understanding, the books cover in an easy step-by-step approach: notes, rests, simple,...- $6.95
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Vendor:Scott /. Slanger
Have You Ever Seen an Atom?
an academic and a musician discuss the various subterranean factors of musical cultureAuthor: Scott /. SlangerISBN-10: 1984376640ISBN-13: 9781984376640Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2018Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.43d- $15.00
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Vendor:Leah Batstone
Mahler's Nietzsche: Politics and Philosophy in the Wunderhorn Symphonies
Examines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler's first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies. Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Nietzsche both exercised a tremendous influence over the twentieth century. All the more fascinating, then, is Mahler's intellectual engagement with the writings of Nietzsche. Given the...- $105.00
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Vendor:Nicoleta Paraschivescu
The Partimenti of Giovanni Paisiello: Pedagogy and Practice
Reveals the brilliant musical and pedagogical thinking of the famed eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Neapolitan composer and teacher of royal students. Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) was one of the most important composers of opera in the eighteenth century. His operas were performed throughout Europe, and...- $85.00
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Vendor:Adrian Valia
Music Theory Made Simple: Essential Concepts for Budding Composers, Musicians and Music Lovers
Music Will Never Sound the Same Again No longer will music theory be an intimidating notion! Whether you're new to music and want to know the fundamentals to succeed, or whether you already play, sing and write and need a refresher on the basics,...- $22.99
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Vendor:Lilian Dericq
Jazz Theory & Workbook
(Music Instruction). Jazz Theory & Workbook is designed for all instrumentalists eager to understand how the jazz standards they play and improvise over are constructed. It is also a great resource for arrangers and composers seeking new writing tools. While some of the musical...- $22.99
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Vendor:Hal Leonard Corp
The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). In this book-turned-blockbuster, 12 boys and 12 girls are forced to compete in a live, televised event where only one will survive. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to spare her drafted sister, even though she knows it may be a death sentence. This megahit...- $16.99
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Vendor:Robert Ignatius Letellier
The Ballets of Alexander Glazunov: Sc鈩es de Ballet, Raymonda and Les Saisons
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936), the Russian composer, is principally associated with his first ballet Raymonda, the apex of his cooperation with the great choreographer Marius Petipa, then in the last years of his illustrious career. Raymonda is still performed in Russia and intermittently in...- $84.95
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Vendor:Bruce Benward
Music in Theory and Practice Volume 2
This best-selling program gives music majors and minors a solid foundation in the theory of music. Music in Theory and Practice 10e strengthens musical intuition, builds technical skills, and helps gain interpretive insights. The goal of the content is to instruct readers on the...- $259.50
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Vendor:R. J. Stewart
The Spiritual Dimensions of Music: Altering Consciousness for Inner Development
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- $16.95
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Vendor:Frederick J. Horwood
The Basis of Harmony
A detailed study of the art of writing harmony, this volume strives to teach the student to hear what he writes. Includes discussion of cadences, first and second inversions of triads, dominant discords and much more.Author: Frederick J. HorwoodISBN-10: 0757995209ISBN-13: 9780757995200Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $10.95
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Vendor:Melody Bober
Theory for Busy Teens, Bk B: 8 Units with Short Written Exercises to Maximize Limited Study Time
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...- $7.99
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Vendor:Melody Bober
Theory for Busy Teens, Bk a: 8 Units with Short Written Exercises to Maximize Limited Study Time
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...- $8.99
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Vendor:Dennis Alexander
Premier Piano Course Theory, Bk 2a
Correlated page-for-page with the Lesson Book, each new musical concept is reinforced through fun-filled writing, listening and playing exercises. With games and puzzles added to compositional and creative activities, students retain concepts more easily and learn more thoroughly.Author: Dennis Alexander, Gayle Kowalchyk, E. L....- $9.99
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Vendor:Daniel Kazez
Rhythm Reading
Each pattern is introduced in a step-by-step process that encourages students to read rhythms not as individual notes but as groups of notes. These groups then recur throughout the text in a variety of carefully graded exercises.Author: Daniel KazezISBN-10: 0393970736ISBN-13: 9780393970739Publisher: W. W. Norton...- $61.25
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Vendor:Dylan Van Der Schyff
Musical Bodies, Musical Minds: Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality
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...- $40.00
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Vendor:Kevin Abbott
How to Read Music for Beginners: A Comprehensive Beginner's Guide to Learn and Understand Music in 20 Days
Learn how to read music like the pros in 20 days or less!Have you always wanted to learn how to read music but have no clue where to begin? Did you try learning to read music in the past but gave up because you...- $19.99
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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.