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Vendor:Vincenzo Galilei
Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music
Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, published in 1581 or 1582 and now translated into English for the first time, was among the most influential music treatises...- $95.00
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Vendor:Joachim Burmeister
Musical Poetics
Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first to systematically explore the connection between rhetoric and music that became a cornerstone of Baroque musical thought....- $78.00
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Vendor:Glory St Germain
LEVEL 1 Supplemental - Ultimate Music Theory: The LEVEL 1 Supplemental Workbook is designed to be completed after the Prep 1 Rudiments and Prep Level
The LEVEL 1 Supplemental Workbook is designed to be completed with the Step-by-Step Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook!Bonus - Free Resources - Videos for all music history listening activities in the workbook.UMT Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook plus the PREP LEVEL Supplemental = RCM Preparatory Level.Note:...- $19.97
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Vendor:Aaron Hayes
Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music
Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music gives a historical and philosophical account of the discussions of the nature of time and music during the mid-twentieth century. The nature of time was a persistent topic among composers in Paris and Darmstadt in the decades...- $52.95
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Vendor:Kenneth M. O'Gorman
Jazz Improvisation Fundamentals: Color Edition
There are three fundamentals to any great solo: Chords, Scales, and Tone Selection. Learn to use the fundamentals as your three-step approach to jazz improvisation. Over 80 images for Treble and Bass Clef. This book is perfect for beginners, struggling intermediates, and jazz instructors...- $39.99
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Vendor:Victor Shevtsov
Read the Notes Workbook: Part Two
Read the Notes Workbook is written in response to the needs of students to facilitate the process of learning to read the notes at the initial phase of studying the piano. The primary purpose of this workbook is the development of student's ability to...- $10.95
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Vendor:Terumi Narushima
Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson
This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It is the first publication to offer a broad discussion of this influential theorist whose innovations have far-reaching ramifications for microtonal tuning systems. This study addresses...- $170.00
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Vendor:Randall D. Larson
Music from the House of Hammer: Music in the Hammer Horror Films, 1950-1980
Hammer Film Productions produced Horror/Fantasy films with a unique sound. The musicians and the work they did are chronicled here in careful detail.Author: Randall D. LarsonISBN-10: 0810829754ISBN-13: 9780810829756Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/1996Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.68h x 5.46w x 0.72d- $82.00
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Vendor:Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Musica Ficta: (Figures of Wagner)
This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problems of mimesis, between presentation and re-presentaion. Four "scenes" comprise the book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger...- $120.00
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Vendor:Nicholas Baragwanath
The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century
How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition, a music education...- $89.00
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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 clich駸. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, The Philosophy of Improvisation ranges across the arts--from music to theater, dance to comedy--and considers the improvised...- $35.00
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Vendor:Kevin Holm-Hudson
Music Theory Remixed: A Blended Approach for the Practicing Musician
Designed for today's undergraduate music students, Music Theory Remixed: A Blended Approach for the Practicing Musician presents tonal music theory through a dual lens of works from the Western canon and examples from popular music, including rock, jazz, techno, film soundtracks, and world music....- $137.99
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Vendor:Nicholas Cook
Music, Imagination, and Culture
Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This gap between image and the experience it models offers a source of compositional creativity; different musical cultures embody different ways of imagining sound as...- $120.00
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Vendor:Emily Zazulia
Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing
The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing...- $60.00
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Vendor:Peter Schubert
Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style
An exceptional text for undergraduate and graduate music students, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style uses a wide variety of carefully graded exercises to present guidelines for writing and analyzing 16th-century music. The only species counterpoint text that draws directly on Renaissance treatises, it provides a...- $149.99
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Vendor:Eric Arbiter
The Way of Cane: The Science, Craft, and Art of Bassoon Reed-Making
As the sound-producing mechanism for the bassoon, the reed is a vital component in the sound of the entire instrument. While pre-manufactured reeds are widely available for purchase at music stores, this one-size-fits-all option hardly does justice to the unique needs of the musician...- $42.99
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Vendor:Carl Dahlhaus
Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music
The music of the nineteenth century was - and still is - thought of as a 'romantic' art, whereas the main current of the literature and fine arts of the age was 'realist' from about 1830. Yet some works are consistently described as 'realistic':...- $46.99
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Vendor:Georgina Born
Music, Sound and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience
Music, Sound, and Space is the first collection to integrate research from musicology and sound studies on music and sound as they mediate everyday life. Music and sound exert an inescapable influence on the contemporary world, from the ubiquity of MP3 players to the...- $135.00
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Vendor:A. B. Marx
Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven: Selected Writings on Theory and Method
A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. This volume offers a generous selection of the most salient of his writings, the majority presented in English for the first time. It features the oft-cited but little understood...- $58.99
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Vendor:Joseph Kerman
The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries,...- $39.95
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Vendor:Alton Augustus Adams
The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy Volume 12
Alton Augustus Adams, Sr., was a musician, writer, hotelier, and the first black bandmaster of the United States Navy. Born in the Virgin Islands in 1889, Adams joined the U.S. military in 1917. Although naval policy at the time restricted blacks to menial jobs,...- $40.00
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Vendor:Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Music Divided: Bart's Legacy in Cold War Culture Volume 7
Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical,...- $85.00
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Vendor:Marc Perlman
Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory
The gamelan music of Central Java is one of the world's great orchestral traditions. Its rich sonic texture is not based on Western-style harmony or counterpoint, but revolves around a single melody. The nature of that melody, however, is puzzling. In this book, Marc...- $85.00
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Vendor:David Brackett
Interpreting Popular Music
There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? David Brackett draws from the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how listeners form opinions about...- $31.95
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Vendor:George Perle
Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition
In this classic work, George Perle argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements. These elements collectively imply a new tonality as "natural" and coherent as the major-minor tonality that was the basis of a common musical...- $73.95
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Vendor:Royal S. Brown
Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music
Since the days of silent films, music has been integral to the cinematic experience, serving, variously, to allay audiences' fears of the dark and to heighten a film's emotional impact. Yet viewers are often unaware of its presence. In this bold, insightful book, film...- $37.95
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Vendor:George Perle
Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, Sixth Edition, Revised
Widely recognized as the definitive work in its field ever since its original publication in 1962, Serial Composition and Atonality remains an unsurpassed introduction to the technical features of what is probably the most revolutionary body of work since the beginnings of polyphony. In...- $68.95
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Vendor:James Wierzbicki
Film Music: A History
Film Music: A History explains the development of film music by considering large-scale aesthetic trends and structural developments alongside socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and philosophical circumstances. The book's four large parts are given over to Music and the "Silent" Film (1894--1927), Music and the Early...- $68.95
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Vendor:Benjamin Boretz
Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory
This new series of Norton books, devoted to informed discussion of contemporary music, draws principally upon articles first published in Perspectives of New Music, which Richard Kostelanetz has described as "among the most consistently interesting magazines in America." The Perspectives books will comprise a...- $22.95
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Vendor:Samuel Wilson
Music--Psychoanalysis--Musicology
There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to studying and researching music. Bringing together established scholars within the field, as well as emerging voices, this collection outlines and advances psychoanalytic approaches to our understanding of a range of musics--from the romantic...- $54.95
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Vendor:Owen Wright
Music Theory in the Safavid Era: The taqsīm al-naġamāt
The Safavid era (1501-1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, including miniature paintings that frequently represent singers and instrumentalists. Their presence reflects a sophisticated tradition of music making that was an...- $54.95
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Vendor:Gregory Camp
Howard Hawks: Music as Communication in Film
Known for creating classic films including His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks is one of the best-known Hollywood 'auteurs', but the important role that music plays in his films has been generally neglected by film...- $24.95
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Vendor:Simon Smith
Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625
Presupposing no specialist musical knowledge, this book offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic role of music in the plays of Shakespeare and his early seventeenth-century contemporaries. Simon Smith argues that many plays used music as a dramatic tool, inviting culturally familiar responses to...- $120.00
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Vendor:William Gibbons
Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies
Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies offers the first scholarly approach focusing on music in the broad class of video games known as role-playing games, or RPGs. Known for their narrative sophistication and long playtimes, RPGs have long been celebrated by players...- $56.95
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Vendor:Charles Leinberger
Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Film Score Guide
This guide demonstrates Morricone's unique and enduring contributions to the art of film music through a discussion of his compositional and orchestrational processes, many of which are evident in his music for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in a way that can...- $50.00
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Vendor:Jerrold Levinson
The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994
Author: Jerrold LevinsonISBN-10: 0801482267ISBN-13: 9780801482267Publisher: Cornell University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/1996Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.05h x 6.09w x 0.81d- $44.95
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Vendor:Susan McClary
Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal
In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music...- $39.95
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Vendor:Franco Sciannameo
Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy
Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone's position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music within the frame work of his cinematic compositions. The Italian composer has reached world fame...- $39.99
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Vendor:Tom Anderson
Rhythm Read & Play Activities for Classroom Instruments Book/Online Audio (with Reproducible Pages) [With CD (Audio)]
(Music Express Books). Grab those metals, woods and membranes because it's time for some percussion discussion Actively involve your students with easy-to-follow read and play parts to accompany familiar folk songs, marches, spirituals, holiday favorites and more. More advanced readers play from musical notation,...- $21.99
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Vendor:Ying Ying Ng
Music Theory for Young Children, Bk 2
This series of books uses a fun and novel way to teach children the fundamentals of music theory. Games and stickers are used to introduce all of the essentials such as staves, clefs, note identification, time signatures, key signatures, note values, and rest values....- $9.95
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Vendor:John Williams
Harry Potter -- Sheet Music from the Complete Film Series: Easy Piano
With the Harry Potter film series now complete, Alfred Music and Warner Bros. Entertainment are proud to present easy piano arrangements from the eight epic films together in one collectible volume. For the first time ever, 37 sheet music selections by John Williams, Patrick...- $27.99
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Vendor: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...- $49.99
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Workbook to Accompany the Complete Musician: Workbook 2: Skills and Musicianship
The two workbooks that accompany The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Fourth Edition, feature an organization designed specifically for flexibility: Workbook 1: Writing and Analysis, is dedicated exclusively to written and analytical activities; Workbook 2: Skills and Musicianship, focuses...- $116.99
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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...- $35.00
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How Sonata Forms: A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form
Traditional approaches to musical form have always adopted a top-down perspective whereby a work's form organizes and unifies the individual parts of the work through an overarching logic. How Sonata Forms turns this view on its head, proposing instead that it was the parts...- $80.00
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General Music: Dimensions of Practice
General Music: Dimensions of Practice is a practical guide for music teachers and teaching artists who strive to teach music holistically. The book begins by framing general music as a holistic music education that is comprehensive, meaningful, and relevant to diverse learners in school...- $43.99
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Workbook to Accompany the Complete Musician: The Essentials
This workbook accompanies the authors' textbook, The Complete Musician: The Essentials. Designed for maximum accessibility, it presents a variety of activities in each chapter that progress from very introductory exercises to more advanced ones. Offering instructors more than enough material to choose from, each...- $44.95
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Vendor:Heinrich Schenker
Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111: Beethoven's Last Piano Sonatas, an Edition with Elucidation, Volume 3
Heinrich Schenker ranks among the most important figures in the development of western music theory in the twentieth century. His approach to the analysis of music permeates nearly every aspect of the field and continues to this day to be a topic of great...- $110.00
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Piano Sonata in Ab, Op. 110: Beethoven's Last Piano Sonatas, an Edition with Elucidation, Volume 2
Heinrich Schenker ranks among the most important figures in the development of western music theory in the twentieth century. His approach to the analysis of music permeates nearly every aspect of the field and continues to this day to be a topic of great...- $110.00
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Occult Aesthetics: Synchronization in Sound Film
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed film music author Kevin Donnelly offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization in sound film. Donnelly addresses the manner in which the lock of the audio and the visual exerts a perceptible synergy, an aesthetic he dubs occult: a...- $43.99
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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.
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