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Vendor:Kate McQuiston
We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Unique and often startling encounters between music and the moving image in the films of Stanley Kubrick are trademarks of his style; witness the powerful effects of Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" in 2001: A Space Odyssey and of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in A Clockwork...- $41.99
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Making Music in Selznick's Hollywood
Through the rise and fall of the Hollywood studio system, David O. Selznick reigned as Hollywood's preeminent producer. His reputation depended in large part on music. The orchestral cacophony of King Kong, the pulsing electronic sonorities of Spellbound, and the Tara theme from Gone...- $66.00
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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...- $110.00
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Vendor:Alfred D?r
Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion: Genesis, Transmission, and Meaning
This book (published in German by B舐enreiter in 1988 and now available in English translation for the first time) is a comprehensive guide to the genesis, transmission, structure, meaning, and performance considerations of Bach's St John Passion. One of Bach's most fascinating works, its...- $235.00
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Vendor:Julie Brown
Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context
The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run almost continuously since 1942, and represents a unique record of the changing place of music in British society. In 2011, recognising its iconic status, the BBC created an online archive that includes podcasts of all programmes...- $105.00
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Vendor:David Lewin
Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations
David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is recognized as the seminal work paving the way for current studies in mathematical and systematic approaches to music analysis. Lewin, one of the 20th century's most prominent figures in music theory, pushes the boundaries of the...- $84.00
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Vendor:Gunther Schuller
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat...- $80.00
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Vendor:Lisa Huisman Koops
Parenting Musically
Parents use music in family life to accomplish practical tasks, make relational connections, and guide their children's musical development. Parenting Musically portrays the musicking of eight diverse Cleveland-area families in home, school, and community settings. Themes from interviews focused on the families' hopes and...- $42.99
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Vendor:Ted Gioia
Love Songs: The Hidden History
The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how...- $31.99
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Vendor:Lee Rothfarb
Eduard Hanslick's on the Musically Beautiful: A New Translation
Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful (Vom Musikalisch-Schen, 1854), written and published before the author turned 30, is a watershed document in the history of aesthetics, and of thought about music generally. The notion of "absolute music," which lies at the heart of the...- $34.99
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Vendor:Daphne Leong
Performing Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance
How do musical analysis and performance relate? In a unique collaborative approach to this question, theorist-pianist Daphne Leong partners with internationally renowned performers to interpret twentieth-century repertoire. Imaginative explorations of music by Ravel, Schoenberg, Bart, Schnittke, Milhaud, Messiaen, Babbitt, Carter, and Morris illuminate focal...- $86.00
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Vendor:Sandy Feldstein
Practical Theory: Complete, Spiral-Bound Book
A combination text and workbook in three volumes. All areas of music theory are covered in a concise and practical manner and each level contains 28 lessons.Author: Sandy FeldsteinISBN-10: 0882842250ISBN-13: 9780882842257Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1982Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 11.40h x 8.80w x 0.30d- $16.99
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Vendor:Kathryn Kalinak
Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to...- $11.95
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Vendor:Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka
Commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, Stravinsky's score for the ballet Petrushka was an immediate sensation at its Paris premiere in 1911. Brilliantly orchestrated in bold, unheard-of instrumental colors, this work is filled with Russian folksongs as well as new and striking...- $11.95
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Vendor:Joseph N. Straus
Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory
Now published by Norton, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, with additional coverage of transformational theory and voice leading. The Fourth Edition helps students identify key theoretical points and guides them through the process...- $118.25
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Vendor:Tom Fleming
Do-It-Yourself Music Theory: The Best Step-By-Step Guide to Start Learning - Book with Online Audio by Tom Fleming
(Do It Yourself). Do-It-Yourself Music Theory is a fun way to get started understanding music on your own. Using well-known music from pop, classical, and many other styles, you will be given step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to get started. You'll...- $24.99
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Vendor:Nicolas Slonimsky
Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres, from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard, have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns for composition and improvisation. Think about this...- $13.95
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Vendor:John Williams
Star Wars for Beginning Piano Solo
(Beginning Piano Solo). Piano students will love these easy arrangements that will let them play the themes they recognize from all of the Star Wars movies Ten songs in all: Across the Stars * Cantina Band * Duel of the Fates * The Imperial...- $14.99
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Vendor:R. Murray Schafer
The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World
The soundscape--a term coined by the author--is our sonic environment, the ever-present array of noises with which we all live. Beginning with the primordial sounds of nature, we have experienced an ever-increasing complexity of our sonic surroundings. As civilization develops, new noises rise up...- $16.95
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Vendor:Daniel J. Levitin
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music--its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it--and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than...- $18.00
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Vendor:Emmanuel Saboro
Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives
Emmanuel Saboro's study on memories of the slave era in northern Ghana is a most welcome addition to a long and storied scholarly tradition examining song lyrics associated with the institution of slavery. As one might expect, the vast majority of such studies focus...- $126.00
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Vendor:Julietta Anne Rabens
Plucky Bunny's Silly Staff Songs
Plucky Bunny's Silly Staff Songs contains eight silly songs to help remember the lines and spaces on the treble and bass clefs. It is notated on the grand staff, and so can be played on piano or harp, but melodic instruments can also learn...- $12.50
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Vendor:Eric Michael Roberts
Play and Sing TV Music Theory Unlocked for Guitar and Piano: Fully Understand Music Theory, Nashville Number, Transposition, Capos with Reference Char
Don't be shaking in your boots the next time you have to transpose a song before rehearsal. Understanding music theory is the first step in gaining confidence as a musician. I absolutely loved music theory classes in college because I started seeing patterns that...- $12.99
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Vendor:Emmanuel Amiot
Music Through Fourier Space: Discrete Fourier Transform in Music Theory
Discrete Fourier Transform of Distributions.- Homometry and the Phase Retrieval Problem.- Nil Fourier Coefficients and Tilings.- Saliency.- Continuous Spaces, Continuous Fourier Transform.- Phases of Fourier Coefficients.Author: Emmanuel AmiotISBN-10: 331945580XISBN-13: 9783319455808Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2016Pages: 206Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d- $84.99
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Vendor:Pere Soto Tejedor
PERE SOTO REALBOOK vol I
A collection of 500 tunes and songs of Pere SotoAuthor: Pere Soto TejedorISBN-10: 1795831979ISBN-13: 9781795831970Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2019Pages: 590Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.97lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.19d- $55.15
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Vendor:Whit Bernard
Jazz Musicianship: A Guidebook for Integrated Learning Volume 1
Jazz Musicianship is an integrated curriculum for mastering jazz theory and improvisation. Applicable for all instruments and voice, concepts are taught experientially through singing, playing, listening, writing, composing, and improvising. With creative application activities in every section, students develop their personal voices while mastering...- $29.95
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Vendor:Lorraine Chai
Stringstastic Level 3 - Violin
Ensemble series provides students (ages 6-11) with a solid foundation in music theory through the eyes of a violin, viola or cello player.This series is designed so that they can be used hand in hand with each other in a beginner ensemble or group...- $16.99
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Stringstastic Level 1 - Viola USA
Ensemble series provides students (ages 6-11) with a solid foundation in music theory through the eyes of a violin, viola, cello, or double bass player.This series is designed so that they can be used hand in hand with each other in a beginner ensemble...- $16.99
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Vendor:Sarah Grimes
Music Theory Quiz Book for Adults: Large-print Music Theory Quiz Book for Adults with 100 questions relating to many aspects of music theory from note
If you're looking for a fun-filled way to quiz yourself on essential music theory facts and entertain yourself at the same time, then this is the quiz book for you!Our music theory quiz books comes with 100 large-print, multiple-choice, music theory quiz questions from...- $8.25
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Vendor:Alon Schab
The Sonatas of Henry Purcell: Rhetoric and Reversal
This pathbreaking study reveals Purcell's extensive use of symmetry and reversal in his much-loved trio sonatas, and shows how these hidden structural processes make his music multilayered and appealing. Purcell's trio sonatas are among the cornerstones of Baroque chamber music. The composer himself unassumingly...- $115.00
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Vendor:N. Alan Clark
Understanding Music: Past and Present
The benefits of music in our lives are increasingly acknowledged by researchers and scientist. As human beings, we have taken the existence of music for granted and rarely think critically about music and its purpose. Perhaps for this reason, such critical thinking about music...- $43.99
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Vendor:Carl Schroeder
Harmony and Theory: Essential Concepts Series
(Musicians Institute Press). This book is a step-by-step guide to MI's well-known Harmony and Theory class. It includes complete lessons and analysis of: intervals, rhythms, scales, chords, key signatures; transposition, chord inversions, key centers; harmonizing the major and minor scales; and moreAuthor: Carl Schroeder,...- $24.99
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Vendor:Charles Rosen
Sonata Forms (Revised)
Charles Rosen says of sonata form: "[It] is not a definite form like a minuet, a da capo aria, or a French overture; it is, like the fugue, a way of writing, a feeling for proportion, direction, and texture rather than a pattern."Author: Charles...- $27.95
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Vendor:Hal Leonard Corp
The Descendants Easy Piano Collection: Music from the Trilogy of Disney Channel Motion Picture
(Easy Piano Songbook). 10 songs from the three installments in the Disney Channel's Descendants franchise in arrangements for easy piano with lyrics: Chillin' like a Villain * Do What You Gotta Do * Evil like Me * Good to Be Bad * If Only...- $22.99
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Vendor:Alfred Mann
The Study of Fugue
Classic study comprises two parts. The first is a comprehensive historical survey of writings on the fugue from the beginning of fugal teaching (c. 1350) to the present. Part Two explores in depth four 18th-century studies which are its classical presentations: Steps to Parnassus,...- $17.95
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Vendor:Ernst Toch
The Shaping Forces in Music
A masterful and original classical composer as well as a renowned composer of film scores, Ernst Toch (1887-1964) made a permanent contribution to music in this important and widely praised book. Based on a series of lectures given at Harvard in 1944 and first...- $14.95
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Vendor:Steve Vai
Vaideology: Basic Music Theory for Guitar Players
(Guitar Educational). Named Guardians of Guitar 2019 NAMM top pick Experience must-know music knowledge and wisdom through the highly focused lens of legendary guitar virtuoso Steve Vai. This full-color instructional book written by Vai himself features in-depth discussions of the music theory fundamentals that...- $29.99
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Vendor:Hal Leonard Corp
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). The soundtrack to this 2017 box office hit features an eclectic "mix tape" of 14 songs, all of which are featured in our souvenir matching folio for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) * Bring It on Home...- $22.99
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Vendor:Emilio Audissino
The Film Music of John Williams: Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style
From the triumphant "Main Title" in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores-while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations. This updated and revised edition of Emilio Audissino's groundbreaking volume takes...- $24.95
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Vendor:Desi Serna
Guitar Theory for Dummies with Online Practice
Make your guitar sing with insight on music theory brings your instrument to life There's a universe of incredible music living in your guitar. You just need to discover how to let it out. In Guitar Theory For Dummies, expert guitarist and instructor Desi...- $27.99
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Vendor:Hal Leonard Corp
Contemporary Disney: 50 Favorite Songs
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 50 songs are featured in this third edition of an outstanding collection of Disney favorites. Includes: Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Colors of the Wind * Evil like Me * For the First Time in...- $39.99
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Vendor:Michael Pilhofer
Music Theory for Dummies
Tune in to how music really works Whether you're a student, a performer, or simply a fan, this book makes music theory easy, providing you with a friendly guide to the concepts, artistry, and technical mastery that underlie the production of great music. You'll...- $27.99
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Vendor:Nicolas Carter
Music Theory: From Beginner to Expert - The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding and Learning Music Theory Effortlessly
Unique, practical and straightforward way to learn music theory and discover how music really works. Newly updated and massively expanded edition with new content, exercises and images. This book also features the links to audio examples (hosted on external website). These examples allow you...- $15.91
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Vendor:J. Anthony Allen
Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers: The producer's guide to harmony, chord progressions, and song structure in the MIDI grid.
The producer's guide to harmony, chord progressions, and song structure in the MIDI grid.As an online and university class, Dr. Allen has had over 50,000 students use this ground-breaking curriculum to learn music theory. Students and Producers who have wanted to learn music theory...- $23.99
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Vendor:Arthur H. Benade
Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics: Second, Revised Edition
Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics is a landmark book in its field, hailed for its astonishingly clear, delightfully readable statement of everything of acoustical importance to music-making. Though directed primarily to the music student who is taking an acoustics course, it is essential reading for...- $39.95
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Vendor:Joe Mulholland
The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony [With CD (Audio)]
(Berklee Guide). Learn jazz harmony, as taught at Berklee College of Music. This text provides a strong foundation in harmonic principles, supporting further study in jazz composition, arranging, and improvisation. It covers basic chord types and their tensions, with practical demonstrations of how they...- $34.99
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Vendor:Johann Joseph Fux
The Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum
The most celebrated book on counterpoint is Fux's great theoretical work Gradus ad Parnassum. Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the greatest composers. J.S. Bach held it in high esteem, Leopold...- $19.95
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Vendor:Tom Kolb
Music Theory for Guitarists Book/Online Audio
(Guitar Method). Guitarists of all levels will find a wealth of practical music knowledge in this special book with online audio access. Veteran guitarist and author Tom Kolb dispels the mysteries of music theory using plain and simple terms and diagrams. The accompanying recordings...- $22.99
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Vendor:Ying Ying Ng
Music Theory for Young Children, Bk 3
Ying Ying Ng's Music Theory for Young Children series is a fun and novel way to teach children the fundamentals of music theory. Young players will explore and learn about staves, clefs, note identification, time signatures, key signatures, note values, and rest values. Child-centered,...- $9.95
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Vendor:Beth Denisch
Contemporary Counterpoint: Theory & Application
(Berklee Guide). Use counterpoint to make your music more engaging and creative. Counterpoint the relationship between musical voices is among the core principles for writing music, and it has been central to the study of composition for many centuries. Whether you are a composer,...- $24.99
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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.