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Vendor:Paul Walker
Fugue in the Sixteenth Century
Examining the roots of the classical fugue and the early history of non-canonic fugal writing, Paul Walker's Fugue in the Sixteenth Century explores the three principal fugal genres of the period: motet, ricercar, and canonza. The volume treats each genre in turn, tracing the...- $92.00
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Vendor:Albertine Fox
Godard and Sound: Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard
What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as spectators with the audio-visual? Jean-Luc Godard understood the importance of the soundtrack in cinema and relied heavily on...- $44.95
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Vendor:Jason Yust
Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form
Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory of musical form--author Jason...- $54.00
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Vendor:Danuta Mirka
Hypermetric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787 - 1791
For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been routinely applied to eighteenth-century music. But was this concept familiar in the eighteenth century? If so, how is it reflected in writings of eighteenth-century music theorists? And how does it relate to their...- $110.00
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Vendor:Karen M. Cook
Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon: Magister Johannes Pipardi
The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory. Its numerous copies of significant texts have been the focus of substantial scholarly attention to date, but the...- $64.95
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Vendor:Zachary Bernstein
Thinking in and about Music: Analytical Reflections on Milton Babbitt's Music and Thought
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) was, at once, one of the century's foremost composers and a founder of American music theory. These two aspects of his creative life--"thinking in" and "thinking about" music, as he would put it--nourished each other. Theory and analysis inspired fresh compositional...- $110.00
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Vendor:Cora S. Palfy
Musical Agency and the Social Listener
Music as a narrative drama is an intriguing idea, which has captured explicit music theoretical attention since the nineteenth century. Investigations into narrative characters or personae has evolved into a sub-field-musical agency. In this book, Palfy contends that music has the potential to engage...- $170.00
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Vendor:Nan Mogar
Guitar Scales Unleashed - The Workbook
This workbook is meant to accompany the book "Guitar Scales Unleashed". This is the perfect written practice book if you are struggling with memorizing scales or constantly referring to scale tabs and diagrams. Included within this book are several practical exercises to help you...- $8.99
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Vendor:Burgess Speed
Ukulele Theory Workbook: An Easy Guide to the Basics of Music Theory for All Uke Players with Audio Access Included
(Ukulele). This simple beginner's guide to music theory is geared toward the ukulele so that you're able to apply the theoretical concepts directly to this fun instrument. Featuring hands-on activities like quizzes, assignments, ear training and audio examples, this workbook teaching system is designed...- $14.99
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Vendor:Daniel Bishop
The Presence of the Past: Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack
The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's "New Wave" as engaged with the vitality of sensory experience and the affective imagination. As author Daniel Bishop shows, the soundtracks of several key films of the New Hollywood Cinema of the late...- $37.99
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Vendor:Norton Dudeque
Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization
Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras demonstrates how the composer achieved his own Brazilian neoclassical style in a group of works, nine suites in total, that is arguably one of the best examples of homage to J.S. Bach's music in the twentieth century. In this book,...- $52.95
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Vendor:Gardner Read
Pictographic Score Notation: A Compendium
This text provides the first comprehensive examination of pictographic notation. Pictographic musical notation represents the relevant instruments themselves rendered visually rather than verbally. Used most extensively in contemporary publications between the 1950s and 1980s, its popularity has waned in recent years. This expertly researched...- $70.00
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Vendor:Kyle Gann
The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician
"Tuning is the secret lens through which the history of music falls into focus," says Kyle Gann. Yet in Western circles, no other musical issue is so ignored, so taken for granted, so shoved into the corners of musical discourse. A classroom essential and...- $34.95
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Vendor:Felix Salzer
Counterpoint in Composition: The Study of Voice Leading
-- Stanley Persky, City University of New YorkAuthor: Felix Salzer, Carl SchachterISBN-10: 023107039XISBN-13: 9780231070393Publisher: Columbia University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/1989Pages: 477Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.91lbsSize: 6.91h x 9.93w x 1.08d- $55.00
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Vendor:Leonard B. Meyer
Emotion and Meaning in Music
"Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of...- $30.00
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Vendor:Kate Fitzpatrick-Harnish
Urban Music Education: A Practical Guide for Teachers
The prevailing discourse surrounding urban music education suggests the deficit-laden notion that urban school settings are "less than," rather than "different than," their counterparts. Through the lens of contextually-specific teaching, this book provides a counternarrative on urban music education that encourages urban music teachers...- $34.99
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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...- $54.00
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Vendor:Murray Campbell
The Musician's Guide to Acoustics
Author: Murray Campbell, Clive GreatedISBN-10: 0198165056ISBN-13: 9780198165057Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/1994Pages: 624Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.24lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.34w x 1.72d- $160.00
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Vendor:Steven G. Laitz
Student Workbook to Accompany Graduate Review of Tonal Theory: A Recasting of Common Practice Harmony, Form, and Counterpoint
This Student Workbook accompanies Graduate Review of Tonal Theory. Authors Steven G. Laitz and Christopher Bartlette have devised sixty-one diverse exercise sets that correlate with material in the text. These assignments include writing and analytical exercises that enable students to further integrate harmony and...- $102.99
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Vendor:David Temperley
Musical Language of Rock
In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression. The Musical Language of Rock puts forth...- $46.99
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Vendor:Daniel Harrison
Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music
This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the...- $49.99
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Vendor:Frank Gambale
The Frank Gambale Technique, Bk 2: The Essential Soloing Theory Course for All Guitarists, Book & Online Audio
A method that looks at the way the legendary Frank Gambale solos over chordal harmonies. It shows how to use simple musical materials to create sophisticated solos. Book II covers the last two chordal types and includes a 70-minute recording.Author: Frank GambaleISBN-10: 0769248071ISBN-13: 9780769248073Publisher:...- $27.99
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Vendor:Luciano Berio
Remembering the Future
In Remembering the Future Luciano Berio shares with us some musical experiences that "invite us to revise or suspend our relation with the past and to rediscover it as part of a future trajectory." His scintillating meditation on music and the ways of experiencing...- $42.00
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Vendor:Fred Kern
Piano Theory Workbook, Book 5
(Educational Piano Library). Piano Theory Workbook 5 includes practical, intermediate-level exercises in identifying chords and their inversions, counting 16ths, subdividing beats into various dotted-sixteenth rhythms, identifying chords of the key, writing Major and minor scales, and exercises in transposition and improvisation. Each exercise is...- $9.99
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Vendor:Thomas Christensen
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient...- $70.99
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Vendor:Julian Rushton
W.A. Mozart, Don Giovanni
This book is a study of Mozart's Don Giovanni, his second opera to a libretto by da Ponte. Although it is one of the handful of best-known and most often performed operas of the last two hundred years, Don Giovanni is seldom given in...- $25.99
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Vendor:Theodor Adorno
Essays on Music
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and-more than any other subject-music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most influential contributor to the development of qualitative musical sociology which,...- $41.95
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Vendor:Nan Mogar
Guitar Intervals Unleashed: The NANDI Method: A Visual Interval Training Method
Is your knowledge of intervals, chords and scales based only on memorized shapes andpatterns?Would you like to have the ability to visualize any interval from any note on the guitar without memorization?Finally A book that demystifies the logic of the fretboard to help you...- $12.99
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Vendor:Paul Christopher Musgrave
Doctor Mozart Music Theory Workbook for Older Beginners: In-Depth Piano Theory Fun for Children's Music Lessons and HomeSchooling - For Learning a Mus
Doctor Mozart Older Beginners Workbook: Ideal for children 8 years old and up. You can see some sample pages from this Doctor Mozart workbook at DoctorMozart.com/LookInside.php This accelerated Older Beginners workbook is suitable for children who are 8 to 12 years old. In this...- $9.98
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Vendor:Jean Welles
Jean Welles' Reading Music On Your Guitar: A Method That Teaches You How To Read And Play Notes On The Entire Fretboard!
With this book, you can get a basic foundation of reading music and learn how to read all of the notes on the guitar. Instead of just focusing on one position of notes, you will learn the notes in various positions on the guitar....- $19.95
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Vendor:Paul Christopher Musgrave
Doctor Mozart Music Theory Workbook Level 1B: In-Depth Piano Theory Fun for Children's Music Lessons and HomeSchooling - For Beginners Learning a Musi
What's Inside? You can see some sample pages from this Doctor Mozart workbook at DoctorMozart.com/LookInside.php Help Your Child Succeed with Music Music theory knowledge is essential for your child's success. Doctor Mozart's keyboard-based approach to music theory can help your child succeed with any...- $9.98
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Vendor:Laurence E. MacDonald
The Invisible Art of Film Music: A Comprehensive History
Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures. Whether used to heighten the tension of a scene or evoke a subtle emotional response, scores have played a significant--if often unrealized--role in the viewer's...- $97.00
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Vendor:John Wallace
Exotic Pentatonics: Pentatonic Guitar Scales from Around the World
Set your guitar playing apart by learning the best Exotic Pentatonic Scales from around the world In this book you'll find easy to use diagrams focusing solely on unique pentatonic scales which will help you take your guitar playing to a new level. Written...- $9.99
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Vendor:Mark Phillips
How to Read Music
(Music Instruction). Music notation is a language that has been developing for thousands of years; even the manner in which we read music today has been around for several centuries. In learning to read music, we encounter basic symbols for pitch, duration, and timing....- $12.99
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Vendor:Robert Luther Dietz
The BEAD Method of Fretboard Mastery REVISED
This is the "Hot" Revision... See the author's website for more details. The BEAD Method(TM) is a revolutionary new way to understand the logic behind the guitar fretboard. There are many methods that rely on patterns of the guitar but BEAD Guitar(TM) relies on...- $15.35
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Vendor:William C. Mills
Music Ministry Training Program Beginner Primary Piano Curriculum: Piano Music Book
Is learning how to play the piano one of the goals on your "bucket" list? Have you retired or are you planning to retire and need a hobby? Do you have a son or daughter that wants to study the piano? The MMTP BEGINNER...- $29.95
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Vendor:Vasco Hexel
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's The Dark Knight: A Film Score Guide
Christopher Nolan's caped crusader trilogy--Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises--is considered by many to be one of the finest translations of comic book characters to the big screen. The second film in the series, The Dark Knight, was both a...- $65.00
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Vendor:Salome Voegelin
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original and challenging work, Salom Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the...- $39.95
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Vendor:William Westney
The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self
In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your...- $25.00
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Vendor:Jamey Aebersold
Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training: Book & 2 CDs
Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training is a no-nonsense approach consisting of two hours of recorded ear training exercises with aural instructions before each. It starts very simply, with intervals and gradually increases in difficulty until you are hearing chord changes and progressions. All answers...- $15.00
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Vendor:Thor Magnusson
Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions
Sonic Writing explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media. Studying the domains of instrument design, musical notation, and sound recording under the rubrics of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions of sound, the book describes how these...- $39.95
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Vendor:Jonathan E. Peters
Music Theory: An in-depth and straight forward approach to understanding music
(Includes free life-time access to on-line quizzes, exercises and audio examples) Have you ever wondered how the musical scale came about? Or why certain pitches sound better together than others? "Music Theory", by award-winning composer, Jonathan Peters, is a comprehensive course in the study...- $24.99
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Vendor:Kamp
Ludomusicology
The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-discipline is still tackling fundamental questions concerning how video game music should be approached. In this volume, experts in game...- $29.95
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Vendor:Ryan Taylor
The Theory and Creation of Music: A Comprehensive Guide to Composing Your Own Music
What makes music sound happy? What makes it sound sad? Tense? Relaxed? Beautiful? Powerful? Scary? Nostalgic? We will seek to answer the fundamental question: What makes music sound the way it sounds? The more deeply we can answer this question, on both logical and...- $75.00
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Vendor:Barry Kolman
The Language of Music Revealed: A Real Easy Way for Anyone to Learn to Read and Write Music
There are millions of self-taught musicians in this world. Some can't read a stitch of music and can only play by ear. If this describes you and you want to learn how to read and write music in a step-by-step, easy to follow fashion,...- $29.95
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Vendor:Mariana Montiel
Mathematical Music Theory: Algebraic, Geometric, Combinatorial, Topological and Applied Approaches to Understanding Musical Phenomena
Questions about variation, similarity, enumeration, and classification of musical structures have long intrigued both musicians and mathematicians. Mathematical models can be found from theoretical analysis to actual composition or sound production. Increasingly in the last few decades, musical scholarship has incorporated modern mathematical content....- $135.00
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Vendor:Michael Schwab
Transpositions: Aesthetico-Epistemic Operators in Artistic Research
Research is a process that leads to new insights rupturing the existent fabric of knowledge. To prevent this process from disintegrating, its coherence must be assured. Under the heading transposition, seventeen artists, musicians, and theorists explain how one thing may turn into another in...- $55.00
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Vendor:Michel Maffesoli
Techno: An Artistic and Political Laboratory of the Present
Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries of the social space.Techno is one of the more spectacular and mediatized aspects of contemporary culture. But is it more than mere entertainment, more than just an escape from a world that no...- $28.50
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Vendor:Preston Hoffman
How to Play Scales: In 1 Day - The Only 7 Exercises You Need to Learn Guitar Scales, Piano Scales and Ukulele Scales Today
In Less Than 24 Hours, Learn How to Play Scales Like a Complete Professional by Following These Seven Easy ExercisesHave you tried every possible tutorial that you could have found on the internet, but to no avail?Have you tried hiring a professional tutor in...- $17.99
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Vendor:Jane Melin
Theory For Everyone! Violin Book 1: Practical Music Theory Lessons and Worksheets for Beginning to Intermediate Violin Students
Created for beginning and intermediate level violin students, "Theory for Everyone " workbooks of sequential music theory concepts blend with and overlay several popular teaching methods.Author: Jane MelinISBN-10: 198521248XISBN-13: 9781985212480Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2018Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.10d- $14.50
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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.