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Vendor:Matthew Santa
Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Period Music
Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Period Music is the first book to present a comprehensive course text on advanced analysis of rhythm and meter. This book brings together the insights of recent scholarship on rhythm and meter in...- $59.95
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Vendor:Roger Hickman
Mikl Rsa's Ben-Hur: A Film Score Guide
In this book, Roger Hickman focuses on the confluence of traditions, trends, and innovations that shaped one of film's greatest scores.Author: Roger HickmanISBN-10: 0810881004ISBN-13: 9780810881006Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2011Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d- $53.00
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Vendor:Henry Stobart
The New (Ethno)Musicologies
This collection of essays addresses and critically examines key issues in contemporary ethnomusicology. Set in two parts, the volume explores ethnomusicology's shifting disciplinary relationships and plots a range of potential developments for its future.Author: Henry StobartISBN-10: 0810861011ISBN-13: 9780810861015Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2008Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight:...- $77.00
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Vendor:Miguel Mera
Mychael Danna's The Ice Storm: A Film Score Guide
This book studies the music and sound in Ang Lee's film The Ice Storm, providing a unique insight into the collaborative processes that influenced the development and evolution of the score, and illustrating how the politics of filmmaking interacts with creativity.Author: Miguel MeraISBN-10: 0810859416ISBN-13:...- $55.00
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Vendor:Ben Winters
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Film Score Guide
Winner of the Academy Award for best dramatic score in 1938, the score for The Adventures of Robin Hood is seen by many as the archetypal accompaniment to a Warner Brothers swashbuckler, and it established the score's composer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, as one of...- $55.00
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Vendor:Henry Martin
Counterpoint: A Species Approach Based on Schenker's Counterpoint
Counterpoint helps music theory and music composition students improve their musicianship by examining the voice leading that underlies Western tonal music. It proceeds by developing species counterpoint in the tradition of Johann Joseph Fux and his famous Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), but with attention...- $52.00
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Vendor:Martin Boykan
Silence and Slow Time: Studies in Musical Narrative
This book proposes a way of thinking about music that is faithful to the experience of playing or listening during a real performance. 'Narrative, ' in this context, refers to the rhythm of a piece and the way it shapes the succession of events,...- $103.00
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Vendor:Susan Bernstein
Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire
A study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the nineteenth century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing upon an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Reading Romantic reactions to music together with linguistic...- $32.00
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Vendor:Peter Kivy
Music Alone
What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics. He considers here what he believes to...- $56.95
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Vendor:Various Authors
Instant Scale & Chord Guide for Keyboards
Key signatures and chord symbols are doors to facility at the keyboard - doors too often locked by insufficient understanding. This guide unlocks them with clear, simple explanations. Features: major and minor scales - guidelines for scale fingering - chord charts which include major,...- $12.00
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Vendor:Mike Christiansen
Fingerboard Theory for Guitar: A Music Theory Text for Guitarists
This book contains concepts of music theory presented in such a way as to be easily understood by guitarists. All of the concepts are presented sequentially in an easy-to-follow format using the guitar fingerboard as the visual tool. Contents include: scales, key signatures, intervals,...- $22.99
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Vendor:David Huckvale
Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde
Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, few observers have noted the innovative music that Hammer distinctively incorporated into its horror films. This...- $29.95
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Vendor:Timothy E. Scheurer
Music and Mythmaking in Film: Genre and the Role of the Composer
This work studies the conventions of music scoring in major film genres (e.g., science fiction, hardboiled detective, horror, historical romance, western), focusing on the artistic and technical methods that modern composers employ to underscore and accompany the visual events. Each chapter begins with an...- $35.00
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Vendor:Franco Sciannameo
Nino Rota, Federico Fellini, and the Making of an Italian Cinematic Folk Opera Amarcord
Federico Fellini entered the pantheon of 20th-Century artists for his path-breaking films like, La dolce vita (1960) and Otto e mezzo (1963). However, it was with Amarcord (1973), that Fellini achieved universal fame. That celebration of youth and memory transcends all barriers of ethnic...- $39.95
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Vendor:Walter Klosowski
The Circle of Fifths: A Complete Diatonic Reference for Music
THE UNABRIDGED CIRCLE OF FIFTHS This volume is dedicated to showcasing all diatonic material found in each and every key of music that exists on the circle of fifths. The term diatonic realm is used in this book to describe that musical realm of...- $14.95
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Vendor:Carolyn Abbate
Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music that...- $55.00
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Vendor:Arthur Tillman Merritt
Sixteenth-Century Polyphony
Author: Arthur Tillman MerrittISBN-10: 0674180887ISBN-13: 9780674180888Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1939Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d- $65.00
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Vendor:Ebenezer Prout
Counterpoint: Strict and Free
Prout's still indispensable work is profusely illustrated with musical examples woven directly into the text. Strict Counterpoint is the preliminary technical work for actual musical composition. At the time of original publication, Ebenezer Prout was Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Academy...- $19.50
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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...- $41.99
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Vendor:Paolo Susanni
Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality: Harmonic Progression Based on Modality and the Interval Cycles
This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire. It does so in a simple,...- $62.95
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Vendor:Stefan Kostka
Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music
Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the...- $170.00
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Vendor:Amnon Shiloah
Music and Its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings
A fascinating aspect of the study of music in medieval Islamic and Judaic writings is the broad and interdisciplinary nature of the works and treatises in which it is covered. In addition, such works verbalize an art that was transmitted orally and took shape...- $64.95
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Vendor:Ruth Barton
Music and Sound in Silent Film: From the Nickelodeon to The Artist
Despite their name, the silent films of the early cinematic era were frequently accompanied by music and other sound elements of many kinds, including mechanical instruments, live performers, and audience sing-alongs. The 12 chapters in this concise book explore the multitude of functions filled...- $49.95
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Vendor:Jason W. Solomon
Music Theory Essentials: A Streamlined Approach to Fundamentals, Tonal Harmony, and Post-Tonal Materials
Music Theory Essentials offers an antidote to music theory textbooks that are overly long and dense. Focusing on the essentials, this text provides a clear-cut guide to the key concepts of music theory. Beginning with no assumptions about music theory knowledge, the book covers...- $74.95
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Vendor:Tim Summers
Understanding Video Game Music
Understanding Video Game Music develops a musicology of video game music by providing methods and concepts for understanding music in this medium. From the practicalities of investigating the video game as a musical source to the critical perspectives on game music - using examples...- $32.99
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Vendor:John O'Flynn
Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897-2017
Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897-2017 constitutes the first comprehensive study of music for screen productions from or relating to the island. It identifies and interprets tendencies over the first 120 years of a field comprising the relatively distinct yet often overlapping areas...- $170.00
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Vendor:Matthew Bribitzer-Stull
Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music
The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the...- $135.00
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Vendor:Jonathan Kregor
Program Music
Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems, the tone poems of Strauss and...- $95.00
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Vendor:Peter Townsend
Music Flash Card Book: Notes & Symbols
More than 100 double sided music theory flash cards.Useful for both music/instrument teachers and students.Contents pages showing topics and numbers/codes for each card.In a handy book - no more jumbled or lost flash cards Includes: - note values (including dotted)- rest values- clefs- key...- $12.71
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Vendor:Andy Schneider
Seeing Music on the Guitar: A visual approach to playing music
Unlock Your Imagination and Start Making New Music - Your Music - with Complete Knowledge of How Chords, Scales and Melodies Are All Related.Seeing Music on the Guitar is the first book of its kind: Using an easy, visual method to teach practical music...- $16.99
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Vendor:Karen Harrington
Notespeller for Piano, Book 3: Hal Leonard Student Piano Library
(Educational Piano Library). Students join Spike and Party Cat as they explore the sights and tourist attractions in Music City . Their visit includes assignments that help students sharpen their music reading skills, learn to read ledger-line notes, and identify intervals, half and whole...- $8.99
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Vendor:Bryan Delauney
Interval and Major Scale Theory
"Unlock the Essentials of Music with 'Interval and Major Scale Theory'"Return to the core principles of music with "Interval and Major Scale Theory." This insightful guide is designed to lead you back to the fundamentals of music, providing a strong foundation for expanding your...- $10.99
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Vendor:Julia Winterson
Music Theory -- The Essential Guide
Music Theory: The Essential Guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. Written and structured to make content as easily digestible as possible, this indispensable guide introduces key musical concepts such as pitch, tempo, rhythm,...- $11.95
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Vendor:Jeremy S. Begbie
Theology, Music and Time
Theology, Music and Time shows ways in which music can deepen our understanding of the Christian God and his involvement with the world. Without assuming any specialist knowledge of music, the author explores rhythm, meter, resolution, repetition and improvisation, and through them opens up...- $47.99
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Vendor:Thomas Christensen
Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment
This is the first intellectual biography of the French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. Rameau synthesised the vocabulary and grammar of musical practice into a concise scientific system, earning himself the popular title of 'Newton of the Arts'. Ranging widely over the musical and...- $34.99
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Theology, Music and Time
Theology, Music and Time shows ways in which music can deepen our understanding of the Christian God and his involvement with the world. Without assuming any specialist knowledge of music, the author explores rhythm, meter, resolution, repetition and improvisation, and through them opens up...- $95.00
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Vendor:Andrew Barker
The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece
The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. It was the most important branch of Greek musical theory, studied by philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers as well as by...- $65.99
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Vendor:Ian Bent
Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism
Twelve authors probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music. They provide a searching examination of writings by music theorists, critics, aestheticians, philosophers, and commentators from 1800 to 1875. In doing so, they wield new critical tools as well as...- $49.99
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Vendor:Bill Bruford
Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer
What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres? Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the...- $29.95
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Vendor:Christopher Doll
Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era
Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic schemas. The identification of these schemas, as...- $39.95
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Vendor:Neil Lerner
Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear
Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. Frightening images and ideas can be made even more intense when accompanied with frightening musical...- $54.95
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Vendor:Philip Brett
Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology
When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of...- $68.95
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Vendor:Fred Karlin
On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring
On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's aesthetic vision with the needs of...- $105.00
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Vendor:Edward T. Cone
Perspectives on Notation and Performance
This 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 comprise a repository of...- $21.95
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Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary
Provides information on the structure, origin, and playing of musical instruments throughout the world from prehistory to modern times.Author: Sibyl MarcuseISBN-10: 0393007588ISBN-13: 9780393007589Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1975Pages: 628Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.39d- $35.00
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Vendor:Eric Clarke
Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning
In recent years, many psychologists and cognitive scientists have published their views on the psychology of music. Unfortunately, this scientific literature has remained inaccessible to musicologists and musicians, and has neglected their insights on the subject. In Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke explores...- $46.99
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Vendor:David Lewin
Musical Form and Transformation: Four Analytic Essays
Distinguished music theorist and composer David Lewin (1933-2003) applies the conceptual framework he developed in his earlier, innovative Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations to the varied repertoire of the twentieth century in this stimulating and illustrative book. Analyzing the diverse compositions of four canonical...- $44.99
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Vendor:Nicholas Cook
The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-De-Si鐵le Vienna
Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical...- $60.00
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Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter
Our sense that a waltz is "in three" or a blues song is "in four with a shuffle" comes from our sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of our musical experience from a psychological point of view. Musical meter...- $63.00
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Metamorphosis in Music: The Compositions of Gygy Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s
From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Hungarian composer Gy�rgy Ligeti went through a remarkable period of stylistic transition, from the emulation of his fellow countryman B�la Bart�k to his own individual style at the forefront of the Western-European avant-garde. Through careful study of the...- $110.00
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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.