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How to Write Guitar Riffs: Create and Play Great Hooks for Your Songs by Rikky Rooksby
RRP: €23.79€17.48Countless great songs are based on riffs-catchy guitar phrases that repeat until they're seared into your brain forever-or snappy chord sequences as memorable as any melody. Riffs get people excited, whether they are musicians or listeners. Advertising... -
Music Quickens Time by Daniel Barenboim 9781844674022
RRP: €17.84€15.36In this eloquent book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance in our everyday lives. While we may sometimes think of personal, social and political issues as existing... -
Psychology for Musicians: Understanding and Acquiring the Skills by Andreas C. Lehmann 9780195146103
RRP: €42.83€39.14This book provides a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to psychological research for musicians - performers, music educators, and studio teachers. Designed to address the needs and priorities of the performing musician rather than the... -
Sound in Motion: A Performer's Guide to Greater Musical Expression by David McGill
RRP: €28.55€24.76David McGill has assembled an exhaustive study that uses the musical concepts of the legendary Marcel Tabuteau as a starting point from which to develop musical thought. McGill methodically explains the frequently misunderstood "Tabuteau number system"... -
On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis 9780199990825
€77.31What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated... -
All The Emperor's Men: Kurosawa's Pearl Harbor by Hiroshi Tasogawa 9781557838506
RRP: €29.75€26.42When 20th Century Fox planned its blockbuster portrayal of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor it looked to Akira Kurosawa a a man whose mastery of the cinema led to his nickname the Emperor a to direct the Japanese sequences. Yet a matter of three weeks... -
Music and Sentiment by Charles Rosen
RRP: €14.27€12.08Acclaimed pianist and writer Charles Rosen explores music's profound ability to convey emotion through sound How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital... -
Psychology for Musicians: Understanding and Acquiring the Skills by Robert H. Woody 9780197546598
RRP: €111.86€101.33In recent years, a psychological perspective has gained increasing acceptance in the education provided to musicians: teachers, performers, and "creatives" alike. Research in music psychology has revealed how musicians acquire the ability to... -
This Too is Music by Rena Upitis 9780190884956
€108.61This Too is Music guides and motivates teachers to foster playful and motivating classroom conditions that enable elementary students to thrive as musicians in every way-as singers, improvisers, critical listeners, storytellers, dancers, performers, and... -
Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur by Elsie Walker 9780190495909
RRP: €130.90€121.26Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences, and charged with aggressive dialogue. The sound tracks... -
The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy by Lydia Goehr 9780198166962
RRP: €85.68€77.98What is musical meaning? Where does it reside and how can it be known? Does it make a difference to its meaning if the music is composed with or without words, as a symphony or a song? Why is it claimed that music can express human feelings with an... -
Advocate for Music!: A Guide to User-Friendly Strategies by Lynn M. Brinckmeyer 9780190219147
RRP: €142.80€121.01Across the US, school budgets are tightening and music programs, often the first asked to compromise in the name of a balanced budget, face a seemingly grim future. Monetary restrictions combined with an increasing focus on test scores have led to heavy... -
This Too is Music by Rena Upitis 9780190884963
RRP: €33.90€28.57This Too is Music guides and motivates teachers to foster playful and motivating classroom conditions that enable elementary students to thrive as musicians in every way-as singers, improvisers, critical listeners, storytellers, dancers, performers, and... -
Teaching Music Appreciation Online by Bethanie L. Hansen 9780190698386
RRP: €33.90€29.05In this book, readers will learn practical tips and strategies to teach music appreciation online. As online education is a growing field, an increasing number of teachers trained in traditional/live methods find themselves now teaching online and... -
Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Intimate Media by Kiri Miller 9780190257842
RRP: €40.45€37.03Playable Bodies investigates what happens when machines teach humans to dance. Dance video games work as engines of humor, shame, trust, and intimacy, urging players to dance like nobody's watching--while being tracked by motion-sensing interfaces in... -
Discovering Music by R. Larry Todd
€127.40Discovering Music offers the context that students need to appreciate music, in a concise format that is visually appealing. Written to inspire students to connect intellectually and emotionally with music from the Western canon and beyond, the text is... -
The Idea of Music: An Introduction to Musical Aesthetics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Herbert M Schueller
RRP: €119.00€97.28Music has long been neglected by aestheticians, who tend to privilege discussions of visual arts and literature. In this volume, Herbert M. Schueller brings the aesthetics of music into the fold, tracing the development of the idea from classical... -
Nightingales in Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound by David Rothenberg
RRP: €23.80€23.06A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions,-from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ever... -
IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition: Everything you need to prepare for the Music Listening Examination (Standard and Higher Level 2016-2019) by Roger Paul 9781783085828
RRP: €17.84€17.08The 'IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition' includes analyses of all the prescribed works of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme music course through 2019. It also includes a comprehensive overview of all the musical styles and cultures that... -
After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock by Ian Whitcomb 9780879100636
RRP: €16.65€12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879100636Author Ian WhitcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
Deleuze and Music by Ian Buchanan
RRP: €35.69€32.44What would a Deleuzian music philosophy be like? For Deleuze, music informed his work on several levels. He did not merely write about music, it formed part of his thinking. Deleuze and Music is the first volume to explore Deleuze's ideas from the... -
Camille Saint-Saens: On Music and Musicians by Roger Nichols 9780195320169
RRP: €44.02€40.20Camille Saint-Saens is a memorable figure not only for his successes as a composer of choral and orchestral works, and the eternally popular opera Samson et Dalila, but also because he was a keen observer of the musical culture in which he lived. A... -
Remembering the Future by Luciano Berio
€44.05In 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... -
The Great American Songbook: 201 Favorites You Ought to Know (& Love) by Steven Suskin
RRP: €22.60€19.25In an age of ubiquitous music and countless new songs releasing every minute, the Great American Songbook endures. After all, the Songbook-that sprawling canon of popular songs, standards, and show tunes from roughly the 1920s through the 1950s-is a... -
Psychology for Musicians: Understanding and Acquiring the Skills by Robert Woody
RRP: €35.69€30.87In recent years, a psychological perspective has gained increasing acceptance in the education provided to musicians: teachers, performers, and "creatives" alike. Research in music psychology has revealed how musicians acquire the ability to convey... -
Musical Topics and Musical Performance by Julian Hellaby
RRP: €148.75€128.35The principal purpose of topics in musicology has been to identify meaning-bearing units within a musical composition that would have been understood by contemporary audiences and therefore also by later receivers, albeit in a different context and with... -
Integrated Practice: Coordination, Rhythm & Sound by Pedro De Alcantara 9780195317077
RRP: €127.93€116.13To be a musician is to "speak music." When you have something to say and you know how to say it, your gestures and sounds become both expressive and free. Offering an innovative, comprehensive approach to musicians' health and well-being, Integrated... -
New Historical Anthology of Music by Women by James R. Briscoe
RRP: €42.84€38.07"In this new edition of Historical Anthology of Music by Women, Briscoe offers an indispensable resource for our own moment. . . . He has commissioned new biographical and critical essays by leading musicologists such as Thomas J. Mathiesen, Elizabeth... -
How To Listen To Great Music: A Guide To Its History, Culture, And Heart by Robert Greenberg
RRP: €21.42€13.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452297081Author Robert GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 133mm *... -
Absolute Music: The History of an Idea by Mark Evan Bonds 9780199343638
RRP: €48.18€44.36What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence of "pure" or "absolute" music in ways that also account for its profound effect. In Absolute Music: The History of an Idea, Mark Evan... -
The Idea of Absolute Music by Carl Dahlhaus
RRP: €27.37€26.33With a characteristically broad and provocative treatment, Dahlhaus examines a single music-aesthetical idea from various historical and philosophical viewpoints. "Essential reading for anyone interested in the larger intellectual framework in which... -
The Enjoyment of Music by Kristine Forney
€129.25For nearly 70 years, The Enjoyment of Music has led the way in preparing students for a lifetime of listening to great music and understanding its cultural and historical context. The Fourteenth Edition expands on this foundation with new chapters and... -
The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music by Charles Rosen 9781871082654
RRP: €17.79€17.05What does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and academics may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we... -
Listening Subjects: Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture by David Schwarz
RRP: €27.36€23.32In Listening Subjects, David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral experiences of music listeners. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, Schwarz addresses intriguing questions: why do bodies develop goose bumps... -
The psychology of music in multimedia by Siu-Lan Tan 9780199608157
€56.32For most of the history of film-making, music has played an integral role serving many functions - such as conveying emotion, heightening tension, and influencing interpretation and inferences about events and characters. More recently, with the enormous... -
My Music by Charles Keil 9780819562647
€20.23My Music is a first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives. "What is music about for you?" asked members of the Music in Daily Life Project of some 150 people, and the responses they received -- from the profound to the... -
Hot Dog Dinners for 4 String Electric Bass by Felix X Pastorius 9780692982808
RRP: €35.69€29.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692982808Author Felix X PastoriusFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Felix Xavier PastoriusPublisher Felix Xavier PastoriusWeight(grams)... -
Lively Children's Choir: Joyful, Playful, Dancing Incentives and Example by Christiane Wieblitz 9783895007729
€53.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895007729Author Christiane WieblitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm)... -
The Musician Healer: Transforming Art Into Medicine by Islene Runningdeer
RRP: €23.74€16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988824864Author Islene RunningdeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint UpRoutePublisher Durvile Publications Ltd. -
Music Education at a Crossroads: Realizing the Goal of Music for All by Janet Barrett 9781607092032
€25.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.