Appreciation

Ideal for introductory music education, philosophy and psychology of music education, and music education methods courses, Teaching for Musical Understanding explains current research-based theories of how students learn in order to show prospective and...

A 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...

An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more-from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the influence of music on their lives and workContributors...

This 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...

David 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"...

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and...

The 'IB Music Revision Guide 3rd Edition' includes analyses of all the prescribed works of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme music course through to 2021. It also includes a comprehensive overview of all the musical styles and cultures...

For 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...

What 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...

Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908904959Author Ben SalfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Peacock PressPublisher Peacock PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 5mm

Musical theatre students and performers are frequently asked to learn musical material in a short space of time; sight-read pieces in auditions; collaborate with accompanists; and communicate musically with peers, directors, music directors and...

"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...

Music is a tremendously powerful channel through which people develop their personal and social identities. Music is used to communicate emotions, thoughts, political statements, social relationships, and physical expressions. But, just as language can...

Contemporary popular musics such as hip hop, techno, grime, EDM, drill, house and so on are among the most listened to in the world and yet, typically, they are barely covered in the music classroom if at all. This needs to be better reflected in...

The '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...

This first-of-its-kind compendium unites perspectives from artists, scholars, arts educators, policymakers and activists to investigate the complex system of values surrounding artistic-educational endeavors. Addressing a range of artistic domains,...

Acclaimed 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578520834Author Dave IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Nashville Guitar GuruPublisher Nashville Guitar GuruWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

Of all the biggest-name composers Handel probably wrote the most truly great music that no one knows about. This book takes the curious listener through his entire output from his earliest works in Italy through his more than 40 operas and including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913397067Author Tommy SwindaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Thomas William SwainPublisher Thomas William SwainWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful (Vom Musikalisch-SchAnen, 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...

An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more-from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the influence of music on their lives and workContributors...

Camille 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452295483Author Daniel J. LevitinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *...

What 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 Musician's Guide to AcousticsBook InformationISBN 9780198165057Author Murray CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 1050gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 164mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629920481Author Brian HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Fairhaven PressPublisher Fairhaven PressWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999600358Author Ashley HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Stereo Output LimitedPublisher Stereo Output LimitedWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

In this volume Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He seeks to explore why, out of the abundance of compositional...

What 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...

Even before the Beatnik Riots of 1961, New York City's Greenwich Village was the epicenter of revolutionary movements in American music and culture. But, in the early 1960s and throughout the decade, a new wave of writers and performers inspired by the...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988963955Author Tony PappasFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Prosonic Studios, LLCPublisher Prosonic Studios, LLCWeight(grams) 374g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250117991Author Ben RatliffFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Music 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...

By the author of the critically acclaimed EChoral Music in the Twentieth CenturyE this volume is an indispensable resource for choral conductors a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers and an essential text for educators and their...

What 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999329501Author Deborah AlobaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shakspeare EditorialPublisher Shakspeare EditorialWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm)...

In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology. In the culmination of a vast body of research undertaken since his influential and...