Appreciation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWilliam Sauerland is assistant professor of music and director of choral studies at Purdue University - Fort Wayne, conducting the choral ensembles, teaching...

For 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...

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...

How are our ability and motivation to be creative shaped by the world around us? Why does creativity seem to flourish in some environments, while others seem to stifle it? Many societies value creativity as an abstract concept and many, perhaps even...

Shape is a concept widely used in talk about music. Musicians in classical, popular, jazz and world musics use it to help them rehearse, teach and think about what they do. Yet why is a word that seems to require something to see or to touch so useful to...

How does the immediate experience of musical sound relate to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation? This question lies at the heart of the studies presented in Experience and Meaning in Music Performance, a unique multi-authored work...

Apologies 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)...

'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' Helen Macdonald'Completely compelling.' Olivia Laing'Read it with awe and sorrow.' Fatima BhuttoAfter the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular,...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988963962Author Tony PappasFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Prosonic Studios, LLCPublisher Prosonic Studios, LLCWeight(grams) 683gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies 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.

Now in paperback! Cloth edition 0-8108-2964-9 originally published in 1995.ReviewsThe organ world owes Dr. Arnold a tremendous debt of gratitude, who for more than 20 years has given us this major reference work... * The Diapason *...the volume remains...

Michael 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...

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)...

When 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...

This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes-categorization, cross-domain...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988963931Author Tony PappasFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Prosonic Studios, LLCPublisher Prosonic Studios, LLCWeight(grams) 370g

First he discusses music as a language--how it conveys definite thoughts and feelings. Then he takes up in turn the various elements found in all music--tone, rhythm, melody, harmony; finally, he shows why music must have form and traces its development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986411656Author John C BoukisFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Pi PublishingPublisher Pi PublishingWeight(grams) 789g

Gathering perspectives of musical talent from the psychological, musical, and educational fields, Kindling the Spark is the only single sourcebook that defines musical talent and provides practical strategies for identifying and nurturing it. Joanne...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578958606Author Mary HannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Nancy C FierroPublisher Nancy C FierroWeight(grams) 145g

Across 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988963979Author 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 9780988963993Author Tony PappasFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Prosonic Studios, LLCPublisher Prosonic Studios, LLCWeight(grams) 683g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645546941Author R K OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint V.Pisces Publishing and PrintingPublisher V.Pisces Publishing and PrintingWeight(grams)...

Words About Mozart is published as a tribute to the late Stanley Sadie, musicologist, critic and editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Of the eleven essays presented here, three focus on compositional matters: Julian Rushton examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993062117Author Clement JewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint GreenleavesPublisher GreenleavesWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780949683434Author Margaret BrandmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Jazzem MusicPublisher Jazzem MusicWeight(grams) 220g

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The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780949683205Author Margaret BrandmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Jazzem MusicPublisher Jazzem MusicWeight(grams) 128g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837145006Author James Lockhard MursellFormat HardbackPage Count 389Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is...

Music and the Broadcast Experience explores the complex ways in which music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. It brings into dialogue researchers working in media and music studies;...

Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts. But detailed analysis and discussion of the works created by these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574671711Author John Bell YoungPage Count 224Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838214449Author Charles MedlamFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Fretwork PublishingPublisher Fretwork PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804317440Author Lawrence L SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint CheapisbnPublisher CheapisbnWeight(grams) 100g