Composition

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793547630Page Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Interactive Composition empowers readers with all of the practical skills and insights needed to compose and perform electronic popular music in a variety of popular styles. This book focuses on the implementation of compositional and production concepts...

Melody is the true heart of music-the identity of a composition, the vessel that carries the lyrics, the tune that you keep whistling on your way home from a concert. Composing melodies is often thought of as a mysterious process-a lightning bolt of...

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With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point. Joining dozens of emerging and established scholars alongside leading practitioners in the field, chapters in...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562242572Author Antonio Carlos JobimPage Count 104Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold JazzWeight(grams) 272g

With Contemporary Piano: A Performer and Composer's Guide to Techniques and Resources, Alan Shockley provides a comprehensive resource for composers writing music that uses extended techniques for the piano, and for pianists interested in playing...

Most listeners prefer tonal music to atonal music, but what exactly is the difference between them? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko identifies five basic musical features that jointly contribute to the sense of tonality, and shows how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088038536Author Pauline OliverosFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982004005Author Robin FrederickFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Taxi Music BooksPublisher Taxi Music BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction. Through clear, step-by-step...

A founder of soundscape ecology offers a pioneering field guide for listening to and recording the sounds of the wild Through his organization Wild Sanctuary, Bernie Krause has traveled the globe to hear and record the sounds of diverse natural habitats...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989387443Author Young Dreamers PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Young Dreamers PressPublisher YDP Creative IncWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974970417Author Amir SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Superchamp BooksPublisher Superchamp BooksWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876391785Author Jonathan FeistPage Count 184Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914312236Author Tommy SwindaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Fortune PublishingPublisher Fortune PublishingWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999600389Author Ashley HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Stereo Output LimitedPublisher Stereo Output LimitedWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876391860Author Mimi RabsonPage Count 117Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition, a...

'Sometimes I liken the creative act to that of being a good gardener. The musical material itself, the harmonies, rhythms, the timbres and tempi, are seeds you have planted. Composing, bringing forth the final formal arrangement of these elements, is...

Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they're even suspicious of it. John Coltrane's saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix's feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar's sitar extrapolations-all these sounds seem like so much noodling or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Awarded the Global Music Award Gold Medal for an exceptional book in the field of music, the National Indie Excellence Book Award, the Nonfiction Book Award (Gold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876392041Author Bob PilkingtonPage Count 152Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250051295Author Daniel RachelFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 590g

For those who want to learn the inner workings of music without as author Dave Stewart notes getting bogged down in a lot of fearsome technicalities this is an enlightening exploration of the theory and practice of music. Picking up where EThe...

Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of...

Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students. "Creative composition"-composing in your own style, rather than in the style of a composer of the past-is embraced by music educators not only for composition...

Nearly 50 years after his death, Louis Armstrong remains one of the 20th century's most iconic figures. Popular fans still appreciate his later hits such as "Hello, Dolly!" and "What a Wonderful World," while in the jazz community, he remains venerated...

Harmony through Melody offers a robust, conservatory-style approach to tonal music theory, focusing on Common Era classical works and reaching far beyond basic rudiments. Charles Horton, David A. Byrne, and Lawrence Ritchey develop techniques and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998130255Author Ed BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Song FoundryPublisher Song FoundryWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

Creative and Critical Projects in Classroom Music is both a celebration and extension of John Paynter and Peter Aston's groundbreaking work on creative classroom music, Sound and Silence, first published in 1970.Building on the central themes of the...

Improvising Fugue: A Method for Keyboard Artists is a guide for those who aspire to the highest levels of fluency as inventors of spontaneous music at the piano, fortepiano, harpsichord, organ, or digital keyboard. Written for professional performers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989387436Author Young Dreamers PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Young Dreamers PressPublisher YDP Creative IncWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

Teaching Music through Composition offers a practical and fully multimedia curriculum of over 60 lesson plans in 29 units of study, including student assignments sheets, worksheets, handouts, and audio, MIDI, and video files on a companion website...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887187220Author Stefan HollosFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Abrazol PublishingPublisher Abrazol PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793513871Author Andrew Lloyd WebberPage Count 16Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913397715Author Tommy SwindaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Thomas William SwainPublisher Thomas William SwainWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

In this companion volume to Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Christoph Wolff contextualises his famous subject by delving deeply into the composer's rich collection of music. Emerging from this complex and massive oeuvre, Bach's Musical...

The Mind's Ear offers a unique approach to stimulating the musical imagination and inspiring creativity, as well as providing detailed exercises aimed at improving the ability to read and imagine music in silence, in the "mind's ear." Modelling his...