Composition

Something to Live For investigates and analyzes the entire oeuvre of Billy Strayhorn. Nearly seventy musical examples, drawn directly from his original autograph scores, provide insight into the development of his style, in his unique and often advanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881884968Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 64Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615416595Author Ralph J MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Murphy Music Consulting, Inc.Publisher Murphy Music Consulting, Inc.Weight(grams)...

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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...

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 9780876391860Author Mimi RabsonPage Count 117Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is a key work in the understanding of romanticism, programme music, and the development of the orchestra, post-Beethoven. It is noted for having a title and a detailed programme, and for its connection with the composer's...

While composers and percussionists are working more closely than ever with one another, there are few resources that address this collaborative relationship in depth. However, Samuel Z. Solomon, himself a percussionist and teacher, offers a comprehensive...

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 9781540052322Author Allison JamesPage Count 56Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

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...

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...

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,...

Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901-1974) and music embody most completely the quintessential American rootlessness, isolation, pre-civilized cult of experience, and dichotomy of practical...

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 Books

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 9781989387436Author 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 9780998130262Author Ed BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Song FoundryPublisher Song FoundryWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

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...

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...

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...

Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from "inaudible" technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity...

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Why does music exert such a strong pull on us? How does it work? Traditional courses in music fundamentals give students a basic understanding of the building blocks of music and how to put them together to make a result that produces an intended effect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793557622Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard...

Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. In some cases, the results of the original research by the editor or by others working in the field are published here for the first time. Much of the...

In Hip-Hop Civics, Jabari Evans demonstrates how Hip-Hop can be deployed in revamping formal civic education for Black and Brown youth. Based on an original ethnographic study of a Hip-Hop-based education program, the Songwriting and Production Program...

In Hip-Hop Civics, Jabari Evans demonstrates how Hip-Hop can be deployed in revamping formal civic education for Black and Brown youth. Based on an original ethnographic study of a Hip-Hop-based education program, the Songwriting and Production Program...

This guide, a supplement to the ALA's Guide for Written Collection Policy Statements, is meant to assist librarians, both music specialists and generalists, who are responsible for writing collection development policies for music collections in...

Tim Summers provides an engaging introduction to video game music aimed at game fans, music enthusiasts, budding composers, music professionals, and anyone with an interest in the topic. Based on the latest research, chapters explore a wide variety of...

No matter what kind of career you want in music, learning how to write good song is the foundation of the music industry.Platinum award-winning singer/lyricist Mark Winkler has a long, flourishing career in pop, jazz, cabaret and special material...

No matter what kind of career you want in music, learning how to write good song is the foundation of the music industry.Platinum award-winning singer/lyricist Mark Winkler has a long, flourishing career in pop, jazz, cabaret and special material...

As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result,...

This book is intended to introduce concepts about music composition to band and orchestra students of all ages and engage them in actual creative composing projects. The National Core Arts Standards (2014) emphasize that students should be engaged in the...

Composers have used formalized procedures to create music throughout history. With the advent of the computer, algorithmic composition allows composers not only to create and experiment with different formalisms, but to hear and evaluate results quickly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622773442Author Alice ParkerPage Count 216Imprint GIA PublicationsPublisher GIA Publications