Theory

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883217037Author Chuck SherPage Count 440Imprint Sher Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Sher Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 1259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800514782Author James MacMillanFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 286g

Have you ever had a classical tune buzzing round your head and not been able to identify it? In The Directory of Classical Themes, with no greater musical knowledge than the ability to hum the tune, you will be able to find it. Denys Parsons discovered...

Danny Elfman is recognized as one of the most successful, interesting, and innovative figures in recent film music composition. He came to the fore in the late 1980s in connection with his collaboration with Tim Burton on his films including Pee-Wee's...

Pierre Schaeffer's "In Search of a Concrete Music" ("A la recherche d'une musique concrete") has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986654916Author Maureen CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Mimast IncPublisher Mimast IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

With an A-Z of over 300 entries, Music in Shakespeare is the most comprehensive study of all the musical terms found in Shakespeare's complete works. It includes a definition of each musical term in itshistorical and theoretical context, and explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578520162Author Jarrod RicheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Accs PublicationsPublisher Accs PublicationsWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Discover the world of Lang Lang and come on a theory adventure! This progressive series provides an imaginative way for beginners to learn and practise music theory with the world's most successful concert pianist, Lang Lang. Through plenty of fun and...

'Anna Butterworth's new book is designed to provide a businesslike and efficient presentation of all the harmonic and musical styles which are needed for A-level and university entrance ... illustrative material is copious and the exercises equally so.'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992550783Author Luke ZecchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Guitariq.comPublisher Guitariq.comWeight(grams) 163g

There are all sorts of people, events and sounds that exist in the musical world for which there are no words. We have been sadly bereft of a satisfactory way to describe the contortion of a singer's mouth when reaching for the high notes; the audience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562241285Author Jamey AebersoldPage Count 44Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

This is an outstanding collection of text scores from key composers and artists, as well as original essays and interviews offering guidance and lucid analysis. "Word Events" focuses on an approach to notation that uses the written word, as...

"Tuning is the secret lens through which the history of music falls into focus," says Kyle Gann. Yet in Western circles, no other musical issue is so ignored, so taken for granted, so shoved into the corners of musical discourse. A classroom essential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995380530Author Luke ZecchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Guitariq.comPublisher Guitariq.comWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 4mm

A landmark history of early radio in Germany and the quest for broadcast fidelityWhen we turn on a radio or stream a playlist, we can usually recognize the instrument we hear, whether it's a cello, a guitar, or an operatic voice. Such fidelity was not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800644168Author Susan HallamFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 1166gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789332452Author Jennifer BattenFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams)...

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Since Plato's time, the...

Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017. In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom:...

Most often associated with modern artists such as Bob Dylan, Elton John, Don McLean, Neil Diamond, and Carole King, the singer-songwriter tradition in fact has a long and complex history dating back to the medieval troubadour and earlier. This Companion...

This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in...

Who are "the folk" in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and the US during a crucial period of industrialization from 1870 to 1930, and beyond to the contemporary alt-right. Drawing on a broad,...

An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art form An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the music's history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with...

There is a new critical foreword by Walter Frisch, H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University, that expands this centennial edition. Frisch puts Schoenberg's masterpiece into historical and ideological context,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988662391Author Al StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mockingbird Songs & StoriesPublisher Mockingbird Songs & StoriesWeight(grams)...

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music-its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers...

In The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora, twenty-three scholars advance knowledge and understandings of Chinese music studies. Each contribution develops a theoretical model to illuminate new insights into a key musical genre or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947988470Author John L. BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose PublicationsWeight(grams) 138gDimensions(mm)...

A silent clapboard church on a barren Arctic landscape is more than just a place of worship: it is a symbol that can evoke fraught reactions to the history of Christian colonization. In the Inuit homeland of Northern Labrador, however, that church is...

The first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current...

Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book 'Music and Emotion' (OUP, 2001) was critically and commercially successful and stimulated...

Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop.Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend and room-mate Mark Costello, first published in 1990, long out of print,...

Harmony, Heinrich Schenker's first published work, originally appeared in German in 1906 as "New Musical Theories and Phantasies, by an Artist." Its unusual title indicates what was to be the rationale of Schenker's lifework, that artistic problems call...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930251482Author James JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint BlueChip PublishersPublisher BlueChip Publishers

From Kumina to Mento, Ska to Rocksteady, Reggae to Dancehall, Roots to Ragga - this is the authentic story of Jamaican popular music, told for the first time by Jamaicans. In Jamaica, Reggae is more than music - it is the nation's main collective...

The many ramifications of Bach's comprehensive essay have been neatly explained and annotated in a manner that makes the Essay a valuable reference work and an interesting venture in musical literature and history. The translator, William J. Mitchell,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540013774Author Kristen Anderson-LopezPage Count 39Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671210274Author Howard ShanetFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)...