Theory

The book begins with a thorough coverage of a number of elementary matters. This may be regarded either as a review or as a reorientation in preparation for the systematic presentation that follows. Beginning in Part Two ideas that are more specifically...

ABRSM's official Model Answers are a useful resource for students and teachers preparing for ABRSM Music Theory exams. This Grade 1 collection contains answers for the four practice papers published in ABRSM's Music Theory Practice Papers 2017 (Grade 1),...

Nnwonkoro is a genre of women's song found among the Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana. It has become a hybrid musical form, incorporating songs and dance movements based on traditional practices alongside others reflecting Christian influence. Nnwonkoro...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957547001Author M. HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Note TreePublisher The Note Tree

The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462702547Author Paulo de AssisFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 1600g

The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987926170Author Maureen CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Mimast IncPublisher Mimast IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Paul Harris's Basics Series is widely regarded as the leading method for beginner players and their teachers. Bassoon Basics offers helpful fingering diagrams and rhythm boxes, activities, duets, and a wide range of repertoire, including original pieces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997661767Author Lukas GabricPage Count 95Imprint Sher Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Sher Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 255g

Zarlino's Le Istitutioni harmoniche, published in 1558, is one of the most influential music treatises of all time. To his contemporaries it revealed the secrets of composition he had learned from Adrian Willaert, who brought to Italy the polyphonic art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988410005Author Ray HarmonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Revolution HarmonyPublisher Revolution HarmonyWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute, The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parameters-and limitations-of notation-dependent...

Will Metz's main ambition in his first book, Music Theory for Self-Taught Musicians: Level 1: The Basics, was to define and introduce all the main concepts used in music theory (intervals, chords, scales, modes, etc.). He refers to these notions as...

In addition to the new material on the synthesizer mentioned above, the author has completely reviewed the four parts of the book and integrated new material where appropriate: History (an overview from the silent films to the present); Aesthetics (the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495073762Author Andrew GerlePage Count 336Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 193mm...

A Key Stage 3 book designed for pupils who find music theory difficult to understand and remember. The content is differentiated at three levels to cater for differing abilities and experience, and a corresponding teacher's resource pack is also...

In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in...

The two workbooks that accompany The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Fourth Edition, feature an organization designed specifically for flexibility: Workbook 1: Writing and Analysis, is dedicated exclusively...

In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988410043Author Ray HarmonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Revolution HarmonyPublisher Revolution HarmonyWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795758295Author Carsten GerlitzPage Count 64Imprint Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KGPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543977905Author Marty DodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyDimensions(mm) 228mm * 6mm * 152mm

From its early inception at the French court to modern-day developments and interpretations, ballet has long had a popular following. Packed full of essential information, this pocket-sized handbook explores the history, performers, composers and music,...

"Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " -Music & LettersEero Tarasti advances a semiotic theory of music based on information provided by the history of...

ABRSM's official Model Answers are a useful resource for students and teachers preparing for ABRSM Music Theory exams. This Grade 7 collection contains answers for the four practice papers published in ABRSM's Music Theory Practice Papers 2017 (Grade 7),...

Sounds, Ecologies, Musics poses exciting challenges and provides fresh opportunities for scholars, scientists, environmental activists, musicians, and listeners to consider music and sound from ecological standpoints. Authors in Part I examine the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628451733Author L CherubiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Windham PressPublisher Windham PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486228204Author Josef LhevinnePage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

It is a common experience that words are inadequate for music; there seems always to be a disparity between how music is experienced, and how it is described or rationalized. This book is a study of musical imagination. Musicians imagine music by means...

Keil's classic account of blues and its artists is both a guide to the development of the music and a powerful study of the blues as an expressive form in and for African American life. This updated edition explores the place of the blues in artistic,...

In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as...

Covering works from the common practice and contemporary periods, the Score Anthology to Accompany The Complete Musician includes eighty-four complete scores for key works that are discussed in The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory,...

*Essential practice material for all ABRSM Theory exam candidates *Contains four separate papersBook InformationISBN 9781848498150Author ABRSMPage Count 12Imprint Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicPublisher Associated Board of the Royal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974588247Author Cameron PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint G. L. DesignPublisher G. L. DesignWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 210mm * 3mm

Analysing Musical Multimedia is the first study to produce a general theory of how different media - music, words, moving picture, and dance - work together to created multimedia. Though generally associated with contemporary developments, in particular...

Time is of the essence in music because the ear can only perceive sequentially-one thing at a time-unlike the eye, which is capable of panoramic view. Silence and Slow Time proposes a way of thinking about music that is faithful to the experience of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399511226Author Helen CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902455600Author Bruce ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd