Theory

Alban Berg (1885-1935), a student of Arnold Schoenberg and one of the most prominent composers of the Second Viennese School, is counted among the pioneers of twelve-tone serialism. His circle included not only the musicians of the Wiener modern but also...

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Goetterdammerung.First, in terms of music theory, it proposes a new theory of tonal function that returns to the theories of...

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 *...

Now published by Norton, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, with additional coverage of transformational theory and voice leading. The Fourth Edition helps students identify key...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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 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,...

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),...

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...

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...

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

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...

*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...

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...

Distortion in Music Production offers a range of valuable perspectives on how engineers and producers use distortion and colouration as production tools. Readers are provided with detailed and informed considerations on the use of non-linear signal...

Master musical skills quickly and easily!From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life. Whether you're an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major, The Everything Essential Music...

Why is it that certain intervals, scales and tones sound genuine and others false? Is the modern person able to experience a qualitative difference in a tone's pitch? If so, what are the implications for modern concert pitch and how instruments of fixed...

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

More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fans continued following the Beatles and are now...

Music has been an integral part of film exhibition from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century. With the arrival of sound film in the late 1920s, music became part of a complex multimedia text. Although industry, fan-oriented, and scholarly...

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...

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the...

Students today have grown up in the age of digital technology. As a result, they process information in radically different ways than preceding generations. They like their information fast and consider visual images as important as textual content. In...

The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. Is music a language? Does it communicate specific ideas and emotions? What does music mean, and how does this...

Becoming Noise Music tells the story of noise music in its first 50 years, using a focus on the music’s sound and aesthetics to do so. Part One focuses on the emergence and stabilization of noise music across the 1980s and 1990s, whilst Part Two explores...

Maldito Coronavirus!: Mapping Latin American Musical Responses to the Pandemic Moment offers an expansive survey and analysis of local and regional musical responses to the global coronavirus moment. The authors situate this emergent phenomenon within...

The way rhythm is taught in Western classrooms and music lessons is rooted in a centuries-old European approach that favors metric levels within a grand symmetrical grid. Swinglines encourages readers to experience rhythms, even gridded ones, as...

Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought in recent years, raising new questions about the forms and circulation of cultural, technological, political, and military power as manifest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804902974Author Nick BeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London Press

Long before the invention of ""talk radio,"" music was the heart and soul of radio programming--whether standing alone, filling in the time between features, or identifying to widespread audiences the shows coming on and signing off the air. Jim Cox's...

Intended for first and second year college music courses, graduate students needing a concentrated review, and Private Theory instruction, this is a Music Theory treatise in the form of a workbook. The greater part of traditional theory is formatted into...