Theory

In the context of music therapy, microanalysis is the detailed analysis of that short period of time during a music therapy session during which some kind of significant change takes place. These moments are crucial to the therapeutic process, and there...

From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Bjoerk "Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve...

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 9781495088964Author Chad JohnsonPage Count 72Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892813186Author Joachim E. BerendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Destiny Books,U.S.Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705108895Author YolanDa BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Hal Leonard Europe LimitedPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876391921Author Scarlet KeysPage Count 120Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

This biography chronicles the life of music critic Lester Bangs from stifling childhood as a Jehovah's Witness to his revels in the excesses of rock.About the AuthorBorn in Jersey City, New Jersey, the year the Beatles arrived in America, Jim DeRogatis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262582780Author David HuronFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *...

Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience--particularly in sociology, cultural and...

La serie La teorA a musical en la prA!ctica, un gran A (c)xito de ventas, contiene todo lo que necesitamos saber para cada uno de los grados de los exA!menes de teorA a musical del ABRSM.Book InformationISBN 9781860963520Author Eric TaylorPage Count...

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

"For some years now, a group of American composers and theorists including Babbitt, Teitelbaum, Martino, and Lewin, have been elaborating mathematically based procedures for the analysis of pitch structures in atonal music. In this book, Allen Forte...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540049308Author John PowellPage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Solfege has become one of the most highly acclaimed resources for the study of ear training in music education today. This revised and expanded third edition includes a multitude of new musical examples and dictations covering the entire continuum of...

An instructive book for students at all levels and abilities Musical composition is becoming a key discipline in music courses in both schools and universities, and many teachers consider it as important in the development of young musicians as...

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

Gathers together for the first time Taruskin's influential and insightful essays and articles on musical performance practice written over the past decade. Links issues in musical performance with wider cultural scene. Author's highly respected and...

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),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914453793Author David ShipwayPage Count 168Imprint Headstock BooksPublisher Headstock Books

Music education thrives on philosophical inquiry, the systematic and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions. Yet philosophy, often considered abstract and irrelevant, is often absent from the daily life of music instructors. In The Oxford...

What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated...

A clear and accessible volume spanning the entire theory course sequence, HARMONY AND VOICE LEADING covers all basic concepts, including species counterpoint. Available with MindTap Music (sold separately), which includes the ebook with audio examples,...

Karel Janec ek's Foundations of Modern Harmony, translated into English for the first time, presents a theory of chord quality in atonal context. First published in 1965, it stands out among music theoretical publications with its balanced approach that...

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

Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that 'blackens' the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins 'black' and 'ecology': melancology, a word in which can be heard...

In this influential book on the subject of rhythm, the authors develop a theoretical framework based essentially on a Gestalt approach, viewing rhythmic experience in terms of pattern perception or groupings. Musical examples of increasing complexity are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240974Author Oliver NelsonPage Count 80Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

The musicological study of popular music has developed, particularly over the past twenty years, into an established aspect of the discipline. The academic community is now well placed to discuss exactly what is going on in any example of popular music...

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...

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...

More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so...

This text is the first graduate music theory review designed specifically to address the one-semester course for beginning graduate students in music. Based on The Complete Musician, the text is more than a shortened version of an undergraduate tonal...

This second volume of Gunther Schuller's comprehensive history of jazz covers the period from the 1930s to the late 1940s, decades which saw the transition from big band swing to the virtuoso bop style. The first half of the book concentrates on the band...

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium. Especially significant is Adorno's "dialectical portrait" of Stravinsky, in which Adorno...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781974899838Author Herbert L ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Allegro EditionsPublisher Allegro EditionsWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the film music repertoire. Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score offers the first collection of essays dedicated to the close investigation of...

Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing. Editors Richard K. Wolf,...

Why do we sing and what first drove early humans to sing? How might they have sung and how might those styles have survived to the present day? This history addresses these questions and many more, examining singing as a historical and cross-cultural...