Theory

La serie La teoria musical en la practica, un gran exito de ventas, contiene todo lo que necesitamos saber para cada uno de los grados de los examenes de teoria musical del ABRSM.Book InformationISBN 9781860963544Author Eric TaylorPage Count 56Imprint...

Music represents one of humanity's most vivid contemplations on the nature of time itself. The ways that music can modify, intensify, and even dismantle our understanding of time's passing is at the foundation of musical experience, and is common to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781712815441Author Sean LaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

In order to promote new ways of thinking about musical meaning, this volume brings together scholars in music theory, musicology, and the philosophy of music, disciplines generally treated as separate and distinct. This interdisciplinary collaboration,...

The human singing voice holds immense power - to convey mood, emotion, and identity in songs, provide music's undeniable "wow" moments, and communicate a pop song's meaning perhaps more than any other musical parameter. And unlike the other aspects of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897609521Author Oliver GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Sarsen PressPublisher Revilo Language CardsWeight(grams) 418g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999903701Author Hilary ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Francis Boutle PublishersPublisher Francis Boutle Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045223Author Dylan Van Der SchyffFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Over the last dozen or so years the musical landscape has been changed significantly by the revival of early instrumental music. People are now making and playing many Renaissance and early baroque instruments which until recently were not even mentioned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781465451675Author Michael MillerPage Count 368Imprint Dorling KindersleyPublisher DK

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 9780933999435Author Flora LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Phanes Press,U.S.Publisher Phanes Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946963642Author Nicolas SlonimskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Albatross PublishersPublisher Albatross PublishersWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm)...

In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of...

This best-selling text gives music majors and minors a solid foundation in the theory of music. It strengthens their musical intuition, builds technical skills, and helps them gain interpretive insights. The goal of the text is to instruct readers on the...

In Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke explores musical meaning, music's critical function in human lives, and the relationship between listening and musical material. Clarke outlines an "ecological approach" to understanding the perception of...

In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures. Based on a fascinating and wide-ranging body of film-music mismatches, and using contemporary reviews and histories of the turn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495281709Author John WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914453953Author James ShipwayPage Count 131Imprint Headstock BooksPublisher Headstock Books

Various aspects of each of these subjects are studied: the construction of phrases, their connection, extension, overlapping; the application of legato, staccato, and other types of articulation. In this discussion the author draws upon contemporary...

Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song...

Re-Making Sound is concise and flexible primer to sound studies. It takes students through six ways of conceptualizing sound and its links to other social phenomena: soundscapes; noise; sound and semiotics of the voice; sound and/through/in text;...

How do globalization and internationalization impact music education around the world? By acknowledging different cultural values and priorities, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel's vision challenges the current state of international music education and higher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692093290Author J Anthony AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Slam AcademyPublisher Slam AcademyWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781073714292Author Nan MogarFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm)...

Featuring twenty-three essays by outstanding teacher-scholars on topics ranging from Schenkerian theory to gender, The Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory covers every facet of music theory pedagogy. The volume serves as a reference for theory teachers...

The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run almost continuously since 1942, and represents a unique record of the changing place of music in British society. In 2011, recognising its iconic status, the BBC created an online archive that includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450545266Author Kevin DelaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In recent years, music theory educators around the country have developed new and innovative teaching approaches, reintroducing a sense of purpose into their classrooms. In this book, author and veteran music theory educator Jennifer Snodgrass visits...

An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture.This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and...

Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music? Musical Cognition suggests that music is a game. In music, our cognitive functions such as perception, memory, attention, and expectation are challenged; yet, as listeners, we often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240660Author George BouchardPage Count 274Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

From Mummers to Madness considers developments in the production and consumption of popular music in England over a period of some two hundred years, which saw dramatic changes in the socio-economic, demographic and cultural life of the country. Popular...

Refreshingly free of jargon and the abstruse mathematical equations that characterize so many works of a speculative nature, this insightful study utilizes masterworks of twentieth-century music as the bases for discussion and analysis. Analytic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502791184Author Rob SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

The teaching and learning of music around the world have evolved in diverse ways as social, industrial, and cultural developments have influenced the ways humans understand, organize, and collectivize music education. Revolutions in Music Education:...

Bits and Pieces tells the story of chiptune, a style of lo-fi electronic music that emerged from the first generation of video game consoles and home computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through ingenuity and invention, musicians and programmers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240950Author Dan HaerleFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally.An impressive number of Israeli jazz...

Remastering Music and Cultural Heritage presents a detailed account of the culture and practice of remastering music recordings. By investigating the production processes and the social, nostalgic and technological components of remastering practice, the...