Theory

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is a comprehensive practical guide for music eductors who work with students with autism. Authors and veteran music educators Alice M. Hammel and Ryan M. Hourigan offer an approach centered in inclusion designed for...

Michael Musgrave presents a contemporary view of Brahms 150 years after his birth, seeing him not simply as the `conservative' figure so often stressed in the past, but as one who creatively reinterpreted a wider range of historical elements than any...

Postgraduate Research in Music: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Thesis is an essential text for music students who are undertaking postgraduate research. Unique in its approach and scope, this is a "how to" book, a practical guide that sets out,...

Beethoven Symphonies Revisited guides the reader -- music student, concert goer, or general music lover -- through the movements in a way that renews the novelty and excitement that listeners must have felt at the first performances. Stylistic discussion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806140193Author John W. TroutmanFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438498454Author Michael CherlinFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

ABRSM's official Music Theory Practice Papers 2024 are essential resources for candidates preparing for our online Music Theory exams. They provide authentic practice material and are a reliable guide as to what to expect in the exam. Essential practice...

The book explores cellular pivots as a new means of progression, functional tonality having disappeared in much of contemporary music. Bela Bartok can be seen as a kind of father figure to the other two composers, Chen Yi and George Crumb, in terms of...

In Pop Music and Hip Ennui: A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism, Macon Holt provides the imaginative and analytical resources to think with contemporary pop music to investigate the ambivalences of contemporary culture and the potentials in it for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218479343Author Brian KehlenbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ebk MusicPublisher Ebk MusicWeight(grams) 671gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825614996Author Arnie BerleFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Music Sales LtdWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 311mm * 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621483465Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackImprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 154mm *...

"The outstanding originality of this book lies in the detail and perspicuity with which interrelations are traced between texts, it even seems that relations sometimes work backwards. Above all, this book does not offer a 'theory of intertextuality.'...

Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, whiteness and maleness are woven into the fabric of the field, and BIPOC music theorists face enormous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825682094Author Brian ThomsonPage Count 64Imprint AMSCO MusicPublisher AMSCO MusicWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 229mm * 13mm

The first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro-Germanic music theory ca. 1900. What makes the compositions of Handel, Bach,...

This book examines the functional place of music in contemporary European philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries. The chapters explore the musical dimensions of lesser known figures as well as well-known philosophical figures in relation to their...

The book presents the fundamentals of music science, followed by a discussion on the historical evolution of music. An introduction to the analysis of signals in time and frequency is presented, which includes sound and noise. Features and mathematical...

This volume brings together for the first time book chapters, articles and position pieces from the debates on music and identity, which seek to answer classic questions such as: how has music shaped the ways in which we understand our identities and...

This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to...

An award-winning account of the importance of semiotic play in Classic instrumental music, including that of Mozart, Haydn, and BeethovenOf all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth...

An award-winning account of the importance of semiotic play in Classic instrumental music, including that of Mozart, Haydn, and BeethovenOf all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674430747Author Hugo LeichtentrittFormat HardbackPage Count 479Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams)...

The Muse That Sings is a unique behind-the-scenes look at both twentieth-century music and the nuts and bolts of creative work. Here, twenty-five of America's leading composers--from Adams to Zorn, from Bolcom to Vierk--talk candidly about their craft,...

This book addresses the central problem of music cognition: how listeners' responses move beyond mere registration of auditory events to include the organization, interpretation, and remembrance of these events in terms of their function in a musical...

Perone considers all aspects of musical form and its analysis with the broadest possible historical and stylistic palette in this comprehensive bibliography. The form and analysis treatises chapters include publication, original language, English...

The first work to propose a comprehensive musicological framework to study sound-based music, a rapidly developing body of work that includes electroacoustic art music, turntable composition, and acoustic and digital sound installations. The art of sound...

Movies have never been the same since MTV. While the classic symphonic film score promised direct insight into a character's mind, the expanded role of popular music has made more ambiguous the question of when, if ever, we are allowed to see or share a...

Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Gloria Swanson tempted him...

The challenges and limits for musicians dealing with texts.To perform a musical score implies the transformation of a symbolically coded text into vibrant sound. In Performing by the Book? a carefully selected cadre of artist-researchers dissects this...

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...

Postgraduate Research in Music: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Thesis is an essential text for music students who are undertaking postgraduate research. Unique in its approach and scope, this is a "how to" book, a practical guide that sets out,...

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...

Every Valley is the cinematic and moving true story that lies behind the creation of one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, Handel's Messiah.'A mesmerizing journey [through] one of the most fascinating and creative moments in human history'...

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 PressWeight(grams) 387g

Rooted in research and practice, Perspectives on Conducting presents a multi-faceted exploration of the role of the modern-day conductor. Seeking to bring a more inclusive approach to understanding conducting as a career, this book expands beyond elite...

How does a Romantic composer approach the poetry he sets: as raw material to be remade, a pretext for self-expression, a sanctified artefact, or a message to be illustrated with music? In my book, I examine Franz Liszt's songs for voice and piano, which...

Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) brings together scholars, musicians, and family members, with and without disabilities, to collectively recount years of personal experiences, research, and...

How do you tell the key of a piece-without looking at a score? How do you know when a musical work ended before an audience applauds or a radio announcer returns on air? Was there, in fact, a 'breakdown of tonality' in the nineteenth and twentieth...