Theory

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...

Thinking about Thinking: Metacognition for Music Learning provides music educators with information, inspiration, and practical suggestions for teaching music. Written for music educators in multiple content areas and grade levels, the book sets forth...

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...

Using cine-ethnomusicology as a focus, Cineworlding introduces readers to ways of thinking eco-cinematically. Screens are omnipresent, we carry digital cinema production equipment in our pockets, but this screen-based technological revolution has barely...

Delves into Theodor W. Adorno's lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism. Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most prominent social theorists. Though best known for his association with the Frankfurt School...

What is the difference between a downbeat, an offbeat and a backbeat? What is the crossrhythm in a polyrhythm? Are odd meters really odd? Why is the mysterious 3-3-2 rhythm so popular all over the world? In this one-of-a-kind pocket book, top rhythm dude...

The Technique of Orchestration Workbook, Seventh Edition, accompanies the textbook of the same name-the definitive resource on the study of orchestration-providing musical excerpts, full scores, and scoring assignments to enrich the lessons learned in...

Theory in popular music has historically tended to approach musical processes of rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, and form as abstractions, without very directly engaging the intimate connection between the performer and instrument in popular music...

Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition. Providing a comprehensive textbook to support music theory...

Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition. Providing a comprehensive textbook to support music theory...

Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines feerie, the French fairy play, in the last third of the nineteenth century. It is among the first book-length studies on the genre, the first in a language other than French, and the first from a...

Holistic Musical Thinking presents a comprehensive view of how people engage with music from a hands-on and heart-felt perspective. This approach embraces the teaching and learning processes as a multi-dimensional amalgamation of knowing, doing, and...

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 Technique of Orchestration Workbook, Seventh Edition, accompanies the textbook of the same name-the definitive resource on the study of orchestration-providing musical excerpts, full scores, and scoring assignments to enrich the lessons learned in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952178290Author Adam TetlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 172mm * 140mm * 14mm

Within public schools in the United States, students of color are truncating their music education experiences at higher rates than their white counterparts. Music educators have searched for explanations of this phenomenon as well as effective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952178016Author Jason MartineauFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 137mm * 8mm

Within public schools in the United States, students of color are truncating their music education experiences at higher rates than their white counterparts. Music educators have searched for explanations of this phenomenon as well as effective...

Where did the major scale come from? Why does most traditional non-Western music not share Western principles of harmony? What does the inner structure of a canon have to do with religious belief? Why, in historical terms, is J.S. Bach's music regarded...

Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China explores music as constitutive of Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and nationhood are indexed. A Central Asian Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851622187Page Count 213Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

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 9780634065866Author Betsy HendersonPage Count 64Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Logic of Experimentation offers several innovative and ground-breaking perspectives on music performance, music ontology, research methodologies and ethics of performance. It proposes new modes of thinking and exposing past musical works to contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898466413Author Camilla SheldonFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Registry Publications LtdPublisher Registry Publications LtdWeight(grams) 123g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540001566Author George RushfordPage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495057311Author Mona RejinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

For most music historians, the modernism of the twentieth century was until recently the only appearance of the "modern" in music. The widely perceived recent decline of musical modernism makes it now possible to see the modernism of the twentieth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825682070Author Ned BennettPage Count 64Imprint Boston MusicPublisher Boston MusicWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 292mm * 229mm * 13mm

The roots and evolution of two concepts usually thought to be Western in origin-musica mundana (the music of the spheres) and musica humana (music's relation to the human soul)-are explored. Beginning with a study of the early creeds of the Near East,...

Each pattern is introduced in a step-by-step process that encourages students to read rhythms not as individual notes but as groups of notes. These groups then recur throughout the text in a variety of carefully graded exercises.About the AuthorDaniel...

Famous for his painstaking attention to detail and for the craftsmanship and artistry he brought to his work, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is by now long established as both the subject of an entire sub-field of scholarly inquiry, and as the object of all...

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain, from the emergence of cinema through to the introduction of synchronized sound. Edited by Julie Brown and Annette Davison, the volume includes original...

This book explores historical and philosophical connections between music, leisure, and education. Specifically, it considers how music learning, teaching, and participation can be reconceptualized in terms of leisure. Taking as its starting point "the...

What did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary theories? What were the values and limits of these evolutionist turns of thought, and in what ways have...

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...

Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics of sound in Bollywood cinema. Taking as its subject the expansive domain of the aural in cinema, this book identifies singing, listening, and speaking in cinema as key sites in which...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825682131Author Amos MillerPage Count 48Imprint AMSCO MusicPublisher AMSCO MusicWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 292mm * 229mm * 13mm