Theory

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...

Drawing on insights from the modern "process" philosophy of Bergson, William James, and A. N. Whitehead, Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm releases meter from its mechanistic connotations and recognizes it as a concrete, visceral agent of musical...

From electronic beeps to orchestral scores, video game music has truly arrived. Rapidly growing in popularity around the world, it looks set to play an important role in the future of classical music. This handy reference guide from Classic FM steers you...

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 9780648514466Author Lorraine ChaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint StringstasticPublisher StringstasticWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 3mm

Discover the world of Lang Lang and come on a theory adventure! This progressive series provides an imaginative way for beginners to learn and practise music theory with the world's most successful concert pianist, Lang Lang. Through plenty of fun and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240370Author Joe RiposoPage Count 48Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Analysing Musical Multimedia is the first study to produce a general theory of how different media - music, words, moving picture, and dance - work together to created multimedia. Though generally associated with contemporary developments, in particular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562242916Author Dan HaerleFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Underpinned by author John Rink's internationally acclaimed scholarship and experience as a musician, this book addresses fascinating topics in the field of musical performance studies concerning the history, analysis and psychology of music, as well as...

The Art of Digital Orchestration explores how to replicate traditional orchestration techniques using computer technology, with a focus on respecting the music and understanding when using real performers is still the best choice.Using real-world...

How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and...

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...

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 Musical Form, Forms, and Formenlehre, three eminent music theorists reflect on the fundamentals of "musical form." They discuss how to analyze form in music and question the relevance of analytical theories and methods in general. They illustrate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914453649Author James ShipwayPage Count 82Imprint Headstock BooksPublisher Headstock Books

Stone is undoubtedly one of the world's leading authorities on contemporary music notation and its problems. As head of the Index of New Musical Notation, he collected and categorized the myriad new devices appearing in published music of this century...

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 9780195373738Author Trevor HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press Inc

Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986654916Author Maureen CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Mimast IncPublisher Mimast IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is recognized as the seminal work paving the way for current studies in mathematical and systematic approaches to music analysis. Lewin, one of the 20th century's most prominent figures in...

"Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " -Music & LettersEero Tarasti advances a semiotic theory of music based on information provided by the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857367877Author Trinity College LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London...

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 9781861519481Author Ashley KirkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

Our sense that a waltz is "in three" or a blues song is "in four with a shuffle" comes from our sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of our musical experience from a psychological point of view. Musical meter is taken as a...

Designed for Music Theory courses, Music Theory Through Improvisation presents a unique approach to basic theory and musicianship training that examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773238142Author Nicolas SlonimskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262701051Author David TemperleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 25mm

Zarlino's Le Istitutioni harmoniche, published in 1558, is one of the most influential music treatises of all time. To his contemporaries it revealed the secrets of composition he had learned from Adrian Willaert, who brought to Italy the polyphonic art...

"Like Hanslick, Professor Payzant is both musician and philosopher; and he has brought the knowledge and insights of both disciplines to this large undertaking." --Gordon Epperson, Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismReviewsLike Hanslick, Professor...

Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about time in music and science from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Centered on theories of musical meter, the book...

Editing Early Music is designed as a guide to editorial procedures suitable for music written from the Middle Ages to about 1830. Some of the suggestions are relevant to the editing of any music no longer in copyright. There is an introductory chapter on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783055821Author Alistair WightmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Rhinegold EducationPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

For something we often barely notice music in films is usually highly effective. It creates tension, elicits emotion and is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of the cinematic experience. Upon closer inspection, it can be seen that film music...

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music-its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers...

Heiner Ruland charts a practical path towards a deepened musical understanding, illuminating the panorama of humanity's musical past. Indicating what may happen - and needs to happen - to music in the immediate and more distant future, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802716828Author Geoff StrayFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Walker & CompanyPublisher Walker & Company

Music has a way of minding our brains, and Mind the Music explores the effects that it has on our cognition, emotion, and behaviour. As well as into the fabric of our culture, music is woven into the fabric of our humanity – but where does it come from,...