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Manual of Harmonics of Nicomanchus the Pythagorean by Flora Levin
RRP: £13.99£11.66Apologies 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. -
Study of Fugue by Alfred Mann 9780393096750
RRP: £23.50£19.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393096750Author Alfred MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co -
Expanding Tonal Awareness: A Musical Exploration of the Evolution of Consciousness - from Ancient Tone Systems to New Tonalities - Guided by the Monochord by Heiner Ruland
RRP: £25.00£20.30Heiner 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... -
ISE Music in Theory and Practice Volume 1 by Bruce Benward
RRP: £59.99£57.40This 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... -
Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning by Eric F. Clarke 9780195151947
RRP: £89.00£73.28In 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... -
Thomas Wilfred's Clavilux by Michael Betancourt 9780809556717
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809556717Author Michael BetancourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 264g -
The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism by Adrian Daub 9780190234522
RRP: £30.49£23.48Starting 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... -
We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick by Kate McQuiston 9780199767663
RRP: £36.49£23.80Famous 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... -
Tuning in: American Narrative Television Music by Ronald Rodman 9780195340259
RRP: £24.99£20.94Music has always been at the heart of American television. Amongst the many roles it plays in broadcasting, music entertains viewers with live and videotaped performances, evokes moods and identifies characters and settings, and sells products through... -
Harmony by Heinrich Schenker 9780226737348
RRP: £37.00£35.77Harmony, 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... -
Music Theory Book for Beginners: A Simple, Easy-to-Use Method for All Musicians by James Shipway 9781914453953
RRP: £19.99£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914453953Author James ShipwayPage Count 131Imprint Headstock BooksPublisher Headstock Books -
Musical Poetics by Joachim Burmeister 9780300051100
£50.87Joachim Burmeister's early seventeenth-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque musical practice: it was the first to systematically explore the connection between rhetoric and music... -
A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice by Victoria Malawey
RRP: £20.99£20.87The 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... -
A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music by Robert S. Hatten
RRP: £24.99£21.67In 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... -
Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together by Kay Dickinson 9780195326642
£28.46In 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... -
The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis Workbook by Jane Piper Clendinning
£55.91This Workbook accompanies The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis, Fourth Edition, and features hundreds of exercises students can complete on tear-out-and-turn-in pages.About the AuthorJane Piper Clendinning is professor of music theory at the... -
Re-Making Sound: An Experiential Approach to Sound Studies by Professor Justin Patch
RRP: £21.99£20.59Re-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;... -
A Guide to Musical Analysis by Nicholas Cook 9780393962550
RRP: £31.00£23.54The text is divided into two parts: part One deals with the most important analytical methods current in the English-speaking world, treating each in turn. They are presented method by method because each one involves a characteristic set of beliefs and... -
Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context by Julie Brown 9780197266175
£80.44The 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... -
Bridge of Waves: What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World by W. A. Mathieu 9781590307328
RRP: £27.00£17.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307328Author W. A. MathieuFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Phrasing and Articulation: A Contribution to a Rhetoric of Music by Hermann Keller 9780393006810
RRP: £15.00£11.91Various 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... -
Torn Music: Rejected Film Scores. A Selected History by Gergely Hubai Hubai 9781935247050
RRP: £25.99£18.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935247050Author Gergely Hubai HubaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 1045g -
Lang Lang Music Theory: Level 2 by Lang Lang 9780571542727
RRP: £5.99£5.50Discover 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... -
Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers by David Hunter 9780199915699
RRP: £39.99£23.80Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers explains the formal structure of the French language and sets out the basics of French versification, using examples drawn from a wide range of well-known song settings. In clear and concise style, it... -
Teaching Music Theory: New Voices and Approaches by Jennifer Snodgrass
RRP: £27.49£22.37In 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... -
The Life of Music in South India by T. Sankaran 9780819500748
RRP: £19.95£17.32An 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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education by Wayne D. Bowman 9780199377121
RRP: £49.49£45.37Music 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... -
Bernard Shaw on Literature by George Bernard Shaw 9780795348938
RRP: £15.95£14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795348938Author George Bernard ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta Books -
Musical Cognition: A Science of Listening Henkjan Honing 9781412852920
RRP: £45.99£40.13Why 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... -
The Sounds of the Silents in Britain by Julie Brown 9780199797547
RRP: £37.99£34.72The 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... -
Thinking about Thinking: Metacognition for Music Learning by Carol Benton 9781475805123
RRP: £35.00£30.95Thinking 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... -
Doctor Mozart Music Theory Workbook Answers for Level 2 and 3 by Paul Christopher Musgrave 9780988168824
£8.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
From Mummers to Madness: A Social History of Popular Music in England, c.1770s to c.1970s by David Taylor
RRP: £30.00£25.12From 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... -
Ecologies of Creative Music Practice: Mattering Music by Matthew Lovett 9781032127033
RRP: £37.99£33.38Ecologies of Creative Music Practice: Mattering Music explores music as a dynamic practice embedded in contemporary ecological contexts, one that both responds to, and creates change within, the ecologies in which it is created and consumed. This highly... -
Performing Twentieth-Century Music: A Handbook for Conductors and Instrumentalists by Arthur Weisberg 9780300066555
£15.96Even the most accomplished musicians are often defeated by the demands of the modern repertory. Yet until now, no practical manual has addressed the performance problems specific to twentieth-century music. This concise, straightforward handbook by the... -
Revolutions in Music Education: Historical and Social Explorations by Andrew Sutherland 9781666907056
RRP: £105.00£92.13The 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:... -
Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers by David Hunter 9780195177169
RRP: £75.00£49.91Advice to young singers often follows the standard line of the great French singer Claire Croiza: "Study the poem away from the music, so that you know what the words really mean." But Croiza's advice is notoriously difficult to follow when... -
Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together by Kay Dickinson 9780195326635
RRP: £37.99£35.52In 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... -
Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory by Rachel Lumsden
£47.87Featuring 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... -
Globalizing Music Education: A Framework by Alexandra Kertz-Welzel 9780253032584
RRP: £20.99£18.37How 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...