Theory

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 *...

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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...

Through provisional, idiosyncratic, and non-normative listening practices, Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory counters music theory's continuing tendencies towards rationality, unity, unilinearity, teleology, and logical certainty. In this volume, editor...

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...

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...

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 *...

Film music is an increasingly popular part of the classical music repertoire, with a huge range of beautiful, dramatic and well-loved film scores coming out of Hollywood, from Star Wars to Up. From the early days of silent cinema through Hollywood's...

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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...

Music 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...

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,...

With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of...

For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed how we think about film music. This book is the first to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890944520Author Bruce E. ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Muse-eek PublishingPublisher Muse-eek PublishingWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm)...

Many of the most famous composers in classical music spent considerable periods in spa towns, whether taking in the waters, or searching for patrons among the rich and influential clientele who frequented these pioneer resorts, or soaking up the relaxing...

Tonality and Transformation is a groundbreaking study in the analysis of tonal music. Focusing on the listener's experience, author Steven Rings employs transformational music theory to illuminate diverse aspects of tonal hearing - from the infusion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645267068Author Lorraine ChaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Stringstastic Pty LtdPublisher Stringstastic Pty LtdWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951988848Author Dave NicolsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 590g

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645267075Author Lorraine ChaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Stringstastic Pty LtdPublisher Stringstastic Pty LtdWeight(grams) 163g

Never has there been such an exciting time to be a music teacher. Band, choir, and orchestra are ubiquitous in schools and have come to be known as the primary mode that students experience music at the secondary level. Similarly, elementary school...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957547018Author Michael HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Note TreePublisher Note TreeWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

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...

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...

Time in Indian Music is the first major study of rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rag , or classical, music. Martin Clayton presents a theoretical model for the organization of time in this repertory, a model which is related explicitly to other...

This new series of Norton books, devoted to informed discussion of contemporary music, draws principally upon articles first published in Perspectives of New Music, which Richard Kostelanetz has described as "among the most consistently interesting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562242992Author Jamey AebersoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

The Evolution of Music by Culture and Science aims to recognise the impact of science on music, why it occurs, how we respond, and even to tentatively see if we can predict future developments. Technology has played an immense role in the development of...

All recordings document life, arising from a specific time and place, and if that place is artificial, the results will be as well. Culled from a lifetime of learning through failure and designed to provoke thought and inspiration for artists in every...

Ecologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902455600Author Bruce ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd