Theory

More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fans continued following the Beatles and are now...

Traditional approaches to musical form have always adopted a top-down perspective whereby a work's form organizes and unifies the individual parts of the work through an overarching logic. How Sonata Forms turns this view on its head, proposing instead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562242831Author Corey ChristiansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486273310Author Arthur H. BenadePage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute, The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parameters-and limitations-of notation-dependent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914453953Author James ShipwayPage Count 131Imprint Headstock BooksPublisher Headstock Books

"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...

In examining the work of Theodor Adorno, this collection of essays focuses on the German philosopher's ideas in the field of musicology. Though it addresses complex theories, this inquiry maintains a lucid style, describing the nuances of Adorno's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250051295Author Daniel RachelFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 590g

The experimental approach of science applied to artistic research. We don't know what we don't know. This makes it difficult to imagine research that will produce truly new knowledge. In the sciences, the experimental approach has proved its worth in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240394Author Barry GalbraithPage Count 40Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240660Author George BouchardPage Count 274Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Transdisciplinary and intermedial analysis of the experience of music. Nowadays musical semiotics no longer ignores the fundamental challenges raised by cognitive sciences, ethology, or linguistics. Creation, action and experience play an increasing role...

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire. The book provides philosophical frameworks, primary-source analysis, and clear,...

In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994462Author R. Ryan EndrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

David Nelson wrote and compiled Konnakkol Manual to assist teaching an advanced course in the rhythmic compositions of Karnatak (South Indian) music. This new instructional book picks up where his previous book, Solkattu Manual, left off. It includes...

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...

Covering works from the common practice and contemporary periods, the Score Anthology to Accompany The Complete Musician includes eighty-four complete scores for key works that are discussed in The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory,...

What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics. He...

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

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...

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

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

Become a Competent Music Producer in 365 Days is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of music-production. Over the course of a year, this book takes the reader through ten chapters covering mixing, equalization, compression, reverb,...

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...

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...

It is July 4th 2002, two musical British brothers have just touched down in the United States. Mythologised in popular song it is the birthplace of the blues, jazz, soul and rock and roll. In search of their own version of El Dorado, instead of the...

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...

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...

This 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...

Giving pupils the inspiration and support they need at 11-14. The Opus Pupil Books form part of the new Opus music scheme for 11-14 year olds. Opus fulfils a recognized need for music resources at this level, giving pupils and teachers thorough support...

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...

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

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...