Theory

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...

Distortion in Music Production offers a range of valuable perspectives on how engineers and producers use distortion and colouration as production tools. Readers are provided with detailed and informed considerations on the use of non-linear signal...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705102725Author Tom FlemingPage Count 128Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions...

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...

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

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...

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...

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of The...

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

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 9780851622187Page Count 213Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

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...

From its early inception at the French court to modern-day developments and interpretations, ballet has long had a popular following. Packed full of essential information, this pocket-sized handbook explores the history, performers, composers and music,...

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 9781890944520Author Bruce E. ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Muse-eek PublishingPublisher Muse-eek PublishingWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540046086Author Chad JohnsonPage Count 192Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

With a characteristically broad and provocative treatment, Dahlhaus examines a single music-aesthetical idea from various historical and philosophical viewpoints. "Essential reading for anyone interested in the larger intellectual framework in which...

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

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...

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...

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...

Challenging current music making approaches which have traditionally relied on the repetition of fixed forms when played, this book provides a new framework for musicians, composers and producers wanting to explore working with music that can be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645267068Author Lorraine ChaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint StringstasticPublisher StringstasticWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 3mm

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from the Renaissance modes to the major and minor keys of the high Baroque. The system Glarean proposed in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859652025Author Jerry HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645267075Author Lorraine ChaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint StringstasticPublisher StringstasticWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 3mm

A descriptive and historical introduction precedes Morley's classic work on the fundamentals of music theory and composition that was originally published in 1597.Book InformationISBN 9780393006827Author Thomas MorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825682094Author Brian ThomsonPage Count 64Imprint AMSCO MusicPublisher AMSCO MusicWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 229mm * 13mm

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...