Theory

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...

Ritual trance has always been closely associated with music-but why, and how? Gilbert Rouget offers and extended analysis of music and trance, concluding that no universal law can explain the relations between music and trance; they vary greatly and...

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

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 for the curriculum whilst providing an engaging environment for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995412811Author Lorraine ChaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint StringstasticPublisher StringstasticWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 3mm

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,...

Lights, Camera, Soundtracks surveys over 50 years of rock 'n' roll movies, musicals and performance films. The book identifies the top guns involved in each film, provides a storyline, rates the film, and reviews its soundtrack. From pop and rock...

Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs...

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 9780802716828Author Geoff StrayFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Walker & CompanyPublisher Walker & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739262211Author Matteo Dalle FratteFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Lyric Arts PressPublisher Lyric Arts PressWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This book explores the profound and ancient relationship between music and astronomy. Throughout history, Music has occupied a significant place among the disciplines of the Quadrivium, which also include Geometry, Arithmetic, and Astronomy. The...

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...