Theory

Where did the major scale come from? Why does most traditional non-Western music not share Western principles of harmony? What does the inner structure of a canon have to do with religious belief? Why, in historical terms, is J.S. Bach's music regarded...

Provides material for homework assignments, classroom demonstrations and periodic reviews. A generous assortment of excerpts from the literature for assignments in analysis. Volume II corresponds with the second half of the text.About the AuthorEdward...

How music embodies and contributes to historical and contemporary nationalism What does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about the relationship between national and regional identity building? How do various actors use music to advance nationalism? How...

Music scholarship has been rethinking its understanding of Franz Schubert and his work. How might our modern aesthetic values and historical knowledge of Schubert's life affect how we interpret his music?Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825614996Author Arnie BerleFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Music Sales LtdWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 311mm * 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793537914Author Robert PacePage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Written exercises-The Second Edition includes new exercises for each chapter that reflect changes in the text, in particular changes in the chapters on fundamentals and diatonic harmony. Exercises require students to fill in short harmonic progressions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393417203Author L. Poundie BursteinPage Count 528Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 844g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480363182Author Mona RejinoPage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

The antinomy of musical work and musical form has been central for music theory for centuries. Musical work is complete and all-inclusive, which makes it an ideal object of study. However, the teaching of musical form, albeit selective, is...

An Ethnomusicologist’s Last Lecture: Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion explores the frustration of many scholars and artists with the content and directions of studies on music, which continue to be mostly based on Western thought, methods,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804673881Author Mihails SaitersFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 111g

A combination of button accordion and bajo sexto, conjunto originated in the Texas-Mexico borderlands as a popular dance music and became a powerful form of regional identity. Today, listeners and musicians around the world have embraced the genre and...

In his instrumental works, Franz Schubert, like Beethoven, expanded on the classical traditions, especially in the areas of form and harmony. Yet many of these works have only recently begun to be appreciated for their true worth by performers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562242848Author Joe RiposoFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240516Author David LiebmanPage Count 12Imprint 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240561Author Jerry CokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

The Western musical tradition has produced not only music but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous - and enormously influential-dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, A Language of Its Own...

Characters and plot developments, similarly, are enhanced by their musical accompaniment. The different scoring strategies employed in supernatural and horror-based genres, comprising for example True Blood and Supernatural, are considered alongside cult...

The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch, Larry Sider and Dominic Power, bring their expertise to...

Per Dahl presents a model of communication that unveils a clear and logical understanding of Stravinsky's heritage, based on the extant material available. From this, Dahl argues the case for Stravinsky’s music and his ideas as separate entities,...

This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955485077Author Jim AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane PressWeight(grams) 59g

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857364159Author Trinity College LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London...

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...

Starting from the late Renaissance, efforts to make vocal music more expressive heightened the power of words, which, in turn, gave birth to the modern semantics of musical expression. As the skepticism of seventeenth-century science divorced the...

Listening to music is not merely something one does, but something central to a way of living. Listening has the power to transport one into another way of being. It is a mode of feeling and forms the bedrock of deep emotion. Written from the viewpoint...

Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) brings together scholars, musicians, and family members of people with disabilities to collectively recount years of personal experiences, research, and...

Represents one of the first full length authored books on the topic of electronic visual music Includes interviews with well-known practitioners, offering insight into contemporary practice and techniques Offers an opportunity to continue to build on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869772320Author Alessandro BratusFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

The cross-genre approach of this volume attempts to build a dialogue and synergies between communities of artists.The proposed monograph would appeal to academic readerships and postgraduate students in music and/or sound studies in a broad sense, with...

An overarching goal of the book is to provide justification for the use of musical agency as an analytical tool and descriptor. The project is also of interest also to researchers in the fields of cognitive science and social psychology, who may be...

Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip-hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making, providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with...

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music...

- Emphasis on hearing musical forms is pedagogically effective and unique among form textbooks - Offers a complete course package, with workbook pages included in the Textbook, while the accompanying Anthology makes full scores of pieces covered in the...

- Emphasis on hearing musical forms is pedagogically effective and unique among form textbooks - Offers a complete course package, with workbook pages included in the Textbook, while the accompanying Anthology makes full scores of pieces covered in the...

Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies situates intimacy, a concept that encompasses a wide range of often informal social practices and processes for building closeness and relationality, within the ethnomusicological study of music and sound. These...

An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music.   From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference...