Theory

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717806713Author Sidney FinkelsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U...

The roots and evolution of two concepts usually thought to be Western in origin-musica mundana (the music of the spheres) and musica humana (music's relation to the human soul)-are explored. Beginning with a study of the early creeds of the Near East,...

Discover the world of Lang Lang and come on a theory adventure! This progressive series provides an imaginative way for beginners to learn and practise music theory with the world's most successful concert pianist, Lang Lang. Through plenty of fun and...

Organized into four large sections of carefully graded exercises that correspond to the progression of material in most theory courses, A New Approach to Ear Training offers instructors remarkable flexibility, enabling them to use the book as an assigned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393442427Author Jane Piper ClendinningPage Count 1064Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 1678gDimensions(mm)...

To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding visually?Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science...

Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with the...

In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of...

Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of...

Older people negotiating dance routines, intimacy, and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danzón in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music-dance genre. Hettie Malcomson draws upon on-site research...

Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of...

An indispensable study of the music of Altai-Sayan peoples Based on more than twenty years of collaborative research, Carole Pegg’s long-awaited participatory ethnography explores how Indigenous nomadic peoples of Russia’s southern Siberian republics...

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...

Older people negotiating dance routines, intimacy, and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danzón in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music-dance genre. Hettie Malcomson draws upon on-site research...

Arguably one of the most influential and revered figures in contemporary music theory, David Lewin (1933-2003) revolutionized the field through his work on transformational theory and theoretical methodology. David Lewin's Morgengruss: Text, Context,...

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...

Many scientific studies confirm the positive effects of music education in prenatal and earliest phases of life on childrens' holistic development. In this book, the authors' examine how musical development and learning are established in the family...

Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly Sills Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening...

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score, Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening, it teaches...

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...

Topics covered include growth processes, learning theory, functional music, the range of musical experience, technology and evaluation.About the AuthorRichard ColwellBook InformationISBN 9780870812286Author Richard ColwellFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825682131Author Amos MillerPage Count 48Imprint AMSCO MusicPublisher AMSCO MusicWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 292mm * 229mm * 13mm

In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being...

Taking a linear functional approach, Professor Gauldin uses clear explanations and outstanding musical examples to show students how individual chords function in the overall structure of a piece, explaining how both harmonic and melodic forces...

A musical phrase, or, for that matter, a musical unit of any size or shape, becomes an image whenever we imagine it to be invested with a content whose origins lie outside music. Such a content, according to the theory developed here, constitutes the...

Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. As in broader educational studies, research in music education has tended to sidestep the religious...

Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly...

What does it mean to produce resemblance in the performance of written music? Starting from how this question is commonly answered by the practice of interpretation in Western notated art music, this book proposes a move beyond commonly accepted codes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788897503361Author Pierre Bal-BlancFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Produzioni NeroPublisher Produzioni Nero

The contributors to this text are Grindea (piano), Havas (strings), Tausky (conducting), Nieman (composing), Gruner (voice), Howard (speech), Ben-Or (Alexander Technique), Lehrer (psychology), de Peyer (clarinet) and Jacobsen (tension control). The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476804965Author Chad JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

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