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Learning musical notation can be intimidating. But regardless of instrument or proficiency in reading music there's hope and help for all musicians in this practical guide. Writing in a friendly manner that puts readers at ease author Dave Stewart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789679852967Author Lina NgPage Count 56Imprint Rhythm MPPublisher Rhythm MPWeight(grams) 220g

Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition provides an innovative approach to the instruction of the craft of music composition based on tailored exercises to help students develop their creativity. When composition is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789679852974Author Lina NgPage Count 64Imprint Rhythm MPPublisher Rhythm MPWeight(grams) 220g

The Piano Teacher's Survival Guide is a comprehensive and practical guide providing essential advice for all piano teachers. Aiming to improve and develop confidence in teaching skills and piano technique, the book focuses on the best ways to support...

Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Flute Grades 4-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785586323Author James ReevellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Rhinegold EducationPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

An essential exploration of Nordic composers and musicians, and the distinctive culture that continues to shape them Once considered a musical backwater, the Nordic region is now a musical powerhouse. Conductors from Denmark and Finland dominate the...

The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from...

ABRSM's official More Music Theory Sample Papers are additional resources for candidates preparing for our new online Music Theory exams. Providing more authentic practice material and a reliable guide as to what to expect in the exam. -Essential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985791312Author Chris GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262517959Author Steve GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 13mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262582780Author David HuronFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *...

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ABRSM's official Music Theory Practice Papers are essential resources for candidates preparing for ABRSM Music Theory exams. They provide authentic practice materials and are a reliable guide to what to expect in the exam. These Grade 4 Practice Papers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876391631Author Andrea StolpePage Count 146Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

From the earliest years of the 20th century composers sought ways in which to break from earlier musical traditions. Serialism is one of the most prominent innovations resulting from this. From Schoenberg to Stockhausen, Berg to Boulez, this introduction...

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...

Whenever a person engages with music-when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest gets down on the dance floor-countless neurons are firing. Playing an instrument requires...

The most celebrated book on counterpoint is Fux's great theoretical work Gradus ad Parnassum. Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the greatest composers. J.S. Bach held it in high esteem,...

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What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience? In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857361158Author Trinity GuildhallPage Count 64Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 231g

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what's important, where it fits and why it matters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530907380Author Victoria WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"-the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning...

With hundreds of interviews conducted over a 35-year span, this book is the most comprehensive history of television scoring to date. Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV...

"Aja" was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned...

Two entwined narratives run through the creation of "Swordfishtrombones" and form the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career. Bitter and desperately unhappy, he moved to New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516563Author Gareth LoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 24mm

Model answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 7 Theory examsBook InformationISBN 9781786015280Author ABRSMPage Count 16Imprint Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicPublisher Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicWeight(grams)...

From the 5th century BC, when Pythagoras first composed his laws of Western music and science, until the flowering of Romanticism over 2000 years later, scientists and philosophers perceived the cosmos musically, as an ordered mechanism whose smooth...

Model answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 1 Theory examsBook InformationISBN 9781786015389Author ABRSMPage Count 24Imprint Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicPublisher Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicWeight(grams)...

Whether you are learning to play a piano, blow a trumpet, conduct an orchestra or sing, the essentials of music notation are the same.This book is a complete approach to musical study, from the first note you read to the beginnings of harmony.It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785586330Author James ReevellFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Rhinegold EducationPublisher Hal Leonard Europe LimitedDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full...