Theory

A transporting voyage of archaeological discovery: Sound Tracks unearths instruments from around the world and across time, releasing the past's musical secrets for the first time. ‘A thrilling journey into the sonic richness of human experience’ PHILIP...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922649850Author Aventuras De ViajeFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint SF Nonfiction BooksPublisher SF Nonfiction Books

Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800. This foundational study draws upon the joint strengths of current music history and music theory to outline a new,...

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...

Printed music and writing about music involve the use of complex systems of notation and a wealth of technical terms in several languages. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms provides clear, succinct, definitions of a comprehensive range of...

Why did Pythagoras pause outside a Blacksmith's workshop? Can the nature of Harmony really be understood visually? Why do harmonies leave gaps or 'commas' when added together? In this charming little book Anthony Ashton uses a Victorian device called a...

Legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.'Extraordinary insights about music, emotion and the brain...An instant classic' Daniel Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on MusicThis Is What It Sounds Like is...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785581700Author Alistair WightmanPage Count 120Imprint Rhinegold EducationPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

Model answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 4 Theory examsBook InformationISBN 9781786015419Author ABRSMPage Count 28Imprint Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicPublisher Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789332438Author Dan HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

This important and controversial book has come to be regarded as a modern classic. Originally published in 1959, it has exerted a profound influence on all subsequent discussion in the field of musical aesthetics. The author's thesis is that the main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705165584Author John WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

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...

It was the strange and mystical "Another Green World" (1975) that was the cosmic bridge between Old Eno and New Eno, between Rock and Ambient, between the guitar and the synthesizer, between the old world and electronic music as we know it. "Another...

A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory and partimento, and takes an integrated, hands-on approach to the teaching of harmony and counterpoint in today's...

Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices, and Tools is a vital read for anyone wanting to succeed in the field of mixing-covering the entire mixing process, from fundamental concepts to advanced techniques. Packed full of photos, graphs, diagrams, and audio...

For those who want to learn the inner workings of music without as author Dave Stewart notes getting bogged down in a lot of fearsome technicalities this is an enlightening exploration of the theory and practice of music. Picking up where EThe...

Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music theory, musicology, and music psychology. Harmony, and especially chromaticism, is...

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...

In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them. Nary a canonic work of classical music that was not set for piano duo, nary a house...

The Process That Is the World grapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage's philosophy is not simply a novel method for...

Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' - an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound. Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739874001Author Fiona BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Learn Music TogetherPublisher Learn Music Together

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 9789679852967Author Lina NgPage Count 56Imprint Rhythm MPPublisher Rhythm MPWeight(grams) 220g

Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of...

Here for the first time is an orderly presentation of the harmonic procedures to be found in music of the first half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the nature of intervals in various contexts, discusses the modes and other scales employed...

What is required for a listener to understand a piece of music? Does aural understanding depend upon reflective awareness of musical architecture or large-scale musical structure? Jerrold Levinson thinks not. In contrast to what is commonly assumed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987926132Author Maureen CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Mimast IncPublisher Mimast IncWeight(grams) 136g

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...

This in-depth musicological and critical study examines how Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo plays a crucial role in the articulation and development of the film's narrative and how it affects readings of the film. Herrmann's...

China has over three hundred distinct styles of music drama, from exorcism theatre to farce, historical romance, and shadow puppetry. This study considers one of the newer operatic forms. Established just two centuries ago, huju (Shanghai opera), is...

More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so...

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...

From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla" Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789918954810Author Matthew EllulFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Matthew EllulPublisher Matthew EllulWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Learn the basics of music theory in this comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide.From classical to hard rock, and jazz to hip hop, music is constantly evolving, but many of the basics have stayed the same. Understanding these basics is key to becoming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739005446Author Willard A PalmerPage Count 48Imprint Alfred Publishing Company IncPublisher Alfred Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the...