Theory

Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as 'New.' What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540083081Author Robert LopezPage Count 56Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant...

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 6 Practice Papers...

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...

ABRSM's official Model Answers are a useful resource for students and teachers preparing for ABRSM Music Theory exams. This Grade 6 collection contains answers for the four practice papers published in ABRSM's Music Theory Practice Papers 2020 (Grade 6),...

What is experimental music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest, from seasoned practitioners to curious readers. This book takes the stance that experimental music is not a limited historical event, but...

Model answers for sample papers for ABRSM's Theory exams Grade 1 Key features: * updated for the new format ABRSM Theory exams * clear and concise presentationBook InformationISBN 9781786013606Author ABRSMPage Count 24Imprint Associated Board of the...

A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects-composers, performers, listeners-in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the...

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

At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros taught their students to compose with unprecedented swiftness and elegance using the partimento, an instructional tool derived from...

ABRSM's official Model Answers are a useful resource for students and teachers preparing for ABRSM Music Theory exams. This Grade 2 collection contains answers for the four practice papers published in ABRSM's Music Theory Practice Papers 2019 (Grade 2),...

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

From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salome Voegelin expands 'possible world theory' to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds, articulated...

Again he draws upon his own wide knowledge and experience as composer and teacher to present all phases of the subject. No practical aspect of instrumentation for the orchestra is neglected, and comprehensive treatment is given to each significant...

Paul Harris's highly successful Simultaneous Learning approach is an entirely positive and imaginative way to teach, which embraces the understanding that all the elements of music are connected. In this definitive book Harris outlines the complete...

Model answers for sample papers for ABRSM's Theory exams Grade 2 Key features: * updated for the new format ABRSM Theory exams * clear and concise presentationBook InformationISBN 9781786013613Author ABRSMPage Count 24Imprint Associated Board of the...

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...

Model answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 8 Theory examsBook InformationISBN 9781786015297Author ABRSMPage Count 20Imprint Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicPublisher Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicWeight(grams)...

Editing Early Music is designed as a guide to editorial procedures suitable for music written from the Middle Ages to about 1830. Some of the suggestions are relevant to the editing of any music no longer in copyright. There is an introductory chapter on...

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 8 Practice Papers...

Aimed at those who have some knowledge of music but not formal training in composition, this concise introduction to composing starts right in with a brief composition exercise, then proceeds step by step through a series of increasingly complex and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540030993Author Steve VaiPage Count 92Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Model answers for More Sample Papers for ABRSM's Theory exams Grade 4 - Updated for the new format ABRSM Theory exams - Clear and concise presentationBook InformationISBN 9781786014412Author ABRSMPage Count 28Imprint Associated Board of the Royal Schools...

Model answers for sample papers for ABRSM's Theory exams Grade 3 Key features: * updated for the new format ABRSM Theory exams * clear and concise presentationBook InformationISBN 9781786013620Author ABRSMPage Count 24Imprint Associated Board of the...

Now available in paperback, this is perhaps the first comprehensive account of the nature and significance of music from the perspective of modern philosophy, and the only treatment of the subject which is properly illustrated with music examples. The...

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...

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 8 Practice Papers...

Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from...

An approach to music as an instrument of philosophical inquiry, seeking not so much a philosophy of music as a philosophy through music.Book InformationISBN 9780691017594Author Victor ZuckerkandlFormat PaperbackPage Count 407Imprint Princeton University...

'Groundbreaking' Amy Cuddy, bestselling author of Presence 'A roadmap for innovators, entrepreneurs and those seeking new avenues for exploring and reimagining the future' Deepak Chopra Musicians are masters of innovation, constantly finding new ways...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857361028Author J. RaePage Count 20Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 99g

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...

Charles Rosen says of sonata form: "[It] is not a definite form like a minuet, a da capo aria, or a French overture; it is, like the fugue, a way of writing, a feeling for proportion, direction, and texture rather than a pattern."Book...

There is a new critical foreword by Walter Frisch, H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University, that expands this centennial edition. Frisch puts Schoenberg's masterpiece into historical and ideological context,...

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857368867Author Trinity College LondonPage Count 20Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 55g

ABRSM's official Model Answers are a useful resource for students and teachers preparing for ABRSM Music Theory exams. This Grade 8 collection contains answers for the four practice papers published in ABRSM's Music Theory Practice Papers 2020 (Grade 8),...

This encyclopaedic book proposes a sweeping reformulation of the basic concepts of Western music theory, revealing simple structures underlying a wide range of practices from the Renaissance to contemporary pop. Its core innovation is a collection of...