Theory

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...

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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...

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...

This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problems of mimesis, between presentation and re-presentaion. Four "scenes" comprise the book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and...

What is the secret code behind so many musical compositions? How do you substitute chords to create greater musical complexity? Why is music so good at playing with people's emotions? In this compact book, composer and pianist Jason Martineau presents...

Model answers for practice papers for ABRSM's Grade 1 Theory examsBook InformationISBN 9781786016751Author ABRSMPage Count 24Imprint Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicPublisher Associated Board of the Royal Schools of MusicWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857367877Author Trinity College LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906207557Author Tobe A. RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Cabot BooksPublisher Cabot BooksWeight(grams) 313g

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From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations. This collection of wide ranging, comprehensive and fully-illustrated papers, authored by leading scholars,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803523521Author Edina BalczoFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Independent Publishing NetworkPublisher Independent Publishing Network

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This material has been prepared to offer guidance for ABRSM Practical Musicianship exams. Music teachers will find it a useful basis on which to plan a scheme of study in this important aspect of music learning. Each book contains a wide range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987926156Author Maureen CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Mimast IncPublisher Mimast IncWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

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The earlier chapters recapitulate in condensed form the principles laid down in his Theory of Harmony; the later chapters break entirely new ground, for they analyze the system of key relationships within the structure of whole movements and affirm the...

The Practice of Popular Music is a music theory and musicianship textbook devoted to explaining the organization of contemporary popular music styles such as pop, rock, R&B, rap, and country. Rooted in recent research showing that the structure of...

In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to overwhelm the cities. Out of the piety of private citizens and the apathy of local governments, the system...

On the eve of his fortieth birthday, renowned cognitive scientist Gary Marcus decided to fulfil a lifelong dream and learn to play the guitar. He had tried many times before - failing miserably. This time, he decided to use the tools of his "trade" to...

'Anna Butterworth's new book is designed to provide a businesslike and efficient presentation of all the harmonic and musical styles which are needed for A-level and university entrance ... illustrative material is copious and the exercises equally so.'...

It's June 2001. Keith Streng steers a cramped mini-van north along Lincoln Avenue in Chicago while Peter Zaremba, Bill Milhizer and Ken Fox sprawl in the back nursing hangovers and road weariness. They pull into the Apache, quaintly described as a...

Vladimir Jankelevitch left behind a remarkable ?uvre steeped as much in philosophy as in music. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to music and performance, and, as a counterpoint, he wrote on music aesthetics and on modernist...

La serie La teoria musical en la practica, un gran exito de ventas, contiene todo lo que necesitamos saber para cada uno de los grados de los examenes de teoria musical del ABRSM.Book InformationISBN 9781860963544Author Eric TaylorPage Count 56Imprint...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906207670Author Tobe A. RichardsFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Cabot BooksPublisher Cabot Books

Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? In this book, author Alexandra Wilson traces La Bohème's rise to fame and demonstrates that its success grew steadily through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739262204Author Matteo Dalle FratteFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Lyric Arts PressPublisher Lyric Arts PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

This extremely practical introduction to musical analysis explores the factors that give unity and coherence to musical masterpieces. Having first identified and explained the most important analytical methods, Nicholas Cook examines given compositions...

In 2012, Thomas Gardner and Salome Voegelin hosted a colloquium, entitled "Music - Sound Art: Historical Continuum and Mimetic Fissures", at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. This colloquium dealt with the current...

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

W. A. Mathieu, an accomplished author and recording artist, presents a way of learning music that reconnects modern-day musicians with the source from which music was originally generated. As the author states, ""The rules of music--including...