Theory

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)...

'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914453540Author David ShipwayPage Count 116Imprint Headstock BooksPublisher Headstock Books

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

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

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

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...

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...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914453038Author James ShipwayFormat PaperbackImprint Headstock BooksPublisher Headstock Books

Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The...

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...

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...

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...

The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739996512Author Ashley HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Stereo Output LimitedPublisher Stereo Output LimitedWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738567706Author Al JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Al James MusicPublisher Al James MusicWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540028914Author Robert LopezPage Count 142Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

A new collection of pieces, covering 20 years of popular music, by one of the UK's pre-eminent rock journalists and the people who sung and played it. From Prince to Pavement, James Brown to Joni Mitchell, ZZ Top to Tom Waits, Beck to Eminem, the former...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540015303Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 288Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation