Theory

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951494608Author Claire LesterPage Count 64Imprint Sound Learning SystemsPublisher Sound Learning Systems

Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art? What was the artist's inspiration, and how did that idea become a reality? Cultural products inevitably arise from a context, a submerged landscape that is often not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307593412Author Stephen SondheimFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1701gDimensions(mm)...

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 9781495073762Author Andrew GerlePage Count 336Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 193mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574243734Author Tom HarrisonPage Count 151Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream Publishing

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

Improve your sight-reading! Teacher's Book (Piano Grades 1-5) provides teachers with a range of meticulously graded, progressive sight-reading tests to use in lessons. Specifically written to work alongside the best-selling Improve your sight-reading!...

ABRSM's official Model Answers are a useful resource for students and teachers preparing for ABRSM Music Theory exams. This Grade 4 collection contains answers for the four practice papers published in ABRSM's Music Theory Practice Papers 2019 (Grade 4),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982004005Author Robin FrederickFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Taxi Music BooksPublisher Taxi Music BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486217697Author Harry F. OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957547001Author M. HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Note TreePublisher The Note Tree

The second edition of The Music and Literacy Connection expands our understanding of the links between reading and music by examining those skills and learning processes that are directly parallel for music learning and language arts literacy in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857368850Author Trinity College LondonPage Count 20Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 55g

Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the film music repertoire. Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score offers the first collection of essays dedicated to the close investigation of...

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...

The original edition of The Geometry of Musical Rhythm was the first book to provide a systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the world. It explained how the study of the mathematical properties of musical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543977905Author Marty DodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyDimensions(mm) 228mm * 6mm * 152mm

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...

The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987926170Author Maureen CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Mimast IncPublisher Mimast IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240677Author Jamey AebersoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540000736Author Ben NewhousePage Count 176Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

"Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory...

A new piano tutor which sets out a new standard in piano methods for beginners including classical, traditional and jazz styles. Its integrated approach to musicianship allows for the thorough development of the traditional skills of technique, note...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997661767Author Lukas GabricPage Count 95Imprint Sher Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Sher Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495071621Author John WilliamsPage Count 7Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

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...

What is involved in the composition, performance, and reception of classical music? What are we doing when we listen to this music seriously? Why when playing a Beethoven sonata do performers begin with the first note indicated in the score; why don't...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998130255Author Ed BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Song FoundryPublisher Song FoundryWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American...

The initial volume in a series of American Bach Society Guides, Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering is a comprehensive study of two closely related masterworks of the late Baroque fugal style. This compact guide, intended for practitioners, music...

What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated...

Trent Reznor rode into music mythology on "Pretty Hate Machine", powered by Futurist industrial pistons and covered in ice-spiked synth hooks shined by new wave robots. Then there was his voice. Whispered verses and screamed hooks before Kurt Cobain...