Music Books
Schnell & Steiner HamburgNeuenfelde St. Pankratius
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£999.99
Schwabe Verlag Basel Musik der Engel
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£25.20
Universitätsverlag Winter Impulses for Teaching Poetry and Song Lyrics
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£999.99
V&R unipress Zwischen Hoffmann und Eichendorff â Der junge
Book SynopsisDas FrÃhwerk von Johannes Brahms im Spiegel der romantischen Literatur
£52.19
V&R unipress Metamorphosen â Musikalischer Wandel im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Book SynopsisMusik als Katalysator von (Ver-)Wandlungen
£38.69
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Musikwirtschaft Im Zeitalter Der Digitalisierung:
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£52.20
Bosworth GmbH Story Und Songs Kompakt U2
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£5.91
Bosworth GmbH Wie die Ukulele die Welt erobert - Die Beatles,
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£19.35
Academia Musik Und Bewegung: Struktur Und Dynamik Der
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£25.20
Academia Bewegtes Lernen Im Fach Musik: Klassen 5 Bis
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£20.90
AMA Varlag GmbH Jazz Piano Improvisation Concepts With 2 CDs
£25.36
Kurz & Bundig Mikis Theodorakis
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£14.85
Bierke Publishing Jimmy Robert: Call and Response
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£23.75
Spector Books Listen to Lists: DNA #2
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£12.58
Spector Books Artificial Music: DNA #13
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£9.50
Spector Books DNA #18: Channel Power
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£9.50
Spector Books Christopher Dell: Dialogue Concerts: Conceptual
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£25.60
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Musik Und Erinnerung
£28.00
Argobooks Goh Lee Kwang: Draw Sound: Vol.07/20
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£12.00
Editions Notre Savoir Jongo les concepts musicaux à travers sa pratique
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£26.92
Wydawnictwo Nasza Wiedza Zarzdzanie kultur drzew owocowych w klimacie
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£26.92
Verlag Unser Wissen Unternehmen und Unternehmertum: Der Fall in Mazedonien
£26.35
Verlag Unser Wissen Maryam Mirzakhani, die erste Frau, die jemals den höchsten Mathematikpreis gewonnen hat
£999.99
Wydawnictwo Nasza Wiedza Analiza negatywnego wpywu targu rybnego w São
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£26.92
Wydawnictwo Nasza Wiedza Pionowe przenoszenie wirusa HIV
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£26.92
Wydawnictwo Nasza Wiedza Sus i trd dziaania w zakresie diagnostyki
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£26.92
Edizioni Sapienza Contabilità gestionale
£30.83
Edizioni Sapienza Fotografia di cibo
£27.75
Verlag Unser Wissen Biosicherheit in Schweinezuchtbetrieben
£18.90
Our Knowledge Publishing Highresolution remote sensing for biodiversity studies
£26.35
Books on Demand ¿Cuánto sabes de Eurovisión?: ¿Aceptas el reto de
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£11.30
Springer Living in Worlds of Music: A View of Education and Values
Book SynopsisInformed by her in-depth ethnomusical knowledge, the result of detailed fieldwork, Mans’s book is about musical worlds and how we as people inhabit them. The book asserts that an understanding of our musical worlds can be a transformative educational tool that could have a significant role to play in multicultural music and arts education. She explores the way in which musical expression, with its myriad cultural variations, reveals much about identity and cultural norms, and shows how particular musical sounds are aesthetically related to these norms. The author goes further to suggest that similar systems can be detected across cultures, while each world remains colored by a distinctive soundscape. Mans also looks at the way each cultural soundscape is a symbolic manifestation of a society’s collective cognition, sorting musical behavior and sounds into clusters and patterns that fulfill each society’s requirements. She probes the fact that in today’s globalized and mobile world, as people move from one society to another, cross-cultural acts and hybrids result in a number of new aesthetics. Finally, in addition to three personal narratives by musicians from different continents, the author has invited scholars from diverse specializations and locations to comment on different sections of the book, opening up a critical dialogue with voices from different parts of the globe. Musical categorization, identity, values, aesthetic evaluation, creativity, curriculum, assessment and teacher education are some of the issues tackled in this manner.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Why a musical world? 1.1 Theoretical Background 1.1.1 Cultural sensitivities 1.1.2 Music emanates from communities of music practice drawn upon cultural landscapes 1.2 Educational theory principles Chapter 2 Thinking music: Processes of musical cognition 2.1 Socio-cultural processes of musical thinking 2.1.1 Classifying musical sounds into categories 2.1.2 Recognition, identification, selection, and anticipation 2.1.3 Memory 2.1.4 Development of templates 2.1.5 Cultural immersion and creative thinking 2.1.6 Understanding symbols and value systems A Musician’s Narrative by Koji Matsonobu Chapter 3 A functioning musical world 3.1 Social musical organization 3.2 Musical Practice and Behavior 3.3 Musical systems 3.3.1 Macro-organization determined by society and its systems Counterpoint and interlock by Magne Espeland 3.3.2 Meso-organization into Repertoires Counterpoint and interlock by Emmanuelle Olivier 3.3.3 Micro-organizatio Counterpoint and interlock by Trevor Wiggins 3.3.4 Framework with its parameters and rules Counterpoint and Interlock by Rena Upitis A Musician’s Narrative by Jackson Kaujeua Chapter 4 Inhabiting a Musical World 4.1 Identity 4.1.1 Interpretations of cultural and musical identities Counterpoint and Interlock by Even Ruud 4.2 Normative and aesthetic values invoked by musical worlds 4.2.1 Values and music 4.2.2 Aesthetic evaluations 4.3 Meaning 4.4 Perspectives on musical worlds located in complex cultural-political settings 4.4.1 African metropolitan versus rural worlds by Meki Nzewi (South Africa and Nigeria) 4.4.2 Multicultural Europe by Eva Fock (Denmark) 4.4.3 Modern and traditional Asia by Koji Matsunobu(Japan) 4.4.4 A South American melting pot by Alda Oliveira (Brazil) 4.4.5 Socio-cultural contexts of music education: One North American perspective by Kari Veblen (Canada) Chapter 5 Educating in living musical worlds * 5.1 The relation of arts education to cultural musical worlds. 5.2 Musical development in classrooms? 5.3 Cultural intersections or collisions? 5.4 Creativity and issues of continuity and change Counterpoint and interlock by Boh Wah Leung 5.5 Music as social practice and normative education through music 5.6 Suggestions for enhancing musical learning processes within musical worlds Counterpoint and interlock by Roger Avenstru 5.7 Assessment issues in complex musical worlds Counterpoint and interlock by Regina Murphy 5.8 Teacher education A Musician’s Narrative by Eva Sæther Chapter 6. Concluding thoughts - aluta continua References Endnotes Author biographies Index
£85.49
Drag City The Musical Paintings: Volume 1
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£13.49
BoD - Books on Demand My record collection
£13.52
Springer Music in Java: Its history, Its Theory and Its Technique
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£42.74
BoD - Books on Demand Väärä vuori
£13.40
Systems Design Ltd A Nice Set: A Slice of Contemporary Music Culture
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£21.00
Edition Peters Piano Sonatas Vol. 2 Nos. 1118 and No. 19
Book SynopsisVolume 2 of Mozart''s Complete Piano Sonatas sets out to establish a reliable text that brings out Mozart''s performing style by drawing on all the relevant sources, foremost among which are the earliest printed editions and the composer''s autograph scores. Valuable help in this direction was provided by earlier Urtext editions, especially the one by Max Pauer and Martin Frey, on whose findings the present editors have based their work. This volume contains the famous ''Rondo alla Turca'' as well as the ''Sonata Facile'' in C major.Klaviersonaten, Band 2: Nr. 1118 und Nr. 19Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts 19 Klaviersonaten gehören nicht zu seinen bekanntesten Werken, sind aber nicht minder anspruchsvoll oder ansprechend. Das Schreiben von Sonaten zieht sich durch sein gesamtes Leben, schon als Zehnjähriger komponierte er vier heute nicht mehr existente Sonaten. Das Besondere an ihnen ist, dass sie ein recht hohes spielerisches Niveau fordern, aber dabei, oder
£16.10
Edition Peters Complete Songs Vol. 1 High Voice
Book SynopsisJohannes Brahms'' Lieder Volume 1 for solo voice and piano contains 51 songs for high voice.Johannes Brahms'' Lieder Band 1 für Solostimme und Klavier enthält 51 Lieder für hohe Stimme.
£29.96
Bloomsbury Academic Making It in Country Music
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£17.66
Pm Press Ancestor Sounds
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£16.75
Pm Press Starvation Army
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£16.75
The University of Chicago Press Sibelius
Book SynopsisOne of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Focusing on different parts of Sibelius' life, the author explores the composer's formative experiences as a Russian subject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority.Trade Review"Until now, classical music listeners have not had an adequate context in which to place Sibelius's well-known and much-performed works. With Sibelius, Glenda Dawn Goss treats us to a panoramic view of the relevant Finnish background. This is idiosyncratic music from an idiosyncratic place, and Goss provides a generous overview of both. Unabashedly interpretive, this is a comprehensive and compelling look at a major composer and the culture he both influenced and drew upon. Essential reading for all Sibelians." (James Hepokoski, Yale University)"
£36.00
The University of Chicago Press Modernism and Music An Anthology of Sources
Book SynopsisThis work offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others - all of which combine with Daniel Albright's commentary to place modernist music in the context of a broader intellectual history.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Music and German National Identity
Book SynopsisOver the past three centuries, supporters of German music ranging from music scholars to politicians have nurtured the notion that the German speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music. This volume explores this notion and the role of music in identity
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Forging Gay Identities
Book SynopsisBy tracing the evolution of gay life and identity in San Francisco, Elizabeth Armstrong explores how the social movement has managed to combine a unified group identity with the celebration of cultural differences.Trade Review"This is a well-conceived and provocative new work. Forging Gay Identities should raise the level of sociological sophistication in gay and lesbian studies while interesting students of culture, social movements, and inequality." - Frank Dobbin, Princeton University
£30.00
University of Chicago Press Blues Ideology and AfroAmerican Literature A
Book SynopsisRelating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Baker offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its vernacular level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Taking the Naturalistic Turn Or How Real
Book SynopsisThis text traces popular music back to its roots in jazz, blues, and country through the rise of rock 'n' roll and the emergence of heavy metal, punk, and rap. The author argues that despite the balance of these origins, something has gone seriously wrong with the sound and sensibility of music.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Pt. 1: The Weird Music of the New World 1: Introduction 2: Why Music Is the Wild Card 3: The Three Strains of Modernism 4: The Obstacle of Race 5: The Taint of Commerce 6: Cubists and Squares: Jazz as Modernism Pt. 2: From Rock 'n' Roll to Rock 7: The Strange Career of 1950s Rock 'n' Roll 8: Rock 'n' Rollers or Holy Rollers? 9: Reaction and Revitalization 10: Another Country Heard From 11: Blues, Blacks, and Brits Pt. 3: Inspiration and Polarization 12: Words and Music: The Rise of the Counterculture 13: Art and Religion, 1960s Style 14: Hard Rock Becomes a Hard Place 15: Soul Loses Its Soul Pt. 4: The Triumph of Perversity 16: Their Art Belongs to Dada 17: Punk: The Great Avant-Garde Swindle 18: High on High Tech 19: Rap: Trying to Make it Real (Compared to What?) 20: You Don't Miss Your Water (Till Your Well Runs Dry) 21: Coda: Escape from Postmodernism Notes Index
£28.00
