Theory of music and musicology Books
AMSCO Music Buddy Richs Modern Interpretation of Snare Drum
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£27.99
AMSCO Music I Can Play Music Complete Keyboard Chords
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£31.49
AMSCO Music The Amazing Transpo Gizmo Instant Key Finder
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£7.55
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd Elliott Theory Fun Factory 1 Music Theory
Book SynopsisTheory needn''t be boring! Master the basics with these music theory puzzles and games, with helpful hints from a motley crew of cartoon characters. Great preparation for theory exams and helpful for your music lessons: ideal for instrumentalists as well as pianists.
£10.99
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd The Complete Theory Fun Factory Music Theory
Book SynopsisNow for the first time in one-fun-filled volume! Here are the three best-selling Theory Fun Factory books in a single new edition. The Complete Theory Fun Factory contains all the music theory you need for the early grades. Packed with puzzles and games, and full of helpful hints from a crew of cartoon characters, this book is a must for musicians everywhere. Helpful for music lessons, and great preparation for theory exams!Praise for the individual Theory Fun Factory books: imaginative, instructive and fun. (Classical Music) It's lots of fun, highly graphic, highly educational and highly recommended (Keyboard Player)
£19.94
Berklee Press Publications Music Notation
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£22.49
Berklee Press Publications Beginning Ear Training
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£999.99
Berklee Press Publications Counterpoint in Jazz Arranging
Book Synopsis(Berklee Guide). Add dimension and interest to your music. This essential, core material is for anyone who arranges jazz standards or writes original jazz compositions. This book will help you craft melodies, countermelodies, bass lines, and grooves. It will help you manage the intricacies of interactive lines, control dissonance, and improve melodic development. Carefully guided exercises let you practice exploring and controlling contrapuntal relationships. The accompanying recordings demonstrate techniques in typical jazz arrangements. Audio tracks feature a live jazz ensemble of veteran Berklee faculty members, illustrating the counterpoint examples so that you can hear them applied in a realistic musical context.
£24.64
Berklee Press Publications Songwriting Breakthroughs
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£20.39
Mercer University Press Something in the Water
Book SynopsisThe history of Macon, Georgia, has an exceptional soundtrack, and Something in the Water provides a lively narrative of the city's musical past from its founding in 1823 to 1980.
£31.46
Hal Leonard Corporation Standard Loose Leaf Manuscript Paper Pink Cover
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£9.38
Chicago Review Press The Blues
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£16.29
Hal Leonard Corporation Beauty and the Beast Arranged for Harp
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£10.92
University of Wisconsin Press The Falling of the Pine
Book SynopsisBemidji, Minnesota, native Brian Miller teams up with Randy Gosa of Wales, Wisconsin, to perform the Irish-influenced music once common in lumber camp bunkhouses throughout the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. A follow-up to Miller’s album Minnesota Lumberjack Songs, this CD includes songs and dance tunes from North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario.
£999.99
Higherlife Development Service Recipe for a Delicious Life
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£19.76
Taylor & Francis Ltd Basic Conducting Techniques
Book SynopsisNow in its eighth edition, Basic Conducting Techniques provides a clear and intelligible introduction to the art of conducting an ensemble. It has been updated with a greater diversity of repertoire, including contemporary examples and more music by underrepresented composers.Over the course of 14 chapters, the authors explicate the elements of conducting, supplementing their teachings with an extensive selection of musical examples from the classical repertoire. Practical and innovative, clear and approachable, the book illuminates the essential skills that a beginning conductor should develop in order to lead and rehearse a performing group. The companion website provides scores and transposed parts for all musical excerpts, as well as guitar and piano parts, audio recordings of the excerpts, and updated demonstration videos modeling specific conducting techniques. With the beginning conductor in mind, this hands-on, competency-centered approach is appropriate for miTable of ContentsPART I: CONDUCTING TECHNIQUEChapter 1: The Baton, Preparation, Downbeat, and ReleaseChapter 2: Beat Patterns and Preparations in Tempo, Dynamic, and Basic StyleChapter 3: Preparations and Releases for All CountsChapter 4: Fractional Beat PreparationsChapter 5: Divided MetersChapter 6: Asymmetrical and Changing MetersChapter 7: The FermataChapter 8: The CueChapter 9: Conducting Musical StylesChapter 10: Expressive Conducting and the Left HandChapter 11: Tempo Changes and AccompanyingPART II: SCORE PREPARATION AND REHEARSAL TECHNIQUEChapter 12: Analysis, Score Preparation, and Conductin the Full ScoreChapter 13: The Instrumental RehearsalChapter 14: The Choral Rehearsal PART III: MUSICAL EXCERPTSChapter 1: The Baton, Preparation, Downbeat, and ReleaseChapter 2: Beat Patterns and Preparations in Tempo, Dynamic, and Basic StyleChapter 3: Preparations and Releases for All CountsChapter 4: Fractional Beat PreparationsChapter 5: Divided MetersChapter 6: Asymmetrical and Changing MetersChapter 7: The FermataChapter 8: The CueChapter 9: Conducting Musical StylesChapter 10: Expressive Conducting and the Left HandChapter 11: Tempo Changes and Accompanying Chapter 12: Analysis, Score Preperation, and Conducting the Full ScoreTECHNICAL MASTERYAppendix A: Competencies for the Beginning Conducting ClassAppendix B: Student EvaluationAppendix C: Chart of Transpositions and ClefsAppendix D: Full Score Instrumentation and Foreign EquivalentsAppendix E: Counting Drills for Uneven MetersAppendix F: Musical Style ChartAppendix G: GlossaryAppendix H: Model Video Excerpt Chart
£118.75
BookBaby Mastering Melody Writing
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£999.99
Flatiron Books Why You Like It
Book SynopsisFrom the chief architect of the Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of why we respond to music the way we do.Everyone loves music. But what is it that makes music so universally beloved and have such a powerful effect on us? In this sweeping and authoritative book, Dr. Nolan Gassera composer, pianist, and musicologist, and the chief architect of the Music Genome Project, which powers Pandora Radiobreaks down what musical taste is, where it comes from, and what our favorite songs say about us. Dr. Gasser delves into the science, psychology, and sociology that explains why humans love music so much; how our brains process music; and why you may love Queen but your best friend loves Kiss. He sheds light on why babies can clap along to rhythmic patterns and reveals the reason behind why different cultures around the globe identify the same kinds of music as happy, sad, or scary. Using easy-to-foll
£16.99
McGraw-Hill Education Loose Leaf for Harmony in Context
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£140.40
McGraw-Hill Education Loose Leaf for Music in Theory and Practice
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£140.40
Johns Hopkins University Press Sublime Noise
Book SynopsisThis book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period.Trade ReviewEpstein commands an impressively wide field of reference and his writing is always lively, richly textured and colourful - sometimes brilliantly so... Sublime Noise is a thought-provoking study, densely packed with intelligent connections and highly resonant. Times Literary Supplement ... he writes beautifully, has researched widely and deeply, and is clearly in command of his material. The most admirable thing about this exquisitely dilatory book is that each sentence has its own rhythm. James Joyce QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Orchestrating Modernity: Musical Culture and the Arts of Noise2. Beating Obedient, Thinking of the Key: Adorno, The Waste Land, and the Total Work of Art3. The Antheil Era: Ezra Pound's MusicalSensations4. Joyce's Phoneygraphs5. Performing Publicity: Authenticity, Influence, andthe Sitwellian Commedia6. Aristocracy of the Dissonant: The Sublime Noise of Forster and BrittenNotesBibliographyIndex
£47.50
Barcharts, Inc Music Appreciation
Book SynopsisGet a better understanding of music's origins and how it has morphed throughout the centuries with this jam-packed, 6 page study guide. Within each page, you'll find detailed information on the elements of music, noteworthy composersâalong with their most famous piecesâfrom both past and present, musical instruments, different music genres, and more. Complete with an easy-to-use format, this is one reference tool any music student will find hard to resist!
£999.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Music Theory
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£15.29
Hal Leonard Corporation Write it Right with Step by Step Book 4 04 Step
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£8.40
Hal Leonard Corporation Write it Right with Step by Step Book 5 Written
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£6.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Write it Right with Step by Step Book 6 Written
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£6.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Big Band PlayAlong Volume 7 Standards Guitar Hal
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£12.32
Hal Leonard Tipbook Music on Paper The Complete Guide Basic
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£19.00
Hal Leonard Corporation Hal Leonard Harmony Theory Part 1
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£24.64
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Hal Leonard Harmony Theory Part 2 Chromatic
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£22.04
State University of New York Press Baroque Counterpoint
Book SynopsisThe classic text on Baroque Counterpoint, enlarged and revised, drawing from the master composers of the era.This book teaches Baroque compositional techniques through writing and improvisation exercises and analysis of repertoire examples. It provides readers with a historical outlook by focusing largely on principles taught in treatises from the period 1680?1780. This expanded edition includes new sections with keyboard exercises that provide training in Partimento performance as it was practiced at the time, helping students master Baroque style from the inside. While the focus of the book is on fugue, it also treats chorale preludes, stylized dances, inventions, and trio sonatas. The volume is divided into two parts-basic and advanced- which could be taught in a two-semester sequence. There are various options to introduce material from Part II into Part I for a one-semester course.
£69.18
Temple University Press,U.S. Whose National Music
Book SynopsisHow class divisions shape the definition of Ecuador''s national music and identityTrade Review"Wong has produced a very important work—the first comprehensive book on Ecuadorian popular music with interviews, a thorough, readable study of the local record industry, and participant-observation fieldwork. She succeeds in linking the issues of national identity with popular music, explaining música nacional, the history of the pasillo, of the musica rocolera, of musica chicha and the tecnocumbia. Her arguments are solid and her theoretical approach is informed."—Raul R. Romero, Director of the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the Catholic University of PeruTable of ContentsList of Listening Examples;Introduction;The Nation in Bloom: A Search for "Ecuadorianness";La Musica Nacional: An Anthology of Songs;The Pasillo: Rise and Decline of the National Song;Rocolera Music: New Urban Sounds in the City;Chichera Music: The Tropicalization of Musica Nacional;The Tecnocumbia Boom in Ecuador: "A Letter With My Kisses Sent With Love by Internet";The Translocation of Ecuadorian Popular Music;Whose National Music?;Appendix 1;Appendix 2;Appendix 3;Bibliography;Glossary.
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Sync
Book SynopsisDetails the profound historical appeal of films, video, and digital works emphasizing synchronized musicality and gestureTrade Review“James Tobias’s groundbreaking book offers erudite and thoughtful conversations on sound theory, music computation, and theories of spectatorship. Sync cobbles together a discontinuous history of musicality in the hands of cinematic practitioners from Sergei Eisenstein’s rhythmic montage, through Steina Vasulka’s feminist eco-ethics, to John Cameron Mitchell’s performative aesthetics. What emerges is a sonic genealogy building on fragments of counter-traditions. A deeply passionate work, Sync is an outstanding contribution to the fields of cinema studies and sound theory”—Bhaskar Sarkar, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition"Sync offers a much needed and thoroughly radical revision of debates around synchronization, opening up a range of different audiovisual modalities to political analysis, and breaking the stranglehold that existing forms of political discourse have had on discussions of sound–image relations. The author's key move has been to employ the notion of synch (sic) to address not only the relationships between sound and image in audiovisual media but also those between text and audience, focusing primarily on the experience of reception....[T]he approach adopted by Tobias is highly original.... [T]here is much to recommend this book which, in providing new perspectives on the political dimensions of audiovisuality, repays the close attention it demands." —ScreenTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1 Ciphers of Hieroglyphic Time2 Eisenstein's Gesture: Breaking Down Alexander Nevsky3 For Love of Music: Oskar Fischinger's Modal, Musical Diagram4 Hanns Eisler's Dialectical Stream: Sync, Dissonance, and the Devil5 Black Relationship: Improvising a Black Pacific6 Melos, Telos, and Me: Transpositions of Identity in the Rock Musical7 Stylistics of Hieroglyphic TimeNotesIndex
£999.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Music Theory Workbook
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£15.19
Hal Leonard Corporation The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows Guitar Recorded
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£19.54
Hal Leonard Corporation Essential Elements Piano Theory Level 8
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£9.60
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Understanding Records Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe revised edition of Understanding Records explains the musical language of recording practice in a way any interested reader and student can easily understand. Drawing on readily available hit records produced since 1945, each section of this book explains a handful of core production and engineering techniques in chronological record-making sequence, elucidates how those techniques work, what they sound like, how they function musically, where listeners can hear them at work in the broader Top 40 soundscape, and where they fit within the broader record-making process at large. As the only book to introduce music production and its practical elements with no assumed prior knowledge, the revised edition includes: Exclusive print and video interviews with emerging and established recordists, including: Alex Chuck Krotz (Drake, Three Days Grace, Mother Mother); Kevin O' Leary (Shawn Mendes, The Glorious Sons, Monster Truck); Alastair Sims (Rush, The Tragically Hip, Barenaked LaTrade ReviewUnique and recommended ... First, it is a comprehensive resource to the practical elements of music production. Second, information is presented and illustrated in a style easily comprehensible to those with no previous knowledge. Third, Hodgson presents the recording process in chronological steps, each sub-divided into easily understood facets. Finally, everything is explained using accessible language that clarify the associated terminology and/or technology ... A worthy read and listen, both engaging and informative. * Leonardo Reviews *This diminutive 200-page text (first edition, 2010) offers more audio recording tips and techniques than publications four times its size. Hodgson (Western Univ., Canada), an experienced audio recordist and talented musician, provides in-depth, easy-to-understand explanations of the complexities of audio recording and mixing … Everyone interested in studio or audio production, whether at high school or college level, needs this excellent book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. * CHOICE *Understanding Records, Second Edition takes a very unique look at recording practice, and how to communicate what we hear when we listen to music. It breaks down and explores this extremely important part of music making like no other resource has done before, making this an invaluable field guide that everyone should read to take their skills in understanding music, and recording, to the next level! * Alex Krotz, Audio Engineer, Mixer, Editor, Producer, and Songwriter based in Toronto/Vancouver, Canada *Understanding Records provides a comprehensive toolbox for the listener who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of the processes that inform the construction of musical recordings and the factors that lie behind the effect they make. Now in a revised second edition, Hodgson’s accessible and highly readable exposition of recording practice remains a valuable resource for professional recordists and educators alike, as well as a great primer in music production for the generally interested reader. * Mark Marrington, Senior Lecturer in Music Production, York St John University, UK *There are certain texts in the field of music production analysis and pedagogy that lift the lid, so to speak, on the expected wisdom of a standardised train of thought. Hodgson’s updated book is exactly this. Whilst it does provide the reader some technical background in the field we work in, it draws upon, analyses, and portrays a vast array of different contemporary academic and professional thoughts and considerations. The author’s views express the musical artefact, the record, in a unique way and engaging way as a backdrop for the work. In this edition, the production process is totally updated with some excellent discussions around issues of our day such as loudness normalisation delivery and distribution. To those wishing to learn about the philosophy, not just the technology of record production, and to engage in meaningful discussion around the topic of the recorded medium, then this book isn’t just a field guide, it’s a mandatory thought provoker! * Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Mastering Engineer, MOTTOsound, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Tracking Chapter Two: Signal Processing Chapter Three: Mixing Chapter Four: Mastering Chapter Five: Coda
£43.26
Hal Leonard Corporation The Phantom of the Opera: Music Minus One Vocal
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£19.19
Hal Leonard Corporation The Berklee Correspondence Course: Music: Harmony
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£25.49
Hal Leonard Corporation Ukulele Theory Workbook: An Easy Guide to the
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£15.19
Hal Leonard Corporation Teach Yourself Music Theory: A Quick and Easy
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£25.49
Hal Leonard Corporation Guitar Tab Manuscript Paper
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£9.36
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Chord Theory Explained: A Comprehensive,
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£16.19
Hal Leonard Corporation Circle of Fifths Explained: Understanding the
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£14.24
A Cappella Books Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot,
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£15.15
Lawrence Hill Books The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century
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£26.96
Centerstream Publishing How to Become a Film Composer
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£23.99
Medieval Institute Publications Ars musice
Book SynopsisArs musice, composed in Paris during the late thirteenth century, reflects Johannes de Grocheio's awareness of the complexity of the task of describing music. As the editors note in their introduction, "Grocheio is aware of the enormous range of types of music performed in different ways in different places. How can he impose order on this enormous subject matter? He decided to resolve this question by structuring his discussion around the practice of music that he observed in the city of Paris, organized into three main 'branches': music of the people (musica vulgalis), composite or regular, 'which they call measured music' (musica mensurata), and ecclesiastical music (musica ecclesiastica), which he claims derives from the other two (AM 6.2). The originality of Grocheio's treatise has attracted considerable scholarly interest. It has long been recognized as a unique source of information about musical life in medieval Paris. Through his treatise, Grocheio enables a modern reader to become aware of the complex auditory environment of that city in the late thirteenth century as well as of its intellectual vitality at a particularly vibrant moment in its history."Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionOutline of the Ars musiceArs musice: Text and TranslationLexiconWorks CitedIndex of Names, Works, and Places
£21.93
