Music category: 21679 books

The award-winning creator of the acclaimed documentary "The Music Instinct: Science & Song," explores the power of music and its connection to the body, the brain, and the world of nature. Only recently has science sought in earnest to understand and explain this impact. One remarkable recent study,...

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries. Kodály in the Kindergarten...

Music of the Soul guides the reader through principles, techniques, and exercises for incorporating music into grief counseling, with the end goal of further empowering the grieving person. Music has a unique ability to elicit a whole range of powerful emotional responses in people - even so...

Experiencing Music Composition in Grades 3-5 is a practical guide to new, innovative, and natural composition techniques for young composers. Music Educators Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith bring a wealth of experience to bear a unique and thoughtfully curated series of materials that help teachers...

Trumpet Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads Book 2: 20 Easy Pieces For Beginners This music book is part of the Lettered Noteheads series and contains 20 popular sheet music pieces for Trumpet. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes...

Cornet Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads Book 2: 20 Easy Pieces For Beginners This music book is part of the Lettered Noteheads series and contains 20 popular sheet music pieces for Cornet. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes...

Alto Sax Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads Book 2: 20 Easy Pieces For Beginners This music book is part of the Lettered Noteheads series and contains 20 popular sheet music pieces for Alto Sax. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music...

Clarinet Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads Book 2: 20 Easy Pieces For Beginners This music book is part of the Lettered Noteheads series and contains 20 popular sheet music pieces for Clarinet. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music...

Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help from trained instrumental teachers. How do they go about this process? Despite the fact that popular music has recently entered formal music education, we have as yet...

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries. The Kodály Today handbook...

The British Folk Revival is the very first historical and theoretical work to consider the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studies perspective. Michael Brocken provides a historical narrative of the folk revival from the 1940s up until the 1990s, beginning with the emergence...

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Second Edition, introduces students to the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking them across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. Based on the Fourth Edition, this Second CONCISE Edition...

Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is a form of music therapy developed for people suffering from cognitive, sensory, or motor dysfunctions - arising from neurological diseases of the nervous system. People who can benefit from this therapy include sufferers from: stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's...

Krautrock is a catch-all term for the music of various white German rock groups of the 1970s that blended influences of African American and Anglo-American music with the experimental and electronic music of European composers. Groups such as Can, Popol Vuh, Faust, and Tangerine Dream arose out of...