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Max Weber as a sociologist of music? Scrutinising an array of nineteenth-century discourses on the concept of 'development' in music, Ana Petrov focuses on Max Weber's theory of rationalisation in music, which led him to see 'rationalised' music as the most 'developed', the most 'complex' and the...

Oboe 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 Oboe. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes than...

Beth Szczepanski examines how traditional and modern elements interact in the current practice, reception and functions of wind music, or shengguan, at monasteries in Wutaishan, one of China's four holy mountains of Buddhism. The book provides an invaluable insight into the political and economic...

Inquiry in Music Education: Concepts and Methods for the Beginning Researcher provides an introduction to research and scholarship in music education. This textbook covers topic formulation, information literacy, reading and evaluating research studies, and planning and conducting original studies...

French Horn 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 French Horn. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger...

Piccolo 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 Piccolo. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes...

Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of twentieth-century art music, where its ambitions...

Sociology and Music Education addresses a pressing need to provide a sociological foundation for understanding music education. The music education community, academic and professional, has become increasingly aware of the need to locate the issues facing music educators within a broader sociological...

In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of music, shows how illusions of music and speech--many of which she herself discovered--have fundamentally altered thinking about the brain. These astonishing illusions show that...

In the past, music therapy work with children typically took place in special schools without the family being present. More recently, music therapy has become a widespread practice, and this book reflects the variety of settings within which music therapists are now working with children together...

Are you a music teacher searching for sanity in the midst of all your chaotic responsibilities? Music teachers have to do so much more than teach music. They have to be master musicians, educators, and conductors, all while balancing other professional disciplines like arranging, composing, trip planning,...

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing...

An insightful music writer brilliantly reinterprets the lives of three pop geniuses and the soul revolution they launched. Soul music is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield are three of its most inspired practitioners. In...

An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. Johannes Brahms has consistently eluded his biographers. Throughout his life, he attempted...