Music category: 21679 books
Music
Mystery, Art and the Human Being
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
'Our neurosensory system is inwardly configured music, and we experience music as an artistic quality to the degree that a piece of music is in tune with the mystery of our own musical structure.' - Rudolf Steiner
What is music? Rudolf Steiner regards the essence of music as something spiritual,...
Music Theory through Musical Theatre
Putting It Together
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Music Theory through Musical Theatre takes a new and powerful approach to music theory. Written specifically for students in music theatre programs, it offers music theory by way of musical theatre. Not a traditional music theory text, Music Theory through Musical Theatre tackles the theoretical foundations...
by Henry Spiller
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country - both as sound and cultural phenomenon. An archipelago of over 17,000 islands, Indonesia is a melting pot of Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences. Despite...
The New Music Industry
Adapting, Growing, And Thriving in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The music industry has changed, and there has never been a greater time for independent artists to build a community of followers and fans through the myriad of new media tools available to them. As an independent musician, developing a profitable and sustainable music career is more realistic today...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
"The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music is a comprehensive, smartly-conceived volume that can take its place as the new standard reference in popular music.The editors have shown great care in covering classic debates while moving the field into new, exciting areas of scholarship. International...
Music and Theology
Essays in Honor of Robin A. Leaver
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
The scholar Robin A. Leaver holds a unique place in sacred music scholarship because of his training in both music and theology. He has written widely, bringing acute insights on a variety of musical repertories and topics related to Martin Luther, sixteenth-century psalmody, hymnody, and the sacred...
by Ray Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
This is a hacks-only version of Part 1 in the series: Hack Music Theory. Each hack delivers all the vital info you need to know about each topic. Read through all these hacks in a half hour, and you'll be making good music in less than an hour from now. However, you'll miss out on a bunch of bad jokes...
Hack Music Theory, Part 1
Learn Scales & Chords in 30 Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use! After studying 'popular' and 'classical' music theory, Ray Harmony created a unique approach that he uses to compose his...
by Jon Stratton, Nabeel Zuberi
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945 provides the first broad scholarly discussion of this music since 1990. The book critically examines key moments in the history of black British popular music from 1940s jazz to 1970s soul and reggae, 1990s Jungle and the sounds of Dubstep and Grime that have...
Giving Voice to Democracy in Music Education
Diversity and Social Justice in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This book examines how music education presents opportunities to shape democratic awareness through political, pedagogical, and humanistic perspectives. Focusing on democracy as a vital dimension in teaching music, the essays in this volume have particular relevance to teaching music as democratic...
From Music to Mathematics
Exploring the Connections
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Taking a "music first" approach, Gareth E. Roberts's From Music to Mathematics will inspire students to learn important, interesting, and at times advanced mathematics. Ranging from a discussion of the geometric sequences and series found in the rhythmic structure of music to the phase-shifting...
Knee Deep in the Funk
Understanding the Connection Between Spirituality and Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Knee Deep in the Funk: Understanding the Connection Between Spirituality and Music Music is spiritual - most people know that - it does something to you. But few people can explain what that something is. Musicians try but usually fail. They lack a definition of spirituality or a vocabulary to express...
Seeing Through Music
Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably 'applied' branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were themselves often scornful of...
The Way of Music
Aural Training for the Internet Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
Here at last is a listener's guide to the hidden meanings of western classical music, expressed in accessible, jargon-free language and drawing on universal listening experiences and skills. The Way of Music is six booklets in one volume; it is a study guide in attention training, listening skills,...