Music category: 21679 books
by Meng Chan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
There was always a tradition of mysticism in religious music writing. For example. Cathedrals were built to facilitate the resonance of the perfect intervals, or try to, with the belief that the perfect intervals are holy and pure. Also, religious compositions often include cryptic symbols and images...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks...
The Everything Essential Music Theory Book
A Guide to the Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Understanding Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Master musical skills quickly and easily!
From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life. Whether you're an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major, The Everything Essential Music Theory Book is a guide to mastering one...
by Edwin E. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With 10 years of additional research on early childhood music, neurology, and language, this updated edition of Music Learning Theory for Newborn and Young Children focuses on the most critical learning period in every individual’s musical life: birth to age five. The book explains how young children...
Ritual and Music of North China
Shawm Bands in Shanxi
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The rich local traditions of musical life in rural China are still little known. Music-making in village society is largely ceremonial, and shawm bands account for a significant part of such music. This is the first major ethnographic study of Chinese shawm bands in their ceremonial and social context....
by Lowell Cross
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This exhaustive bibliography, reflecting current interest in electronic music, includes all available citations of books, articles, and monographs pertaining to "musique concrète," "Elektronische Musik," "tape music," and "computer music" from publications...
Towards a Global Music Theory
Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communications and travel. We live now in a world of global musical practice that will only continue to blossom...
Bacchanalian Sentiments
Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Trinidad is known for its vibrant musical traditions, which reflect the island’s ethnic diversity. The annual Carnival, far and away the biggest event in Trinidad, is filled with soca and calypso music. Soca is a dance music derived from calypso, a music with African antecedents. In parang, a Venezuelan...
MacMillan on Music
Essays by Sir Ernest MacMillan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
In addition to his activities as conductor, administrator, educator, composer, and organist, Sir Ernest MacMillan (1893-1973) found time to write more than one hundred essays and lectures on music. Always ready to use his enormous prestige to further the causes of music, MacMillan took every opportunity...
by Bennett Zon
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
�In a word, I shall endeavour to show how our music, having been originally a shell-fish, with its restrictive skeleton on the outside and no soul within, has been developed by the inevitable laws of evolution, through natural selection and the survival of the fittest, into something human, even...
Saxophone Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Saxophone (Free Video Available)
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Teach yourself how to play saxophone with our easy saxophone lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free sax videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along. Also includes music score and saxophone animation for easy music learning.***"I...
Tanglewood II
Summoning the Future of Music Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The culmination of a series of events held over two years by leading music educators in an homage to the famous Tanglewood symposium of 1967, this study prods the profession to examine what the future of music education is. It provokes a reevaluation of present programs and philosophies and tired...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on ‘world music’ questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this genre – but says relatively little about migration and mobility – diaspora studies have much to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen essays that critically examines the idea of the "mainstream" in and across a variety of popular music styles and contexts. Notions of what is popular vary across generations and cultures – what may have been considered alternative...