Music category: 21679 books

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by Abigail Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

PJ Harvey’s performances are premised on the core contention that she is somehow causing ’trouble’. Just how this trouble can be theorised within the context of the music video and what it means for a development of the ways we might conceptualise ’disruption’ and think about music video...
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A Way of Music Education

Classic Chinese Wisdoms

by C. Victor Fung
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

Moving back through Dewey, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Rousseau, the lineage of Western music education finds its origins in Plato and Pythagoras. Yet theories not rooted in the ancient Greek tradition are all but absent. A Way of Music Education provides a much-needed intervention, integrating ancient...
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Music, Science, and the Rhythmic Brain

Cultural and Clinical Implications

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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and biological...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014

Contemporary popular music provides the soundtrack for a host of recent novels, but little critical attention has been paid to the intersection of these important art forms. Write in Tune addresses this gap by offering the first full-length study of the relationship between recent music and fiction....
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The Abcs of Music

Simply Music

by Kenneth H. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013

This book is written with the intent of simplifying the process of learning music. Music theory should be a subject of study like Science, or Mathematics; when, at the conclusion of the course you understand fully the detail of the theory, and the text yields full understanding and appreciation. Through...
Cover of 20 Easy Christmas Carols For Beginners Trumpet: Book 1
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - Trumpet Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for Trumpet. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note head...
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by Paul Jeffery
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017

Chamber music includes some of the world's greatest music. It is widely played in homes, without an audience, by players who are mostly amateurs, and much of the repertoire is playable even by those of quite moderate ability. A Player's Guide to Chamber Music gives advice on what music is available...
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The Velvet Lounge

On Late Chicago Jazz

by Gerald Majer
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005

Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with a...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017

The recent resurgence of experimental music has given rise to a more divergent range of practices than has previously been the case. The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music reflects these recent developments by providing examples of current thinking and presenting detailed case studies...
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The Quelbe Method

Music Fundamentals in Quelbe Ensembles

by Dale Francis
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

In the early 1700s, the Danish administration of the Virgin Islands suppressed African music. Undeterred, Virgin Island minstrels combined the African, European, and Taino music elements that created the eclectic genre quelbe. In The Quelbe Method, Dale Francis offers a comprehensive approach that...
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by Edvard Grieg
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843 – 1907) was a Norwegian pianist and composer. Today, he is generally considered to be one of the leading composers of the Romantic era, his music constituting part of the classical canon worldwide. He famously incorporated and developed Norwegian folk music in his compositions,...
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by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016

This is the complete sheet music for Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 1886 solo piano composition, “Dumka, Op.59”. This modern, high-quality edition is ideal for following and annotating the music, and it is not to be missed by collectors of classical music scores. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893)...
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Extraordinary Measures

Disability in Music

by Joseph N. Straus
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011

Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves. For composers with...
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Pieces of Tradition

An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music

by Daniel Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016

This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the history of compositional technique, Daniel Harrison contends that the...
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