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  • Music Theory

    I have encountered inconsistencies in musical jargon like the "power chord" for example C5 to mean (notes c and g) or the use of sharp 5th written +5, etc. And I would like to clarify them in this book. And I also would like to adress certain patterns already used by expounding more on their creative side. There are also patterns that are useful which could help young musicians develop their ... Read more

    $4.70 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching General Music

    Approaches, Issues, and Viewpoints

    General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods. These pedagogical frameworks guide teachers in planning and implementing instruction. Established approaches to teaching general music must be understood, critically examined, and possibly re-imagined for their potential in school and community music education programs. Teaching General Music brings together the top ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • For the Love of Classical Music

    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts Original SelectionIn an illuminating and probing conversation with renowned actor, producer, comedian and philanthropist Alec Baldwin, John Mauceri reflects on the enduring appeal of classical music, how he learned to lead an orchestra, his upbringing and how he became the acclaimed conductor and musical director he is today. Covering such varied topics like the personal and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    by Joanna Demers ...
    Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde electronic musicians is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there even a place for aesthetics in twenty-first-century culture? This book explores genres ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Playing the Piano for Pleasure

    The Classic Guide to Improving Skills Through Practice and Discipline

    by Charles Cooke ...
    Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to practice every day, suggesting that they work through just that section time and again until it is ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Tearing Down The Wall

    The Contemporary Guide to Decoding Pink Floyd - The Wall One Brick at a Time

    SECRETS OF THE WALL REVEALED! Imagine dusting off a beloved album, comfortable as an old pair of jeans, and one day discovering that it goes much deeper down the rabbit hole than you ever envisioned. The thematic intention of every note…The nuance behind every veiled reference…Until you finally recognize that hidden deep inside is a distinctly powerful message you never knew was there. It's like ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • On the Drums Lesson Plan - Session 1

    by Michael Faeth ...
    With this book, you get a concise lesson plan for anyone interested in learning to play the drum set for the first time. Designed to be used in concert between student and instructor, the book begins with a checklist that outlines the course of study.In this book I have distilled what I believe you need to know to start playing drums into four categories: drumming foundation, drum beats, sticking, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Except When I Hate It)

    Extremely Important Stuff About the Songs and Bands You Love, Hate, Love to Hate , and Hate to Love

    by Brian Boone ...
    Music breeds duality. We enjoy the music we love-listening to it, talking about it, reading about it. But it's just as fun to passionately revel in mocking the music we hate. Fortunately, musicians make this two-lane path very easy to follow. Half the time they're creating timeless works of art that speak to the soul; the other half, they're recording ridiculous concept albums about robots.I Love ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pat Metheny

    The ECM Years, 1975-1984

    by Mervyn Cooke ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music). This impressive body of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll

    Collected Music Writings 2005-09

    Sometimes I play a game in my head: name the five best American rock bands of the ’60s. My list goes: The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Doors, and then I stall on the fifth. Creedence? The Band – although they’re mostly Canadian. Simon and Garfunkel? Jefferson Airplane? The Lovin’ Spoonful? But I plump for The Monkees.In The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll, Robert Forster takes ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Liner Notes

    by Andy Mister ...
    Andy Mister's Liner Notes is a semi-narrative prose poem, a meditation on alienation and pop culture. Beginning with the Beach Boy's unfinished masterpiece Smile, Mister describes a world populated by ghosts. Adrift on a sea of drug use, boredom and popular entertainment, Mister traces his relationship to the obsessive collection of ephemera and the coterminous feelings of isolation and loss. Like ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queering Vocal Pedagogy

    A Handbook for Teaching Trans and Genderqueer Singers and Fostering Gender-Affirming Spaces

    Queering Vocal Pedagogy presents a new vision of gender-affirming vocal music education and richly explores the experiences, perspectives, and vocal training of trans(gender) and genderqueer singers.This groundbreaking text weaves together singers’ narratives with the practices and pedagogies of their teachers to provide a model for training gender expansive vocalists. William Sauerland promotes a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Building Better Dictation Skills

    Melodic dictation plays an important role in music theory classes, but instruction is often based on tradition rather than research. Dictation teachers and students do not just need more exercises and drills; they need to see deeper into the materials, consider how we connect to them, and practice wisely. Building Better Dictation Skills offers teachers and students the “why” and “how” of melodic ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Life of Music

    New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition

    Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical canon at a moment when we can access all music—across time and cultures“At its lively best when Kenyon’s own passions are laid bare, . . . his belief, above all, in the power of music to unite individual and community.”—Fiona Maddocks, The ObserverImmersed in music for much of his life as writer, broadcaster and concert presenter, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Discovering Classical Music: Beethoven

    Series series Discovering Classical Music
    "I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of classical music can be highly intimidating and confusing. Ian Christians, for many years a passionate believer in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Humane Music Education for the Common Good

    Series series Counterpoints: Music and Education
    Why teach music? Who deserves a music education? Can making and learning about music serve the common good? A collection of essays considers the answers.In Humane Music Education for the Common Good, scholars and educators from around the world offer unique responses to the recent UNESCO report titled Rethinking Education: Toward the Common Good. This report suggests how, through purpose, policy, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beatle Musings: An Alternative View of The Beatle Legacy

    by Joel Benjamin ...
    Series series Beatle Musings
    An Alternative View Of The Beatle Legacy is the third volume of essays of the research study BeatleMusings- an anthology of scholarship that examines the historical and musical legacy of The Beatles. An Alternative View Of The Beatle Legacy provides “alternative perspectives” to explain the historical phenomenon of The Beatles. For the past 50 years all of the information published and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gareth Malone’s How To Enjoy Classical Music: HCNF (Collins Shorts, Book 5)

    by Gareth Malone ...
    Series Book 5 - Collins Shorts
    Collins Shorts – insight in an instant.There’s more to classical music than Beethoven’s Fifth, but where to start? Gareth Malone, the charismatic TV choirmaster, gives you some easy tips on how to appreciate a whole new world of music.Collins Shorts are a fresh look at the ebook short, with the emphasis on vibrant design, animated content and expert authors who can provide accessible insight. They ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music

    by Robert Philip ...
    An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shostakovich, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Identities and Audiences in the Musical

    An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our engagement with the genre. In this third volume of the reissued Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, chapters focus on race, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Music Fundamentals for Musical Theatre

    Musical theatre students and performers are frequently asked to learn musical material in a short space of time; sight-read pieces in auditions; collaborate with accompanists; and communicate musically with peers, directors, music directors and choreographers. Many of these students and performers will have had no formal musical training.This book offers a series of lessons in music fundamentals, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Beethoven's Piano Music

    A Listener's Guide

    Beethoven's works for solo piano – the sonatas, variations, and bagatelles – and the five concertos for piano and orchestra stand at the heart of the repertory. Beethoven's Piano Music: A Listener's Guide, by Victor Lederer, will help the motivated reader understand this popular but often knotty music. The bulk of the text consists of a movement-by-movement analysis of the 32 sonatas, fascinating ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Peter Paul and Mary

    Fifty Years in Music and Life

    This carefully crafted and collectible volume tells the intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, in their words and with iconic images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center of America’s heart. Photographs, many rare and never before published, taken over five decades by some of the world’s top photographers, follow them from their earliest performances in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Discovering Classical Music: Shostakovich

    Series series Discovering Classical Music
    "I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of classical music can be highly intimidating and confusing. Ian Christians, for many years a passionate believer in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus