The Orchestral Instruments and What They Do
ISBN: 9781410212436 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The object of this book is to assist the concert-goer in recognizing the various orchestral instruments, both by sight and by hearing, and to stimulate his perception of the thousand and one beauties of orchestral coloring. Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953) studied at Harvard and in Paris before joining the Columbia University faculty in 1910, where he remained until his 1942 retirement. He was the grandson of the music publisher and educator Lowell Mason and the son of Henry Mason, a founder of the Mason & Hamlin Co. piano firm; a composer as well as the author of many books on music.
The object of this book is to assist the concert-goer in recognizing the various orchestral instruments, both by sight and by hearing, and to stimulat...
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Divisional Counterpoint
ISBN: 9781418442125 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DIVISIONAL COUNTERPOINT is a step-by-step course intended to point the student in the direction of Bach's coutrapuntal style. It begins like most other counterpoint texts, but after STEPS 1 and 2 the similarity ends. Here there is a blending of the techniques of Species Counterpoint with that of harmonic progressions. Here, instead of Canti Firmi, there are Guidance lines which may, when necessary, be changed. Within controlled chordal progressions, using chordal skeletons, the emphases are on adding ever-faster lines to achieve the proper composite rhythm, and to maintain the established...
DIVISIONAL COUNTERPOINT is a step-by-step course intended to point the student in the direction of Bach's coutrapuntal style. It begins like most othe...
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New York Guitar Method Volume 2
ISBN: 9781594899027 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever wonder what those chromatic notes are that jazz, rock and fusion guitar players use when they are not playing scales and arpeggios? Want to get that jazz sound where you can play a melody without chords and hear the chord progression go by just based on the melody? Look no further. The 24 chapters of this book cover all aspects of using this more advanced way of playing called approach notes. It gives you a way to organize your practice of these approach notes but it doesn't stop there. It gives you all the fingerings for 13 different arpeggios in 4 positions on the guitar. If includes...
Ever wonder what those chromatic notes are that jazz, rock and fusion guitar players use when they are not playing scales and arpeggios? Want to get t...
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98,03 zł |
Time Transformation
ISBN: 9781594899324 / Angielski / Miękka / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Time Transformation" is designed to take the application of odd meters to another level of mastery. Etudes are presented in 12 keys using the time signatures of 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 and 7/4. There are a total of 60 highly syncopated studies that are presented using various combinations of eighth note and sixteenth note rhythms. In addition, each exercise also has corresponding MP3 files files which can be downloaded free of charge from the muse-eek.com website. One set of files contains chord progression backing tracks that the studies can be played over. This allows the student to hear each...
"Time Transformation" is designed to take the application of odd meters to another level of mastery. Etudes are presented in 12 keys using the time si...
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220,63 zł |
Musica de Cine. Una Ilusion Optica
ISBN: 9781597541671 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Musical Creativity: Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781841695082 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection initiates a resolutely interdisciplinary research dynamic specifically concerning musical creativity. Creativity is one of the most challenging issues currently facing scientific psychology and its study has been relatively rare in the cognitive sciences, especially in artificial intelligence. This book will address the need for a coherent and thorough exploration. Musical Creativity: Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice comprises seven sections, each viewing musical creativity from a different scientific vantage point, from the... This collection initiates a resolutely interdisciplinary research dynamic specifically concerning musical creativity. Creativity is one of the most... |
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Independence
ISBN: 9781890944834 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A music instruction book designed for pianists, stick and touchstyle guitarists, percussionists and anyone who wishes to develop the rhythmic independence of their hands. This volume concentrates on quarter, eighth and sixteenth note rhythms and is a thesaurus of rhythmic patterns. The exercises in this book gradually incorporate more and more complex rhythmic patterns making it an excellent tool for both the beginning and the advanced student
A music instruction book designed for pianists, stick and touchstyle guitarists, percussionists and anyone who wishes to develop the rhythmic independ...
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Contemporary Rhythms Volume Two
ISBN: 9781890944858 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The exercises in the second volume concentrate on sixteenth note rhythmic patterns, touching upon modern innovations commonly found in twentieth century classical music and preparing the student to deal confidently with complex rhythmic situations. Additionally, the Muse-Eek Publishing Company hosts two online resources in conjunction with this book. There is a free "members' section" where book owners can download files related to this text plus other help files. This book is a required text at New York University and Princeton University.
The exercises in the second volume concentrate on sixteenth note rhythmic patterns, touching upon modern innovations commonly found in twentieth centu...
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109,42 zł |
Quantifying Music: The Science of Music at the First Stage of Scientific Revolution 1580-1650
ISBN: 9789027716378 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The soul rejoices in perceiving harmonious sound; when the sound is not harmonious it is grieved. From these affects of the soul are derived the name of consonances for the harmonic proportions, and the name of dissonances for the unharmonic proportions. When to this is added the other harmonie proportion whieh consists of the longer or shorter duration of musical sound, then the soul stirs the body to jumping dance, the tongue to inspired speech, according to the same laws. The artisans accommodate to these harmonies the blows of their hammers, the soldiers their pace. As long as the...
The soul rejoices in perceiving harmonious sound; when the sound is not harmonious it is grieved. From these affects of the soul are derived the name ...
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Ear Training One Note Complete
ISBN: 9781594899362 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edition comes with no CDs. You must purchase either the 3 associated CDs separately or digitally download the CDs from an on-line vendor. Otherwise this book is exactly the same as the book/CD edition. Just as an artist must know every color in order to create a beautiful painting, a musician must know and hear all the notes of the musical "palette" in order to create good music. This Ear Training method has been developed to teach the student how to hear the way musical sounds are organized within a key. With proper application, the student will be able to instantly recognize: . Which...
This edition comes with no CDs. You must purchase either the 3 associated CDs separately or digitally download the CDs from an on-line vendor. Otherwi...
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122,55 zł |
Key Note Recognition
ISBN: 9781890944773 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edition comes with no CD. You must purchase either the associated CD separately or digitally download the CD from an on-line vendor. Otherwise this book is exactly the same as the book/CD edition. KEY NOTE RECOGNITION is part of a series of ear training books designed to help the student develop better relative pitch. This book and separately available CD addresses hearing one specific note against all keys, allowing the student to identify key modulations when they occur. Recommended for use prior to "Ear Training Two Note Method."Recommended prerequisite to this book: "Ear Training One...
This edition comes with no CD. You must purchase either the associated CD separately or digitally download the CD from an on-line vendor. Otherwise th...
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Listening to Music
ISBN: 9780393001303 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a book written for all who derive real pleasure from listening to music and want to learn more about it. Its aim is to increase enjoyment through intelligent appreciation. Without presupposing any technical knowledge on the part of the reader, Douglas Moore explains what happens in a piece of music, analyzing familiar compositions as examples.
Here is a book written for all who derive real pleasure from listening to music and want to learn more about it. Its aim is to increase enjoyment thro...
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104,86 zł |
Unheard Melodies, or Trampolining in the Vatican
ISBN: 9781847480736 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unheard Melodies presents a straightforward but unusual guide to musical appreciation, and is of particular help to the non-specialist in coming to terms with the complexities of classical music. The raw materials, styles and processes of music are introduced and explained, together with inside information about instruments and the lives of composers, not to mention the many hidden puzzles and ciphers accessible to those with the necessary key. A must for anyone interested in understanding the real substance of music. There is a world of unheard melodies out there for the hearing, so why not...
Unheard Melodies presents a straightforward but unusual guide to musical appreciation, and is of particular help to the non-specialist in coming to te...
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Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic
ISBN: 9780521887618 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher, and a composer Holderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel, and Beethoven developed an idea of self-consciousness based on music at the turn of the nineteenth century. This idea became an enduring cultural belief: the understanding of music as an ideal representation of the autonomous creative mind. Against a background of political and cultural upheaval, these four major figures all born in 1770 developed this idea in both metaphorical and actual musical structures, thereby establishing both the theory and the practice of asserting self-identity in...
James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher, and a composer Holderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel, and Beethoven developed an idea of self-consciou...
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Music and Conceptualization
ISBN: 9780521062145 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a philosophical study of the relations between hearing and thinking about music. The central problem it addresses is: how is it possible to talk about what a listener perceives in terms that the listener does not recognize? By applying the concepts and techniques of analytic philosophy, the author explores the ways in which musical hearing may be described as nonconceptual, and how such mental representation contrasts with conceptual thought.
This book is a philosophical study of the relations between hearing and thinking about music. The central problem it addresses is: how is it possible ...
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The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music
ISBN: 9780521434621 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Kivy is the author of many books on the history of art and, in particular, the aesthetics of music. This collection of essays spans a period of some thirty years and focuses on a richly diverse set of issues: the biological origins of music, the role of music in the liberal education, the nature of the musical work and its performance, the aesthetics of opera, the emotions of music, and the very nature of music itself. Some of these subjects are viewed as part of the history of ideas, others as current problems in the philosophy of art. A particular feature of the volume is that Kivy...
Peter Kivy is the author of many books on the history of art and, in particular, the aesthetics of music. This collection of essays spans a period of ...
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All You Have to Do Is Listen: Music from the Inside Out
ISBN: 9780470385449 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for almost twenty years with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he gives you a set of tools you can use when listening to any piece of music in order to hear its "plot"--its story told in notes. The musical examples are available free for download to help you hear the ideas presented. Whether you are an experienced concertgoer or a newcomer to classical music, the listening principles Kapilow shares will help you ""get"" music in an...
Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for almost twenty years with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR, at Lincoln...
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139,89 zł |
101 Three-Chord Hymns and Gospel Songs: For Guitar, Banjo, and Uke
ISBN: 9780786676545 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ultimate guide of rock exercises and solos and perfect reference manual for everyday use. Wide range of examples from Johnny Winter to Randy Rhodes to Jimi Hendrix to Eric Clapton. Teaches position playing in various keys. Perfect for the student to the professional musician. Companion CD included. Written in notation and tablature.
Ultimate guide of rock exercises and solos and perfect reference manual for everyday use. Wide range of examples from Johnny Winter to Randy Rhodes to...
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100,66 zł |
101 Three-Chord Country and Bluegrass Songs: For Guitar, Banjo and Uke
ISBN: 9780786677085 / Angielski / Book / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exhaustive chord reference shows chords from simple triads through myriad extensions of the dominant seventh chord, all in grid format only. All voicings and variants of chords are shown chromatically from the root tone beginning with C, Cm, C6, C7, C diminished, C augmented, etc. Chords are further subdivided into categories including chords with individually fingered strings, barre chords, and rock power chords. Note: this is the full-size version of 99096 Essential Guitar Chords Qwikguide.
This exhaustive chord reference shows chords from simple triads through myriad extensions of the dominant seventh chord, all in grid format only. All ...
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Between Couch and Piano: Psychoanalysis, Music, Art and Neuroscience
ISBN: 9781583919736 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why and how do music and abstract art pack such universal appeal? Why do they often have 'therapeutic' efficacy? Between Couch and Piano links well-established psychoanalytic ideas with historical and neurological theory to help us begin to understand some of the reasons behind music's ubiquity and power. Drawing on new psychoanalytic understanding as well as advances in neuroscience, this book sheds light on the role of the arts as stimulus, and as a key to creative awareness. Subjects covered include: * music in relation to the trauma of loss
* music in connection... Why and how do music and abstract art pack such universal appeal? Why do they often have 'therapeutic' efficacy? Between Couch and Piano ...
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