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How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9780316098311 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers questions about harmony, timbre, keys, chords, loudness, musical composition, and much more in this fascinating guide to what music is and how exactly it works.
What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitch? Why do 10 violins sound only twice as loud as one? Do your Bob Dylan albums sound better on CD or vinyl? In a clear, accessible, and engaging voice, Powell explores the science and psychology behind music. The perfect gift for music lovers everywhere. This edition also... John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers questions about harmony, timbre, keys, chords, loudness, musical composition, and much more in this ...
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72,18 |
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The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780415888738 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated, thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film music dating from its beginnings to the present, from the US and other select countries around the globe. The documents represent a wide variety of music-related issues that were heatedly debated during cinemas early decades and which by and large remain of concern today.
The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated, thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film mus...
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898,70 |
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Sonic Resource Guide
ISBN: 9781594897221 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sonic Resource Guide" is a reference book for the application of set theory principles to jazz improvisation. It is meant for the musician who wants to explore new sounds for improvisation or composition. The aim of "Sonic Resource Guide" is to bridge the gap between highly mathematical pitch class theory books and the often limited scope of jazz improvisation methods by demonstrating various musical relationships that an improviser can use to create fresh sounding musical content. The book reduces note relationships down to two hundred and twenty prime forms. Endless combinations of notes...
"Sonic Resource Guide" is a reference book for the application of set theory principles to jazz improvisation. It is meant for the musician who wants ...
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212,86 |
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The Easy Fretboard Guide For Guitar: Easy to read patterns superimposed over the entire fret board. Learn All The Diatonic Patterns to scales, chords
ISBN: 9781451588828 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guide takes the most used scales in modern music and breaks them down into all their components, such as chords, arpeggios, positions and fingerings across the entire fret board. You don't need to read music or guitar tab to use this guide because each example is drawn out right over the guitar neck.
This guide takes the most used scales in modern music and breaks them down into all their components, such as chords, arpeggios, positions and fingeri...
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47,69 |
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Music in Video Games: Studying Play
ISBN: 9780415634434 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, video game music has gone through its own particular set of stylistic and functional metamorphoses while both borrowing and recontextualizing the earlier models from which it borrows. With topics ranging from early classics like "Donkey Kong" and "Super Mario Bros." to more recent hits like "Plants vs. Zombies," the eleven essays in "Music in Video Games" draw on the scholarly fields of musicology and music theory, film theory, and game studies,... From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, v... |
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704,38 |
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Music In Video Games: Studying Play
ISBN: 9780415634441 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, video game music has gone through its own particular set of stylistic and functional metamorphoses while both borrowing and recontextualizing the earlier models from which it borrows. With topics ranging from early classics like Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. to more recent hits like Plants vs. Zombies, the eleven essays in Music in Video Games draw on the scholarly fields of musicology and music theory, film... From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, v... |
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208,83 |
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Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema
ISBN: 9780415898935 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye, but also for the ear. The bulk of the text focuses on the work of directors Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, the Coen brothers, Peter Greenaway, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Andrey Tarkovsky and Gus Van Sant. Significantly, the anthology includes a discussion of films administratively controlled by such famously sound-conscious producers as David O. Selznick and Val Lewton. Written by the leading film...
Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye...
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704,38 |
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BERKLEE MUSIC THEORY BK 2 2ND ED BK
ISBN: 9780876391112 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second in a two-volume series based on over 40 years of music theory instruction at Berklee College of Music. This volume focuses on harmony, including triads, seventh chords, inversions, and voice leading for jazz, blues and popular music styles. You'll develop the tools needed to write melodies and create effective harmonic accompaniments from a lead sheet. This revised edition includes an answer key for all exercises and lessons to check your progress.
The second in a two-volume series based on over 40 years of music theory instruction at Berklee College of Music. This volume focuses on harmony, incl...
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102,59 |
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Film Suites : William Walton Edition vol. 22
ISBN: 9780193361737 / Angielski / Twarda / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents newly engraved and edited scores of all Walton's popular film scores, including the various Shakespeare suites and for the first time on sale his music for the film Battle of Britain.
This volume presents newly engraved and edited scores of all Walton's popular film scores, including the various Shakespeare suites and for the first ...
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1174,10 |
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Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections
ISBN: 9780521349550 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian-'Gypsy' fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don Jose - portrayals of people and places that are considered somehow 'exotic' have been ubiquitous from 1700 to today, whether in opera, Broadway musicals, instrumental music, film scores, or in jazz and popular song. Often these portrayals are highly stereotypical but also powerful, indelible and touching - or troubling. Musical Exoticism surveys the vast and varied repertoire of Western musical works that evoke exotic locales. It relates trends in musical exoticism to other trends in music,...
A Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian-'Gypsy' fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don Jose - portrayals of people and places that ar...
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284,96 |
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The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece
ISBN: 9780521289955 / Angielski / Miękka / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. It was the most important branch of Greek musical theory, studied by philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers as well as by musical specialists. This 2007 book examines its development during the period when its central ideas and rival schools of thought were established, laying the foundations for the speculations of later antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It concentrates particularly on the theorists' methods and...
The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which gove...
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316,63 |
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The Sonata in the Baroque Era
ISBN: 9780393006223 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available in paperback for the first time, William S. Newman's monumental "History of the Sonata Idea" is the indispensable standard work on the subject for the student, teacher, performer, and music lover. Each volume deals with the historical evolution of the form and the contributions of both major and minor figures of the period, and includes music examples, notes, and comprehensive bibliography.
Now available in paperback for the first time, William S. Newman's monumental "History of the Sonata Idea" is the indispensable standard work on the s...
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114,03 |
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Making Music with Sounds
ISBN: 9780415806787 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Music with Sounds offers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions with sounds and facilitates creativity in school age children, with the activities primarily for 11-14 year old students. It can also be used by people of all ages becoming acquainted with this music for the first time. Sound-based music is defined as the art form in which the sound, rather than the musical note, is the basic unit and is closely related to electronic music and the sonic arts. The art of sound organisation can be found in a... Making Music with Sounds offers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions w... |
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704,38 |
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Guitarists' Scale Manual
ISBN: 9781460999141 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Guitarists' Scale Manual is an essential tool for lead guitarists. Based on a 22-fret guitar, it shows fretboard diagrams for most of the scales you will ever want to use: Major, Harmonic Minor, Modal, Major & Minor Pentatonics, Blues, Whole Tone, Diminished, and Half-Diminished.
The Guitarists' Scale Manual is an essential tool for lead guitarists. Based on a 22-fret guitar, it shows fretboard diagrams for most of the scales y...
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38,91 |
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Visualizing Harmonic Experience: Diagrams of melodic and harmonic tension
ISBN: 9781463528539 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book helps you visualize how melody creates musical impact through harmonic tension, melodic tension and melodic tendency. This book is intended as a supplement to W. A. Mathieu's book, Harmonic Experience. It is an advanced exploration of certain ideas in that book, not a standalone volume. Learn more at harmonicexperience.wordpress.com
This book helps you visualize how melody creates musical impact through harmonic tension, melodic tension and melodic tendency. This book is intended ...
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77,83 |
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Fundamentals of Western Music
ISBN: 9781449916886 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,85 |
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Beginner's Guide to Reading Music: Easy to Use, Easy to Learn; A Simple Introduction for All Ages
ISBN: 9781847869500 / Angielski / Spiralna / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The perfect companion to "Chords for Kids" and "My First Recorder Music," this is the ideal guide for those who may enjoy playing instruments, but have not yet mastered how to read music from the page. It is ideal for any age, but especially for children between 8 and 10 years old. This guide provides the essentials you need to know, explaining pitch, the treble clef, the bass clef, rhythm, accidentals, key signatures and time signatures. You can then practise what you have learnt with the 'Play Along' sections containing simple, well-known examples of music. It comes with helpful diagrams,...
The perfect companion to "Chords for Kids" and "My First Recorder Music," this is the ideal guide for those who may enjoy playing instruments, but hav...
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50,00 |
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Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers
ISBN: 9780199915699 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers explains the formal structure of the French language and sets out the basics of French versification, using examples drawn from a wide range of well-known song settings. In clear and concise style, it explains the Alexandrine meter typically used in French-language poetry, how to distinguish different meters by counting syllables, how to identify stresses and rhyme in French verse, and ultimately, how to enhance the interpretation and enjoyment of the melodie . The book also offers valuable resources, including a brief history of French...
Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers explains the formal structure of the French language and sets out the basics of French versif...
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199,54 |
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We are the Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music
ISBN: 9781409408642 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sports and popular music are synergistic agents in the construction of identity and community. They are often interconnected through common cross-marketing tactics and through influence on each other's performative strategies and stylistic content. Typically only studied as separate entities, popular music and sport cultures mutually 'play' off each other in exchanges of style, ideologies and forms. Posing unique challenges to notions of mind - body dualities, nationalism, class, gender, and racial codes and sexual orientation, Dr Ken McLeod illuminates the paradoxical and often conflicting...
Sports and popular music are synergistic agents in the construction of identity and community. They are often interconnected through common cross-mark...
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704,38 |
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Hal Leonard Harmony & Theory - Part 1: Diatonic
ISBN: 9781423498872 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music InstructionGeorge Heussenstamm, composer of more than 85 published works and author of The Norton Manual of Music Notation, taught college-level theory for several decades. Unable to find what he considered a suitable text, he wrote his own, honing it through practical classroom experience. It is now published for the first time as Hal Leonard Harmony & Theory .This book is designed for anyone wishing to expand their knowledge of music theory, whether beginner or more advanced. The first two chapters deal with music fundamentals, and may be skipped by those with music reading...
Music InstructionGeorge Heussenstamm, composer of more than 85 published works and author of The Norton Manual of Music Notation, taught college-level...
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145,89 |