The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory
ISBN: 9780521884150 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern scholars have often portrayed the method of hexachordal solmization - the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo - as the diatonic foundation of early music. Stefano Mengozzi challenges this view by examining a representative sample of the primary sources of solmization theory from Guido of Arezzo to Gioseffo Zarlino. These texts show that six-syllable solmization was only an option for sight-singing that never imposed its operational 'sixth-ness' onto the diatonic system, already grounded on the seven pitch letters. It was primarily through the agency...
Modern scholars have often portrayed the method of hexachordal solmization - the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Are...
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Structural Functions of Harmony
ISBN: 9780571196579 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text contains Arnold Schoenberg's thoughts on classical and romantic harmony. It presents a resume of the principles of the Theory of Harmony, then demonstrates the concept of monotonality. The music examples range from the entire development sections of classical symphonies. Ninety integrated music examples range fromthe entire development sections of classical symphonies to analyses of the harmonic progressions of Strauss, Debussy, Reger and his own early music.
This text contains Arnold Schoenberg's thoughts on classical and romantic harmony. It presents a resume of the principles of the Theory of Harmony, th...
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76,50 zł |
Music Fundamentals for Dance
ISBN: 9780736096522 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music Fundamentals for Dance provides students with a fundamental understanding of music and how it applies to dance performance, composition, and teaching. This valuable reference helps professional choreographers, dance educators, and dancers expand their knowledge of music and understand the relationships between music and dance. Fundamentals of Music for Dance helps dancers understand of the elements of music--form and structure, musical time, melody, texture, and score reading--and how they relate to dance performance and choreography. They will learn music... Music Fundamentals for Dance provides students with a fundamental understanding of music and how it applies to dance performance, compositi... |
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190,82 zł |
Danny Elfman's Batman: A Film Score Guide
ISBN: 9780810851269 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Danny Elfman is recognized as one of the most successful, interesting, and innovative figures in recent film music composition. He came to the fore in the late 1980s in connection with his collaboration with Tim Burton on his films including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare before Christmas (1993), and Sleepy Hollow (1999). In addition to this, Elfman has composed music for more than 40 other films, including Somersby (1993), Dolores Claibourne (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), Men in Black (1997), and Spiderman...
Danny Elfman is recognized as one of the most successful, interesting, and innovative figures in recent film music composition. He came to the fore in...
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Teaching Secondary Music
ISBN: 9780857023940 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed to support teachers in developing new strategies and pedagogies for teaching music, and for teacher education students requiring a comprehensive overview of the subject Teaching Secondary Music provides a modern and accessible of key issues in music education at secondary level. Focusing on the nature of musical understanding and how to facilitate and assess musical progress, the editors bring together a team of experienced music educators leading the programme of support for the new secondary curriculum. Supported with practical examples, case studies and resources exploring...
Designed to support teachers in developing new strategies and pedagogies for teaching music, and for teacher education students requiring a comprehens...
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195,92 zł |
Theory of Music Workbook Grade 1 (2007)
ISBN: 9780857360007 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,58 zł |
Theory of Music Workbook Grade 2 (2007)
ISBN: 9780857360014 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,69 zł |
Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain
ISBN: 9781107000179 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether for weavers at the handloom, laborers at the plough, or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to explore the rich history of music at work in Britain and charts the journey from the singing cultures of pre-industrial occupations, to the impact and uses of the factory radio, via the silencing effect of industrialization. The first part of the book discusses how widespread cultures of singing at work were in pre-industrial manual occupations. The second and third parts of the book show how musical...
Whether for weavers at the handloom, laborers at the plough, or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's w...
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343,36 zł |
Heinrich Glarean's Books: The Intellectual World of a Sixteenth-Century Musical Humanist
ISBN: 9781107022690 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays offers a wide range of new interdisciplinary perspectives on Heinrich Glarean's contribution to intellectual life.
This collection of essays offers a wide range of new interdisciplinary perspectives on Heinrich Glarean's contribution to intellectual life.
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519,30 zł |
Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations: From James I to Elizabeth II
ISBN: 9781107023444 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coronations are the grandest of all state occasions. This is the first comprehensive in-depth study of the music that was performed at British coronations from 1603 to the present, encompassing the sixteen coronations that have taken place in Westminster Abbey and the last two Scottish coronations. Range describes how music played a crucial role at the coronations and how the practical requirements of the ceremonial proceedings affected its structure and performance. The programme of music at each coronation is reconstructed, accompanied by a wealth of transcriptions of newly discovered...
Coronations are the grandest of all state occasions. This is the first comprehensive in-depth study of the music that was performed at British coronat...
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446,01 zł |
Science and Music
ISBN: 9781108005692 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir James Jeans has used his remarkable gifts of exposition to set out all that is relevant in the science of acoustics to the art of music.
Sir James Jeans has used his remarkable gifts of exposition to set out all that is relevant in the science of acoustics to the art of music.
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263,88 zł |
Music Theory : A Practical Guide for All Musicians
ISBN: 9781423401773 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 87 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Music Instruction). Get the rock-solid fundamentals of rhythm, pitch and harmony with this easy-to-use book/audio pack. Learn the universal language used by all musicians, regardless of instrument. Includes concise, detailed explanations, illustrations and written exercises with access to online full recordings of examples and practice drills. This book will teach you how to: construct scales, chords and intervals * identify major and minor key centers and common chord progressions * accurately play various rhythm feels and figures * learn the basic principles of form and compositional...
(Music Instruction). Get the rock-solid fundamentals of rhythm, pitch and harmony with this easy-to-use book/audio pack. Learn the universal language ...
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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8: Genres: North America
ISBN: 9781441160782 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The six EPMOW Genre volumes contain entries on the genres of music that have been or currently are popular in countries and communities all over the world. Included are discussions on cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics and language; typical features of performance and presentation; historical development and paths and modes of dissemination; influence of technology, the music industry and political and economic circumstances; changing stylistic features; notable and influential performers; and... The six EPMOW Genre volumes contain entries on the genres of music that have been or currently are popular in countries and communities all over th... |
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1521,33 zł |
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
ISBN: 9781441162076 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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149,50 zł |
A Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language
ISBN: 9781580464130 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In A Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language, the renowned American composer George Rochberg distilled a lifetime of insights about Western music across some three hundred years. Rochberg describes how the asymmetrical tonal language of the late eighteenth century--the era of Haydn and Mozart--evolved through the gradual incursion of symmetry into a system based on the juxtaposition of tonal and atonal, asymmetrical and symmetrical--as seen in notable composers such as Webern, Prokofiev, and Rochberg himself. A Dance of Polar Opposites takes us inside...
In A Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language, the renowned American composer George Rochberg distilled a lifet...
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Adventures on the Wheels of Steel
ISBN: 9781841154336 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DJs like Fatboy Slim, Sasha and Paul Oakenfold are the new pop stars: high priests in the rapidly expanding world of dance music. Drawing on many nights out, this is DJ Dave Haslam's fascinating collection of portraits of the major players. Dave Haslam travels Britain to meet clubbers and promoters: hangs out with Sasha in Glasgow, Fatboy Slim in Nottingham, Paul van Dyk in Cardiff, Norman Jay at the Southport Soul Weekender, and Lottie in Newcastle. He meets influential DJs like Pete Tong, pioneers including Jimmy Savile, younger DJs, and unknowns. He interviews mod DJs from the... DJs like Fatboy Slim, Sasha and Paul Oakenfold are the new pop stars: high priests in the rapidly expanding world of dance music. Drawing on many n... |
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Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinema
ISBN: 9781845532024 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Commissioned and edited to appeal to a crossover Film and Music Studies readership, Terror Tracks is an anthology that analyses the use of music and sound in the popular genre of Horror cinema. Focusing on the post-War period, contributors analyse the role of music and sound in establishing and enhancing the senses of unease, suspense and shock crucial to the genre. The anthology shows the various patterns of use an inflection in a range of scores - orchestral, popular, rock and electronic - and how these relate to non-musical sound. Lively and accessible, Terror Tracks is an important...
Commissioned and edited to appeal to a crossover Film and Music Studies readership, Terror Tracks is an anthology that analyses the use of music and s...
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175,67 zł |
Drawn to Sound: Animation Film Music and Sonicity
ISBN: 9781845533526 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Animation films are widely consumed in the general population and the study of animation films has blossomed. But music and sound are often marginalized, despite the significance of music, voice talent, sound design and effects for both the films and their marketing. Drawn to Sound unpacks animation film sound and music tracks, and contextualises them within the screen and music industries. Focusing on feature-length, widely-distributed films released in the post-WW2 period, the book highlights work from key centres of animation production, such as the USA, the UK, Japan, significant studios...
Animation films are widely consumed in the general population and the study of animation films has blossomed. But music and sound are often marginaliz...
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135,44 zł |
How Music Works: A listener's guide to harmony, keys, broken chords, perfect pitch and the secrets of a good tune
ISBN: 9781846143151 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the difference between a musical note and any other sort of sound? What is harmony, and why does it sound good? Why is it easy to tell the difference between a flute and a clarinet even if they are playing exactly the same note? Why do ten violins sound only twice as loud as one? What is perfect pitch, and do I have it? Discover the answers to these and many other questions in John Powell's charming, straight-talking and ear-opening guide to what music is and how exactly it works. Written by a composer with a PhD in physics, How Music Works is a unique and entertaining guide. Opening...
What is the difference between a musical note and any other sort of sound? What is harmony, and why does it sound good? Why is it easy to tell the dif...
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66,30 zł |
Music Theory in Practice Model Answers, Grade 1
ISBN: 9781848491144 / Angielski / Nuty / 16 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new Music Theory in Practice Model Answers series is a practical tool to use alongside the fully-revised workbooks for Music Theory in Practice, Grades 1 to 5. Each book includes correct answers to every question; accepted options, where there can be more than one answer; and model answers for composition-style questions.
The new Music Theory in Practice Model Answers series is a practical tool to use alongside the fully-revised workbooks for Music Theory in Practice, G...
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38,05 zł |