Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences,...
The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis consists of analyses of thirty-three musical passages or entire short works in a variety of post-tonal styles. For each piece author Joseph N. Straus shows how it is...
The Music Professor Online is a practical volume that provides a window into online music instruction in higher education. Author Judith Bowman highlights commonalities between online and...
Following the success of the first volume of Best of Piano Classics (ED 9060), Schott now presents another collection with a selection of 40 arrangements of popular classical masterpieces for the...
This fourth edition of Marketing Recorded Music is the essential resource to help you understand how recorded music is professionally marketed. Updated to reflect the digital era, with new chapters...
Format: PDFNew from the makers of Future Music, Computer Music and Electronic Music, the Beginner's Guide to Music Production will have you creating your own tracks in no time. Learn how to record, arrange and...
The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic...
Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approach presents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music theory through an emphasis on melody and counterpoint. This focus explains the “why” of musical...
This book introduces readers to the most significant technological developments in music making and listening, including such topics as metronomes and the development of music notation as well as...
Although philosophers have examined and commented on music for centuries, Martin Heidegger, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, had frustratingly little to say about music—directly,...
The Hanon exercises are considered the most vital in developing proper fundamental technique for piano. The third volume of Purple Tiger Guitar's "Master the Classics" series, "Inside Out," is the...
In The Power of Podcasting , award-winning podcast producer and leading international audio scholar Siobhán McHugh dissects what makes a good podcast and outlines how you can create one yourself. She...
This unique book contains over300 Accompaniment Styles for LEFT HAND, in bass key, at the beginning of the book you will find very important exercises to prepare you to play the accompaniment styles....
Whenever I talk to my students about harmony I have noticed that they panic a bit, generally they seem to have the wrong idea that it is something complex and boring which will take time from them to...
The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the most important Russian composers of the late 20th century. Each piece is discussed in...