How Music Works, Paperback

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The Music of Film opens up the world of film music from the inside. Through a series of interviews and conversations with professional composers, m...

526What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as specta...

Reducere. "Music Theory And The Nashville Number System" is based on Grammy nominated hit songwriter Odie Blackmon's class at Vanderbilt University's Blair S...

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Reducere. In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that h...

Award-winning author Jack Boss returns with the 'prequel' to Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014) demonstrating that the term 'atonal' ...

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What does it mean when a singing voice is detached from an originating body through recording? And how does this affect consumers of recorded song?...

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This book offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music. Written for musicians and music lovers wit...

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How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan HaerleApplicable for all instruments, this graded course on piano voicing skills starts with simple block chords over m...

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*Updated with a new chapter on digital curation* How Music Works is David Byrne's incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its ...

Reducere. Being musical does not necessarily mean being a musician; it doesn't mean playing the piano at parties or composing songs for lovers. It is a way o...

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At a time of unprecedented interest in improvisation across the arts, The Art of Becoming boldly asserts that everyone can and should improvise. Dr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Desi SernaDo you love sitting at home playing guitar, but find yourself playing the same old things over and over without m...

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DescriptionTune in to how music really works Whether you're a student, a performer, or simply a fan, this book makes music theory easy, providing y...

This element identifies the important role played by Jacques Offenbach's musical stage works in Budapest musico-theatrical life in the twentieth ce...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ross TrottierThis powerful little 52 page music theory book is a great place to start for any music lover wanting to unders...

Reducere. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) was the first teacher to bring Sufism--Islamic mysticism--to the Western world. His teaching ...

This book proposes a new theory about the neo-classical style in music. The Danish emeritus professor Finn Egeland Hansen has chosen three differen...

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In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers n...

David Byrne's internationally bestselling magnum opus on the subject of music

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Reducere. The story of a revolution in classical music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian BachIn Reinventi...

Reducere. DescriptionUnique, Practical and Straightforward Way to Learn Music Theory and Become a Better Musician, Even if You're a Complete Beginner Updated...

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Reducere. While Puccini wrote only twelve operas during a long life--three of them one-acters designed to be performed together--he has to be ranked today as...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Circle of Fifths for Guitarists shows how every key, scale, chord and modulation works in music. It's essential knowledge of any asp...

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Reducere. One of the world's greatest classical pianists reveals how the ""other world"" transformed his life and careerBy any measure, Byron Janis has had a...