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Author: Steven Jackson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 166
Book Description
An accessible and practical course in music theory. Volume 1 explores rhythm and melody and requires minimal previous musical training. Volume 2 treats more advanced topics of harmony and form. Both volumes are supplemented with complete pieces for study and performance. Included with plentiful musical examples are illustrations by celebrated artist Nancy Jackson. Whether you play an instrument, sing, take music class in school, or are just curious, this book will help you gain a fuller understanding of how music works.
Author: Steven Jackson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 166
Book Description
An accessible and practical course in music theory. Volume 1 explores rhythm and melody and requires minimal previous musical training. Volume 2 treats more advanced topics of harmony and form. Both volumes are supplemented with complete pieces for study and performance. Included with plentiful musical examples are illustrations by celebrated artist Nancy Jackson. Whether you play an instrument, sing, take music class in school, or are just curious, this book will help you gain a fuller understanding of how music works.
Author: David Byrne Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0804188947 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 384
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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 very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social or technological. Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and many others, Byrne taps deeply into his lifetime of knowledge to explore the panoptic elements of music, how it shapes the human experience, and reveals the impetus behind how we create, consume, distribute, and enjoy the songs, symphonies, and rhythms that provide the backbeat of life. Byrne’s magnum opus uncovers ever-new and thrilling realizations about the redemptive liberation that music brings us all.
Author: John Powell Publisher: Little, Brown Spark ISBN: 0316183679 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 225
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"Any readers whose love of music has somehow not led them to explore the technical side before will surely find the result a thoroughly accessible, and occasionally revelatory, primer."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitch? Why do ten violins sound only twice as loud as one? Do your Bob Dylan albums sound better on CD vinyl? John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers these questions and many more in How Music Works, an intriguing and original guide to acoustics. In a clear and engaging voice, Powell leads you on a fascinating journey through the world of music, with lively discussions of the secrets behind harmony timbre, keys, chords, loudness, musical composition, and more. From how musical notes came to be (you can thank a group of stodgy men in 1939 London for that one), to how scales help you memorize songs, to how to make and oboe from a drinking straw, John Powell distills the science and psychology of music with wit and charm.
Author: Steven Jackson Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
An accessible, practical course in music theory for readers of all ages. Volume 2 treats more advanced topics of harmony and form. The text is supplemented by frequent musical examples, pieces for study and performance, and original illustrations by celebrated artist Nancy Jackson. Volume 2 continues a course that will help you understand and appreciate how music works.
Author: Philip Ball Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199780075 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 464
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From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity. Deftly weaving together the latest findings in brain science with history, mathematics, and philosophy, The Music Instinct not only deepens our appreciation of the music we love, but shows that we would not be ourselves without it. The Sunday Times hailed it as "a wonderful account of why music matters," with Ball's "passion for music evident on every page."
Author: Chester L. Alwes Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199720975 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 504
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A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Author Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two volumes which move from Medieval music and the Renaissance era up to the 21st century. Volume I surveys the choral music of composers including Josquin, Palestrina, Purcell, Handel, and J.S. Bach while detailing the stylistic, textual, and extramusical considerations unique to the topics covered. Consideration of Renaissance music includes both sacred and secular works, specifically addressing the growth of sacred music, the rise of secular music, and the proliferation of sacred polyphony from Josquin to Palestrina. Discussion of the Baroque era is organized by geographic location, exploring the spread of Baroque style from Italy to German, France, and England. Volume I concludes by examining the aesthetic underpinnings of the early Classical and Romantic eras. Framing discussion within the political, religious, cultural, philosophical, aesthetic, and technological contexts of each era, A History of Western Choral Music offers readers specialized insight into major composers and works while providing a cohesive understanding of choral music's place in Western history.
Author: Brian Newbould Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000640949 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 204
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Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert’s unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert’s use of technical and structural devices, Brian Newbould demonstrates that Schubert was much more technically innovative than has been supposed, and argues that the composer’s technical discoveries constitute a rich legacy of specific influences on later composers. Providing rich new insights into the creative practice of one of the major figures of classical music, this two-volume study reframes our understanding of Schubert as an innovator who constantly pushed at the frontiers of style and expression.
Author: George E. Lewis Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190627964 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 608
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Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.
Author: Steven Jackson
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