Theory of music and musicology

Covering all the essentials of craft and marketing for launching and sustaining a long, successful writing career, this cutting-edge revision contains an exclusive interview with Oscar-winning songwriter Melissa Etheridge - "e;I Need to Wake Up"e; - and shows you, step by step, how to write a hit song.

Musical semiotics is a new discipline and paradigm of both semiotics and musicology.

Am Beispiel Beethovens und Schumanns untersucht Florian Kraemer den Zusammenhang zwischen Ironie und Illusionsbrechung in der Musik des 19.

Ein Arbeitsbuch für leidenschaftliche Musikhörer und Musikliebhaber ohne Notenkenntnisse.

Rooted in research and practice, Perspectives on Conducting presents a multi-faceted exploration of the role of the modern-day conductor.

The singer tells her story from Scottish childhood to success on the Greenwich Village folk scene and beyond, and shares her passion for traditional music.

Student learning in school music ensembles is often focused on technical skill development.

Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition.

This textbook enhances preservice and practicing music educators' understanding of ways to successfully engage children in music composition.

Native American drumming and chant; Czech and German polka; country fiddling; African American spirituals, blues and jazz; cowboy songs; Mexican corridos; zydeco; and the sounds of a Cambodian New Year's celebration all are part of the amazing cultural patchwork of traditional music in Texas.

When Cream broke up in 1968 it was by no means a foregone conclusion that it would be Eric Clapton who would enjoy continued commercial success.

At 47, Tim Derk had long been the San Antonio Spurs crowd-pleasing Coyote and was widely regarded as the NBAs funniest, most inventive mascot.

Presenting a range of ethnographic case studies from around the globe, this edited collection offers new ways of thinking about the interconnectivity of gender, place, and emotion in musical performance.

Preeminant gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of Javanese encounters with the West.

This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute.

The first comprehensive study in book form of Liszt's visits to England, replete with copious illustrations, appendix, and fascinating details of several previously unknown Liszt compositions.

During the first decade of the 20th century, Falla, Debussy, Ravel, and Roussel composed works laced with exotic coloration, a type of piece that Debussy termed la machine chinoise.

This book offers a clear and consistent English translation of Riepel's first two volumes, which contain a substantially complete presentation of the first and most influential comprehensive compositional and analytical theory that relates to the major homophonic instrumental forms of the eighteenth century, the symphony, concerto, and sonata.

In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music.

The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages.

This book discusses microtonal tunings in the Arabic maqam, prevalent in the Middle East and Central Asia, which employs microtonal intervals from Pythagorean tuning by perfect fifths.

Native American drumming and chant; Czech and German polka; country fiddling; African American spirituals, blues and jazz; cowboy songs; Mexican corridos; zydeco; and the sounds of a Cambodian New Year's celebration all are part of the amazing cultural patchwork of traditional music in Texas.

From her fairytale childhood to her impressive array of movies and marriages, Elizabeth Taylors life, both on and off the screen, has enchanted, saddened, appalled, and entertained us for the past seven decades.

This eclectic, funny, and moving book tracks a life lived in music and words.

Joey Keithley, aka Joey Shithead, founded legendary punk pioneers D.

Today's research landscape requires an updated set of analytical skills to tell the story of how people interact with and make meaning from contemporary culture.

Today's research landscape requires an updated set of analytical skills to tell the story of how people interact with and make meaning from contemporary culture.

The book is a collection of poetry and songs I have written over the years.

Leading Tones is a glimpse into several aspects of the musical world.

Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approachpresents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music theory through an emphasis on melody and counterpoint.

This fascinating book, which explores an intriguing idea formulated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the very last months of his life, has up until now been available only to German readers.

It is through their music that the Indigo Girls build upon the theological idea of community-building and solidarity-forming, in order to tell the stories, to relate the authentic experience of human struggle and reconciliation, of human love and pain.

Jazz Music flourished between 1920 and 1930 - the Roaring Twenties, becoming the most acceptable form of popular music, so much so that the decade was named the Jazz Age.

With an introduction by neuroscientist Daniel Glaser.

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, The Chrysanthemum, originally composed in 1904.

Featuring the piano sheet music for Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score 'The Entertainer'.

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Pine Apple Rag, originally composed in 1908.

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Palm Leaf Rag, originally composed in 1903.

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Maple Leaf Rag, originally composed in 1899.

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Antoinette, originally composed in 1906.

A fantastic collection of Scott Joplin's classic ragtime compositions.

Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of ragtime music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.

Four classic Ukrainian folk songs composed by Mykola Lysenko.

Edvard Grieg's collection of 44 Norwegian folk songs and dances, originally published in 1895 in Norwegian.

This vintage book contains the sheet music and lyrics for a variety of traditional British dances, including country dances, Morris dances, jigs, reels, and more.

Originally written to be read in conjunction with Matthay's "e;The Child's First Steps"e;, this book aims to offer young children and beginner piano players a series of exercises that will prove invaluable to their playing and allow them to proficiently play their first pieces of music.

First published in 1911, this vintage book contains a complete guide to learning and mastering fore-arm rotation for piano playing, by Tobias Matthay.

First published in 1920, this book contains a fantastic guide to teaching piano playing for music teachers, written by Tobias Matthay.

This vintage book contains a selection of effective exercises that can be done on a daily basis to improve piano playing, by seminal English pianist Tobias Matthay.

"e;Commentaries on the Teaching of Pianoforte Technique"e; is a 1910 guide to playing the piano by Tobias Matthay.