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Guitar Exercises For Dummies
Wiley 2008; US$ 22.99Guitar Exercises For Dummies includes over 300 exercises along with lots of technique-building practice opportunities. It starts off with warm-up exercises (on and off-instrument) and then logically transitions to scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords, with a focus on building strength and consistency as well as refining... more...
Music as Discourse
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 44.99Introduction. Part 1: Theory. 1. Music as Language. 2. Criteria for Analysis I. 3. Criteria for Analysis II. 4. Bridges to Free Composition. 5. Paradigmatic Analysis. Part 2: Analyses. 6. Liszt, Orpheus (1853-4). 7. Brahms, Intermezzo, op. 119 no.2 (1893), Brahms, Symphony no. 1/ii (1872-76). 8. Mahler, Symphony no. 9/i (1908-09). 9. Beethoven, String... more...
Music Theory Through Improvisation
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 72.95Designed for Music Theory courses, Music Theory Through Improvisation presents a unique approach to basic theory and musicianship training that examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general progression of diatonic to non-diatonic harmony in conventional approaches, but integrates improvisation,... more...
Foundations of Diatonic Theory
Scarecrow Press 2008; US$ 44.99This introductory, undergraduate-level textbook provides an easy entry point into the challenging field of diatonic set theory. After introducing mathematical concepts that relate directly to music theory, the text concentrates on these mathematical relationships, and uses pedagogical exercises and instructions to establish a strong link between introductory... more...
Keys to the Drama
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 99.95Sonata form is fundamentally a dramatic structure that creates, manipulates, and ultimately satisfies expectation. It engages its audience by inviting prediction, association, and interpretation. That sonata form was the chief vehicle of dramatic instrumental music for nearly 200 years is due to the power, the universality, and the tonal and stylistic... more...
Music Fundamentals
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 70.95"Music Fundamentals" is both a textbook and a workbook written for students who want to learn the basics of music. Keeping in mind the student with very little or no prior knowledge of music, musical concepts are reinforced by numerous examples including global music, along with a comprehensive website for students to practice their knowledge,... more...
The Piece as a Whole
ABC-CLIO 1997; US$ 27.95Designed to serve music students at the college level, this informal approach to music theory relates the technical aspects of music with the expressive character of the art. The approach is holistic in the sense that it focuses on the interrelationships between the piece as heard by a socially conditioned listener and the notated, performed score.... more...
Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 42.00A selection of the writings of A. B. Marx, one of the most important German music theorists of his time. more...
How to Listen to Great Music
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 16.00From one of the most trusted names in continuing education-the knowledge you need to unlock "the most abstract and sublime of all the arts." Whether you're listening in a concert hall or on your iPod, concert music has the power to move you. The right knowledge can deepen the ability of this music to edify, enlighten, and stir the soul. In How... more...
Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 34.00This book provides a reassessment of the work of Heinrich Schenker. more...









