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Computational Mechanics of the Classical Guitar
Springer 2006; US$ 139.99Computational Mechanics of the Classical Guitar describes a new dynamic paradigm in instrument acoustics based on time-dependent transient analysis and simulation of complete musical instruments. It describes the current state of theoretical and experimental research into the guitar for engineers, instrument makers and musicians. This includes a summary... more...
Receptive Methods in Music Therapy
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006; US$ 34.95This practical book describes the specific use of receptive (listening) methods and techniques in music therapy clinical practice and research, including relaxation with music for children and adults, the use of visualisation and imagery, music and collage, song-lyric discussion, vibroacoustic applications, music and movement techniques. more...
Writing about Music
University of California Press 2008; US$ 13.56How do you spell "Mendelssohn"? Where do you place the hyphen in "Beethoven" if it breaks between two lines? Is it "premiere" or "première"? The answers and much more can be found in this completely revised and updated resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers?anyone who deals with classical music in print. This essential volume covers... more...
Shadows in the Field
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 28.99Preface Bruno Nettl. 1. Casting Shadows in the Field: Introduction, Timothy J. Cooley and Gregory Barz. 2. Knowing Fieldwork, Jeff Todd Titon. 3. Transformations of the Self in Fieldwork, Timothy Rice. 4. Phenomenology and the Ethnography of Popular Music: Ethnomusicology at the Juncture of Cultural Studies and Folklore, Harris M. Berger. 5. Moving:... more...
Modern Methods for Musicology
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 99.95Written by leading experts, this volume provides both a picture of the realities of how ICT is currently being used in musicology as well as prospects and proposals for how it could be fruitfully used in the future. Through its coverage of topics spanning content-based sound searching/retrieval, sound and content analysis, markup and text encoding,... more...
Music Talent & Performance
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 27.95A provocative, perceptive study of the cultural dynamics of classical music in American society, Music, Talent, and Performance describes music as a metaphor of the society in which it takes place. Author Henry Kingbury, a conservatory-trained pianist and music educator turned anthropologist forgoes the traditional ethnomusicologist approach... more...
This is Your Brain on Music
Atlantic Books Ltd 2011; US$ 11.65This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains... more...
Statistics in Musicology
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 119.95Traditionally, statistics and music are not generally associated with each other. However, ...intelligent... music software, computer digitization, and other advanced techniques and technologies have precipitated the need for standard statistical models to answer basic musicological questions. Statistics In Musicology presents an unprecedented introduction... more...
101 Amazing Little Mix Facts
Andrews UK 2013; US$ 2.99Are you a fan of world famous girl band Little Mix? Do you want to know everything there is to know about Perrie, Jesy, Leigh-Anne and Jade? if so, then this is the book for you. Contained within are over one hundred amazing facts about everything from the girls' upbringing to the band's formation, the many awards they have won and much more.... more...









