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Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 25.45What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? Contributors to this volume address these topics and other -- including gender, social status, and the role of the Church... more...
An Introduction to Music Technology
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 49.95An Introduction to Music Technology provides a clear and concise overview of the essential elements of music technology for today?s musician. It is designed to provide music students with the background necessary to apply technology in their creating, teaching, and performing. This book focuses on five topics that underlie the hardware and software... more...
Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 43.95Posing more riddles than the average sphinx, with its decipherable answers pointing somewhere dark, Song Cycle was anything but passive. I had already witnessed hippie bands playing with their backs to the hall, so the thought of late ‘60s musicians being interested in their audience struck me as a concept bordering on revolutionary. .... more...
TIPS
R&L Education 2009; US$ 15.99This book takes you through the first weeks of school and covers setting up your classroom, choral activities for day one and beyond, repertoire for the first weeks, warm-ups for changing voices, rehearsal strategies, placing students into groups and voice parts, and resources. more...
Hearing and Knowing Music
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 30.95Edward T. Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. Hearing and Knowing Music collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years and that were left unpublished at his death. Edited and introduced by Robert... more...
Schenker's Interpretive Practice
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 35.00This is the first comprehensive study of this century's most influential music theorist, Heinrich Schenker. more...
What to Listen For in Music
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 7.95Whether they listen to Mozart or Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland invites readers to ask two basic questions: Are they hearing everything that is going on? Are they really being sensitive to it? With his provocative suggestions, Aaron Copland guides readers through a deeper appreciation of the most rewarding of all art forms. more...
The Jazz Ear
Henry Holt and Co. 2008; US$ 16.99An intimate exploration into the musical genius of fifteen living jazz legends, from the longtime New York Times jazz critic Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece ?Kind of Blue.? Musicians are... more...
Vocal Authority
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 40.00A fascinating history of singing styles from the ancient world to the present. more...
Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 82.00Ruth Smith sheds new light on Handel's oratorio librettists and explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal his texts as conduits for eighteenth-century thought. more...









