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Theory eBooks

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  • The Modern Composer and His World

    Edited by John Beckwith, Udo Kasemets ...
    Series series Heritage
    Proceedings of the International Conference of Composers attended by SCEG at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario in August 1960. ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD

  • The Source

    by Steve Barta ...
    (Instructional). Perfect for musicians, teachers or anyone looking for solid info on scales, chords, and how they work together. Provides right- and left-hand piano fingerings for scales, chords, and complete inversions, covering 20+ different scales, each written in all 12 keys. The Source is the most complete collection of contemporary and traditional scales for classical, jazz and other styles. ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

  • Musical Canada

    Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann

    Edited by John Beckwith, Frederick Hall ...
    Series series Heritage
    The foremost historian of Canadian music and musical life, Helmut Kallmann is the inspiration for this volume. Its twenty-three contributions, written by prominent composers and writers representing many different regions and both national languages, present a cross-section of current work in historical research, bibliography, analysis, criticism, and creative composition.Among the subjects ... Read more

    $59.99 AUD

  • Comprehensive Musical Analysis

    by John D. White ...
    Now available in paperback! Evolved from the author's widely used book, The Analysis of Music (Prentice-Hall, 1975; 2nd. ed. Scarecrow Press, 1984), Comprehensive Music Analysis is a guide for acquiring the tools of musical analysis, skills which are essential to every serious musician and musical scholar. The new volume presents material on Heinrich Schenker and reductive linear analysis and ... Read more

    $103.99 AUD

  • An Understandable Guide to Music Theory

    The Most Useful Aspects of Theory for Rock, Jazz, and Blues Musicians

    by Chaz Bufe ...
    This guide explains the most useful aspects of theory in clear, nontechnical language. Areas covered include scales (major, minor, modal, synthetic), chord formation, chord progression, melody, song forms, useful devices, (ostinato, mirrors, hocket, etc.), and instrumentation. It contains over 100 musical examples. ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music Theory for the Music Professional

    by Richard Sorce ...
    Written as a music theory text that not only addresses the important fundamental syntax of music in the classical sense but also relates this syntax to current practices and styles, this book should be particularly well-suited to musicians focusing on aspects of the music business and of popular culture. ... Read more

    $144.99 AUD

  • Text and Act

    Essays on Music and Performance

    Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which now classics in the field. Taking a wide-ranging cultural view of the phenomenon, he shows that the movement, far from reviving ancient traditions, ... Read more

    $72.99 AUD

  • As I Rode by Granard Moat

    Rescued from memory by Ireland's leading short-story writer and raconteur, this anthology weaves a rich tapestry of songs, ballads and poetry reaching across three centuries and drawn from the lanes and highways of thirty-two counties. Contents include poetry by W.B.Yeats, A.E., F.R.Higgins, Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, Francis Ledwidge and Oliver St John Gogarty; and songs of love, rebellion ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guitar Logic

    Patterns For Creative Expression

    Understand the guitar completely like never before.This innovative musical system easily integrates the Blues and Rock into the Western musical system.Written by a guitarist for the guitarist with step-by-step instruction from over 40 years of teaching.This guitar book of instruction provides a rich source of information that can be referenced or memorized for on the fly improvisation, solo ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • Meter As Rhythm

    In this book Christopher Hasty presents a striking new theory of musical duration. Drawing on insights from modern "process" philosophy, he advances a fully temporal perspective in which meter is released from its mechanistic connotations and recognized as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. Part one of the book reviews oppositions of law and freedom, structure and process, ... Read more

    $330.99 AUD

  • Harmonic Experience

    Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression

    by W. A. Mathieu ...
    An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotionally and spiritually in the individual.W. A. Mathieu, an accomplished author and recording artist, presents a way of learning music that reconnects modern-day musicians with the source from which music was originally generated. As the author states, ... Read more

    $54.99 AUD

  • Harmony and Theory

    A Comprehensive Source for All Musicians

    (Musicians Institute Press). This book is a step-by-step guide to Musicians Institute's well-known Harmony and Theory class. It includes complete lessons and analysis of: intervals, rhythms, scales, chords, key signatures; transposition, chord inversions, key centers; harmonizing the major and minor scales; and more! ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Sound Figures

    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Theodor Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays in this book, all of which concern musical matters, he displays an astonishing range of cultural reference, demonstrating that music is invariably social, political, even ethical.Adorno's insistence on the social character of aesthetic works will ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD

  • The Muse that Sings

    Composers Speak about the Creative Process

    by Ann McCutchan ...
    The Muse That Sings is a unique behind-the-scenes look at both twentieth-century music and the nuts and bolts of creative work. Here, twenty-five of America's leading composers--from Adams to Zorn, from Bolcom to Vierk--talk candidly about their craft, their motivations, their difficulties, and how they how proceed from musical idea to finished composition. While focusing on the process and the ... Read more

    $109.99 AUD

  • Classical Form

    A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

    Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of classical form, from individual ideas, phrases, and themes to the large-scale organization of complete movements. It ... Read more

    $99.99 AUD

  • Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies

    A Practical Guide

    * Are you about to write a dissertation for an MA in an arts therapy?* Is your workplace pressuring you to do research on your practice?* Do you fancy trying your hand at a bit of research without any pressure from anyone?* Are you bewitched, bothered and bewildered?A mystique about research usually comes from reading a) writers who launch into philosophical dialectics about research and avoid the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and the Autistic Child

    Music's ability to influence emotions and moods is universally acknowledged, and music therapists have long known that stimulating the brain through the auditory system is a key to obtaining remarkable responses. Music therapy is a particularly effective tool when working with children with autism spectrum conditions, because music communicates with these children on a level where mere words ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

  • Writings on Music, 1965-2000

    by Steve Reich ...
    In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism. These early works, characterized by a relentless pulse and static harmony, focused single-mindedly on the process of gradual rhythmic change. Throughout his career, Reich has continued to reinvigorate the music world, drawing from a wide array of classical, popular, ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

  • Music, Music Therapy and Trauma

    International Perspectives

    Music communicates where words fail, and music therapy has been proven to connect with those who were thought to be unreachable, making it an ideal medium for working with those who have suffered psychological trauma. Music, Music Therapy and Trauma addresses the need for an exploration of current thinking on music and trauma. With chapters written by many of today's leading specialists in this ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

  • The Science and Psychology of Music Performance

    Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning

    What type of practice makes a musician perfect? What sort of child is most likely to succeed on a musical instrument? What practice strategies yield the fastest improvement in skills such as sight-reading, memorization, and intonation? Scientific and psychological research can offer answers to these and other questions that musicians face every day. In The Science and Psychology of Music ... Read more

    $118.99 AUD

  • Harmonic Rhythm

    Analysis and Interpretation

    An accessible exploration of an important and understudied music theory topic, Swain's book examines the dimensional technique of analyzing harmonic rhythm. Simply defined, harmonic rhythm is the relationship between changes in harmony and perceived changes in rhythm. This phenomenon plays a large role in shaping the texture and style of much of Western music, from Renaissance polyphonic pieces to ... Read more

    $191.99 AUD

  • Hal Leonard Pocket Music Theory (Music Instruction)

    A Comprehensive and Convenient Source for All Musicians

    (Book). Following in the footsteps of the popular Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary , this handy pocket-sized book is the most contemporary music theory book on the market! A step-by-step guide to harmony and theory for every musician, it includes thorough, yet to easy-to-understand analysis of: intervals, rhythms, scales, chords, key signatures, transposition, chord inversion, key centers, ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Conceptualizing Music

    Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis

    Series series AMS Studies in Music
    This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the part these play in theories of musical organization. The first part of the book ... Read more

    $76.99 AUD

  • Four Parts, No Waiting

    A Social History of American Barbershop Quartet

    by Gage Averill ...
    Series series American Musicspheres
    Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces the popularity of this musical form in minstrel shows, black recreational singing, vaudeville, early ... Read more

    $60.99 AUD