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  • The Hindi Music Jukebox

    Exploring Unforgettable Songs

    This Indian film music book is a collection of eighty essays about the people who made remarkable music in Bollywood cinema, especially during the great era, and the ideas such people brought to the recording studios. When songs had to go without rhythms or when melodies had plenty of Q n A in them. In this music book, we flirt with Rock n Roll and scan songs that speed up at the end, we peep ... Read more

    ₹212.40

  • How to Listen to Jazz

    by Ted Gioia ...
    **An Economist Best Book of the YearAn acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz.“Mr. Gioia could not have done a better job. Through him, jazz might even find new devotees.” ―Economist**In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen ... Read more

    ₹1,047.47

  • PARKER: A Miscellany

    by John Connolly ...
    PARKER: A Miscellany is a nonfiction companion to John Connolly's bestselling Charlie Parker mysteries that uses music as a jumping-off point. The book includes introductions to each of the Parker novels, through A SONG OF SHADOWS; liner notes for each of the six CDs Connolly has compiled to go with hardcover editions of certain Parker novels; a long essay called “The Music Lover,” about his life ... Read more

    ₹322.31

  • The Listening Book

    by W. A. Mathieu ...
    The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on many aspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to help readers appreciate the ... Read more

    ₹901.15

  • The Sound of Beauty

    A Classical Composer on Music in the Spiritual Life

    by Michael Kurek ...
    Music remains something of a mystery to many people—ephemeral sounds floating invisibly through the air—here, and then gone. This book begins with the basic question of what music actually is, scientifically, employing simple, clear explanations of wave theory and the acoustics of sound as part of God's natural creation. It presents accessible and fascinating explanations of some theories of the ... Read more

    ₹1,345.19

  • Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom

    Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube

    Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. The cultural prevalence and the students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia materials help enliven course content and foster interactive learning and participation. Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom: ... Read more

    ₹4,759.28

  • The Music of William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin

    Voices of Stone and Steel

    Series series Modern Traditionalist Classical Music
    William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin were three of the most significant American composers of the 20th century, yet their music has largely disappeared from view since their respective deaths. Because they each spent the majority of their careers working at the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center, their music is often viewed as "interchangeable." In The Music of William Schuman, ... Read more

    ₹5,132.87

  • The Emergence of the U.S. School Steel Band Movement

    The Saga of Steel

    This work examines the spread of the steelpan art form within U.S. music education, specifically in schools and universities. This is set within the context of a large Caribbean diaspora, which brought the music and culture to the U.S. This is followed by an in-depth examination into the implications for steel bands and music education going forward. This research includes 'family trees' that ... Read more

    ₹7,992.84

  • The Artist as Citizen

    Series series Amadeus
    The Artist as Citizen is a compilation of Joseph W. Polisi's articles and speeches from his two-decade tenure as president of the Juilliard School. His writings focus on the role of the artist in American society as a leader and communicator of human values. The extended prologue includes Polisi's recollections of his early days at Juilliard and the selection process that resulted in his ... Read more

    ₹2,346.42

  • Because

    A Fan Picks His Top Forty Songs by the Fab Four

    As a devoted fan of the lads from Liverpool, Mark considers himself an expert on their songs, both with the Beatles and during their solo careers. He has selected his favorite forty songs and tells their story in each chapter. ... Read more

    ₹284.60

  • Experiencing Broadway Music

    A Listener's Companion

    by Kat Sherrell ...
    Series series Listener's Companion
    Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener’s Companion explores approximately the last century of American musical theater, beginning with the early–twentieth-century shift from European influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works of seamlessly integrated song and dance that became uniquely American. It concludes with an examination of current musical trends and practices on ... Read more

    ₹4,546.41

  • Maurice Duruflé

    The Man and His Music

    Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any language. James E. Frazier traces Duruflé's musical training, his studies withTournemire and Vierne, and his career as an organist, church musician, composer, recitalist, Conservatoire professor, and orchestral musician. Frazier also examines the career ... Read more

    ₹1,872.77

  • Knowing the Children We Teach

    Essays on Music Learning

    Knowing The Children We Teach places children at the center of music learning and teaching. What we understand about children determines how we teach them: the music learning environments we provide and decisions we make about music content and skills. Unexpressed, but no less meaningful, is the interdependent relationship between music teacher and children. Recent trends in music education ... Read more

    ₹1,979.20

  • High Notes and Low

    300 and a Few More Whimsical Anecdotes Concerning Music and Musicians

    by Ray W. Moore ...
    Series series Amadeus
    Everyone loves to laugh, to wonder, and to be amazed. High Notes and Low presents interesting and unusual anecdotal information about classical music and musicians in a down-to-earth, easily readable form. Free of technical jargon, the book is appealing not only to the musician but to the general reader as well, and offers information that all can enjoy.The book is divided into six sections that ... Read more

    ₹1,319.46

  • Desarrollo de la audición musical en prácticas curriculares y extracurriculares de estudiantes de Composación y Arreglos

    El territorio andado es el de la formación auditiva, un espacio paradojal y caleidoscópico, en el cruce de las exigencias del dominio de la notación musical de los músicos del siglo XIX y las necesidades que de ella tienen los protagonistas de la cultura musical posalfabetizada. La mirada con la que Genoveva realiza este viaje es francamente la de una docente sensible, atenta, critica e ... Read more

    ₹279.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La escala dórica

    La escala dórica es uno de los siete modos griegos. Recibe esta denominación por el antiguo pueblo griego de los dorios. Es una escala diatónica que se forma a partir de las teclas blancas del piano de RE a RE; tiene un patrón de intervalos simétricos de tonos y semitonos aplicada de manera ascendente y descendente. También Podemos mencionar que esta escala inicia en el segundo grado de la escala ... Read more

    ₹858.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works

    An Introduction to the Fascinating World of Classical Music

    by Gary A. Smook ...
    His fascinating exploration takes you inside the rich music and colorful lives of the world’s greatest classical composers. From Bach to Stravinsky and beyond, you will learn how the unique life stories of these gifted composers are reflected in the musical masterpieces that we enjoy to this day.Designed as an introductory book on classical music, this comprehensive collection presents ... Read more

    ₹1,143.69

  • Do Samba à Bossa Nova: Inventando um País

    A partir da leitura de canções significativas do samba e da bossa nova, em que foram observados tanto os aspectos literários quanto musicais, Do samba à bossa nova: inventando um país pretende discutir o nascimento da música popular urbana no Brasil e o seu percurso ao longo da primeira metade do século XX, até 1958, quando se dá eclosão do movimento bossa nova. Da dificuldade inicial de inserção ... Read more

    ₹679.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Classical and Early Romantic Flute

    A Theoretical and Practical Guide

    by Anne Pustlauk ...
    In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the flute was the most commonly played wind instrument by both amateurs and virtuosos. Thanks to the flute's popularity, countless instruments, flute compositions, and flute methods were produced, many of which are still preserved today. The flute itself underwent a great evolution during this time; flute players and makers adapted it to the ... Read more

    ₹644.35

  • Listening to Mendelssohn

    An Owner's Manual

    by David Hurwitz ...
    Series series Unlocking the Masters
    The greatest musical prodigy since Mozart (some would say he was even greater), Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) excelled in everything he did, musical or otherwise, and during his brief life became Europe’s most respected and beloved composer. Yet no musician suffered more drastic swings in his posthumous reputation, and as a result Mendelssohn’s music was obscured by a host of extra-musical factors ... Read more

    ₹2,492.86

  • IB Music Revision Guide, 3rd Edition

    Everything you need to prepare for the Music Listening Examination (Standard and Higher Level 20192021)

    by Roger Paul ...
    The ‘IB Music Revision Guide 3rd Edition’ includes analyses of all the prescribed works of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme music course through to 2021. It also includes a comprehensive overview of all the musical styles and cultures that are examined during the course, practice questions and answers that allow students to check their knowledge, as well as a glossary to help ... Read more

    ₹1,832.29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Experiencing David Bowie

    A Listener's Companion

    by Ian Chapman ...
    Series series Listener's Companion
    In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music. Still active in a career now well into its fifth decade, Bowie’s influence on music and popular culture is vast. At the height of the ... Read more

    ₹4,097.66

  • Who Knew?

    Answers to Questions about Classical Music you Never Thought to Ask

    Did you ever leave an opera performance wondering why the singers use so much vibrato? Or a symphony, wondering who decided where on stage the orchestra members should sit, or why they tune their instruments to an oboe rather than an electronic tuner? Why is Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture played on the 4th of July? And how does a composer choose what key to compose in? In Who Knew?: Answers to ... Read more

    ₹302.34

  • The Compleat Conductor

    A world-renowned conductor and composer who has lead most of the major orchestras in North America and Europe, a talented musician who has played under the batons of such luminaries as Toscanini and Walter, and an esteemed arranger, scholar, author, and educator, Gunther Schuller is without doubt a major figure in the music world. Now, in The Compleat Conductor, Schuller has penned a highly ... Read more

    ₹470.49