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  • Language of the Spirit

    An Introduction to Classical Music

    by Jan Swafford ...
    A preeminent composer, music scholar, and biographer presents an engaging and accessible introduction to classical musicFor many of us, classical music is something serious -- something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for ... Read more

    S$ 22.88 SGD

  • This Is What It Sounds Like

    A Legendary Producer Turned Neuroscientist on Finding Yourself Through Music

    **One of the Next Big Idea Club's Favorite Nonfiction BooksA Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2022A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.**This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it’s also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a ... Read more

    S$ 17.10 SGD

  • Achieving Peak Performance in Music

    Psychological Strategies for Optimal Flow

    Achieving Peak Performance in Music: Psychological Strategies for Optimal Flow isa unique and comprehensive exploration of flow in music performance. It describes the optimal performance experiences of great musicians and outlines ten psychological steps that can be implemented to facilitate and enhance optimal experience.Achieving Peak Performance in Music reveals strategies used by experts to ... Read more

    S$ 72.45 SGD

  • Music and Sentiment

    by Charles Rosen ...

    S$ 17.21 SGD

  • Music Learning and Teaching in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence

    An Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Volume 2

    Edited by Gary McPherson, Graham Welch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Music Learning and Teaching in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Designed for music teachers, students, and scholars of music education, as well as educational administrators and policy makers, the second book in this set explores a broad array of key issues, concepts, and debates related ... Read more

    S$ 35.74 SGD

  • Companion Book to Have Fun with Your Music

    Have Fun with Your Music, #2

    by Becky Chaffee ...
    Series Book 2 - Have Fun with Your Music
    This Have Fun With Your Music companion provides ideas for parent discussion with young music students***.*** The book requires advanced thought level (not reading level, since many ideas are portrayed in the engaging paintings). The original hardback art book is intended for children to be encouraged to practice their instrument. Parents and teachers can tell them to practice until they are blue, ... Read more

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  • Spanish Piano Music and Folklore from the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries

    Crossing Paths

    by Ana Benavides ...
    Translated by Walter Aaron Clark ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music—songs and dances—from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The piano was the dominant solo instrument in European art music of this period, including Spanish, and Ana Benavides uses this as a vehicle for examining a wide variety of vernacular songs and dances, offering a wealth of musical, historical, and ethnographic insight. First ... Read more

    S$ 90.57 SGD

  • Music and the Reconstruction of Spanish Modernism

    The Broken Mosaic

    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    This book provides new critical insights into Spanish musical, artistic, and literary works produced between the concluding years of the nineteenth century and the initial decades of the twentieth century. Fernández-Escárzaga creates a conceptual map to assist in comprehending the multifarious aesthetic particularities of Spain at the turn of the century. The argument proceeds from two main ... Read more

    S$ 90.57 SGD

  • Raising Musical Kids

    A Guide for Parents

    Does music make kids smarter? At what age should a child begin music lessons? Where should you purchase an instrument? What should parents expect from a child's teachers and lessons? How can you get kids to practice? Raising Musical Kids answers these and many other questions as it guides parents through everything from assembling a listening library for kids, to matching a child's personality ... Read more

    S$ 46.42 SGD

  • Cadence

    A Study of Closure in Tonal Music

    Cadence is a comprehensive examination of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure. The book brings together the author's decades-long investigations into cadence, a compositional device that is readily experienced both by musicians and non-musicians, but one that has proven intractable to clear and precise theoretical formulation. Rooted in Caplin's broader theory ... Read more

    S$ 75.31 SGD

  • The Music Room

    A Story of Art, Friendship, and Gathering in Betty Freeman's Beverly Hills Home

    by Jake Johnson ...
    From 1981 to 1994, music patron and art collector Betty Freeman (1921--2009) hosted a series of monthly musicales, or salons, in Los Angeles. Most of these salons were held in a room off the den of Freeman's Beverly Hills home--a space she dubbed "the music room." Freeman saw these salons as an important space to foster the development of contemporary composition among leading and upcoming ... Read more

    S$ 34.43 SGD

  • From Tejano to Tango

    Essays on Latin American Popular Music

    Edited by Walter Aaron Clark ...
    Author of two books on Issac Albeniz, including Issac Albeniz: A Guide to Research (1998), Walter Aaron Clark has compiled thirteen essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well as the rhythmic development of the various genres. In this essential book, significant personalities, including Carmen Miranda ... Read more

    S$ 103.11 SGD

  • When Music Goes to School

    Perspectives on Learning and Teaching

    Series series National Association for Music Education
    Experts in child psychology and pedagogy concur that how children are schooled today seriously conflicts with how they learn and develop. Children are being left behind and the promises and possibilities of childhood are slipping away. This book aims to disclose a deeper understanding of music’s importance in children’s lives and their need to know, explore, wonder, and play. Directed toward music ... Read more

    S$ 38.58 SGD

  • Dinner For 2

    by Mike Francis ...
    Set the Perfect Mood with Dinner for 2Looking to set the perfect mood for an intimate evening? Dinner for 2 is your ultimate guide to curating the ideal soundtrack for love. Whether you're planning a candlelit dinner or a cozy night in, this book offers a handpicked selection of timeless classics and contemporary hits that will set the tone for romance.What You'll DiscoverSmooth Melodies: ... Read more

    S$ 4.59 SGD

  • Classical Crossroads

    The Path Forward for Music in the 21st Century

    Legendary maestro Leonard Slatkin provides personal insights and offers his ideas to solve the current dilemmas of classical music.As the new millennium poses some of the greatest challenges to the relevance of the art form, Slatkin reflects on the modern evolution of classical music and presents ways for both music lovers and musicians alike to navigate these uncertain times. Classical Crossroads ... Read more

    S$ 28.98 SGD

  • Music Fundamentals for Musical Theatre

    Musical theatre students and performers are frequently asked to learn musical material in a short space of time; sight-read pieces in auditions; collaborate with accompanists; and communicate musically with peers, directors, music directors and choreographers. Many of these students and performers will have had no formal musical training.This book offers a series of lessons in music fundamentals, ... Read more

    S$ 45.12 SGD

  • Les cahiers de Tout l’opéra (ou presque)

    Opus II : Écrivains, dramaturges et librettistes

    "Les cahiers de Tout l’opéra (ou presque)" plonge dans l’histoire fascinante de l’opéra à travers les figures littéraires et dramatiques qui l’ont façonné. Cet essai met en lumière les écrivains et librettistes qui ont marqué l’art lyrique, en explorant l’adaptation des mythes antiques, des tragédies et des classiques littéraires en œuvres musicales. Jean-Louis Dubois nous invite à découvrir les ... Read more

    S$ 29.16 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Forty-Eight Preludes and Fugues of J.S .Bach

    by Cecil Gray ...
    Originally published in 1934, this is an exhaustive examination of one of Bach's greatest works, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in this great composer. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, ... Read more

    S$ 14.49 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Listen to the Music Around

    “Nature has music to those who listen,” says Shakespeare. How true this is!Have you ever felt the music in the swaying trees, the blossoming flowers, the cry of a baby, the gush of the storm? Have you seen those little ants energetically running in unity? Have you seen the birds that step up and down, up and down? Have you seen the tiny toddlers falling and relentlessly rising up? Have you watched ... Read more

    S$ 1.74 SGD

  • A mais dócil das formas do Tempo

    Ensaios de Musicologia Crítica

    O Prof. Dr. Marcos Câmara de Castro traz a público uma reflexão profunda de toda a sua produção intelectual, técnica e artística desenvolvida ao longo dos últimos 48 anos. Compositor, mestre e doutor pela Escola de Comunicação e Artes da USP, sob a orientação do Prof. Dr. Mario Ficarelli, também recebeu uma bolsa de aperfeiçoamento do CNPq para estudar com o consagrado Michel Philippot no ... Read more

    S$ 5.94 SGD

  • Looking and Listening

    Conversations between Modern Art and Music

    Looking and Listening: Conversations between Modern Art and Music invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor into an open dialog. Although the worlds of music and visual art often seem to take separate paths, they are usually parallel. Conductor and art connoisseur Brenda Leach takes unique pairings of well-known visual art works and musical compositions from ... Read more

    S$ 67.90 SGD

  • Musical Topics and Musical Performance

    Edited by Julian Hellaby ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    The principal purpose of topics in musicology has been to identify meaning-bearing units within a musical composition that would have been understood by contemporary audiences and therefore also by later receivers, albeit in a different context and with a need for historically aware listening. Since Leonard Ratner (1980) introduced the idea of topics, his relatively simple ideas have been expanded ... Read more

    S$ 85.00 SGD

  • From Bach to the Beatles

    How Music Started

    by K.R. Hillyer ...
    Bach did not invent Music. Music didn’t stop when the Beatles broke up in 1971. These are simply bookends K.R. Hillyer uses for a lighthearted look at Music through the Ages. Hear how Sid Caesar discovers melody, using his fellow cavemen as test subjects. Join us as we wander with the Ancient Egyptians and their musical cats or the Greeks and their hilarious choruses (not). There’s always those ... Read more

    S$ 9.74 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Motivação na Aula de Instrumento Musical Teorias e Estratégias para Professores

    Entre as teorias abordadas estão a Autoeficácia, as Metas de Realização, a Autodeterminação, o Flow, o Modelo Cíclico de Aprendizagem Autorregulada e a Atribuição de Causalidade. A cada capítulo, o autor demonstra de forma prática como usar essas teorias no dia a dia da aula de instrumento musical. As teorias servem como base para debater temas importantes no ensino de música, como o medo de ... Read more

    S$ 11.90 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus