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  • 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

  • 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.” ―**EconomistIn How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premie... ... Read more

    S$ 16.67 SGD

  • This Is What It Sounds Like

    What the Music You Love Says About You

    by Susan Rogers, Ogi Ogas ...
    **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

    by Sarah Sinnamon ...
    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

  • The Music Lesson

    A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

    by Victor L. Wooten ...
    From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them.The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part ... Read more

    S$ 12.96 SGD

  • O Jacaré Na Lagoa Dos Patos

    by Cláudio Cezar Freitas Silva ...
    ✨ Descubra a história que vai conquistar corações de todas as idades! ✨ Em O Jacaré na Lagoa dos Patos, um ovo misterioso é acolhido com amor por uma família de patos muito especial. Do ovo nasce Chezito — um jacaré que aprenderá, entre penas e abraços, que o coração pode ser mais forte que o instinto. Mas o que acontece quando a natureza selvagem começa a despertar dentro dele? Em uma aventura ... Read more

    S$ 11.16 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Something's Coming, Something Good

    West Side Story and the American Imagination

    by Misha Berson ...
    Series series Applause Books
    Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination takes a critical, comprehensive look at one of the most inventive, influential, and internationally beloved Broadway musicals of all time – from its inception by a brilliant quartet of creators (Robbins, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents) to its smashing success on film, to its ongoing popularity on stages around the ... Read more

    S$ 20.81 SGD

  • IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition

    Everything you need to prepare for the Music Listening Examination (Standard and Higher Level 2016-2019)

    by Roger Paul ...
    The ‘IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition’ includes analyses of all the prescribed works of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme music course through 2019. 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 ensure ... Read more

    S$ 32.36 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music of Initiative: Julian Joseph on Jazz

    by Julian Joseph ...
    Music of Initiative: Julian Joseph on Jazz is for any musician interested in jazz, no matter what your instrument or level of experience.In Music of Initiative Julian Joseph shares his insight into the philosophy and practice of jazz performance. With incisive text, stunning imagery, and downloadable exercises and videos, this unique guide teaches you to immerse yourself in music, and how to ... Read more

    S$ 20.15 SGD

  • What in the World is Music?

    by Alison E. Arnold, Jonathan C. Kramer ...
    What in the World is Music? Second Edition is an undergraduate, interactive e-textbook that explores the shared ways people engage with music and how humans organize and experience sound. It adopts a global approach, featuring more than 300 streaming videos and 50 streaming audio tracks of music from around the world. Drawing from both musicological and ethnomusicological modes of inquiry, the ... Read more

    S$ 160.27 SGD

  • Sun Forest Lake

    The Symphonies & Tone Poems of Jean Sibelius

    by David Vernon ...
    'David Vernon's book helps everyone, no matter how previously informed, to find their own way into Sibelius's extraordinary world.' - Sakari Oramo, chief conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra'Sibelius's music is as synthetic as a skyscraper but as natural and spontaneous as a dividing cell'Developing a style and logic all his own, outside the trends of modernism, Jean Sibelius wrote some of most ... Read more

    S$ 13.29 SGD

  • Psychology of Music

    by Carl E. Seashore ...
    The psychology of music aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and musical experience. A must read for all fans of music as a complete experience and science. 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, high quality, modern editions, using ... Read more

    S$ 14.49 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Less is more

    Selected Writings on Choral Music

    by Aurelio Porfiri ...
    Table of ContentIntroduction.Intepretatio.Less is More.Music is Not only About Music.On AccentSilentium..What a Conductor is NotThe Issue of Modernity in Choral Music.The Aesthetic of Conducting: How the Beauty of a Gesture Affects Performance.Missing the Sign: Gregorian Chant and Semiology.System Theory and Choral Music.For a Theology of A Cappella Music.Recent Trends of <... ... Read more

    S$ 10.11 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE Golden Era of Mixtapes: The digital age

    Volume 1

    by Dietrich Williams ...
    Series series Volume 1
    The year of 2010 set the tone for mixtapes to come. Follow the list of 2010 mixtapes that would change music industry. Some of these artits would become the most talented for next generation rap artist. At each level these artist are becoming legend, eachs on rigth. Mixatpes, albums, underground, these artist have become the best and most creative. ... Read more

    S$ 8.95 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manuscritos Poéticos

    by Célio Azevedo ...
    Célio de Azevedo Júnior (Célio Azevedo) publicou aos 17 anos o seu primeiro livro, registrado na Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. O livro de poesias Manuscritos Poéticos , de 1999, reúne suas principais obras poéticas nesse momento. ... Read more

    S$ 7.43 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy Curriculum Book 1

    by Mamady Keïta ...
    This book was created by Grand Master Drummer Mamady Keita, from Guinea, West Africa for his international schools, the Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy, International Schools of Percussion. Specifically, this is curriculum and instruction for traditional djembe and dunun (djembe orchestra) music. It also includes instruction on djembe and dunun technique. This volume features 63 traditional ... Read more

    S$ 37.70 SGD

  • World Music: A Global Journey

    by Terry E. Miller, Andrew Shahriari, Terry Miller ...
    World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. It surveys world music within a systematic study of the world’s major cultures, supported by a strong pedagogical framework. Providing historical and cultural overviews of ... Read more

    S$ 195.11 SGD

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

    The Saga of Steel

    by Brandon L. Haskett ...
    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

    S$ 119.34 SGD

  • José Serebrier

    Portraits of the Maestro

    by Michel Faure ...
    With more than three hundred recordings to his name and multiple GRAMMY nominations, José Serebrier is one of the busiest and most successful conductors around. Admired across the globe, he has proven for several decades that he is not only one of the most original composers, but that he is also a major conductor for our times, one which the legendary Leopold Stokowski has called "the greatest ... Read more

    S$ 45.99 SGD

  • Valuing Music in Education

    A Charles Fowler Reader

    Edited by Craig Resta ...
    Noted music education and arts activist Charles Fowler has inspired music educators for more than 60 years. In this book, editor Craig Resta brings together the most important of Fowler's writings from the journal Musical America for new generations of readers. Here, Fowler speaks to many timeless issues including creativity and culture in the classroom, school funding, reform and policy, ... Read more

    S$ 46.42 SGD

  • Ways of Hearing

    Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces

    Edited by Scott Burnham, Marna Seltzer, Dorothea von Moltke ...
    An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more**—from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon—explore the influence of music on their lives and workContributors include: Laurie Anderson ● Jamie Barton ● Daphne A. Brooks ● Edgar Choueiri ● Jeff Dolven ● Gustavo Dudamel ● Edward Dusinberre ● Corinna da Fonseca ... Read more

    S$ 34.11 SGD

  • Modeling Musical Analysis

    Edited by Kim Loeffert, John Peterson ...
    Music theory has recently seen burgeoning efforts to make the field more inclusive and diverse. One prominent response involves a concerted effort to collect musical examples by historically marginalized composers for use in the classroom. Less has been done, however, on behalf of the scholars whose work is taught in our classrooms. This collection addresses this concern: scholarship taught in the ... Read more

    S$ 48.93 SGD

  • Music and the Broadcast Experience

    Performance, Production, and Audiences

    Edited by Christina Baade, James A. Deaville ...
    Music and the Broadcast Experience explores the complex ways in which music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. It brings into dialogue researchers working in media and music studies; explores and develops crucial points of contact between studies of music in radio and music in television; and investigates the limits, persistence, ... Read more

    S$ 57.76 SGD

  • Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Secrets of Vocal Artistry

    by Pier Francesco Tosi, Rachel Kirk ...
    Translated by John Ernest Galliard ...
    In "Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers," Pier Francesco Tosi presents a comprehensive exploration of vocal ornamentation and singing styles prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries. The book deftly combines theoretical discourse with practical examples, employing a clear, engaging literary style that reflects Tosi's dual role as a performer and ... Read more

    S$ 2.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus