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Hearing and Writing Music: Professional Training for Today's Musician (2nd Edition)  A self-training manual as well as a classroom text, this book is a complete step-by-step course to develop the musician's ability to hear and notate any style of music. Personal training, thoery and exercises produce techniques which are combined in an integrated craft which may be applied to composition, orchestration, arranging, improvisation and performance.Author: Ron Gorow Paperback: 448 pages Company: September Publishing (2002-09) ISBN: 0962949671 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $17.35 Used Price: $15.96 Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music (2nd Edition)  This book provides the most comprehensive analytical approach to 20th-Century Music available -- from Impressionism to recent trends. It covers music from the early 1900s through such movements as Minimalism and the Neoromanticism of the 1990's, and includes chapters on rhythm, form, electronic and computer music, and the roles of chance and choice in Twentieth-Century music. Explores an exceptionally broad range of styles and techniques --including electronic music and MIDI, chance music, and quotation music. Stresses analysis and composition rather than historical aspects. Organizes content by compositional technique. Covers all facets of materials and techniques -- from microtonal scale to melodic organization, chord structures, and serialism. Contains over 100 examples from music literature -- ranging from the beginning of the 20th-Century to the 1990's -- and representing a broad range of styles -- from Impressionism to Serialism to Minimalism and beyond. Includes exercises involving drills, analysis, composition, and listening. For anyone interested in music theory and harmony, analysis of 20th-Century music, or history of 20th-Century music.Author: Stefan Kostka Paperback: 328 pages Company: Prentice Hall (1998-07-16) ISBN: 0139240772 List Price: $82.00 Amazon Price: $54.99 Used Price: $11.50 Music Composition For Dummies  Music Composition For Dummies explains how to use music theory to write music in a variety of forms. It introduces basic chord construction and shows the reader how to compose music with both chords and melody, develop simple melodic motifs and themes into longer compositions, arrange compositions, create scores, and select the right instruments and voicing to express musical ideas. Music Composition For Dummies also shows you how to create popular songs, classically structured pieces, film and television scores, videogame soundtracks, and more using both traditional and improvisational techniques.Author: Scott Jarrett, Holly Day Paperback: 336 pages Company: For Dummies (2008-02-05) ISBN: 0470224215 List Price: $21.99 Amazon Price: $11.81 Used Price: $11.00 Music Theory For Dummies  Many people grimace at the sound of music theory. It can conjure up bad memories of grade school music classes, rattle the brains of college students, and make self-taught musicians feel self-defeated. Music Theory may seem tedious and unnecessary, especially since not many people can read music. Luckily, Music Theory for Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to understanding the concepts needed to compose, deconstruct, and comprehend music. This helpful guide will give you a great grasp of:
This friendly guide not only explores these concepts, it provides examples of music to compliment them so you can hear how they sound firsthand. With a bonus CD that demonstrates these ideas with musical excerpts on guitar and piano, this hands-on resource will prove to you that music theory is as enjoyable as it is useful. Don’t get discouraged by the seemingly complicated written structure. With Music Theory for Dummies, understanding music has never been easier! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. Deluxe Wirebound Super Premium Manuscript Paper (Gold Cover)  96 pages, 12 staves per page, heavy premium paper erases easily, 8 1/2 inch. x 11 inch.; Music Notation Guide.Spiral-bound: 96 pages Company: Hal Leonard Corporation (1987-12-01) ISBN: 0793547636 List Price: $7.50 Amazon Price: $6.77 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition (The Complete Idiot's Guide)  Write the songs that make the whole world sing. A step-by-step guide to writing music, this book shows musicians how to compose simple chord progressions and melodies, and leads them through more advanced compositional techniques and musical forms. Designed for composers of all types of music, it includes instruction on composing stand-alone melodies, using different scales and modes, themes and variations, orchestration, and composing for film, theater, and videogames. Modal Music Composition: Expanded Edition  Modal Music Composition:Expanded Edition serves as a reference work unlikely to be superseded and also as a source of fresh ideas for composers and songwriters looking to use modal music as a true alternative to the tonal system. Only a modest knowledge of traditional (tonal) harmony and forms is necessary. No knowledge of modal music is assumed. Numerous examples and tables provide important information in easy-to-use form. Three more chapters and 40 more music examples have been added to this new edition. Three extended study compositions illustrate the procedures more vividly than standard examples. The 3 study compositions and examples are recorded on the included audio CD. This book, therefore, fills the need by composers and songwriters alike for a comprehensive description and analysis of the melodic and harmonic characteristics of the modal scales and their interrelations. Although composers have often used modal passages, it is acknowledged that the modal scales have less harmonic stability than the still predominant major-minor scales. To remedy this, Dr. Cormier has taken a fresh look at the modal scales and developed a systematic set of procedures that can maintain modal stability while retaining their special characterAuthor: Stephen M. Cormier Paperback: 370 pages Company: Inman & Artz Publishers (2006-08-21) ISBN: 097543182X List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: $35.00 Used Price: $25.00 The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers  Aspiring screenwriters don't need another book on how to write a screenplay, says Karl Iglesias. What they need is a book on how to be a screenwriter. Voilà: The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, featuring interviews with 14 screenwriters, arranged by subject. The result reads like a panel discussion, touching on such subjects as collaboration, schmoozing, discipline, Hollywood, and story pitching. The dream of winning a Hollywood jackpot has lured everyone and his gardener into the screenwriting game. Still, despite the unencouraging odds, "all you need to do is write a good script," says Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls). Some of the book's best advice concerns one of the screenwriter's most formidable hurdles: getting a screenplay read. Submit it to film festivals and screenwriting competitions, or follow Tom Schulman's (Dead Poet's Society) advice and hire an entertainment attorney. After all, "most of them know a lot of agents." --Jane SteinbergAuthor: Karl Iglesias Paperback: 232 pages Company: Adams Media Corporation (2001-10) ISBN: 1580625509 List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $4.75 Used Price: $4.50 Composing Music: A New Approach  Aimed at those who have some knowledge of music but not formal training in composition, this concise introduction to composing starts right in with a brief composition exercise, then proceeds step by step through a series of increasingly complex and challenging problems, gradually expanding the student's musical grammar. "This is a wonderful book for anyone who is developing improvising skills or who would like a fun way to explore music."—Jim Stockford, Co-Evolution Quarterly Author: William Russo, Jeffrey Ainis, David Stevenson Plastic Comb: 240 pages Company: University Of Chicago Press (1988-02-15) ISBN: 0226732169 List Price: $25.00 Amazon Price: $14.50 Used Price: $11.98 The Big Book of Staff Paper  This 1-1/4"-thick edition is the ultimate book of staff paper - perfect for students, teachers, or any musician! It includes 512 perforated pages with 12 staves per page, plus a helpful music notation guide. 8-1/2" x 11".Paperback: 512 pages Company: Hal Leonard Corporation (1992-10-01) ISBN: 0793516889 List Price: $10.95 Amazon Price: $5.99 Used Price: $5.97 |
Edly's Music Theory for Practical People  Author: Ed Roseman Paperback: 145 pages Company: Musical Ed Ventures (1999-07) ISBN: 0966161602 List Price: $25.00 Amazon Price: $15.58 Used Price: $15.95 The Chord Wheel: The Ultimate Tool for All Musicians  Master chord theory ... in minutes! The Chord Wheel is a revolutionary device that puts the most essential and practical applications of chord theory into your hands. This tool will help you: Improvise and Solo - Talk about chops! Comprehend key structure like never before; Transpose Keys - Instantly transpose any progression into each and every key; Compose Your Own Music - Watch your songwriting blossom! No music reading is necessary. "This is the kind of device that players of any instrument can use to enhance their musical understanding. Chord and key relationships are inseparable, and learning these relationships is a must in becoming a successful musician." - Alan Remington, Orange Coast College Music Dept.Author: Jim Fleser Paperback: 12 pages Company: Hal Leonard Corporation (2000-12-01) ISBN: 0634021427 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $8.49 Used Price: $9.00 Study of Counterpoint  The most celebrated book on counterpoint is Fux's great theoretical work Gradus ad Parnassum. Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the greatest composers. J. S. Bach held it in high esteem, Leopold Mozart trained his famous son from its pages, Haydn worked out every lesson with meticulous care, and Beethoven condensed it into an abstract for ready reference.Author: John J. Fux Paperback: 156 pages Company: W. W. Norton & Company (1965-06) ISBN: 0393002772 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $9.55 Used Price: $7.95 Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory: A Complete Self-Study Course for All Musicians (Book & 2 CDs) (Essentials of Music Theory)  This practical, easy-to-use self-study course is perfect for pianists, guitarists, instrumentalists, vocalists, songwriters, arrangers and composers, and includes ear training CDs to help develop your musical ear. In this all-in-one theory course, you will learn the essentials of music through 75 concise lessons, practice your music reading and writing skills in the exercises, improve your listening skills with the enclosed ear training CDs, and test your knowledge with a review that completes each of the 18 units. Answers are included in the back of the book for all exercises, ear training and review.Author: Andrew Surmani, Karen Farnum Surmani, Morton Manus Paperback: 152 pages Company: Alfred Publishing Company (2004-08) ISBN: 0739036351 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $24.35 Used Price: $21.90 This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession  In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals:• How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world • Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr. Dre • That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise • How those insidious little jingles (called earworms) get stuck in our heads And, taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin argues that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. This Is Your Brain on Music is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature. Author: Daniel J. Levitin Paperback: 336 pages Company: Plume (2007-08-28) ISBN: 0452288525 List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $4.07 Used Price: $4.24 The Inner Game of Music  By the best-selling co-author of Inner Tennis, here's a book designed to help musicians overcome obstacles, help improve concentration, and reduce nervousness, allowing them to reach new levels of performing excellence and musical artistry.Author: Barry Green, W. Timothy Gallwey Hardcover: 225 pages Company: Doubleday (1986-02-21) (1986-02-21) ISBN: 0385231261 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $14.05 Used Price: $10.14 Music Theory For Dummies Many people grimace at the sound of music theory. It can conjure up bad memories of grade school music classes, rattle the brains of college students, and make self-taught musicians feel self-defeated. Music Theory may seem tedious and unnecessary, especially since not many people can read music. Luckily, Music Theory for Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to understanding the concepts needed to compose, deconstruct, and comprehend music. This helpful guide will give you a great grasp of:
This friendly guide not only explores these concepts, it provides examples of music to compliment them so you can hear how they sound firsthand. With a bonus CD that demonstrates these ideas with musical excerpts on guitar and piano, this hands-on resource will prove to you that music theory is as enjoyable as it is useful. Don’t get discouraged by the seemingly complicated written structure. With Music Theory for Dummies, understanding music has never been easier! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. Music Theory for Guitarists: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask  Guitarists of all levels will find a wealth of practical music knowledge in this special book and CD package. Veteran guitarist and author Tom Kolb dispels the mysteries of music theory using plain and simple terms and diagrams. The accompanying CD provides 94 tracks of music examples, scales, modes, chords, ear training, and much more!Author: Tom Kolb Paperback: 104 pages Company: Hal Leonard (2005-05-01) ISBN: 063406651X List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $12.22 Used Price: $12.22 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory, 2nd Edition (The Complete Idiot's Guide)  A music theory book that hits the high note … This updated and expanded edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Music Theory breaks down a difficult subject in a simple way—even for those who think they have no rhythm or consider themselves tone deaf. With clear, concise language, it explains everything from bass-clef basics to confusing codas. This new edition includes: Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals  Audio productions are made or broken by the quality of the recording engineer's ears. The ability to properly discern sounds, identify subtle problems, and act accordingly to apply the necessary fix makes all the difference in the quality of the final tracks and master. The good news is that these crucial skills can be learned. The ability to instantly identify frequencies, hear hidden distortions, and instinctively reconcile conflicts in the EQ of instruments, audio elements, vocals and more are traits of those who have mastered the art of audio production. The best engineers have trained their ears to immediately recognize audio problems that the consumer and those new to recording arts would likely not hear, but that, if left unresolved, would result in an amateurish final product. For more than two decades, students of F. Alton Everest's Critical Listening and Auditory Perception courses have rapidly developed these skills by using the intense lessons found in this book and on the CD. Unfortunately the books and CDs included with the course were usually too expensive for aspiring engineers to purchase and were often available only in colleges, universities, or school libraries. Now for the first time these indispensable training sessions are available with this release of Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals. Through hundreds of illustrations and an accompanying disc containing high-resolution MP3 files with nearly five hours of narration of the entire course, you can acquire the audio discernment skills of a seasoned recording engineer by studying this course at your own pace, in your own home.Author: F. Alton Everest Hardcover: 216 pages Company: Artistpro (2006-06-20) ISBN: 1598630237 List Price: $49.99 Amazon Price: $31.38 Used Price: $29.25 |
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