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The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Cant Do Without It
By Philip Ball [Paperback 2011]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 15-18 days From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light onto every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all have, until recently, remained mysterious. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2012 Hardcover 2010
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Practical Theory, Vol 1
By Sandy Feldstein [Paperback 1982]
347 267 (23% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 5-7 days A three-volume theory text designed to be used with or without the correlated software diskettes. Perfect for classroom use. Students learn new concepts in class with the workbook, then may review and reinforce those concepts in a computer lab. A combination text and workbook in three volumes. All areas of... more
Other Editions: Paperback 1982 Spiral bound 1982
3.

Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting: 126 Proven Techniques for Writing Songs That Sell
By Robin Frederick [Paperback 2008]
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Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness
By Alain Danielou , Alain Daniilou [Hardcover 1995]
1,445 1,127 (22% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 5-7 days An accomplished musician and Hindu scholar looks to the harmonic ratios of ancient China, India and Greece as he explores the power of music to speak to our higher consciousness.... more
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Harmony Theory: A Bibliography
By James E Perone [Hardcover 1997]
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Film Music
By Kevin J Donnelly [Paperback 2001]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 5-7 days This ground-breaking anthology brings together the most influential international scholars on the subject, providing a detailed, diverse yet accessible perspective on music in the cinema. The book is divided into three parts: History and Contexts; Music in Classical Cinema; and Music in Post-Classical Cinema. As well as an introductory chapter... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2001
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Joachim Andersen: A Bio- Bibliography
By Kyle Jean Dzapo , Kyle Jean Zapo [Hardcover 1999]
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Available. Joachim Andersen enjoyed an unusually diverse career. It included founding membership in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, composition of eight volumes of etudes which have become standard repertoire for flutists world-wide, and major influence on Danish musical culture during the early years of the 20th century. The detailed biography assimilates previous... more
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Musical Anthologies for Analytical Study: A Bibliography
By James E Perone [Hardcover 1995]
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Available. Presenting detailed information about 14 standard anthologies, this useful music reference tool lists all excerpts and complete compositions, provides information concerning the type of score presented, and includes an index of composers and sources as well as an index of complete compositions and movements. The book is designed primarily for... more
9.

The Musical Image: A Theory of Content
By Laurence D Berman [Hardcover]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 5-7 days A musical phrase, or, for that matter, a musical unit of any size or shape, becomes an image whenever we imagine it to be invested with a content whose origins lie outside music. Such a content, according to the theory developed here, constitutes the image's conventional significance; it accounts for... more
10.

Richard Strauss, Arabella
By Kenneth Birkin [Paperback 1989]
2,953
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 5-7 days The first comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's opera, Arabella.... more
11.

Music And Musical Thought In Early India
By Lewis Rowell [Hardcover 1998, 1st Edition]
600 522 (13% OFF)
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 4-5 days Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures, formal patterns, and genres of Indian music... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 1992
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Baroque Counterpoint
By Peter Schubert , Christoph Neidhvfer [Spiral 2005]
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Inside Bluebeards Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartoks Opera
By Carl Stuart Leafstedt [Paperback 2005]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 15-18 days This is the first book-length examination of Bart k's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works. Writing in an engaging style, Leafstedt adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the opera by introducing, in addition to music-dramatic analysis, a number of topics that are new to... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 1999
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The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process
By Ann Mc Cutchan , Anne Mc Cutchan [Paperback 2003]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 15-18 days 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... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 1999
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The Music Kit[ With CDROM]
By Tom Manoff , Peter Hesterman , John Miller [Paperback 2001, 4th Edition]
5,772 5,599 (3% OFF)
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Available. Ships Free to India in 15-18 days Introduced in 1976, The Music Kit was the first to offer students anintegrated learning environment for the fundamentals course.... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2001, 4th Edition
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Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth- Century Popular Music
By Peter Van Der Merwe [Paperback 1992]
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Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Film Music
By Roger Hickman [Paperback 2005]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 5-7 days Reel Music provides an in-depth, chronological overview of music s role in film from the birth of the medium to the present.... more
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Schumanns Eichendorff Liederkreis and the Genre of the Romantic Cycle
By David Ferris [Hardbound 2000]
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Sonata Forms
By Charles Rosen [Hardcover 1980]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days "Nobody writes better about music .... again and again, unerring insight into just the features that make the music special and fine." The New York Review of Books... more
Other Editions: Paperback 1988, 2nd Edition
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Witold Lutoslawski: A Bio- Bibliography
By Stanisaw Bedkowski , Stanislaw Hrabia [Hardcover 2000]
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