Irish & Scottish Airs & Ballads for Acoustic Guitar (Mel Bay Archive Editions)
by Bill Brennan
World At Your Fingertips Book 1 (Learning Link, BK 1)
by Deborah Brener and Nancy Lau
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, including theory, sight-singing and aural tests, giving readers the necessary skills to navigate...
Musical Semantics (European Semiotics / Semiotiques Europeennes, #7)
by Ole Kuhl
La Perception de la Musique (Etudes de Psychologie Et de Philosophie, #14)
by Robert Frances
Know the Orchestra (Know the Orchestra)
by Inez Schubert, Lucille Wood, and Edward Jurey
Theory for Busy Teens, Book A (Piano for Busy Teens, A)
by Melody Bober, Gayle Kowalchyk, and E L Lancaster
2019 - 2020 18 Month Weekly & Monthly Planner July 2019 to December 2020
by Dazzle Book Press
First he discusses music as a language--how it conveys definite thoughts and feelings. Then he takes up in turn the various elements found in all music--tone, rhythm, melody, harmony; finally, he shows why music must have form and traces its development from the simplest folk-song to the complex modern symphony. Douglas Moore's skillful interpretation of musical expression makes this an ideal handbook for those who wish to develop their own taste through a fuller understanding of how music speak...
Exploring the natural relationship between music and other arts, the authors link music to poetry through the art of song, to dance through ballet, to drama through opera, to literary and visual imagery through programme music, to architecture through the settings of musical performances. With regard to the historical development of music, the authors demonstrate that the stylistic trends that affect music often effect similar stylistic changes in architecture, sculpture, painting and literature...
It is generally accepted that exceptionally skilled people in society, such as airline pilots and brain surgeons, have significantly different personalities from those of the general population. A kind of folklore has long existed within musical circles that there are fundamental personality differences between the players of different instruments. Dr Kemp examines this issue, as well as several others relating to the musical temperament, in the light of his years of research in the field.