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Fundamentals of Musical Composition
Arnold Schoenberg, Gerald Strang, et al.
5.0
Fundamentals of Musical Composition represents the culmination of more than forty years in Schoenberg's life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America. For his classes he developed a manner of presentation in which 'every technical matter is discussed in a very fundamental way, so that at the same time it is both simple and thorough'.
This book can be used for analysis as well as for composition. On the one hand, it has the practical objective of introducing students to the process of composing in a systematic way, from the smallest to the largest forms; on the other hand, the author analyses in thorough detail and with numerous illustrations those particular sections in the works of the masters which relate to the compositional problem under discussion.
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Music Composition for Dummies
Scott Jarrett
4.8
Want to turn that haunting tune in your head into an awesome sound in your ear? You can! Music Composition For Dummies demystifies the process of composing music and writing songs. It guides you through every step of writing your own music, from choosing the right rhythm and tempo to creating melodies and chord progressions and working with instruments and voices. In this fun and practical guide, you'll learn how to match keys and chords to the mood you want to convey, work a form without limiting your creativity, and hammer out a musical idea, even when your mind is drawing a blank. You'll find out how to create popular songs, classically structured pieces, and even film, TV, and video game soundtracks. And, you'll learn what you need to know about music composition software, including Finale, Sebelius, Pro Tools, and more. Discover how to:
Preserve and organize your musical ideas Work with established chord progressions or create your own Develop great rhythms Select the right instruments Find melodies in your head, your instrument, and the world around you Use major and minor scales Work with modes and moods Build melodic motifs and phrases Use the circle of fifths to harmonize Write for multiple voices Make a demo recording Filled with creative exercises to build your composing skills, Music Composition for Dummies is the resource you need to get that melody out of your head and into the world.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition
Michael Miller
4.7
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.
-Perfect complement to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Songwriting
-Includes a comprehensive glossary of musical terms, as well as an appendix of various computer-based composition tools
-Easy-to-use oversize trim
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Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation
Elaine Gould
4.6
Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor Elaine Gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles.
Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules, conventions and themes to complex instrumental techniques, empowering the reader to prepare music with total clarity and precision. With the advent of computer technology, it has never been more important for musicians to have ready access to principles of best practice in this dynamic field, and this book will support the endeavors of software users and devotees of hand-copying alike. The author's understanding of, and passion for, her subject has resulted in a book that is not only practical but also compellingly readable.
This seminal and all-encompassing guide encourages new standards of excellence and accuracy and, at a weighty 704 pages, it is supported by 1,500 music examples of published scores from Bach to Xenakis.
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
John Cage
4.5
Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them. Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called writing through).
John Cage is one of the composers most associated with minimalism. He’s a kind of pioneer, not just in music, but also for the arts, and for philosophy as well. In the 1940s and 1950s, he had already cultivated an interest in Zen philosophy. He experimented with these forms of emptiness in art that were very radical at the time. [source]
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A Composer's Guide to Game Music
Winifred Phillips
4.5
A comprehensive, practical guide to composing video game music, from acquiring the necessary skills to finding work in the field.
Music in video games is often a sophisticated, complex composition that serves to engage the player, set the pace of play, and aid interactivity. Composers of video game music must master an array of specialized skills not taught in the conservatory, including the creation of linear loops, music chunks for horizontal resequencing, and compositional fragments for use within a generative framework. In A Composer's Guide to Game Music, Winifred Phillips--herself an award-winning composer of video game music--provides a comprehensive, practical guide that leads an aspiring video game composer from acquiring the necessary creative skills to understanding the function of music in games to finding work in the field.
Musicians and composers may be drawn to game music composition because the game industry is a multibillion-dollar, employment-generating economic powerhouse, but, Phillips writes, the most important qualification for a musician who wants to become a game music composer is a love of video games. Phillips offers detailed coverage of essential topics, including musicianship and composition experience; immersion; musical themes; music and game genres; workflow; working with a development team; linear music; interactive music, both rendered and generative; audio technology, from mixers and preamps to software; and running a business.
A Composer's Guide to Game Music offers indispensable guidance for musicians and composers who want to deploy their creativity in a dynamic and growing industry, protect their musical identities while working in a highly technical field, and create great music within the constraints of a new medium.
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Standard Wirebound Manuscript Paper (Green Cover)
Hal Leonard Corp.
4.5
(Manuscript Paper). 96-page wirebound book; 12 staves per page; 8 1/2 x 11; Music Notation Guide.
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Musical Composition: Craft and Art
Alan Belkin
4.5
An invaluable introduction to the art and craft of musical composition from a distinguished teacher and composer
This essential introduction to the art and craft of musical composition is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principles and techniques applicable to a broad range of musical styles, from concert pieces to film scores and video game music. The first of its kind to utilize a style-neutral approach, in addition to presenting the commonly known classical forms, this book offers invaluable general guidance on developing and connecting musical ideas, building to a climax, and other fundamental formal principles. It is designed for both classroom use and independent study.
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The Study of Counterpoint
Johann Joseph Fux
4.5
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.
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The Jazz Piano Book
Mark Levine
4.4
Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Jamey Aebersold, Richie Beirach, and more, this book presents all the information a student of jazz piano needs in an easy-to-understand, yet thorough, manner. For intermediate to advanced pianists, written by one of the acknowledged masters of jazz piano playing.
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Writing Better Lyrics: The Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting
Pat Pattison
4.4
The Must-Have Guide for Songwriters
Writing Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form and function of a song, to fine-tuning lyrics.
Perfect for new and experienced songwriters alike, this time-tested classic covers the basics in addition to more advanced techniques.Songwriters will discover:
- How to use sense-bound imagery to enhance a song's emotional impact on listeners - Techniques for avoiding clich�s and creating imaginative metaphors and similes - Ways to use repetition as an asset - How to successfully manipulate meter - Instruction for matching lyrics with music - Ways to build on ideas and generate effective titles - Advice for working with a co-writer - And much more
Featuring updated and expanded chapters, 50 fun songwriting exercises, and examples from more than 20 chart-toppings songs, Writing Better Lyrics gives you all of the professional and creative insight you need to write powerful lyrics and put your songs in the spotlight where they belong.
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Music Theory for Computer Musicians (Computer Musicians, #1)
Michael Hewitt
4.4
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Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course Lesson Book, Bk 1
Willard A. Palmer
4.4
A beginning course for adults who prefer a chord approach. It teaches chords for both hands so that the student can play more than single note melodies. This course is most effective when used under the direction of a piano teacher or experienced musician. Titles: Alouette • Alpine Melody • Amazing Grace • At Last • Au Claire de la Lune • Aura Lee • The Ballad of Gilligan's Island • Beautiful Brown Eyes • Blow the Man Down! • Brother John • Caf� Vienna • The Can-Can • Chiapanecas • Cockles and Mussels • The Cuckoo • The Donkey • The Entertainer • A Friend Like You • The Gift to Be Simple • Go Down, Moses • Good King Wenceslas • Good Morning to You! • Got Those Blues • Greensleeves • Happy Birthday to You! • Harp Song • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas • Here's a Happy Song! • He's Got the Whole World in His Hands • Jericho • Jingle Bells • Joy to the World! • Kum-ba-yah! • Largo (Dvorak) • Laura • Lavender's Blue • Little Brown Jug • London Bridge • Lone Star Waltz • Love Somebody • The Marine's Hymn • Mary Ann • Merrily We Roll Along • Mexican Hat Dance • Michael, Row the Boat Ashore • Money Can't Buy Everything • My Fifth • Ode to Joy • On Top of Old Smoky • O Sole Mio • Over the Rainbow • Raisins and Almonds • Rockets • Rockin' Intervals • Rock It Away! • Scarborough Fair • Singin' in the Rain • Standing in the Need of Prayer • Tisket, a Tasket • Waltz Time • What Can I Share • When the Saints Go Marching In • Why Am I Blue?
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The Study of Orchestration
Samuel Adler
4.4
Written by a renowned composer whose works have been performed by major orchestras around the world, The Study of Orchestration is the only text that explores the characteristics of orchestral instruments and shows students how a master composer approaches orchestration. The Fourth Edition invites students to experience the instruments through online audio and video recordings and now offers more coverage of writing for band.
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Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory Complete Self Study Guide: A Complete Self-study Course for All Musicians (With CD)
Andrew Surmani, Karen Farnum Surmani, et al.
4.4
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The Computer Music Tutorial
Curtis Roads
4.4
A comprehensive text and reference that covers all aspects of computer music, including digital audio, synthesis techniques, signal processing, musical input devices, performance software, editing systems, algorithmic composition, MIDI, synthesizer architecture, system interconnection, and psychoacoustics.
The Computer Music Tutorial is a comprehensive text and reference that covers all aspects of computer music, including digital audio, synthesis techniques, signal processing, musical input devices, performance software, editing systems, algorithmic composition, MIDI, synthesizer architecture, system interconnection, and psychoacoustics. A special effort has been made to impart an appreciation for the rich history behind current activities in the field. Profusely illustrated and exhaustively referenced and cross-referenced, The Computer Music Tutorial provides a step-by-step introduction to the entire field of computer music techniques. Written for nontechnical as well as technical readers, it uses hundreds of charts, diagrams, screen images, and photographs as well as clear explanations to present basic concepts and terms. Mathematical notation and program code examples are used only when absolutely necessary. Explanations are not tied to any specific software or hardware.
The material in this book was compiled and refined over a period of several years of teaching in classes at Harvard University, Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Naples, IRCAM, Les Ateliers UPIC, and in seminars and workshops in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Piano Adventures Lesson Book, Level 3A
Nancy Faber
4.3
Faber Piano Adventures Level 3A introduces 3/8 and 6/8 time signatures and the triplet. Students learn the chromatic scale, the 7th, one-octave arpeggios, and explore the key of D major. Contents include: Amazing Grace • Campbells are Coming • Cool Walkin' Bass • Cossak Ride • Echoes of the Harp • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik • Ice Dancing • Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho • Land of the Silver Birch • Looking-Glass River • Lunar Eclipse • March Slav • and more.
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Guitar Tablature Manuscript Paper - Standard: Manuscript Paper
Hal Leonard Corp.
4.3
(Manuscript Paper). (Tan Cover) 64-page stitched book; 8 1/2 x 11; six 6-line staves on each page; 8 blank chord diagrams printed at the bottom of each page; punched to fit all ring binders; Music Notation Guide.
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Essential Dictionary of Orchestration: The Most Practical and Comprehensive Resource for Composers, Arrangers and Orchestrators
Dave Black
4.3
At last, an orchestration book tailor-made for the classroom musician on a budget. Any teacher, student or professional musician, whether a composer, orchestrator, arranger, performer or enthusiast will find this thoroughly comprehensive dictionary full o
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On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring
Fred Karlin
4.3
On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's aesthetic vision with the needs of the film itself. Unlike other books that are aimed at the person "dreaming" of a career, this is truly a guide that can be used by everyone from students to technically sophisticated professionals. It contains over 100 interviews with noted composers, illustrating the many technical points made through the text.
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Analyzing Classical Form: An Approach for the Classroom
William E. Caplin
4.3
Analyzing Classical Form builds upon the foundations of the author's critically acclaimed Classical Form by offering an approach to the analysis of musical form that is especially suited for classroom use. Providing ample material for study in both undergraduate and graduate courses, Analyzing Classical Form presents the most up-to-date version of the author's theory of formal functions. Students will learn how to make complete harmonic and formal analyses of music drawn from the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Part 1 introduces the principal theme-types of classical instrumental music; part 2 provides a methodology for analyzing sonata form, the most important formal type in this style period; and part 3 considers other full-movement forms found in this repertory (such as minuet, rondo, and concerto). The chapters are organized in a way that presents the most basic materials upfront and then leads the student through more details and finer points of theory. Every topic is illustrated with annotated musical examples; as well, the book contains many unannotated examples that can be used for in-class discussion and for out-of-class analytical exercises. A complete glossary of terms and questions for reviewing the theory will help students assimilate the many theoretical concepts employed in the book. A companion website hosted by the author at music.mcgill.ca/acf/ provides audio and musical scores for all of the examples in the book as well as additional examples for the analysis of the simple theme-types presented in part 1.
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Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice
Vincent Persichetti
4.3
Here for the first time is an orderly presentation of the harmonic procedures to be found in music of the first half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the nature of intervals in various contexts, discusses the modes and other scales employed in modern music, describes the formation and uses of chords by thirds, by fourths, and by seconds, of added-note chords and polychords; he deals with different types of harmonic motion, with harmonic rhythm and dynamic sand ornamentation, with harmonic behavior in tonality, polytonality, atonality and serial composition.
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Textures and Timbres: An Orchestrator’s Handbook
Henry Brant
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Creative Orchestration: A Project Method for Classes in Orchestration and Instrumentation
George Frederick McKay, Frederick Leslie McKay
4.3
Creative Orchestration by American Composer George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) is highly regarded in academic circles for its direct and uncomplicated approach based on McKay's 40 years of teaching music theory at the University of Washington, Seattle while using experiential methods with small groups of students. McKay himself had his music presented in the concert halls of America by the master conductors Stokowski, Beecham and Arthur Benjamin during his lifetime, along with hundreds of publications and other honors. He taught at Washington, USC, Oregon, Michigan and Drake during his years as a professor, and was the teacher of William Bolcom, Earl Robinson, Goddard Lieberson, John Cage and hundreds of other aspiring composition students. His students have won the Grammy, the Pulitzer, Guggenheim Grants and the National Medal of the Arts. Creative Orchestration contains many fine working examples of music and diagrams explaining technical principles of composition.
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How to Write for Percussion
Samuel Z. Solomon
4.3
While composers and percussionists are working more closely than ever with one another, there are few resources that address this collaborative relationship in depth. However, Samuel Z. Solomon, himself a percussionist and teacher, offers a comprehensive examination of the issues that percussionists and composers encounter in How to Write for Percussion. The first edition, self-published in 2004, provided musicians and music programs the world over with practical and indispensible information about issues of notation, concert production, and much more. This new edition goes even further as Solomon offers more insights derived from his personal experience as a percussionist and teacher and from his collaborations with other musicians. The second edition of How to Write for Percussion expands the survey of behind-the-scenes processes-from instrument choice and notation to logistics, execution, and concert production-to uncover all the tools a composer needs to comfortably create innovative and skilled percussion composition. Solomon also includes more excerpts and performances as well as interviews with famous percussionists and composers that capture the intricacies of percussion composition. Moreover, the second edition features an expanded text with more instruments and more analysis, plus an extensive Online Video Companion containing over nine hours of videos with demonstrations, performances, interviews, and analysis to flesh out and clarify the material in the book. This updated edition of How to Write for Percussion will appeal to a wide swath of musicians including composers, arrangers, and percussionists. Those who have already utilized the first edition will welcome the upgrade, and those who have yet to benefit from Solomon's perspective will likewise find his insights illuminating.
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Standard Manuscript Paper 12 Stave
Hal Leonard Corp.
4.3
(Manuscript Paper). 64-page stitched book; 12 staves per page; 8 1/2 x 11; punched to fit all ring binders; Music Notation Guide.
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Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within, Book & CD
Kenny Werner
4.3
Playing music should be as simple and natural as drawing a breath, yet most musicians are hindered by self-consciousness, apprehension, self-doubt, and stress. Before we can truly express our inner self, we must first learn to be at peace and overcome the distractions that can make performance difficult. Kenny's remarkable work deals directly with these hindrances, and presents ways to let our natural creative powers flow freely with minimal stress and effort. Includes an inspiring CD of meditations designed to initiate positive thought. This book has become a favorite of many musicians who credit it with changing their lives! Many are so impressed that they buy copies for their musician friends as gifts. Easy, effortless reading paperback.
"Effortless Mastery is a book that the world really needs. It was not written by a philosopher or an academic. Kenny Werner, is one of my favorite pianists I've ever had the pleasure of working with, and in my opinion one of the best pianists living on the planet. Kenny teaches that 'The joy of practicing is concentration. The joy of playing is liberation.' Effortless Mastery teaches the seeker how to achieve both at the highest levels. It also shows how to practice effectively, promoting real growth and how to play and perform free from fear and self-judgment. I highly recommend this book." ---Quincy Jones
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The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams
Steven Schick
4.3
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The Planets in Full Score
Gustav Holst
4.3
Among the most popular and important modern British composers, Gustav Holst (1874–1934) was a true eccentric, given to odd enthusiasms and mystical musings. His spectacular symphonic suite The Planets, first performed in 1918, established his international reputation and remains a staple of the orchestral repertoire to this day. Scored for huge orchestral forces and a wordless chorus, the work is divided into seven movements, the music of each embodying the astrological and mystical qualities of a different planet. From the ominous, relentless march of "Mars, the Bringer of War" to the robust festivities of "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" and the weird, unearthly hush of "Neptune, the Mystic," the emotional sweep and innovative techniques of the suite have delighted and thrilled its vast audience ever since its spectacular debut. Musicians and music lovers alike will want to own this authoritative, attractively published and inexpensive full score.
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Writing Interactive Music for Video Games: A Composer's Guide
Michael Sweet
4.3
"This book is a must read for newcomers and experienced composers wanting to learn more about the art of video game composition." --Chuck Doud, Director of Music, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios All You Need to Know to Create Great Video Game Music Written by the developer of Berklee School of Music's pioneering game scoring program, this guide covers everything professional composers and music students need to know about composing interactive music for video games, and contains exclusive tools for interactive scoring--tools that were previously available only at Berklee. Drawing on twenty years of professional experience in the game industry, Michael Sweet helps you master the unique language of music storytelling in games. Next, he walks you through the entire music composition process, from initial conceptualization and creative direction through implementation. Inside, you'll find dozens of examples that illustrate adaptive compositional techniques, from small downloadable games to multimillion dollar console titles. In addition, this guide covers the business side of video game composition, sharing crucial advice about contracts, pricing, sales, and marketing. Coverage includes Overcoming the unique challenges of writing for games Composing music that can adapt in real time to player actions Developing thematic ideas Using audio middleware to create advanced interactive scores Working effectively with game development teams Understanding the life of a video game composer Managing contracts, rights, estimating, and negotiation Finding work The companion website contains software tools to help you master interactive music concepts explored in this book, with additional resources and links to learn more about scoring for games. See Appendix A for details.
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Music Theory for Dummies
Michael Pilhofer and Holly Day
4.3
Get more out of music with this essential guideMusic Theory For Dummies makes music theory easy to understand, with a friendly, unintimidating overview of everything you need to know to become fluent at knocking out beats, reading musical scores, and learning to anticipate where a song should go--whether you're reading someone else's music or writing your own. Whether you're a music student or a music lover, you'll learn to read, write, and understand music with this informative guide. With expert instruction, you'll put it all together as you compose, arrange, and create original melodies, harmonies, and chords of your own, with helpful tips for performing your pieces in front of an audience. This new third edition presents the most current teaching techniques, the newest music genres and examples, and updated information on all aspects of understanding, creating, and performing music.
Studies have shown that music training improves children's' verbal and spatial abilities, and it's been associated with cognitive and mathematical benefits in adults. The music job market is expected to increase over the coming years, and music theory is becoming an increasingly common part of education at all levels. Music Theory For Dummies provides the instruction you need to get more out of music than you ever thought possible.
Master major and minor scales, intervals, pitches, and clefs Understand basic notation, time signals, tempo, dynamics, and navigation Employ melodies, chords, progressions, and phrases to form music Compose harmonies and accompanying melodies for voice and instruments Whether you intend to pursue a degree or career in music, or just enjoy listening to it, understanding the theory behind it gives you a whole new appreciation for the artistry and craftsmanship behind the pieces that give you goose bumps. It's a mix of technical skill, inborn talent, and plenty of practice - and now you can try your hand at it, with Music Theory For Dummies.
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The AB Guide to Music Theory: Part I
Eric Taylor
4.3
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The Cello Suites
Eric Siblin
4.3
One autumn evening, shortly after ending a ten-year stint as a pop-music columnist for the Montreal Gazette, Eric Siblin attended a concert at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. There, something unlikely happened: he fell in love with a piece of classical music -- Bach's cello suites. Part biography, part music history, and part literary mystery, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic stories: The first features Johann Sebastian Bach and the missing manuscript of his suites from the eighteenth century; the second is that of Pablo Casals and his incredible discovery of the manuscript in Spain in the early twentieth century; and the third is Eric Siblin's own infatuation with the suites in the twenty-first century.
This love affair leads Siblin to the back streets of Barcelona, a Belgian mansion, and a bombed out German palace; to interviews with cellists Mischa Maisky, Anner Bylsma, and Pieter Wispelwey; to archives, festivals, conferences, and cemeteries; and even to cello lessons -- all in pursuit of answers to the mysteries that continue to haunt this piece of music more than 250 years after its composer's death.
The Cello Suites is an incomparable, beautifully written, true-life journey of passion, imagination, and discovery, fuelled by the transcendent power of a musical masterpiece.
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My First Piano Lessons: Fun, Easy-to-Follow Instructions for Kids (My First Piano Books)
Emily Norris
4.3
Learn how fun playing the piano is—with this book of easy, step-by-step lessons for young learners!My First Piano Lessons is the perfect starting point for your little musician, with its clear instructions, colorful illustrations, and supportive approach. Written by an experienced piano teacher, this book covers everything a beginner pianist needs to know, from proper hand position to the basics of reading music, all in an enjoyable and easy-to-understand way. And with 10 beloved and popular songs to learn and focus on, your kid will be confidently playing the piano in no time! Whether your child is just starting their music journey or has already taken a few lessons, this beginner-friendly book is the perfect tool to unlock—and nurture—their love for the piano. Simple and intuitive piano lessons. Learn the basics of reading music, from key names and note values to time signatures and dynamics. Clear, step-by-step instructions. Written by a piano expert and experienced teacher of young kids. An engaging and adorable giraffe teacher. G-sharp the Giraffe makes learning fun with encouraging words, helpful tips, and interesting facts about music. Songs that kids already know and love. Learn to play “Hot Cross Buns,” “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” “The Wheels on the Bus,” “Pop! Goes the Weasel,” and more!
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The Little Black Songbook: Chords/Lyrics
Leonard Cohen
4.2
This is a pocket-sized collection of over 70 Leonard Cohen hits, with complete lyrics, guitar chord symbols, and chord diagrams. Perfect for fitting into gig bags! Songs include: Ain't No Cure for Love • Bird on the Wire (Bird on a Wire) • Closing Time • Death of a Ladies' Man • First We Take Manhattan • Hallelujah • Lady Midnight • Lover Lover Lover • So Long Marianne • Winter Lady • and many more.
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Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 in Full Score
Ludwig van Beethoven
4.2
Beethoven's symphonies are among this greatest works — in the opinion of many, the greatest orchestral compositions in the history of music. Perfect in their fusion of emotion and form, filled with drama and great beauty, they are among the best-known and best-loved works in all classical music. This volume contains complete scores for Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21; Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36; Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major ("Eroica"), Op. 55; Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60. Meticulously reproduced from the authoritative Litolff edition, each score features large, clear noteheads and wide margins for ease of use in studying and following the music. Far less expensive than comparable full-score editions, this volume belongs in the library of any music lover who wishes to study the masterly innovation and creativity Beethoven brought to the symphonic form.
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Theory of Harmony
Arnold Schoenberg, Roy E. Carter
4.2
Based on the third edition of 1922, this new translation of Schoenberg's largest and most important treatise is well-focused, expansive, reflective, and wittily down-to-earth. The heart and soul of the book is to be found in Schoenberg's vivid and penetrating digressions--they are the fascinating reflections of a great and humane musician.
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Wide Staff Wirebound Manuscript Paper (Aqua Cover)
Hal Leonard Corp.
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Handy Manual Fingering Chart
Clarence V. Hendrickson
4.2
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Piano Pieces for Children: Everybody's Favorite Series No. 3
Maxwell Eckstein
4.2
(Music Sales America). 100 compositions, progressively graded for grades 1 through 4, ranging from the works of the great masters to the folk tunes and dances from many countries.
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The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony
Joe Mulholland and Tom Hojnacki
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The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD)
Doug Adams
4.2
brHoward Shore's Academy Award-winning score for The Lord of the Rings has been hailed as among the greatest film music ever written. Sweeping in scope, it is an interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth as music; an operatic tapestry of cultures, histories, languages and peoples. The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films takes the reader on an unprecedented journey into the heart of this history-making opus with extensive music examples, original manuscript scores, a rarities CD, and fascinating glimpses into the creative process from the composer himself. With a foreword by Howard Shore, introduction by Fran Walsh and sketches throughout by John Howe and Alan Lee.
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12 Stave Music Writing Pad: Loose Pages (3-Hole Punched for Ring Binders)
Alfred Music
4.2
This high-quality music writing pad has clearly engraved, evenly spaced staff lines for easy writing. Affordably priced for students and professionals.
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Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century
Johnny Farraj and Sami Abu Shumays
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What makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum? What is the unspoken language behind a taqsim (traditional instrumental improvisation) that performers and listeners implicitly know? How can Arabic music be so rich and diverse without resorting to harmony? Why is it so challenging to transcribe Arabic music from a recording? Inside Arabic Music answers these and many other questions from the perspective of two "insiders" to the practice of Arabic music, by documenting a performance culture and a know-how that is largely passed on orally.
Arabic music has spread across the globe, influencing music from Greece all the way to India in the mid-20th century through radio and musical cinema, and global popular culture through Raqs Sharqi, known as "Bellydance" in the West. Yet despite its popularity and influence, Arabic music, and the maqam scale system at its heart, remain widely misunderstood. Inside Arabic Music de-mystifies maqam with an approach that draws theory directly from practice, and presents theoretical insights that will be useful to practitioners, from the beginner to the expert - as well as those interested in the related Persian, Central Asian, and Turkish makam traditions. Inside Arabic Music's discussion of maqam and improvisation widens general understanding of music as well, by bringing in ideas from Saussurean linguistics, network theory, and Lakoff and Johnson's theory of cognition as metaphor, with an approach parallel to Gjerdingen's analysis of Galant-period music - offering a lens into the deeper relationships among music, culture, and human community.
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Music Notation in the Twentieth Century: A Practical Guidebook
Kurt Stone
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In this comprehensive and definitive survey of current notation procedures, Kurt Stone has brought order to a field traditionally fraught with confusion and idiosyncrasy. He not only describes and recommends new methods for notating modern music, thereby establishing standard procedures for the present and future, but integrates them with traditional practices still in use. The result is a guide to all forms of notation used in serious music today.
Stone is undoubtedly one of the world's leading authorities on contemporary music notation and its problems. As head of the Index of New Musical Notation, he collected and categorized the myriad new devices appearing in published music of this century. In collaboration with professional performers and conductors, he evaluated these devices in order to determine their effectiveness in practical application. At the International Conference on New Music Notation 1974, a consensus was sought from the eighty participating musicians from eighteen different countries. The results have been incorporated into this volume in the clearest and most direct way. Traditional notation is given detailed treatment, constituting, as it does, the basis for many of the innovative devices. The book is organized to facilitate the location of specific information and for easy reference. A minutely detailed index is provided as an additional and indispensable tool.
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Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work
Christoph Wolff
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Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections. These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent, produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as paradigms of Bach’s musical art.
In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject. Wolff delves deeply into the composer’s own rich selection of collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and instrument. Emerging from a complex and massive oeuvre, Bach’s Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions—from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B-minor Mass.
Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach’s creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres. This array of compositions illustrates the depth and variety at the essence of the composer’s musical art, as well as his unique approach to composition as a process of imaginative research into the innate potential of his chosen material. Tracing Bach’s evolution as a composer, Wolff compellingly illuminates the ideals and legacy of this giant of classical music in a new, refreshing light for everyone, from the amateur to the virtuoso.
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Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course Lesson Book, Bk 2
Manus Morton
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This book begins with an extensive review of the chords and keys previously studied, using fresh and interesting material that will provide enjoyment as well as reinforcement. Particularly noteworthy is the systematic presentation of chords in all positions in both hands. Titles: America the Beautiful • Arkansas Traveler • The Battle Hymn of the Republic • Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair • Brahms Lullaby • Canon in D (Pachelbel) • Deep River • Down in the Valley • Farewell to Thee (Aloha Oe) • Fascination • A Festive Rondeau • Frankie and Johnnie • The Hokey-Pokey • The House of the Rising Sun • Introduction and Dance • La Cucaracha • La Donna E Mobile • La Raspa • Light and Blue • Loch Lomond • Lonesome Road • The Marriage of Figaro • Morning Has Broken • Musetta's Waltz • Musette • Night Song • Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen • Polyvetsian Dances • Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 • The Riddle • Rock-a My Soul • Roman Holiday • Sakura • Scherzo • Space Shuttle Blues • Swingin' Sevenths • Theme from Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky) • Tumbalalaika • Village Dance • Waves of the Danube • When Johnny Comes Marching Home • You're in My Heart
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My First Piano Book Set: Easy-to-Learn Lessons and Sheet Music (2 Books in 1)
Emily Norris
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Spark your child’s love of music with this delightful, two-in-one set of piano lessons and sheet music that will have them playing with confidence and joy.My First Piano Book Set is the perfect first step for your budding pianist! This engaging collection includes a step-by-step lesson book and a complementary book of sheet music that make learning to play the piano fun from the first note to the last song.Thoughtfully crafted by an experienced piano teacher, the lesson book teaches kids how to play their first 10 songs using simple numbers before gradually introducing musical symbols and sheet music. Friendly tips, hand positions, and fun facts are included throughout to keep young learners motivated and engaged. The accompanying sheet music book features 40 easy-to-play nursery rhymes, folk tunes, and simplified classical pieces tailored just for little hands.Inside this fun-filled set of piano books for kids, you’ll find:The complete package. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the lesson book, then make practice fun with the 40 easy, well-known songs in sheet music book.Confidence-building lesson structure. Lessons start with simple numbers before gradually introducing musical notes and letters—perfect for first-time learners.Sheet music designed for beginners. Each song includes hand positions, note letters, and finger numbers so kids know where to put their hands and which notes will be played.Songs kids already love. Learn to play “Bingo,” “Amazing Grace,” “Yankee Doodle,” “Happy Birthday,” “Hot Cross Buns,” “On Top of Spaghetti,” “Jingle Bells,” and more.An engaging and adorable giraffe teacher. G-sharp the Giraffe makes learning fun and keeps kids motivated with encouraging words, helpful tips, and interesting music trivia. Whether your child is brand-new to the piano or has already taken a few lessons, this set makes learning to play the piano a joyful and rewarding experience.
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John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course - Part 2 | Beginner Piano Method Book with Online Audio | Step by Step Piano Lessons for Student | Foundational Keyboard Training Sheet Music and Songbook
John Thompson
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(Willis). Part 2 of a comprehensive step-by-step course specifically designed to suit the needs of all students beginning the piano. Includes: characters and illustrations * writing exercises * sight reading drills * review work * accompaniments * and more! This version includes audio files accessible online.
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Manuscript Paper | Blank sheet Music Notebook | 120 Pages 12 Staves per Page | Full 8,5'' wide x 11'' high | Elegant vintage looking cover & paper: Turquoise Soft Cover
MusicArts
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Save $2 with our new editioncarefully revised and improved.Take advantage of our price offer of $ 9.99 for our first 1000 Sales instead of $ 11.99.Standard 12 staves Music manuscript Paper and Blank Sheet Music Notebook.Cool gift for every musician, Songwriter and ComposerDurable Vintage-looking soft Cover and Premium white Paper120 pages - Full 8,5" wide x 11" high.This Manuscript paper Notebook has 120 pages of staffed Paper / 12 Staves Per Page and it is the Perfect Music notebook for musicians. composers, and songwritersFeatures of this Music Staff Paper Book120 staffed pages12 staves per pagePremium mat cream Manuscript PaperExcellent blank sheet music book for music lessonsIncludes a music notation guide for quick referenceCool vintage-looking cover design - Turquoise CoverSize: full 8,5" wide x 11" highDouble-sidedThe ideal gift for your favorite pianist guitarist, Musician, Songwriter, and composer!Perfect for piano, violin, guitar, banjo, and other musical instruments
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Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Adult Piano Method (Book/Online Audio)
Hal Leonard Corp.
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Musical Composition
Reginald Smith Brindle
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Musical composition is a key discipline in music programs in conservatories, colleges, and universities. Many teachers consider it as important in the development of young musicians as listening and performance. It can be argued that through compositions musicians achieve the deepest insight into the composer and his music. Musical Composition takes the student through the elements--melody, harmony, counterpoint, and rhythm--before covering a variety of special subjects such as writing vocal and choral music, accompaniments, and film and TV music. Chapters are devoted to recent techniques including free diatonicism, serialism, and indeterminacy. Over 200 examples illustrate points in the text and there are exercises for each chapter.
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Passantino Spiral Book 12-Stave Manuscript Paper | 96 Pages of High-Quality Staff Paper for Composers, Students and Teacher | Durable Spiral-Bound ... Notation Practice (Passantino Music Papers)
Various
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Perfect for composers, students, and music educators, the Passantino Spiral Book 12-Stave Manuscript Paper is designed for those who value clarity, structure, and ease while composing or arranging. With 96 pages of premium-quality staff paper and 12 spacious staves per page, it provides ample space for notation, harmony writing, and orchestration. Ideal for pianists, guitarists, and vocalists, it supports every aspect of musical creativity and study.Whats Included: This professional manuscript book features a durable spiral binding that allows pages to lie completely flat for comfortable writing during lessons or practice. Each page is printed with clean, evenly spaced staves for precision and legibility, making it a versatile choice for compositions, theory exercises, or songwriting projects. The high-grade paper minimizes ink bleed, ensuring neat, lasting results.Why Its Valuable: This manuscript paper helps improve musical organization, notation accuracy, and creative workflow. Whether drafting melodies, chord progressions, or orchestral scores, it supports efficient and confident writing. Music teachers appreciate its reliability in classrooms, while students benefit from its accessible layout and generous writing space. It also makes a practical and thoughtful gift for any aspiring composer or songwriter.Bring music to life. With its sturdy spiral binding, generous page count, and professional layout, the Passantino 12-Stave Manuscript Book is an essential companion for musicians dedicated to creating, studying, and sharing music.
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Grand Staff Manuscript Paper: 100 Blank Grand Staff Pages with Music Notation Guide
Davis Dorrough, Olivia Ellis
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Get down all of your musical ideas in a flash with one of the best staff paper books on the market. This grand staff manuscript book with bonus content features:100 pages of grade staff paper for treble and bass clef5 systems per page (10 staves total per page)8.5 X 11 inchesNotation guide with helpful tips on how to accurately notate musicChart of commonly-used musical terms and symbols, conveniently located on the back cover
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Manuscript Paper (Deluxe Pad)(Blue Cover)
Hal Leonard Corp.
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(Manuscript Paper). Deluxe tear off pad with firm backing for easy writing; 32 sheets (64 pages) printed both sides; 12 staves per page; 8 1/2 x 11; punched to fit all ring binders; Music Notation Guide.
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Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art (The MIT Press)
David Huro
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Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg
Dika Newlin
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Berklee Contemporary Music Notation
Jonathan Feist
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(Berklee Guide). Learn the nuances of music notation, and create professional looking scores. This reference presents a comprehensive look at contemporary music notation. You will learn the meaning and stylistic practices for many types of notation that are currently in common use, from traditional staffs to lead sheets to guitar tablature. It discusses hundreds of notation symbols, as well as general guidelines for writing music. Berklee College of Music brings together teachers and students from all over the world, and we use notation in a great variety of ways. This book presents our perspectives on notation: what we have found to be the most commonly used practices in today's music industry, and what seems to be serving our community best. It includes a foreword by Matthew Nicholl, who was a long-time chair of Berklee's Contemporary Writing and Production Department. Whether you find yourself in a Nashville recording studio, Hollywood sound stage, grand concert hall, worship choir loft, or elementary school auditorium, this book will help you to create readable, professional, publication-quality notation. Beyond understanding the standard rules and definitions, you will learn to make appropriate choices for your own work, and generally how to achieve clarity and consistency in your notation so that it best serves your music.
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Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course Lesson Book, Bk 3
Willard A. Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco
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Begins with a review of the concepts presented in Level 2, then introduces new pieces and lessons in new keys to prepare the student for more advanced studies. Includes a "Just for Fun" section and an "Ambitious" section for the student who will devote a little extra effort toward learning some of the great masterworks that require additional practice.
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Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
William E. Caplin
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Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of classical form, from individual ideas, phrases, and themes to the large-scale organization of complete movements. It emphasizes the notion of formal function, that is, the specific role a given formal unit plays in the structural organization of a classical work.
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The Craft of Musical Composition, Book 2: Exercises in Two-Part Writing
Paul Hindemith
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(Schott). Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith's remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians, these were produced by a man who could play every instrument of the orchestra, could compose a satisfying piece for almost every kind of ensemble, and who was one of the most stimulating teachers of his day. It is therefore not surprising that nearly forty years later these books should remain essential reading for the student and the professional musician. Preface • Construction of the Simplest One-Voice Melodic Patterns • Beginning of Two-Voice Setting • Elaborated Melody (Auxiliary or Teturning Tones, Passing Tones) • Elaborated Melody (Continuation) • Principles of Melodic Construction • Elaborated Melody (Conclusion) • Tonal Higher-Units • Tonality of the Melodies • Elaboration of the Melody Model • Free Two-Voice Setting I and II
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Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in Full Score
Serge Rachmaninoff
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Just as Serge Rachmaninoff's piano virtuosity ranked him among the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, his compositions for piano and orchestra won him an important position among modern composers. Among the works that ensure his reputation are the first three piano concertos, reprinted here from the authoritative full-score Russian editions. Rachmaninoff wrote the stirring Piano Concerto No. 1 in the years 1890–91, while he was still a young student at the Moscow Conservatory, and revised it nearly three decades later in 1917, when he began to devote his life mainly to his international career as a piano virtuoso. The immense and enduring success of the Piano Concerto No. 2, completed in 1901, has made this romantic work one of the most performed and recorded in the concerto literature and one of the most familiar compositions in all of music. The powerful and expressive Piano Concerto No. 3 was composed for a concert tour of America, during which Rachmaninoff appeared with great success as composer, pianist, and conductor. Like the first two concertos, it remains a repertoire favorite in concert halls around the world. All three acclaimed works are reprinted in this finely made yet remarkably inexpensive Dover edition. Musicians and music lovers will find it a convenient single-volume source from which to study intimately three major works of the twentieth century.
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Carta Manuscript Paper No. 1 - Basic | 10 Stave Sheet Music Paper | 8.5 x 11 Staff Paper Notebook for Composers and Students | 96 Pages of 3-Hole Punched Music Paper Loose Leaf
Various
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Organize Your Musical Ideas with Carta Manuscript Paper No. 1 - Basic * Ideal for students, educators, and composers, this loose-leaf music manuscript paper offers a clean and professional format for writing music by hand. The 10-stave layout across 96 pages gives you ample space to notate melodies, harmonies, and rhythm exercises with precision. * * Standard 8.5 x 11 Format with 3-Hole Punch for Easy Storage * Each sheet is 3-hole punched, fitting seamlessly into standard binders and folders for school or studio use. Whether you're working on music theory exercises or composing original works, the familiar size and format ensure easy organization and convenience. * * Durable Paper for Frequent Use in Lessons and Rehearsals * This staff paper is built for repeated handling, making it a favorite among music teachers and performers. The clear print and smooth writing surface support pencils, pens, and notation tools without bleeding through. * * A Practical Music Teacher Resource and Study Tool * Used widely in classrooms and private lessons, this paper is an essential tool for developing musicianship. It’s ideal for music educators assigning notation homework or guiding students through composition and analysis. * * A Simple Yet Thoughtful Gift for Pianists, Students, and Songwriters * This versatile manuscript paper makes a smart gift for pianists, arrangers, and any musician learning to compose. Add it to a music toolkit or classroom bundle to support creative expression and music literacy.
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The Big Book of Staff Paper
Hal Leonard Corp.
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The Ultimate Book of Song Starters: 501 Powerful and Creative Ideas for Writing New Songs
Ed Bell
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A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument
Jasper Rees
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In the days before his fortieth birthday, London-based journalist Jasper Rees trades his pen for a French horn that has been gathering dust in the attic for more than twenty-two years, and, on a lark, plays it at the annual festival of the British Horn Society.
Despite an embarrassingly poor performance, the experience inspires Rees to embark on a daunting, bizarre, and ultimately winning journey: to return to the festival in one year's time and play a Mozart concerto—solo—to a large paying audience.
A Devil to Play is the true story of an unlikely midlife crisis spent conquering sixteen feet of wrapped brass tubing widely regarded as the most difficult instrument to master, as well as the most treacherous to play in public. It is the history of man's first musical instrument, a compelling journey that moves from the walls of Jericho to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, from the hunting fields of France to the heart of Hollywood. And it is the account of one man's mounting musical obsession, told with pitch-perfect wit and an undeniable charm—an endearing, inspiring tale of perseverance and achievement, relayed masterfully, one side-splittingly off-key note at a time.
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Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony
Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
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Written during Tchaikovsky’s years as professor at the renowned Moscow Conservatory, this volume presents a clear and thorough introduction to the study of harmony. The great Russian composer expounded upon his views of music while he was in the full flower of his creative powers, offering students a chance to learn the discipline’s fundamentals from one of its great masters. Out of print for decades and exceedingly rare in its original edition, Tchaikovsky’s Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony possesses an intrinsic historical interest, yet remains as useful and instructive today as it was a century ago. A complete course in writing music, this excellent manual features numerous examples and exercises. It functions equally well as a classroom text, an adjunct to private instruction, or as a guide to individual musicians.
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Music and Imagination
Aaron Copland
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One of the most forthright and talented of American composers writes here of the part played by the freely imaginative mind in composing, performing, and listening to music. He urges more frequent performance and more sensitive hearing of the music of new composers. He discusses sound media, new and old, and looks toward a musical future in which the timbres and intensities developed by the electronic engineer may find their musical shape and meaning. He considers the twentieth-century revolt against classical form and tonality, and the recent disturbing political interference with the form and content of music. He analyzes American and contemporary European music and the flowering of specifically Western imagination in Villa-Lobos and Charles Ives. The final chapter is an account, partially autobiographical, of the composer who seeks to find, in an industrial society like that of the United States, justification for the life of art in the life about him. Mr. Copeland, whose spectacular success in arriving at a musical vernacular has brought him a wide audience, will acquire as many readers as he has listeners with this imaginatively written book.
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Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 in Full Score
Gustav Mahler
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Often regarded as the last great composer in the Austro-Germanic tradition, Gustave Mahler (1860–1911) exerted a major influence on 20th-century music; his later work in particular affected the musical ideas of such composers as Arnold Schoenberg, Dimitri Shostakovich, Alban Berg, and Benjamin Britten. While his mature work foreshadowed radical elements of modern music — particularly the dissolution of tonality — Mahler's first symphonies were written in a relatively traditional programmatic style with a strong spiritual element. These early works are seen by some critics as attempting to "establish some ultimate ground for existence in the face of pain, death, doubt, and despair." The composer's spiritual quest, as well as the vivid orchestration, innovative symphonic structure, and rich emotional expression that characterized his music can be clearly studied and appreciated in this volume, which contains complete scores of Mahler's first two symphonies. Of the Symphony No. 1 in D Major ("Titan"), the Encyclopaedia Britannica notes, "The program of the purely orchestral Symphony No. 1 in D Major … is autobiographical of his youth; the joy of life becomes clouded over by an obsession with death in the macabre "Funeral March in the Manner of Callot (basically a parody of popular music), which is eventually routed in the arduous and brilliant finale." Of Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, ("Resurrection"), Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians states: "Symphony II is a good example of all Mahler's works … scored nearly always heavily for a large orchestra, restless and stormy in places, monumentally exalted in others." Now both works are available in this handsome, inexpensive edition, reproduced directly from the original editions published by Josef Weinberger in Vienna in 1897 and 1899. Beautifully printed with wide margins and clear noteheads, this edition of the symphonies offers an unparalleled resource for studying and enjoying the seminal works of a modern master.
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The Guitarist's Guide to Composing and Improvising
Damian Jon
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El acto de crear / The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Spanish Edition)
Rick Rubin
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The Craft of Musical Composition: Theoretical Part - Book 1 (Tap/159)
Paul Hindemith
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Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith's remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians, these were produced by a man who could play every instrument of the
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A Composer's World: Horizons and Limitations
Paul Hindemith
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(Schott). The book aims to be a guide through the little universe which is the working place of the man who writes music. As such it talks predominantly to the layman, although the expert composer may also find some stimulation in it... From the center of basic theory the discussion will spread out into all the realms of experience which border the technical aspects of composing, such as aesthetics, sociology, philosophy, and so on.
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The Lives and Times of the Great Composers
Michael Steen
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A grand and panoramic biograhical history of the giants of classical music, The Lives and Times of Great Composers is a new, unique, and lovingly constructed modern reference--and a beguiling read which you will return to again and again.
Interlinked yet self-contained, each chapter distills the life of one or more composers, set against the social, political, musical, and cultural background of the time. Read the story of Bach, the respectable burgher, much of whose vast output was composed amidst petty turf disputes in Luteran Leipzig; or the ugly, argumentative Beethoven, obsessed by his laundry; or Mozart, the over-exploited infant prodigy whose untimely death was shrouded in rumor; or the ghastly death of Donizetti and Smetana. Read about Verdi, who composed against the background of the Italian Risorgimento, or about the family life of the Wagners; and Brahms, who rose from the slums of Hamburg to become a devotee of beer and coffee in fin-de-siecle Vienna, a cultural capital bent on destroying Mahler.
Michael Steen paints a vivid portrait of the tumultuous times in which these brilliant, yet flawed, human beings labored--a tour of 350 years of European history. From Handel's London and the speculative financial frenzy of the "South Sea bubble"; to the courts of petty German princelings and the ornate and sleazy Dresden; to the astonishingly creative Vienna of Beethoven and Schubert; to the opera in 19th-century Paris and Bizet in the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune; to the Majorca of Chopin, to the Russia of Tchaikovsky and the Siege of Leningrad, just one of the many horrors which Shostakovich had to survive. We encounter, too, painters such as Renoir and Manet, literary figures like Zola, Proust, and Dostoyevsky, and religious leaders such as Pope Pius IX and Cardinal Newman. Great Composers paints in broad brushstrokes the culture of a continent far wider than music.
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German Requiem in Full Score
Johannes Brahms
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This edition of Brahms' greatest, most ambitious vocal work is reprinted from the definitive edition of the composer's works, prepared by Breitkopf & Härtel of Leipzig. Inexpensive but sturdily constructed to provide years of pleasurable use, this full score combines all the musical parts in a clear, readable format, with wide margins, large noteheads, and many other helpful features. Brahms conducted the first major performance of the German Requiem in Bremen Cathedral in April 1868. The occasion — attended by many distinguished musicians, among them Clara Schumann — provided the 34-year-old composer with his first great public success. Scored for mixed chorus, solo voices, and full orchestra, the Requiem reflects Brahms' virtuosic grasp of nineteenth-century vocal technique as well as the polyphonic vocal traditions of the previous three centuries. Above all, it radiates Brahms' stalwart individuality, technical mastery, and stirring emotional appeal, which were soon to secure his unique position in the musical world. More than a century after its debut, this masterpiece of choral music is one of the most performed and recorded works in the repertoire of religious music.
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Live Electronic Music: Composition, Performance, Study
Friedemann Sallis, Valentina Bertolani, et al.
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During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination and conservation of music. The era of the mechanical reproduction of music has, rather ironically, opened up new perspectives, which have contributed to the revitalisation of the performer's role and the concept of music as performance. This book examines questions related to music that cannot be set in conventional notation, reporting and reflecting on current research and creative practice primarily in live electronic music. It studies compositions for which the musical text is problematic, that is, non-existent, incomplete, insufficiently precise or transmitted in a nontraditional format. Thus, at the core of this project is an absence. The objects of study lack a reliably precise graphical representation of the work as the composer or the composer/performer conceived or imagined it. How do we compose, perform and study music that cannot be set in conventional notation? The authors of this book examine this problem from the complementary perspectives of the composer, the performer, the musical assistant, the audio engineer, the computer scientist and the musicologist.
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100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know: Play the Same Song 100 Different Ways
Jerald Simon
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100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know (Play the Same Song 100 Different Ways) by Music Mentor Jerald Simon, is one of the books from the Music Motivation
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (Easy Adult Piano)
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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9 songs arranged to be easy-to-play on electronic keyboards. Titles include: All I Ask of You Angel of Music Masquerade The Music of the Night The Phantom of the Opera The Point of No Return Prima Donna Think of Me Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again.
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The Missing Method for Guitar: The 5th Position
Christian J. Triola
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Remove the guesswork. Really know your fretboard. Read beyond the open position. Take your playing to a whole new level!
The Missing Method(TM) for Guitar Note Reading Series is your step-by-step guide to learning how to read guitar music anywhere on the neck! Chances are you've learned to read some of the notes in open position, but the rest of the neck is just a landscape of lucky guesses. Many guitar method books simply give you the basics, but very rarely do they give you everything you need in order to feel confident in your reading and playing. The Missing Method(TM) for Guitar Note Reading Series can do just that!
This second book in the series is designed for anyone who has successfully completed any guitar method book and can read in open position. It explores the middle region of the neck, allowing you to practice reading and learning the notes in all 12 keys.
In this book, you will learn:
-How to read notes in the middle region of the neck (Frets 5-9) -How to count and read triplet rhythms Tips for memorization! -How to read in Compound Time Reading in minor keys, including relative minor, melodic, harmonic, and jazz-melodic minors -The Circle of Fifths and how it's used
Also included: A review of open position!
With clear explanations and ample practice exercises, The Missing Method(TM) for Guitar Note Reading Series Book 2 gives you everything you need to become fluid in playing beyond the open position!
*This is a new, expanded edition of the book originally titled The Missing Method: Reading Guitar Music Beyond the Open Position.
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Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style
David Cope
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Virtual Music is about artificial creativity. Focusing on the author's Experiments in Musical Intelligence computer music programme, the author and a distinguished group of experts discuss many of the issues surrounding the programme, including artificial intelligence, music cognition and aesthetics.
Sam Morgenstern's classic anthology, now thoroughly updated with new selections and commentary reflecting recent music scholarship
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Petrushka in Full Score: Original Version
Igor Stravinsky
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Stravinsky's score for the ballet Petrushka, commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, was first performed in Paris in 1911 and was an immediate sensation with the public and the critics. It followed by a year the great success of his score for The Firebird, also produced by the Ballets Russes, and it confirmed Stravinsky's reputation as the most gifted of the younger generation of Russian composers. The ballet had begun in Stravinsky's mind as a "picture of a puppet suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades of arpeggios." Soon Diaghilev had convinced the young composer to turn the work into a ballet score. Benois was chosen to be his collaborator in the libretto, Fokine and Nijinsky became involved, and the bizarre tale of three dancing puppets — Petrushka (a folk character in Russian lore), the Ballerina, and the Moor, brought to life in a tragic tale of love — would soon become one of the most acclaimed and performed of ballet masterpieces. Brilliantly orchestrated, filled with Russian folksong as well as new and striking harmonies, alternately poignant and splendidly imposing, the score of Petrushka continues to be a popular subject for the study of tonal language and orchestration. This edition is an unabridged republication of the original edition published in 1912 by Edition Russe de Musique in Berlin. Printed on fine paper, sturdily bound, yet remarkably inexpensive, it offers musical scholars, musical performers, and music lovers a lifetime of pleasurable study and enjoyment of one of the most popular and acclaimed musical works of the twentieth century.
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Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation
Paul F. Berliner
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A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea.
The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker.
Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators.
Berliner explores the alternative ways—aural, visual, kinetic, verbal, emotional, theoretical, associative—in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliner's skillful integration of data concerning musical development, the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance, and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language, an aesthetic, and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians, musicologists, and jazz fans alike.
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Mixing with Impact: Learning to Make Musical Choices
Wessel Oltheten
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In Mixing with Impact: Learning to Make Musical Choices, Wessel Oltheten discusses the creative and technical concepts behind making a mix. Whether you're a dance producer in your home studio, a live mixer in a club, or an engineer in a big studio, the mindset is largely the same.
The same goes for the questions you run into: where do you start? How do you deal with a context in which all the different parts affect each other? How do you avoid getting lost in technique? How do you direct your audience's attention? Why doesn't your mix sound as good as someone else's? How do you maintain your objectivity when you hear the same song a hundred times? How do your speakers affect your perception? What's the difference between one compressor and another?
Following a clear structure, this book covers these and many other questions, bringing you closer and closer to answering the most important question of all: how do you tell a story with sound?
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The Dragon Quest: A Music Composition Adventure (Music Composition Adventures)
Ben Ereddia
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No. 27: Carta Manuscript Paper
Hal Leonard Corp.
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Hearing and Writing Music: Professional Training for Today's Musician
Ron Gorow
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In this book you will discover: Transcribing techniques. How to maximize your creativity and productivity. How to develop your craft by consolidating techniques. How to read music with your ears. How you can write music without using an instrument. How to write music spontaneously, as your ear guides your hand. How to communicate accurately through music notation. Why you don't need "perfect pitch." Tools to develop your music perception. 140 exercises, many music examples--models for a lifetime of study. Resources for composing, orchestrating, film scoring. Working in the music business. Where to find supplies, organizations, information, inspiration. A definitive guide and reference for composers, orchestrators, arrangers and performers.
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L'età di Mozart e di Beethoven
Giorgio Pestelli
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Techniques of the Contemporary Composer
David Cope
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Based loosely on the author's earlier New Music Composition (Schirmer Books, 1977), this new book is designed to be a practical guide to the compositional techniques, resources, and technologies available to composers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Indispensable as a ready reference for composers and scholars, Techniques is also an excellent introduction to the motives, ideas, and styles behind contemporary music. Beginning with a general survey of 19th century harmonic and melodic techniques, each chapter traces the development the traditional and modern elements that form the underpinning of music in the late twentieth century. Among the subjects discussed are interval exploration, serialism, pitch-class sets, and twelve tone as well as electronic music, algorithimic composition, indeterminacy, and much more. With a logical, step-by-step approach supplemented by over 300 musical examples and an extensive bibliography, Techniques of the Contemporary Composer is an excellent source for practicing composers and students of modern music alike. David Cope is professor of music at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of New Directions in Music and the composer of over eighty published musical pieces.
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Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 in Full Score
Camille Saint-Saëns
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Throughout much of his long, highly productive career, Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) occupied a dominant position in French music. Admired for his masterly command of orchestration and high standards of form, style, and workmanship, Saint-Saëns wrote for the piano in an elegant, virtuoso style. In this volume, pianists and music lovers will find authoritative full-score editions of two of the composer's most popular piano concertos, works frequently performed since their premieres, and often recorded to this day: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22, and Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 44. In the tradition of the great composer/pianists of his time, Saint-Saëns was the soloist for the premieres of both works in Paris: of No. 2 in 1868, and of No. 4 in 1875. The scores of these concert favorites have been reprinted from the authoritative editions published by Durand et Cie, Paris.
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Music Composition 1
Jonathan Peters
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Coldplay Sheet Music Collection
Coldplay
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 32 selections from contemporary superstars Coldplay are included in this songbook for piano, voice and guitar: Adventure of a Lifetime • Clocks • Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall • Fix You • Green Eyes • A Head Full of Dreams • In My Place • Magic • Paradise • The Scientist • A Sky Full of Stars • Speed of Sound • Trouble • Viva La Vida • Yellow • and more.
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100 of the Most Beautiful Piano Solos Ever
Hal Leonard Corp.
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(Piano Solo Songbook). 100 pop and classical standards that every piano player should master, including: Air on the G String • Bridge over Troubled Water • Canon in D • Clair de Lune • Fields of Gold • Fur Elise • I Dreamed a Dream • I Will Always Love You • Imagine • Lullaby of Birdland • Memory • Misty • Moon River • On My Own • Over the Rainbow • The Shadow of Your Smile • Smile • Stardust • Summertime • Sunrise, Sunset • Time After Time • Unexpected Song • The Way You Look Tonight • We've Only Just Begun • What a Wonderful World • Yesterday • You Raise Me Up • Your Song • and more!
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Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting: 126 Proven Techniques for Writing Songs That Sell
Robin A Frederick
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Here are 126 Shortcuts that will take your songs from good to great! Discover the melody and lyric writing techniques of today's top songwriters and learn how you can use the very same secrets to give your songs the power and edge that will make listeners want to hear them over and over again. You'll learn... 38 proven strategies for creating powerful, unforgettable lyrics, 30 simple ways to make your melody fresh, exciting, and memorable, how to use hit songs as "ghost songs" to get quick results. Plus, there are 58 more Shortcuts to help you lay the groundwork, pick the perfect structure, and choose the chords that will give your songs even more hit potential. And there are more than 100 "Do It Now" exercises to get you started right away! "For people serious about writing great songs, it's got it all!" -- Kara DioGuardi, BMI "Songwriter of the Year," American Idol judge.
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Principles of Orchestration
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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"To orchestrate is to create, and this cannot be taught," wrote Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, the great Russian composer whose genius for brilliant, highly colored orchestration is unsurpassed. But invention, in all art, is closely allied to technique, and technique can be taught. This book, therefore, which differs from most other texts on the subject because of its tremendous wealth of musical examples and its systematic arrangement of material according to each constituent of the orchestra, will undoubtedly be of value to any music student. It is a music classic, perhaps the only book on classical orchestration written by a major composer. In it, the composer aims to provide the reader with the fundamental principles of modern orchestration from the standpoint of brilliance and imagination, and he devotes considerable space to the study of tonal resonance and orchestral combination. In his course, he demonstrates such things as how to produce a good-sounding chord of certain tone-quality, uniformly distributed; how to detach a melody from its harmonic setting; correct progression of parts; and other similar problems. The first chapter is a general review of orchestral groups, with an instrument-by-instrument breakdown and material on such technical questions as fingering, range, emission of sound, etc. There follows two chapters on melody and harmony in strings, winds, brasses, and combined groups. Chapter IV, Composition of the Orchestra, covers different ways of orchestrating the same music; effects that can be achieved with full tutti; tutti in winds, tutti pizzicato, soli in the strings, etc.; chords; progressions; and so on. The last two chapters deal with opera and include discussion of solo and choral accompaniment, instruments on stage or in the wings, technical terms, soloists (range, register, vocalization, vowels, etc.), voices in combination, and choral singing. Immediately following this text are some 330 pages of musical examples drawn from "Sheherazade," the "Antar Symphony," "Capriccio Espagnol," "Sadko," "Ivan the Terrible," "Le Coq d'Or," "Mlada," "The Tsar's Bride," and others of Rimsky-Korsakov's works. These excerpts are all referred to in the text itself, where they illustrate, far better than words, particular points of theory and actual musical practice. They are largely responsible for making this book the very special (and very useful) publication it is. This single-volume edition also includes a brief preface by the editor and extracts from Rimsky-Korsakov's 1891 draft and final versions of his own preface, as well as an appendixed chart of single tutti chords in the composer's works.
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The Science of Music: A practical look at music theory
Allen Van Wert
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Ranked in the top 0.003% of all 50 million books on Amazon! 4/09/2026The new version with 100% hand made art only! Oil painting cover by the author, pencil drawings within the book and text upgrades, some additions and formatting. This update is 1/22/2026. Any reviews before that date talking about artwork or an editor can be ignored. Over 20k sales worldwide and an overall rating of nearly 100% 5 star reviews on amazon and tiktok. I was unhappy with music theory books of the past 300 years and felt that it should be more of a science. I had many students coming to me confused about music theory due to the complexity and redundant naming convention that makes things much harder to learn than they should be. Then there are certain topics which are simply not taught accurately to what we experience in reality (Such as modes/modality). Students (including three of them with Grammy awards and Platinum albums) asked me to write a book they can use as a reference for what I was teaching them. This is that book. I have rebuilt music theory. I address issues we have had with it historically and I also present exactly accurate and scientifically predictable results as evidence of how simple and accurate my new music theory is compared to traditional theory. The reference section shows every associations and removes any redundancy where you would typically have the same chord or scale named six different ways for instance and I used that to include a reference with every chord in music along with every scale that contains each chord. This allows you to easily see EVERY musical option when that chord shows up while composing and improvising. This book is for any instrument but contains diagrams for piano and guitar. I have sent the book out to industry pros and here is what some of them had to say about this amazing book: "Allen's ability to distill complex concepts into accessible and engaging lessons has inspired countless musicians, including myself. In this book, Allen bridges the gap between technical mastery and creative expression. Whether you are a seasoned musician or just starting your journey, his insights will enrich your understanding and appreciation of music. I can confidently say that Allen's approach makes theory not just comprehensible, but genuinely exciting. Prepare to unlock new dimensions in your musicality. This is more than a guide—it's a gateway to a deeper connection with your craft. Enjoy the journey."
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Igor Stravinsky
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One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution. Throughout the volume are to he found trenchant comments on such subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of Verdi, musical taste, musical snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic of music. Musical people of every sort will welcome this first presentation in English of an unusually interesting book.
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Musician's Notebook Deluxe Ed.
Matthew Teacher
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A deluxe interactive workbook for songwriters, featuring approximately 70 spreads on which to compose 70 songs. The book is a sturdy hardcover (no jacket) with a lay-flat binding for use on music stands and flat surfaces. Also includes printed chord stickers to make the songwriting process easier and more legible, plus a removable poster that shows approximately 48 of the most popular chords for reference.
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Complete Preludes and Etudes-Tableaux
Serge Rachmaninoff
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The 24 preludes and 17 etudes-tableaux of Serge Rachmaninoff include what are possibly his finest compositions for solo piano. Each of these masterly works is included in this complete collection, reproduced from recent, authoritative Russian editions. They include: Prelude, Op. 3, No. 2; Ten Preludes, Op. 23; Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32; Eight Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33; Nine Etudes-tableaux, Op. 39. Among these are the enormously popular C-sharp minor prelude, Op. 3, No. 2; the G-minor prelude, Op. 23, No. 5; and the B-minor prelude, Op. 32, No. 10 — classics that have made Rachmaninoff one of the most performed and recorded modern composers. Each of these works reflects Rachmaninoff's emotional intensity, his thrilling gifts as a melodist and his ability to crystallize perfectly a particular mood or sentiment. In their sonorous textures and rich embellishment, they reflect as well his sovereign command of keyboard technique and his spectacular gifts as a pianist (he was one of the very greatest pianists of the 20th century). This beautifully produced yet inexpensive edition will provide both amateur and professional pianists a lifetime of study and enjoyment, and will afford music lovers as well the deep pleasures of following, music in hand, live and recorded performances of these keyboard masterpieces.
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Professional Orchestration Vol 1: Solo Instruments & Instrumentation Notes
Peter Lawrence Alexander, Bruce Broughton
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Recommended by winners of the Academy, Grammy, and Emmy Awards, Professional Orchestration is the first multi-volume series in orchestration from an American Publisher that teaches the devices and orchestral combinations which, before now, have been known by only a privileged few. It's also the only orchestration book whose orchestration notes were checked and edited by members of the Hollywood studio musician elite. Features full page/full score examples on an 8.25x11 page. Optional Professional Mentor workbook and audio package from eClassical available.
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