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Theory of Music & Entertainment

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Theory of Music & Entertainment

Paperback. A commonsense, self-contained introduction to the mathematics and physics of music; essential reading for musicians, music engineers, and anyone interested in the intersection of art and science. Num Pages: 504 pages, 263 illus. BIC Classification: AVA; PB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 172 x 23. Weight in Grams: 764.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
504
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262516556
ISBN
9780262516556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.07
€ 49.72

Hardcover. Num Pages: 754 pages, 16 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DND; AVA; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 177 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1782.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
Number of pages
754
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763505871
ISBN
9788763505871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.84
€ 62.72

Paperback. From the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 145 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Picador USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330523592
ISBN
9780330523592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415679688
ISBN
9780415679688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.93

Paperback. Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from 12th-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Editor(s): Solie, Ruth A. Num Pages: 353 pages, 5 figures, 17 music examples, 3 tables. BIC Classification: AVA; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520201460
ISBN
9780520201460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.64

Paperback. This practical guide to learning to read and write music contains easy-to-follow examples and clear explanations. It describes the basics including staves, clefs and where to find the notes, followed by rhythm, key signatures, chords and intervals, and how to write it all down. Num Pages: 120 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: AVA; AVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 222. 120 pages, b&w photos. This practical guide to learning to read and write music contains easy-to-follow examples and clear explanations. It describes the basics including staves, clefs and where to find the notes, followed by rhythm, key signatures, chords and intervals, and how to write it all down. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVA; AVS. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 8. Weight: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Backbeat Books
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780879305703
ISBN
9780879305703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 327.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780823230648
ISBN
9780823230648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.13

paperback. Editor(s): Alperson, Philip. Num Pages: 176 pages, line illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 180 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271017693
ISBN
9780271017693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.56

Mixed media pr. Lets the reader investigate the mathematical foundations of musical tuning systems as theory and as audible experience. This title covers such musical temperaments as: Pure, Pythagorean, Meantone, and Equal, the historically most important tuning systems. It explains the construction principles for these temperaments with interactive visual aids. Translator(s): Steblin, R. Num Pages: 71 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 4. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Springer Verlag GmbH Austria
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Number of pages
71
Condition
New
SKU
V9783211830406
ISBN
9783211830406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. This text explains the science of musical sound without the encumbrance of detailed mathematics. It should appeal to music lovers as well as students of music and students of physics. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306467103
ISBN
9780306467103
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.66

Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; CFGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848215610
ISBN
9781848215610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.21

Paperback. Presents an award-winning examination of Beethoven's music. Series: Advances in Semiotics. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253217110
ISBN
9780253217110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Hardback. Musical understanding has evolved dramatically, principally through an appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This book examines the open and active circle between the values and valuations placed on music by individuals and societies, and the discovery, through music, of what and how to value. Editor(s): Chapin, Keith. Num Pages: 226 pages, 23 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230099
ISBN
9780823230099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.45

Paperback. Covers topics such as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon. Editor(s): Solis, Gabriel; Nettl, Bruno. Num Pages: 392 pages, 3 photographs; 6 tables; 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252076541
ISBN
9780252076541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. A collection of essays that explores the relationship between sound and movement. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science. Editor(s): Godoy, Rolf Inge; Leman, Marc. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 black & white tables, 44 black & white halftones, 62 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415998871
ISBN
9780415998871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.15

Hardback. Felix Mendelssohn is chiefly remembered for the oratorios "Paulus" and "Elijah". This is an analysis of "Paulus", beginning with an overview of the oratorio traditions of the early 19th century. He details phases of the compositional process as well as principles governing its development. Num Pages: 264 pages, 18 illustrations, tables. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC5; AVGD; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810840478
ISBN
9780810840478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.46

paperback. Musical Form and Transformation collects four of David Lewin's analytic essays to stimulate thought about the general methodology of musical analysis and issues of large-scale form as they relate to transformational analytic structuring. Num Pages: 192 pages, 80 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199759958
ISBN
9780199759958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.84

Hardback. It will interest English-language medievalists of several other disciplines: intellectual historians and specialists of English, as well as scholars of Italian and Iberian literature. Translator(s): Curley, Michael J.; Rendall, Steven. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 568 pages, 14, 12 black & white line drawings, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 43. Weight in Grams: 904.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421411248
ISBN
9781421411248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.83
€ 76.15

Paperback. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723855
ISBN
9780804723855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.91

hardcover. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 389.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723763
ISBN
9780804723763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.31

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