×


 x 

Shopping cart

Theory of Music & Entertainment

Results 321 - 340 of 494

Theory of Music & Entertainment

Paperback. An absorbing account of the influence of African rhythms on contemporary black Brazilian music and the development of music worldwide. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 maps/ 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; AVA; AVGE; AVGH; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 177 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745307312
ISBN
9780745307312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 24.66

Paperback. This volume explores the everyday lives of Nazarite women - part of one of the most popular indigenous religious communities in South Africa - through their songs and dances, dream narratives and fertility rituals, which come to life both musically and visually on CD-ROM. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFM; AVA; AVGD; HRK; HRLF; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226548203
ISBN
9780226548203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.39

Paperback. Rock & Pop Theory: the essential guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. With a special focus on popular music. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 117 x 11. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Faber Music Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571536337
ISBN
9780571536337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.46

Paperback. Suitable for scholars and students in popular music studies and American Studies as well as general readers interested in popular music, this book brings voices and perspectives to the study of popular-and particularly rock-music. Editor(s): Beebe, Roger; Fulbrook, Denise; Saunders, Ben. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 b&w photos, 2 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822329152
ISBN
9780822329152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.83

Hardcover. In Sami Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe, ethnomusicologist Thomas Hilder offers the first book-length study of this diverse and dynamic music scene and its intersection with the politics of indigeneity. Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DN; AVA; AVGH; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810888951
ISBN
9780810888951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.08

Presents an overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music. This book presents an introduction to Schenkerian analysis, outlining the concepts that involved in analysis. It outlines a working method to help students to get started on the process of analysis. Num Pages: 272 pages, 236 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415973977
ISBN
9780415973977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.17

Hardcover. Probing analyses, from the renowned music theorist, of Schubert's great, yet still little-studied piano-solo, chamber, and symphonic masterpieces. Num Pages: 216 pages, 85 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFA; AVA; AVGC; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465922
ISBN
9781580465922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 205 pages, 1port. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486257488
ISBN
9780486257488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.20

Spiral bound. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Spiralbound
Publication date
2016
Edition
4th Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199395514
ISBN
9780199395514
Spiralbound
Condition: New

€ 94.88

Paperback. Through an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings. Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 284 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360612
ISBN
9780822360612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.91

Hardback. Through an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings. Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360469
ISBN
9780822360469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Hardcover. Num Pages: 178 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 265 x 186 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
178
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
Sixth Edition, (Unjacketed)
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520074309
ISBN
9780520074309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.97
€ 53.97

Paperback. Set against the legendary 1980s scene, this book maps the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom, with an energy and exuberance which is as fresh today as when it was written. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241968314
ISBN
9780241968314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

Paperback.
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780227174159
ISBN
9780227174159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.39

Hardback. This text proposes a way of thinking about music that is faithful to the experience of playing or listening during a real performance. It refers to the rhythm of a piece, the way it shapes the succession of events, and the choice of details that can affect the way time appears to flow. Num Pages: 240 pages, 165 musical examples, footnotes, index. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810847514
ISBN
9780810847514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.54

Paperback. Series: Improve Your Teaching!. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 252 x 5. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Faber Music Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571538683
ISBN
9780571538683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.58

Paperback. Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M R James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360. The Mediumship of the Listener. 272 pages. Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M R James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441155870
ISBN
9781441155870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.73

Sheet music. .
Publisher
Trinity College London Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857361127
ISBN
9780857361127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.57

Paperback. The academic community is now well placed to discuss exactly what is going on in any example of popular music and the theoretical foundation for such analytical work has also been laid, although there is as yet no general agreement over all the details. This title presents a study of recorded popular song, from the recordings of the 1920s onwards. Series Editor(s): Scott, Professor Derek B.; Hawkins, Professor Stan; Burns, Professor Lori. Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Num Pages: 434 pages, Includes 3 b&w illustrations and 94 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 768. Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. 434 pages, includes 94 music examples, 3 b&w figures & 7 tables. The academic community is now well placed to discuss exactly what is going on in any example of popular music and the theoretical foundation for such analytical work has also been laid, although there is as yet no general agreement over all the details. This title presents a study of recorded popular song, from the recordings of the 1920s onwards. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVA. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 26. Weight: 766.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
434
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409438021
ISBN
9781409438021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.12

Paperback. The last twenty years or so have seen a surge of interest in the philosophy of music. However there is comparatively little philosophical literature devoted specifically to songs, singing and vocal music in general. Series: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 175 x 6. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118524671
ISBN
9781118524671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.07

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!