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Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil
Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is layered...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96065-6
To be published February 18th 2009 by Routledge.
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World Music
A Global Journey
The second edition of World Music: A Global Journey introduces students to the diversity of musical expression around the world. It takes the reader across...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-98878-0
To be published September 22nd 2008 by Routledge.
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The Garland Handbook of African Music
The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa, (1997). Revised and updated, the...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96102-8
Published June 25th 2008 by Routledge.
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Electronic and Experimental Music
Technology, Music, and Culture
Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture is a revised and expanded edition of this classic work, providing a thorough treatment of the relevant...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-95782-3
Published June 6th 2008 by Routledge.
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SchenkerGUIDE
A Brief Handbook and Web Site for Schenkerian Analysis
SchenkerGUIDE is an accessible overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music. The book has emerged out of the...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-97398-4
Published June 6th 2008 by Routledge.
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Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia
Focus on Gamelan Music of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country—both as sound and cultural phenomenon. An archipelago...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96068-7
Published May 27th 2008 by Routledge.
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Focus: Music of South Africa
Focus on Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96071-7
Published April 3rd 2008 by Routledge.
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The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music
The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated,...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96075-5
Published March 12th 2008 by Routledge.
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The Crisis of Music in Early Modern Europe, 1470-1530
In the final decades of the fifteenth century, the European musical world was shaken to its foundations by the onset of a veritable culture war.At...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96474-6
Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge.
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The Digital Musician
The Digital Musician examines cultural awareness, artistic identity and musical skill through the prism of recent technological innovations. New technologies, and especially the new digital...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96216-2
Published November 2nd 2007 by Routledge.
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Rhythm, Music, and the Brain
Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications
With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human brain "live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96475-3
Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.
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The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music
The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America,...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96101-1
Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge.
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Music Education
Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today
Music Education: Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today is an anthology of thematically organized essays that illustrate why music education has been valued by...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-95779-3
Published October 11th 2007 by Routledge.
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Revisiting Music Theory
A Musician's Guide
Revisiting Music Theory: A Guide to the Practice contains the basics of music theory with the vocabulary used in harmonic and formal analysis. The book...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-97440-0
Published April 25th 2007 by Routledge.
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Computers in Music Education
Amplifying Musicality
Computers in Music Education addresses the question of how computer technologies might best assist music education. For current and preservice music teachers and designed as a...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-97851-4
Published January 30th 2007 by Routledge.
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The Rock History Reader
The Rock History Reader is a collection of primary source material that brings to life the often contentious issues, arguments, conflicts and creative tensions that...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-97501-8
Published December 19th 2006 by Routledge.
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Creative Music Composition
The Young Composer's Voice
Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students. "Creative composition"-composing in your own style, rather than in the style...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-97467-7
Published May 26th 2006 by Routledge.
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Opera Coaching
Opera Coaching is the first practical guide for pianists, singers, and opera producers to this important--and often neglected--career. The opera coach is a teacher who...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-97601-5
Published March 21st 2006 by Routledge.
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World Music
A Global Journey
"...this concise publication is a true gift to launch inquisitive music students on their personal journeys to other lands and people, and to help answer...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96892-8
Published November 29th 2005 by Routledge.
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Ethnomusicology
A Contemporary Reader
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader is designed to supplement a textbook for an introductory course in ethnomusicology. It offers a cross section of the best new...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-97204-8
Published November 8th 2005 by Routledge.
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African American Music
An Introduction
African American Music: An Introduction is a collection of thirty essays by leading scholars whch survey major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular,...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-94138-9
Published October 21st 2005 by Routledge.
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The Craft of Modal Counterpoint
The Craft of Modal Counterpoint is the companion book to Benjamin's The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint, recently republished in a second edition by Routledge. Modal...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-97172-0
Published December 30th 2004 by Routledge.
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Music Cultures in the United States
An Introduction
Music Cultures in the United States is a basic textbook for an Introduction to American Music course. Taking a new, fresh approach to the study...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-96589-7
Published December 30th 2004 by Routledge.
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On the Track
A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring
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...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-94136-5
Published January 8th 2004 by Routledge.
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The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint
The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint is an introductory text to the analysis and composition of tonal counterpoint. Using examples from the music of J.S. Bach...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-94391-8
Published August 8th 2003 by Routledge.
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The Cultural Study of Music
The Cultural Study of Music is an anthology of new writings that will serve as a basic textbook on music and culture. Increasingly,...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-93844-0
Published January 3rd 2003 by Routledge.
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Understanding Popular Music is a comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of popular music. It begins with a critical assessment of the different ways...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23509-9
Published May 10th 2001 by Routledge.
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Rock, Pop and the Written Word
Classic sociological analyses of 'deviance' and rebellion; studies of technology; subcultural and feminist readings, semiotic and musicological essays and close readings of stars, bands and...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-05306-8
Published July 12th 1990 by Routledge.
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