Instruction & Study - Appreciation
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What to Listen for in Music
$16.00 Add to cartNow in trade paperback: “The definitive guide to musical enjoyment” (Forum).
In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American compo- Author: Copland, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0451226402
- Language: English
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Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces
$16.95 Add to cartAn outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more–from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the influe
- Author: Burnham, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0691230684
- Language: English
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The Perpetual Beginner: a musician’s path to lifelong learning
$16.95 Add to cartThe Perpetual Beginner is part memoir, part musical instruction manual. Relating stories of his experiences as a young musician and music student in 1980’s New York, author Dave Isaacs describes the k
- Author: Isaacs, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0578520834
- Language: English
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The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMusic has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190640154
- Language: English
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Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
$14.95 Add to cartNon-fans regard C line Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband’s struggle with cancer, her knack… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #52
- Author: Wilson, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 082642788X
- Language: English
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The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
$29.95 Add to cartThe first teacher to bring Islamic mysticism to the West presents music’s divine nature and its connection to our daily lives in this poetic classic of Sufi literature.
Music, according to Sufi teach- Series: Shambhala Dragon Editions
- Author: Khan, Hazrat Inayat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 4, 2022
- ISBN10: 1611809967
- Language: English
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The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
$20.00 Add to cartFrom Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them.
The Music- Author: Wooten, Victor L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0425220931
- Language: English
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Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice
$13.95 Add to cartDeep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, mediators a… [more below]
- Author: Oliveros, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: March 8, 2005
- ISBN10: 0595343651
- Language: English
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This Is What It Sounds Like: A Legendary Producer Turned Neuroscientist on Finding Yourself Through Music
$17.95 Add to cartThis Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it’s also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a
- Author: Rogers, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065966
- Language: English
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Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
$17.99 Add to cartWhat makes a distant oboe’s wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and brain evolved for detecting the approaching lion or tr
- Author: Jourdain, R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 038078209X
- Language: English
