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“emery schubert”

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  • Expressiveness in music performance

    Empirical approaches across styles and cultures

    Edited by Dorottya Fabian, Renee Timmers, Emery Schubert ...
    What does it mean to be expressive in music performance across diverse historical and cultural domains? What are the means at the disposal of a performer in various time periods and musical practice conventions? What are the conceptualisations of expression and the roles of performers that shape expressive performance? This book brings together research from a range of disciplines that use diverse ... Read more

    $118.39 CAD

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    Is Music a Universal Language?

    by Kathleen Marie Higgins ...
    "Higgins' love of music and cultural variety is evident throughout. She writes in a relaxed, accessible, sophisticated style…Highly recommended."— ChoiceFrom our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In this book, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Music Instinct:How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

    by Philip Ball ...
    From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why music excites such deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all, are questions that have until recently remained unanswered. Now in The Music Instinct, award-winning writer Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Psychology for Musicians : Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

    Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

    by Andreas C. Lehmann;John A. Sloboda;Robert H. Woody ...
    What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners advanced music makers and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that they identify themselves as musicians and fewer still become musicians of international class. ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Hollywood Harmony

    Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema

    by Frank Lehman ...
    Series series Oxford Music/Media Series
    Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Filmgoing is an intensely musical experience, one in which the soundtrack structures our interpretations and steers our emotions. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music theory, musicology, and music psychology in this first ever book-length analytical study of this ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Emotion and Meaning in Music

    by Leonard B. Meyer ...
    "Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory and aesthetics, the relationship between pattern and meaning."—David Kraehenbuehl, Journal of Music Theory"This is the best study of its kind to ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

    How Music Plays the Mind

    by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis ...
    What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD

  • The Science and Psychology of Music Performance : Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning

    Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning

    by Richard Parncutt;Gary McPherson ...
    What type of practice makes a musician perfect? What sort of child is most likely to succeed on a musical instrument? What practice strategies yield the fastest improvement in skills such as sight-reading memorization and intonation? Scientific and psychological research can offer answers to these and other questions that musicians face every day. In The Science and Psychology of Music Performance ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Music Outside the Lines

    Ideas for Composing in K-12 Music Classrooms

    by Maud Hickey ...
    Music Outside the Lines is an informative and practical resource for all who are invested in making music composition an integral part of curriculum. Author Maud Hickey offers both a well-grounded justification for teaching music composition and also a compendium of useful instructional ideas and classroom activities. Hickey begins with a rationale for teachers to begin composition activities in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Musical Illusions and Phantom Words

    How Music and Speech Unlock Mysteries of the Brain

    by Diana Deutsch ...
    In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of music, shows how illusions of music and speech--many of which she herself discovered--have fundamentally altered thinking about the brain. These astonishing illusions show that people can differ strikingly in how they hear musical patterns--differences that reflect ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Music, Mind and Education

    by Keith Swanwick ...
    Keith Swanwick explores the psychological and sociological dimensions of musical experience and the implications of these for children's development and music education in schools and colleges. Music is seen, with the other arts, as contributing to the growth of mind, with deep psychological roots in play. Swanwick examines the ways in which children make their own music, and confirms that there ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes

    Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

    by Robert S. Hatten ...
    "Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD