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"Excellence" is a story about the quality of the music played in the "Live Music Capital of the World," Austin, Texas. From venue to venue, Michael Wright has seen and photographed live performances from musicians who passionately give their time and effort with one goal in mind: your happiness.

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Experiencing Music Composition Grades K2 features pedagogical strategies and practical advice for teachers coupled with 15 engaging lessons tailored to meet the needs and interests of very young musicians.

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While recognizing that the differences among women are as distinct as those between genders, this work examines gender's influence on music. It shows that there is a fluid relationship between the music and the analyst, and between the text and the context.

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Introduces entrainment through the lens of contemporary rock music to explain why humans enjoy listening to music together and what is it about certain beats that captures our attention.

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"Introduces entrainment-the capacity to perceive a beat and synchronize to it-through the lens of contemporary rock music to explain why humans enjoy listening to music together and what is it about certain beats that captures our attention"--

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This classic has outlived its original title, but not its usefulness.

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The form and analysis treatises chapters include publication, original language, English translation, reprint, and bibliographic information for book-length works (including master's theses and doctoral dissertations) that deal with questions of musical form and musical analysis in a significant way.

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This resource offers the most in-depth examination to date of the work of composer Gabriel Yared, through a uniquely interdisciplinary analysis that integrates film theory and musicology.

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An introduction to a new way of modeling musical surfaces for theorists and for generating precompositional relationships for composers, this unique music theory reference work introduces, classifies, and enumerates graph theoretical models for musical transformations in compositional and analytical applications.

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Pianist and composer Dan Siegel brings you Harmonic Mechanisms, a valuable book that offers an exploration and analysis of various harmonic structures that can be applied as vehicles for improvisation and composition. The text can be employed as supplemental material for intermediate to advanced level theory, musicianship, composition, and jazz improvisation coursework.

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Presenting detailed bibliographic information on all aspects of harmony in music, with the broadest possible historical and stylistic palette, this work includes over 2,600 total citations. The sources range from treatises, dissertations, and textbooks to journal articles and book reviews, and are cross-referenced and indexed.

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"From a gentle and soothing voice that is personal and intimate to hums that are mystical, impersonal and maddening, this book provides an anthropology of the concept of humming through the discipline of sound studies"--

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Investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison. This book looks at Morrison as a writer, specifically as an Irish writer who has recorded musical settings of Yeats poems, and collaborated with Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Gerald Dawe.

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This volume is designed as an introduction to the science of music for advanced students of music and psychology, music teachers, professional musicians, and general readers interested in the scientific approach to the understanding and appreciation of beauty in music.

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This book reinterprets the Fluxus movement focusing on the important and charming contribution of Japanese musicians and artists. It argues they were at the roots of Fluxus in their radical and refined way of making artwhether it was playing, performing, writing, or simply living.

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This book reinterprets the Fluxus movement focusing on the important and charming contribution of Japanese musicians and artists. It argues they were at the roots of Fluxus in their radical and refined way of making artwhether it was playing, performing, writing, or simply living.