(Paperback, Main)
By: Michel Faber
ISBN: 9781838858438
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Canongate Books
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An enlightening, thoughtful and witty exploration into how and why we listen to music, from the award-winning author Michel Faber
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Chris Thomas King
ISBN: 9780897336482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Paperback)
By: Matthew Brown
ISBN: 9781839997884
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2026
Publisher: Anthem Press
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Beethoven's Freude theme-or "Ode to Joy"-is perhaps the most iconic melody ever created. This book sets out to show why the Freude theme has acquired this almost mythic status and what its use in the finale of the Ninth Symphony reveals about the mechanics of tonal composition.
(Paperback)
By: Susan Mcclary
ISBN: 9780816641895
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Dylan Robinson
ISBN: 9781517907693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Clay Mills
ISBN: 9781098364335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)
By: Vladimir Janklvitch
ISBN: 9780691090474
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Deals with classical issues in the philosophy of music, including metaphysics and ontology. This book argues that music is not a hieroglyph, nor a language or sign system. It argues that music is 'ineffable', because it cannot be pinned down, and has a capacity to engender limitless resonance in several domains.
(Paperback)
By: Alfred Brendel
ISBN: 9781785902673
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 21st July 2017
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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A unique insight into the exceptional mind of one of the outstanding musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
(Paperback)
By: V. Kofi Agawu
ISBN: 9780691273631
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyze the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this condition. Playing with Signs proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music th
(Paperback)
By: Victor Zuckerkandl
ISBN: 9780691017594
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1970
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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An approach to music as an instrument of philosophical inquiry, seeking not so much a philosophy of music as a philosophy through music.
(Paperback)
By: Adrian Valia
ISBN: 9781645675907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2023
Publisher: Page Street Publishing Co.
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Multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Adrian Valia has compiled the most extensive guide to music theoryfrom rhythm and harmony to melodyfor beginners who want to write, make and better understand music.
(Paperback)
By: Oliver Sacks
ISBN: 9780330523592
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2011
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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From the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
(Hardback)
By: Colm Boyd
ISBN: 9789460582486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Luster Publishing
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The Illustrated Book of Songs is a collection of lists about the music that makes up the soundtrack of our lives, full of interesting stories & facts and cool illustrations of your favourite performers and songs.
(Paperback)
By: Shawn Taylor
ISBN: 9780826419231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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One of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest's debut record took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male and turned it on its head. This book explores the album's creation as well as the impact it had on the author at that time - a 17-year-old high-school geek who was into hip-hop, punk, skateboarding, and Dungeons & Dragons.
(Paperback)
By: Prof Paul Carter
ISBN: 9781501344480
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"A personal narrative to sound written by one of the top figures in sound studies and that outlines a new way of thinking about migratory poetics"--
(Hardback)
By: Marie Thompson
ISBN: 9781501313318
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Marie Thompson
ISBN: 9781501313301
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: David Horn
ISBN: 9781501326103
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Geeta Dayal
ISBN: 9780826427861
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Through interviews and archival research, Geeta Dayal untangles how this extraordinary album foreshadowed the future of electronic music.
(Paperback)
By: Associate Professor Barbara Browning
ISBN: 9781501319235
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Olaf Salie
ISBN: 9783791386171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Prestel
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A photographic tribute to Frances most lyrical, romantic, and poetic musical tradition.
(Paperback)
By: Vanessa Joan Mller
ISBN: 9783956794711
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Sternberg Press
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Documenting Florian Hecker's multichannel psychoacoustic installation with essays, images, and data.
(Paperback)
By: Professor Suk-Jun Kim
ISBN: 9781501324611
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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"--
(Paperback)
By: David Toop
ISBN: 9781628927696
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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