This Is Your Brain On Music
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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it.
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Perfect Wrong Note:learning To Trust Your Musical Self
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In this groundbreaking book, noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfilment of making music.
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Inner Game Of Music
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The battle that many musicians, of whatever level, have to face is an inner one - against nervousness, self-doubt and fear of failure.
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Musician's Body: A Maintenance Manual For Peak Performance
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Musicians suffer greatly from industry-related injury and illness, and many of these problems are established during student days or even before.
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Jazz: The Australian Accent
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Jazz: The Australian Accent explores the unique developments in Australian jazz over the last twenty years.
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Britten's Children
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Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional, yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys.
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Music At The Limits
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Music at the Limits brings together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays on music.
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Lexicon Of Musical Invective
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A collection of nasty barbs about composers (including Wagner and Brahms) and their works, culled mostly from contemporaneous newspapers and magazines, that makes for hilarious reading.
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The Music Of Silence
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Provides insight into the philosophy and spiritual world behind the music of one of the leading present-day composers.
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How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony: And Why You Should Care
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Ross W. Duffin presents an engaging and elegantly reasoned expose of musical temperament and its impact on the way in which we experience music.
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Oxford Companion To Music
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The Oxford Companion to Music is one of the most famous music reference works of all time.
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Introduction To Music Studies(an)
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This introduction proves how studying music is of great value both in its own terms and also in the post-university careers marketplace.
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I Am Melba
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The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.
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Music : A Very Short Introduction
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This stimulating Very Short Introduction to music invites us to really think about music and the values and qualities we ascribe to it.
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Musicophilia
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A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us.
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Little Book Of Music For The Classroom
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Nina's groundbreaking research has proven how music can be of direct benefit for learning and motivation in classrooms across the school and this book, simply and effectively, tells you what music to use, when and why.
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Best Music Writing 2009
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The landmark tenth edition in the series of annual collections celebrating the best in music writing on every style of music, from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more.
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Danger Of Music And Other Anti-utopian Essays
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Hard-hitting, provocative, and incisive, these essays consider contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics and historians in the life of the arts, and the fraught terrain where ethics and aesthetics interact and at times conflict.
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Essential Dictionary Of MusicNotation
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This pocket-sized dictionary presents current and correct notation practices in an easy-to-use format.
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