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Pages: 140
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Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-02 - Publisher: Profile Books

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Ideas in Profile Series Is music a science or an art? It's both, as Andrew Gant reveals in this lively and accessible account of what music is and what it's for
Rough Ideas
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors: Stephen Hough
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-04 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composer Stephen Hough is one of the world’s leading pianists, winning global accl
Music and Shape
Language: en
Pages: 449
Authors: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Shape is a concept widely used in talk about music. Musicians in classical, popular, jazz and world musics use it to help them rehearse, teach and think about w
Music Lessons
Language: en
Pages: 689
Authors: Pierre Boulez
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-17 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The eminent French composer’s groundbreaking lectures, available for the first time in English: “a major event” (Alex Ross). Music Lessons collects the ye
Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality
Language: en
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Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-02-13 - Publisher: MIT Press

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A fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do. Despite the cultural d