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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dmitri tymoczko”
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  • A Geometry of Music

    Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice

    by Dmitri Tymoczko ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko describes a new framework for thinking about music that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from medieval ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A Geometry of Music

    Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice

    by Dmitri Tymoczko ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko describes a new framework for thinking about music that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from medieval ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Tonality

    An Owner's Manual

    by Dmitri Tymoczko ...
    Series series OXFORD STUDIES IN MUSIC THEORY
    This encyclopaedic book proposes a sweeping reformulation of the basic concepts of Western music theory, revealing simple structures underlying a wide range of practices from the Renaissance to contemporary pop. Its core innovation is a collection of simple geometrical models describing the implicit knowledge governing a broad range of music-making, much as the theory of grammar describes ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Melody in Songwriting

    Tools and Techniques for Writing Hit Songs

    by Jack Perricone ...
    (Berklee Guide). Melody is a subject too often neglected in the teaching of music. This unique resource gives melody that attention it deserves, and proves that melody writing is a skill that can be learned. Through proven tool and techniques, you will learn to write interesting melodies, how melodic rhythm influences rhyme, what makes harmony progress, and the many dynamic relationships between ... Read more

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  • Musical Composition

    Craft and Art

    by Alan Belkin ...
    An invaluable introduction to the art and craft of musical composition from a distinguished teacher and composerThis essential introduction to the art and craft of musical composition is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principles and techniques applicable to a broad range of musical styles, from concert pieces to film scores and video game music. The first of its kind to utilize a ... Read more

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  • Counterpoint and How to Use It in Your Music

    by John Collins ...
    Counterpoint is an approach to musical composition based on the union of independent and interdependent melodies. Counterpoint and How to Use It in Your Music is a step-by-step course in counterpoint, and shows you how to apply it in your own music, whether you write contemporary pop songs or pieces for orchestral or traditional instruments."I love to learn from it. A mavelous master piece. I ... Read more

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  • 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

    $28.49 USD

  • Bach's Cello Suites, Volumes 1 and 2

    Analyses and Explorations

    by Allen Winold ...
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  • Classical Form

    A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

    by William E. Caplin ...
    Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of classical form, from individual ideas, phrases, and themes to the large-scale organization of complete movements. It ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Music Theory Through Improvisation

    A New Approach to Musicianship Training

    by Ed Sarath ...
    Designed for Music Theory courses, Music Theory Through Improvisation presents a unique approach to basic theory and musicianship training that examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general progression of diatonic to non-diatonic harmony in conventional approaches, but integrates improvisation, composition, keyboard harmony, analysis, ... Read more

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  • Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice

    by Edward Pearsall ...
    Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice introduces a number of tools for analyzing a wide range of twentieth-century musical styles and genres. It includes discussions of harmony, scales, rhythm, contour, post-tonal music, set theory, the twelve-tone method, and modernism. Recent developments involving atonal voice leading, K-nets, nonlinearity, and neo-Reimannian transformations are also ... Read more

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