Appreciation Books


Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Best Price: $14.99 This book is very readable even for those outside the scientific and medical communities. Sacks...	The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Best Price: $8.54 Victor Wooten has succeeded in communicating a complete "how to" concerning what...	Adult All-In-One Course: Lesson-Theory-Technic: Level 1 Best Price: $10.28 This is yet another self-teaching book that sits on my bookshelf unused. I looked at it when it...	Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition Best Price: $64.84 I've seen the unabridged version of this book and it's as big as an encyclopedia. The Brief...	Classical Music for Dummies Best Price: $13.42 I basically enjoy the "Dummies" books... I find the information often extremely...



101 Music Games for Children: Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song (SmartFun Activity Books) Best Price: $8.93 Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful!! This book has been so helpful in my children's ministry at church.	Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer (Ted Reed) Best Price: $4.31 This is a fantastic book to learn all the drum syncopation you need to set yourself apart from...	The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier Best Price: $4.98 I came across an excerpt from this book in a magazine some time ago and decided I needed to read...	5 Audio CD Set for Music: An Appreciation Best Price: $42.76 The book arrive as described. I thought the audio CD's were included but its still good.	Edly's Music Theory for Practical People Best Price: $15.41 Studied music theory over the years and am finding this book very helpful in pulling it all...



The Enjoyment of Music, Tenth Edition (with DVD) Best Price: $60.24 Beware!! This book might come with the DVD, but it doesn't come with the accompanying CD. This...	Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 1 (Adult Piano Course) Best Price: $44.95 O.K., but the music is kind of boring. It's more work than pleasure. The Alfred's basic piano...	OnMusic Appreciation Best Price: $98.00 This item requires a code to be registered on the web site in order to be used in a college...	Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination Best Price: $4.00 This is a good book! An informative page-turner. I recommend it to anyone who needs to...	Guitar Effects Pedals: The Practical Handbook Best Price: $15.57 This is a great book. Well written. Easy to understand. Great dvd that comes with it. It was...

Adult All-in-one Course: Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, Book 2 Best Price: $10.81 My efforts to reteach myself to play the piano had kind of stalled but ALFRED'S BASIC ADULT...	Experience Music! w/ 2 Audio CDs and CD-ROM Best Price: $59.95 I received my book very quickly, within a few days. The cd's and book were in excellent...	What to Listen for in Music Best Price: $3.95 This is a classic. I recommend it for anyone that wants to expand their viewpoint of Classical...	Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game Best Price: $14.50 The book was sent in a very timely fashion and was in very good condition. I am sure my husband...	Opera for Dummies (Book and Audio CD) Best Price: $7.24 As you see in many of the other reviews, this is a great guide that will introduce you to opera...

The Enjoyment of Music Best Price: $24.80	Music and the Mind Best Price: $7.99 I used this book to help me write my senior thesis (rooted in music education). Very helpful...	The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature Best Price: $17.13 The author of the New York Times bestseller and Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist This...	The Mysticism of Sound and Music (Shambhala Dragon Editions) Best Price: $10.50 I must admit I had heard of Hazrat Inayat Khan a long time ago and been a little sceptical of...	Music: An Appreciation w/ Multimedia Companion 4.5 CD-ROM Best Price: $50.00 This book, while it reads quite like a textbook has short chapters and many helpful things like...

Sound in Motion: A Performer's Guide to Greater Musical Expression Best Price: $20.21 David McGill has assembled an exhaustive study that uses the musical concepts of the legendary...	The NPR Listener's Encyclopedia of Classical Music Best Price: $8.00 I hope that no potential readers were offput by the very silly and petty Publishers Weekly...	Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation (Bradford Books) Best Price: $17.38 Sweet Anticipation should be required reading for all composers and musicologists. The book...	Essential Ear Training for the Contemporary Musician Best Price: $11.00 My son attends Berklee and he tells me that this is not the book used at the school. He also...	Music with the Brain in Mind Best Price: $20.95 Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.

Listening to Music (with CD) Best Price: $48.73 When I signed up to take Music Appreciation I was a bit nervous. Though I have grown up around...	The Big Book of Music Games Best Price: $14.16 This book contains wonderful games with easy to follow directions. Games have variations and...	Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music Best Price: $12.30 To previous reviewers: Yes, the book has a lot about the guitar's history, maybe too much. ...	Guitar Total Scales Techniques and Applications: Lessons for Beginner through Professional Best Price: $15.25 For any guitarist lookin to make the jump to lead i highly highly recomend this book. its got...	Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link) Best Price: $11.95 I have looking for a teaching tool about the composers and music periods. This surpasses all...

Classical Destinations: An Armchair Guide to Classical Music Best Price: $19.78 I loved the whole tv series, bought the DVD and then the book. The book is basically the spoken...	Study Guide and Student Workbook to accompany Music: An Appreciation, Brief Best Price: $30.00 very impressed with the quality. better than described, but took a little longer than anticipated.	Music: The Art of Listening Best Price: $45.69 Emphasizing music in the context of the society that surrounds it, Music: The Art of Listening ...	Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz Best Price: $18.35 This is one of the most perceptive, thought provoking and humane books I have ever read about...	Piano 101 : Book 1 Best Price: $19.76 This book explains everything really well and has some great practice songs in it. My only...

The Joy of Music Leonard Bernstein Best Price: $10.00 I've had this book for a couple of decades in the original hardback version. It's a reminder to...	The World of Music Best Price: $53.91 The World of Music has an expansive mission as it covers the world of music thru time. As...	How to Make Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles Best Price: $5.01 This is a reprint of Mason's classic 1938 edition. It is fascinating, even though Mason uses...	Beethoven: The Music and the Life Best Price: $24.29 As a college undergrad I took a music course taught by Lockwood many years ago. He was good as...	Music in Our World Best Price: $37.54 Good: textbook engages form AND context. Attempts to combine multiplicity of legitimate...

Music for Analysis: Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Century Includes CD Best Price: $59.89 Beware! If you are after music analysis, you won't find much in this book. This book is...	On the Sensations of Tone Best Price: $14.51 Part 1 discusses how tones may be perceived as built up by the base tone and the "harmonic...	America's Musical Landscape Best Price: $42.84 This text addresses the broad range of music in the United States from early periods to today,...	The Mahler Symphonies: An Owner's Manual (includes 1 CD) Best Price: $14.24 David Hurwitz's THE MAHLER SYMPHONIES is aptly subtitled "An Owner's Manual." The...	Contemporary Disney Best Price: $14.02 Some of the songs really disappointed me. "Part of Your World," for example, is...

Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice Best Price: $8.72 Deep listening by Pauline Oliveros, is by far the most unusual book I have read concerning the...	Wagner Without Fear: Learning to Love--and Even Enjoy--Opera's Most Demanding Genius Best Price: $8.50 I have to admit that I was once afraid of Wagner. For years, I listened to Italian and French...	The Vintage Guide to Classical Music Best Price: $8.30 I learned to appreciate classical music from my fiancee Jian, and now I only listen to classical...	Music Listening Today (with CD) Best Price: $54.48 Unquestionably the most understandable,interesting,even entertaining text for introduction to...	Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century Best Price: $15.65 Strimple does it again! A very useful resource for choral music enthusiasts. Great book to add...

Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World, Second Edition Best Price: $45.00 The book was in great condition... But it didn't come with the three CD's that were supposed to...	The Joy Of First-Year Piano (Joy Of...Series) Best Price: $6.50 Good book for neophyte pianists. I found it challenging but easy enough to work with.	1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die Best Price: $21.92 This book will no doubt be something different to every reader. The concept of listing 1,001...	Web Marketing for the Music Business Best Price: $23.48 Interested in promoting, selling and distributing music online, got the website but not sure...

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