Appreciation Books


My Music: Explorations of Music in Daily Life (Music/Culture Series) Best Price: $3.92 For what it is, this study of music in the lives of a diverse collection of people is hard to...	Beethoven: The Music and the Life Best Price: $13.75 As a college undergrad I took a music course taught by Lockwood many years ago. He was good as...	Lennon Legend Best Price: $8.36 I purchased this book for my mother. She has been a Beatles fan since she was a little girl. She...	Decoding Wagner: An Invitation to His World of Music Drama (includes 2 CDs) Best Price: $17.42 This well writen book has an analysis of all Wagner operas. I found it helpful, used together...	Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide Best Price: $11.34 I am giving Mr. Steinberg Four Stars for his good work. Mr Steinberg says in his introduction...



MBGU: Jazz Curriculum, Diminished Workbook (Mel Bay Guitar University) (Mel Bay Guitar University) Best Price: $12.91 The Diminished Workbook is a comprehensive study and explanation of diminished chords and...	Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening (Music/Culture) Best Price: $20.65 According to Small, there is no such thing as "music." "Music" is a abstract...	Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, All-In-One, Level 2 w/CD [STUDENT EDITION] (Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course) Best Price: $12.97 The book is fine, although it has a few too many cheesy songs like "For He's a Jolly Good...	Franco Corelli: Prince of Tenors Best Price: $22.88 Rather than an in-depth biography, this text reads like a cut-and-paste job of previously...	The Symphony: A Listener's Guide Best Price: $18.75 Since the glories of this book have already been trumpeted enough, I'll just suggest some great...



Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics Best Price: $30.00 The book assumes a bit of understanding of DSP: basically, that sound is vibrations and that you...	Guide to Chamber Music Best Price: $11.97 The primary audience of this guide is the classical music fan who has limited musical knowledge...	Brahms - A Listener's Guide: Unlocking the Masters Series (Unlocking the Masters) Best Price: $14.75 In this survey of Brahm's music, John Bell Young explores in depth the composer's private world...	Meet the Great Composers: Book 2 (Learning Link) Best Price: $4.50 Granted, if you paid for the book and CD, you should get them both. However, this is a valuable...	Music for Analysis: Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Century Includes CD Best Price: $64.89 Beware! If you are after music analysis, you won't find much in this book. This book is...

I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto Best Price: $15.61 Uproariously funny and relentlessly thought-provoking, I Hate New Music is one man's crusade...	Which One's Pink? Best Price: $6.27 I just finished reading this book and it was very interesting. If you know all of the music it...	La Boheme: Black Dog Opera Library Best Price: $12.00 I found this opera guide very succinct and helpful in understanding some of the intricate...	Young People's Concerts (Amadeus) Best Price: $13.84 This is a great book,Bernstein is not only a genius,but a really wise man,he explain things with...	Mel Bay presents The American Fiddle Method, Volume 2 - Fiddle Intermediate Fiddle Tunes and Techniques Best Price: $18.62 Designed as a follow-up to Volume 1, Volume 2 addresses such important skills as: 1) expanding a...

Music:An Appreciation, 4th Brief Edition with v4.5 Multimedia Companion CD-ROM Best Price: $59.95 I received this very quickly. Thank you so much	Listening to Music (5th Edition) Best Price: $54.76 I'M SURE GLAD I ORDERED...JUST WHAT I NEEDED AND RIGHT ON TIME FOR SCHOOL..THANKS! A ++++	Perspectives on Music Best Price: $37.65	Workbook for the Elements of Music: Concepts and Applications, Vol. 1 Best Price: $44.77 This workbook is essential, in my opinion, as a companion to the The Elements of Music by Ralph...	Workbook/Anthology for use with Harmony in Context Best Price: $31.24 This is the textbook I wish I would have used as an undergrad - the explanations are thorough...

Musicianship for the Older Beginner: Level 1 Best Price: $6.96 I bought these books to continue in the series that I started in a college class but was unable...	The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened Listening Best Price: $7.88 This book is exactly what it says it is-terms and concepts from A to Z. Its a dictionary. It...	Study Guide and Student Workbook to accompany Kamien Fifth Brief Edition: Music An Appreciation Best Price: $10.40	Unfinished Music Best Price: $30.91 Unfinished Music draws its inspiration from the riddling aphorism by Walter Benjamin that serves...	Tupac Remembered Best Price: $10.95 Like with any new Pac album, I always get excited the first day I hold it in my hands and the...

Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples Best Price: $22.00 Excellent service. Shipped very fast, and received well within the time stated. Product is in...	Music, Thought, and Feeling: The Psychology of Music Best Price: $63.86 In the words of my esteemed professor, `This is the textbook we have been waiting for, and used...	The Artist as Citizen Best Price: $13.70 Dr. Joseph W. Polisi's gathering of his many expert articles and quite thoughtful speeches blend...	Mel Bay presents Graded Repertoire for Guitar Book One (Stanley Yates Series) Best Price: $15.38 This new series of graded repertoire for guitar has been put together with the aim of providing...	The Norton Scores: Volume 1: Gregorian Chant to Beethoven, Tenth Edition (The Enjoyment of Music) Best Price: $39.14 This text book was used in my music history class. I felt that it provided a fairly...

The Norton Scores: Volume 2: Schubert to the Present, Tenth Edition (The Enjoyment of Music) Best Price: $45.13	Musicianship for the Older Beginner: Level 1 Best Price: $6.66 I bought these books to continue in the series that I started in a college class but was unable...	The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer Best Price: $16.67 It is a measure of John Adam's success as a composer of art music, for want of a better term,...	Ear Training for the Body: A Dancer's Guide to Music Best Price: $14.92 This book, written for the aspiring professional dancer and choreographer, can also be read...	Classical Music Best Price: $5.29 You get a short history of the 50 greatest composers along with recommendations on which pieces...

Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) Best Price: $14.95 People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions,...	Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide Best Price: $12.00 I am giving Mr. Steinberg Four Stars for his good work. Mr Steinberg says in his introduction...	Kenny Hall's Music Book: Old Time Music: Fiddle & Mandolin (Mel Bay Archive Editions) Best Price: $23.86 I don't have this book but we used to jam with Kenny back in the early 70's and did a workshop...	The Cambridge Companion to Mozart (Cambridge Companions to Music) Best Price: $19.99 This excellent collection of 17 essays by the leading contemporary (as of 2003) American and...	Teaching Instrumental Music: Developing the Complete Band Program Best Price: $22.21 This book is a great resource for the beginner teacher, and it would also be a great source for...

Wagner's Ring: A Listener's Companion and Concordance This book makes some good points, but the author is quite opinionated (for example, his view is...	The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience Best Price: $1.17 A few years ago I had an idea for a project/blog/zine thing that would involve getting friends...	Music and Emotion: Theory and Research (Series in Affective Science) Best Price: $60.18 Pulling together famous researchers, etc Juslin and Sloboda do an amzing job of pulling together...	The Acoustical Foundations of Music Best Price: $34.38 Dr. Backus is a professor of physics but also a pianist and has a deep appreciation of both the...	Playing from the Heart: Great Musicians Talk About Their Craft Best Price: $5.95 Through the eyes and ears of top music writers, Playing from the Heart brings you closer to 43...

New Worlds of Dvorak: Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life Best Price: $17.85 I have loved working with this book. I conducted the 9th Symphony last year and this book was...	Aida: Black Dog Opera Library (Book & Audio CD) (Black Dog Opera Library) Best Price: $11.90 Wow. This Black Dog Library production of Aida is superb. The 144 page hard cover book includes...	Beethoven's Anvil: Music In Mind And Culture Best Price: $15.80 I cannot recommend this book. He puts forth some interesting ideas, but it is all conjecture. ...	What to Listen For in Jazz Best Price: $17.75 Mr Kernfield is definitely an authority on jazz. I also own the "New grove Dictionary of...	The Redeemer Reborn: Parsifal as The Fifth Opera of Wagner's Ring Best Price: $17.85 This is an utterly marvelous book that I would very much recommend to anyone interested in...

Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening (Music/Culture) Best Price: $20.65 According to Small, there is no such thing as "music." "Music" is a abstract...	Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link) Best Price: $13.38 I have looking for a teaching tool about the composers and music periods. This surpasses all...

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