Presents a comprehensive review of the material covered in "Introduction to Music" courses in colleges and universities. In keeping with the courses' content, this review book covers the "elements" of music and provides a historical survey of music.

Presents an overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music. This book presents an introduction to Schenkerian analysis, outlining the concepts that involved in analysis. It outlines a working method to help students to get started on the process of analysis.

An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius

Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In this book, the author - one of the work's finest interpreters - focusses on the context, resonance and personal significance of a work which is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of Lieder.

A study of Schubert's Winterreise - as heard on BBC Radio 4.

Music educators and practicing musicians have failed to benefit as much as they could from music psychology research. Parncutt and McPherson propose to improve the situation by describing new approaches, informed by recent psychological research, to teaching music, learning music, and making music at all educational levels.

A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.

The first book to cover in-depth and from an insider's perspective the inception and rise of goth - one of the world's most enduringly popular musical subcultures.

DISCOVER THE REALITY OF LIFE AS A SUPERSTAR DJ IN THIS SENSATIONAL EXPOSE OF WHAT REALLY GOES ON BEHIND THE BPMs. The glamour, the parties, the excess, the highs and, of course, the lows.

A unique and intimate portrait of life and love with perhaps the most brilliant and beguiling songwriter and performer of the twentieth century.

Drawing on Freud's and Winnicott's work on psychoanalysis and play, R.M. Simon illustrates the healing power of art-making with the drawings and stories of seven-year-old Joe, who succeeds in overcoming the trauma of family break-up by expressing his emotional turmoil outside the formal therapeutic process.

John Scanlan considers the Sex Pistols as the first successful art project of their manager, Malcolm McLaren, a vision born out of radical politics, boredom and his deep and unrelenting talent for perverse opportunism.

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of what many think is the greatest Beatles album. This book is all about the Beatles, the music on the album, the recording process, how the disc was received at the time and how subsequently it has been acknowledged as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. It also looks at the state of the world in 1967.

At once candidly intimate and searchingly analytical, She Come By It Natural captures the enduring appeal of this singular star.

Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work - music. She played and sang draws on the music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influences that shaped her literary masterpieces. -- .

IT'S A LOVE STORY tells the incredible story of Martin and Shirlie Kemp - from the moment they set eyes on each other, through their stellar careers, to raising a family together. The book uncovers the personal highs and lows of Britain's favourite couple, and the unbreakable bond that has kept them strong.

Explores most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. This title charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies. It also brings right up to date with a final chapter on glam in hip hop, Lady Gaga, and the aftershocks of David Bowie's death.

As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! The author explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. He charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST PRINT RESOURCE AWARD AT THE 2015 MUSIC TEACHER AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE Paul Harris's highly successful Simultaneous Learning approach is an entirely positive and imaginative way to teach, which embraces the understanding that all the elements of music are connected.

This book provides an overview of the current evidence demonstrating the positive impact singing has on our physical and mental health and wellbeing. Including case studies that illustrate the power of singing, it also discusses potential barriers for singing and the strategies needed to overcome them in personal, cultural and societal contexts.

In smoky rooms above pubs, bare rooms with battered stools and beer-stained tables, an acoustic revolution took place in Britain in the 1950s and '60s. This was the folk revival, where a generation of musicians, would rediscover the native songs of their own tradition. This book tells the story of this movement.

A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct from award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.