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Guitar Chords: Easy-to-Use, Easy-to-Carry, One Chord on Every Page
14/03/2006,
£9.99
£8.99
360 chords, organised as a chord per page, this is a flexible, comprehensive solution for anyone learning or playing the guitar at any level. This no-nonsense, easy to carry, wiro book will fit into a gig bag, flight case or hand bag with the minimum of fuss.
Popular Music, Digital Technology and Society
Paperback,
14/04/2018,
£26.99
£24.29
Taking a distinctive, multi-theoretical look at popular music's place in contemporary society, this book is both an original inquiry and an assessment of the state of popular music - its protagonists, audiences and practices.
Harmony in Practice
02/09/1999,
£26.00
£23.40
A workbook that discusses the main elements of tonal harmony , and contains numerous music examples and exercises for working. Particularly helpful to bridge the gap between Grade 5 and Grade 6 theory, and also very useful material for all higher-grade theory exam entrants, and for A Level, Diploma and undergraduate music students.
Musicophilia
Paperback,
02/09/2011,
£10.99
£9.89
From the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
Roots of Musicality: Music Therapy and Personal Development
Paperback,
29/03/2005,
£19.99
£17.99
The author considers neuroscience and psychobiology to identify analogies with the potential of musical expression to bring about therapeutic change, as observed during his work with children with autistic spectrum and pervasive developmental disorders.
Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers
Hardback,
30/05/2011,
£25.00
£22.50
Master interviewer Balint Andras Varga poses three probing questions to renowned contemporary composers about their work, and carefully renders their answers in their own words.
Music Theory in Practice, Grade 2
01/05/2008,
£4.75
£4.28
Fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 2 Theory of Music Exam. Features a clear explanation of music notation, many worked examples and practice exercises, definitions of important words and concepts, specimen exam questions and helpful tips for students.
Music Theory in Practice, Grade 3
15/05/2008,
£5.25
£4.73
Fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 3 Theory of Music Exam. Features a clear explanation of music notation, many worked examples and practice exercises, definitions of important words and concepts, specimen exam questions and helpful tips for students.
Music Theory in Practice, Grade 4
22/05/2008,
£5.75
£5.18
Fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 4 Theory of Music Exam. Features a clear explanation of music notation, many worked examples and practice exercises, definitions of important words and concepts, specimen exam questions and helpful tips for students.
Music Theory in Practice, Grade 5
29/05/2008,
£6.25
£5.63
Fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 5 Theory of Music Exam. Features a clear explanation of music notation, many worked examples and practice exercises, definitions of important words and concepts, specimen exam questions and helpful tips for students.
AB guide to music theory Part 2
03/01/1991,
£8.25
£7.43
Provides an introduction to the basic elements in harmony and musical structure. Includes separate chapters on voices, string instruments, woodwind and brass instruments, percussions and keyboard instruments, and instruments in combination. Also covers non-harmony notes, tonal harmony and chromatic chords, and musical structure.
AB Guide to Music Theory Part 1
01/01/1989,
£7.25
£6.53
Provides an introduction to the basic elements in harmony and musical structure. Covers the basics of rhythm and tempo, an introduction to pitch, intervals and transposition, articulation, ornaments, and reiterations.
Music Theory in Practice, Grade 1
Paperback,
06/03/2008,
£4.25
£3.83
Fully revised, this workbook remains the best way to prepare for ABRSM's Grade 1 Theory of Music Exam. Features a clear explanation of music notation, many worked examples and practice exercises, definitions of important words and concepts, specimen exam questions and helpful tips for students.
Music for Life
Paperback,
01/03/1995,
£19.99
£17.99
Music for Life is the first survey in book form of Creative Music Therapy with adult clients. Central to the book is the idea that music therapy derives its uniqueness from music's base as a non-verbal art form. The accompanying CD allows the reader the opportunity to listen to excerpts from case studies described in the book.
Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Psychiatry
Paperback,
01/05/1999,
£23.95
£21.56
This book provides valuable insight into the work of professional music therapists in their clinical practice. The contributors discuss work with a diverse range of clients, including those suffering from Alzheimer's, anorexia nervosa, schizophrenia, psychosis, personality disorder, anxiety and psychosomatic disorder.
Pied Piper, Musical Activities to Develop Basic Skills.
Paperback,
15/03/2001,
£16.99
£15.29
With clear aims and easy-to-follow instructions, Pied Piper describes 78 enjoyable music activities for groups of children or adults who may have learning difficulties. The emphasis is on using music, rather than learning songs or rhythms, so group members do not need any special skills to be able to participate.
Analytical Music Therapy
Paperback,
15/04/2002,
£27.99
£25.19
The book examines the origins and theory of AMT (including a contribution on the subject from Mary Priestley), before exploring its uses in various contexts. Chapters cover AMT in counselling and rehabilitation, with adults and children and with nonverbal clients. A concluding section discusses aspects of the training of music therapy students.
Community music therapy
Paperback,
20/05/2004,
£22.99
£20.69
Music therapists from around the world working in conventional and unconventional settings have offered their contributions to this exciting new book, presenting discussion and practical examples of the ways music therapy can reflect and encourage social change. The writers offer fresh perceptions on their identity and role as music therapists.
Music Therapy In Childrens Hospices
Paperback,
10/02/2005,
£17.95
£16.16
The use of music therapy in children's hospices has burgeoned since its introduction by Jessie's Fund in the mid-90s. This moving and extremely helpful text brings together the experiences of eleven music therapists working with children who are in the final stages of life-limiting illness.
Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury
Paperback,
01/07/2008,
£22.99
£20.69
Gilbertson and Aldridge demonstrate how music therapy can be used to attend to the holistic, rather than purely functional, needs of people affected by severe head trauma. This book will give clinicians key notes for practice and a vision of the integral role music therapy can have in the successful rehabilitation from brain injury.
Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology
Paperback,
01/06/2017,
£14.99
£13.49
The 'engaging, emotional, funny and surprising' (JJ Abrams) memoir of the electronic music and technology pioneer Thomas Dolby
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
Paperback,
07/10/2010,
£24.95
£22.46
Provides a wide-ranging, informative, entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century, from Edison to the Internet. This title explores the developments in file-sharing, and includes an expanded conclusion and bibliography.
Music and Mathematics: from Pythagoras to Fractals
Paperback,
06/07/2006,
£26.99
£24.29
From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and this relationship has fascinated generations. This new in paperback edition of diverse, comprehensive and fully-illustrated papers, authored by leading scholars, links the two fields in a lucid manner that is suitable for students of each subject as well as the general reader.
Hear, Listen, Play!: How to Free Your Students' Aural, Improvisation, and Performance Skills
30/01/2014,
£20.49
£18.44
Hear, Listen, Play! is for all music teachers who are unfamiliar with, yet curious about the worlds of ear-playing, informal learning, improvisation, and vernacular musics. Based on years of systematic research, it provides a simple, flexible way for teachers to explore those worlds with students across instrumental, band and classroom contexts.
Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology
Paperback,
26/05/2011,
£35.00
£31.50
The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology defines a new field of holistic research and applied practice that approaches music, health, and healing across traditional cultures worldwide and the disciplinary boundaries of ethnomusicology, music therapy, the health sciences, and alternative medicine.
Creative Music Composition
Paperback,
06/07/2006,
£31.99
£28.79
Designed to be an introductory textbook for music students, this title aims to tackle the key ingredients that make for successful composition. It covers several musical languages, analyses various rhythmic forms, and suggests approaches for composing for a variety of instruments, as well as for the human voice.
Supervision of Music Therapy
7,
09/10/2008,
£23.99
£21.59
Discusses the theoretical bases underlying approaches to supervision in music therapy, as well as focusing on the distinctive aspects of music therapy supervision from both clinical and conceptual perspectives. This book is useful to practicing therapists, supervisors and students.
Integrated Team Working
7,
23/04/2008,
£25.00
£22.50
The authors explain the development of the music therapist's role within the multidisciplinary team and discuss the prevalence of collaborative partnerships between UK music therapists and other professionals such as occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, psychologists, physiotherapists and other arts therapists.
Self-Healing Through Visual and Verbal Art Therapy
Paperback,
19/04/2005,
£14.95
£13.46
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.
Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies - A Practical Guide
Paperback,
15/02/2001,
£22.99
£20.69
The authors hold your hand and give you plenty of hints and tips while you prepare your funding proposal or research project. They help you think about your title, structure your research questions and aims, and prepare to collect, organize and analyze your research data. This book makes arts therapies research fun and absorbing.
Genesis of artistic creativity
Paperback,
20/05/2005,
£17.99
£16.19
This book is a revealing exploration of the lives of 21 famous writers, philosophers, musicians and painters including George Orwell, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Andy Warhol and many others, in light of the recognized criteria for diagnosis of high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome (AS).
Music and Altered States
7,
23/12/2005,
£22.99
£20.69
This international collection examines the opportunities for using music-induced states of altered consciousness to promote physical and mental healing, treat substance dependence, and in spiritual and palliative care. The contributors describe the use of altered states and their therapeutic potential, providing examples from different settings.
Interactive Music Therapy in Child and Family Psychiatry: Clinical Practice, Research and Teaching
Paperback,
15/08/2006,
£19.99
£17.99
This book outlines the rationale for using music therapy in child and family psychiatry. The author reflects on research methodology and describes characteristics of her own approach to therapy, including how to start and end the session, how to motivate children and establish a positive musical dialogue with them, and how to include parents.
Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras
Paperback,
04/09/2014,
£10.99
£9.89
How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? From London to Budapest, Bamberg to Vienna, this title recreates great orchestral concerts as a collection of countless human and musical stories.
On Playing the Flute
Paperback,
19/03/2001,
£19.99
£17.99
Provides a complete picture of musical taste and performance practice in the 18th century. This book offers a programme for training musicians of all types, with information on intonation, ornamentation, dynamics, the 'duties' of the various accompanying performers, including the leader of the orchestra, and principal forms and styles of the time.
Ukulele For Dummies
Paperback,
16/10/2015,
£17.99
£16.19
The fast and easy way to learn how to play the ukulele With the help of Ukulele For Dummies, learning to play this popular string instrument at a basic level has never been easier. Now in a fully updated second edition, this hands-on, friendly guide provides everything you need to know to pick up a uke and get playing fast.
Where Music Helps: Community Music Therapy in Action and Reflection: Community Music Therapy in Action and Reflection
Paperback,
28/05/2010,
£19.99
£17.99
This book explores how people may use music in ways that are helpful for them, especially in relation to a sense of wellbeing, belonging and participation. The central premise for the study is that help is not a decontextualized effect that music produces. The book contributes to the current discourse on music.
Art Of Music Publishing
Paperback,
28/01/2011,
£21.99
£19.79
Helps you to prepare yourself for a career in music publishing and learn: understanding the role of the publisher; copyright; managing rights; income streams; and, contracts. This title lets you look at how, when and where income is generated in the various areas of business.
Using Voice and Theatre in Therapy
Paperback,
01/11/1999,
£25.00
£22.50
Using Voice and Theatre in Therapy is a guide to how dramatic improvisation can be used in a therapeutic context to promote self-expression. Paul Newham demonstrates how voice, text and speech bring out aspects of character, personality, emotion and diversity of self-image which facilitate self-understanding.
Music Therapy - Intimate Notes
Paperback,
01/05/1999,
£16.99
£15.29
The stories and reflections in this book describe powerful encounters between nine music therapists and clients. The stories reveal the passion and integrity of nine music therapists who undergo profound changes as a result of their work. The book provides a lively and informal theoretical foundation, connecting music to our intimate lives.
Music and People with Developmental Disabilities
7,
01/03/1994,
£22.99
£20.69
The author describes how music therapists work at child day care centres, adult day care centres and in other institutions. The first chapters cover the history and theory of working with music with people with developmental disabilities. The main body of the book covers discussion of the various methods, including individual and group work.
Arts Therapies and Clients with Eating Disorders
Paperback,
01/09/1994,
£19.95
£17.96
Eating disorders are of increasing concern in the medical and psychiatric professions. Growing awareness that the arts therapies have something unique and positive to offer led to the publication of this book by experts in all areas of the arts therapies.
Music Therapy Research and Practice in Medicine
7,
01/06/1996,
£25.00
£22.50
In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging volume, David Aldridge explores the power of music as a healing treatment for a broad spectrum of physical and mental conditions. Interweaving theory and practice, Aldridge demonstrates the many ways in which a culture of research may be developed in a practice setting to the benefit of all.
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