For those who want to learn the inner workings of music
without, as author Dave Stewart notes, getting bogged down in a lot of
fearsome technicalities, this is an enlightening exploration of the
theory and practice of music. Picking up where The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music leaves off, Stewart uses the same amusing style, clear examples, and practical advice to encourage readers not just to read music,
but to write some of their own. The book sheds light on tonality, chord
sequences, scales and modes, tempo, rhythm, improvisation and
composition, chords and chord voicings, MIDI, and more. 128 pages, 6
1/8 inch. x 9 1/4 inch.
Writing
in a wry but insightful style, Stewart provides simple examples that
shed light on the terminology, written language, and "celestial"
mechanics behind music.
Katamar Music Basics 2nd Edition. It contains 138 pages to teach you the basics of Music.
You'll
learn about Note Names, MIDI Note Numbers, Chords, Scales, Guidelines for Music Notation and more. There's explanations of the these elements plus examples to further your
understanding.
Katamar Books (Aka Alexander Publishing Books) are
designed to teach you how to be the best you can be in the shortest
length of time in an easy to understand manner.
$16.95
Katamar The Serious Composer Volume 1. It contains 212 pages to teach you how to be a great composer!
Elementary 18th Century CounterPoint
You'll
learn about Two, Three and Four Part Counterpoint, Modulations, Sequences, Motive-Development, the Small Invention.. There's explanations of the these forms plus examples to further your
understanding of these forms.
Katamar Books (Aka Alexander Publishing Books) are
designed to teach you how to be the best you can be in the shortest
length of time in an easy to understand manner.
$27.95
Katamar The Serious Composer Volume 2. It contains 332 pages to teach you how to be a great composer!
The Homophonic Forms Of Musical Composition.
You'll
learn about Melodic Phrase Development and Extensions, Accompaniment Styles and Rhythms, Two and Three Part Song Forms, Songs with Lyrics, Etudes, Dance Class and more. There's explanations of the these forms plus examples to further your
understanding of these forms.
Katamar Books (Aka Alexander Publishing Books) are
designed to teach you how to be the best you can be in the shortest
length of time in an easy to understand manner.
$29.95
Katamar The Serious Composer Volume 3. It contains 498 pages to teach you how to be a great composer!
Counterpoint Applied
You'll
learn how to apply counterpoint to the Invention, Fugue, Cano, and other Polyphonnic forms. There's explanations of the these forms plus examples to further your
understanding of these forms.
Katamar Books (Aka Alexander Publishing Books) are
designed to teach you how to be the best you can be in the shortest
length of time in an easy to understand manner.
$49.95
Katamar The Serious Composer Volume 4. It contains 303 pages to teach you how to be a great composer!
You'll
learn about the larger forms of musical composition such Variation
forms, rondo, Sonata-Allegro, Overture and Compound. There's
explainations of the these forms plus examples to further your
understanding of these forms.
Katamar Books (Aka Alexander Publishing Books) are
designed to teach you how to be the best you can be in the shortest
length of time in an easy to understand manner.
$29.95
Katamar The Untapped Power of Praise in Worship. It contains 106 pages to teach you how to use MIDI and today's technology in the Church and challenges
your concepts of what Christian Music is and how to use it.
You'll
learn about the four types of praise music for worship and how to write
each, 22 types of songs in the Bible, how Bible song lyrics are written
and why you need to know MIDI.
Alexander Publishing Books are
designed to teach you how to be the best you can be in the shortest
length of time in an easy to understand manner.
$9.95
This book is design to help you arrange your song into a complete composition. While it functions mainly in the more traditional sense of Melody then followed by harmonizing it into a complete piece of music, it is very useful for anyone who wants to understand style, beginning in the classics to modern. It's divided into 5 sections.
Section One: Techniques of a creating a bass line and harmonizing the melody.
Section Two: Techniques you can apply right now to any song regardless of style.
Section Three: Studying excepts from Peter Alexander's book Freshman Year using compositional models.
Section Four: Using more complex techniques for composing.
Section Five Analyzing several complete pieces of music. Then write an original piece of music on the top of the ones studied.
Learning musical notation can be intimidating. But regardless of
instrument or proficiency in reading music, there's hope and help for
all musicians in this practical guide. Writing in a friendly manner
that puts readers at ease, author Dave Stewart starts with the basics:
staves, clefs, and how to find the notes. He then advances step by step
through rhythm, key signatures, chords and intervals, and how to write
it all down. This book is useful for novices, seasoned players who
never learned to read music, and pros seeking a refresher course.
Anyone who's dreamed of writing that hit song - the one that gets
played time and time again on the radio - but doesn't know how to
start, will welcome the inspiration and practical instruction offered
in this new book Terry Cox, an experienced and successful lyric writer,
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readers step-by-step through the process of lyric writing.
Readers will
learn about basic song components, collaborative songwriting and
creative ways to come up with song ideas. Cox also takes the reader
through the stages of writing lyrics for a song, from choosing a title
to the chorus, versus and bridge. Readers will even find sections on
getting the song performed, recorded and getting people in the music
business interested.
Cox's enthusiastic you-can-do-it approach to the
craft of lyric writing is sure to inform, inspire and motivate
want-to-be-songwriters. It is the one resource that can make their
lyric writing dreams come true