Composing Music for Games is a guidebook for launching and maintaining a successful career as a video game composer. It offers a pragmatic approach to learning, intensified through challenging project assignments and simulations. Author Chance Thomas begins with the foundation of scoring principles applicable to all media, and then progresses serially through core methodologies...(展开全部)

Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the condemnation of the Soviet authorities. "Music for Silenced Voices" looks at Shostakovich through the back door, as it were, of h...(展开全部)

The most engaging and musical Sight-Singing text on the market. Music for Sight Singing is structured around organized melodiesdrawn from the literature of composed music and a wide range of the world's folk music. Real music exercises allow readers to practice sight singing and develop their "mind's ear" - the ability to imagine how music sounds without first playing it on an ...(展开全部)

斯蒂德夫妇 菲利普·C.斯蒂德与埃琳·E.斯蒂德被美国《ABC新闻》称为“儿童文学界最著名的创作组合之一”。2011年，斯蒂德夫妇首次合作的《阿莫的生病日》荣获图画书领域最高荣誉——凯迪克金奖。此后，夫妇二人又一起合作了多部作品，包括《大熊有个故事要说》《伦尼和露西》，以及与美国著名作家马克·吐温跨时空合作的《麦淇淋王子失窃案》。《为月亮先生演奏》是他们最新合作的故事，在创作期间，夫妇俩迎来了他们的爱情结晶，这位家庭新成员帮助他们一起完成了这部梦幻之作。

斯蒂德夫妇 菲利普·C.斯蒂德与埃琳·E.斯蒂德被美国《ABC新闻》称为“儿童文学界最著名的创作组合之一”。2011年，斯蒂德夫妇首次合作的《阿莫的生病日》荣获图画书领域最高荣誉——凯迪克金奖。此后，夫妇二人又一起合作了多部作品，包括《大熊有个故事要说》《伦尼和露西》，以及与美国著名作家马克·吐温跨时空合作的《麦淇淋王子失窃案》。《为月亮先生演奏》是他们最新合作的故事，在创作期间，夫妇俩迎来了他们的爱情结晶，这位家庭新成员帮助他们一起完成了这部梦幻之作。

Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice We live in a competition loving culture. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession, but if we really wanted to see greatness--wanted to cheer for it, see it happen, understan...(展开全部)

From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes The Music Lesson, the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual jo...(展开全部)

Now in trade paperback: “The definitive guide to musical enjoyment” ( Forum ). In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.

"The definitive guide to musical enjoyment" (Forum) with over 1.5 million copies in print.