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)

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)

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。

Most dream dictionaries only give brief, generic meanings of the universal symbols in dreams. "Dream Sight" offers the best of both worlds: classic meanings with a personal twist. This is the only book on the market that teaches an innovative and empowering technique for personalized dream interpretation, along with classic meanings for over three hundred dream scenarios and im...(展开全部)

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music. But music could not be explained without addressing language, and could not...(展开全部)

【英】史蒂芬•米森（Steven Mithen） 英国雷丁大学考古学教授，2004年当选为英国国家人文和社会科学院院士，著有《思维的史前史：艺术，宗教和科学的认知起源》《思考中的觅食者》等书。

The Singing Wilderness is Sigurd Olson's first and best-selling book, with over 70,000 copies sold in hardcover since its release in 1956. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume established Olson as a major writer renowned for the beauty of his prose and the clarity of his vision."The singing wilderness has to do with the calling of the loons, northern light...(展开全部)

Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, music has been neglected if not ignored. Like language it is a universal feature of human culture, one that is a permanent fixture in our daily lives....(展开全部)