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Book Cover: How Music Works
How Music Works
By John Powell

Have you ever listened to an incredible piece of music and wondered exactly why it makes you want to dance or cry?

Are you mystified by how musicians just 'know' what notes to play next when they're improvising?

Or why certain notes sound great together and others clash?  

Have you ever listened to an incredible piece of music and wondered exactly why it makes you want to dance or cry?

Are you mystified by how musicians just 'know' what notes to play next when they're improvising?...

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Published: 12/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846143151
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory, 2E
Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory, 2E
By Michael Miller
Published in 1992, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory has proven itself as one of Alpha's best-selling books and perhaps the best-selling trade music theory book ever published. In the new updated and expanded second edition, the book includes a special CD and book section on ear training. The hour-long ear-training course reinforces the basic content of the book with musical examples of intervals...
Published in 1992, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory has proven itself as one of Alpha's best-selling books and perhaps the best-selling trade music theory book ever published. In the new updated...
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Published: 10/10/2005
Format: Disc & Book
ISBN: 9781592574377
RRP: $27.95

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  • (-) The arts
    • (-) Music
      • (-) Theory of music & musicology

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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