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This practical, easy-to-use self-study course is perfect for pianists, guitarists, instrumentalists, vocalists, songwriters, arrangers and composers, and includes ear training CDs to help develop your musical ear. In this all-in-one theory course, you will learn the essentials of music through 75 concise lessons, practice your music reading and writing skills in the exercises, improve your listening skills with the enclosed ear training CDs, and test your knowledge with a review that completes each of the 18 units. Answers are included in the back of the book for all exercises, ear training and review.
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Good workbook-style resource.......2007-08-06
I wrote a review of this and several other books for an upcoming article in Classical Singer Magazine. This is a good workbook-style resource for getting a headstart on your theory; goes from basic to early advanced topics. The only thing I would have liked to see in it was more composition exercises, but that's my bias as a composer.
Good for music fundamentals or review.......2007-07-30
I used this to brush up before taking music theory. It's a decent review of the fundamentals of music. If you are completely unfamiliar, you might want something a bit more comprehensive. If you know basic theory, this is probably a waste of your time.
Good practical theory book.......2007-07-13
It was just what I learned in California's Certificate of Merit program. I needed a review, but it was how I learned it the first time. I recommend it to anyone. And I love that it has the listening CD's. The one caveat is that I play viola, and this version doesn't have my clef. But the theory is still the same. It was brand new and delivery was on time.
Music theory.......2007-05-07
Very well done for a quick review of music theory and would also be excellent for complete novices.
Meh.......2007-02-28
It was not what I expected and it is very dry... I guess all music theory is dry. But this book just seems to kill it for me. I don't know how to explain it I guess. I'd recommend going to a store and flipping through it first to see if you would like it, I only got it because someone had it on a list that had other good books.
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The most complete music theory course ever! This all-in-one series includes concise lessons with short exercises, ear training activities and reviews. Available in three separate volumes or as a complete set, Essentials of Music Theory also includes Ear Training CDs (performed by acoustic instruments), a Teacher's Answer Key Book, reproducible Teacher's Activity Kits, Bingo Games, Flash Cards and Computer Software.
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Perfect.......2007-09-13
The book was in perfect condition. It's just the book I needed for my music class.
Alfred's Essentials of Music.......2007-09-10
My son needed this book for school and we received in time for school. Great service!
Good for self-study when you buy another book.......2007-05-25
This is a good music theory book. It's easy to follow the lessons, and you don't really need a teacher if you have the other book with ear training CDs as well as answers. But the thing is that this guide book costs around $26, and that's more expensive than ths theory book itself. If you want the whole bunch at cheaper price, buy a book that has practice questions and answers together.
Good value!.......2007-03-09
This workbook is very easy to use and a great value considering it is a 3 in 1 offering.
Perfect for Beginngers and Review.......2007-02-21
I bought this book as a review before starting theory one at the university level. Some of the info was easy everyday stuff but other portions of the book helped me not only in theory but in dictation as well. I would recommend this book for any musician that has never had formal theory training and would like to start. It is by no means complete but it is definitely a solid start.
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The most complete music theory course ever! This all-in-one series includes concise lessons with short exercises, ear training activities and reviews. Available in three separate volumes or as a complete set, Essentials of Music Theory also includes Ear Training CDs (performed by acoustic instruments), a Teacher's Answer Key Book, reproducible Teacher's Activity Kits, Bingo Games, Flash Cards and Computer Software.
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There are five reproducible Activities in each of the six Units, which correlate specifically to the six Units in Book 2 of "Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory." The wide variety of Activities includes Scale Writing, Interval Naming, Triad Identification, and others for a total of 30 Activities in all. There is also one Test per Unit that covers all the theory concepts introduced in that Unit. Each reproducible page includes scoring boxes to help the instructor grade the page.
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"Essential Musicianship, Book 2," recommended for Grades 8-10 or other older beginners, is a sequential choral method that helps the older beginner or returning singer develop basic to intermediate skills. Each of the twenty chapters includes materials for vocal development, music theory, sight reading and performance. Basic notation, rhythm, pitch and basic harmony are covered through drills, exercises and 44 practice/performance songs for mixed, treble and tenor bass choirs.
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Alfred's Essentials of Jazz Theory provides the ultimate journey to musical freedom! Books 1 and 2 introduce swing feel, major/minor/dominant seventh and ninth chords, dominant function, the ii-V-I Turnaround Progression, 12-bar blues and more!
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"Essential Musicianship, Book 2," recommended for Grades 8-10 or other older beginners, is a sequential choral method that helps the older beginner or returning singer develop basic to intermediate skills. Each of the twenty chapters includes materials for vocal development, music theory, sight reading and performance. The Teacher Edition provides comprehensive lesson plans based on the National Standards for Arts Education.
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Knowledge is a product of human social systems and, therefore, the foundations of the knowledge-based economy are social and cultural. Communication is central to knowledge creation and diffusion, and Public Policy in Knowledge-Based Economies highlights specific social and cultural conditions that can enhance the communication, use and creation of knowledge in a society.
The purpose of this book is to illustrate how these social and cultural conditions are identified and analyzed through new conceptual frameworks. Such frameworks are necessary to penetrate the surface features of knowledge-based economies - science and technology - and disclose what drives such economies. The authors employ a trans-disciplinary approach to explore the nature of knowledge systems or environments and examine questions regarding the measurement of knowledge. Lessons are drawn from a variety of perspectives, including the history of information policy, philosophy, economic history, sociology, psychology, information economics, complex systems theory, organizational knowledge theory and political science.
This book will provide policymakers, analysts and academics with the fundamental tools needed for the development of policy in this little-understood and emerging area.
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ASIN: 1572434171 |
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TOTAL GUNDAM WING presents an indepth look into the fascinating wildly popular animated world of Gundam. Gundam Wing is as extension of the long-running Japanese series and is currently one of the most-watched cartoons in the U.S., spawning a collectable card game, models, toys, action figures and much more.
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I really liked it........2002-11-27
I think some of the people reviewing this book are being overly mean.
What are you looking for out of a book on Gundam Wing?
Me?
I was looking for:
Bios of character w/photos - Yep. They're there. One photo's wrong but who cares? That's the artists fault. ;)
Bios of Gundams w/photos - they are here too
History & Info on Gundam. Yep, that's here. There's a very cool Timeline with great information about all the Gundam series. Colin Liu wrote a really cool story about "20 Years of Gundam". It's over 30 pages long, and tells you about all the Gundam Storylines.
Gundam Wing Episode Guide - Got it.
Modeling?? - CT Chin has a nice piece on Gundam Modeling with images of models. This is like 15 pages.
And there's a lot of other stuff in this book too. The 3D is kind of cheesy, but the rest of the book is fun.
Not for the G Wing newbie! Unless you just want the pics.......2002-08-11
I bought it mostly for the pics, even though Sally Po really is listed as being Noin in 1 pic with a real Noin pic on the next page. They have lots of typos, incorrect spelling of names & relationships. I think Dorothy is a distant cousin of some sort to Treize & if Dermail was Treize's brother well Dermail's parents must have been very fertile geriatrics to have a son old enough to be Dorothy's grandfather & also be the parents of a 20 to 23 year old man [I forget if Treize was 20, 21 or 23 in the series, but even the older characters were usually in their late teens]. I found Wufei's bio to be very incorrect & the other pilots data wasn't always correct either. If you want accurate Gundam Wing info buy something else or surf fan sites, the fan sites are usually obsessively correct if at all possible. It's a very good thing that they labelled this as an Unofficial GW book, because if this was an official book they could probably be repremanded for falsehoods or something. If you don't expect to much get it, otherwise save your money & get something else on GW instead, the GW: Tech Manual isn't too bad although that has a few goofs too, doesn't anyone know how to correctly spell Tsubarov's name for heaven's sake?!?!
THIS BOOK ISNT WORTH IT!.......2002-07-14
Please dont think for a second that you might want this book! Its information is tottally wrong! Names are [messed] up, family relations dont even make sense,the episode guide was 44% wrong, very biast and inncorrect character reveiws. Dont belive the other reviews on this page saying [stuff] like ''I know every character like someone in my family!'' or the really funny one ''this book was really helpfull.'' If you wanna learn something correct and really cool go to some fan sites .... Then you'll find some helpfull info.
HAHA..........2002-03-14
Easily put, this book IS NOT WORTH ANYTHING!!! All the information is wrong, and they even mistaken Noir's picture with Sally! Umm....EXCUSE ME?!?! Isn't there enough different between the two to realize they're two different people? Everything about this book is ENTIRELY made up!!! The people who wrote this book either never watched the anime or just decided to pick an anime off the top of their heads and start lying about it...Other than that, DO NOT, AND I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!!! YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!!
Hahahaha!.......2002-03-06
The only reason I got this book is for the many pictures. Most of the information is incorrect as a 12 year old reader from Millbury, OH said. When it says "Unofficial", they really mean "We made this up". The only nice stuff about this book is the pictures from Universal Century and the modeling section written by C.T. (Core) Chin of www.newtype-asylum.com. Definatly a site to check out. Anyways, I am gonna wrap this up with: If your new to Gundam Wing and looking for some great information, DON'T BUY THIS BOOK. But if your looking for some nice pictures from UC then I would pick this book up...
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Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. GPs have received increased attention in the machine-learning community over the past decade, and this book provides a long-needed systematic and unified treatment of theoretical and practical aspects of GPs in machine learning. The treatment is comprehensive and self-contained, targeted at researchers and students in machine learning and applied statistics.
The book deals with the supervised-learning problem for both regression and classification, and includes detailed algorithms. A wide variety of covariance (kernel) functions are presented and their properties discussed. Model selection is discussed both from a Bayesian and a classical perspective. Many connections to other well-known techniques from machine learning and statistics are discussed, including support-vector machines, neural networks, splines, regularization networks, relevance vector machines and others. Theoretical issues including learning curves and the PAC-Bayesian framework are treated, and several approximation methods for learning with large datasets are discussed. The book contains illustrative examples and exercises, and code and datasets are available on the Web. Appendixes provide mathematical background and a discussion of Gaussian Markov processes.
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Independent Component Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction (Bradford Books)
ASIN: 0792382617 |
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Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a signal-processing method to extract independent sources given only observed data that are mixtures of the unknown sources. Recently, blind source separation by ICA has received considerable attention because of its potential signal-processing applications such as speech enhancement systems, telecommunications, medical signal-processing and several data mining issues.
This book presents theories and applications of ICA and includes invaluable examples of several real-world applications. Based on theories in probabilistic models, information theory and artificial neural networks, several unsupervised learning algorithms are presented that can perform ICA. The seemingly different theories such as infomax, maximum likelihood estimation, negentropy maximization, nonlinear PCA, Bussgang algorithm and cumulant-based methods are reviewed and put in an information theoretic framework to unify several lines of ICA research. An algorithm is presented that is able to blindly separate mixed signals with sub- and super-Gaussian source distributions. The learning algorithms can be extended to filter systems, which allows the separation of voices recorded in a real environment (cocktail party problem).
The ICA algorithm has been successfully applied to many biomedical signal-processing problems such as the analysis of electroencephalographic data and functional magnetic resonance imaging data. ICA applied to images results in independent image components that can be used as features in pattern classification problems such as visual lip-reading and face recognition systems. The ICA algorithm can furthermore be embedded in an expectation maximization framework for unsupervised classification.
Independent Component Analysis: Theory and Applications is the first book to successfully address this fairly new and generally applicable method of blind source separation. It is essential reading for researchers and practitioners with an interest in ICA.
Customer Reviews:
What a price ?!.......2002-04-27
The first part of the book is the best part, it deals with ICA in the information theoretic framework and shows how the (ML) and (infomax) are closely related. However, it is not for beginners since the background material is abbreviated as well as the mathematical exposition of this book assumes the preknowledge in ICA theory.The overall impression one gets is that the book is too short, knowing that the book is more or less a collection of the author's papers, this should not be surprising at all.
I rate it 4/5 because of its expensive price.
Great Expectations !!.......2001-07-19
This book is not what you expect at all because :
(1) It is merely a collection of papers for the same author lacking proper organization;
(2) Blank pages are deliberately left between chapters, also figures are placed on separate pages this can tell you a lot regarding the quality you expect;
(3) The book is expensive ,I think the author should make it the half or less ;
(4) A researcher in this field hardly sees the book as a reference;
(5) Other topics are ignored ex:Tensoral methods;ICA is not only about Infomax;
(6) The first pages compose the climax of the book ,the rest is just loose and even abscent concepts;
(7) Finally,I think that the book was published too early ,it seems a lot of maturity could have been witnessed if the author waited instead.
Anyone new will be presented to the name of the subject but not the subject itself .The book by Hyvarinen should be available ... ,go for it.I believe life will be a lot easier .The latter is divided into four parts which clearly puts the reader in the right place to start and are : (I) Mathematical Preliminaries (II) Basic Independent Component Analysis (III) Extensions and related Methods (IV) Applications of ICA ,also after reading the sample chapter and contents I think you will not be disappointed . ....
An average book.......2001-07-07
If the newcomer is expecting a textbook which gives a thorough and rigorous introduction to the subject, he will not find it here. Essentially, Independent Component Analysis by T. Lee is a compendium of Lee's work on the subject, being, for the most part, a regurgitation of his papers. This in itself is no cause for distress; however, I feel that perhaps some more detail and work could have gone into other researchers' avenues to the problem. For instance, cumulant based methods hardly make it into the book. The derivation of the most important formulas for multiple decorrelation algorithms are omitted. The Fixed-Point Method of Hyvarinen is omitted. A paragraph is given to algorithms which work entirely in the frequency domain. Short shrift is given to JADE.
The applications side is dominated nearly entirely by the biomedical applications to which Lee is associated with, with a small foray into the world of feature extraction.
The introduction and conclusions are well written, though more detail could have helped. There are a few errata throughout though this is normal for a first book. All in all a book with a rather narrow focus.
Very good for a first book in the field.......2000-10-13
Presents clearly the problems and the method. The introductory part was helpful in understanding the ICA theoretical model although more detail on kurtosis description would have been beneficial. I liked the infomax algorithm and the way it was presented. On the down side: some minor erroneus explanations found. I have the feeling that ICA is more than just infomax approach and that the title "Independent Component Analysis - an Infomax Approach" would have been more appropiate. On the application section, very good presentation of the signal separation but very succint explanation on natural images for example. Being the first book I see in the field, I think, a thorough presentation would have been helpful.
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