Music-General Books

Storyboarding Noir offers a new perspective on the rich and varied history of film noir by demonstrating how storyboarding, a film-making technique, has been adapted by legendary pianist and MacArthur Genius Award winner Ran Blake. The book offers a method, when combined with intensive,...

This book is published as an hommage to the Greek musicologist Katy Romanou (1939-2020)Author: Rosy Azar BeyhomISBN-10: 147169559XISBN-13: 9781471695599Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2022Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.35d

This book is a collection of essays written by and interviews with working composers for film and television, and video games, exploring the business side of composing, addressing the lack of understanding about career development and business responsibilities as they relate to composers. Over...

This book is a collection of essays written by and interviews with working composers for film and television, and video games, exploring the business side of composing, addressing the lack of understanding about career development and business responsibilities as they relate to composers. Over...

Since ancient times, humankind has known the soothing and purifying power of music. Today, we too often forget the unifying spirituality of sound, allowing it to clutter our lives but never hearing its true and transcendental beauty. Here, the renowned Agni Deva offers traditional...

This book is part of a series that is designed specifically for students of popular music, All topics are covered in a way that is directly relevant to the music played, with the focus very much upon how to apply theoretical knowledge in a...

Introduces unaccompanied three part choral singing. This book contains ten themed songs in simple a cappella arrangements created for beginners. It brings together timeless jazz songs that make a suitable introduction to mastering the a cappella style.Author: Barrie Carson TurnerISBN-10: 1847720528ISBN-13: 9781847720528Publisher: Music SalesLanguage:...

On the oeuvre of Nobuo Uematsu, the Beethoven of video game music. Japanese musician and composer Nobuo Uematsu has built his career and reputation on his soundtracks to the enduring Final Fantasy video game series, which are notable for their remarkable cinematic feel. Today...

David Spero began his career in music at the tender age of thirteen as the cue cardholder on his father's rock and roll music show, Upbeat, in Cleveland, Ohio. He went on to become one of the pioneering DJs of the new FM format...

Reading for the Contemporary Guitarist, Volume 4 is intended for guitarists who are preparing for a professional career in music. Assuming you are already familiar with the materials in Volumes 1, 2, and 3 this book will arm you with the tools you need...

The Oud Advanced book has been designed for students who are comfortable playing the oud using a high level of technique and wish to further advance their playing skills. Students are requiredto have completed the Upper Intermediate course book with a high level of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Volume 8 of the Beach Boys Archives Series focuses on the booklets that came packaged with one of the largest and most extravagent bootleg packages of Beach Boys materials. These booklets have been long sought-after by collevtors but almost impossible to find...until now.Author: Torrence...

A few poems into James Rodgers' book and you realize just how much he loves music. He loves it the way we love long summer days. He loves it the way kids love splashing in water. He loves it the way we love our...

46 Words: Window Fishing: The Night we caught Beatlemania is so populare it is now in the third edition with new stories, poems and essays. It will be cherished by anyone that lived in the Beatles eara or wants to understand the significance of...

Founder member and bassist in the seminal post-punk ska band The Specials, Horace Panter has long had a parallel career as a gifted and distinctive visual artist. Panter has been inspired to create exquisite oversized paintings of the cassette tape studio recordings made by...

Wilfrid Mellers is a composer, musician and author. Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. This is his classic work on Mompou.Author: Wilfrid MellersISBN-10: 1904331254ISBN-13: 9781904331254Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2007Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.34d

Increasingly, music therapy is being practised as an intervention in medical and special educational settings. Focusing on clinical work with developmental disability, paediatrics and neurology, this book informs music therapists through case studies and analyses of theory and practice. The contributors are specialised music...

The author describes how, in practice, music therapists work at child day care centres, adult day care centres and in other institutions. The first chapters cover the history and theory of working with music with people with developmental disabilities. The main body of the...

Musical Education & Fitness Walk is a group educational game that teaches basic skills in music, math, science and fitness. It is designed to meet the educational, health, and developmental needs of students through musical play and creative activities. It develops agility, balance, brain...

Untamed is a brilliant collection of poetry, framed into song lyrics. In his debut book, Billboard-charting artist John Calo brings the reader deep to the roots of where his music career began. The Song Poems of... becomes a reflective memoir, serving as a rare...

Boston Pops Orchestra is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on...

Arban's complete celebrated method for the cornet is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a...

This book represents a new approach to musical creativity, dealing with the semiotics, mathematical principles, and software for creativity processes.After a thorough introduction, the book offers a first practical part with a detailed tutorial for students in composition and improvisation, using musical instruments and...

Historians have written on African-American music, and its related genres for quite some time. Since the publication of Amiri Baraka's great work, Blues People, historians, as well as ethnomusicologists and cultural theorists, have discussed the essentialist qualities against the malleability of music. In this...

For a long time musicians all over Europe has shown an interest in French lute music because of the certain melancholy and expressiveness it presents. Yet, the literature on the performance of French baroque lute music is limited, and it appears to be an...

The author has played principal flute for more than twenty years in three professional orchestras and since 1997, he has been conducting professionally. During this time discrepancies of intonation were noticed in all orchestras, mainly in the woodwind sections. The author has gathered in...

My Bloody Valentine's unique sound on their final album Loveless defined a sub-genre of indie rock known as shoegaze. This book is the first major academic study of My Bloody Valentine and their decisive presentation of shoegazer aesthetics: Loveless. The book begins by tracing...

The analysis of acousmatic music has traditionally been very difficult since there is no score to freeze the music in time. Analysis relies heavily on the act of concentrated listening. Since aural perception is so crucial to the analysis of acousmatic music, this book...

This book comprehends an intercultural and interdisciplinary framework including current research fields like Roboethics, Hermeneutics of Technologies, Technology Assessment, Robotics in Japanese Popular Culture and Music Robots. Contributions on cultural interrelations, technical visions and essays are rounding out the content of this book.Author: Bernhard...

In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-'n'-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the intellect above...

This book is a survey and analysis of how deep learning can be used to generate musical content. The authors offer a comprehensive presentation of the foundations of deep learning techniques for music generation. They also develop a conceptual framework used to classify and...

Engages novice and experienced teachers in the reflective, critical and practical examination of piano teaching from the beginningMakes important connections to current research in music education, music philosophers and masters of the performance world Provides an in-depth examination of the ear-before-eye approach endorsed by...

This book explains music's comprehensive ontology, its way of existence and processing, as specified in its compact characterization: music embodies meaningful communication and mediates physically between its emotional and mental layers. The book unfolds in a basic discourse in everyday language that is accessible...

Across time and geography people have known the power of music for evoking the gods and acquiring spiritual insight. Whether arising as a textless chant by a single voice or a percussive auditory context for ritual dance, music in its various modes is a...

Bart's 1907 Violin Concerto, expressing his love for Stefi Geyer, sounds various allusions to Wagner's paean to unrequited love. The work presents a musical crossroads contrasting Stefi's ideal world and peasant realism.Author: Michael Albrecht, Alicja Usarek-TopperISBN-10: 3034335741ISBN-13: 9783034335744Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic...

This book presents chapters that have been brought together to consider the multitude of ways that post-2000 popular music impacts on our cultures and experiences. The focus is on misogyny, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity. The authors of the chapters consider these three concepts in...

This book presents chapters that have been brought together to consider the multitude of ways that post-2000 popular music impacts on our cultures and experiences. The focus is on misogyny, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity. The authors of the chapters consider these three concepts in...

This book is divided into two parts. The chapters in Part I offer a comprehensive introduction to the C language and to fundamental programming concepts, followed by an explanation of realtime audio programming, including audio synthesis and processing. The chapters in Part II demonstrate...

This is an introduction to basic music technology, including acoustics for sound production and analysis, Fourier, frequency modulation, wavelets, and physical modeling and a classification of musical instruments and sound spaces for tuning and counterpoint. The acoustical theory is applied to its implementation in...

This story is one of the many Spanish/ Indian tales that were shared by family members, her father and friends alike.Author: Anna Maez-SteinISBN-10: 1984536729ISBN-13: 9781984536723Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2018Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.11d

At the heart of Music are powerful examples from the lives of real individuals, families, and populations. These stories cover a myriad of ages, instruments, situations, and purposes, to convey the universal power of music to help us all get more out of life.Author:...

For readers of Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill O'Neill, What the Ear Hears (and Doesn't) is a fascinating science book for adults that explores the physics principle of frequency and the (sometimes weird) role it plays in our everyday lives.What do the world's loneliest...

How musicians can be disabled and how musicality itself can be disablingAuthor: Alex LubetISBN-10: 1439900264ISBN-13: 9781439900260Publisher: Temple University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2010Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): Choice 06/01/2011

Lesley J. Pruitt is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia.Author: Lesley J. PruittISBN-10: 1438446543ISBN-13: 9781438446547Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2014Pages: 285Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Students save money by purchasing this bundle which includes a loose-leaf version of POPULAR MUSIC IN AMERICA: THE BEAT GOES ON, 5th Edition, with access to MindTap Music. With a single login for MindTap, you can connect with your instructor, organize coursework and have...