Music-General Books

If you're like me, you go to a lot of concerts. I created something that I have been wanting for a long time: a journal to write down all of my concert memories so that I do not forget! Sometimes, I can't remember all...

This is a complete guide to show you how to rap and where to start. Not only just the elementary teachings of hip-hop, it also contains elements to hip-hop. Shows you how to develop, create, and innovate yourself with original content and sound.How to...

You most likely realize that piano playing is an astonishing ability to create.Regardless of whether you've never delighted in traditional music, you could come to like it once you begin playing the piano. It is both a hard and remunerating ability to master. Bach,...

The musical writings of the German philosopher and theorist Ernst Bloch are extraordinarily rich, but also unusually dense, at times even cryptic. Bloch, a profoundly heterodox thinker, brilliantly wove cultural criticism into a larger project of what he termed 'revolutionary gnosis'. Listening for Utopia...

The early music of Claude Debussy was influenced by the work of Wagner, for whom he had great admiration. However, soon Debussy's music became more experimental and individualistic, as is clear in his first mature work Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Debussy...

This account of Beethoven reveals the life and times of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history...

Focusing on music written in the period 1800-1850, Thinking about Harmony traces the responses of observant musicians to the music that was being created in their midst by composers including Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin. It tells the story of how a separate branch of...

Published in Spohr's 200th anniversary year, this book is the first to deal at length with both the life and the works of a composer who exerted a strong influence on the development of nineteenth-century music. Spohr was hailed in his own day as...

The musical, whether on stage or screen, is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable musical genres, yet one of the most perplexing. What are its defining features? How does it negotiate multiple socio-cultural-economic spaces? Is it a popular tradition? Is it a commercial enterprise?...

Music abounds in twentieth- century Irish literature. Whether it be the "thought-tormented" music of Joyce's "The Dead", the folk tunes and opera that resound throughout Ulysses, or the four- part threnody in Beckett's Watt, it is clear that the influence of music on the...

Business schools are placing more emphasis on the role of business in society. Top business school accreditors are shifting to mandating that schools teach their students about the social impact of business, including AACSB standards to require the incorporation of business impact on society...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

(Music Sales America). Be one of the thousands of beginners who have used this method to play guitar instantly. This book includes full color diagrams and photographs, and a one-hour play-along CD with professional backup tracks to over 20 great songs. Songs include: Amazing...

Pioneers in their fields and two of the best-known women in music in the twentieth century, Nadia and Lili Boulanger have previously been considered in isolation from one another. Yet, as Caroline Potter's new book demonstrates, their careers were closely linked during Lili Boulanger's...

Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but...

As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to my youth, so it is a subject matter that is close to my heart....

An examination of the plight of the refugees of Burma's protracted civil war, many of whom have fled across the border into Thailand. This study looks at the changing nature of the refugee situation and the responses of the parties involved, including the United...

Author: Brian RustISBN-10: 0313205612ISBN-13: 9780313205613Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/1979Pages: 327Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.37lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.81d

Music is so ubiquitous that it can be easy to overlook the powerful influence it exerts in so many areas of our lives - from birth, through childhood, to old age. The Social and Applied Psychology of Music is the successor to the bestselling...

The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.S. film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and performance styles tailored to emerging technologies of electric sound reproduction that would...

Author: Charles HearnISBN-10: 083718665XISBN-13: 9780837186658Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/1977Pages: 98Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d

Calypso, with its diverse cultural heritage, was the most significant Caribbean musical form from World War I to Trinidad and Tobago Independence in 1962. Though wildly popular in mid-1950s America, Calypso--along with other music from "the island of the hummingbird"--has been largely neglected or...

In this work Jack Beeson, the composer of ten operas, recounts his search for subjects and the writing of five of their librettos, his collaboration with the librettists of the other five (William Saroyan, Richard Plant, Kenward Elmslie, and Sheldon Harnick), and the varied...

Many music therapists work in adult mental health settings after qualifying. For many, it will be a challenging and even daunting prospect. Yet until now, there has been no psychiatric music therapy text providing advice on illness management and recovery. The new edition of...

Ed Shaughnessy was an American drum legend who for decades was a leading big band force, educator, and role model for countless young musicians. Doc Severinsen called him the superb engine that drove the Tonight Show Band for thirty years with spirit and immense...

Weaving the lyrics of Frank Ocean's discography, Hazem Fahmy's Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo is a poetic account of four years of shuffling, a catalogue of the constant in-betweenness of being caught in the middle of two places across an ocean. Exploring themes...

With Good night the pleasure was ours, David Grubbs melts down and recasts three decades of playing music on tour into a book-length poem, bringing to a close the trilogy that includes Now that the audience is assembled and The Voice in the Headphones....

Timekeeper is the first-person insider account of the birth and expansion of the Memphis Sound, told by Howard Grimes, the celebrated house drummer from the early days at both iconic Memphis soul studios, Stax Records and Hi Records. Author Howard Grimes backed Rufus and...

The followup to his beloved debut collection Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me, Mark Leidner's Returning the Sword to the Stone is simultaneously profound and irreverent, in the same way that the world is flat as we walk and round as we...

Contains chord forms for all of the most commonly used chords. Chords include major, minor, altered 7ths, diminished, augmented and many more. All forms are shown in picture and diagram form for the left-handed guitarist.Author: William BayISBN-10: 0786635746ISBN-13: 9780786635740Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished:...

This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. It examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and...

By reinterpreting 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a literary history of noise through poetic sound and performance. This book traces how poets figure noise in the disfiguration of poetic voice....

"Music's Greatest Hits - 100 Word Search Puzzles"NEWLY EDITED - TO HELP IN SOLVING, THE PUZZLES AND WORD LISTS ARE NOW - LARGE This fun-filled puzzle book consists of 100 puzzles made up entirely of titles of hit songs (Each one made at least...

An effective records management programme is a major element of the governance of any organisation. The proper management of records can make a vital contribution to the achievement of business objectives, information sharing, legal compliance, administrative efficiency, etc. Despite these benefits offered by a...

"Without music, life would be a mistake" said a great philosopher. This, and the famous quote of Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) - "Everybody, by nature, desires knowledge", are so lovely, that I had to write this book, which is focused on four...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Edvard GriegISBN-10: 1447475615ISBN-13: 9781447475613Publisher: Routledge/CurzonLanguage:...

The philosopher Christopher Small suggests that musical meanings are concerned with relationships, both with other human beings and with the world, and that music functions as a means of exploration, affirmation, and celebration of those relationships. If members of different social groups have different...

This book provides a true A to Z of recorded sound, from its inception to the present day, outlining how technologies, techniques, and social attitudes have changed things, noting what is good and what is less good. The author starts by discussing the physics...

The Rhythmic figures in a simple and progressive way, in order to decode and reproduce any strumming pattern.We apply note durations to strumming, arpeggio and finger-picking techniques. Practical tips and tricks. Progressive technical exercises. Suggested equalisations and uses of the instrument 10 examples of...

- Paper Back 25pages- Quality High- Musical Instruments Coloring- Language English- COLORING PAGES - Beautiful designs appropriate for YouAuthor: Roberto MirkaISBN-10: 8578566475ISBN-13: 9798578566479Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2020Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.05d

Some Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics.- Some Fundamentals of Music Psychology.- Some Fundamentals of Comparative Musicology.- Impulses.- Turbulence.- Saxophone.- More wind instruments.- Friction Instruments.- Guitars and Plucked String Instruments.- The Human Voice.- Neurophysiology of Music.- Music and Consciousness.- Reconstructing Impulses - The Ear and the...

This monograph is an opportunity to explore the legal rights of a buyer to avoid (terminate) a contract of sale of goods under the United Nations Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods. Avoidance of a contract is the most important remedial...

Something about the lyrics of many of the hit contemporary Christian worship songs is at best problematic for many clergy persons in mainline denominations. Sometimes the songs are downright offensive theologically to the pastor. Often the problem is rooted in a theological nuance or...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 1447474953ISBN-13: 9781447474951Publisher:...

Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and presented by biographers and journalists as history. Yet many of these works do not strictly qualify as history and the story of...

"'It was at summer camp in northern Wisconsin in 1953 that I first met Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing. He was twelve years old and he had a guitar. He would go around telling everybody that he was going to be a rock-and-roll star. I...

Have you ever had a student who was a challenge to motivate? Do you know the unique motivational styles of each of your students? Does your studio or classroom use tools that activate every motivational style? As music teachers, we often try to spark...

This is the action-filled biography of Marvin E. Gilmore, Jr., an African-American musician-turned-businessman, the grandson of slaves, who rose from poverty to achieve the American dream. He's a decorated U.S. war hero who earned France's Legion of Honor and he has waged a life-long...

"Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel--only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence." -- Gay Talese In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese set out...

BTS by ARMY: 2020 shares the journey of Grammy-nominated BTS during the year 2020. From their chart-topping Map of the Soul: 7 to surviving the pandemic together and creating BE featuring Billboard Hot 100 #1s Dynamite and Life Goes On, every moment is compiled...