Music-General Books

When Vanessa copped a gig at a now defunct record label-whose roster included platinum-selling artists-she was for certain that money, power, and fame were lying in wait around the corner. To her surprise, the only thing lurking 'round the bend was a maximum-security prison...

Exploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy explores the treatment delivered to high-risk offenders with complex needs, focusing on sex and violent offenders. The book advocates for the further use of less traditional and creative therapies, in particular, music therapy. The...

We all know the power of music. Or do we? "88 MORE Ways Music Can Change Your Life" is the followup to "88+ Ways Music" and takes you on a powerful journey through the eyes of people whose lives have been altered by the...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

Author: Annie NightingaleISBN-10: 1474616690ISBN-13: 9781474616690Publisher: White RabbitLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2022Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d

The Routledge Handbook of Women's Work in Music presents a unique collection of core research by academics and music practitioners from around the world, engaging with an extraordinarily wide range of topics on women's contributions to Western and Eastern art music, popular music, world...

The book about the cases you love and explore your journey to find the truth. An arduous journey to find the ultimate killer.Join Marty and her dog, Patron, as they eliminate suspects in the murder of a beloved rock star in Palm Springs, California.Author:...

In this ground-breaking study, Paul Laird examines the process and effect of orchestration in West Side Story and Gypsy, two musicals that were among the most significant Broadway shows of the 1950s, and remain important in the modern repertory. Drawing on extensive archival research...

Dr. Mark Evans is a composer, conductor, pianist, and organist, writer, and lyricist, with a multifaceted background in music, books, and broadcasting.In Playboy at the Piano, he combines profiles and reflections regarding the markable people he has encountered as teachers, mentors, colleagues, friends, and...

This book has been an incredible blessing in my life. The original title of this book was How to become a Jewish Rock Star. After the first three interviews, I realized that the title was absolutely misleading in terms of what our work in...

This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it, is an essential element in human nature. Every society in history has produced some characteristic style of music. Music, like the other arts, tells us truths about the...

"Ancient Armaments: The Frank Zappa Singles Project" is the first analysis of Frank Zappa's entire work in the single format on 7" records, 12" records, CD singles, cassette singles, and everything in-between. If Frank Zappa had anything to do with a single release, it...

I would say there is a fair chance that one day we all may shuffle off this mortal coil. To make things easier for family and loved ones, I would suggest that we all think about our final set; spell it out while we...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic, a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the decolonization and deinstitutionalization around...

This book will give them a view of the other side of Motown. It was not just a record company, there was also a spiritual side of the company.Author: Frances MaclinISBN-10: 1664195998ISBN-13: 9781664195998Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2021Pages: 70Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

After the cancellation of the 2020 Contest due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was a welcome return to a sort of normality when this year's Eurovision went ahead. This edition of the Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest includes a section...

The historical stages of development of sheet metal forming as an industry are studied.The general issues of the process and technology of sheet stamping are considered.Basic and auxiliary equipment for sheet stamping are examined.A variety of materials for sheet stamping, their physical and mechanical...

In the fourteenth century composers and theorists invented mensuration and proportion signs that allowed them increased flexibility and precision in notating a wide range of rhythmic and metric relationships. The origin and interpretation of these signs is one of the least understood and most...

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....

This is a handbook for the daily use of violin teachers and violin students; and it contains explanations of the left hand difficulties and of their solution, and directions as to the systematic acquirement of the various bowings, both firm and bounding. That Kreutzer...

Pink Floyd has produced some of the most celebrated rock music of all time: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, and, recently, The Division Bell.Pink Floyd through the Eyes of . . . collects the best...

This important study in ethnomusicology is an attempt by the author -- a musician who has become a social anthropologist -- to compare his experiences of music-making in different cultures. He is here presenting new information resulting from his research into African music, especially...

Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and...

The book "" Favourite Welsh Hymns "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This...

The book "" George Frideric Handel "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This...

The introduction takes a closer look into the music staff. In order to understand the big picture, the student must learn what goes on between the blurry lines and in between the open spaces. There are 5 lines & 4 spaces on the music...

Happy Holidays Dear ReadersWelcome to our final edition of 2021, Our Christmas editions.And do we have some goodies for you!Let's talk about our Cover The funkmaestro, Mitchell Coleman Jr is back with a smash hit that will wake up your funk palette and bring...

One of the easiest and most practical approaches to jazz guitar on the market today, this method thoroughly covers the basics for jazz guitar solo performance, including: theory, scales, chords, phrasing, passing tones, and much more.Author: Ronny LeeISBN-10: 0786600365ISBN-13: 9780786600366Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson is best known as an African-American commentator on politics, race and social issues. Yet, for decades he has inhabited another world that seemingly is as far removed from the day's political and social conflicts that he specializes in discussing...

Olivier Messiaen stands as one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century and among the foremost religious artists of any era. When he died in 1992, the prevailing image was of a deeply religious man whose only sources of inspiration were God...

Franz Schubert's tragically short life was lived in one of Europe's most richly musical cities: a Vienna that worshipped Beethoven and where Rossini and Paganini drew crowds. Christopher Gibbs considers how and what Schubert composed, taking a fresh look at this misunderstood composer, particularly...

In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the composer's output and creative activity. Authored by a collection of leading specialists in Mahler scholarship, its opening chapters place...

Launched by NME editor and Smash Hits creator Nick Logan in 1980, The Face became an icon of "style culture," the benchmark for the latest trends in art, design, fashion, photography, film, and music being defined by a thriving youth culture. The Story of...

Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825-96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857-9, before he embarked on producing this definitive critical edition. Organised into five volumes and published in ten parts between...

Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major encyclopedia on the subject. It includes over one hundred illustrations, and gives attention to every brass...

The Orchestral Revolution explores the changing listening culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Delving into Enlightenment philosophy, the nature of instruments, compositional practices and reception history, this book describes the birth of a new form of attention to sonority and uncovers the...

Author: Paul F. BelardISBN-10: 0999893904ISBN-13: 9780999893906Publisher: Linden PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2018Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.51d

Spiritual enlightenment from the Far East has taught the world that true happiness and peace comes from within a wisdom that transcends time and boundaries. As each new generation struggles to find happiness in an ever-changing world overrun by technology and media, few take...

Intended to offer suggestions for anyone, regardless of musical training or experience, who is seeking to develop music collections in libraries of all kinds, this essential reference work remains a benchmark of its kindAuthor: Music Library AssociationISBN-10: 0838915310ISBN-13: 9780838915318Publisher: American Library AssociationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2021Format:...

Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the "race records" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women's singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by...

The Choctaws are among the largest and best-known Indian tribes originally of the Southeastern United States, but over the centuries they have become one of the most acculturated to white ways, known more for what they absorbed of white culture than for their own...

High school students living to fulfill their dreams.Author: Sheena S. LeeISBN-10: 1494853744ISBN-13: 9781494853747Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/25/2013Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.09d

This book introduces basic musical elements to elementary children. There are three chapters that introduce melody, harmony, beat, rhythm, and tempo. The book is intended for elementary music teachers to use in their classroom. The music teacher can introduce musical elements while integrating literature...

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative...

This book contains a comprehensive digest of information on the construction, tuning, and repair of pianos scattered over of about thirty thousand columns of the journal Work and supplies concise information on the details of the subjects on which it treats.Author: Paul N. HasluckISBN-10:...

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: Maurice RavelISBN-10: 1446516970ISBN-13: 9781446516973Publisher: Scott...

Scales become easy to remember. Here's a new teaching aid that will help you and-or your student master scales and arpeggios quickly and easily. Violin Scale Charts(tm) show scale and arpeggio patterns in graphic, chart form. This makes them easy to learn, easy to...

The book is designed as an introductory text for entertainment studies courses and an overview of the industry for those looking to pursue careers in the field of entertainment. Author: Andi Stein, Beth Bingham GeorgesISBN-10: 1433159635ISBN-13: 9781433159633Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Iron Maiden's influence on generations of rock and metal bands cannot be overstated. To name just a small selection, Maiden has influenced the following bands: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Annihilator and younger bands such as Slipknot, Fozzy, Avenged Sevenfold, In Flames and Trivium. It is...

Author: Sal GISBN-10: 1512390046ISBN-13: 9781512390049Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2015Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.60d