Music-General Books

Undoubtedly the most important and successful band to come out of the U.S. of A., Aerosmith remain intact after four decades of down 'n dirty rock 'n' roll. They've been called 'The Bad Boys From Boston' and 'America's Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Band' for...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in...

Author: Danny JonesISBN-10: 1498479103ISBN-13: 9781498479103Publisher: Xulon PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2016Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

Turning his back on the British legal profession and the requirement to account for every six minutes of his time, Geoff Steward ventures off-grid and on the road across America. From New York to Alaska, he tries to fend for himself without his trusty...

Follow law enforcement's two-year inquest into Prince's death, from the first 911 call through present day. Authored by an independent observer with extensive journalism experience, the book includes interviews with family, friends, current and former staffers, doctors and fellow musicians. Based on thousands of...

This collection features a selection of the greatest songs for kids. Includes nursery rhymes, christmas carols, classical music, folk songs and traditional songs from all around the world This beginner's book also provides an introduction to reading and playing music. All the songs are...

A Pause in the Rain is a memoir about the author''s late husband, Chuck Greenberg, who was a founding member of Grammy Award-winning music pioneers Shadowfax.Author: Joy GreenbergISBN-10: 1601450184ISBN-13: 9781601450180Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2006Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Reprint of the best-known and most widely used all over the world school for trumpet and other brass instruments by Jean-Baptiste ARBAN. This book contains the complete volume 1. Biographical Sketch of Joseph -Jean -Baptiste-Laurent Arban This illustrious artist was born at Lyons, France,...

The greatest accomplishment of Bill Haley & His Comets lies in their paving the way for all the other artists that followed. From 1952 until 1960, Bill Haley & His Comets scored 30 hits in the US and UK charts. In 1957, at the...

Following tremendous advances in recent years in the study of religious belief, this volume adopts a fresh understanding of Jewish religious life in Poland. Approaches deriving from the anthropology, history, phenomenology, psychology, and sociology of religion have replaced the methodologiesof social or political history...

Making a significant contribution to a theory of music therapy, this book addresses current music therapy debates to do with meaning: are words necessary in creative music therapy? How is clinical improvisation distinct from 'pure' music improvisation? If so, what is the nature of...

Play Fun Songs With Colorful Codes For Kids And Beyond This method is a way of knowing the young artist with his musical instrument and his growing confidence in playing it. You can also use it for students who write cursory notes and are...

Record contracts have been the goal of aspiring musicians, but are they still important in the era of SoundCloud? Musicians in the United States still seem to think so, flocking to auditions for The Voice and Idol brands or paying to perform at record...

This book presents in comprehensive fashion the extraordinary development of Ariadne auf Naxos from its conception to the final operatic version. The unique collaboration of Hofmannsthal and Strauss is examined and the classical myths that served as a basis for the libretto are investigated....

"I love music" (J.R.R. Tolkien)Music plays a crucial role in Tolkien's mythology, and his tales contain many songs as well as mentions of musicians and instruments.The present book edited by Julian Eilmann and Friedhelm Schneidewind is the successor to the well-received 2010 volume Music...

As the Sex Pistols were breaking up, Britain was entering a new era. Punk's filth and fury had burned brightly and briefly; soon a new underground offered a more sustained and constructive challenge. As future-focused, independently released singles appeared in the wake of the...

Written by fourteen leading experts in the field, this Companion covers almost every aspect of the harpsichord - the history of the instrument, tuning systems, the role of the harpsichord in ensemble, its use in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and includes separate chapters...

Undergraduate Research in Film: A Guide for Students supplies tools for building research skills, with examples of undergraduate research activities and case studies on projects in the various areas in the study of film, film theory, film production, history of film, and interdisciplinary projects....

There is a strong tradition of literary analyses of the musical artwork. Simply put, all musicology - any writing about music - is an attempt at making analogies between what happens within the world of sound and language itself. This study considers this analogy...

This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Edited by Max Paddison and Ir ne Deli ge, the book offers a wide...

The Nature of Nordic Music explores two distinctive yet complementary understandings of the term 'nature': the inherent features, characters and qualities of contemporary Nordic music, and how the elemental forces of nature, the phenomena of the physical world (landscape, climate, environment), inspire and condition...

AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE This volume is the first sustained examination of the complex perspectives that comprise ecomusicology-the study of the intersections of music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment. Twenty-two authors provide a range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical...

1. Welcome Back to Hollywood.- 2. The Sennett Quartet.- 3. "The World's Biggest Entertainment Joy Ride".- 4. Three of a Kind.- 5. From Silent to Sound.- 6. Return to the Sawdust Trail.- 7. The Mail-Order Groom.- 8. Magnum Opus.1.- 9. "A Perfect Mixture of...

The scholarly study of autograph sources has exploded over the past quarter century especially in the field of twentieth-century music. Yet, few if any courses or seminars broach the subject of sketch studies and the skills required to examine the manuscripts. This book surveys...

Prokofiev considered himself to be primarily a composer of opera, and his return to Russia in the mid-1930s was partially motivated by the goal to renew his activity in this genre. His Soviet career coincided with the height of the Stalin era, when official...

"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...

The book for anyone who wonders why people play and listen to music, and how our brains hear it. Part neuroscience, part memoir, this book makes the latest insights into how the brain processes music accessible to a wide range of readers -no scientific...

Going on the road with a bunch of talented musicians isn't all glitz and glamour, says Paul Abraham, but a more enjoyable job would be hard to find. His memoir will take you behind the scenes, offering intimate details of the kind of life...

88+ Ways Music (2nd Edition) features over 100 inspirational stories & quotes from musicians, music educators and music lovers from all over the world. Included are a number of stories from Grammy winning and Platinum selling artists & composers. Recording artist and songwriting contributors...

Half documentary, half novel about the Hippie phenomenon, full of humour and anarchy, told by someone who was there, and still is For those who lived through that unique era and those who want to discover the roots of the music they listen to...

A stunning photographic history of the Mod music and style icon Paul Weller, by celebrated music photographer Tom Sheehan. Encompassing his incredible career from The Jam, to The Style Council and his solo work, the book features a Foreword by Paul Weller himself and...

A lifelong lover of opera and classical music, the author served 35 years in the US Foreign Service. These memoirs recall his devoted engagement with music, especially opera, in the context of that career. This book recalls the author's devoted engagement with music, especially...

Everything professional music teachers need to know to generate inquiries, fill their studio, and grow their waiting list helping small studios become big, and big studios become enormous. The biggest collection of studio promotion techniques ever assembled, from the founder of practicespot.com, the world...

After exploding onto the British music scene only two years previously, Oasis played the biggest free-standing gigs the UK had ever seen over two nights at Knebworth Park in the summer of 1996. Playing to a combined crowd of 250,000 people on what would...

An easy-to-understand position chart featuring chromatic, major, and minor scale studies. A helpful photograph labels the parts of the trombone. Elementary trombone positions are also diagrammed with a description of allpositions up to and including sixth position. The range of the trombone is then...

Exploring the complexities and significance of classical music todayIn Planet Beethoven, Mina Yang makes the compelling case that classical music in the twenty-first century is just as vibrant and relevant as ever--but with significant changes that give us insight into the major cultural shifts...

A tribute to the work and influence of this groundbreaking composerThis small, striking book commemorates the career of experimental music composer Alvin Lucier, and features an interview with Lucier and curator Andrea Miller-Keller, essays by Nicolas Collins, Ronald Kuivila, Michael Roth and Pamela Tatge,...

Jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel has been pushing the jazz envelope for more thana decade and is recognized as one of today's premier soloists and composers. This book showcases solo transcriptions of Kurt's critically acclaimed album Deep Song as well as lead sheets for many...

Tommy Emmanuel is one of the hottest fingerpicking guitar stars today. Thiscomplete transcription offers not only a look at his music, but insight to his style and techniques. The performance notes help players over potential hurdles in thepieces. In standard notation and tablature.Author: Tommy...

Evoke the traditional sounds of the Celtic lands with these instrumental arrangements of songs for solo Celtic harp. These 25 tunes are Manx, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Cornish, Hebridean, and Bretton, including pieces by Turlough O'Carolan and Robert Burns. Notes at the end of the...

The most in-depth, revolutionary presentation of the harmonic framework of musicas applied to the guitar fingerboard ever presented. Leads to total mastery of harmonic and technical aspects of the guitar.Author: George Van EpsISBN-10: 0786609249ISBN-13: 9780786609246Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/1981Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.63lbsSize: 11.70h x...

A comprehensive study text teaching elements of jazz phrasing, articulation, vibrato, chord studies, and technical studies leading to improvisation. In addition, a theory workbook section teaches scales, modal concepts and chord construction.Author: William BayISBN-10: 0786602295ISBN-13: 9780786602292Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1994Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize:...

You ain't nothing but a "Hound Dog" ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit "Hound Dog" before Elvis Presley and who wrote "Ball & Chain," the song...

Lady Gaga represents both the height of celebrity and a disruption of the norms surrounding the social position. This book charts the way the pop star manages the celebrity persona in her relationships with her fans, the development of her gender identity, her parodying...

This volume contains 13 original essays exploring Rammstein's stage performance and recorded works from multiple academic perspectives. Topics range from Rammstein's connection with 19th century German literature and their East German heritage to cannibalism and the supernatural. The panoramic view of approaches to Rammstein's...

Digital compression technologies such as MP3 and Napster are having an explosive impact on the way music is distributed. Every day, hundreds of thousands of music files are searched for, shared, recorded, and listened to by computer and Web users-all free of charge. It's...

The consistent wit and charm of the music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), has often led to an underestimation of its value, yet there is now a growing recognition of his stature. His music is simple and direct, and neither rhythmically nor harmonically innovative, but...

Examines Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), composer of works such as Bol ro and Pavane pour une Infante d funte, as both a composer and a manAuthor: Gerald LarnerISBN-10: 0714832707ISBN-13: 9780714832708Publisher: Phaidon PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/1996Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 8.64h x 6.11w x 0.76dReview Citation(s): Library Journal...

This book contains texts for forty-five contemporary hymns on a wide variety of topics--biblical stories, the church, and seasons and special occasions in the church year. Well-known hymn tunes are suggested for each hymn and a brief commentary section provides interesting background. The volume...

From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques - the key areas of traditional music...