Music-General Books

In the first third of the twentieth century, South America became the most important market for many European theatrical companies. When Italy found itself in various theatrical crises, Walter Mocchi created a transoceanic theatrical empire, using his business acumen to craft viable solutions. While...

Early nineteenth-century composers, publishers and writers evolved influential ideals of Beethoven's symphonies as untouchable masterpieces. Meanwhile, many and various arrangements of symphonies, principally for amateur performers, supported diverse and 'hands-on' cultivation of the same works. Now mostly forgotten, these arrangements served a vital function...

What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future?Sound Worksexamines these questions in four parts: Part 1, "Why This Sound?", presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and...

Oasis had risen so swiftly, so dramatically, they now faced the question that no band has yet successfully answered. How do you maintain that rush of excitement which accompanies a rise to the top? And while you're at it, where exactly do you perform...

In this book, Dr. Fram responds to the art of Dylan in the form of poetry and song. He interrogates the imagination, lyrics and even cover-art of Bob Dylan in terms of the ancient practice of ekphrasis and locates his achievement in that tradition....

"A Musical History of the Klamath Basin: Early Community Bands," by Klamath County Museum curator Niles Reynolds, details the history of major community music groups in the Klamath Basin from the late 1800s to the 1960s. The book examines articles, documents, and photos from...

Status Quo were one of the most successful, influential and innovative bands of the 1970s. During the first half of the decade, they wrote, recorded and performed a stream of inventive and highly complex rock compositions, developed 12 bar forms and techniques in new...

In the 1970s, Frederic Schang, the former General Manager of Columbia Artists Management, published his collection of performing arts visiting cards in four volumes. Neglia's book is the first such book since Schang's final volume, Visiting Cards of Pianists, made the shelves in 1979....

The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art presents an overview of the issues, methods, and approaches crucial for the study of sound in artistic practice. Thirty-six essays cover a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to studying sounding art from the fields of musicology, cultural studies, sound...

Has music played an important role in your life? Do you enjoy listening to many different genres of music? Can you recall songs and tunes from your childhood? If you answered yes to any of these questions The Greatest Music Quiz Book has been...

This book is for people who love electronic music, people who probably have a synthesizer or two at home. It's for people who tell themselves that they should find some time for their passion, who blame themselves for not making enough music. This book...

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

Pink Floyd was so great, with so many great albums Which album brings you back to your high school days?"Circle It" word search books read like a book and are full of interesting facts, the bold words within the text can be found in...

The musica secreta or concerto delle dame of Duke Alfonso II d'Este, an ensemble of virtuoso female musicians that performed behind closed doors at the castello in Ferrara, is well-known to music history. Their story is often told by focussing on the Duke's obsessive...

This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the musical, social, commercial and aesthetic functions songsters served and the processes by which they were produced and disseminated, the repertory they included,...

This textbook is a product of William Bennett's work in developing and teaching a course on the physics of music at Yale University to a diverse audience of musicians and science students in the same class. The book is a culmination of over a...

The story of an immortal Scottish warrior battling evil down through the centuries, Highlander fused a high-concept idea with the kinetic energy of a pop promo pioneer and Queen's explosive soundtrack to become a cult classic.When two American producers took a chance on a...

This book examines the interface between Polish popular music and screen media against the background of Polish history, cinema, and popular culture and situates that interface in a local as well as global context. It looks at Polish musicals, biographical films about musicians, documentary...

Playlist notebook makes it easy to keep track of song titles. Whether you are a deejay, musician, or just an avid music listener wanting to create the playlist of your life, you'll love being able to log entries at ease Fun vibrant radio button...

Part I Introduction.- 1 General Introduction.- 2 Ontology and Oniontology.- 3 The Basic Functions of Music.- 4 Historicity in Music.- 5 Only One Restriction: Quality.- Part II Technological Tools.- 6 Software Tools and Hardware Options.- 7 New Concepts of Musical Instruments.- 8 Musical Distribution...

My favorite song lyrics is a 100 pages notebook to copy down your favorite song lyrics White-color paper Matte end protect a chic look and feel with-color paper also it's a perfect gift to your brother, sister, friend, youth, teens who are fond of...

Awesome gift idea for jamaican people and reggae lovers. if you love ska, reggae, dancehall, rocksteady and raggamuffin this product is for youreggae rasta jamaica roots music vintage music vinyls boombox sound system. gift for reggae lovers and caribbean peopleAuthor: Soul BooksISBN-10: 1674109717ISBN-13: 9781674109718Publisher:...

Introduction.- Georgia Tech's Robotic Musicianship Platforms.- Listen Like A Human.- Play Like A Machine.- Social Interaction through Gestures.- Watch and Learn.- Wearable Robotic Musicians.Author: Gil Weinberg, Mason Bretan, Guy HoffmanISBN-10: 3030389294ISBN-13: 9783030389291Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2020Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late-Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual...

During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination and conservation of music. The era of the mechanical reproduction of music has, rather ironically, opened up new perspectives, which have contributed to the revitalisation of...

This book was developed and written specifically with the performance health needs of musicians in mind. Topics include repetitive stress/overuse injuries, performance anxiety and its effect on movement and muscle tension, and corrective exercise strategies to help remedy faulty movement patterns and relieve muscle...

Alban Berg: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition is an annotated bibliography highlighting both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources that deal with Berg, his compositions, and his influence as a...

This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories to the area of musico-literary studies, drawing from the...

The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education is a comprehensive resource that draws together burgeoning research on the use of technology in music education around the world. Rather than following a procedural how-to approach, this companion considers technology, musicianship, and pedagogy from a...

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 volume in hand deals with modes of inquiry and interpretation broadly organised into sections on theory, and historical and creative studies. The section on theoretical issues comprises papers on: the problem of meaning in African music; musicology and African music; the juncture of...

Harmonica for Advanced (Book 2) is written for diatonic (blues) harmonica players from around the world that finish "harmonica for Beginners (Book 1) and has the basic skills of playing the harmonica and reading notes. Advanced students will find many songs and melodies from...

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. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks...

Here for the first time is an account of how each of thirteen historical as well as present-day systems cope with indicating body movement, time, space (direction and level) and other basic movement aspects of paper. A one-to-one comparison is made of how the...

Guitar god, hellraiser, junkie-outlaw, epic songwriting visionary: Keith Richards doesn't just play rock 'n roll-- he invented it. For over 40 years, Richards' incendiary guitar riffs and legendary off-stage antics have electrified fans and infuriated cops. See the demons that drove him from rags-to-rock...

This coloring book is filled with alto clefs Count your way through the book from a single clef up to 12, and then enjoy extra designs including an alto clef mandala. Contains 40 coloring pages, and more alto clefs than you can count You...

Reprint of the famous original method by Jean-Baptiste Arban for trumpet, cornet, bugle and other instruments. This book includes parts 1 to 3. It is written in English, German and French.Author: Jean-Baptiste ArbanISBN-10: 3956980816ISBN-13: 9783956980817Publisher: Vero VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2019Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 11.00h x...

From the Grand Theme that the Ainur played before Il vatar at the beginning of the world, to the various songs and melodies performed by the characters of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the world that J.R.R. Tolkien created contains numerous...

In the current study, opinions of faculty from Michigan's baccalaureate degree-granting universities on the ethicality of research behaviors were examined. In the quantitative method and descriptive survey design, descriptive and comparative statistical tests were used to analyze differences in opinions on plagiarism, falsification, and...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a...

Life of our Saviour Jesus Christ - three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four gospels; Volume 1 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,...

Around the world Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly recognized as crucial drivers of socio-economic development. Their importance can be viewed in aspects as employment creation, productivity, innovation and income generation and distribution, poverty alleviation, ground for developing and upgrading entrepreneurial skills and...

Medical procedures, although often necessary, are frequently painful and anxiety-provoking. Music therapists are credentialed healthcare professionals who have the potential to help decrease pain and anxiety associated with medical procedures through the use of procedural support music therapy. Within this book is a wealth...

Photovoltaic (solar electric) modules are clean, safe and efficient devices that have long been considered a logical material for use in buildings. Recent technological advances have made PVs suitable for direct integration into building construction. PV module size, cost, appearance and reliability have advanced...

This book provides explanations of institutional factors that contribute to the fact that sociology is haunted by theoretical dichotomies. Drawing on Foucault, Latour, Collins and others, the author presents possible ways that could lead sociology out of the theoretical field. These ways are dominated...

The Beautiful in Music - A Contribution to the Revisal of Musical Aesthetics is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...

Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music history and performance through a series of conversations with women and men intimately associated with music performance, history, and practice: the musicians themselves. Fifty-five celebrated artists--singers, pianists, violinists, cellists, flutists, horn players, oboists, composers, conductors,...

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...

Examines the connections between musical modernism and German cinema from the Autorenfilm movement (1913-14) through the dawn of the recorded sound film (1932-33)Analyses a corpus of original compositions, films, and aesthetic writingsDocuments how modernist composers from the Austro-German area approached film music composition and...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) supported the unification of Europe and reflected on this like few other philosophers before or after him. Many of his works are concerned with the present state and future of European culture and humanity. Resisting the "nationalist nonsense" and "politics of...