Music-General Books

Author: Michael HamiltonISBN-10: 1434803465ISBN-13: 9781434803467Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2008Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.38d

Bagpipe Pocket Music Book - pocket size and ebook Great handy pocket size of 25 tunes for the piper out and about. Great to have on the road in an easily accessible format printed pocket size 8.5 in x 5.5 in. Very handy -...

"Rhythmische Gymnastik" is the name by which the Dalcroze method is known in Germany, but whether or not the German words are adequate, their literal translation into English certainly gives too narrow an idea of the scope of the system to any one unacquainted...

We're missing out ... on hearing one another's songs, on worship in our daily lives, on the dance of David, on passion in our praise, on fellowship with Christians who disagree, on sharing testimony of God's work in our assemblies, on understanding how to...

Midlife can be a time of great change for individuals and a "make or break" period for marriages; The Middle Years of Marriage explores this predicament.Author: Vince WaldronISBN-10: 143313344XISBN-13: 9781433133442Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2017Pages: 182Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

This book explores social networking sites as the digital field of cultural production by loosely drawing from Pierre Bourdieu's notion of field and capital. The book examines four case studies on MySpace, YouTube, Second Life, and Indaba Music, and the roles and the impact...

If you enjoy great music but want to know more about how it came to be the way it is - without investing time in a graduate degree - here are the background stories of over 200 great compositions. If you're only just coming...

Knight Moves: The K J Knight Story recounts the fascinating tale of a miscreant young rock drummer growing up in the Motor City during the 1960s and 70s-a dynamic time period in rock and roll history. This is also the story of a teenage...

Author: John WilliamsISBN-10: 1423431790ISBN-13: 9781423431794Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2010Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.60w x 0.30d

While countless pages have been written about the Rolling Stones and its members, little attention has been given to the motivations and machinations of the fan base that makes this band the top grossing act in musical history. Author Wendy Mullen describes her descent...

Your 60s took place away from London and you experienced the songs in the order they happened, and those times made sense at the speed they occurred. And one other thing - you fell into being a Bob Dylan fan. Bob Dylan, who came...

In his debut book, writer and blogger David Zahl riffs on the intersection of music, memoir, and theology to create a fresh and colorful series of essays that truly stands alone. Constructed like an album, A Mess of Help surveys some of pop's most...

Take a trip with me as we journey through some of the most loved songs of the 60's and 70's. This is your backstage pass into the lives of the singer-songwriters and the music they created...the very origins of them. It's a behind-the-scenes look...

Author: Professor GriffISBN-10: 0977124231ISBN-13: 9780977124237Publisher: Taqiyyah MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2015Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d

"A History of Rock and Dance Music " is the second edition of what is arguably the most comprehensive history of the genre ever published. When the first edition came out, it marked the first time that someone had written a history of rock...

MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF was originally presented off-Broadway in 1966, receiving rave reviews and garnering such comments as: "A solid hit " and "Perfectly charming " (New York Times), "Remarkably appealing " (New York Post), and "Sprightly and ingratiating " (NY Daily...

This book focuses on "operatic Italian" (literary Italian in the classic mode) a.k.a. libretto Italian, or how to understand and translate Italian opera libretti. Parts of speech provide the framework, each of which is illustrated by extracts from many operas. The author works his...

Blues, Then and Now, traces its origin from Africa in its primitive stage to the present day. It profiles the men and women that lived and sang the blues. It portrays a condition of depression, sadness, loneliness, tragedy and sexuality. The reader is taken...

Author: Denes AgayISBN-10: 0860016803ISBN-13: 9780860016809Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2015Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.80w x 0.20d

(Music Sales America). An unusual collection of music arranged for the recorder containing over fifty pieces from over 300 years of music. Contents: Allegro (Haydn) * Andante (Gluck) * Andante Grazioso (Mozart) * Anglaise (Handel) * Ballet Anglois (Fischer) * Beautiful Heaven (Fernandez) *...

'You hold in your hand a miracle. A book about a passion, and the hipsters, oddballs and old heads who share it, written by one of their number, albeit a ludicrously erudite one' - Danny Kelly A revival of interest in vinyl music has...

(Music Sales America). Over one hundred well-loved songs and rhymes. Easy piano arrangement plus words and chord symbols where appropriate. Includes: Jack and Jill * Little Boy Blue * Old King Cole * Three Blind Mice * and more.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0825693373ISBN-13: 9780825693373Publisher:...

(Music Sales America). Ten classical favorites in melody line arrangements are coupled with specially recorded backing tracks in these book/CD packs. Step into the spotlight & play along Contents: Air from Water Music (Handel); Air on the G String (J.S. Bach); Habanera from Carmen...

(Music Sales America). Mas de 400 acordes para guitarra a todo color. Un recurso revolucionario para todo guitarrista. Nunca ha existido un libro de acordes tan accesible y facil de usar. Diagramas faciles de leer. Fotografias a todo color. Los separadores a color facilitan...

The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume's contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent,...

Author: John GillISBN-10: 0816627193ISBN-13: 9780816627196Publisher: University of Minnesota PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/02/1995Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.32w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 02/27/1995 pg. 99

Recording Classical Music presents the fundamental principles of digitally recording and editing acoustic music in ambient spaces, focusing on stereo microphone techniques that will help musicians understand how to translate "live" environments into recorded sound.The book covers theory and the technical aspects of recording...

"Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and time. I am often asked--indeed, I often wonder...

These creative, reassuring and beautiful texts can be sung to well-known hymns and songs in worship, groups, or at home. Many are written for use with children's songs, making them perfect for school, nursery, and camp singing.Author: Herbert F. BrokeringISBN-10: 0800659295ISBN-13: 9780800659295Publisher: Augsburg Fortress...

Crosspicking technique on guitar is similar to bluegrass banjo, filling in all of thespaces between melody notes with a steady stream of harmony notes. With applied crosspicking technique, the guitar becomes a forceful solo instrument capable of filling a room with colorfully supported melodies....

Practice for Performance provides a rare and intimate view into a very thoughtful and successful performer's personal toolkit. Set in the context of his own personal history of growth as a performer, cellist Daniel Morganstern (principal cellist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and...

Although Johann Sebastian Bach did not write any music for the guitar, transcriptions of his unaccompanied string music and music for lute have long been a part of the guitar repertoire. Despite the respect that this music commands among musicians and audiences, debate still...

The product of decades of scholarly investigation, Volume 1 contains 67 musical works by the virtuoso Paraguayan guitarist Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944).Author: Agustin Barrios Mangore, Richard StoverISBN-10: 0786624795ISBN-13: 9780786624799Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2003Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.82lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.60d

The self-proclaimed "Hottest Band in the World," KISS is one of the most popular groups in the history of rock, having sold more than 100 million albums during their more than 40-year reign. With more gold albums than any other American band, they were...

American dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon (1925-2000) won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and also appeared in films and on television. Stricken with rickets as a child, Verdon overcame severe leg deformity through ballet training, making her film debut at...

They were almost The Pendletones--after the Pendleton wool shirts favored on chilly nights at the beach--then The Surfers, before being named The Beach Boys. But what separated them from every other teenage garage band with no musical training? They had raw talent, persistence and...

The Natyasastra is the deep repository of Indian performance studies. It embodies centuries of performance knowledge developed in South Asia on a range of conceptual issues and practical methodologies of the body. The composition of the Natyasastra is attributed to Sage Bharatha, and dates...

Three years after entering the pop music scene, Lady Gaga became the most well-known pop star in the world. These thirteen critical essays explore Lady Gaga's body of work through the interdisciplinary filter of performance identity and cover topics such as gender and sexuality,...

The musical has been called "the most popular form of entertainment in the world." This work examines the subjects, themes, and contemporary relevance of Hollywood musicals through their long popularity, placing each show in historical and political context and analyzing it in detail. A...

This is the only autobiography of America's first internationally renowned African-American classical vocal coach for concert, oratorio, and opera as well as a distinguished arranger and interpretive authority on Negro Spirituals. Mrs. Lee has been a pioneer in the musical field as the first...

This book is the authorized chronicle of the Atlanta Rhythm Section, the legendary southern rock band that created such memorable hits as "Champagne Jam," "So Into You," "Imaginary Lover," "Spooky," and "Doraville." Already seasoned studio professionals when they formed in 1970, the A.R.S. forged...

Why does poetry appeal to music? Can music be said to communicate, as language does? What, between music and poetry, is it possible to translate? These fundamental questions have remained obstinately difficult, despite the recent burgeoning of word and music studies. Peter Dayan contends...

The endurance of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon on the Billboard Top 100 Chart is legendary, and its continuing sales and ongoing radio airplay ensure its inclusion on almost every conceivable list of rock's greatest albums. This collection of essays provides...

(Music Sales America). Learn your scales, practice your technical exercises and then use them straight away with the specially composed pieces in this book. The funky backing tracks on the CD makes practice fun even while you're learning.Author: Simon LesleyISBN-10: 0711993548ISBN-13: 9780711993549Publisher: Chester MusicLanguage:...

(Yorktown). Easy, familiar solos for flute in styles from Baroque to boogie. Songs include: The Lonesome Road * House of the Rising Sun * Bouree * Rumanian Rhapsody * Capriccio Italien * and many more. With simple piano accompaniments by Denes Agay.Author: Jerome GoldsteinISBN-10:...

(Music Sales America). 22 old favorites from this legend of British music, including "Chinese Laundry Blues," "Leaning on a Lamp Post," and of course the inimitable, "When I'm Cleaning Windows." All songs are arranged for piano with lyrics and both chord symbols and Ukulele...

Join me on my musical journey on the road with U2 to the 75 shows I have seen since the Zoo TV tour in 1992. Meeting Bono in Jersey, hugging Larry in Baltimore, having a drink with Larry in Providence, talking with Bono in...

A groundbreaking textbook that explores the phenomena and physics of music and sound Why You Hear What You Hear is the first book on the physics of sound for the nonspecialist to empower readers with a hands-on, ears-open approach that includes production, analysis, and...

While East Coast composers of the mid-1800s continued to imitate the music of their European forebears, Pittsburgh native Stephen Foster infused his compositions with the rich and diverse flavors of river life. By mixing this "western" essence with the style of traditional English folk...

Scan and seek no more While traveling use Bring Music to Your Ears: AM & FM Radio Station Listings, States & Cities, alphabetized for your convenience with identification such as country, gospel, contemporary, or rock.Author: Michael CrawleyISBN-10: 1412084202ISBN-13: 9781412084208Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2006Pages: 396Format:...