Music-General Books

Author: Kenneth H. WardISBN-10: 1493124900ISBN-13: 9781493124909Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2013Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.17d

In the era of Dumb downed Hip Hop, comes a superb recipe for a healthy and affordable soup dish. A good read, highly recommended for those renegades of funk true to the culture of Hip Hop. Get Your Cook on!Author: Mabusha CooperISBN-10: 1492273023ISBN-13: 9781492273028Publisher:...

The title 'Music matters' is really a shortened version of: 'Music does matter a great deal though not necessarily to everyone'. Some simply wish to have it as background for easy listening whereas for others it is the very stuff of life. The term...

Have you ever thought to yourself "I wish I knew then what I know now" or "hindsight is 20/20"? When I think back to the day that I began planning my first band trip those sentiments are true. I wrote this book as a...

If you like gospel songs, you will love these songs written with the text of scriptures directed by the Holy Spirit. Most were written at the author's kitchen table. These songs encourage, uplift, and give hope. They remind us both of the love of...

This book is not only intended for elementary music teachers to use in their classroom but also for any child interested in learning about music. www.melodysmusicalstories.comAuthor: Joan WrightISBN-10: 1490729801ISBN-13: 9781490729800Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2014Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07d

Author: Ken KrauseISBN-10: 1483696383ISBN-13: 9781483696386Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2013Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d

Ever wonder how a certain piece of music is produced? Where does the inspiration come from? And what best atmosphere helps in cultivating the piano pieces? Piano Boulevard explores the inspiration behind each piece of its music predominantly of how it could be empathetically...

Author: Francis BrainflossISBN-10: 1479741450ISBN-13: 9781479741458Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2012Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d

WHO DID WHAT? (Volume One of a series) explores the surviving audio and video documents of The Who from their origins as Shepherd's Bush Mod geezers The High Numbers through to their international breakthrough with the rock opera Tommy. Included are examinations of studio...

Author: Pablo S. Della BellaISBN-10: 1469138824ISBN-13: 9781469138824Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2011Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

To set the mood for each story in her collection Marjorie Darling Ward has taken a song to accompany it. Our emotions are influenced by our music choices and certain songs mark milestones in our lives; these stories offer compelling words telling how we...

A teaching day in a small northern Wisconsin high school starts with drums exploding, guitars screaming, keyboards accenting, and vocals harmonizing. The class, Pop Band, is an inspirational idea to get students involved in music. This story details not only the teaching of grammar,...

Author: Al W. II BlueISBN-10: 1456761978ISBN-13: 9781456761974Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2011Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.14d

"What Beethoven said in his late quartets might be the most important message to humanity ever expressed in music." Professor Wilhelm Altmann is fighting expulsion from the Conservatory for his unconventional lectures about classical music. In his final months, the aging professor is determined...

Author: Les MacDonaldISBN-10: 1453522670ISBN-13: 9781453522677Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2010Pages: 406Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Music, particularly in America, has often been a vehicle for protest. For some Americans, the protest began in Africa hundreds of years ago, as free persons were captured, torn from homes and families, shackled and put on ships headed for the West Indies and...

So what do you do when you have trashed your savings on your vinyl collection, gig tickets, watered down beer, motorway service station food, petrol, and generally destroyed your hearing so many times its unhealthy? You write about in the hope that someone somewhere...

I guess I've always had a love for poems, nursery rhymes, stories, lyrics, and music. From my early childhood in my native Jamaica to when I came to England as a nine year old in the late sixties catchy and rhymed language got my...

FOREVER 21 Open the door and enter a new world of poetry.... Poems may conjure up images of history and times gone by but not this intriguing collection that is completely different: - This really is contemporary poetry at its best.... The dustman and...

Author: Larry CorseISBN-10: 1441560815ISBN-13: 9781441560810Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2009Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12dReview Citation(s): Foreword 03/23/2010

Abroad from thoughts is a thought provoking collection of poems that deal with everyday issues in many different ways in a way to make the reader come to their own conclusions. Various methods are used to achieve this including humour, humility, poignancy and love....

This book enables teachers with basic piano skills to help young students and/or willing adults to take the first steps in understanding classical music.Author: Michael G. CunninghamISBN-10: 1438983409ISBN-13: 9781438983400Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2009Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07d

Stardust Transmissions (Urban Poems and lyrics for the 21st Century) Vol 1 is the first publication by British recording artist/producer/composer- Clive Stevens. It is a compendium of many life experiences and includes translations in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, French, Italian, Hindi and Sicilian. The...

For over 45 years composer Michael G. Cunningham, himself a pianist and singer, created a number of Art Songs, which he now shares with the public. Most are for medium-range voice, and all use poetry from the Renaissance through the early 20th-Century.Author: Michael G....

In 2004, statistical results of my case study research suggest that pairing music and linguistic intelligences in the college classroom improves students' grades and abilities to compose theses statements for research papers in courses that emphasize reading and writing skills (DiEdwardo 2004). Grounded in...

Writing about music, something that has become a focal point in my life has, has been on my mind for a long time. I began this without any formal training, however with the help of good friends I have been able complete the task....

The Cotter's Saturday Night is a poem written by Robert Burns, a Scottish poet, in 1785. The poem depicts the simple and humble life of a Scottish peasant family on a Saturday evening. The cotter, or the head of the family, is seen preparing...

Ron Hirsch has been writing song lyrics since he was thirteen years old. This book is full of over one hundred and twenty songs. The songs are divided up in chapters such as recorded songs, rock songs, country songs and more. Over forty of...

Although music theory and temperament have been familiar studies since the time of Pythagoras, written explanations can be obscure and often mystical. This book describes proportion and temperament in the simplest way using straightforward diagrams and minimum text Anthony Osborne, with his architectural training,...

No Greater Love is a collection of poems, songs, and tributes. The title of the book is captured in the very first poem. No Greater love than God sharing His son Jesus on the cross to die for all of mankind. I am excited...

These essays offer different ways of understanding what the listener may find to be enjoyable in any opera. They were originally prepared to be included in programs distributed at opera performances, thus the title of this book. NOTES ON THIS EVENING'S OPERA. Audiences have...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

An enigmatic play by play of the perfectly normal workplace.Author: Jason Louis XIV SmeltzerISBN-10: 1387916858ISBN-13: 9781387916856Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2018Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.07d

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov: A Research and Information Guide, Second Edition is an annotated bibliography of all substantial, relevant published resources relating to the Russian composer. First published in 1988, this revised and expanded volume incorporates new information about the composer appearing over the last...

Andrew Sparrow provides a highly practical guide to understanding the law in this area designed to help anyone in the music industry exploit and protect their rights, and those of their artists, as well as providing intermediaries and resellers with an understanding of how...

How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand better music's place and its significance in nineteenth-century British culture. Analysing how...

Goethe and Zelter spent a staggering 33 years corresponding or in the case of each artist, over two thirds of their lives. Zelter's position as director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin and Goethe's location in Weimar resulted in a wide-ranging correspondence. Goethe's letters offer...

Janet K. Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between the Habsburg court and Vienna's convents. For a period of some twenty-five years, encompassing the end of the reign of Emperor Leopold I and that...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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,...

The flourishing of secular music in England during the late Renaissance, the social environment in which it took place and the first steps towards a music profession and a music publishing trade are key elements within this book. Household music of families of varying...

This new series of Norton books, devoted to informed discussion of contemporary music, draws principally upon articles first published in Perspectives of New Music, which Richard Kostelanetz has described as "among the most consistently interesting magazines in America." The Perspectives books will comprise a...

This book addresses the need to rethink the concept and enactment of professionalism in music, and how such concepts underpin professional higher music education. Author: Heidi WesterlundISBN-10: 0367622041ISBN-13: 9780367622046Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2021Pages: 148Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

Historically, as bearer and mixer of ancient African and European musical traditions, the banjo is an important musical instrument. A Five-String Banjo Sourcebook will stand beside Banjo Attitudes (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2015), its companion book. Since its importation to the US by African Slaves and...

For more than twenty years, a dedicated lyricist has chased his dream of becoming a recognized artist, pouring his passion into every line and verse. However, as reality sets in like a sunset, he realizes that the bridge to success and greatness is long,...

Discover more books and audiobooks by Felix Grayson at FelixGrayson.comTaylor Swift's Eras Tour in a Nutshell: A Billion-Dollar Spectacle That Celebrated the Evolution of a Pop SuperstarIt wasn't just a concert-it was a cultural event. Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in a Nutshell takes you...

Published annually since 2008 "The Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest" contains every statistic imaginable. This new edition for 2025 has over 340 pages of historical records and analysis of voting, divided into four parts: Section 1: Qualification for Eurovision for...

Embark on an extraordinary journey through time with "The Soundtrack of Humanity," a captivating exploration of music's profound impact on human civilization. This enlightening book delves into the intricate relationship between music, the human mind, and the rich tapestry of our collective history.From the...