Music-General Books

Anyone who has a child in their life, whether as a parent, family member, teacher, or someone else involved in the child's care, should read this book. The information contained will change how you view music. It will not only have a positive, direct...

Grace Notes is a collection of poems written by esteemed British poets Andy Brown and Marc Woodward. The poetry echoes instruments and moves from the intimacy of a pub singalong or an epiphany in a guitar shop, to virtuosic frenzy or the majesty of...

This engaging undergraduate text uses the performance, recording, and enjoyment of music to present basic principles of physics. The narrative lays out specific results from physics, as well as some of the methodology, thought processes, and 'interconnectedness' of physics concepts, results, and ideas. Short...

Music Theory Handbook is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to mastering music theory for different instruments, providing a ready reference to terminology, sight reading, ear training, directives, and sound. Charlie Leadon, a classical piano child prodigy, wrote the handbook at age ten to help others...

Tell Everyone: A People's History of the Faces is the story of one of the world's most loved, most celebrated and most mourned rock and roll bands as seen through the eyes of over 500 fans. Forged from the shards of the Small Faces...

Perfect for music-loving fans of Nicholas Sparks' Dreamland and Lucy Score's Things We Never Got Over, author Elena Goudelias delivers a small-town contemporary romance that is vibrant, addictive, and heartwarming. Vividly set and full of lovable characters, After the Music is the perfect feel-good...

Having shot Glastonbury Festival since the mid-80's, photographer Stuart Roy Clarke gives us his personal view of the famed UK performing arts event. Panoramic, yet intimate, his images present the full Glastonbury experience: the music and art, the immense landscape and its vibrant, pulsing...

A Musical Childhood in Pictures is a beautifully curated book of black & white photographs following Grammy award-winning Mark O'Connor's childhood music career during the 1970s bluegrass and old-time music scene. It is a companion to O'Connor's aching memoir Crossing Bridges: My Journey from...

In Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China, Joseph S. C. Lam offers a holistic and interdisciplinary view on kunqu, a 600-year-old genre of Chinese opera that is being fashionably performed inside and outside of China. He explains how and why the genre charms...

Round In Circles: The Story of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel is intended not only for those who share the author's love of the 'Golden Age' Broadway musicals, but also for students of the genre who want to learn about the trials and tribulations encountered...

DJ like a pro--without skipping a beat The bestselling guide to spinning and scratching is back If you've ever spent hours in your bedroom with two turntables and an earful of tracks that sound off-beat or out of key, DJing For Dummies is the...

I first admitted my adoration for BTS in my blog dated August 2019, Honesty is the Best Policy - I love BTS. That's when I fell down the rabbit hole, never to be retrieved again. And later, when a good friend suggested that I...

The celebration of popular music can be an important mode of cultural expression and a source of pride for urban communities. This Element analyses the capacity for popular music heritage to enact cultural justice in the deindustrialising cities of Wollongong, Australia; Detroit, USA; and...

"You can't win unless you're judged." So somebody tells Mary Sorabi, and Mary is no stranger to being judged. She's a young woman, half-Indian, half-Chinese, who's a classical pianist, and plays the kind of music, music from the twentieth century, that most people hate....

Music therapists from around the world working in conventional and unconventional settings have offered their contributions to this exciting new book, presenting spirited discussion and practical examples of the ways music therapy can reflect and encourage social change. From working with traumatized refugees in...

It started in 1965 with albums that quickly developed 'classic' status and, despite the passing of subsequent decades, have lost none of their enduring charm. Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and Rubber Soul by the Beatles did much to ensure that albums would become...

This book is the product of a long journey by a company of academics and practitioners sharing a common interest, entitled the Spirituality and Music Education Group (SAME). It is a product of the various meetings of this group and represents a fascinating array...

Sad Little Man is a stand-up tragedy set performed by the mind of a young man in shock. Described as "a stunning, bittersweet story" and "theatrically beautiful" by Noises Off Magazine, a combination of performance poetry, physical theatre and projection tell the story of...

Songs of Innocence AND Songs of Experience by William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five...

Makes a great bass player gift idea for anyone studying bass guitar. Has guitar tablature inside and makes a great bassist gift.Author: FieldsISBN-10: 1720371741ISBN-13: 9781720371748Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2018Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.43d

AS PEOPLE OF GOD, WE NEED TO GIVE GOD QUALITY WORSHIP; MIMICKING THE KIND OF WORSHIP THAT TOOK PLACE IN HEAVEN. WHEN WE WORSHIP GOD THERE ARE TOP SECRETS OF REACTIONS THAT TAKE PLACE IN RESPONSE TO OUR WORSHIP.WHEN WE WORSHIP GOD HE SHOWS...

Author: Lizzy Marie HelfrichISBN-10: 1719260176ISBN-13: 9781719260176Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2018Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.21d

Richard Stewart is one of those large numbers of fanatical early '60s rock-and-roll guitarists, who never received national attention and all its glory but, instead, came darn close regardless of the frequent and, on occasion, precarious roadblocks that he encountered, especially during the innocent...

A fresh, balanced approach that transcends the exclusively classical music focus of most other music appreciation texts. Gateway to Music: An Introduction to American Vernacular, Western Art, and World Musical Traditions broadens standard notions of music appreciation with an introduction to local and global...

Musical semiotics is a new discipline and paradigm of both semiotics and musicology. In its tradition, the current volume constitutes a radically new solution to the theoretical problem of how musical meanings emerge and how they are transmitted by musical signs even in most...

Music, like romance, is the language of the soul. Music allows us to express ourselves, and in so doing makes us feel alive. Jazz music, the only art form created by Americans, reminds us that the genius of America is improvisation; a good beat,...

In Interstitial Soundings, Cynthia R. Nielsen brings music and philosophy into a fruitful and mutually illuminating dialogue. Topics discussed include the following: music's dynamic ontology, performers and improvisers as co-composers, the communal character of music, jazz as hybrid and socially constructed, the sociopolitical import...

To a people, always prompt in its recognition of genius, and ready to sympathize in the joys and woes of a truly great artist, this work will be one of exceeding interest. It is a short, glowing, and generous sketch, from the hand of...

What folks say about Donn Trenner... "Donn, my musical director for twenty-one years, always made me feel so safe and secure as a performer. I would stand on stage, he would lift his baton, the music would begin, and I was home. Loving thanks,...

From the rock and roll era, vibrant sounds come-alive in the following pages through memories of the Flippers band members and passionate fans.Founding band members would be graduates of an elite college prep high school located in Hays, Kansas; St. JosephAuthor: Thomas Gardner BunkerISBN-10:...

These piano technical exercises are based on the author's years of piano practice experiments and provide the optimum level of practice for refining the abilities of and coordination between fingers. Although some exercises are similar to other piano technical training studies, such as the...

In 2016 the music world lost more than its share of iconic figures - David Bowie, Glen Frey, Prince and then in the final months of the year we lost the 'Master'. Leonard Cohen passed away on the 7th November 2016 and this book...

Experimental music notation in a series of nine opus drawings/paintings - prose/poetry. All music related ideas involving philosophy, physics and composition.Author: Stan HirschISBN-10: 1536808652ISBN-13: 9781536808650Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2016Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.06d

Priced well below the cost of a single private lesson, THINK FEEL SING offers the seeds of a long and detailed course of study.There are so many books about singing but so few about the physical voice, its look, its feel. If you want...

The extremely important core of music or even of our life is; expansion for freedom. Freedom to play music without chain or any restriction. In order to be free we need to open our mind and body. However it is easy to say but,...

Did you know that T.S. Eliot's book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" is the text on which Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" (1981) is based? Throughout his work, twentieth-century poet, dramatist, and critic T.S. Eliot examined his historical place and relevance in the...

Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book...

Confessions of an Opera Singer is a classic opera singer autobiography by Kathleen Howard. So many fantastic tales have come to us of students' life abroad, of their temptations, trials, finances, successes and failures, that I have attempted to give here the true story...

Christmas Carols arranged for The Great Highland Bagpipe. Also see: Volume 1 https: //www.createspace.com/4035367 Volume 2 https: //www.createspace.com/5121713 1 A Child Was Born In Bethlehem 2-3 A Fairy Tale Of New York 4 All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth 5...

Transmedia Directors focuses on artist-practitioners who work across media, platforms and disciplines, including film, television, music video, commercials and the internet. Working in the age of media convergence, today's em/impresarios project a distinctive style that points toward a new contemporary aesthetics. The media they...

The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sounding and listening, and discusses how sound studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining...

Music can answer questions that often confound more discursive modes of thought. Music takes concepts that are all too familiar, reframes these concepts, and returns them to us with incisive clarity and renewed vision. Unity is one of these ""all too familiar concepts,"" thrown...

This book is about zaaj qhuab ke, zaaj nkauj tu sav puas lev, nkauj nci neeg, nkauj rhais, nkauj su, nkauj mo, nkauj hlawv ntawv, thab nkauj tua nyuj nraag tshaav.Author: Long VangISBN-10: 1493530704ISBN-13: 9781493530700Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2013Pages: 70Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize:...

JOHN LENNON'S LAST MOMENTS The title piece in this 10-story book tackles the question of whether former Beatle John Lennon died a swift death in seconds when he was shot in 1980, or an appallingly slow death over several excruciating minutes. Urban legend has...

In teaching one the art of singing, the constant emphasis on good breath, phrasing and enunciation, tone and poise, text and character becomes, although probably not intended, a rigid mental processing for both student and mentor. Studies autonomously without filtering through the emotional self,...

Author: Colin BratkovichISBN-10: 1483645177ISBN-13: 9781483645179Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/2014Pages: 938Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 2.09d

This Music Theory for Young Musicians in the Style of Russian School of Piano Playing multi-volume collection of books is targeted to pre-college students of all levels, both children and adults, and is drawn largely from the materials the author has developed for her...

This is the story of a 19th century community band. It is highly detailed, because the rivalries, confrontations, agreements and abandonments played across the tiny community's weekly newspaper. It is a remarkably detailed look into the life and times of old-time, small-time bandsmen.Author: Dave...

In a perfect world, all school extracurricular activities would be fully funded. But with all indications being that future education funding will be significantly reduced, it's clear we no longer live in a perfect world. As a result, school and community leaders, as well...

This new book will get you acquainted with all the notable sound systems in Jamaica and the rest of the world. The book will be described as controversial only because it tells the truth and nothing but the truth, so help whoever reads it....