Music - Reference

Fleetwood Mac All the Songs dives deep into the unique and often fraught recording history of the mega-bestselling and hugely influential rock band. Packed with captivating photographs and fascinating behind-the-scenes details, it's a must-have for any music history fan. Fleetwood Mac is the one...

Are you ready to take your live sound mixing skills to the next level and achieve professional audio quality in live performances? Look no further than "The Ultimate Live Sound Mixing Guidebook." This comprehensive manual is a must-have for anyone looking to master the...

From preparing for the very first lesson to mastering fiendish fingering and performance anxiety, this inspirational guide helps teachers nurture and support students at every level and develop a love of the piano. With musical communication at its heart, The Piano Teacher's Survival Guide...

Author: Anthony ArblasterISBN-10: 0860916189ISBN-13: 9780860916185Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/1997Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.81h x 5.75w x 1.05d

Discover the Music that Changed Everything Embark on a complex and inspiring journey through the last 101 years as told through some of the most memorable hits and the artists behind them. Noah Lefevre, creator of Polyphonic, explores how our favorite music does more...

What is the secret code behind so many musical compositions? How do you substitute chords to create greater musical complexity? Why is music so good at playing with people's emotions? In this compact book, composer and pianist Jason Martineau presents the elements of music...

Ian Hunter's fifty-year-long career and extensive repertoire of percipient, creative songs have earned him a reputation as a true rock phenomenon. This second part of a two-volume authorised biography offers inside stories from Ian's solo career following his departure from Mott the Hoople, including...

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...

Creativities, Media, and Technology in Music Learning and Teaching is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Designed for music teachers, students, and scholars of music education, as well as educational administrators and policy makers, this...

This book provides new practical tools that bridge the gap between familiar, easy-to-use technology and musical practice to enhance musicianship and motivate students. Authors Jennifer Mishra and Barbara Fast provide ideas for use with students of all levels, from beginners to musicians performing advanced...

3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Read Music, How to Play Chords and How to Play Scales!Book 1)How to Read Music: In 1 Day - The Only 7 Exercises You Need to Learn Sheet Music Theory and Reading Musical Notation TodayDo you...

Rush. In their own words, 'The World's Biggest Cult Band', started from humble beginnings: three suburban teenagers. Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and John Rutsey formed a Led Zeppelin-influenced trio, eventually scratching a living playing the bars and clubs of their native Toronto. A hard...

'Just a city boy. Born and raised in South Detroit...' so begins the iconic 'Don't Stop Believin'' heard in countless karaoke bars and classic rock stations around the world. It is one of over 250 tracks discussed in Journey: On Track, which covers 50...

In Listening to Art Song, Margaret Olson offers an easy-to-read, fresh perspective on the remarkably diverse musical genre of art song, surveying for readers such topics as the development of song, the elements that make up song, and the art of listening to song....

Launched in 1987 and published bi-annually - the Rare Record Price Guide 2026 is now in its eighteenth edition.Author: Daryl EasleaISBN-10: 1916421970ISBN-13: 9781916421974Publisher: Diamond PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2025Pages: 1244Format: Paperback

Instrumental Music Education: Teaching with the Theoretical and Practical in Harmony, Fourth Edition, is intended for college instrumental music education majors studying to be band and orchestra directors at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels.Author: Evan Feldman, Ari ContziusISBN-10: 1032432039ISBN-13: 9781032432038Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

This series of books uses a fun and novel way to teach children the fundamentals of music theory. Games and stickers are used to introduce all of the essentials such as staves, clefs, note identification, time signatures, key signatures, note values, and rest values....

After 25 years of teaching, Dan Haerle has made available this wonderful pocket-sized resource, Jazz Improvisation: A Pocket Guide, detailing the materials and techniques needed to play jazz. Includes chapters on chords and chord symbols, voicings, blues, functions, ii/V/Is, guide tones, and more Over...

In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual...

Love songs are for everybody and so is this book. In We Found Love, Song by Song, award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski delivers a beautifully illustrated keepsake that tells the fascinating history and behind-the-scenes stories of the 100 most popular and cherished...

Music on Paper is a handy, accessible guide to reading music and the basics of music theory, for musicians in any style, playing any instrument, at any level. Tipbook Music on Paper teaches you how to read music, covering, pitch, staffs, clefs, time signatures,...

Noted lexicographer Thomsett here dissects more than 1,400 terms, a buttula to zither, with clarity and precision; 383 high quality original illustrations render concepts that make verbal explanation difficult. Fully cross referenced, this dictionary is an authoritative source for researchers, musicologists, professional musicians, teachers...

An oral history of legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix in the words of fans who saw him live, with concert memories from 1965 to 1970, including his first UK appearances with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, touring the USA with the Experience and with the...

In ten short years, Roxy Music made two of the most experimental albums in popular music history and one of the most smoothly romantic. Conceived by Bryan Ferry at the turn of the 1970s, the band released its first album, Roxy Music, to wide...

Three music-obsessed, suburban London teenagers set out to make their own kind of pop music: Kate Bush became an overnight star, while success came to David Sylvian (and Japan), and to Mark Hollis (and Talk Talk) after years of struggle. But when their unique...

This book discusses microtonal tunings in the Arabic maqam, prevalent in the Middle East and Central Asia, which employs microtonal intervals from Pythagorean tuning by perfect fifths. The ratio 3/2, as the third overtone in the overtone series, is used as a multiplier leading...

The J. Geils Band were the original Bad Boys from Boston, getting down to it and blowing your face out every night. With classic albums like Full House, Bloodshot, Love Stinks, and the massively successful Freeze-Frame, Geils have been nominated for the US Rock...

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of...

The best concert band music by Australian composers This book is a must-have reference for band directors who are interested in multi-cultural or international programming. Choose from one hundred six works by thirty-eight Australian composers. Each entry includes information about the composer and program...

""Socialist Songs: With Music"" is a book published in 1901 by Charles H. Kerr. The book contains a collection of songs with lyrics that express socialist ideals and values. The songs are accompanied by sheet music, allowing readers to sing and play the songs...

A tool for piano teachers and their students, written by a celebrated concert pianist and highly regarded university teacher, covering areas of piano technique which he feels are often not given sufficient attention. The book contains many musical examples to use in practicing these...

A comprehensive collection of composers, theory and definitions, this Handy-Guide provides a broad range of information, from basic principles of theory and biographies of composers to pronunciations of foreign terms and ranges of instruments and voices. The concise, easy-to-use, spiral-bound volume covers every major...

In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of their careers in theater, leaving aside...

Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre explores jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicians, composers, bands, groups, albums, and songs. Rather than focusing on jazz as as solely as an American...

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising it among many artforms which created new works from pre-existing parts. Its history is interwoven with society's transition from a predominantly oral to literate culture and evolutions in...

In 1971 Louise Behrend collected a significant number of articles written about the Suzuki approach. These articles were published as a ten-part series in Allegro, the monthly newspaper of the New York Musicians' Union. The purpose was to clear up many widely held misconceptions...

What Have We Got: The Turbulent Story of Oi! is celebrated author Simon Spence's study of the Oi! punk movement. The only book to consider Oi! punk as a distinct genre within punk rock, What Have We Got regards the form's complicated history and...

(Book). Music publishing is one of the most complex parts of the music business, and yet it can be the most lucrative area of income for musicians. Expert and industry veteran Randall Wixen presents a clear, concise approach on how music publishing works today....

Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin guides readers through eight of the most beloved orchestral pieces of the nineteenth century: - Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"- Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Maurice Ravel)- Hector Berlioz's...

Wendy Carlos is one of the most influential electronic musicians of the 20th century, whose ground breaking LP, Switched-On Bach, was pivotal in elevating the Moog synthesizer to iconic status. At the same time, her highly evocative score for Stanley Kubrick's film, A Clockwork...

Music has been significant in social, religious, and political ritual, and in education, art, and entertainment in all human cultures from antiquity to today. The Cultural History of Western Music presents the first study of music in all its forms - ritual, classical, popular...

The Opera And The Press, written by Charles Lewis Gruneisen in 1869, is a comprehensive study of the relationship between opera and the press during the 19th century. Gruneisen explores how the press influenced the development and reception of opera, and how opera in...

The Musical Scale is a book written by Horace Peters Biddle in 1867 that provides a comprehensive overview of the musical scale. The book covers the history and development of the musical scale, including its origins in ancient Greece and its evolution through the...

""Manx National Music: Selected From The Manuscript Collection Of The Deemster Gill, Dr. J. Clague, And W. H. Gill"" is a book written by W. H. Gill and published in 1898. The book is a collection of traditional Manx music that has been compiled...

A comprehensive coverage of what the Suzuki approach embodies, this book should be considered a requirement in the home of every piano teacher and student. Eight of the 14 chapters lay the foundation for understanding Suzuki's Mother Tongue Approach," its procedures, and its benefits....

We Live in The Golden Age of Beatles Music. The music of the world's greatest rock band did not end in 1970 with their last studio album, or in 1996 with "The Anthology" series. In reality, there is new material coming out on an...

The Order of Daily Service is a book that contains the musical notation and order of service used in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster in 1844. It was compiled by Edward F. Rimbault and includes hymns, psalms, and prayers arranged in a...

Ultravox made an indelible mark on the popular music of the 1980s despite never reaching number one at any point: famously, 'Vienna' stalled at number two, while their only other top five single was the zeitgeist-capturing 'Dancing With Tears in My Eyes', reaching number...

The Appreciation Of Music, V3: Short Studies Of Great Masterpieces is a book written by Daniel Gregory Mason and published in 1918. This book is the third volume of a series that aims to provide readers with an understanding and appreciation of music. The...

The Oxford History of English Music, Volume 2 takes the story of English Music from c.1715 to the present day. Apart from discussing the music of the principal composers, it focuses to a certain extent on the work of lesser musicians, and includes developments...