Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why study music? How much practical use is it in the modern world? This introduction proves how studying music is of great value both in its own terms and also in the post-university careers marketpla...
Description: An Introduction to Music Technology is a college textbook for the introductory course in Music Technology. The text begins by discussing the software, hardware, and networking features of a computer w...
Author: Clark, Suzannah Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of S...
Author: Hagel, Stefan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic notati...
Author: Snelson, John Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this sustained examination of Lloyd Webber's creative career, music scholar Snelson explores the vast range of influences that have informed the acclaimed composer's work, from film, rock, and pop ...
Author: Aldi, Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Asylum Synopsis provides access to lyrics and music. Delve into the new age of the new wave written at the desk of Aldi, the lyricist. The structure: of nine lives traveling on rock and roll dues...4...
Author: Yearsley, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The organist seated at the king of instruments with thousands of pipes rising all around him, his hands busy at the manuals and his feet patrolling the pedalboard, is a symbol of musical self-sufficie...
Description: This research guide is an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources and catalogue of Bartók's compositions. Since the publication of the second edition, a wealth of information ha...
Author: Antokoletz, Elliott / Susanni, Paolo Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This research guide is an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources and catalogue of Bartók's compositions. Since the publication of the second edition, a wealth of information ha...
Author: Crawley,Michael Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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, con...
Author: Katz, Mark Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "In Capturing Sound, Mark Katz focuses on the overwhelming technological transformation that changed music from a medium of elite and canonical performances to a mass-consumed fashion-object experienc...
Author: Katz, Mark Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fully revised and updated, this new edition of Mark Katz's award-winning text adds coverage of mashups and Auto-Tune, explores recent developments in file-sharing, and includes an expanded conclusion ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written by ten leading scholars, this volume assembles studies of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century music under the broad rubric of communication. That such an impulse motivates musical composi...
Author: Tibbetts, John C. Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Amadeus." "Yankee Doodle Dandy." "Swanee River." "Rhapsody in Blue." Even before movies had sound, filmmakers dramatized the lives of composers. Movie biographies-- or biopics-- have depicted compose...
Author: Perlis, Vivian Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first decades of the twentieth century were a fertile and fascinating period in American musical history. This book and the two CDs that accompany it present an exceptional collection of interview...
Author: Steventon, John Publisher: For Dummies Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How to start and build a successful career as a DJ-from at-home mixing to making demos to playing to a live crowdWhether it's a digital or vinyl track of "Proud Mary," a DJ sets the mood, amps up the ...
Author: Post, Jennifer Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of ethnomusicology. The book is divided into two parts. Part One ...
Author: Post, Jennifer Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of ethnomusicology. The book is divided into two parts. Part One ...
Author: Piekut, Benjamin Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by "experimental" in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time-New York City, 1964-Piekut examines fi...
Author: Fetis, François, Joseph Publisher: MUSIC FOR STRINGS Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This fascinating treatise was first published in 1856 (Antoine Stradivari, luthier celebre). It includes detailed chapters on the history and development of the violin family, old master Italian viol...
Author: Rodgers,Stephen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Few aspects of BerliozǃÙs style are more idiosyncratic than his handling of musical form. This book, the first devoted solely to the topic, explores how his formal strategies are related to the po...
Author: Pollack, Howard Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the enduring value of his music. Gershwin created ...
Author: Browne, David Publisher: DaCapo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rising from the drug-infested streets of '80s New York City, the incomparable Sonic Youth recorded some of the most important albums in alternative music history and influenced an entire generation of...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The advances in Haydn scholarship would have been unthinkable to earlier generations, who honoured the composer more in word than in deed. Haydn Studies deals with many aspects of a composer who is pe...
Author: Cone, Edward T. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Edward T. Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. Hearing and Knowin...
Author: Pisani, Michael V Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre colonial past through the American West and up to the present. The discussion covers a wide range of top...
Author: Dyer, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs themselves,...
Author: Dyer, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs themselves,...
Author: Harper, Adam Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In the last few decades, new technologies have brought composers and listeners to the brink of an era of limitless musical possibility. They stand before a vast ocean of creative potential, in which a...
Description: Invitation to Community Music Therapy presents the main perspectives and principles of community music therapy as it is practiced around the world. A relatively recent development within the broader f...
Author: Stige, Brynjulf / Edvard Aarø, Leif Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Invitation to Community Music Therapy presents the main perspectives and principles of community music therapy as it is practiced around the world. A relatively recent development within the broader f...
Author: Myers, Paul Publisher: Greystone Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Long John Baldry is considered the father of the ‘60s British blues movement. Drawing on intimate anecdotes from Baldry's legendary friends, lovers, and peers, author Paul Myers uncovers the man ...
Author: Williams,Peter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Peter Wiliams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach's life by deconstructing his original Obituary in the light of new information,...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is the first major publication devoted to the music of Jancek, now widely regarded as one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays, all by leading scholars,...
Author: Poiger, Uta G. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and st...
Author: Banfield, Stephen Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A founding father of the modern American musical, Jerome Kern (1885-1945) was the composer of legions of popular songs, including such standards as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Ol' Man River." His 1...
Author: Conway, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: David Conway analyses why and how Jews, virtually absent from Western art music until the end of the eighteenth century, came to be represented in all branches of the profession within fifty years as ...
