Author: Stein Crease, Stephanie Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The life (1912-1988) and career of Gil Evans paralleled and often foreshadowed the quickly changing world of jazz through the 20th century. Gil Evans: Out of the Cool is the comprehensive biography of...
Author: Rommen, Timothy Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Mek Some Noise", Timothy Rommen's ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully n...
Author: Clover, Joshua Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as "the end of histo...
Author: Lilore, Joseph R. Publisher: Lionhead Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Joe Lilore, educator and author of 27 music books for Warner Bros. Music and United Artists - including books on The Rolling Stones, R*U*S*H, and Led Zeppelin - has taken his years of experience as an...
Author: Fallows-Hammond, Patricia Publisher: Ross Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This is the first reference book to include the historical background on all major piano composers, their individual styles, analysis of their compositions, and listings of their major keyboard works....
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual shockwaves generated by Elvis Presley, to the female superstars redefining contemporary country music, ...
Author: Arnold, Bruce E. Publisher: Muse Eek Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bruce Arnold is a guitarist, composer, educator, and author. As a musician, he has achieved a sound that sets him apart by applying jazz improvisational techniques to 20th century-12-tone compositiona...
Author: Arnold, Bruce E. Publisher: Muse Eek Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bruce Arnold is a guitarist, composer, educator, and author. As a musician, he has achieved a sound that sets him apart by applying jazz improvisational techniques to 20th century-12-tone compositiona...
Author: Fisher, Burton D. Publisher: Opera Classics Library Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive and lively history of opera that traces each milestone in opera history: from Monteverdi to Gluck to Mozart to Weber - to contemporary composers such as Glass and Heggie. The focus of ...
Author: Fisher, Burton, D. Publisher: Opera Classics Library Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive history of opera that traces each milestone in opera history from the 16th century Camerata through the next 400 years, and featurrd in depth analysis of all important genres: the Baro...
Author: Fisher, Burton, D. Publisher: Opera Classics Library Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Giuseppe Verdi A MASKED BALL, featuring Brief Story Synopsis, Principal Characters in the opera, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, a newly translated LIBRETTO wit...
Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Verdi's A MASKED BALL featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the opera and...
Author: Collins, Mike Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: If you are an audio professional needing a complete reference to the complex world of plug-ins and virtual instruments, look no further. Mike Collins, author of Pro Tools for Music Production, has met...
Author: Schnittke, Alfred Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with mus...
Author: Ballou,Glen Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a quick guide and complete reference to the fundamentals of test and measurement for all aspects of sound engineering. Including electrical and acoustic testing, measurement systems, ...
Author: Newman, Del Publisher: Apex Publishing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The book is an expose of more than fifty rock stars, written by someone who has thirty-five years experience working as an arranger and producer with them in the recording studios. It is an observatio...
Author: Newman, Del Publisher: Apex Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book is an expose of more than fifty rock stars, written by someone who has thirty-five years experience working as an arranger and producer with them in the recording studios. It is an observatio...
Author: Chua, Daniel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a histo...
Author: Ashby, Arved Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: ""Arved Ashby writes with a keen sense of the historical processes, ironies, and reversals that seem to characterize the ways that musicologists think about, and contemporary listeners experience, wor...
Author: Ashby, Arved Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""Arved Ashby writes with a keen sense of the historical processes, ironies, and reversals that seem to characterize the ways that musicologists think about, and contemporary listeners experience, wor...
Author: Wilkins, Trev Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the paperwork to the practical aspects, Access All Areas gives you an excellent insight into the live music and touring industry. Drawing on a vast range of real-world experiences Wilkins provide...
Author: Arnold, Bruce E. Publisher: Muse Eek Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The techniques found within this e-book are an excellent resource for creating and understanding how to play bass and chords simultaneously in a jazz or blues style. Special attention is paid to under...
Author: Pejrolo, Andrea / DeRosa, Richard Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Get complete guidance on both traditional orchestration and modern production techniques with this unique book. With effective explanations and clear illustrations, you will learn how to integrate the...
Author: Sandberg, Larry Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book will help all guitar players make better friends with their present guitar or decide on features to look for in a new one. They will learn about the differences in guitar woods (and how they...
Author: Howard, David / Angus, Jamie Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The acoustics of a space can have a real impact on the sounds you create and capture. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics gives you an essential grounding and understanding to how real music sounds behave i...
Author: Howard, David / Angus, Jamie Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Acoustics and Psychoacoustics is ideal for students of music technology, sound recording, traditional music and acoustics, as well as engineers studying audio, multimedia and communications systems. G...
Author: Howard, David / Angus, Jamie Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of acoustics, including the principles of human perception of sound, sometimes called psychoacoustics. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics is ...
Author: Verdi, Giuseppe Publisher: Opera Classics Library Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Everything about Verdi's AIDA: Commentary and Analysis, Principal Characters, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight examples, a COMPLETE LIBRETTO that is newly translated and incl...
Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Libretto Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Complete LIBRETTO of Verdi's AIDA. A NEW TRANSLATION by Opera Journeys Publishing that features Music Highlight Examples placed appropriately within the dramatic flow of
Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Verdi's AIDA featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the opera and its comp...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, st...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Alban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenbe...
Author: Streissguth, Michael Publisher: DaCapo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1973, Rosanne Cash's father gave her a list of 100 songs, many from the Southern tradition, that he felt a young musician had to know. Always Been There tells the inside story of the album that, mo...
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...
Author: Jenkins, Mark Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, the technical explanation of the nature of analog sound creation is followed by the story of its birth and its subsequent development by various designers, manufacturers and performers. ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do we 'know' music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such sha...
Author: Smith, Ralph Lee Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Appalachian dulcimer is one of America's major contributions to world music and folk art. Homemade and handmade, played by people with no formal knowledge of music, this beautiful instrument enter...
Author: Garcia, David Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arsenio RodrÃguez was one of the most important Cuban musicians of the twentieth century. In this first scholarly study, ethnomusicologist David F. GarcÃa examines RodrÃguez's life, including the c...
Author: Allen, Paul Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Allen prepares you for the realities of successfully directing the careers of talented performers in the high-risk, high-reward music business. You will learn to prepare yourself for a career in arti...
Author: Hentoff, Nat Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: “Nat Hentoff may very well be the foremost jazz historian in the world because he was there to witness firsthand the music's evolution from big band and swing to fusion and bossa nova; and to div...
Author: Talbot-Smith, Michael Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Audio Engineer's Reference Book is an authoritative volume on all aspects of audio engineering and technology including basic mathematics and formulae, acoustics and psychoacoustics, microphones, ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: All the design and development inspiration and direction an audio engineer needs in one blockbuster book! Douglas Self has selected the very best sound engineering design material from the Focal and N...
Author: Brixen, Eddy Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this comprehensive guide Eddy Bøgh Brixen will take you through the complex and confusing concept of audio metering, giving you the knowledge and skills you need to utilize optional signal levels ...
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