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: Cateforis, Theodore Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music." -Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out Pop New wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement ...
Author: Garcia, David Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arsenio RodrĂguez was one of the most important Cuban musicians of the twentieth century. In this first scholarly study, ethnomusicologist David F. GarcĂa examines RodrĂguez's life, including the c...
Author: Dayan, Peter Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An extraordinary fraternity of poets, painters and composers in Paris, between 1885 and 1945, built our modern notion of 'great art' on the principle that we must always think about the value of a wor...
Author: Allen, Paul Publisher: Focal Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Artist Management for the Music Business provides clear, in-depth information on what to do as an artist manager and how to do it, preparing the reader for the realities of directing the careers ...
Author: Allen, Paul Publisher: Elsevier S&T 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: 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: Hentoff, Nat Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian-"I'm a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer"-has lived through much of jazz's history and has known many of j...
Author: Talbot-Smith, Michael Publisher: Elsevier S&T 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: Elsevier S&T 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 ...
Author: Corey, Jason Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Owners of Audio Production and Critical Listening, please contact us for the Mac version: technical.support@elsevier.com. Making decisions about how and when to apply sound processing effects and reco...
Author: Stone, Chris Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is the first real inside look at the business of professional audio recording, which fuels a multibillion dollar global music industry. Industry pioneer Chris Stone, founder of the legendary...
Author: McGuire, Sam / Pritts, Roy Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bringing sampling to a new generation of audio engineers and composers Audio Sampling explains how to record and create sampled instruments in a software setting. There are many things that go into cr...
Author: Hechtman, John Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Whether you're a pro or an amateur, a musician or into multimedia, you can't afford to guess about audio wiring. The Audio Wiring Guide is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide that explains exactly what...
Author: Kun, Josh Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over Ameri...
Author: Williams, Peter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, helps them probe its...
Author: Berger, Karol Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eight...
Author: BUTT, JOHN Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Providing a detailed analysis of Bach's Passions, this book represents an important contribution to the debate about the culture of 'classical music', its origins, priorities and survival. The angles ...
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...
Author: Brocken, Michael Publisher: Chrome Dreams Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covering the well-known and public areas of Burt Bacharach's life, as well as those aspects that have previously been hidden from the media, this book examines a celebrated career spanning 50 years. C...
Author: Taylor, John / Taylor, Angela Publisher: Personhood Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This question-and-answer, no-holds-barred discussion of the intricacies of making a living as a professional musician gives frank advice regarding professional and personal aspects for a band's succes...
Author: Dust, Thomas J. / Dust, Laura Jane Publisher: Universal Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Band Aids is an organizational guide for early career band directors and for more experienced directors seeking new organizational and management strategies and approaches for their school and communi...
Author: Arnold, Bruce E. Publisher: Muse Eek Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Basic Chord Voicings for Guitar is an excellent learning tool for both the beginner who has no knowledge of chords or music theory, and the intermediate/advanced student looking for the typical chord ...
Author: Arnold, Bruce E. Publisher: Muse Eek Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book teaches a beginning musician how to reading and understanding rhythm. Each aspect of rhythm is thoroughly explained and audio examples are available to help the student hear how each example...
Author: Thompson, Dave Publisher: ECW Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Permeating the shadows and the darkness of the bayou-a world all its own that stretches from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama-this study of marsh music leaves New Orleans to discover secret legends ...
Author: Jaquette, Jaquette Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Are you a romantic optimist with a cheery disposition? You might be a "Paul."Brooding, introverted, and artistic? You are probably a "John."If you tend to take life as it comes with a happy go-lucky a...
Author: Jaquette, Jaquette Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Are you a romantic optimist with a cheery disposition? You might be a "Paul." Brooding, introverted, and artistic? You are probably a "John." If you tend to take life as it comes with a happy go-lucky...
Author: Rumph, Stephen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this provocative analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his l...
Author: Skowroneck, Tilman Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The widely held belief that Beethoven was a rough pianist, impatient with his instruments, is not altogether accurate: it is influenced by anecdotes dating from when deafness had begun to impair his p...
Author: Jones, Timothy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Even in Beethoven's day the 'Moonlight' Sonata was a popular favourite. This book provides an accessible introduction to the Sonatas Opp. 27 and 31 (including The 'Moonlight' and 'The Tempest'), aimed...
Author: van Beethoven, Ludvig Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent classical music figures of the Western world. This German musical genius created numerous works that are firmly entre...
Author: Levy, David Benjamin Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a masterpiece that has influenced virtually every Western composer since its premiere, has become associated with the marking of momentous public occasions. In 1989, Chines...
Author: Fisher, Burton D. Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Beethoven's FIDELIO, featuring Brief Story Synopsis, Principal Characters in the opera, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, PLUS an insightful and in depth Commenta...
Description: This research guide is an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources and catalogue of BartĂłk'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 BartĂłk's compositions. Since the publication of the second edition, a wealth of information ha...
Author: Fisher, Burton D. Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Bellini's NORMA, featuring Brief Story Synopsis, Principal Characters, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful Commentary and Analysis.
Author: Berlioz, Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise is a classic textbook which has been used as a guide to orchestration and as a source book for the understanding both of Berlioz's music and of orchestral practice in ...
Author: Mojapelo, Max Publisher: African Minds Format: Adobe PDF
Description: South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a highly influential essay, Rose Rosengard Subotnik critiques "structural listening" as an attempt to situate musical meaning solely within the unfolding of the musical structure itself. The author...
Author: Gardner, Penny Publisher: S D Gardner INC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Learn 12 more notes on your alto or sopranino recorder. Several pages of music reinforce each new note presented in this thorough method book with over 100 songs, including more than 70 duets, trios, ...
Author: Gardner, Penny Publisher: S D Gardner INC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Learn 12 more notes on your soprano or tenor recorder. Several pages of music reinforce each new note presented in this thorough method book with over 100 songs, including more than 70 duets, trios, o...