Author: Gardner, Penny Publisher: S D Gardner INC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of 74 songs is a great resource for the beginning recorder ensemble. These songs use the 9 easiest notes as learned in The Nine-Note Recorder Method. Music selections include early mus...
Author: Diehl, Keila Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's...
Author: Glen, Ballou Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the definitive reference for microphones and loudspeakers, your one-stop reference covering in great detail all you could want and need to know about electroacoustics devises (microphones and ...
Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's ELEKTRA featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the opera...
Author: Pitman, Walter Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a career that spanned five decades, Elmer Iseler, who became the country's most decorated musician, was pivotal to the development of choral music in Canada.
Author: Heller, Wendy Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Opera developed during a time when the position of women-their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality-was constantly debated. Many of these ...
Author: Ives, Charles Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Charles Ives (1874-1954) was probably one of the most psycho - intellectually brilliant, imaginative and flexible Americans to ever "walk the land of free-dom." A graduate of Yale, he became a multi-m...
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: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the ope...
Description: Keith's on guitar, Charlie's on drums, and Ronnie's on rhythm. But who's on drugs? Everybody.Welcome to the red-eyed world of rock and roll, where every riff comes with a spliff--a coked-up compendiu...
Author: Lichterman, Douglas Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the top of the pop charts to TV, film, and radio scores (not to mention even your grandpappy's rocking chair), harmonica music is all around us. The Everything Harmonica Book makes learning how t...
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: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: EXPLORING WAGNER'S RING OF THE NIBELUNG, featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the entire cycle an...
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: Demaree, Robert W. Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Face to Face with Orchestra and Chorus is a crucial guide for choral conductors who are presented with the daunting task of conducting a full-size orchestra. This book provides a survival kit for both...
Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Verdi's FALSTAFF featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the opera and its ...
Author: Arnold, Bruce E. Publisher: Muse Eek Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This edition comes with no CD. You must purchase either the associated CD separately or digitally download the CD from an on-line vendor. Otherwise this book is exactly the same as the book/CD edition...
Author: Peart, Neil Publisher: ECW Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Following in the tradition of Ghost Rider and Traveling Music, Rush drummer Neil Peart relates nearly four years of band tours, road trips, and personal discoveries in this introspective travelogue. F...
Author: Yaffe, David Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, l...
Author: Fisher, Burton D Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Gounod's FAUST featuring STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, STORY NARRATIVE with MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and insightful COMMENTARY and ANALYSIS about the opera and its co...
Author: Djedje, Jacqueline Cogdell Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fiddling has had a lengthy history in Africa which has long been ignored. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje corrects this oversight with an expansive study on fiddling in the Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba cultur...
Author: Beisswenger, Drew Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace. Music, community, and tradition influence all aspects of...
Author: Bohlman, Philip Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nationalism in Europe resonates through music-from folk songs to marches, from operas to anthems-giving voice in this reference resource to the makers of modern history. As the modern European nation-...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The essays in this collection range from the impact of technology on the British folksong revival to regional characteristics of early rock and roll in New Orleans. Attention is given to the blues, S...
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: Dryden, Konrad Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Franco Alfano: Transcending Turandot is the first fully documented biography in any language of Italy's last verismo composer, Franco Alfano (1875-1954), the composer chosen to complete Giacomo Puccin...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest...
Author: Fernandez, Raul A. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, musically and historically, to other Caribbean music, to salsa, and to Latin Jazz. Establishing a scholarly foundat...
Description: From Demo to Delivery: The Process of Production discusses each stage of the typical music production process from start to finish. Beginning with the creation and development of the composition and s...
Author: Garcia, Vee Williams Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Robert M. Garcia, a professional drummer from the age of 17, attended Florida A&M University (FAMU), in Tallahassee, and later studied at the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Massachusetts. During...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Digital interactive audio is the future of audio in media - most notably video games, but also web pages, theme parks, museums, art installations and theatrical events. Despite its importance to conte...
Author: Rommen, Timothy Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped ...
Author: Phillips, Edward R. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This annotated bibliography is a compact source of information concerning both the nature of primary sources related to Gabriel Faure and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal...
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: Frisch, Walter Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its o...
Description: Giant Steps examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell and Thel...
Author: Fisher, Burton D. Publisher: Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive guide to Giordano's ANDREA CHENIER, featuring Brief Story Synopsis, Principal Characters in the opera, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, PLUS an insightful and in depth Co...
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: Carson, David A. Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: . . . a great blow-by-blow account of an exciting and still-legendary scene. ---Marshall Crenshaw From the early days of John Lee Hooker to the heyday of Motown and beyond, Detroit has enjoyed a l...
Author: Conners, Peter Publisher: DaCapo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to the mid-'90s, "Growing Up Dead" is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. Pe...
Author: Henderson, Justin Publisher: Roaring Forties Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Telling the fascinating story of Grunge rock's beginnings in basements, bars, and garages across the Seattle area to its explosion as an internationally popular style of music, this guide discusses ho...
Author: Arnold, Bruce E. Publisher: Muse Eek Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Changing strings on a guitar can be a dramatic experience for the beginner. For many not only is their guitar a fairly new acquisition it is also their pride and joy. They diligently protect their g...
