Music Books
Books on Demand Taylor y tú: El regalo perfecto para fans de
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Alpha Edition Mein musikalisches Leben
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Alpha Edition Mein Leben Band 1
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Alpha Edition Mein Leben Band 2
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Alpha Edition De la cruauté religieuse Edition1
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Books on Demand The Top 100 Albums of the 1960s: My Beautiful
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£35.62
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp You Can Make It In Music
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Independently Published Sing
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Independently Published La mujer en la música cubana Volumen 4
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Independently Published Guia de Estudios Musicales Piano
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp In The Red
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Independently Published Get Signed In Sync
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Independently Published Ukulele Para Todos 50 Melodias Acordes 5
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Independently Published Dietro le Quinte di Vasco
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Independently Published The Facebook Ads Rockstar Guide for Musicians
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Independently Published La Guía del Cantante
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Turning Your Garage Band into a Professional
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Solfeo simple y progresivo
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Independently Published Ultimate Guide To Forming Your Own Music LLC
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Independently Published Songwriting Made Easy: A Beginner's Guide to
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Independently Published The Ultimate Songwriting Starter Kit: Everything
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Independently Published The Musicians Guide To Music Copyrights
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Independently Published Writing Songs from Scratch: A Beginner's Guide
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Independently Published The Art of Songwriting: Tips and Tricks for
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Independently Published The Indie Post William Demps April 1, 2023 Issue
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Independently Published From Words to Music: How to Write Great Songs
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Independently Published Songwriting Simplified: A Practical Guide for
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Independently Published The Beginner's Guide to Songwriting Success
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Independently Published Metal Evolution: A History of Heavy Metal
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Independently Published The Secrets to Writing Amazing Lyrics: A
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Independently Published The Beginner's Guide to Writing Lyrics That Tell
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PM Press Missing Music
Book SynopsisMissing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End details Grammy-winning music producer and author Ian Brennan’s ongoing quest to provide musical platforms for underrepresented nations and populations around the world.In a compact and quick-read format, Missing Music collects the latest narratives from Brennan’s field-recording treks. This edition features a greater emphasis on storytelling and an even greater abundance of photos from his wife, Italian-Rwandan photographer/filmmaker Marilena Umuhoza Delli.Together, they meet the elderly shamans of the world’s most musical language, Taa, a tongue that sadly is dying, with fewer than 2,500 speakers left. The duo traveled the most remote roads of Botswana to find the formally nomadic people now relegated to small desert towns.In Azerbaijan, Brennan and Delli ascended to the mountainous Iranian border t
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Pm Press Ancestor Sounds
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Pm Press Starvation Army
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc This Will End in Tears The Miserabilist Guide to
Book SynopsisOffers a compendium of the greatest sad songs and artists of the modern era and a collection of essays that attempts to explain what exactly draws us to sad music, and how sad music actually makes us happy.Trade Review"A comprehensive, sharply written journey through the music of sadness, of every stripe and from every genre...Whether read straight through or dipped into at random, in times of despair or not, this is a most helpful musical sourcebook through every kind of blue." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Highly entertaining." -- Publishers Weekly "For the meticulously melancholy music fan in all of us, a celebration of songs with a dark side. This Will End in Tears gathers the downest, doomiest sounds in rock, soul, jazz, the blues, and any music that can put a serious chill in your evening." -- Rob Sheffield, author of Love Is A Mix Tape and Talking To Girls About Duran Duran "Sad sacks of the world: Rejoice! Adam Brent Houghtaling has ingeniously compiled the ultimate guide to this cruel world's maestros of miserabilism. The feel bad book of the year!" -- Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum, co-authors of I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution "Breaking up is hard to do, but not when you've got a book like this to help you make the saddest playlist of all time. Now, someone pass me a Kleenex...and that Elliott Smith album." -- Leslie Simon, co-author of Everybody Hurts and author of Wish You Were Here "Sad songs say so much, but Adam Brent Houghtaling has a lot to add to the conversation. This Will End in Tears is a book well worth wallowing in." -- Mark Yarm, author of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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Penguin Random House Australia Sea of Glory
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Penguin Putnam Inc How Music Got Free
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Oxford University Press Inc City of Song Music and the Making of Modern
Book SynopsisIn City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem, author Michael A. Figueroa presents an extensive history of Zionist musical discourses around Jerusalem in the long 20th century (1880-2010s), reorienting our understanding of the city's place in the Israeli-Palestine crisis.Trade ReviewThe book charts how musical lyrics not only rally, memorialize, entertain, and shape political consciousness but also echo biblical prophecy of a longed-for messianic Jerusalem...this is solid a musical history of modern Jerusalem via the humanities. * D. B. Levy, CHOICE *Roaming the city's sonic spaces with histories managed and unmanaged by Zionist accounts, City of Song synthesizes Jerusalem the metaphorical and the material while traversing through its diasporic outposts, poetic longings, and contemporary anxieties. Read this book and you too will consider referring to Jerusalem in the plural. Jerusalems! * Assaf Shelleg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; author of Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (OUP 2014) and Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project (OUP 2020) *City of Song is an important addition to the growing bookshelf on Israel/Palestine and its musics. Through his engaging dialogue with multiple disciplines, Figueroa exposes Jerusalem and its representation in Hebrew song as a treasure trove of contested meanings, historical narratives, and political imaginations. * Oded Erez, Bar-Ilan *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Musical Jerusalem: Listening to the City of Song 1 Metaphorical Jerusalem: Longing in Zionist Cultural Production 2 Forgotten Jerusalem: Zionism without Zion? 3 Haunted Jerusalem: Musical Memorialism and the Politics of Bereavement 4 Gilded Jerusalem: "The Song that Took a City" 5 Heterotopian Jerusalem: Politics of Difference in Dan Almagor's My Jerusalem Epilogue
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Oxford University Press Inc Shared Musical Lives Philosophy Disability and
Book SynopsisShared Musical Lives makes the case for the epistemological and ethical significance of musical experience, discussing the concept of sonification in the context of disability in order to challenge and broaden existing conceptions of disability and music and provide new ways of thinking about the philosophies of music and disability.Trade ReviewThis beautiful, profound book explores what happens when we make music together—as composers, improvisers, performers, or listeners. We learn something about ourselves and others and, when the musical worlds we create together include people with disabilities, the knowledge we gain may be ethically important. This is a moving meditation on the power of musical experience to deepen our sense of ourselves and our common humanity. * Joseph Straus, Distinguished Professor of Music, CUNY Graduate Center *This rich and sensitive philosophical discussion of 'musicking' brings to the fore the experience of cognitive disability. Carlson brings her important philosophical work on cognitive disability together with her own experience as a musician to create a broad ranging discussion of the importance of the 'musical we' in recognizing the humanity in the other. At the same time, she cautions us against overgeneralizations and seemingly universalizing claims that are likely to reinstate exclusions and prejudices. This is a wonderful read, full of thoughtful reflection and illuminating examples of 'the sonification' of the subject that shows us how musicking is a means to enlarge our experience of being human. * Eva Feder Kittay, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emerita, Stony Brook University/SUNY *Shared Musical Lives brings us a source of joy, comfort, and rejuvenation at a time when all of us need a clearer understanding of what it means to be human. Licia Carlson gives us a remarkably humane philosophical meditation on the cultural vibrancy of disability arts and its potential to infuse dignity and meaning into lives often misunderstood and underappreciated. Carlson's book calls us to witness and appreciate the political, ethical, and healing force of music for everyone. * Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Professor of English and Bioethics, Emerita, Emory University *Table of ContentsPandemic Preface Sonification: An Overture Chapter 1: A Brief Taxonomy of Musical Others Chapter 2: Musical Selves Chapter 3: The Epistemic Force of Musical Encounters Chapter 4: Wordlessness is not Worldlessness: A Lyrical Interlude Chapter 5: The Musical We Conclusion: Musical Worlds Index
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Columbia University Press Counterpoint in Composition Paper
Book Synopsis-- Stanley Persky, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1. The Techniques of Elementary Counterpoint 1. Cantus Firmus and First Species 1. Cantus Firmus 2. Two-part Counterpoint, First Species 3. Three-part Counterpoint, First Species 2. Second Species 1. Two-part Counterpoint 2. Three-point Counterpoint 3. Third Species 1. Two-part Counterpoint 2. Three-part Counterpoint 3. Three Notes against One 4. Fourth Species 1. Two-part Counterpoint 2. Three-part Counterpoint 5. Fifth Species 1. Two-part Counterpoint 2. Three-part Counterpoint Part 2. The Techniques of Prolonged Counterpoint 6. Counterpoint in Composition, I 1. The Direct Application of Species Counterpoint 2. Two Major Influences on Contrapuntal Texture 7. Counterpoint in Composition, II 1. Melodic-contrapuntal Prolongations 2. Counterpoint within Prolonged Chords 3. The Evolution of Dissonance 4. Repetition and Articulation 5. Harmonic Influences on Voice Leading 6. Chromaticism; Contrapuntal Leading-tone Chords 7. Octaves and Fifths 8. The Chorale 1. The Elements of Chorale Writing 2. Setting a Single Phrase 3. Setting Groups of Two or More Phrases 4. The Complete Chorale 9. Combined Species 1. Combination of Two Second Species 2. Combination of Second and Third Species 3. Combination of Second and Fourth Species 4. Combination of Third and Fourth Species 5. Combination of Two Fifth Species 6. Progressions from Combined Species in Composition 10. Voice-Leading Techniques in Historical Perspective (ca. 1450-ca. 1900)
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MIT Press Ltd Sex Sounds
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University of Washington Press Seeing with Music
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsConcepts -- The setting -- Sayo Kamara -- Muctaru Mansaray -- Marehu Mansaray The world of three kututeng musicians.
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Hachette Books Talkin Greenwich Village
Book Synopsis'Talkin’ Greenwich Village is impeccably researched, elegantly written and consistently fascinating.'--New York Times 'Browne relates the extensive cast of characters and historical events with journalistic clarity and cinematic scope--so much so that it'll send you back to [A Complete Unknown] to identify who's who in the bit parts.'--The Oakland Press ***A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2024*** The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers Although Greenwich Village encompasses less than a square mile in downtown New York, rarely has such a concise area nurtured so many innovative artists and genres. Over the course of decades, Billie Holiday, the Weavers, Sonny Rollins, Dave Van Ronk, Ornette Coleman, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Phil Ochs, and Suzanne Vega are just a few who migrated to the Village, recognizing it as a sanctuary for visionaries, non-conformists, and those looking to reinvent themselves. Working in the Village’s smokey coffeehouses and clubs, they chronicled the tumultuous Sixties, rewrote jazz history, and took folk and rock & roll into places they hadn’t been before. Based on over 150 new interviews (Judy Collins, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Eric Andersen, Suzzy and Terre Roche, Suzanne Vega, Steve Forbert, Arlo Guthrie, John Sebastian, Shawn Colvin, the members of the Blues Project, and more), previously unseen documents, and author David Browne’s longtime immersion in the scene, Talkin’ Greenwich Village lends the saga the epic, panoramic scope it’s long deserved. It takes readers from the Fifties jamborees in Washington Square Park and into landmark venues like Gerde’s Folk City, the Gaslight Café, and the Village Vanguard, onto Dylan’s momentous arrival and returns, the no-holds-barred Seventies years (West Village discos, National Lampoon’s Lemmings), and the folk revival of the Eighties (Vega’s enduring “Tom’s Diner”). In eye-opening fashion, Browne also details the often-overlooked people of color in the Sixties folk clubs, reveals how the FBI and city government consistently kept their eyes on the community, unearths the machinations behind the infamous “beatnik riot” in Washington Square Park, and tells the interconnected tales of Van Ronk, the seminal band the Blues Project, and the beloved sister trio, the Roches. In also recounting the racial tensions, crackdowns, and changes in New York and music that infiltrated the neighborhood, Talkin’ Greenwich Village is more than just vivid cultural history. It also speaks to the rise and waning of bohemian culture itself, set to some of the most enduring lyrics, melodies, and jazz improvisations in American music.
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Hachette Books Biblical
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Hachette Books Heavy Duty
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WW Norton & Co The Gesualdo Hex
Book SynopsisA riveting investigation of one of the most provocative musicians of the Renaissance, who continues to captivate composers, artists, and audiences today.Trade Review"[A] brilliant look at how cultural influences propagate through time in strange and unpredictable ways…" -- Library Journal"With his second wonderfully illuminating book on Gesualdo, Watkins reconfirms the extremely significant role he has played in the further understanding of this remarkable prince’s life and work." -- Brett Dean
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WW Norton & Co Beethovens Symphonies An Artistic Vision
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the unswerving artistic vision underlying Beethoven’s symphonies, from a leading scholar of the composer’s works.Trade Review"...[Lockwood] paints a vivid picture of the creative context of each [symphony]." -- James Macmillan - Standpoint"[This] book will surely inspire new interest in Beethoven’s durable masterpieces." -- The New York Review of Books"No one brings Beethoven’s music to life as vividly as Lewis Lockwood. A towering achievement." -- Alan Gilbert, music director, New York Philharmonic"This remarkable book is much more than a guide to Beethoven’s symphonies. By granting us access to the composer’s workshop, Lockwood reveals a faltering human being whose unfaltering artistic resolution remains one of the great stories of the human spirit." -- Scott Burnham, Scheide Professor of Music History, Princeton University"Lockwood has given music lovers a great gift. By looking at historical context—who listened to Beethoven, what he read—and how the symphonies were planned, the reader gets a unique view of the creative process of one of our greatest musical minds." -- Yo-Yo Ma"Lockwood elegantly imparts an enormous amount of fascinating detail, placing each symphony in the context of Beethoven’s work in other genres and concert activity. What a pleasure to read!" -- Emanuel Ax, pianist
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WW Norton & Co The Gustav Sonata
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A poignant tale about the enduring friendship between two men under the shadow of the Second World War.Trade Review"Tremain is one of those few writers you trust completely when she goes to any unfamiliar territory, historical or emotional… Tremain knows how to show all the terrible bleak things that can happen between mothers and sons… This most unconventional book offers no easy answer, which makes it as disturbing and electric as any high-wire act. " -- The New York Times Book Review"[Tremain’s] expertise is evident in its gradual layering of personal history and its subtle mingling of lights and darks." -- Wall Street Journal"The Gustav Sonata is beautifully rendered, and magnificent in its scope. It glows with mastery." -- Ian McEwan"The Gustav Sonata is a work of extreme and painful beauty, the story of one profound love amid many failed relationships, and of the conflict between passion and self-control. Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists, and deserves, with this brilliant novel, to reach a wide new audience." -- Salman Rushdie"[F]rom this tangled mess of human relations, Tremain draws a conclusion that is simultaneously straightforward and sweetly transformative. Like so much else in this compassionate and musical novel, it hits a perfect note." -- The Telegraph"This is a perfect novel about life’s imperfection…What Rose Tremain understands, above all, is the tragedy of temperament and the way it plays havoc with choice… Tremain is anything but an indulgent writer and is, here, writing at the height of her inimitable powers." -- The Guardian
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