Music category: 21679 books
Creative Music Composition
The Young Composer's Voice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students. "Creative composition"-composing in your own style, rather than in the style of a composer of the past-is embraced by music educators not only for composition students, but for beginning performers...
Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
The Oxford History of Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative...
Russian Music at Home and Abroad
New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful” to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided,...
The Cat On Strat Guitar Method
Teach yourself or others to play guitar with the Cat on Strat Guitar Method, learn: picking out equipment, tuning, scales, chords, riffs, tablature, strumming, harmonics, double stops, legato, timing, song structure, and the ultimate guitar god list
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Cat On Strat Guitar Method Complete Guitar Guide For Both Teachers And Students
Playing or teaching guitar involves 6 basic fundamentals: 1) Getting started (learning names and definitions) 2) Scales (playing single notes) 3) Chords (playing multiple notes) 4) Techniques (complex methods...
by David Hesmondhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Listen to David Hesmondhalgh discuss the arguments at the core of 'Why Music Matters' with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed here.
In what ways might music enrich the lives of people and of societies? What prevents it from doing so? Why Music Matters explores the role of music...
Flowing Tides
History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles,...
Made in Sweden
Studies in Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
*Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music *serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of twentieth-century Swedish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars of Swedish popular music and covers the major figures, styles and...
Hollywood Harmony
Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Filmgoing is an intensely musical experience, one in which the soundtrack structures our interpretations and steers our emotions. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music...
by R. Ryan Endris
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Music history is nearly as old as human civilization itself, and while it has permeated the arts and popular culture for centuries, it still has this mystifying aura surrounding it. But fear not—it’s not as complicated as it seems, and anyone can learn the origins and history of Western art music....
Music Theory 2 - Extended Chords - Color Chord Tones - 7, b7, 9, 10
Learn Piano With Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
In Music Theory 2 - Extended Chords, we move on to the chords that are 4-tone chords and 5-tone chords.
After we learn the basic triad chords with 3 tones in Music Theory 1, we can build 4 tone chords and extended chords on them to create beautiful sounds with added color tones. This book is...
by Darren Henley, Sam Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
An eclectic, fun, and informative guide to the 50 moments that changed classical music forever
From technological advances in music recording and practical innovations to landmark concerts and the births and deaths of the great composers, this book discusses the moments that defined classical...
by Ian Christians, Sir Charles Groves CBE
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of classical...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The term 'Jewish music' has conveyed complex and diverse meanings for people around the world across hundreds of years. This accessible and comprehensive Companion is a key resource for students, scholars, and everyone with an interest in the global history of Jewish music. Leading international experts...
by Julio d'Escriván
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Emphasising the creative aspect of music technology, this introduction sets out an overview of the field for music students in a non-scientific and straightforward way. Engaging and user-friendly, the book covers studio concepts: basic audio and the studio workflow, including audio and MIDI recording....