Music category: 21679 books
by Richard King
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Recording Orchestra and Other Classical Music Ensembles explores techniques and methodologies specific to recording classical music. Whether a newcomer or a seasoned engineer looking to refine their skills, this book speaks to all levels of expertise and covers every aspect of recording symphonic...
by Liz Doherty, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music – in fact, she has made a study of it. Doherty’s exposure to, and research of, the island’s music traditions was the germination for this compendium on the Cape Breton fiddle: its history, its people, the tunes,...
How to Write About Music
Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, you'd do best to hone your chops and avoid clichés (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers. How to Write About Music offers a selection of the best writers on what is perhaps our most universally beloved...
by James C. Claypool
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
It is likely that most fans of bluegrass music would concede that no state should be more associated with bluegrass music than Kentucky�and rightly so. Bluegrass music draws its name from the band that Kentuckian Bill Monroe formed during the late 1930s and 1940s. Bill named his band Bill Monroe and...
River of Tears
Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national...
by Nicolae Sfetcu
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video.
Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic...
by Maggie Cotton
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Are you a fan of classical music? Can you name all the well-known composers, conductors and the compositions they are associated with? Or perhaps, you would like to learn more about them? If so, you are certain to enjoy the quotes and musical miscellany in 101 Quirky Observations on Classical Music....
All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77
Music from the Streets of New York 1927–77
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
A penetrating and entertaining exploration of New York’s music scene from Cubop through folk, punk, and hip-hop.
From Tony Fletcher, the acclaimed biographer of Keith Moon, comes an incisive history of New York’s seminal music scenes and their vast contributions to our culture. Fletcher...
by Timothy Rice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to...
by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a compact overview of the music...
Ripped
How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
A decade ago the vast majority of mainstream music was funneled through a handful of media conglomerates. Now, more people are listening to more music from a greater variety of sources than at any time in history. And big corporations such as Viacom, Clear Channel, and Sony are no longer the sole...
Salsa Rising
New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50s, the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium Ballroom was the stuff of legend, while modern-day...
Pat Metheny
The ECM Years, 1975-1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the...
Stomp and Swerve
American Music Gets Hot, 18431924
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn’t until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music-black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude-made it onto records for...