Music category: 21679 books
Together Through Life
A Personal Journey with the Music of Bob Dylan
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Veteran journalist and critic Chris Morris looks back at his intense half-century-long relationship with the music of Bob Dylan, viewing the role the singer-songwriter’s work has played in his own life. A candid album-by-album exploration of Dylan’s catalog through 2016’s “Fallen Angels”...
Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music
Discovering Musical Patterns by Interpreting Artifical Neural Networks
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Previously, artificial neural networks have been used to capture only the informal properties of music. However, cognitive scientist Michael Dawson found that by training artificial neural networks to make basic judgments concerning tonal music, such as identifying the tonic of a scale or the quality...
by Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This volume explores the ways in which music scenes are not merely physical spaces for the practice of collective musical life but are also inscribed with and enacted through the articulation of cultural memory and emotional geography. The book draws on empirical data collected in cites throughout...
by Pauwke Berkers, Julian Schaap
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
For over four decades, scholars have been investigating male dominance - both symbolically and numerically -within popular music. The heavier genres of popular music, metal music in particular, have been male dominated spaces, which are difficult to navigate for women participating as fans, musicians,...
Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon
A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and audiences...
From Mesa and Plain (Original Scores)
Indian, Cowboy and Negro Sketches for Pianoforte
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book presents 10 pages of sheet music for five of Arthur Farwell's compositions -- all with an American Indian focus: Navajo War Dance; Pawnee Horses; Prairie Miniature; Wa-Wan Choral; and, Plantation Melody. They are written for the piano.
Arthur Farwell (March 23, 1872 – January 20,...
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Tuba Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads Book 2: 20 Easy Pieces For Beginners
This music book is part of the Lettered Noteheads series and contains 20 popular sheet music pieces for Tuba. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes than...
by Ann C. Clements, Sarah H. Watts
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
A Field Guide to Student Teaching in Music is a practical guide focused on the link between music education coursework and the field-based aspects of the student teaching experience. It addresses general topics that are common to all music placements, as well as those topics that are of specific interest...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Leadership and Musician Development in Higher Music Education informs, challenges and evaluates the central practices, policies and theories that underpin the preparation of future music leaders and the leadership of music in higher education. In higher education, it is often presumed that preparing...
by Robert E. Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book is a sequel to Music Universe, Music Mind: Revisiting the Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York, (Arborville Publishing, 1996, ISBN 0-9650438-4-3), The first book is a history of the Creative Music Studio, which covers the period when Karl Berger met Don Cherry and joined his band in...
Music, Time, and Its Other
Aesthetic Reflections on Finitude, Temporality, and Alterity
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Music, Time, and Its Other explores the relation between the enigmatic character of our temporal experiences and music’s affective power. By taking account of competing concepts of time, Savage explains how music refigures dimensions of our experiences through staking out the borderlines between...
Globalization, Music and Cultures of Distinction
The Rise of Pop Music Criticism in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This bookis the first comprehensive account of how Anglo-American popular music transformed Italian cultural life. Drawing on neglected archival materials, the author explores the rise of new musical tastes and social divisions in late twentieth century Italy.
The book reconstructs the emergence...
Sporting Sounds
Relationships Between Sport and Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Music and sport are both highly significant cultural forms, yet the substantial and longstanding connections between the two have largely been overlooked. Sporting Sounds addresses this oversight in an intriguing and innovative collection of essays.
With contributions from leading international...
Valuing Music in Education
A Charles Fowler Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Noted music education and arts activist Charles Fowler has inspired music educators for more than 60 years. In this book, editor Craig Resta brings together the most important of Fowler's writings from the journal Musical America for new generations of readers. Here, Fowler speaks to many timeless...