Music category: 21679 books
Recorder Lessons for Kids - Book 1
How to Play Recorder for Kids (Free Video Available)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Teach how to play recorder for kids with our easy recorder lessons for kids.***Comes with online access to free recorder videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score and recorder animation...
Music Was IT
Young Leonard Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
"Life without music is unthinkable."—Leonard Bernstein, Findings
When Lenny was two years old, his mother found that the only way to soothe her crying son was to turn on the Victrola. When his aunt passed on her piano to Lenny’s parents, the boy demanded lessons. When Lenny went...
Don't Stop Thinking About the Music
The Politics of Songs and Musicians in Presidential Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In this insightful, erudite history of presidential campaign music, musicologist Benjamin Schoening and political scientist Eric Kasper explain how politicians use music in American presidential campaigns to convey a range of political messages. From “Follow Washington” to “I Like Ike” to...
Negotiating Difference in French Louisiana Music
Categories, Stereotypes, and Identifications
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Sara Le Menestrel explores the role of music in constructing, asserting, erasing, and negotiating differences based on the notions of race, ethnicity, class, and region. She discusses established notions and brings to light social stereotypes and hierarchies at work in the evolving French Louisiana...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Musicians are always quick to adopt and explore new technologies. The fast-paced changes wrought by electrification, from the microphone via the analogue synthesiser to the laptop computer, have led to a wide diversity of new musical styles and techniques. Electronic music has grown to a broad field...
The Cultural Study of Music
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Latin...
Dawn of the DAW
The Studio as Musical Instrument
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Dawn ot the DAW tells the story of how the dividing line between the traditional roles of musicians and recording studio personnel (producers, recording engineers, mixing engineers, technicians, etc.) has eroded throughout the latter half of the twentieth century to the present. Whereas those equally...
Analysing Popular Music
Image, Sound and Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here
Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values,...
Digital Signatures
The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
How sonically distinctive digital “signatures”—including reverb, glitches, and autotuning—affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others.
Is digital production killing the soul of music? Is Auto-Tune the nadir of creative expression? Digital...
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Easy Christmas Piano Sheet Music With ChordsThis is a Christmas sheet music book with 10 popular Christmas Carols. Each line of music contains three staves, one treble clef and two bass clefs and chord symbols for the single line players. Organist can read all three staves (top keyboard, lower...
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - French Horn
Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads
This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for French Horn. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note...
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - Clarinet
Big Note Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads
This sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for Clarinet. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note head...
Japanese Popular Music
Culture, Authenticity and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture.
Based both on extensive...