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Songwriting Strategies
A 360-Degree Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
(Berklee Guide). Write songs starting from any direction: melody, lyric, harmony, rhythm, or idea. This book will help you expand your range and flexibility as a songwriter. Discussions, hands-on exercises, and notated examples will help you hone your craft. This creatively liberating approach supports...
Songwriting
Methods, Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators and Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005
This comprehensive and groundbreaking book describes the effective use of songwriting in music therapy with a variety of client populations, from children with cancer and adolescents in secondary school to people with traumatic brain injury and mental health problems.
The authors explain the...
by Clinton Heylin
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
An absorbing account of the record industry's worst nightmare.
In the summer of 1969, Great White Wonder, a collection of unreleased Bob Dylan recordings appeared in Los Angeles. It was the first rock bootleg and it spawned an entire industry dedicated to making unofficial recordings available...
Godfather of the Music Business
Morris Levy
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell's Kitchen, which became the home for a new musical style, bebop. Levy operated one of the first integrated clubs...
by Thomas J. Strang
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
I come from a very music family. My father played guitar and sang on radio in the Pittsburgh, PA area. My brother was in many classic rock bands and played in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all...
Under the Sign of the Big Fiddle
The R.S. Williams Family, Manufacturers and Collectors of Musical Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Musical-instrument manufacturing was one of the few areas in which Canada was able to compete with the United States and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This book describes one of the leading firms in the music industry in Canada at that time. The Toronto business that was conducted...
The Melody Man
Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Joe Davis, the focus of The Melody Man enjoyed a 50-year career in the music industry, which covered nearly every aspect of the business. He hustled sheet music in the 1920s, copyrighted compositions by artists as diverse as Fats Waller, Carson Robison, Otis Blackwell, and Rudy Vallee, oversaw hundreds...
by Dominic Pedler
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
From humble beginnings in murky, Liverpool clubs in the early sixties, four songwriters emerged who would change the course of popular music forever: The Beatles. Within only a decade they created an arsenal of songs which set the template for all popular music that followed, and, over half a century...
by Joel Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Each of the 17 songs from Abbey Road are “profiled” in this volume of Beatle Song Profiles.
Beatle Song Profiles are concise commentaries on every Beatle song. The song profiles describe the song’s origins and inspiration, what The Beatles themselves said about it, what was unique...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The singer-songwriter, someone who writes and performs their own music, is an ever-present and increasingly complex figure in popular music worlds. The Singer-Songwriter Handbook provides a useful resource for student songwriters, active musicians, fans and scholars alike.
This handbook is...
How Bizarre
Pauly Fuemana and the Song That Stormed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
A single song catapulted 26-year-old Pauly Fuemana from the mean streets of South Auckland to global fame, and more money than he'd ever dreamt of. But behind OMC's huge international hit "How Bizarre" and its singer lurked a darker story, fully told here for the first time. Throughout most...
by Allen C. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Do you want to enjoy a career in music without compromising your faith?
If so, this book is for you. Here you’ll discover the steps to become a successful musician who excels in every area of life, all while embracing your spiritual foundation.
Inside you’ll find...
From the Stage to the Studio
How Fine Musicians Become Great Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
"The fact is, you will teach." from the Foreword by Stephen Clapp, Dean Emeritus, The Julliard School. Whether serving on the faculty at a university, maintaining a class of private students, or fulfilling an invitation as guest artist in a master class series, virtually all musicians will...
by Joel Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Each of the 14 songs from With The Beatles and 4 assorted singles are “profiled” in this volume of Beatle Song Profiles.
Beatle Song Profiles are concise commentaries on every Beatle song. The song profiles describe the song’s origins and inspiration, what The Beatles themselves said...