Appreciation category: 175 books
by John Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
While the guitar has stood in the vanguard of musical experimentation, its many new techniques and notations remain a mystery for many composers and players. In The Contemporary Guitar, musician and scholar, John Schneider explains each class of technique and illustrates them with examples. Moreover,...
by Scott Banner
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Don't miss this refreshingly honest and informative guide to the music industry for any young artist and those close to them. Find out from first hand experience just where the pitfalls lie, what the solutions are and most of all:HOW TO SAVE ALL THOSE INVOLVED THEIR VALUABLE TIME, EFFORT...
Perfect Pitch in the Key of Autism
A Guide for Educators, Parents, and the Musically Gifted
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Autistic people and musical individuals often have perfect pitch, a gift they were born with. The musical gift may be accompanied with learning differences such as reading comprehension problems, trouble with mathematics, and significant difficulties in learning how to read music. This book was written...
Bad Music
The Music We Love to Hate
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have...
Peter Paul and Mary
Fifty Years in Music and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This carefully crafted and collectible volume tells the intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, in their words and with iconic images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center of America’s heart. Photographs, many rare and never before published, taken over...
Artistic Citizenship
Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This first-of-its-kind compendium unites perspectives from artists, scholars, arts educators, policymakers, and activists to investigate the complex system of values surrounding artistic-educational endeavors. Addressing a range of artistic domains-including music, dance, theater, visual arts, film,...
by W. A. Mathieu
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1991
The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement...
by Michael J. Pagliaro
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The Instrumental Music Director’s Guide to Comprehensive Program Development gives practical solutions to the many issues that confront music directors. The topics addressed include:
A review of tests which can be used to develop an all-inclusive student profile identifying strengths and weaknesses...
Rap - A Beginner's Masterclass
A Guide For Adults to Understand Confusing Rap Lyrics & Culture - Grandparents Included!
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Rap - The Beginner's Masterclass is a guide to rap lyrics, clearly written for readers to understand and learn about hip hop's culture!
Are you confused about what rap music means?
Do you have ambitions to write rap?
Do you, or a family member, want to understand rap and hip...
by John Burns
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Bob Dylan is the most influential songwriter of our time. His lyrics have inspired more than one generation to challenge received social and spiritual concepts about the world they inhabit. It is in this context that John Burns examines Dylan's 'big' lyrics, the 'vision songs' that have changed the...
Identities and Audiences in the Musical
An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our engagement with the genre. In this...
Listening to Rap
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world. Listening to Rap: An Introduction enables students to understand the historical context, cultural impact, and unique musical characteristics of this essential...
by Marti Eicholz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
An Angel with Secrets is a novel, dealing with human experience and imaginary characters.
When Mary takes the fall for her boyfriend Luke and goes to jail, she has no idea her fate is not the only one at stake. She's pregnant, and she gives birth to her daughter Angel behind bars, where Mary...
James Bond FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Everyone's Favorite Superspy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A favorite of film followers for 50 years, James Bond is the hero loved by everyone: Men want to be just like him, women just want to be with him. Moviegoers around the world have spent more than $5 billion to watch his adventures across the last five decades. What's not to enjoy about such a glorious...