Music category: 21679 books
by Abhijit Chavda
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
About the eBook Series (Exotic Guitar Scales for Solo Guitar):If you are a creative guitarist and are seeking to expand your musical horizons, then you will love playing Indian Ragas.Ragas are millennia-old musical constructs that originated in Indian music. They are widely used in Indian...
Electronic Keyboard Lessons for Kids - Book 1
How to Play Keyboard for Kids (Free Video Available)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Teach how to play keyboard for kids with our easy keyboard lessons for kids.***Comes with online access to free keyboard 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 keyboard animation...
by Richard Taruskin
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2009
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Now in hardcover, the set has been reconstructed to be available for the first time as individual books, each one taking on a critical...
Gunther Schuller
A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Simultaneously the memoir of a famed composer, conductor, and music educator, and an important historical sourcebook on the American musical scene during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, the autobiography of Gunther Schuller chronicles the first thirty-five years of this multifaceted...
Gone to the Country
The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Gone to the Country chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots music during the folk revival of the late 1950s and 1960s. Formed in 1958 by Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley, the Ramblers introduced...
by Patty Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Playboy—the magazine, the empire, the lifestyle—is one of the world's best-known brands. Since the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953, two elements have been remarkably consistent: the first, obviously, is the celebration of nubile, female flesh. The second, readers may be surprised to learn,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections:
general issues
emotion
history
figures
kinds...
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005
The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Da Capo Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is essential reading...
by Rose Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Cowboy Bebop is one of the most beloved anime series of all time, and if you ask its fans why, you can expect to hear about its music. Composer Yoko Kanno created an eclectic blend of jazz, rock, lullabies, folk and funk (to list just a few) for Cowboy Bebop's many moods and environments. Cowboy Bebop's...
My British Invasion
The Inside Story on The Yardbirds, The Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, The Troggs, The Kinks, The Zombies, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Co-founder of Rhino Records, Harold Bronson, tells his story. As a passionate music fan who explored the British music scene and met many of the performers whose music he loved, and in some cases got to know them as a music journalist, music executive, or friend, Harold gives an insiders account of London's...
by Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The book provides truly rare knowledge of the emergence of natural musical notes (swaras) from the eternal impulse of Nāda and consequent emanation of the Shastric (Indian Classical) Music. This Indian classical music was developed and propagated by the Vedic sages. They had recognized the linkage...
Energy Flash
A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s.
England, Germany,...
Slap Bass Guitar Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Bass Guitar (Free Video Available)
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Teach yourself how to play bass with our easy slap bass guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free bass guitar 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 animation...
by John Franceschina
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The history of American theater would not have developed nor impacted the sound of music today without the composers, directors, and choreographers of incidental and dance music. From the earliest immigrant composers to mainstream maestros and film composers, their successes and sorrows mirrored the...