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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Disability, understood as culturally stigmatized bodily difference (including physical and mental impairments of all kinds), is a pervasive and permanent aspect of the human condition. While the biology of bodily difference is the proper study for science and medicine, the meaning that we attach to...
Rehearsing
Critical Connections for the Instrumental Music Conductor
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Following on the heels of his Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble, John F. Colson takes students to the next level in conducting practice with Rehearsing: Critical Connections for the Instrumental Music Conductor. Colson draws together the critical connections for those seeking...
Fundamentals of Piano Pedagogy
Fuelling Authentic Student Musicians from the Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
How can piano teachers successfully foster student participation and growth from the outset? How can teachers prepare and sustain their influential work with beginner student musicians? This book presents answers to these questions by making important connections with current music education research,...
by Eric Booth, Tricia Tunstall
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema—intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.
In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand, from...
by Paul Terry, Steven Berryman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Edexcel GCSE Music Study Guide is the definitive study guide for the 91 GCSE syllabus - For exams First teaching 2016 onwards.
This comprehensive guide supports all components of the GCSE: Performing, Composing and Appraising, covering the full list of Set Works and suggested Wider Listening....
Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change
Creativity, Diversity, and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change: Creativity, Diversity, Integration takes prevailing discourse about change in music studies to new vistas, as higher education institutions are at a critical moment of determining just what professional musicians and teachers need to survive and thrive...
by Richard James Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
In The History of Music Production, Richard James Burgess draws on his experience as a producer, musician, and author. Beginning in 1860 with the first known recording of an acoustic sound and moving forward chronologically, Burgess charts the highs and lows of the industry throughout the decades...
The Music Parents' Guide
A Survival Kit for the New Music Parent
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Learn Simple Steps to Becoming a Great Music Parent
It’s a lot easier than you think!
Have you ever been confronted with the task of supporting your child’s interest in a musical instrument, when you have little or no musical experience yourself?
Relax. Helping your child...
by Dan Hosken
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
An Introduction to Music Technology, Second Edition provides a clear overview of the essential elements of music technology for today’s musician. This book focuses on the topics that underlie the hardware and software in use today: Sound, Audio, MIDI, Computer Notation, and Computer- Assisted Instruction....
Compassionate Music Teaching
A Framework for Motivation and Engagement in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Compassionate Music Teaching provides a framework for music teaching in the 21st century by outlining qualities, skills, and approaches to meet the needs of a unique and increasingly diverse generation of students. The text focuses on how six qualities of compassion (trust, empathy, patience, inclusion,...
by Oren Freshour
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
It's History, The Bands, It's Legacy In this book the author gives the complete history of Swing music and Big Bands from it's beginning to it‘s place in the world today. It tells where it began. When it began. How it spread and grew to become America's number one popular music in the 1930’s and...
The Devil’s Music
How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
When rock ’n’ roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar...
Music in Contemporary Indian Film
Memory, Voice, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity provides a rich and detailed look into the unique dimensions of music in Indian film. Music is at the center of Indian cinema, and India’s film music industry has a far-reaching impact on popular, folk, and classical music across the subcontinent...
101 Raga-S for the 21St Century and Beyond
A Music Lover's Guide to Hindustani Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Indian classical music is so enduring that it is exempt from oblivion. It is destined to live in all ages of this world.
This book on North Indian classical music (also known as Hindustani music) tells you, simply and informally, about the most popular 101 raga-s, and 161 topics commonly mentioned...