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  • We Rock! (Music Lab)

    A Fun Family Guide for Exploring Rock Music History: From Elvis and the Beatles to Ray Charles and The Ramones, Includes Bios, Historical Context, Extensive Playlists, and Rocking Activities for the Whole Family!

    by Jason Hanley ...
    Series series Hands-On Family
    Finally! A hip, fun and culturally relevant series of music appreciation books, perfect for modern music-loving families who want to take advantage of this era of exploding musical access! Get a personal guided tour through an amazing historical back-catalog of music that was previously unavailable. We Rock!**: A Fun Family Guide for Exploring Rock Music History is a guided tour through thrilling ... Read more

    17,27 €

  • Series of Dreams: The Vision Songs of Bob Dylan

    by John Burns ...
    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 way we see our world. Considering all Dylan's major albums from the 'sixties to the present, Burns ... Read more

    5,91 €

  • NEW APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING ART AND BEAUTY

    by Cláudio Richerme ...
    With uncommon and surprising information, this book reveals art as never before. It demonstrates, in each chapter, that the aesthetic emotion or sensation of beauty is our unconcious or concious admiration for the intelligence of a formal organization. Referring to many different kinds of art, with special emphasis on music, it effectively suggests a closer relation between aesthetics and ... Read more

    6,18 €

  • A Legacy of Song

    Joy . Purpose . Healing

    by Peggy Weston ...
    A Legacy of Song heightens an awareness of singing as a significant form of expression, communication and creative art. Author Peggy Weston explores the origin, development and value of song, that brings therapeutic benefits individually and communally. What initiates the physical, mental and emotional connection occurring within a person while singing? Weston discusses the fascinating, powerful ... Read more

    7,42 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy Curriculum Book 1

    by Mamady Keïta ...
    This book was created by Grand Master Drummer Mamady Keita, from Guinea, West Africa for his international schools, the Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy, International Schools of Percussion. Specifically, this is curriculum and instruction for traditional djembe and dunun (djembe orchestra) music. It also includes instruction on djembe and dunun technique. This volume features 63 traditional ... Read more

    26,70 €

  • Authorship and Identity in Late Thirteenth-Century Motets

    by Catherine A. Bradley ...
    Questions of authorship are central to the late thirteenth-century motet repertoire represented by the seventh section or fascicle of the Montpellier Codex (Montpellier, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section de médecine, H. 196, hereafter Mo). Mo does not explicitly attribute any of its compositions, but theoretical sources name Petrus de Cruce as the composer of the two motets that open ... Read more

    Free

  • Spirto Gentil

    by Luigi Giussani ...
    When he was a young seminarian, the teacher in Luigi Giussani’s singing class played a recording of an aria from a Donizetti opera, “Spirto gentil” (“Gentle spirit, you once shone in my dreams, but after, I lost you forever. . . .”). At that moment, Giussani “understood for the first time that God existed, and thus that nothing could exist without a meaning; that the heart could not exist unless ... Read more

    9,85 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 300 Years at the Keyboard 2nd edition

    A piano sourcebook from Bach to the moderns

    by Patricia Fallows-Hammond ...
    300 Years at the Keyboard has a very long list of excellent reviews,PUBLISHER COMMENTS: This book has been very well received. Music teachers throughout North America - over 130 schools - have adopted the title for their classes.AUTHOR COMMENTS/DESCRIPTION:You may ask: Who is this book made for? - Here is the answer from the author:"We all know that teachers invest a great deal of time and money ... Read more

    9,51 €

  • Maurice Duruflé

    The Man and His Music

    by James E. Frazier ...
    Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any language. James E. Frazier traces Duruflé's musical training, his studies withTournemire and Vierne, and his career as an organist, church musician, composer, recitalist, Conservatoire professor, and orchestral musician. Frazier also examines the career ... Read more

    17,16 €

  • All You Have to Do is Listen

    Music from the Inside Out

    by Rob Kapilow ...
    Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for almost twenty years with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he gives you a set of tools you can use when listening to any piece of music in order to hear its “plot”—its story told in notes. The musical examples are available free for download ... Read more

    10,38 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A mais dócil das formas do Tempo

    Ensaios de Musicologia Crítica

    by Marcos Câmara de Castro ...
    O Prof. Dr. Marcos Câmara de Castro traz a público uma reflexão profunda de toda a sua produção intelectual, técnica e artística desenvolvida ao longo dos últimos 48 anos. Compositor, mestre e doutor pela Escola de Comunicação e Artes da USP, sob a orientação do Prof. Dr. Mario Ficarelli, também recebeu uma bolsa de aperfeiçoamento do CNPq para estudar com o consagrado Michel Philippot no ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Cevere's Chronicles Volume 1

    by Marquis Walker ...
    Some write journals or diaries of their lives to never forget; to highlight their lives and bring back memories they cherish. Others write to relive traumatic events. It's sad that writing in general is therapeutic. I write these music reviews because they bring value to my life. I write these music critiques to add additional substance to good and great artists. Ever since Hip-Hop has entered my ... Read more

    11,12 €

  • The Ultimate Book of Inspirational Songs

    by Lance Looms ...
    The Ultimate Book of Inspirational Songs Inspirational Songs houses a collection of the world’s most inspiring songs ever! Songs have the amazing ability to excite your emotions – Some can make you sad or depressed, while others… happy or even motivated..... Here is a list of 100+ powerful songs, which you can use to excite, motivate or inspire your followers to achieve greatness and create ... Read more

    7,18 €

  • Charles Fierro In His Own Words

    Edited by Mary Hannon ...
    ***Charles Fierro In His Own Words***is a welcome collection ofenlightening articles by Dr. Charles Fierro, a distinguishedCalifornia concert artist and university professor. Dr. Fierro'sincisive writings cover a variety of genres: memoirs of hisencounters with renowned composers, musical portraits,concert reviews, philosophical musings on the essence ofmusic, interpretation, practicing, ... Read more

    9,11 €

  • The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music

    by Robert Philip ...
    An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shostakovich, ... Read more

    20,45 €

  • Basic Keys, Scales And Chords by Joe Procopio

    A Handy Guide for Finding Any Key, Key Signature, Scale or Chord in Music

    by JOSEPH GREGORY PROCOPIO ...
    DESCRIPTION:BASIC KEYS, SCALES & CHORDS by Joe Procopio is an easy to understand book of all the basic keys, scales and chords used in music today. It includes the notes, charts and examples of every Key, Key Signature, Scale and Chord found most often in the music made by present day composers.BASIC KEYS, SCALES & CHORDS is a handy reference guide for anyone interested in finding fast any Key, ... Read more

    1,93 €

  • Gateways to Understanding Music

    by Timothy Rice, Dave Wilson ...
    Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition,explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical, popular, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, this chronology presents music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of 60 "gateways" addresses a particular genre, style, or ... Read more

    89,00 €

  • AXES CHOPS & HOT LICKS

    MAPLE MUSIC

    by Ritchie Yorke ...
    During the 70s, rock music represented one of Canada’s fastest growing industries. Her artists, composers and producers were establishing  themselves at the top of the pop music world.  Hot Licks explores the explosion in Canadian rock, assessing the effects of legislated domestic radio content (from one of its leading supporters), offering the stories behind leading Maple Music talents, revealing ... Read more

    8,33 €

  • How the Music Business Works

    3rd Edition

    by Aaron Davis, Rene Merideth, Alexander Baynum ...
    The music business is one of the most complex, infamous, and influential systems on Earth! If you create, develop, or interact with musical content in any way, you are one of its participants.How The Music Business Works has been written to explain how all of the moving parts of this industry work together-from record label deals to public performance licenses, copyrightregistration to the Music ... Read more

    1,05 €

  • Mastering Sight Reading for Trumpet. du Mainetudes! Book 1

    by Wayne J. du Maine ...
    In 1984, I attended a master class lead by the great David Hickman at the St. Louis Conservatory of Music. David opened my eyes to the importance of mastering sight reading. Hearing him say to keep your eyes one measure ahead of where you're reading music was life changing for me. I immediately ran to the practice room and became a much better sight reader. Every practice session for the next 30 ... Read more

    4,23 €

  • Sonosuono

    by Matteo Cimenti ...
    È sufficiente sostituire la parola musica con la parola vita, nella narrazione che ti ha portato fin qui, per diventare finalmente il suono che sei sempre stato. Scoprirai che la buca più grande in cui sei caduto, sei proprio tu." * Andrea è un giovane chitarrista dalla brillante carriera ma in crisi con l'idea di musica che ha visto trasformarsi negli anni, tra mestiere e vocazione. Si imbatte un ... Read more

    2,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michael Jackson Accusations

    by Susan Lloyd ...
    This unauthorized book details the trauma that affected and haunted Michael Jackson while he was alive. From his childhood through to his passing on. Read about Jordan Chandler, and his father's relationship, Michael Jackson's arrest and discover new details that were not published in the media. This book including links to actual Police and Court Case Statements and FBI Records from "The Vault". ... Read more

    4,45 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beatle Musings: An Alternative View of The Beatle Legacy

    by Joel Benjamin ...
    Series series Beatle Musings
    An Alternative View Of The Beatle Legacy is the third volume of essays of the research study BeatleMusings- an anthology of scholarship that examines the historical and musical legacy of The Beatles. An Alternative View Of The Beatle Legacy provides “alternative perspectives” to explain the historical phenomenon of The Beatles. For the past 50 years all of the information published and ... Read more

    9,54 €

  • Beatle Song Profiles: Please Please Me

    by Joel Benjamin ...
    Series series Beatle Song Profiles
    Each of the 13 songs from  Please Please Me and three 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 about it, what was unique about the music and/or production of the arrangement or vocals, and the deeper ... Read more

    9,54 €