Music category: 21679 books
Discovering Classical Music: Monteverdi
His Life, The Person, His Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE
Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...
Master Soundcloud
Music Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
If you are serious about your band promotion, you need to leverage the power of Soundcloud.
Lots of bands are struggling to grow their music business because they just don't know where to find their fans!
I feel your pain. In this book I will walk you through a complete marketing plan...
Popular Classics for Classical Guitar Volume 1
Teach Yourself How to Play Classical Guitar Sheet Music (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Teach yourself how to play classical guitar sheet music by the world’s greatest classical composers, carefully arranged for the classical guitar player.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"As a fairly new...
I Don't Sound Like Nobody
Remaking Music in 1950s America
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
"In Albin J. Zak III's highly original study, phonograph records are not just the medium for disseminating songs but musical works unto themselves. Fashioned from a mix of copyright law, recording studios and techniques, the talent of musicians and disc jockeys, the ingenuity and avarice of producers,...
Discovering Classical Music: Mozart
His Life, The Person, His Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE
Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...
Segregating Sound
Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how...
Translation and Popular Music
Transcultural Intimacy in TurkishGreek Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Research on translation and music has so far focused mainly on «art music» and on issues such as quality, singability and accessibility. Studies which seek to embed translation and music within their historical and sociocultural contexts are relatively rare. This book aims to shed light on how translations...
Everyday Music
Exploring Sounds and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Native American drumming and chant; Czech and German polka; country fiddling; African American spirituals, blues and jazz; cowboy songs; Mexican corridos; zydeco; and the sounds of a Cambodian New Year’s celebration — all are part of the amazing cultural patchwork of traditional music in Texas....
by Donald Burrows
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Handel is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of western music. His compositions form one of the peaks of creative achievement in the Baroque period, and cover a remarkable range: full-scale Italian operas and English oratorios (including Messiah), but also shorter works such as the...
Discovering Classical Music: Chopin
His Life, The Person, His Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE
Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...
by Dr. Joan Rucker-Hillsman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This book is designed for the general reader of gospel music, as well as those who incorporate gospel into their lesson plans on the academic level. “Gospel Music: An African American Art Form” provides music information on the heritage of gospel from its African roots, Negro spirituals, traditional...
Community Custodians of Popular Music's Past
A DIY Approach to Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book examines do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to the collection, preservation, and display of popular music heritage being undertaken by volunteers in community archives, museums and halls of fame globally. DIY institutions of popular music heritage are much more than ‘unofficial’ versions...
by Daniel Jaffé
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich is very much today’s lingua franca both in the concert...
Music after the Fall
Modern Composition and Culture since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
"...the best extant map of our sonic shadowlands, and it has changed how I listen."—Alex Ross, The New Yorker
"...an essential survey of contemporary music."—New York Times
"…sharp, provacative and always on the money. The listening list alone promises...