Appreciation category: 175 books

Everyone, according to W.A. Mathieu, is musical by nature—it goes right along with being human. And if you don't believe it, this book will convince you. In a series of interrelated short essays, Mathieu takes the reader on a journey through ordinary experiences to open our ears to the rich variety...

I hope that this little book may serve as an introduction for some to the very interesting borderland between physics and music. It is a borderland in which the co-operation of musicians and physicists may have important results for the future of music.

Sir James Jeans, noted British scientist, has given a physical analysis of musical sounds, in what is considered to be the best exposition on the subject, a book of great intellectual stature. His aim has been to convey precise information, in a simple non-technical way, that will be of interest to...

Experiencing Alice Cooper: A Listener’s Companion takes a long overdue look at the music and stage act of rock music’s self-styled arch-villain. A provocateur from the very start of his career in the mid-1960s, Alice Cooper, aka Vince Furnier, son of a lay preacher in the Church of Jesus Christ,...

On the Sensations of Tone is one of the world's greatest scientific classics. It bridges the gap between the natural sciences and music theory and, nearly a century after its first publication, it is still a standard text for the study of physiological acoustics — the scientific basis of musical...

Considéré dans ce texte: Montréal et la musique. La nouveauté et le sens de la mesure. Les lofts. Arcade Fire et ses émules. Le rock. Les deux solitudes.

Music teachers around the world have positively influenced the lives of children. From Susan Udell who reaches out to over 3,000 students in Madison Wisconsin through her Handchimes program, to Deidre Roberts who shares the love of music to children in poverty stricken areas of Pakistan, Ecuador and...

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...

¿A qué suena la música que hoy está haciendo historia? El pianista islandés Ólafur Arnalds dijo una vez que en vez de elevar un puente sobre la música clásica y la popular, la verdadera misión era secar las aguas por debajo, y en cierta forma esa es la actitud que define el nuevo sonido en...

Music and the Broadcast Experience explores the complex ways in which music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. It brings into dialogue researchers working in media and music studies; explores and develops crucial points of contact...

Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences, and charged with aggressive dialogue. The sound tracks are even more traumatic to hear than his stories...

Camp Granada is a curriculum and administrative guide to organize a music camp in your school, church, community center, or wherever there are people who love music and who desire to share that love of music with young children. Its theme-based lessons blend the instructional rigor of formal music...

Melómano tanto o más que hombre de letras, George Steiner ha escrito a lo largo de medio siglo una gran variedad de textos sobre compositores, géneros musicales y algunas piezas en particular, siempre con una sensibilidad que le permite ir más allá del fenómeno sonoro. Nunca antes reunidos en...

The Classical Revolution studies the recent emergence of a new brand of classical music, one rooted in “pre-modern” tonal traditions. Through polemical essays on the conflict between re-emergent tradition and the usual, bland “modern music” in which academic atonalism, process music and attempts...