Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices PDF The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory and practice. Musicians listen, play, and then listen more profoundly in order to play differently, adapt the body, and sense the environment. They become deeply involved in the sensorial qualities of music practice. Artistic practice refers to the original meaning of… Read More »
Sudden Music: Improvisation, Sound, Nature PDF Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, “is a means of rapid transformation.” It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a musical way of knowing that can… Read More »
Making Music & Having a Blast!: A Guide for All Music Students PDF In her follow-up to “Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers”, Bonnie Blanchard offers students a set of tools for their musical lives that will help them stay engaged, even during the challenging times in their musical development. Blanchard discusses issues… Read More »
Hip-Hop Genius 2.0: Remixing High School Education PDF Many educators already know that hip-hop can be a powerful tool for engaging students. But can hip-hop save our schools-and our society? Hip-Hop Genius 2.0 introduces an iteration of hip-hop education that goes far beyond studying rap music as classroom content. Through stories about the professional rapper who founded the… Read More »
Arduino Projects: How To Make Music With Arduino: Sd Card Slot Arduino PDF If you are researching Arduino Music projects, you want to deeply study about instruments. Let’s read this book, It can teach you about a Theremin, a Drum Machine, a Jukebox, Sequencer and more to to complete your project. Besides, It also clearly shows the details,… Read More »
Hip-Hop for Piano Solo: 10 Inventive Arrangements Intermediate Level PDF (Educational Piano Library). 10 absolutely engaging intermediate-level piano arrangements of hip-hop hits that will thrill pianists young and old. Perfect for electrifying the year-end recital or a small house concert. Titles: Can’t Hold Us (Macklemore) * Empire State of Mind (Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys) * Family Business (Kanye… Read More »
First 50 Piano Solos You Should Play: Easy Piano Songbook PDF First 50 Piano Solos You Should Play – Easy Piano This collection features 50 simply arranged, must-know classical and contemporary favorites, including: Always Clair de Lune The Entertainer Fallin’ Imagine Lean on Me Linus and Lucy Piano Man The Pink Panther Rhapsody in Blue River Flows in… Read More »
Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook PDF Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future? Should we be looking at how music relates to society and constructs meaning through it, rather than how it transcends the social? Can we ‘remix’ our discipline and attempt to address… Read More »
Exhibitions, Music & British Empire PDF International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, through displays of physical objects, the full spectrum of the world’s achievements, from industry and manufacturing, to art and design. But exhibitions were not just visual spaces. Music was ever present, as… Read More »
Push: Software Design & the Cultural Politics of Music Production PDF Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video… Read More »
Learn How to Play Keyboard – Piano With Auto-Accompaniment: A Self Tuition Book For Absolute Beginners PDF As the title suggests, this book has been written for absolute beginners who wish to play keyboard using auto-accompaniment and assumes no prior musical knowledge – just the desire to do it! Items covered include: Buying your first keyboard or piano;… Read More »
More Important Than the Music: A History of Jazz Discography PDF Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This… Read More »
The Sounds & Sights of Performance in Early Music: Essays in Honour of Timothy J. McGee The experience of music performance is always far more than the sum of its sounds, and evidence for playing and singing techniques is not only inscribed in music notation but can also be found in many other types of primary source materials.… Read More »
Music Business Handbook & Career Guide PDF This powerhouse best-selling text remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the music industry. The breadth of coverage that Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, Eleventh Edition offers surpasses any other resource available. Readers new to the music business and seasoned professionals alike will find David Baskerville and Tim Baskerville’s handbook… Read More »
Ligeti’s Macroharmonies: A Graphical-Statistical Analysis of Book 3 of the Piano Etudes (Computational Music Science) In the third and final book of his iconic piano etudes György Ligeti charts a new path relative to the rest of his musical output, representing a significant arrival in a composer’s oeuvre known for its stylistic transformations. This monograph is the first… Read More »