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Insights into Music Composition PDF

By | March 1, 2022

Insights into Music Composition PDF Insights into Music Composition is a guide and source of inspiration for beginning students of music composition. Drawing on perspectives from a range of experienced composers, the book introduces readers to the compositional process, emphasizing how to think about creating a piece of music from beginning to end by providing not only a… Read More »

From Data to Decisions in Music Education Research

By | February 24, 2022

From Data to Decisions in Music Education Research From Data to Decisions in Music Education Research provides a structured and hands-on approach to working with empirical data in the context of music education research. Using step-by-step tutorials with in-depth examples of music education data and research questions, this text draws upon concepts in data science and statistics to… Read More »

The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo PDF

By | February 23, 2022

The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo PDF A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth” (Yunte Huang, author ofCharlie Chan). Garrett Hongo’s passion for audio… Read More »

Intertextuality in Music Dialogic Composition PDF

By | February 22, 2022

Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition PDF The concept of intertextuality – namely, the meaning generated by interrelations between different texts – was coined in the 1960s among literary theorists and has been widely applied since then to many other disciplines, including music.  Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition provides a systematic investigation of musical intertextuality not only as a… Read More »

Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media PDF

By | February 21, 2022

Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media PDF This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively under-explored in a 21st century context. The music video has remained suspended between two distinct poles.… Read More »

Vinyl Age A Guide To Record Collecting Now PDF

By | February 21, 2022

Vinyl Age A Guide To Record Collecting Now PDF From Carolina Soul Records, one of the world’s largest online record sellers, comes the definitive guide to every aspect of record collecting in the digital era. Any music fan knows that there’s nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. Even with access to a variety of streaming services,… Read More »

Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound & Vision PDF

By | February 19, 2022

Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound & Vision PDF Digital, visual media are found in most aspects of everyday life, from workplaces to household devices – computer and digital television screens, appliances such as refrigerators and home assistants, and applications for social media and gaming. Each technologically enabled opportunity brings an increasingly sophisticated language with the act of… Read More »

Rock & Rhapsodies: The Music of Queen PDF

By | February 19, 2022

Rock & Rhapsodies: The Music of Queen PDF Since 1973, Queen have captivated listeners through the intense sonic palette of voices and guitars, the sprawling and epic journeys of songs, and charismatic splendour of their live performances. Rock and Rhapsodies is the first book to undertake a musicological study of the band’s output, with a fundamental aim of… Read More »

Deleuze & Music PDF

By | February 19, 2022

Deleuze & Music PDF Deleuze and Music is the first volume to explore Deleuze’s ideas from the perspective of music and sound. Music is central to Deleuze’s work from Difference and Repetition and the Logic of Sense to Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature and A Thousand Plateaus (both written with Félix Guattari), music and sound-based problems contribute a… Read More »

Music as Philosophy: Adorno & Beethoven’s Late Style PDF

By | February 19, 2022

Music as Philosophy: Adorno & Beethoven’s Late Style PDF Beethoven’s late style is the language of his ninth symphony, the Missa Solemnis, the last piano sonatas and string quartets, the Diabelli Variations, the Bagatelles, as well as five piano sonatas, five string quartets, and several smaller piano works. Historically, these works are seen as forging a bridge between… Read More »

Classical Guitar For Dummies, 2nd Edition

By | February 18, 2022

Classical Guitar For Dummies, 2nd Edition Discover the magic of classical guitar with this fun and easy guide The perfect starting point to learning classical guitar, Classical Guitar For Dummies, walks you through the steps, techniques, and styles you’ll need to finger-pick your way around some of the most beautiful songs ever written. Whether you’re a first timer… Read More »

Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music PDF

By | February 18, 2022

Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music PDF Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with adolescent development, authors… Read More »