The Complete Idiot’s Guide Music Dictionary PDF The Complete Idiot’s Guide Music Dictionary Book. Written in clear, concise language, The Complete Idiot’s Guide Music Dictionary spans the gamut of musical knowledge, making it indispensable to any musician. Covering various terms, theories, instruments, important works, musicians, and composers, music Download link
Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century What does jazz mean 20 years into the 21st century? Has streaming culture rendered music literally meaningless, thanks to the removal of all context beyond the playlist? Are there any traditions left to explore? Has the destruction of the apprenticeship model (young musicians learning from their elders) changed the music irrevocably?… Read More »
Virtual Music: Sound, Music & Image in the Digital Era Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where ‘the digital won’t let[us] go…’ Technology has revolutionized music, especially in the 21st century where the traditional rules and conventions of music creation, consumption, distribution, promotion, and… Read More »
Resounding Images: Medieval Intersections of Art Music & Sound PDF Medieval art has most often been extracted from its audible ambience, denying us means to understand the way it would have been experienced in a sonic context. Although sound is probably the most difficult component of the past to reconstruct, it was also the most pervasive, whether planned… Read More »
Tracey Marino Vance Marino Hey Thats My Song A Guide to Getting Music Placements in Film TV & Media [PDF] Learn About The World Of Sync If you’ve ever wanted to hear your music playing in film, TV, commercials, video games, or movie trailers, then this is the book for you. There are thousands of books available about… Read More »
The Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis & Tonal Traditions [PDF] Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research. The author argues that… Read More »
Music Production Cultures: Perspectives on Popular Music Pedagogy in Higher Education [PDF] Music Production Cultures draws on interviews with international educators, surveys completed by students of music production from around the globe, doctoral research findings and contextualised career experiences from the author as a celebrated music producer to explore how effective learning environments can be created for popular… Read More »
Guitar Chords For Dummies 2nd Edition Guitar Chords For Dummies is full of, well, guitar chords. This indispensable reference is a must for guitarists of every ambition, skill level, and musical genre, providing a key to the simplest and most complex guitar chords—over 600 in all. Each chord is illustrated with a chord diagram and a photo with… Read More »
Music & Technology (2nd Edition): A Very Short Introduction [Audiobook] This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. In its most common use, “music technology” tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment, music notation software, and the like.… Read More »
The Pianist’s Guide to Pedaling [PDF] Joseph Banowetz and four distinguished contributors provide practical suggestions and musicological insights on the pedaling of keyboard works from the 18th to the 20th century. ” . . . a most precious book which every serious pianist and teacher must own.” —Journal of the American Liszt Society Download link
Quantum Computer Music: Foundations, Methods & Advanced Concepts PDF This book explores music with respect to quantum computing, a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly. There is a long history of research into using computers for music since the 1950s. Nowadays, computers are essential for the music economy. Therefore, it is very likely that quantum computers will impact… Read More »
Brilliant Techniques for Guitarist M1.0: Rock It Now This book approaches music with an innovative perspective to understand (7) Modes. In addition, this book provides practices Modes by legato technique with a step-by-step method. I believe that this book is a must-read musical book among many books for a guitarist. Download link
The Philosophy of Modern Song PDF The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing… Read More »
So You Want to Be a Professional Guitarist (Audiobook) So You Want To Be A Professional Guitarist is a discussion, by professional guitarist Ged Brockie who has worked in the music business for over thirty five years considers the reality of working in music. He also discusses the skills needed to survive in this demanding business as a… Read More »
Reverberation: Do Everything Better with Music PDF It turns out music isn’t just about entertainment—it’s a deeply embedded, subtly powerful means of communication. Songs resonate with your brain wave patterns and drive changes in your brain: creating your moods, consolidating your memories, strengthening your habits (the good ones and the bad ones alike) . . . even making… Read More »