The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store
PROSE AWARDS MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS FINALIST 2024 Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. Record stores speak volumes about our relationship to shopping, capitalism, and art. This book takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general. What was their role in shaping social practices, aesthetic tastes, and even, loosely put, ideologies? From women-owned and independent record stores, to Reggae record shops in London, to Rough Trade in Paris, this book takes on a global and interdisciplinary approach to evaluating record stores. It collects stories and memories, and facts about a variety of local stores that not only re-centers the record store as a marketplace of ideas, but also explore and celebrate a neglected personal history of many lives.
The Dead C’s Clyma Est Mort
The Dead C's Clyma est mort (1993) is the record of a live gig for one person. Tom Lax was running the Siltbreeze label in Philadelphia and had come to New Zealand to meet the artists he was releasing. He heard The Dead C at their noisy, improvised best, turning rock music on its head with a free-form style of blaring, loosely organised sound. Leading a second wave of music from Dunedin, New Zealand, The Dead C were an assault against the kind of jangly pop that had made the Dunedin Sound famous during the 1980s. This book uses The Dead C and in particular their album Clyma est mort (1993) to offer insights into the way the best of rock music plays vertigo with our senses, illustrating a sonic picture of freedom and energy. It places the album into the history of independent music in New Zealand, and into an international context of independent labels posting, faxing and phoning each other.
The Musician as Philosopher
An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music's ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York: David Tudor, Ornette Coleman, the Velvet Underground, Alice Coltrane, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell. It contends that these musicians--all of whom are understudied and none of whom are traditionally taken to be composers--not only challenged the rules by which music is written and practiced but also confounded and reconfigured gendered and racialized expectations for what critics took to be legitimate forms of musical sound. From a broad historical perspective, their arresting music electrified a widely recognized social tendency of the 1960s: a simultaneous affirmation and crisis of the modern self.
Repeated Takes
Repeated Takes is the first general book on the history of the recording industry, covering the entire field from Edison's talking tin foil of 1877 to the age of the compact disc. Michael Chanan considers the record as a radically new type of commodity which turned the intangible performance of music into a saleable object, and describes the upset which this caused in musical culture. He asks: What goes on in a recording studio? How does it affect the music? Do we listen to music differently because of reproduction? Repeated Takes relates the growth and development of the industry, both technically and economically; the effects of the microphone on interpretation in both classical and popular music; and the impact of all these factors on musical styles and taste. This highly readable book also traces the connections between the development of recording and the rise of new forms of popular music, and discusses arguments among classical musicians about microphone technique and studio practice.
Essential Music Theory Level 8
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Essential Music Theory Level 6
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Essential Music Theory Level 1
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Essential Music Theory Level 3
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Essential Music Theory Primer
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. They are a great way to prepare for theory examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. This Primer level covers information from the first lesson and is a great way to introduce theory to a student.
Essential Music Theory Level 2
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
The Elementary Music Theory Note Speller
The Elementary Music Theory Note Speller is designed to help students learn to read notes by giving them plenty of practice naming and writing notes in the treble, bass, and grand staves. It is effective for students from pre-school to adult to reinforce material learned in the practical lesson.
Essential Music Theory Level 7
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Essential Music Theory Answers All in One
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. This book contains the answer key to Essential Music Theory All in One.
Essential Music Theory Answers 9
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. This book contains the answer key to level 9.
Essential Music Theory Answers 1-4
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. This book contains the answer key to levels 1 to 4.
Essential Music Theory Answers 1-8
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. This book contains the answer key to levels 1 to 8.
Essential Music Theory Levels 1-3
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. This level is a compilation of Books 1 to 3 of the series.
Into the Memory Hole
In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', George Orwell's prophetic novel about a future "world of lies", the author wrote about a device called the Memory Hole. It is used to alter any record, like a press report or a photograph, that no longer fits with the ever-changing policies of the Big Brother regime. Now imagine an historian trying to retrieve even a few of those records before they are doctored or destroyed. Would it be possible to reverse what Orwell described as a "process of continuous alteration" of the past? 'Into the Memory Hole' is much more than a nostalgia trip. It is an attempt to re-evaluate our assumptions about human history, to rediscover the shocking truth about our own "world of lies".
Essential Music Theory Level 9
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. Level 9 focuses on harmony.
Essential Music Theory All in One
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. This is a compilation of Levels 1 to 8. This book is a complete music rudiments text, but it does not contain the history information required for a conservatory rudiments examination.
Essential Music Theory Levels 7-8
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. This is a compilation of books 7 and 8.
Essential Music Theory Levels 4-6
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. This is a compilation of books 4 to 6 of the series.
On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, whiteness and maleness are woven into the fabric of the field, and BIPOC music theorists face enormous hurdles due to their racial identities. In On Music Theory, Philip Ewell brings together autobiography, music theory and history, and theory and history of race in the United States to offer a black perspective on the state of music theory and to confront the field's white supremacist roots. Over the course of the book, Ewell undertakes a textbook analysis to unpack the mythologies of whiteness and western-ness with respect to music theory, and gives, for the first time, his perspective on the controversy surrounding the publication of volume 12 of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies. He speaks directly about the antiblackness of music theory and the antisemitism of classical music writ large and concludes by offering suggestions about how we move forward. Taking an explicitly antiracist approach to music theory, with this book Ewell begins to create a space in which those who have been marginalized in music theory can thrive.
Mapping (Post)Colonial Paris by Ear
What does the urban (post)colonial condition sound like? To what extent and how is France's colonial history audible today on the streets, specifically in the Parisian quartiers populaires? Musical and sonic production has long been entangled with social movements in France and her overseas territories, and genres such as hip hop and ra簿 have been closely associated with the urban spaces of Paris's racialized neighborhoods and with political resistance. This Element refines and extends these analyses up to contemporary antiracist and environmental struggles. Its novelty lies in telling these narratives from the perspective of the urban field recordist, reinventing the bourgeois figure of the fl璽neur as a feminist-decolonial activist and configuring listening as an expressly spatial practice of mapping the city. The discrete binaural microphones tucked in her ears capture everything from Franco-Maghrebi musical dissent through the sounds of police brutality and carceral capitalism to transcolonial reverberations with struggles elsewhere.
Climate - Warming of the Oceans
This is a composition of observations and citations from authors and institutions working in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Ecology, and Engineering, which bring contributions to decrease the temperature of the oceans.The intention is to present these contributions, from the cited areas of science, in a single document, because most of them are scattered and separated in the various research media.We highlight the studies of algae, diatoms, and tailings from the foundry industry and agro-industry, as nutrients for diatoms.The study made it possible to raise some important aspects in exploringnew ways to contain the temperature increase of the oceans, through the biochemical action of phytoplanktonbiochemical action of phytoplankton organisms, such as algae and diatoms.The bibliographical consultations allowed us to observe that there is a great concern with global warming.
Undergraduate Research in Religious Studies
Undergraduate Research in Religious Studies provides students and faculty with an invaluable guide to conducting research across the study of religion. Emphasising student-faculty collaboration, the book addresses key areas, methods, and practical issues informing practice of undergraduate research across a range of subdisciplines.
Transformational Music Teaching
Designed as a practical resource, this book examines transformational and inclusive approaches to the teaching of music at the postsecondary level based on first-person interviews with renowned musicians and their students. At the heart of the study are musical/artistic perspectives and pedagogical approaches from leading artists and the insights of their students on the impact of the teaching and mentoring process. Through case studies with renowned musicians and their prot矇g矇s, the book identifies common themes in teaching and mentoring across classical and jazz performance. Each case study is a master class with the artist that offers insight into the evolution of the individual's musical career, their approach to teaching, and specific strategies for navigating the complexities of the music business environment. With remarkable candor, artists and their prot矇g矇s share how they navigated significant obstacles in their career journeys. Including overcoming performance anxiety, disability and injury, lack of financial support, difficulty obtaining an agent and recording contracts, country location and stereotypes based on gender and nationality. The book serves as an important resource for music educators by offering concrete approaches to mentoring talented students, while also sharing specific strategies for aspiring professional musicians seeking to forge a career in a highly competitive musical market.
Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop
Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip-hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making, providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with experts from the world of Hip Hop and beyond. Beginning with the history of hip-hop music making, this book guides the reader through the alternative techniques deployed by beat-makers to avoid the use of copyrighted samples and concludes with a consideration of the future of Hip Hop, alongside a companion album that has been created using findings from this research. Challenging previous theoretical understandings about Hip Hop, the author focuses on deconstructing sonic phenomena using his hands-on engineering expertise and in-depth musicological knowledge about record production. With a significant emphasis on both practice and theory, Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers working in audio engineering, music production, hip-hop studies, and musicology.
Essential Music Theory Level 10
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. Level 10 focuses on harmony and counterpoint.
Candy-Striped Cauliflower Capers-A Wyrd-Psych-Folk sampler 2013-2023
Fully illustrated with over 200 black and white images. Featuring Angeline Morrison, Sendelica, Us and Them, Earthling Society, Beautify Junkyards, Octopus Sing, Schizo Fun Addict, Crystal Jacqueline, Soft Hearted Scientists, Ghost Box Records, Mordecai Smyth, the Chemistry Set, Rowan Amber Mill, Sand Snowman, Dodson & Fogg, Icarus Peel, Fruits De Mer Records, United Bible Studies, A Year In The Country and many more.
Sunken Heights
The debut book of poems from the acclaimed musician, lead singer and lyricist of Iceage, featuring R繪nnenfelt's original Danish text and artwork by Elizabeth Peyton.Sunken Heights is a work of poetry in a grand tradition: a quest in verse through reverie and observation, equal parts enigmatically abstracted and grittily real. Presented in both the original Danish text and R繪nnenfelt's own English translation, Sunken Heights balances the poet's reflections on the aggressive and primal present with strikingly romantic and surprisingly vulnerable musings on variations of love, delusion, and maturation in a smoldering world.
Essential Music Theory Level 5
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Essential Music Theory Answers 5-8
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge. This book contains the answer key to levels 5 to 8.
Essential Music Theory Level 4
Essential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These books are a great way to prepare for examinations and support the practical lesson, giving students a well rounded musical education. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Taylor Swift Easy Piano Anthology - 2nd Edition: Easy-Level Song Arrangements with Lyrics
(Easy Piano Personality). This updated second edition features 26 songs from Taylor's career through Midnights arranged for easy piano with lyrics. Songs include: All Too Well * Anti-Hero * Back to December * Blank Space * Cardigan * Fifteen * Lavender Haze * Love Story * Mean * Shake It Off * 22 * Wildest Dreams * Willow * You Belong with Me * You Need to Calm Down * and more.
Ecologies of Creative Music Practice
Ecologies of Creative Music Practice: Mattering Music explores music as a dynamic practice embedded in contemporary ecological contexts, one that both responds to, and creates change within, the ecologies in which it is created and consumed.
The Life and Music of Graham Jackson
Agroundbreaking Black artist and his career in the Jim Crow South This book is the first biographyof Graham Jackson (1903‒1983), a virtuosic musician whose life story displays the complexities of being aBlack professional in the segregated South. David Cason discusses how Jacksonnavigated a web of racial and social negotiations throughout his long career andhighlights his little-known role in events of the twentieth century. Widely known for an iconic photo taken of him playing the accordionin tears at Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral, which became a Lifemagazine cover, Jackson is revealed here to have a much deeper story. He was aperformer, composer, and high school music director known for his skills on thepiano and organ. Jackson was among the first Black men to enlist in the Navy duringWorld War II, helping recruit many other volunteers and raising over $2 millionfor the war effort. After the war he became a fixture at Atlanta music venuesand in 1971, Governor Jimmy Carter proclaimed Jackson the State Musician ofGeorgia. Cason examines Jackson's groundbreaking roles with a critical eye, taking into account how Jackson drew on his connections with white elitesincluding Roosevelt, Coca-Cola magnate Robert Woodruff, and golfer Bobby Jones, and was censured by Black Power figures for playing songs associated withConfederate memory. Based on archival, newspaper, and interview materials, TheLife and Music of Graham Jackson brings into view the previously unknownstory of an ambitious and talented artist and his controversial approach to thepolitics and culture of his day. Publication of this work made possible by aSustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from theNational Endowment for the Humanities.
The Life and Music of Graham Jackson
Agroundbreaking Black artist and his career in the Jim Crow South This book is the first biographyof Graham Jackson (1903‒1983), a virtuosic musician whose life story displays the complexities of being aBlack professional in the segregated South. David Cason discusses how Jacksonnavigated a web of racial and social negotiations throughout his long career andhighlights his little-known role in events of the twentieth century. Widely known for an iconic photo taken of him playing the accordionin tears at Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral, which became a Lifemagazine cover, Jackson is revealed here to have a much deeper story. He was aperformer, composer, and high school music director known for his skills on thepiano and organ. Jackson was among the first Black men to enlist in the Navy duringWorld War II, helping recruit many other volunteers and raising over $2 millionfor the war effort. After the war he became a fixture at Atlanta music venuesand in 1971, Governor Jimmy Carter proclaimed Jackson the State Musician ofGeorgia. Cason examines Jackson's groundbreaking roles with a critical eye, taking into account how Jackson drew on his connections with white elitesincluding Roosevelt, Coca-Cola magnate Robert Woodruff, and golfer Bobby Jones, and was censured by Black Power figures for playing songs associated withConfederate memory. Based on archival, newspaper, and interview materials, TheLife and Music of Graham Jackson brings into view the previously unknownstory of an ambitious and talented artist and his controversial approach to thepolitics and culture of his day. Publication of this work made possible by aSustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from theNational Endowment for the Humanities.
This Must Be the Place
*Winner of the New York City Book Awards**A Kirkus Best Book of July**An InsideHook Book You Should Be Reading This July*A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city's music scenes from folk to house music.Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you'll likely pass some of the most significant clubs in American music history. But you won't know it--almost all of these venues have been demolished or repurposed, leaving no record of what they were, how they shaped music scenes or their impact on the neighborhoods around them.Traditional music history tells us that famous scenes are created by brilliant, singular artists. But dig deeper and you'll find that they're actually created by cheap rent, empty space and other unglamorous factors that allow artistic communities to flourish. The 1960s folk scene would have never existed without access to Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park. If the city hadn't gone bankrupt in 1975, there would have been no punk rock. Brooklyn indie rock of the 2000s was only able to come together because of the borough's many empty warehouse spaces. But these scenes are more than just moments of artistic genius--they're also part of the urban gentrification cycle, one that often displaces other communities and, eventually, the musicians themselves.Drawing from over a hundred exclusive interviews with a wide range of musicians, deejays and scenesters (including members of Peter, Paul and Mary; White Zombie; Moldy Peaches; Sonic Youth; Treacherous Three; Cro-Mags; Sun Ra Arkestra; and Suicide), writer, historian and tour guide Jesse Rifkin painstakingly reconstructs the physical history of numerous classic New York music scenes. This Must Be the Place examines how these scenes came together and fell apart--and shows how these communal artistic experiences are not just for rarefied geniuses but available to us all.
The Complete Elementary Music Rudiments
The Complete Elementary Music Rudiments has been used for over 25 years and is a trusted way to learn music theory. This book contains Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced rudiments all in one volume. This new edition of the original classic contains the same reliable information that has been used by thousands of teachers and students over the years. The book includes clear and concise lessons, with plenty of practice exercises and questions to work through. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Elementary Music Rudiments Intermediate
Elementary Music Rudiments Intermediate has been used for over 25 years and is a trusted way to learn music theory. This new edition of the original classic contains the same reliable information that has been used by thousands of teachers and students over the years. The book includes clear and concise lessons, with plenty of practice exercises and questions to work through. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Elementary Music Rudiments Advanced
Elementary Music Rudiments Advanced has been used for over 25 years and is a trusted way to learn music theory. This new edition of the original classic contains the same reliable information that has been used by thousands of teachers and students over the years. The book includes clear and concise lessons, with plenty of practice exercises and questions to work through. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Elementary Music Theory Book 3
Teachers have been using Elementary Music Theory for over 25 years as a beginning theory method. This edition is filled with exercises for elementary level students. It compliments any beginner method and is great to use right from the very first lesson. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Elementary Music Theory Book 1
Elementary Music Rudiments has been used for over 25 years and is a trusted way to learn music theory. This new edition of the original classic contains the same reliable information that has been used by thousands of teachers and students over the years. The book includes clear and concise lessons, with plenty of practice exercises and questions to work through. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Elementary Music Theory Book 2
Teachers have been using Elementary Music Theory for over 25 years as a beginning theory method. This edition is filled with exercises for elementary level students. It compliments any beginner method and is great to use right from the very first lesson. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Elementary Music Rudiments Basic
Elementary Music Rudiments Basic has been used for over 25 years and is a trusted way to learn music theory. This new edition of the original classic contains the same reliable information that has been used by thousands of teachers and students over the years. The book includes clear and concise lessons, with plenty of practice exercises and questions to work through. Helpful diagrams and images accompany each lesson and combine with a variety of engaging learning activities to reinforce essential skills and knowledge.
Let’s Do It
The must-read music book of the year--and the first such history bringing together all musical genres to tell the definitive narrative of the birth of Pop from 1900 to the mid-1950s. Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century. Who were these earliest record stars--and were they in any meaningful way "pop stars"? Who was George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a decade or more, become almost invisible after World War II? The prequel to Bob Stanley's celebrated Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!, this new volume is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock and the modern pop age. Covering superstars such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra, alongside the unheralded songwriters and arrangers behind some of our most enduring songs, Stanley paints an aural portrait of pop music's formative years in stunning clarity, uncovering the silver threads and golden needles that bind the form together. Bringing the eclectic, evolving world of early pop to life--from ragtime, blues, and jazz to Broadway, country, crooning, and beyond--Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers. "An encyclopaedic introduction to the fascinating and often forgotten creators of Anglo-American hit music in the first half of the twentieth century."--Neil Tennant (The Pet Shop Boys)
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven by Franz Hoffmann has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.
