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Home Studio Handbook: Beginner Edition PDF Home Studio Handbook: Beginner Edition gets you up to speed with the fast-moving world of music making at home. We show you the gear you’ll need, how to set it up and teach you the basics of music production whether it’s recording your band or making a whole track on your laptop.… Read More »
Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World’s Greatest Guitarists PDF A deluxe photographic celebration of the unsung hero of guitar music—the effects pedal—featuring interviews with 100 musicians including Peter Frampton, Joe Perry, Jack White, and Courtney Barnett. Ever since the Sixties, fuzz boxes, wah-wahs, phase shifters, and a vast range of guitar effects pedals have shaped the sound of… Read More »
Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing PDF The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing a line slower,… Read More »
Microsound by Curtis Roads PDF AIFF Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music—notes and their intervals—into a more fluid and supple medium. The… Read More »
Demystifying Scriabin PDF This book is an innovative contribution to Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) studies, covering aspects of Scriabin’s life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, as well as his interaction with contemporary Russian culture. It offers new and original research from leading and upcoming Russian music scholars. Key Scriabin topics such as mysticism, philosophy, music theory, contemporary aesthetics, and… Read More »
The Cambridge Companion to Music & Romanticism PDF This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explore what Romanticism in music might mean today. Challenging the view that musical ‘romanticism’ is confined to a particular style or period, it reveals instead the multiple… Read More »
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Think DSP: Digital Signal Processing in Python by Allen B. Downey PDF Think DSP is an introduction to Digital Signal Processing in Python. The premise of this book (and the other books in the Think X series) is that if you know how to program, you can use that skill to learn other things. I am writing this… Read More »
Sound Work: Composition as Critical Technical Practice PDF The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technological contexts of music and musicians. But musical authorship, in its many technical and aesthetic modes, remains an important component of music culture. Musicians are increasingly called on to share their experience in writing. However, cultural… Read More »
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Popular Music & the Poetics of Self in Fiction PDF Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction explores the various links between the self and popular music in contemporary fiction. In the novels discussed in this volume, musical references go far beyond creating a tapestry of sound, they make literary characters come alive by giving an… Read More »