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 »
Piano Improvisation: How to improvise minimalistic & classical music PDF Piano improvisation is playing with music – playing in the true sense of the word. It is a game: set yourself some rules and be as creative as possible within that framework of restrictions. This book is a guide on how to improvise. Whereas most books on piano… Read More »
Film rhythm after sound: technology music & performance The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. Film Rhythm after Sound analyzes this evolution via close examination of important prototypes of early sound filmmaking, as well as contemporary discussions of rhythm,… Read More »
Master Handbook of Acoustics, 7th Edition PDF The industry standard guide to room acoustics―fully updated with the latest advances Based on the classic text written by acoustics pioneer F. Alton Everest, this revised resource presents the fundamentals of acoustics along with time-tested solutions and detailed room designs. Acoustics, Seventh Edition explains the art and science of room acoustics… Read More »
Five Straight Lines: A History of Music ‘Fascinating … Composer Andrew Gant is a masterful guide, introducing readers to the major players and key themes of an entrancing topic.’ BBC History Magazine Whether you prefer Baroque or pop, Theremins or violins, the music you love and listen to shapes your world. But what shaped the music? Ranging across… Read More »
Musical Performance & Changing City: Post-industrial Contexts in Europe & United States PDF A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities… Read More »
Philosophers On Music: Experience, Meaning & Work by Kathleen Stock PDF Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition. The issues tackled include: the question of what sort of thing a work of music is; the nature of… Read More »
Bridge of Waves: What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World by W. A. Mathieu PDF Music is, in one sense, merely a series of fleeting vibrations that arise and subside. How could it be that something so insubstantial fills us, and calms us, and makes us weep? Because, says W. A. Mathieu, music bridges… Read More »
The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera PDF A user’s guide to opera—Matthew Aucoin, “the most promising operatic talent in a generation” (The New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art. Its first… Read More »
Making Musical Time by Guerino Mazzola PDF This book is a comprehensive examination of the conception, perception, performance, and composition of time in music across time and culture. It surveys the literature of time in mathematics, philosophy, psychology, music theory, and somatic studies (medicine and disability studies) and looks ahead through original research in performance, composition, psychology, and… Read More »
The Ultimate Guitar Scales Book: A Must Have For Every Guitar Player + Learn useful scale A Must Have For Every Guitar Player! This book can be used as a learning, reference or practice tool to explore new scales and shapes to help improve your improvisational skills or practice routine. Going from the simplest scales, such as the… Read More »
The Ultimate Guitar Arpeggio Book: A Must Have For Every Guitar Player + Learn over 165 useful & movable arpeggio shapes PDF Starting from the most basic triad arpeggios to the more advanced extended arpeggios such as ninths, elevenths and thirteenths, this book uses the CAGED system to help you play all the possible shapes over the fretboard.… Read More »
Worship Sound Spaces PDF Christine Guillebaud, a social anthropologist and an ethnomusicologist, is a Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She belongs to the Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (CREM-LESC), located at the University of Paris Nanterre. Her academic interests include anthropology of sound, sound studies and the study of urban ambiances. She is… Read More »
A New & Concise History of Rock & R&B through the Early 1990s PDF Ethnomusicologist Eric Charry’s innovative and road-tested textbook is an introduction to rock and R&B suitable for general education courses in music and also accessible for any readers interested in a novel approach to gaining a historically rich, yet concise understanding of these genres. The… Read More »
The Listening Party: Artists, Bands & Fans Reflect On 100 Favourite Albums by Tim Burgess PDF The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess invites you to the greatest listening party of all time. In 2020 when the world was forced to hit pause on live in-person gigs, Tim Burgess found an ingenious way to bring people together by inviting artists and… Read More »