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 »
La Musique et l’Ineffable par Vladimir Jankélévitch PDF « Il y a dans la musique une double complication, génératrice de problèmes métaphysiques et de problèmes moraux, et bien faite pour entretenir notre perplexité. Car la musique est à la fois expressive et inexpressive, sérieuse et frivole, profonde et superficielle ; elle a un sens et n’a pas de… Read More »
George Clinton & The Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire by Kris Needs PDF The first in-depth biography of one of music’s most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. This book is the most comprehensive history yet of the life, music and cultural significance of the last of the great black music pioneers and the era which spawned him.… Read More »
Jimi Hendrix ”Talking”: Jimi Hendrix in His Own Words by Jimi Hendrix & Tony Brown PDF Jimi Hendrix is still widely revered as the most gifted guitarist in the history of rock. His fluency on an electric guitar was breathtaking, and he had a way with words that somehow paralleled his music. Fortunately, Jimi gave many interviews during… Read More »
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra & the Birth of Afrofuturism by Paul Youngquist Surveying the range of Sun Ra’s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought “space music” to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world. Links
Teaching the Whole Musician: A Guide to Wellness in the Applied Studio PDF In Teaching the Whole Musician: A Guide to Wellness in the Applied Studio, author Paola Savvidou empowers applied music instructors to honor and support their students’ wellness through compassion-filled conversation tools, hands-on activities for injury prevention, mental health protection, and recovery support. Many music students… Read More »
An Illustrated Dictionary for the Modern Trombone, Tuba & Euphonium Player (Dictionaries for the Modern Musician) PDF Modern low brass instruments—trombone, tuba, and euphonium—have legions of ancestors, cousins, and descendants in over five-hundred years of history. Prominent scholar and performer Douglas Yeo provides a unique, accessible reference guide that addresses a broad range of relevant topics and brings… Read More »
16 Easy Christmas Songs for Solo Piano: Beginner & Intermediate Arrangements of Every Song PDF Learn to play 16 Easy Piano Christmas Songs with our free audio play-along tracks! This beginner piano Christmas songbook is packed with easy-to-follow holiday piano songs so you’ll be ready to impress your friends and family during the holiday season! No complicated piano… Read More »
DIFF Devices ASPECT II ASPECT II enables you to compare your mix to other mixes with a simple click of the A-B button inside Ableton Live. It is designed to provide you with an easy, elegant workflow. From drag and drop file loading (you can even drop multiple reference tracks in one go), loop functions, multiple analysis (spectrum,… Read More »
Cr2 Sound of Techno 2 MULTIFORMAT Containing a total of 2.27GB, this pack contains quality sounds, MIDI, presets, tutorials and video tutorials covering the full spectrum of Techno. There are dark, rolling basslines, tight, punchy drum hits and huge kick drums guaranteed to underpin the heaviest techno production. The dark hypnotic synth loops and key labelled songstarters construction… Read More »
Cr2 Ultimate Guitar House WAV MIDI PRESETS PDF Are you interested in adding 522.2MB of breathtaking Guitar House audio files, MIDI, presets, Prod-Cast video tutorials and production tips & tricks to your sonic arsenal? With Summer 2017 coming just round the corner we have put together all the tools to help you make amazing music, right away! So… Read More »
Jazz & the Philosophy of Art by Lee B. Brown, David Goldblatt & Theodore Gracyk PDF Co-authored by three prominent philosophers of art, Jazz and the Philosophy of Art is the first book in English to be exclusively devoted to philosophical issues in jazz. It covers such diverse topics as minstrelsy, bebop, Voodoo, social and tap dancing, parades,… Read More »
The Oxford Handbook of Music & Medievalisma PDF The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism—the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages—powerfully transforms many of the varied musical traditions of the last two centuries. Thirty-three chapters from an international group of… Read More »
Music, Geometry & Mathematics: The Source Code Revealed by Derrick Scott van Heerden “Music, Geometry and Mathematics – The Source Code Revealed” finally explains why there are so many connections between musical harmony, sacred geometry and certain ancient mathematical systems, such as those of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Maya. Links