Category Archives: Education

Digital Filters: Analysis, Design & Signal Processing Applications Written by a Life Fellow of the IEEE, this comprehensive textbook teaches digital filter design, realization, and implementation and provides detailed illustrations and real-world applications of digital filters to signal processing. Digital Filters: Analysis, Design, and Signal Processing Applications provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals and concepts of DSP… Read More »

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music: Foundations, Advanced Approaches & Developments for Creativity PDF This book presents comprehensive coverage of the latest advances in research into enabling machines to listen to and compose new music. It includes chapters introducing what we know about human musical intelligence and on how this knowledge can be simulated with AI. The development… Read More »

Music Cultures in Sounds, Words & Images PDF “Music cultures in sounds, words and images”, edited by Antonio Baldassarre and Tatjana Markovic, is dedicated to the 60th birthday of the Croatian-American musicologist Zdravko Blažekovic (b. 1956, Zagreb). After his studies of musicology and first working experiences in Zagreb, Blažekovic moved to New York City, where he is since… Read More »

Indirection: On Becoming a Better Musician & Trumpet Player as a Conceptual Process PDF Indirection: On Becoming a Better Musician and Trumpet Player as a Conceptual Process Paperback – April 10, 2021 Combining a memoir by one of today’s most renowned musicians with musical insights, reflections from colleagues and students, and even a few recipes, INDIRECTION is both… Read More »

Let’s Calculate Bach: Applying Information Theory & Statistics to Numbers in Music This book shows how information theory, probability, statistics, mathematics and personal computers can be applied to the exploration of numbers and proportions in music. It brings the methods of scientific and quantitative thinking to questions like: What are the ways of encoding a message in music… Read More »

Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music, 2nd Edition Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music presents an approach to conceptualizing and utilizing technology as a tool for music learning. Designed for use by pre- and in-service music teachers, it provides the essential understandings required to become an… Read More »

The Auditory Setting: Environmental Sounds in Film & Media Arts The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental sounds, or ‘ambience’. Although this sonic backdrop acts as the acoustically mediated space where a story or event can take… Read More »

Beat Specials English Edition Melodic Techno 2021 PDF A minimal beat at a moderate tempo, soft booming bass and dreamy melodies … the concept for a typical melodic techno track could look like this or similar. Sure, the reality looks much more complex, but in principle, simple structures and goosebump moments have higher priority in this sound than… Read More »

The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music PDF The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM’s place on the map of popular music. The book accounts for various ambiguities, variations, transformations, and manifestations of EDM, pertaining to its generic fragmentation, large geographical spread, modes of consumption and, changes in technology. It focuses especially on its current state, its future,… Read More »

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century Volume 1: Works Written Before 2000 Described as the “life and soul of British contemporary music”, Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, Volumes I and II, she provides a seasoned expert’s guidance and insight into the… Read More »

Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity is a practical blueprint for teachers wanting to begin teaching music technology to secondary age students. Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein inspire classroom music teachers to expand beyond traditional ensemble-based music education offerings to create a culture of… Read More »

How to Play Acoustic Guitar in 14 Days: Daily Lessons for Absolute Beginners (Play Music in 14 Days) PDF Introducing How to Play Acoustic Guitar! With daily lessons for absolute beginners! From Troy Nelson, author of Guitar Aerobics and the popular Play Guitar in 14 Days series (including How to Play Guitar and Master Pentatonic Scales), Troy Nelson… Read More »

The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages – from Bach to BTS and back – to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on… Read More »

The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music The Logic of Filtering traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: how do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in music? Since the invention of sound recording in… Read More »

Cigar Box Guitar Jazz & Blues Unlimited 3 String: Book Two: Chords, Fingerstyle & Theory Play Jazz and Blues on the Cigar Box Guitar. Learning to play jazz and blues on the cigar box guitar is simultaneously easy and difficult. Easy because you only have 3 or 4 strings to worry about so fewer options than a standard… Read More »