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Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre...

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...

Music education has historically had a tense relationship with social justice. One the one hand, educators concerned with music practices have long preoccupied themselves with ideas of open participation and the potentially transformative capacity that...

Master musical skills quickly and easily!From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life. Whether you're an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major, The Everything Essential Music...

Inside Llewyn Davis chronicles a struggling young folk singer, played by Oscar Isaacs, who arrives in Manhattan in 1961 and tries to navigate the treacherous waters of the the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene, as well as having to deal with a...

The story of rock and roll from the one-hit wonders to the megastars, this photo-laden work shows how rock has developed.Book InformationISBN 9780743201209Author Patricia RomanowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 1114Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher...

Leonard Bernstein was one of twentieth-century music's most successful and recognizable figures. In a career spanning five decades he conducted many of the world's leading orchestras, and composed scores for landmark musicals such as Candide and West...

A new compact format from best-selling music author Jake Jackson. A clear, simple, direct solution for anyone learning any instrument, particularly the guitar or keyboard, and for those needing a quick reminder. Great for beginners and intermediate...

Chris Smith's 101 Albums That Changed Popular Music tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded, ranging from The Anthology of American Folk Music (1952) to Elephant (2003) by...

Community music as a field of practice, pedagogy, and research has come of age. The past decade has witnessed an exponential growth in practices, courses, programs, and research in communities and classrooms, and within the organizations dedicated to the...

Despite its importance as a central feature of musical sounds, timbre has rarely stood in the limelight. First defined in the eighteenth century, denigrated during the nineteenth, the concept of timbre came into its own during the twentieth century and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783892210061Author Bill DobbinsPage Count 999Imprint advance music GmbHPublisher advance music GmbH

The field of Sound Studies has changed and developed dramatically over the last two decades involving a vast and dizzying array of work produced by those working in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The study of sound is inherently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573444057Author Christopher KnowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Viva EditionsPublisher Viva EditionsWeight(grams) 1g

A fascinating look into the new generation of jazz legends, Contemporary Cat is a welcome addition to Scarecrow Press's Studies in Jazz Series. Living legend Terence Blanchard's life and work are thoroughly examined through interviews with his...

This book is about thinking in music. Music listeners who understand what they hear are thinking in music. Music readers who understand and visualize what they read are thinking in music. This book investigates the various ways musicians acquire those...

Unlike any Sabbath book thus far EBlack Sabbath FAQE digs deep into quirks obscure anecdotes and burning questions surrounding the Sabs. In a fast-moving topical format this book covers a tremendous amount of information delectable to any Sabbath...

The background music on a film can make or break the audience experience. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho without the shrieking violins or Jaws without the ominous notes that portend the shark's attack! Musical accompaniment helps create atmosphere...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574242096Author Mario MilanPage Count 174Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream Publishing

Confronting a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it?, this collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions...

Michael Kilgarriff's compilation of some 20,000 popular song titles, 1860-1920, provides for the first time in one volume answers to the questions which excite Music Hall and popular song enthusiasts more than anything in life: who wrote what and when,...

Concise and practical, Music Research introduces students to the major print and electronic research tools available to them. This unique handbook does not aim to provide an exhaustive introduction to the subject; rather, it is highly selective and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491868009Author Steve LambleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint Slide BooksPublisher Slide BooksWeight(grams) 1397gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 31mm

Where do you place the hyphen in "Beethoven" if it breaks between two lines? How do you cite John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme? Is it "premiere" or "premiere"? The answers and much more can be found in this definitive resource for authors, students,...

This is an excellent reference volume including essays on all aspects of medieval music performance. With forty essays written by experts in the field on everything from repertoire, voices and instruments to basic theory, all aspects of recreation are...

Noted lexicographer Thomsett here dissects over 1,400 terms, a buttula to zither, with his acclaimed clarity and precision (""definitely recommended"" said Library Journal of his Investment and Securities Dictionary); 383 high quality original...

Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base over half a century that is as significant and devoted as those of the Beatles, and this entertaining guide to all things Fab Four rewards those fans with everything they need to know about the band...

Louisiana's unique multicultural history has led to the development of more styles of American music than anywhere else in the country. Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians compiles over 1,600 native creators, performers, and recorders of the state's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634014420Page Count 8Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Exploring the paranormal through musical phenomena, this encyclopedia covers a range of anomalies, from musical mediumship to locations throughout the world where music has been heard with no obvious source. Other manifestations, such as the abilities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946311194Author Mikhail MatiushinFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Artists BookworksPublisher Artists Bookworks

Film music fans have eagerly awaited this fully updated and greatly expanded edition of Tony Thomas's popular history of Hollywood film music (from the thirties through the nineties) as viewed through portraits of many of its foremost practitioners.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574243383Author Chet FalzeranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 211Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream PublishingWeight(grams)...

This new compact guide to the history and performance of music is both authoritative and a pleasure to use. With entries drawn and condensed from the widely acclaimed The New Harvard Dictionary of Music and its companion The Harvard Biographical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648914621Author Lydia EndelFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Hot MethodsPublisher Hot MethodsWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578190693Author Tony M DofatFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Tdc Group Inc.Publisher Tdc Group Inc.Weight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783892211075Author Steve ProsserPage Count 999Imprint advance music GmbHPublisher advance music GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998355085Author Greg RussoFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint CrossFire Pub.Publisher CrossFire Pub.Weight(grams) 921gDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm *...

This book focuses on American opera singers and what their recordings say about their artistry. It is not a book about all American opera singers, since many who had important careers on stage, made few, if any, recordings. And many of those who did make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615896281Author Meredith Faith Hamons Mt-BcFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Whelk & Waters PublishingPublisher Whelk & Waters...