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Explore the best music books, including captivating reads about music, piano books, and songbooks. Find bestsellers and top-recommended music books at our online bookstore.
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Alpha Boys School: Cradle of Jamaican MusicBehind Jamaica's global musical reverberation lies the unlikely story of a boarding school run by Roman Catholic nuns, with a brass band that helped shape the sound of some the world's most beloved musical forms. Under a strict disciplinarian regime, 'wayward boys, ' many...
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Slap Bass Lines [With CD with Play-Along Tracks](Berklee Labs). Learn the art of creating a solid slap bass groove. Whether you're an aspiring or seasoned bassist, this workshop will teach you many of the slap bass lines and styles found in your favorite rock, funk and jazz tunes, and inspire you...
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Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva EspanaCompiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a...
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The Queerness of Video Game MusicVideo game music is a significant site of queerness where normative demands are questioned, suspended or loosened. Games resist hegemonic musical logics, challenge musical value systems and use music to complicate essentialist notions of identity. This Element proposes three areas of queerness, each representing...
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The 1975: Love, Sex & ChocolateMatthew Healy and his band The 1975 have taken the music world by surprise with their brand of 80s-inspired art funk. But how did a group of suburban school friends become a worldwide success story? And how did singer Healy transform himself from a...
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15 Duets for Violin and CelloIncludes works by Bach, Handel, Telemann. Violin to 3rd position. Compatible with 52711028 (Violin Duets)and 52701127 (Violin/Viola Duets).Author: Lynne LathamPublisher: Alfred MusicPublished: 09/01/2020Pages: 999Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsISBN: 9781628760255
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You Can Teach Yourself Blues GuitarIf someone is singing a song or playing a melody, how can I know what chords I can play with it? This is a common question asked of guitar teachers and players. If you are the guitarist at a campfire sing, if you want...
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Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggas, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in AmericaOur national conversation about race is ludicrously out of date. Hip hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a provocative book that will appeal to hip-hoppers both black and white and their parents, Bakari Kitwana deftly teases apart the culture...
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Welcome to the Opera: Discover the Enchanting World of Opera with Mozart's the Magic FluteFrom the author of Welcome to the Symphony and Welcome to Jazz, this musical picture book introduces children to opera with 12 sound interactive buttons and an illustrated performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Join three adorable dogs for a performance of Mozart's beloved...
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We Could Be: Bowie and His HeroesThe story of Bowie's life told through 300 encounters with fellow icons, from Dylan to Dalí, Lennon to Lydon, Princess Margaret to Prince. *** With consultant editor Tony Visconti David Bowie's story has never been told quite like this. Tracing the star's encounters with...
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Trauma and the Voice: A Guide for Singers, Teachers, and Other PractitionersAn indispensable resource for the modern voice teacher, this volume explores the body's response to trauma and practical ways that singing teachers can adapt the principles of trauma-informed care while maintaining ethical boundaries. It gathering research and perspectives from the fields of psychology, speech...
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Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the DancefloorIn Together, Somehow, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta examines how people find ways to get along and share a dancefloor, a vibe, and a sound. Drawing on time spent in the minimal techno and house music subscenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin as the first decade...
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The White Stripes Complete LyricsThe White Stripes Complete Lyrics is a deluxe new 300+ page hardbound book documenting all of Jack White's original words written for the 6x Grammy Award-winning duo he and Meg White formed in 1997 through the release of their final album in 2007. The...
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The Propaganda of Freedom: Jfk, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold WarThe perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied centuries of historical...
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The Platform: On and Off A Blueprint for Worship Facilitators: On and Off A Blueprint for Worship FacilitatorsAs worship facilitators, we make conscious and unconscious choices as we lead our teams and congregations. The Platform: On & Off, A Blueprint for Worship Facilitators encourages self-examination and provides opportunities to build and expand our leadership muscles as we lead others into the...
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The New Percy Grainger CompanionA new collection with contributions from performing musicians and Grainger scholars and a detailed Catalogue of Works. In the thirty years since his Centenary in 1982 it has become even clearer that Percy Grainger [1882-1961] - composer, pianist and revolutionary - was a man...
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The Little Guide to Madonna: Express YourselfThe world's most famous mononym, Madonna may be outspoken, but she's never outgunned. With a loyal legion of millions of adoring fans, who have stayed by her side for more than four decades, Madonna has inspired and influenced the hearts, souls, and minds of...
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The Little Book of Girl Power: The Wit and Wisdom of the Spice Girls'When I came out of my mother's womb I screamed: "Girl Power!"' Ginger Spice The Spice Girls shaped the nineties. They taught us about girl power, union jack dresses, the power of leopard print clothes and how if we want to be our lover,...
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The Jazz Problem: Education and the Battle for Morality During the Jazz AgeThe Jazz Problem shows how high schools and colleges were the primary sites of this generational debate around jazz, the century's first cultural war. Schools were crucial sites of dispute between the worldviews of the late nineteenth century and the emerging modern world, one...
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The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial"The Doors drummer Densmore rockets through his tumultuous six-year lawsuit against former bandmates Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger in this no-holds-barred account . . . Throughout, the author's initial question--at what point does money cheapen art's original message?--remains salient, even if he hammers it...
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