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Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the ParanormalOne of the world's greatest classical pianists reveals how the other world transformed his life and careerBy any measure, Byron Janis has had an extraordinary musical career. His discovery of two long-lost Chopin scores made headlines around the world, and he has been honored...
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First Avenue: Minnesota's MainroomOne of the longest running clubs in American rock 'n' roll, First Avenue in Minneapolis finally gets the rock-star treatment it deserves in print. This book chronicles the club's storied past, beginning with its impressive inaugural show in April 1970 (Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs...
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First Position Scale Studies for the Cello, Book OneFirst Position Scale Studies for the Cello teaches the easiest scales on the cello. The book presents easy cello scale exercises and bowings on the C, G, D, A, F, B-flat, and E-flat major scales. Useful asan introductory book for scales, this book is...
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Third Position for the Violin, Book OneIntroducing Third Position for the Violin!This book teaches the third position on the violin through exercises and relevant short pieces, each designed to teach a specific concept. Third Position for the Violin, Book One is a step-by-step method for introducing the position to you...
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Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's HometownBlues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right. --Keith RichardsAn emotional map of musical Memphis. If you don't know these characters, let Robert Gordon introduce you. --Elvis CostelloRobert Gordon's book is proof...
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Dylan: The BiographyThe ultimate biography of the musical icon. A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore--including subjects Dylan himself left out of Chronicles: Volume One. DYLAN: The Biography focuses on why this beloved...
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Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist in Sixty Exercises, Complete (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics, Vol. 925)Studying the exercises in Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist is a rite of passage for serious piano players--and it has been for over 100 years. A staple of conservatory curricula around the world, the thorough technical training offered by this book is unmatched by any...
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Wurlitzer of Cincinnati: The Name That Means Music to MillionsEstablished in Cincinnati in 1856 by German immigrant Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer, the music dealer became the largest outlet for band instruments in the United States by 1865. During the silent film era in the early twentieth century, Wurlitzer manufactured nearly 2,250 theater organs, affectionately...
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam WarFor a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." For a "tunnel rat" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." For a...
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Andrew W.K.'s I Get WetIt's Time To Party, the first track off of I Get Wet, opens with a rapid-fire guitar line -- nothing fancy, just a couple crunchy power chords to acclimate the ears -- repeated twice before a booming bass drum joins in to provide a...
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Danger Mouse's the Grey AlbumThis book marks the tenth anniversary of The Grey Album. The online release and circulation of what Danger Mouse called his 'art project' was an unexpected watershed in the turn-of-the-century brawls over digital creative practice. The album's suppression inspired widespread digital civil disobedience and...
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Michael Jackson's DangerousDangerous is Michael Jackson's coming of age album. Granted, that's a bold claim to make given that many think his best work lay behind him by the time this record was made. It offers Jackson on a threshold, at long last embracing adulthood-politically questioning,...
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Acting the Song: Performance Skills for the Musical TheatreActing the Song offers a contemporary, integrated approach to singing in musicals that results in better-trained, smarter performers everyone wants to work with. In this new, thoroughly updated edition of the paperback, directors and teachers of musical theater will find guidance in developing and...
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The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital WorldAn NPR Best Book of the Year: "A pointedly passionate look at what's been lost in the digital era." --Los Angeles Times A longtime musician and former member of the indie band Galaxie 500 who has also taught at Harvard, Damon Krukowski has watched...
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I and I Bob MarleyChoices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)A biography in verse of reggae legend Bob Marley, exploring the influences that shaped his life and music on his journey from rural Jamaican childhood to international superstardom.Born in the Jamaican countryside in 1945, Bob Marley seemed special from...
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Easy Fingerpicking Guitar: A Beginner's Guide to Essential Patterns & Techniques(Guitar Educational). Whether you're completely new to the guitar, you've strummed chords before but always wanted to fingerpick, or you've tried fingerpicking in the past but could never get the hang of it, this easy-to-use book with online audio for electric or acoustic guitar...
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Solos for the Double Bass Player: Double Bass and Piano(String Solo). Contents: Bourre (Bach) * Grave (Abaco) * Concerto (Vivaldi) * Prelude and Allegro (d'Andrieu) * Sonata in C Minor (Handel) * Sonatina and Minuet (Beethoven) * Elegy and Andante (Bottesini) * Aria from Rigoletto (Verdi) * Adagio (Geissel) * Vocalise (Rachmaninoff) *...
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Modern Worship [With CD (Audio)](Bass Play-Along). The Bass Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily Just follow the tab, listen to the audio to hear how the bass should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics...
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Spoke: Images and Stories from the 1980s Washington, DC Punk Scene"The pictures, which include some posed portraits but are mostly concert shots, are the chief attraction. They freeze moments of adolescent release, vein-bulging intensity and sweaty communion that fuses performer and audience . . . Vivid and evocative." --Washington Post"A forthright testament to a...
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Censorship Now!!"While putting a copy of this book on your nightstand would be a sign of good taste, who cares about good taste? Are you willing to be seen reading a book titled Censorship Now!! in public? If so, your skin might burn with funny...
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