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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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Playing Harp for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide To Mastering The Harp From Novice To Virtuoso, Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons, Musical Theory, PThis book is an indispensable resource for aspiring harpists of all levels, offering a comprehensive journey from novice to virtuoso. Authored by Victor Frank, a seasoned harpist and educator, 'Playing Harp for Beginners' provides a step-by-step guide to mastering the intricacies of the harp....
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Play Drums Today! - Level 1: A Complete Guide to the Basics [With CD (Audio)](Play Today Instructional Series). The ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and a professional-quality online audio with 99 full-demo tracks and spoken instruction. This drum series can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by teachers for...
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Perfecting Sound ForeverIn 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today, the equation is reversed. Whereas...
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One Bear ExtraordinaireBear is a rambling musician. An entertainer. A legend. One Bear Extraordinaire. Bear wakes up one morning with a song in his head, but something is missing. What's a one-bear band to do? He travels the forest in search of his song and meets...
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My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American SongAuthor: Emily BinghamPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781985901315
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Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation [With CD]People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. In Music as Social Life, Thomas Turino explores why it is that...
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More than the MusicAuthor: Patricia Prentzel, Kris HinterbergPublisher: Peppertree PressPublished: 07/16/2024Pages: 142Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39dISBN: 9781614939641
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Moon River for Clarinet QuartetIf you want to play one of the most famous songs from the beautiful movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, read on!Often finding effective arrangements for clarinet quartet can be really difficult and complicated. Especially if you look for songs that can excite the audience and...
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Mindful Rigor: Holistic Training to Enhance Dance PerformanceAuthor: Lisa D. LongPublisher: Cognella Academic PublishingPublished: 07/30/2024Pages: 182Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.39dISBN: 9781793581525
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Mango Tree Musician: The Carlos Garnett AutobiographySaxophonist Carlos Garnett, despite being blind in his later years, was an integral part of Miles Davis' nonet. His pivotal roles extended beyond live performances to studio work during the "On the Corner" era in 1972. Though he was born in a community of...
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Love Music: And It Will Love You BackFrom top-performing Jazz pianist Jeff Colella comes this groundbreaking book on music theory, skill development, and the art of improvisation.Jeff Colella is one of California's most in-demand Jazz pianists. His post-bop style has granted him multiple tours, a faculty position, and a widely successful...
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Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko Volume 552020 Alan Merriam Prize for Best Book Published in Ethnomusicology, Society for Ethnomusicology A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Louder and Faster is a cultural study of the phenomenon of Asian American taiko, the thundering, athletic drumming...
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Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During CovidAnalyses how Black music and culture framed how we passed the time in the first 18 months of the pandemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, music listening increased as people used it to help to counter the psychological fallout of lockdown and reduce its effects...
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Leaving Church in a HelicopterWeddings and Other Adventures of a Church Organist. Mostly humorous anecdotes of events that an organist experiences over a long career as a church musician.Author: Madonna Jordan BrownleePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/13/2016Pages: 72Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.19dISBN: 9781514675717This title...
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Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870-2019)Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870-2019) explores the tremendous evolution of jazz over the past 125 years, through struggles for racial and gender equality, major demographic upheavals, startling technological innovations, economic and political turmoil, and music-business practices. Taking an expansive view of the music,...
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Iron Maiden: Album by Album, Updated EditionRequired reading for any metalhead, this updated compendium of in-depth, entertaining, and profusely illustrated conversations spanning all of Iron Maiden's studio albums includes 2021's Senjutsu. In this new edition of Iron Maiden: Album by Album, prolific rock journalist Martin Popoff pays tribute to Iron...
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Ira Gershwin: A Life in WordsThe Pulitzer Prize-winning American lyricist Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) has been hailed as one of the masters of the Great American Songbook--songs written largely for Broadway and Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s. Now, in the first full-length biography devoted to his life, Ira...
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Introduction to Jazz Guitar Soloing: Master Class Series [With CD](Musicians Institute Press). Perfect for seasoned rockers seeking new challenges and jazz newcomers looking for a good start, this book with online audio covers scales, chords, licks, techniques and other vital jazz improv concepts step by step. The accompanying audio features 65 full-band demo...
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I Can Play: The NutcrackerFrom the The Story Orchestra series, a beautifully illustrated first piano sound book! Press the keys to learn 8 famous classical tunes from The Nutcracker as you follow the story. While other books in the series play famous pieces of classical music, in this...
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How to Run an Indie LabelHow To Run an Indie Label tells you everything you need to know about how to be a creative force.Music is like no other business. It's about being at the right place at the right time, following your nose and diving in feet first....
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