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Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard BernsteinLeonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking, and convention-breaking. In November 1989, just a...
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Music Theory Remixed: A Blended Approach for the Practicing MusicianDesigned for today's undergraduate music students, Music Theory Remixed: A Blended Approach for the Practicing Musician presents tonal music theory through a dual lens of works from the Western canon and examples from popular music, including rock, jazz, techno, film soundtracks, and world music....
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Musical Emotions ExplainedCan music really arouse emotions? If so, what emotions, and how? Why do listeners respond with different emotions to the same piece of music? Are emotions to music different from other emotions? Why do we respond to fictional events in art as if they...
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Composing Electronic Music: A New AestheticElectronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. In this new...
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Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music EducationWhy is music significant in life and education? What shall we teach? How? To whom? Where and when? The praxial philosophy espoused in Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education offers an integrated sociocultural, artistic, participatory, and ethics-based concept of the natures and values...
- ¥63,509 JPY
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Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance StyleAn exceptional text for undergraduate and graduate music students, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style uses a wide variety of carefully graded exercises to present guidelines for writing and analyzing 16th-century music. The only species counterpoint text that draws directly on Renaissance treatises, it provides a...
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What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their TimeIn a stretch of just seven years, the Beatles recorded hundreds of songs which tower above those of their worthy peers as both the product of cultural leadership and an artistic reflection of their turbulent age, the1960s. Walter Everett and Tim Riley's What Goes...
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Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country QueenFrom the New York Times bestselling biographer-the first book-length portrait of music legend Tammy Wynette. Known for his acclaimed biographies of Neil Young, Russ Meyer, and Andy Milligan, Jimmy McDonough now delivers an emotional and revealing exploration of the life of the Queen of...
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The Indispensable Composers: A Personal GuideAn exploration of the question of greatness from the chief classical music critic of The New York Times Anthony Tommasini has devoted particular attention to living composers and overlooked repertory. But, as with all classical music lovers, the canon has remained central for him....
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Bravo, Amelia Bedelia!She's got the beat! Bravo for a funny Amelia Bedelia story.Even though Amelia Bedelia can't play a musical instrument, she plays a big part in the school concert. She is just as happy flattening a bee as playing a B flat, and her favorite...
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Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van HalenThe manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that changed rock music.Van Halen's rise in the 1980s was one of...
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You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup"Peter Doggett's book about the Beatles' split is a real page-turner." -- Annie Lennox "Enthralling... Impossible to put down." -- The Independent Acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett recounts the previously untold story of the dramatic final chapter in the lives, loves, and legal battles of...
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Skywriting by Word of MouthWritten in its author's much-imitated, never-duplicated voice, populated with his own illustrations, full of the wit and honesty that helped make him one of the most iconic, polarizing figures of the 20th Century, Skywriting by Word of Mouth is the lost and recovered, posthumously...
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100 Essential Funk Grooves for Guitar: Master the Styles of the Funk Guitar Legends - From Jimmy Nolen to Cory WongReady To Get Funked Up?! Nothing teaches more about playing "in the pocket" grooves than Funk guitar! And 100 Essential Funk Grooves for Guitar teaches you to play in the style of the Funk legends... from Jimmy Nolen (James Brown) to Nile Rodgers through...
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The Little Black Disney Songbook for Ukulele: Complete Lyrics and Chords to Over 80 Songs(The Little Black Songbook). This classy little collection packs a big punch with complete lyrics and chords for nearly 90 Disney favorites! Presented in chord songbook format with ukulele chord boxes and complete lyrics. Includes songs from Disney's entire catalog, from 101 Dalmatians and...
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Disney Favorites for Two: Easy Instrumental Duets - Clarinet Edition(Easy Instrumental Duets). This collection features 23 Disney hits arranged for duets among two clarinet or a clarinet in combination with flute, alto sax, trumpet, or trombone! Songs include: Be Our Guest * Into the Unknown * Reflection * That's How You Know *...
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The Piano: A History in 100 PiecesA fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos, knotty avant-garde masterworks and (most welcome) jazz."--Richard Fairman, Financial Times,...
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Experiencing Music TechnologyExperiencing Music Technology is a comprehensive introduction to the broad topic of music technology as it exists in contemporary practice across music making, music production, and music teaching and learning. Unlike other music technology books, EMT is designed not only as a major text...
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Lead Guitar Level 3Have you been soloing for a while but sound the same each time? Playing for years and still feel like you are stuck in the box? Lead Guitar Level 3 is a music based method continuing with the same focus from the level 1...
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You were my neon lightWe all have our vulnerabilities that we don't want others to see. So we keep a brave face and keep on living. This is the same with 15 year old Elixar Ludgwig. Now Elixar has been alone for most of her life and she...
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