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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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The Singer of Tales: Third EditionFirst published in 1960, Albert B. Lord's The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry. Based upon pathbreaking fieldwork conducted in the 1930s and 1950s among oral epic singers of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia,...
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The One & Only Googoosh: Iran's Beloved SuperstarA celebration of one of Iran's most iconic musical artists. The legendary Iranian singer and actress Googoosh (born Faegheh Atashin) made her stage debut at age two while performing alongside her acrobat father. By the time she reached adulthood, she was widely considered to...
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The Music Tree Activities Book: Part 2aThe Activities books are closely correlated, unit-by-unit with the Music Tree series. They provide extensive reinforcement in all the new Music Tree discoveries, plus they offer an exciting new program of sight-playing, guaranteed to develop successful sight-readers from the start.Author: Frances Clark, Louise Goss,...
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The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis [With Access Code]The most pedagogically sophisticated text on the market, The Musician's Guide is the most complete resource for the theory curriculum that anyone can use. Successful online Know It? Show It! pedagogy and a comprehensive workbook help students develop theory skills inside the classroom and...
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The Hal Leonard Beginning Guitar Superbook: Book Only(Guitar Method). Five complete best-selling books in one: Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1, Easy Pop Melodies, The Chord Strummer, Easy Chord Trax, and Rock Trax 1. This collection gives any guitarist all the information they need to start playing, including: playing solo guitar...
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The Companion to Irish Traditional MusicThis extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people, tunes, aesthetics, ideology, gender balance, history, organisations and affiliations, linking all dance and recreational music forms to biographies of stylists and...
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The Beatles 1963: A Year in the LifeAt the start of 1963, The Beatles were a successful local Liverpool band with one hit single; twelve months, two albums and the arrival of Beatlemania later, they were on the cusp of world domination.Featuring daily entries covering every pivotal event, The Beatles 1963...
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The Band in Our Basement: A Picture BookIn this rollicking, rhyming picture book, a pair of siblings who are supposed to be in bed discover a jazz band playing in their basement The sounds downstairs are funky and we start to wiggle toes. We flip-flop and we giggle with sheets up...
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The Absolutely Complete Klezmer Songbook [With CD](Transcontinental Music Folios). Renowned ethnomusicologist, documentarian, and klezmer musician Yale Strom teamed up with Transcontinental Music to create an exhaustive compilation of nigunim, horas, bulgars, and more. This songbook features melody lines and chords for 313 songs including many collected from the field by...
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The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works: An Introduction to the Fascinating World of Classical MusicHis fascinating exploration takes you inside the rich music and colorful lives of the world's greatest classical composers. From Bach to Stravinsky and beyond, you will learn how the unique life stories of these gifted composers are reflected in the musical masterpieces that we...
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Taylor Swift: A Book for SwiftiesA global phenomenon that appeals across generations, recounted in an informative book, enhanced by carefully selected photographs and a large-format poster. Much more than a music superstar, Taylor Swift is a true cultural phenomenon, evolving from a young country promise to a global pop...
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Take This Hammer: Work, Song, CrisisA study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life. The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also underscored a wider separation of labor...
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Supertramp - Crime of the Century: Rock Classicstriumphs (or sometimes both), but most importantly seen by both the fanbase and, to a greater or lesser degree the wider world, as a defining statement in their catalogue. Such was undoubtedly the case when Supertramp released Crime Of The Century in 1974. Up...
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String InstrumentsIt's time to play . . . in the band! Some string instruments make soft, elegant sounds and others are rock out with an amplifier. Which instrument is your favorite. Learn how string instruments make sound, explore the history of instruments, then learn all...
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Sonata in C-Sharp Minor, Opus 27, No. 2 (Moonlight): Piano SoloAuthor: Ludwig Van BeethovenPublisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Published: 01/01/1987Pages: 20Binding Type: OtherWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 12.00h x 8.60w x 0.20dISBN: 9780793552894
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Small Faces and the Faces: Every Album, Every SongSmall Faces. Big Sound. There were but four Small Faces. First, they were the sharp little mod fourpiece of the 'All Or Nothing' Decca years, Carnaby Street, Ready Steady Go! and Rave magazine. Then they were the irreverent freakbeat experimentalists of the Immediate years,...
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Sixties British Pop, Outside in: Volume 1: Downtown, 1956-1965Downtown, 1956-1965--the first volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In--describes the rise of London's music and recording cultures through the stories of those who empowered Britain's youth to be young. As the generations born in the postwar world entered adolescence and demanded a say...
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Sing on Sight - A Practical Sight-Singing Course: Level 2(Methodology Chorals). Sing on Sight is a comprehensive sight-singing method by Audrey Snyder. Level Two builds on the skills established in Level One and moves step by step to full, choral sight-singing. The recorded accompaniments include a wide variety of styles, from classical to...
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Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American MasterpieceThere is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few that remain as fresh over the years. . . . It is a transcendent experience, and no one who loves movies can afford to miss it.--Roger Ebert. America's most popular...
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Sin?ad O'Connor: The Last Interview: And Other ConversationsA significant collection of interviews with the defiant, controversial, and ground-breaking singer, songwriter, and activist throughout her turbulent career . . . "It's not like I got up in the morning and said, 'Okay, now let's start a new controversy'." -- Sin?ad O'Connor Sin?ad...
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