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The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain

From the BBC Proms to Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, initiatives to promote classical music have been a pervasive feature of twentieth-century musical life. The goal of these initiatives was rarely just to reach a larger and more diverse audience but to teach a particular way of listening that would help the public "appreciate" music.

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Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician

Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician provides undergraduate music majors in class piano courses with the techniques and fundamentals they need to flourish into independent, versatile musicians who play with confidence and sensitivity.

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Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll

Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio stations and dance halls, in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audience changed and charged the way music is heard and celebrated, capturing lightning in a bottle. Musician and writer Lenny Kaye explores ten crossroads of time and place that define rock and roll, its unforgettable flashpoints, characters and visionaries, how each generation came to be, how it was discovered by the world. Whether describing Elvis Presley’s Memphis, the Beatles’ Liverpool, Patti Smith’s New York or Kurt Cobain’s Seattle, Lightning Striking reveals the communal energy that creates a scene, a guided tour inside style and performance, to see who’s on stage, along with the movers and shakers, the hustlers and hangers-on, and why everybody is listening.

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Thomas Adès Studies (Cambridge Composer Studies)

Thomas Adès is a dominant force in contemporary music, whose work attracts significant attention and acclaim, and has been performed by many renowned ensembles. This volume – the first to present a range of scholarly essays on every aspect of Adès's music – offers authoritative accounts of Adès's major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives.

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How to Play Alto Sax in 14 Days: Daily Saxophone Lessons for Beginners

Learn how to play alto saxophone from master instructor Aaron Gardner. How to Play Alto Sax in 14 Days is the ultimate alto saxophone book for absolute beginners. In this practical, step-by-step guide, saxophonist and master instructor Aaron Gardner teaches you the essential elements you need to know to get started as an alto sax player.

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Beyond the Aria: Artistic Self-Empowerment for the Classical Singer

It is no secret that the opera industry is contracting and that there are fewer professional opportunities. But what causes one singer to be in demand over another is not exclusively a special instrument or exceptional vocal technique-rather, the ability to interpret the music and portray character convincingly plays an increasingly vital role in today's opera industry.

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Music around the World: A Global Encyclopedia 3 volumes

A perfect resource for students and music enthusiasts alike, this expansive three-volume set provides readers with multidisciplinary perspectives on the music of countries and ethnic groups from around the globe. Students will find Music around the World: A Global Encyclopedia accessible and useful in their research, not only for music history and music appreciation classes but also for geography, social studies, language studies, and anthropology. Additionally, general readers will find the books appealing and an invaluable general reference on world music.

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The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music

The electronic medium allows any audible sound to be contextualized as music. This brings about unique structural possibilities as spectrum, dynamics, space, and time become continuous dimensions of musical articulation. What we hear in electronic music ventures beyond what we traditionally characterize as musical sound and challenge our auditory perception on the one hand and our imagination on the other. Based on an extensive listening study conducted over four years, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the cognitive processes involved in the experience of electronic music.

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Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming: Learning Music with Code

Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming provides a foundation in music and code for the beginner. It shows how coding empowers new forms of creative expression while simplifying and automating many of the tedious aspects of production and composition.

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Values and Music Education

What values should form the foundation of music education? And once we decide on those values, how do we ensure we are acting on them? In Values and Music Education, esteemed author Estelle R. Jorgensen explores how values apply to the practice of music education. We may declare values, but they can be hard to see in action. Jorgensen examines nine quartets of related values and offers readers a roadmap for thinking constructively and critically about the values they hold. In doing so, she takes a broad view of both music and education while drawing on a wide sweep of multidisciplinary literature. Not only does Jorgensen demonstrate an analytical and dialectical philosophical approach to examining values, but she also seeks to show how theoretical and practical issues are interconnected.

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The Blood and the Sweat: The Story of Sick of It All's Koller Brothers

When it comes to New York City hardcore, its community proudly boasts Lou and Pete Koller—brothers who have dominated the scene worldwide since 1986 with the aurally devastating Sick of It All as their vehicle.

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Finger Picking Guitar Tablature Book 1: Finger Picking Training Exercises Workbook

Guitar Finger Picking Tablature Book 1 Training Exercises A brilliant training manual ideal for both students, musicians and teachers

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Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions

For decades, millions of music fans have gathered every summer in parks and fields to hear their favorite bands at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Coachella, and Glastonbury. How did these and countless other festivals across the globe evolve into glamorous pop culture events, and how are they changing our relationship to music, leisure, and public culture? In Everyone Loves Live Music, Fabian Holt looks beyond the marketing hype to show how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades, as sites that were once meaningful sources of community and culture are increasingly subsumed by corporate giants.

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Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker

Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually toured around the world and released over forty albums as a leader. He is one of the most influential jazz artists alive today. In Universal Tonality historian and critic Cisco Bradley tells the story of Parker’s life and music.

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Understand The Voice As An Instrument By Jennifer Meade

Singers! Are you tired of not getting the results you want when it comes to singing? This book will teach you how to use and understand your voice as an Instrument and guarantees concrete results, of consistent sound quality production, vocal freedom, vocal ease, and longevity. You will learn the fundamentals of playing the voice instrument and how to express and communicate from the very source of your being; by learning a wide variety of techniques and methods that will develop your confidence. Giving you a new perspective of the voice and a vocal maturity that will broaden your skills, and take your vocal ability to another level.

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The Ultimate Bass Chords & Arpeggios Book: Essential for every bass player!

Essential For Every Bass Player Learn all the essential chords and arpeggios to play on the bass that all bass players should know. Starting with the most basic major, minor, diminished, and augmented chords and arpeggios then moving onto the more advanced seventh arpeggios that add lots of flavour to your playing. Each set of chords and arpeggios comes with practice exercises and inspiring musical pieces to help you understand how to approach arranging music with them. This is the ultimate reference and practice book.

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The Ultimate Guitar Scales Book (Left-Handed Edition): Essential For Every Guitar Player

Left-Handed Edition Created especially for the left-handed players with left-handed scale boxes. All the other content is the same as the original book 'The Ultimate Guitar Scales Book'.

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Beats By Design: An Illustrated Inventory Of The Most Important Hip Hop Producers Vol. 1

WithBeats by Design I wish to pay homage to the figure of the producer, artist, and visionary genius who often opts to stay behind the big spotlights while creating new musical trends and influencing entire generations.

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Fretboard and Songwriting Theory for Metal Heads (and other genres too): Using 'the secret' to unlock the fretboard

Have you ever wondered how to get music out of your head and onto the guitar? Do you feel stuck in a rut creatively? Ever wonder how guitar gods can use the entire neck effortlessly? This book is for you.

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Chords Scales and Arpeggios Book for Accordion Training: 160 Essential Exercises Practical Finger Workout

Accordion Exercises For Everyone, 160 Practical Exercises For AccordionistsThis is a book with practical accordion exercises for beginners and advanced students. The book includes a theory section so that beginners will know how to move around the keyboard and basses and how to perform the exercises.

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