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An Anthology of Sound Chips Vol. 1: Arcade Console and Home Micro Sound Chips (1977-1986)

An Anthology of Sound Chips - an indispensable reference work invaluable to anyone interested in gaming hardware! This unique reference book is the first half of a two-volume set that covers sound chips used in gaming and the systems that contained them: from technical information to entertaining anecdotes, to insights from industry experts about hardware, composition, production and more.

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Melody in Songwriting: Tools and Techniques for Writing Hit Songs

Melody is a subject too often neglected in the teaching of music. This unique resource gives melody that attention it deserves, and proves that melody writing is a skill that can be learned. Through proven tool and techniques, you will learn to write interesting melodies, how melodic rhythm influences rhyme, what makes harmony progress, and the many dynamic relationships between melody and harmony.

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Beethoven's Orchestral Music: An Owner's Manual

Veteran music critic David Hurwitz provides an accessible, comprehensive, and fresh survey of Beethoven’s symphonies, overtures, concertos, theatrical music, his single ballet and other music for the dance, and several short pieces worth getting to know.

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The Discourse Community of Electronic Dance Music

Research on electronic dance music communities has been initiated by scholars in the fields of sociology, cultural studies, public health research and others. Linguistic aspects, however, are rarely considered. Anita Jóri fills this gap of research and suggests a new perspective by looking at these communities as a discourse community. She gives an overview on the language use and discourse characteristics of this community while applying a mixed methodology of linguistic discourse analysis and cultural studies. The book is aimed at researchers and students in the fields of applied linguistics, popular music, media, communication and cultural studies.

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Doc: The life and times of Aussie rock legend Doc Neeson

He was a legend of Australian rock, the front man who lived as hard and as wildly as he performed . . . this is his story Often compared to David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Doc Neeson was hailed as a 'messianic rock god'.

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Media Narratives in Popular Music

The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed. It considers the typically linear narratives that are based on simplifications, exaggerations, and omissions and the histories they construct - an approach that leads to totalizing “official” histories that reduce otherwise messy narratives to one-dimensional interpretations of a heroic and celebratory nature. This book questions the basis on which these mediated histories are constructed, highlights other, hidden, histories that have otherwise been neglected, and explores a range of topics including consumerism, the production pressure behind documentaries, punk fanzines, Rolling Stones covers, and more.

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Sound Tracker Quiet Planet Earth is a Solar Powered Jukebox

A complete guide to listening, recording, and sound designing with nature. Gordon Hempton, The Sound Tracker®, covers both science and art as we learn about how sound behaves in natural habitats and how this knowledge can be skillfully applied to produce award winning field recordings and compelling sound designs. Presented in two parts, Forces of Nature and Habitats, all 17 chapters explain such principles of acoustic ecology as how varying amounts of sunlight, precipitation, temperature, and wind produce predictable changes in natural soundscapes.

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Historical Acoustics: Relationships between People and Sound over Time

This book is a collection of contributions to the Special Issue "Historical Acoustics: Relationships between People and Sound over Time". The research presented here aims to explore the origins of acoustics and examine the relationships that have evolved over the centuries between people and auditory phenomena. Sounds have indeed accompanied human civilizations since the beginning of time, helping them to make sense of the world and to shape their cultures.

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Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World's Greatest Guitarists

A deluxe photographic celebration of the unsung hero of guitar music—the effects pedal—featuring interviews with 100 musicians including Peter Frampton, Joe Perry, Jack White, and Courtney Barnett.

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Heiner Kruse Logic Pro Das umfassende Handbuch

Wenn Sie mit Logic Pro Musik aufnehmen, produzieren oder abmischen wollen, dann ist dieses Handbuch Ihr umfassender Begleiter. Kompetente Anleitungen, zahlreiche Hintergrundinfos und praxisnahe Beispiele helfen Ihnen auf dem Weg zum perfekten Track – von den technischen Details der Aufnahme und Timing-Bearbeitung bis zur klassischen Harmonielehre, von den ersten Schritten mit der Software bis zum Feinschliff der Produktion. Aktuell mit allen neuen Tools wie Quick Sampler, Live Loops, Remix und Multi FX, Step Sequencer, Drum Synths, dem überarbeiteten Drum Machine Designer, Smart Tempo, und Vintage EQs

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Demystifying Scriabin

This book is an innovative contribution to Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, as well as his interaction with contemporary Russian culture. It offers new and original research from leading and upcoming Russian music scholars. Key Scriabin topics such as mysticism, philosophy, music theory, contemporary aesthetics, and composition processes are covered. Musical coverage spans the composer's early, middle and late period. All main repertoire is being discussed: the piano miniatures and sonatas as well as the symphonies.

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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900

This Companion explores women's work in music since 1900 across a broad range of musical genres and professions, including the classical tradition, popular music, and music technology. The crucial contribution of women to music education and the music industries features alongside their activity as composers and performers. The book considers the gendered nature of the musical profession, in areas including access to training, gendered criticism, sexualization, and notions of 'gender appropriate' roles or instruments. It covers a wide range of women musicians, such as Marin Alsop, Grace Williams, Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell and Adele. Each thematic section concludes with a contribution from a practitioner in her own words, reflecting upon the impact of gender on her own career. Chapters include suggestions for further reading on each of the topics covered, providing an invaluable resource for students of Feminist Musicology, Women in Music, and Music and Gender.

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The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism

This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explore what Romanticism in music might mean today. Challenging the view that musical 'romanticism' is confined to a particular style or period, it reveals instead the multiple intersections between the phenomenon of Romanticism and music. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches, and reflecting current scholarly debates across the humanities, it places music at the heart of a nexus of Romantic themes and concerns. Written by a dynamic team of leading younger scholars and established authorities, it gives a state-of-the-art yet accessible overview of current thinking on this popular topic.

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Popular Music and Human Rights: 2 volume set

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human rights. At a time of such uncertainty and confusion, with human rights currently being violated all over the world, a new and sustained examination of cultural responses to such issues is warranted.

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Popular Music and Human Rights: 2 volume set

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human rights. At a time of such uncertainty and confusion, with human rights currently being violated all over the world, a new and sustained examination of cultural responses to such issues is warranted.

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How To Play Left Handed Guitar: The Ultimate Beginner Acoustic Guitar Book

LEARN HOW TO PLAY ACOUSTIC GUITAR - IN 5 TO 8 WEEKS !!! For thousands of people this is The Ultimate How To Teach Yourself Guitar Book. It helped them to Learn Faster - Easier & More Efficiently than any other teaching method. What’s even more remarkable is that, You Need No Knowledge of Music to learn from it.

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100 Guitar Chords: For Beginners & Improvers

Pauric Mather's ground breaking guitar books and lessons are truly unique. Easily the most individual and personalised you will ever find. They have helped thousands of people to learn guitar. What's even more remarkable is that you need no knowledge of music to learn from his teaching style.

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Learn Acoustic Guitar: The Ultimate Beginner Acoustic Guitar Book

Pauric Mather's ground breaking guitar books and lessons are truly unique. Easily the most individual and personalised you will ever find. They have helped thousands of people to learn guitar. What's even more remarkable is that you need no knowledge of music to learn from his teaching style.

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Sound Work: Composition as Critical Technical Practice

The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technological contexts of music and musicians. But musical authorship, in its many technical and aesthetic modes, remains an important component of music culture. Musicians are increasingly called on to share their experience in writing. However, cultural imperatives to account for composition as knowledge production and to make claims for its uniqueness inhibit the development of discourse in both expert and public spheres. Internet pioneer Philip Agre observed a discourse deficit in artificial intelligence research and proposed a critical technical practice, a single disciplinary field with "one foot planted in the craft work of design and the other foot planted in the reflexive work of critique. A critical technical practice rethinks its own premises, re-evaluates its own methods, and reconsiders its own concepts as a routine part of its daily work."

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Boox: Guitar: Level 4 - Tutorial

Big Bang Music are delighted to bring to you this series of tutor boox developed in partnership with the award-winning team at Hot House Music www.hhmusic.net. The boox series features 100% of original content which is designed to support and tutor entry level musicians as they progress towards Grade 1. You can also subscribe to supplementary “video” lessons through our Soul TV website www.soul-tv.com. You can enrich your learning by subscribing to a “live” music lesson with a specialist Hot House Music teacher! We want you to enjoy playing all types of music and hope that you enjoy the content of this boox. Always remember that music should be fun and it is much more fun when you “play with a friend or as part of a band”. Why not send us recordings of yourselves playing music from these boox? We may share it on our social media platforms to show the world how amazing you are!

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