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George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait (Music in American Life)

George Gershwin lived his life with delight and vitality, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from their father.

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The Science of The Beatles: The Technology and Theory Behind the Music and Lyrics

An In-Depth Analysis of The Beatles' Music and the Theory, Techniques, and Technology That Made It Possible When people look back in two hundred years time at our culture, whose music will have survived from today?

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The AI Music Revolution: Creativity Controversy and Collaboration

The relationship between artificial intelligence and music is no longer a futuristic fantasy—it is a transformative reality. "The AI Music Revolution: Creativity, Controversy, and Collaboration" explores how AI is reshaping music creation, analysis, and experience, from generating complex symphonies to analyzing intricate musical patterns.

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A Perfect Harmony Music Mathematics and Science

From the earliest of civilisations, humans have found ways to make music, whether through makeshift drums or artfully drilled bone flutes. But how did music – effectively little more than a series of certain tones and rhythms – become so integral to the human experience?

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Handbook of Neurologic Music Therapy 2nd Edition

Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is a form of music therapy developed for people suffering from cognitive, sensory, or motor dysfunctions - arising from neurological diseases of the nervous system. People who can benefit from this therapy include sufferers from: stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer's disease, autism, and other neurological diseases affecting cognition, movement, and communication (e.g., MS, Muscular Dystrophy, etc).

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Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World

The untold story of OC punk—the loud, rebellious force behind the ‘90s explosion of the Orange County music scene, featuring stories about legendary bands. When it comes to punk communities across the world, the Orange County punk scene stands out as an undeniable trendsetter that helped define the sound and style of the rapidly evolving genre.

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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies Volume 1

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us.

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The Audio Circuits Cookbook: Building Blocks and Tools to Design Professional Audio Devices

The Audio Circuits Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of high-quality audio circuit modules―“building blocks” ―that readers can arrange to create complete audio devices. More than 80 featured circuits cover every aspect of audio, from basics such as active rectifiers, peak followers, and oscillators, to complete professional quality devices including compressors, equalizers, preamps, and an analog synthesizer.

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A Revolution in Music: The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales

Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrète. Évelyne Gayou—herself a researcher, composer, and producer at the GRM—tells the history of the storied institution through the people, works, technologies, and research developed there.

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Audio Augmented Reality: Concepts Technologies and Narratives

Audio Augmented Reality: Concepts, Technologies and Narratives provides readers with a comprehensive overview of audio augmented reality (AAR), focussing on its narrative potential while discussing several design considerations and prospective application domains. In this groundbreaking book, sound designer Matias Harju provides a practical and insightful exploration of the medium.

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The Complete Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro 2025: Master video editing with expert tips techniques and workflows

Learn from an Adobe Certified Expert who has guided over 500 students to professional certification—master the proven techniques and insider secrets that turn beginners into confident video editors with this definitive resource covering the latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro. This book takes you through the fundamental concepts and tools in Premiere Pro, introducing essential techniques and advanced editing strategies to elevate your video projects.

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Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop Rock and Rhythms

For fifty years as DJ, producer and remixer, Arthur Baker has been at the pioneering forefront of hip-hop, rock, and electronic music. His unique and genre-defying sound can be heard on tracks by legendary artists like New Order, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, the Rolling Stones, Al Green, Pet Shop Boys, Quincy Jones, New Edition, Hall & Oates, Neneh Cherry, Mogwai and Fleetwood Mac.

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Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies

A critical examination of the twenty-first century fetishization of professional audio technologies, and how it led to a new social formation: gear cultures. Gear: mixing consoles, outboard effects processors, microphones. These are professional studio recording-related technological objects—the tools of the recording industry—yet their omnipresence in the broader music industries and prosumer markets transcends the entrenched pro audio engineer guild. In Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies, authors Eliot Bates and Samantha Bennett ask: How does gear become gear? Why is it fetishized? And how is it even relevant in the predominantly digital twenty-first-century music technology landscape?

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Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop & Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century

The first decades of the 21st century saw dramatic changes in the music industry as technology transformed creation, communication, and consumption. Amid this turmoil one change occurred relatively quietly, almost naturally: so-called bedroom producers, music makers raised on hip-hop and electronic music, went from anonymous, often unseen creators to artists in their own right.

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Audio Effects Mixing and Mastering

This book is a quick guide to effects, mixing and mastering for beginners with a focus on Cubase. The first chapter highlights the most commonly used effects in audio production such as compressors, limiters, equalizers, reverb, delay, gates and others.

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Build Your Own Home Recording Studio...Cheap!

Have you been dreaming of being a musician, yet your budget does not permit you to spend loads of money on studio time. Do you wish there was some way to record your music without worrying about the inconvenience of finding a studio in your local area? Are you working with a limited budget but your musical drive is working on high speed? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it would probably be in your best interest to build your own recording studio.

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501 Essential Albums of the '80s: The Music Fan's Definitive Guide

In 501 Essential Albums of the ’80s, Gary Graff leads a cast of fellow music journalists in presenting the music of one of the most pivotal decades in the history of recorded music…the decade that gave us some of the most monstrous-selling albums ever and introduced more and more listeners to emergent genres like indie rock and hip-hop.

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Jonny Blackwood How To Setup Your Guitar Like A Pro: An Easy Guide for Beginners PDF

“Everything you need to start confidently working on your own guitars is right here.” Recently updated to include over 260 photos covering all the aspects of a pro-level guitar setup, such as cleaning & maintenance, neck adjustments, string height adjustments (bridge saddle and nut), pickup height adjustments, intonation, and more. Learn how to dial in the perfect setup, step-by-step, on any guitar- with precision and measurability! Use the included cut-out tool templates to broaden your skills. Makes an excellent starter book or reference for budding professionals.

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Sam Russell How to Practice Guitar and Train Your Creativity PDF

This 211 page book contains a detailed guide on how to practice guitar more effectively, and how to become more creative - even if you're not a "creative person". This book is based on over a decade of experience, teaching 100s of students, as-well as lessons I have personally learned on my journey from being the worst guitar player at school, to composing heavy metal albums, classical albums, instrumental rock and soundtrack music.

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The Shortest History of Music: From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers Hildegard of Bingen to Beyonce

From prehistoric songwriting to digital recording, discover the history of the world’s favorite art form No other art is as popular―or pervasive―as music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatles―even the brand-new Beyoncé. But things weren’t always this way.

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