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David Bowie and the Art of Music Video

The first in-depth study of David Bowie's music videos across a sustained period takes on interweaving storyworlds of an iconic career. Remarkable for their capacity to conjure elaborate imagery, Bowie's videos provide fascinating exemplars of the artistry and remediation of music video. When their construction is examined across several years, they appear as time-travelling vessels, transporting kooky characters and strange story-world components across time and space.

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Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever

July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America's newest art form: hip hop. In New York's Harlem World Club, the Fantastic Romantic Five and the Cold Crush Brothers competed, with an unprecedented $1,000―and their reputations―on the line in a highly anticipated rap battle. The show drew hundreds of fans to settle a question that still dominates hip hop circles: Who's the best?

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How Music Works

David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.

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From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from the Renaissance modes to the major and minor keys of the high Baroque. The system Glarean proposed in his 1547 Dodecachordon comprised twelve modes at two transposition levels; the scheme J.S. Bach used to order The Well-Tempered Clavier in 1722 featured two modes at twelve transposition levels. What took place in between?

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Audio Mastering in a Project Studio: A Practical Approach for a Professional Sound

“Audio Mastering in a Project Studio is quite simply the definitive book on how to approach setting up your studio, learning to listen, approaching your music and learning how to master it.” - Kevin Paul, Mixing and Mastering Engineer.

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Music: An Appreciation ISE 13th Edition

Music: An Appreciation welcomes nonmajors to the art of listening to great music. Roger Kamien continues to focus on coverage of the elements of music, fostering each student's unique path to listening and understanding. The 13th edition of Music: An Appreciation equips students with the language, tools, and listening skills required to sustain a lifelong enthusiasm for music.

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Hack Music Theory Sweeping Arpeggios WAV MiDi

Use our step-by-step hacks to make music, and say goodbye to frustration! Downloads include PDF tutorial, WAV and multitrack MIDI example.

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Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London 1789-1851

What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remarkable ways.

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Make Music!: A Kid's Guide to Creating Rhythm Playing with Sound and Conducting and Composing Music

Music is for everyone - no prior experience required! Make Music! invites kids and families to celebrate the joy of sound with a variety of inventive activities, including playing dandelion trumpets, conducting percussion conversations, and composing their own pieces.

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Small Signal Audio Design 4th Edition

Small Signal Audio Design is a highly practical handbook providing an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be assembled to make almost any type of audio system. This fully revised fourth edition offers wholly new content on internally balanced audio design, electret microphones, emitter-follower stability, microphony in capacitors, and much, much more.

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Making Electronic Music: Production Made Easy

Learn how to produce electronic music (especially house and techno) with this awesome guide. Complete with images illustrating how to create specific sounds, Production Made Easy offers the most in-depth guides for every aspect of building and designing a track. Included are discussions on designing bass lines, kick drums, and synth lines, using EQs and compression, and much, much more!

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The Music Theory Of Godfrey Winham

This book serves as an introduction to the work of Godfrey Winham, an influential figure in American music theory circles in the 1960s. Little published in his lifetime, Winham left behind, at his premature death in 1974, a massive collection of notes: correspondence, unfinished articles, sketches for books, etc. These notes were transcribed and deposited in the Special Collections of Firestone Library at Princeton University. They cover a fascinating range of subjects: exercises in analytical logic, thoughts on the construction of a formally consistent music theory, studies of particular pieces, and an epistemological reconception of Schenker's analysis.

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The Process For Electronic Music Production: The path to finishing release quality songs consistently in any style

Music production can be an elusive art form for many, and the challenges that face someone who is new to this can easily create overwhelm and lead to complete paralysis. In my previous book "The Mental Game of Electronic Music Production", I covered music production from the way your creative brain works & how to get more focus, inspiration & productivity out of it.

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Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World

A beautifully-illustrated true story of rock and roll legend Les Paul: This is the story of how Les Paul created the world’s first solid-body electric guitar, countless other inventions that changed modern music, and one truly epic career in rock and roll. How to make a microphone? A broomstick, a cinderblock, a telephone, a radio. How to make an electric guitar? A record player's arm, a speaker, some tape. How to make a legendary inventor?

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Beyond the Creative Species: Making Machines That Make Art and Music (The MIT Press)

A multidisciplinary introduction to the field of computational creativity, analyzing the impact of advanced generative technologies on art and music. As algorithms get smarter, what role will computers play in the creation of music, art, and other cultural artifacts?

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The Crossings: Defining Slave to the Rhythm (Elements in Popular Music)

The album Slave to the Rhythm is typical of the exaltation of pop stars but atypical in its presentation and interaction with biographical material. Three crossings are considered in this assessment of the work: technological, cultural, and structural.

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Listen: On Music Sound and Us

‘I’m not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I’m here to change your mind about your mind.’ There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what’s going on inside us when we listen.

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Sheet Happens Periphery V Djent Is Not a Genre

The Complete Guitar Transcription for Periphery's 2023 album "Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre".Print-Ready PDF - 150 pages Guitar Pro 7 files for all songs (guitars only)

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New Music and Institutional Critique

While institutional critique has long been an important part of artistic practice and theoretical debate in the visual arts, it has long escaped attention in the field of music. This open access volume assembles for the first time an array of theoretical approaches and practical examples dealing with New Music's institutions, their critique, and their transformations.

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Good Music Sacred Music & Silence: Three Gifts of God for Liturgy and for Life

More is at stake in the music we listen to or perform than most people are aware. In this vivacious and challenging work, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski—a philosopher, theologian, composer, conductor, and singer—explains why the great classical music of Western civilization is morally and intellectually good for us, as well as why certain other forms of music can actually be harmful.

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