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Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar by Oliver Hilmes

2016 | ISBN: 0300182937 | English | 368 pages | EPUB: 3.66 MB | PDF: 5.27 MB
An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world’s first international megastar

Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary sources, including a veritable treasure trove of previously unexamined material on Liszt’s Weimar years, best-selling author Oliver Hilmes shines a spotlight on the extraordinary life and career of this singularly dazzling musical phenomenon.

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Guitar For Beginners 7th Edition

Imagine Publishing Ltd | 2016 | ISBN: 1785462431 | English | 164 pages | True PDF | 21,68 MB
Guitar for Beginners is packed full of in-depth guides on getting started and learning essential guitar techniques - from strumming to string bending. It explains how to understand musical notation and provides practice examples. There is also a comprehensive list of chords, as well as sample sheets of notation and tab. Online resources, including audio and video files, are also available so you can listen to how things should sound and watch how things should be done. Featuring: Getting started - The ultimate guide to the guitar. Techniques - From strumming and picking to adding amps and effects. Understanding music - Learn to read guitar tab and musical notation. Play in the style of… - Discover how to recreate the sound of your favourite musical genre.

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Piano for Beginners 6th Edition

2016 | English | ISBN: 1785463837 | True PDF | 164 pages | 17 MB
Picking up any instrument for the first time can be daunting, but the new edition of Piano for Beginners will guide you through the learning process. From the correct way to sit at the piano to reading notation, we start with the basics before expanding your musical horizons with easy home recording and genre-specific tutorials. With a glossary of essential terminology, a list of chords and even access to free online resources, Piano for Beginners will be your go-to guide to mastering the piano or keyboard.

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Take Control of Audio Hijack

English | 2016 | ASIN: B0141LG5J8 | 130 pages | PDF+EPUB+MOBI | 43 MB
Find sound advice for recording anything on your Mac!

Learn how to use Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack 3 to capture and enhance any audio playing on a Mac. Audio expert Kirk McElhearn provides instructions for setting up common scenarios – recording audio playing in Safari, capturing Skype and FaceTime calls, digitizing your old LPs, extracting audio from concert DVDs, and working with mics and mixers, among much else. Kirk also helps you edit recordings in Rogue Amoeba's Fission audio editor.

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iPad Music School: A Hands-On Introduction to Making Music on iOS

English | 2015 | ASIN: B00ZOQ4AFG | 89 Pages | PDF/EPUB (conv) | 4.24 MB
Whether you’re 8 years old or 80 years old, there’s never a bad time to start making music. You live in exciting times, with technology that allows you to carry around a virtual studio in your pocket or purse. It’s never been easier or more fun to learn how to create your own songs and share them with your friends, or the whole world.

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Kurt Cobain and Nirvana The Complete Illustrated History (Updated Edition)

English | ISBN: 0760351783 | 2016 | PDF | 208 pages | 106 MB
Nirvana, the immortal grunge Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, is as relevant and influential as ever.

Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic comprised Nirvana, the band that unintentionally tore the music world asunder with the 1991 album Nevermind. The record that includes hits such as "Smells like Teen Spirit," "Come as You Are," and "Lithium" continues to rattle speakers with grunge that truly rocks. Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, Updated Edition tells the fully illustrated story of the band that spoke for Generation X in the '90s.

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Ukulele For Beginners 2nd Edition

2016 | ISBN: 178546356X | English | 164 pages | True PDF | 21 MB
People of all ages and abilities can play the ukulele, from the complete novice to the musical maestro looking to add another instrument to their repertoire. Perhaps that's why so many people are picking up this handy and versatile instrument, and this book has everything you need to start making music with your new ukulele. We'll take you through choosing which type of uke is best for you, through warm ups and basic chords, to learning how to read tablature and musical notation, through to playing tunes in the styles of your favourite artists, from Taylor Swift and One Direction to Kanye West and Elvis Presley. Pick up this book and start strumming! Featuring: Getting started - Pick your ukulele, learn how to take care of it and get ready to play Techniques - Master basic chords, strumming patterns, finger-picking and more Reading music - Get to grips with tablature, notation and chord charts and start playing your favourite tunes Play in the style of… - Re-create the sound of artists like One Direction, Lorde, Bruno Mars and Bob Marley

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Boss: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: The Illustrated History

P2P | July 27 2016 | EPUB: 29 MB | PDF: 55 MB
Find out how legendary musician Bruce Springsteen earned his monicker. There's only one Boss; his story is revealed here.Bruce Springsteen is a platinum-shifting, stadium-filling rock star, but he is also more nuanced than that. He is a man of the people, making conventional-and-proud-of-it rock music aimed at the American working class.A supreme songwriter, Springsteen is a rock 'n' roll legend, and this lavishly illustrated book is an examination of his life and music. A comprehensive overview of a fascinating and unique artist, Boss: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - The Illustrated History is a tribute to Springsteen's body of work, from the rock anthem Born to Run to his sepia-toned analysis of working-class misery, The River.

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Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations

2015 | ISBN: 0674187083 | English | 176 pages | PDF | 900 KB
Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including Mystery Train and The Shape of Things to Come, traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the surprising, often hidden affinities between the music and broader streams of American politics and culture.

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21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture

English | ISBN: 1137497599 | 2016 | 218 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This collection examines the multiple ways people listen to, consume, and produce music and sound in an increasingly digital world. Technologies such as social networks, recommendation algorithms, virtual cloud storage, and portable listening devices increasingly mediate both personal and communal experiences with music. While such technologies may be convenient, their unexamined use raises ethical, socio-political, and philosophical questions. This volume brings together multiple contributions which engage with these questions and others posed by emergent musical and social technologies. Drawing upon a range of different areas of inquiry, it provides a varied critical approach to the question of how people interact with music in the modern era and debates the universal themes of modern music consumption.

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Remix and Life Hack in Hip Hop

English | 2016 | ISBN: 946300498X, 9463004998 | 158 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.8 MB
Many hiphoppas labour to sustain Hiphop Kulture in their communities far from the big stages, world tours, and hit singles enjoyed by a shockingly few American hiphoppas. The creative labour of these few mega stars is calculated in billions of dollars. But for most hiphoppas, their creative labour may never get expressed in economic terms. Instead it is expressed in social capital, the production of collective and individual subjectivities, the bonds of love that build and hold communities together, and the healing of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken neighborhoods in broken cities. Hiphop Kulture is NOT a music genre, it is MUCH more, and exploring how the sharing of aesthetic resources builds community, and how situated learning plays a necessary role in cultural sustainability draws out questions that may lead to a model of community located cultural education, and a starting point for a critical pedagogy of music.

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Language, Music, and Computing: First International Workshop, LMAC 2015

English | ISBN: 331927497X | 2016 | 192 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language, Music and Computing, LMAC 2015, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in April 2015.

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Elements of Music, 3rd edition

P2P | July 21 2016 | 6 MB
The Fundamentals Text That Emphasizes Music Making

This music fundamentals textbook is for both aspiring music majors and non-majors. Based on an anthology of works from music literature, it features clear, concise explanations, extensive written exercises, and a variety of suggested in-class activities.

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Free Jazz/Black Power By Philippe Carles

English | ISBN: 1628460393 | 2015 | 277 pages | PDF | 1 MB
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the Atlantic by exposing the new sound’s ties to African American culture, history, and the political struggle that was raging in the early 1970s. The two offered a political and cultural history of black presence in the United States to shed more light on the dubious role played by jazz criticism in racial oppression.

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Creating Jazz Counterpoint: New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues

2014 | ISBN-10: 1617039918, 1496807782 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the ""First Man of Jazz."" Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz. Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of the Bolden era. These recordings have been treated with skepticism because of doubts about Johnson's credibility.

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Your Mix Sucks v1.0.1g PDF

P2P April 17 2015 | 4.9 MB
As some of you know, aside from mixing some awesome records I’ve just released a book that sets out to be THE complete methodology for the entire mixing process from preparation to delivery.
In addition to the technical and artistical side of things, the book also deals with the people aspects of the job, from industry networking to dealing with client feedback.

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Mixing In Ableton Live Book 1 - Mix Fundamentals and Preparation

P2P | July 02 2016 | 15 MB
The Zero To Hero Guide To Mixing In Ableton Live is a series of ebooks aimed to educate electronic music producers on a variety of different mixing techniques. Each book will focus on one of the key components of the mix process.

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Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating music with ChucK

2015 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 1617291706 | EPUB: 9.6 MB | PDF: 9.76 MB
Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating Music with ChucK offers a complete introduction to programming in the open source music language ChucK. In it, you'll learn the basics of digital sound creation and manipulation while you discover the ChucK language. As you move example-by-example through this easy-to-follow book, you'll create meaningful and rewarding digital compositions and "instruments" that make sound and music in direct response to program logic, scores, gestures, and other systems connected via MIDI or the network.

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The Audio Programming Book

English | Book (PDF) | 283 MB
This comprehensive handbook of mathematical and programming techniques for audio signal processing will be an essential reference for all computer musicians, computer scientists, engineers, and anyone interested in audio. Designed to be used by readers with varying levels of programming expertise, it not only provides the foundations for music and audio development but also tackles issues that sometimes remain mysterious even to experienced software designers.

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A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity

English | 2015 | ISBN: 1935408658 | 368 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. In this path-breaking book, renowned musicologist Gary Tomlinson draws from these areas to construct a new narrative for the emergence of human music. Starting at a period of human prehistory long before Homo sapiens or music existed, Tomlinson describes the incremental attainments that, by changing the communication and society of prehumen species, laid the foundation for musical behaviors in more recent times. He traces in Neandertals and early sapiens the accumulation and development of these capacities, and he details their coalescence into modern musical behavior across the last hundred millennia.

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