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The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain

The study of music and the brain can be traced back to the work of Gall in the 18th century, continuing with John Hughlings Jackson, August Knoblauch, Richard Wallaschek, and others. These early researchers were interested in localizing musicality in the brain and learning more about how music is processed in both healthy individuals and those with dysfunctions of various kinds. Since then, the research literature has mushroomed, especially in the latter part of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Beethoven : A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the inherently political nature of Beethoven's music explains its power and endurance.

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Music Composition For Dummies 2nd Edition

You can hum it, but can you write it down? When most people think of a composer, they picture a bewigged genius like Mozart or Beethoven frenetically directing mighty orchestras in the ornate palaces of Vienna. While that may have been the case once upon a time, modern composers make themselves heard far beyond the classical conservatoire and concert hall. These days, soundtracks are in high demand in industries such as TV, film, advertising, and even gaming to help create immersive and exciting experiences. Whatever your musical ambitions—composing a dark requiem in a beautiful Viennese apartment or producing the next great Star Wars-like movie theme in LA—the fully updated Music Composition For Dummies hits all the right notes to help you become confident in the theory and practice of composition.

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Music Theory: A Fun and Easy Guide to Understanding Music

Welcome to "Music Theory ". If you wish there was a fun and engaging way to help you understand the fundamentals of music, then this is it. Whether it's learning to read music, understanding chords and scales, musical forms, or improvising and composing, this enjoyable guide will help you to finally start understanding the structure and design of music.

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Home Recording For Dummies 6th Edition

Record anywhere with your portable studio It no longer requires a professional studio to record great music. The tools to create a multi-track song can be found on home computers, tablets, or even smartphones. Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies de-mystifies the world of recording by walking would-be producers and engineers through the steps of recording or creating tracks, making edits, mixing, and mastering into a final product you can share with the world. The book covers how to apply proven recording methods whether you're using a digital device, a computer with recording software, or standalone home recording gear.

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Guitar Fretboard: 3 in 1- Beginner's Guide+ Tips and Tricks+ Simple and Effective Strategies for Optimizing the Fretboard

If you are reading, then chances are you love the guitar, and you want to do something about that passion. Why wouldn’t you? It is one of the most beautiful sounding instruments out there, and most of your favorite songs probably have some awesome riffs and licks. We grow up watching our guitar heroes rocking the stage in front of thousands of people, and you cannot help but see yourself in their place. How cool would it be if it were you standing on that stage in a packed stadium, shredding and playing some awesome riffs?

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Guitar Lessons for Beginners: 3 in 1- Beginner's Guide+ Tips and Tricks+ Simple and Effective Strategies

Here we present you with the book, "Guitar Lessons for Beginners" to help you understand and use different concepts in the mystical yet enchanting world of music. True, the guitar is the easiest of instruments to play, and by buying and learning to play the guitar, you gain complete mastery over your domain of music.

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Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong

Nearly 50 years after his death, Louis Armstrong remains one of the 20th century's most iconic figures. Popular fans still appreciate his later hits such as "Hello, Dolly!" and "What a Wonderful World," while in the jazz community, he remains venerated for his groundbreaking innovations in the 1920s. The achievements of Armstrong's middle years, however, possess some of the trumpeter's most scintillating and career-defining stories. But the story of this crucial time has never been told in depth until now. Between 1929 and 1947, Armstrong transformed himself from a little-known trumpeter in Chicago to an internationally renowned pop star, setting in motion the innovations of the Swing Era and Bebop. He had a similar effect on the art of American pop singing, waxing some of his most identifiable hits such as "Jeepers Creepers" and "When You're Smiling." However as author Ricky Riccardi shows, this transformative era wasn't without its problems, from racist performance reviews and being held up at gunpoint by gangsters to struggling with an overworked embouchure and getting arrested for marijuana possession. Utilizing a prodigious amount of new research, Riccardi traces Armstrong's mid-career fall from grace and dramatic resurgence. Featuring never-before-published photographs and stories culled from Armstrong's personal archives, Heart Full of Rhythm tells the story of how the man called "Pops" became the first "King of Pop."

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Violin for Beginners: 4 in 1- Beginner's Guide+ Tips and Tricks+ Simple and Effective Strategies of Reading Music

In this guide, you will find detailed, clear instructions to continue to advance your violin playing. There are numerous performance scenarios, practice ideas, and pieces of music that can be encountered on a regular basis as a beginning violinist. This book will continue to build and expand on previous ideas, providing insight and additional ideas that will help you as you continue to make progress.

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Violin for Beginners: Contemporary Tips and Tricks for Playing Beautiful Music Using an Orchestra Violin

Have you always loved the violin, but only from afar? Have you ever wondered how on Earth such beautiful, out-of-this-world sounds could come from an instrument? Do you wonder what those weird lines and dots that the pros look at as they play actually mean? Feel like you could never play the violin like an expert? If you answered yes to these questions, then this book is for you.

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Listen to Movie Musicals! Exploring a Musical Genre

Listen to Movie Musicals! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of musical theater on film for fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicals featured in movies.

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Son of a Milkman: My Crazy Life with Tesla

Brian Wheat is far from your typical rock star. As bassist for the multi-platinum band, Tesla, he's enjoyed the spoils of success and lived the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll lifestyle to the hilt. But it came at a cost, one that took years to repair.

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Location and Postproduction Sound for Low-Budget Filmmakers

This book covers everything you need to know to master the fundamentals of location sound recording and postproduction sound in a comprehensive one-stop guide. This user-friendly book provides real world situations to analyze the many kinds of location recording configurations and postproduction scenarios and offers easy-to-adopt, budget-conscious solutions to some of the most common issues that arise when working with sound. Chapters cover the theory of sound, preproduction with a sound emphasis, microphone selection, testing equipment, how to boom and mix on set, synchronization and time code, and editing sound while doing a picture cut in a traditional picture software platform. Additionally, the book discusses bringing a project into a Digital Audio Workstation and explores basic sound design, dialogue editing, Automated Dialogue Replacement, Foley, sound effects, music for film, re-recording the final mix, and outputting sound to finish a project. Accompanying examples allow readers the opportunity to try out the various techniques and drills on location, in postproduction, or both.

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Acoustic Guitar: A Beginner's Guide to Learn The Important Techniques of Playing Acoustic Guitar Like A Pro

This book is the only book you need in order to learn to play the acoustic guitar like a pro. All too often, newbies to the world of the acoustic guitar are frightened away from learning to play. This is often because of the erroneous assumption that in order to play the guitar, one needs to be able to read music, or understand complex musical notation. There are also those who shy away from learning the guitar on account of how daunting the subject of learning to play seems in most books and teaching material. This is where this book comes in.

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The Art and Science of Surround and Stereo Recording: Including 3D Audio Techniques

This book presents an extensive and timely survey of more than 30 surround and 20 stereo-microphone techniques. Further, it offers, for the first time, an explanation of why the RCA "Living Stereo" series of legacy recordings from the 1950s and 60s is still appreciated by music lovers worldwide, despite their use of an apparently incorrect recording technique from the perspective of psychoacoustics. Discussing this aspect in detail, the book draws on the author’s study of concert hall acoustics and psychoacoustics.

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Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer : Nathan Burkan and the Making of American Popular Culture

Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popular culture. With a client list that included Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Frank Costello, Victor Herbert, Mae West, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Arnold Rothstein, and Samuel Goldwyn, Burkan was “New York's Spotlight Lawyer” for more than three decades. He was one of the principal authors of the epochal Copyright Act of 1909 and the guiding spirit behind the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (Ascap), which provided the first practical means for songwriters to collect royalties for public performances of their works, revolutionizing the music business and the sound of popular music. While the entertainment world adapted to the disruptive technologies of recorded sound, motion pictures, and broadcasting, Burkan's groundbreaking work laid the legal foundation for the Great American Songbook and the Golden Age of Hollywood, and it continues to influence popular culture today.

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Ukulele Sheet Music 2010-2019: 60 Hits to Strum & Sing

This 272-page collection lets you strum and sing along to 60 of the decade's top hits. Arrangements include melody, lyrics and chord diagrams for standard G-C-E-A ukulele tuning. Includes: All of Me (John Legend) Believer (Imagine Dragons) Despacito (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee) Get Lucky (Daft Punk) Happy (Pharrell Williams) Hey, Soul Sister (Train) Ho Hey (The Lumineers) I Will Wait (Mumford & Sons) The Lazy Song (Bruno Mars) Rolling in the Deep (Adele) Shake It Off (Taylor Swift) Shallow (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) Stay with Me (Sam Smith) Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran) Wake Me Up (Avicii) and more.

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The Only Basic Piano Instruction Book You'll Ever Need

Lots of piano books offer either in-depth analysis or quick gimmicks that don't really teach music theory. But The Only Basic Piano Instruction Book You'll Ever Need is different. For students who want to learn the basics and dive right into playing, this book skips all the unnecessary trivia on the history of pianos and avoids lengthy digressions on classical and contemporary musicians. Instead, it focuses specifically on piano instruction and includes: The basics of musical terms, definitions, note-reading structure, and time and key signatures The foundations for chords and more complicated note constructs Exercises and sample pieces of music that range from playing simple notes to combining harmony and melody Perfect even for those starting from scratch, The Only Basic Piano Book You'll Ever Need makes learning to play a cinch.

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Music Sound and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph Cinema and Radio

This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War, by which time the technologies were thoroughly integrated into everyday life. There are more than 120 selections between the collection's first piece, an article on the phonograph written by Thomas Edison in 1878, and its last, a column advising listeners "desirous of gaining more from music as presented by the radio." Among the selections are articles from popular and trade publications, advertisements, fan letters, corporate records, fiction, and sheet music. Taken together, the selections capture how the new sound technologies were shaped by developments such as urbanization, the increasing value placed on leisure time, and the rise of the advertising industry. Most importantly, they depict the ways that the new sound technologies were received by real people in particular places and moments in time.

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Clarinet Fundamentals 2: Systematic Fingering Course

With 'Clarinet Fundamentals', Reiner Wehle presents a three-part basic work for studying the clarinet. Volume 2 is a comprehensive fingering method which takes the characteristics of the clarinet-specific fingering technique into account. The successful mastery of the fingering technique and the training of every possible fingering combination are a prerequisite for dexterity and virtuoso playing. Therefore, the volume contains a large number of exercises covering all fingering problems in great detail for the Boehm and Oehler system.

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