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The Cambridge Companion to Composition

There are as many ways of creating music as there are composers in the world, with a vast array of possible methods and practices. This book provides essential critical and practical tools for composers as they try to navigate this complex landscape, whilst also offering provocations for practitioners discovering their own voices and solidifying their place in their musical communities.

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Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio 3rd Edition

Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio is the best-selling primer for small-studio enthusiasts who want chart-ready sonics in a hurry, and this extensively updated third edition now contains sections on DSP phase-linearization, loudness normalization, oversampling, mixing from stems, frequency shifting, and analog summing.

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Music Therapy Handbook Second Edition

Rich with case material, the second edition of this respected text has been thoroughly revised with many new contributing authors and 85% new material. The Handbook comprehensively explores music therapy theory, research, and practice. Chapters cover foundational concepts and therapeutic processes, major approaches to practice, and clinical applications with people of all ages. The second edition has a heightened focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and cultural humility. Expert contributors describe state-of-the-art practices for using music to foster clients' well-being and recovery in a broad range of mental health, medical, and community settings.

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Men of a Certain Age: My Encounters with Rock Royalty

'Fascinating, funny and tender' ADAM BUXTON 'My favourite writer and interviewer' JUDE ROGERS

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Watermarking in Audio Key Techniques and Technologies PDF

The availability of increased computational power and the proliferation of the Internet have facilitated the production and distribution of unauthorized copies of multimedia information. As a result, the problem of multimedia copyright protection has attracted the interest of the worldwide scientific and the business communities. The most promising solution seems to be the watermarking process where the original data is marked with ownership information hidden in an imperceptible manner in the original signal.

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Mark Kermode's Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music

Award-winning film critic Mark Kermode and radio producer Jenny Nelson embark on a full-throttle trip down the glorious rabbit hole of film composition to answer these questions and more.

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Queer Moderns: Max Ewing's Jazz Age New York

In Queer Moderns, Alice Friedman tells the fascinating story of the queer avant-garde of the 1920s and ’30s in New York, Paris, and Venice, as seen through the eyes of Max Ewing (1903–1934), a young musician, photographer, and man-about-town who, although virtually unknown today, moved in extraordinary circles. In his photographs and letters, we meet the rising stars of modern art, music, dance, and literature and enter a world of interracial friendship, “queer space,” and experimentation that shone brightly before being swept away by the Depression. It is a remarkable story that reveals that the history of modernism is more queer and more Black than previously recognized.

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Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation

Peter Brötzmann is the first ever, full-length, English-language biography of one of the most fascinating and inspiring personalities in the history of Western improvised music – and one of the key artistic figures to emerge from the socio-cultural tumult of the 1960s.

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Sound Design Concepts The Book

Like the videos themselves, this book is written from the perspective of a Bitwig User, but whenever appropriate i included alternative ways to implement the techniques using different DAWs and free Plugins.

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Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books Volume 1

'Sounding the Bookshelf 1501' explores how everyday texts in Renaissance Italy engaged with music, sound, and hearing. Of the 358 known editions printed in 1501, only a few contained formal music notation or specialist theory. Yet a surprising wealth of musical knowledge emerges from religious texts, classical commentaries, lifestyle guides, poetry, and more. These sources-rarely penned by professional musicians-reflect the broader cultural presence of music in early 16th-century life, touching on themes like music's moral influence, its role in education, and its scientific understanding.

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Off the Ground: Paul McCartney in the 1990s

A sympathetic but clear-eyed exploration of Paul McCartney’s work in the 1990s, arguably his most important since the rise of the Beatles. Paul McCartney’s 1990s was an era like no other, perhaps even the most significant decade of his entire career after the 1960s. Following a shakier 1980s, the decade would see McCartney reemerge with greater energy, momentum, and self-belief.

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The Ultimate Studio One Pro 7 Book 2nd Edition

Written by a seasoned composer, music producer, and instructor with over 20 years of experience in the music industry, this comprehensive guide transforms Studio One’s powerful digital audio workstation (DAW) into your creative canvas. Designed for both musicians looking to start producing their own music and audio professionals integrating Studio One into their workflow, this hands-on manual takes you step-by-step through every stage of the production process.

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The CAGED Rhythm Guitar Method: Learn to Play Any Chord Anywhere on the Neck Using The CAGED System

Want to play any chord, anywhere on the neck at will? Ready to use cool voicings to create next-level rhythm guitar parts?

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Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop

'Revelation after revelation . . . I love music more for reading it.' Guy Garvey 'Alker joins the dots by following myriad musical ley lines. A fascinating journey into sound.' Mark Radcliffe

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

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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The Audio Expert: Everything You Need to Know About Audio 3rd Edition

This newly updated third edition of The Audio Expert offers a comprehensive reference book that covers all aspects of audio. The book includes both practical and theoretical explanations, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies, with minimal math.

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Sound of Music: The History of Mathematical and Scientific Thinking in Music and Sound

This book explains that the essence of music lies in intangible mental realms. While vibrations generate sound, and sound forms music, music represents something far beyond mere phenomena—a higher form of expression. This book describes how vibrations are transmitted to the human ear, stirring emotions and ultimately moving the soul.

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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music

In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years’ worth of interviews with dozens of DJs, producers, vocalists, party hosts, promoters, and the founders of the clubs, labels and record stores that shaped the genre.

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Sound of Music: The History of Mathematical and Scientific Thinking in Music and Sound

This book explains that the essence of music lies in intangible mental realms. While vibrations generate sound, and sound forms music, music represents something far beyond mere phenomena—a higher form of expression. This book describes how vibrations are transmitted to the human ear, stirring emotions and ultimately moving the soul.

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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music

In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years’ worth of interviews with dozens of DJs, producers, vocalists, party hosts, promoters, and the founders of the clubs, labels and record stores that shaped the genre.

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