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Let’s Calculate Bach: Applying Information Theory and Statistics to Numbers in Music

This book shows how information theory, probability, statistics, mathematics and personal computers can be applied to the exploration of numbers and proportions in music. It brings the methods of scientific and quantitative thinking to questions like: What are the ways of encoding a message in music and how can we be sure of the correct decoding? How do claims of names hidden in the notes of a score stand up to scientific analysis? How many ways are there of obtaining proportions and are they due to chance?

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Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century Volume 1: Works Written Before 2000

Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, Volumes I and II, she provides a seasoned expert's guidance and insight into the vocal genre she calls home.

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Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity

Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity is a practical blueprint for teachers wanting to begin teaching music technology to secondary age students. Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein inspire classroom music teachers to expand beyond traditional ensemble-based music education offerings to create a culture of unique creativity and inclusivity at their schools.

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Beat Specials English Edition Killer Hooks 2021 PDF

Sure, the mix has to sound excellent and the arrangement has to create tension, but vocals and melodies are and remain the most important elements that stick with the listener and encourage him to hum along. But how do you create such ear-catchers and how do you successfully create them? We show you the tricks of various chart producers and give you techniques to make your own hit a breeze.

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LearnIt Series: Beginner's Guide To Music Production 1st Edition 2021 PDF

What's Inside? New from the makers of Future Music, Computer Music and Electronic Music, the Beginner's Guide to Music Production will have you creating your own tracks in no time. Learn how to record, arrange and master tracks with our simple, step-by-step guides, complete with exclusive access to software, samples, and video tutorials.

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Beat Specials English Edition Interface Finder 2021

Recording Workflow - Get more tracks done quickly Whether large studio, home recording or laptop setup... when creative ideas come up, a well thought-out workflow is essential. But what can you do to optimize your hardware and software setup so that ideas can be captured quickly and efficiently when the muse kisses you? And how do you get the best sound when recording? In our Workflow eBook we will address these questions and show you how to make the most of your technology to achieve the best possible musical output.

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Beat Strum Acoustic Guitar: Essential Picking Hand Percussion Techniques

Are You a Soloist, Singer-Songwriter or Acoustic Duo? Do you want to achieve a more energetic and impactful performance with your steel-string acoustic guitar?

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The Bible of Classical Guitar Technique

A detailed compendium of the fundamentals and playing techniques of 21st century classical guitar including comprehensive, progressively structured exercises throughout

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Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression Meter and the Body

Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with the beat, organizing the flow of notes from beat to beat and shaping the sound produced. By developing "focal impulse theory," Ito shows how a performer's choices of how to move with the meter can transform the music's expressive contours. Change the dance of the performer's body, and you change the dance of the notes.

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Music Is Power : Popular Songs Social Justice and the Will to Change

Honorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards - Performing Arts & Music Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition? Popular music has long been a powerful force for social change. Protest songs have served as anthems regarding war, racism, sexism, ecological destruction and so many other crucial issues.

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How to Play Acoustic Guitar in 14 Days: Daily Lessons for Absolute Beginners (Play Music in 14 Days)

Introducing How to Play Acoustic Guitar! With daily lessons for absolute beginners! From Troy Nelson, author of Guitar Aerobics and the popular Play Guitar in 14 Days series (including How to Play Guitar and Master Pentatonic Scales), Troy Nelson Music brings you this acoustic guitar book for beginners.

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Rock Music Styles: A History

Rock Music Styles: A History, takes students on a musical journey through the development of rock music from its origins to its most contemporary styles. Charlton uses in-depth summaries and descriptions paired with a historical background to help immerse students in different musical genres. Learning from featured performers throughout the text and exploring important songs in new and revised Listening guides, students will be able to draw connections between musical developments throughout the decades. The eighth edition of Rock Music Styles: A History provides students a deeper understanding and appreciation of rock music styles in the 20th century and beyond.

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The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Jobim has been called the greatest of all contemporary Brazilian songwriters. He wrote both popular and serious music and was a gifted piano, guitar, and flute player. One of the key figures in the creation of the bossa nova style, Jobim’s music made a lasting impression worldwide, and many of his songs are now standards of the popular music repertoire.

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The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth

The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages – from Bach to BTS and back – to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, looking at music in our everyday lives; music in world history; and music in evolution, from insects to apes, humans to AI.

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The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music

The Logic of Filtering traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: how do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in music? Since the invention of sound recording in the second half of the nineteenth century, media that transmit, record, store, and reproduce physical sound inspired dreams of perfect reproduction, but were also confronted with the inevitable introduction of noise.

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Cigar Box Guitar Jazz & Blues Unlimited 3 String: Book Two: Chords Fingerstyle and Theory

Play Jazz and Blues on the Cigar Box Guitar. Learning to play jazz and blues on the cigar box guitar is simultaneously easy and difficult. Easy because you only have 3 or 4 strings to worry about so fewer options than a standard 6 string guitar. Difficult because getting good full-sounding chords with 3 or 4 strings in GDG or GDGB tuning often requires bigger stretches for chords or large skips up and down the neck to play all the notes. The good news is that with consistent practice, it is possible to overcome any difficulties and play jazz and blues on the cigar box guitar with satisfying results!

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Basic Piano Guide: Learning Piano Step by Step: Piano Guide Book

You want to learn piano, but don’t know where to start? We can help. The Beginner’s Guide to Learning Piano gives you everything you need to know to get going, safe in the knowledge you’re doing it right.

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How To Teach Guitar & Start Your Own Music Instruction Business

This book is a revised edition of Desi Serna’s original 2001 release, How to Make Money Teaching Guitar, which was one of the very first coaching materials on the market geared toward guitar teachers. Through a step-by-step process, and using a positive and encouraging tone, Desi and his new coauthor, Donnie Schexnayder, guide you through the ins and outs of teaching and illuminate the professional and personal benefits that guitar instruction can offer you. How To Teach Guitar and Start Your Own Music Instruction Business is the definitive guide to starting your own small business teaching the guitar.

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Guitar Lessons and Steps: Guitar Learning Tips and Guide for Beginners: How to Play Guitar

The guitar is the absolute best instrument you could learn for a large number of reasons. It’s mobile, cheap, and just awesome. The guitarist in the band always gets the most kudos, no question about it. But wait, there is a problem… Getting a guitar is not enough, you also need to learn how to play it somehow.

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Piano Lessons and Technique: Piano Learning Methods: Piano for Beginners Paperback

You want to learn piano, but don’t know where to start? We can help. This book gives you everything you need to know to get going, safe in the knowledge you’re doing it right. When you’re starting out with the piano, there are some basics that everyone needs to know. Here are some of the most important things, including a glossary of key terms, and some basic techniques.

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