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A Creative Approach to Contemporary Music Theory and Improvisation for all Instruments Updated with many new examples and Guitar Tablature (TAB)

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Sonic Writing Technologies of Material Symbolic and Signal Inscriptions

Sonic Writing explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media. Studying the domains of instrument design, musical notation, and sound recording under the rubrics of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions of sound, the book describes how these historical techniques of sonic writing are implemented in new digital music technologies. With a scope ranging from ancient Greek music theory, medieval notation, early modern scientific instrumentation to contemporary multimedia and artificial intelligence, it provides a theoretical grounding for further study and development of technologies of musical expression. The book draws a bespoke affinity and similarity between current musical practices and those from before the advent of notation and recording, stressing the importance of instrument design in the study of new music and projecting how new computational technologies, including machine learning, will transform our musical practices.

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Transformational Piano Teaching Mentoring Students From All Walks of Life

Transformational Piano Teaching: Mentoring Students from All Walks of Life examines the concept of the piano teacher as someone who is more than just a teacher of a musical skill, but also someone who wields tremendous influence on the development of a young person's artistic and empathic potential, as well as their lifelong personal motivational framework. The specific attributes of today's students are explored, including family and peer influences from interpersonal relationships to social media. Additionally, students from specific circumstances are discussed, including those with special needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, and Depression. Finally, motivation of a teacher's students is related to a teacher's own motivation in their work, as a cycle of positivity and achievement will be recommended as a way to keep an instructor's work fresh and exciting.

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The Art of Record Production Volume 2 Creative Practice in the Studio

The playback of recordings is the primary means of experiencing music in contemporary society, and in recent years 'classical' musicologists and popular music theorists have begun to examine the ways in which the production of recordings affects not just the sound of the final product but also musical aesthetics more generally. Record production can, indeed, be treated as part of the creative process of composition. At the same time, training in the use of these forms of technology has moved from an apprentice-based system into university education. Musical education and music research are thus intersecting to produce a new academic field: the history and analysis of the production of recorded music. This book is designed as a general introductory reader, a text book for undergraduate degree courses studying the creative processes involved in the production of recorded music. The aim is to introduce students to the variety of approaches and methodologies that are currently being employed by scholars in this field. The book is divided into three sections covering historical approaches, theoretical approaches and case studies and practice. There are also three interludes of commentary on the academic contributions from leading record producers and other industry professionals. This collection gives students and scholars a broad overview of the way in which academics from the analytical and practice-based areas of the university system can be brought together with industry professionals to explore the ways in which this new academic field should progress.

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Learn to Play Drums Volume 2

Master the Drum Kit and Learn to Play Drums Like a ProThe second book in a comprehensive guide to playing the drums for beginners The second book in a comprehensive guide to playing the drums for beginners

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Good Music What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of “good” music—highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original—and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals.

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How to Build Your Own Home Recording Studio On a Budget (Modern Musician Book 2)

This book is for anyone that is looking to find practical insider tips on the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of building your own home recording studio, buying music recording software and recording studio equipment, without breaking the bank!

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Foundations in Sound Design for Interactive Media A Multidisciplinary Approach

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to foundational topics in sound design for interactive media, such as gaming and virtual reality; compositional techniques; new interfaces; sound spatialization; sonic cues and semiotics; performance and installations; music on the web; augmented reality applications; and sound producing software design.

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Speaking the Piano : Reflections on Learning and Teaching

In Speaking the Piano, renowned pianist Susan Tomes turns her attention to teaching and learning. Teaching music encompasses everything from putting a drum in a child's hands to helping an accomplished musician unlock the meaning and spirit of the classics. At every stage, some fundamental issues keep surfacing. In this wide-ranging book, Susan Tomes reflects on how her own experience as a learner, in different genres from classical to jazz, has influenced her approach to teaching. She tells us how her performing career has given her insight into what young performers need to know, and how discussions with students have fed into her own practice. She describes the brilliant and intriguing teachers whose masterclasses opened her ears to the many ways in which music can be brought alive and communicated. This is a book to appeal to a wide range of readers - pianists of every level from beginner to professional, piano teachers, musicians of all kinds, and the broader community of music-lovers. In a passionate contribution to the ongoing debate about the place of music in education, Susan Tomes argues that this most inspiring of arts can play a unique role in personal development. This is a lovely, wise, elegantly written book, filled with tips and anecdotes which could be helpful and encouraging for any pianist, whether a beginner or a professional. Above all it is a book in which one senses constantly the deep love the author has for music itself, for its ability to inspire, touch and, indeed, change lives.

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Jennifer Higdon Composing in Color

Renowned composer Jennifer Higdon is best known for her symphonic pieces blue cathedral, Concerto for Orchestra, City Scape, Concerto 4-3 and Violin Concerto (2010 Pulitzer Prize). These compositions illustrate her breadth of style and avant-garde technique. The author examines these works—with commentary by Higdon—as well as the music of her first opera, with a focus on compositional history, musical characteristics, formal analysis and critical reception.

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Gothic Instruments A Composer's Guide to Library Music eBook

This book began life as a series of in-depth articles for Sound On Sound Magazine, the UK’s largest magazine for recording professionals and enthusiasts. Some original text is intact but brought up to date and expanded with new sections.

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Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony

The music theory text that students read and understand. Authors Burstein and Straus combine decades of teaching experience with concise prose, carefully curated musical examples, and a robust, skill-sharpening media program to illuminate the essential concepts of music theory.

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Music and Embodied Cognition Listening Moving Feeling and Thinking

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of the "mimetic hypothesis," the notion that a large part of our experience and understanding of music involves an embodied imitation in the listener of bodily motions and exertions that are involved in producing music. Through an often unconscious imitation of action and sound, we feel the music as it moves and grows. With applications to tonal and post-tonal Western classical music, to Western vernacular music, and to non-Western music, Cox’s work stands to expand the range of phenomena that can be explained by the role of sensory, motor, and affective aspects of human experience and cognition.

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The Science of Musical Sound Volume 1 Stringed Instruments Pipe Organs and the Human Voice

This textbook is a product of William Bennett’s work in developing and teaching a course on the physics of music at Yale University to a diverse audience of musicians and science students in the same class. The book is a culmination of over a decade of teaching the course and weaves together historical descriptions of the physical phenomena with the author’s clear interpretations of the most important aspects of the science of music and musical instruments.

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John Williams Changing the Culture of the Classical Guitar

This book assesses the influence and reception of many different forms of guitar playing upon the classical guitar and more specifically through the prism of John Williams.

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Rock The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock Third Edition

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book, now co-authored with Remy Martin, incorporates new material on rock music theory, style change and the hermeneutic method developed in Moore's Song Means (2012). An even larger array of musicians is discussed, bringing the book right into the 21st century. Rock's 'primary text' – its sounds – is the focus of attention here. The authors argue for the development of a musicology particular to rock within the context of the background to the genres, the beat and rhythm and blues styles of the early 1960s, 'progressive' rock, punk rock, metal and subsequent styles. They also explore the fundamental issue of rock as a medium for self-expression, and the relationship of this to changing musical styles. Rock: The Primary Text remains innovative in its exploration of an aesthetics of rock.

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Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home Improving the Listening and Viewing Experience

Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home is a comprehensive guide that will help every reader set up a modern audio-video system in a small room such as a home theater or studio control room.

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Beep to Boom: The Development of Advanced Runtime Sound Systems for Games and Extended Reality

Drawing on decades of experience, Beep to Boom: The Development of Advanced Runtime Sound Systems for Games and Extended Reality is a rigorous, comprehensive guide to interactive audio runtime systems.

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Trumpet Omnibook: For B-Flat Instruments Transcribed Exactly from Artist Recorded Solos

(Jazz Transcriptions). The Trumpet Omnibook features transcriptions of solos as played by some of the world's leading jazz artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, Nat Adderley, Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Arturo Sandoval and others. Songs include: Hi-Fly (Nat Adderley) Work Song (Nat Adderley) Rise (Herb Alpert) La Vie En Rose (Take Me To Your Heart) (Louis Armstrong) West End Blues (Louis Armstrong) Willow Weep for Me (Louis Armstrong) Comin' On (Chet Baker) There Will Never Be Another You (Chet Baker) Riverboat Shuffle (Bix Beiderbecke) Royal Garden Blues (Bix Beiderbecke) Falling in Love with Love (Randy Brecker) Cherokee (Indian Love Song) (Clifford Brown) Parisian Thoroughfare (Clifford Brown) Pent Up Horses (Clifford Brown) Seven Steps to Heaven (Miles Davis) So What (Miles Davis) After You've Gone (Roy Eldridge) Rockin' Chair (Roy Eldridge) Whisper Not (Art Farmer) Birdland (Maynard Ferguson) Cruisin' for a Bluesin' (Maynard Ferguson) A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie) Salt Peanuts (Dizzy Gillespie) A String of Pearls (Bobby Hackett) Dewey Square (Roy Hargrove) The Nearness of You (Roy Hargrove) Strasburg St. Denis (Roy Hargrove) Invitation (Tom Harrell) When the Saints Go Marching In (Al Hirt) Byrd Like (Freddie Hubbard) Cantelope Island (Freddie Hubbard) Witch Hunt (Freddie Hubbard) Concerto for Trumpet (Harry James) Donna Lee (Ryan Kisor) Take the "A" Train (Ryan Kisor) Feels So Good (Chuck Mangione) Delfeayo's Dilemma (Wynton Marsalis) What Is This Thing Called Love? (Wynton Marsalis) Ceora (Lee Morgan) Locomotion (Lee Morgan) Eb Pob (Fats Navarro) Nostalgia (Fats Navarro) Weather Bird (Nicholas Payton) Hot House (Arturo Sandoval) It's Only a Paper Moon (Jack Sheldon) Wild Man Blues (Rex Stewart) Mack the Knife (Clark Terry)

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Analog Synthesizers: Understanding Performing Buying : From the Legacy of Moog to Software Synthesis Second Edition

Making its first huge impact in the 1960s through the inventions of Bob Moog, the analog synthesizer sound, riding a wave of later developments in digital and software synthesis, has now become more popular than ever.

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