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World Music A Global Journey 4th Edition

World Music: A Global Journey, Fourth Edition takes students around the world to experience the diversity of musical expression and cultural traditions. It is known for its breadth in surveying the world's major cultures in a systematic study of world music within a strong pedagogical framework.

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The Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop

The Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop, The Illuminati take over, control, and brainwashing of our culture. Professor Griff is an internationally renowned educator, writer, producer, musician, platinum recording/spoken word artist, lecturer and founding member of the pioneering and revolutionary hip hop group Public Enemy. Author of the popular music business guide: Musick Bizness R.I.P. (Resource Information Publication), Griff stands as a highly acclaimed, seasoned entertainment industry veteran and sought-after resource on all aspects of the music business. An activist within both the conscious and hip hop communities, Griff currently stands as a permanent fixture on the international lecture circuit with his riveting and powerful discourse/book, the Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop

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Music Theory For Dummies 4th Edition

Tune in to how music really works Whether you’re a student, a performer, or simply a fan, this book makes music theory easy, providing you with a friendly guide to the concepts, artistry, and technical mastery that underlie the production of great music. You’ll quickly become fluent in the fundamentals of knocking out beats, reading scores, and anticipating where a piece should go, giving you a deeper perspective on the works of others - and bringing an extra dimension to your own.

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Final Cut Pro X Beyond the Basics Advanced Techniques for Editors Second Edition

Going beyond where introductory books leave off and written for experienced editors, especially those new to Final Cut Pro X, this new and revised edition of Final Cut Pro X Beyond the Basics is brimming with cutting-edge methods to bring your editing skills to the next level. Explained in jargon-free language by a seasoned teacher and digital editor, Tom Wolsky's text has been fully updated to address the new Final Cut Pro X 10.3 interface and changes to the software. This full-color workshop features tutorials that provide firsthand experience on the art and technique of editing at an advanced level with Final Cut Pro X, as well as in-depth information and time-saving tips that will allow you to master the application's interface elements, tools, and nuances. Wolsky covers all the bases, including:

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Acoustic Fields All In One DIY Acoustic Treatment Build Plans Package

Having problems with the acoustics in your room? Need a cost effective way of dealing with absorption and diffusion? Then our all in one DIY Build Plan package is for you!

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The Music and Music Theory of Paul Hindemith

The music theory of composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), originally entitled Unterweisung im Tonsatz, is well known, yet poorly understood. This book provides a critical engagement with Hindemith's Unterweisung, particularly concerning its relationship to existing acoustic music theories. By examining different Unterweisung-versions, it charts the evolution of Hindemith's useof language and mode of communication, including his reference to polytonality, atonality, Fuxian species counterpoint, and avoidance of existing music for his examples. It also elaborates the sourcematerial on which the theory is based, using a reconstruction of Hindemith's personal library. Central to the book is the relationship of Hindemith's Unterweisung to his compositional practice. Hindemith's fascination with the challenges of music theory falls into a middle period in his oeuvre, enabling profitable comparisons with his compositional practice both before and after his theory-making. The book also comprises a detailed discussion of Hindemith's theoretical and compositional legacy. Beginning with an overview of existing polemics, it draws together unpublished materials from the Yale Hindemith Institute with reminiscences from former students to construct an Unterweisung reception history. The book shows that, while many areas of Hindemith's theory have beenovertaken by recent interests in music theory that relate to cognition and geometry, his influence has been deeply felt.

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Rave On Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music

Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the acid house 'summer of love', it has gone from subculture to the global mainstream. Does it still have the same power to inspire?

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The Real Toscanini Musicians Reveal the Maestro (Amadeus)

Lauded by Verdi Debussy and other music legends the celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini raised the standards of orchestral and operatic performance over an astonishing 69 years on the podium. But as he did so he acquired a reputation as something of a tyrant who unleashed an explosive temper at musicians if rehearsals did not meet his expectations. In ÊThe Real ToscaniniÊ Cesare Civetta presents an intriguing collection of vivid one-of-a-kind interviews with artists who performed with Toscanini. A portrait of the inner workings of the maestro emerges through these extensive conversations conducted by the author over a period of 20 years together with other firsthand recollections.

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Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas

Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas challenges the notion that in the twenty-first century, jazz can be restrained by a singular, static definition. The worldwide trend for jazz to be marginalized by the mainstream music industry, as well as conservatoriums and schools of music, runs the risk of stifling the innovative and challenging aspects of its creativity. The authors argue that to remain relevant, jazz needs to be dynamic, proactively experimental, and consciously facilitate new ideas to be made accessible to an audience broader than the innovators themselves. Experimentation in Improvised Jazz explores key elements of experimental jazz music in order to discern ways in which the genre is developing.

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Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz

Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual. Katherine Baber investigates how jazz in its many styles served Bernstein as a flexible, indeed protean, musical idea. As she shows, Bernstein used jazz to signify American identity with all its tensions and contradictions and to articulate community and conflict, irony and parody, and timely issues of race and gender. Baber provides a thoughtful look at how Bernstein's use of jazz grew out of his belief in the primacy of tonality, music's value as a unique form of human communication, and the formation of national identity in music. She also offers in-depth analyses of On the Town, West Side Story, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and other works to explore fascinating links between Bernstein's art and issues like eclecticism, music's relationship to social engagement, black-Jewish relations, and his own musical identity.

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Advanced Jazz Guitar Improvisation: Learning To Play The Changes (By the Root)

Do your solos and improvisations lack direction? Would you like to enhance and ultimately perfect your ability to create and play the resolutions you hear? Then Ryan Belisle's Advanced Jazz Guitar Improvisation is your next lesson.

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From Indie To Empire: The only DIY music marketing tool needed for today's Indie Musicians

This powerful DIY Music Marketing Guide is a must-have book for any serious-minded Indie Musician looking to take control of their own Music Promotion! Created by the Founder of one of the fastest growing Music PR Firms around; Empire Music Promotions (www.empiremusicpromotions.com) Ryan Donnelly has made it his mission to free today’s hustling indie musicians from the expensive cycle of Music PR that he calls “Music PR Firm Dependency.”

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Music An Appreciation 12th Edition

Music: An Appreciation remains the time-tested solution for welcoming non-majors to the art oflistening to great music. Now, Roger Kamien places a renewed focus on learningthe elements of music, fostering each student’s unique path to listening andunderstanding. This is achieved through step-by-step guidance as they learn theelements of music, as well as an increased number of musical selections to appreciate,and an enhanced McGraw-Hill Connect experience. As the authority in the Music Appreciationcourse, Kamien equips students with the language, tools and listening skillsrequired to sustain a life-long enthusiasm for music.

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Handbook for Sound Engineers (Audio Engineering Society Presents) 5th Edition

Handbook for Sound Engineers is the most comprehensive reference available for audio engineers, and is a must read for all who work in audio. With contributions from many of the top professionals in the field, including Glen Ballou on interpretation systems, intercoms, assistive listening, and fundamentals and units of measurement, David Miles Huber on MIDI, Bill Whitlock on audio transformers and preamplifiers, Steve Dove on consoles, DAWs, and computers, Pat Brown on fundamentals, gain structures, and test and measurement, Ray Rayburn on virtual systems, digital interfacing, and preamplifiers, Ken Pohlmann on compact discs, and Dr. Wolfgang Ahnert on computer-aided sound system design and room-acoustical fundamentals for auditoriums and concert halls, the Handbook for Sound Engineers is a must for serious audio and acoustic engineers.

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Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music

Vibe Merchants offers an insider's perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the actual details of music-making practice, rationalized in the context of the economic and creative forces that locally drive music production. By focusing on the work of audio engineers and musicians, recording studios and recording models, Ray Hitchins highlights a music creation methodology that has been acknowledged as being different to that of Europe and North America. The book leads to a broadening of our understanding of how Jamaican Popular Music emerged, developed and functions, thus providing an engaging example of the important relationship between music, technology and culture that will appeal to a wide range of scholars.

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The Language of Rhythm Vol. 1

The Language of Rhythm was designed for music students that want to learn how to apply songwriting techniques to their drumbeats. This book contains several different lessons that will give you the tools to create complete musical ideas and phrases that will sound more rhythmically eloquent. The musical concepts that are covered in this book will teach you how to build structure within a song, instead of just repetition. The goal of this curriculum is to offer new ways to add both symmetry and spontaneousness to your work.

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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind

A powerful look at the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness, including author Stephen Johnson's struggle with bipolar disorder. BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped him survive the trials and assaults of bipolar disorder.

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Learn 14 Chord Progressions for Guitar in 14 Days: Extensive Resource for Songwriters and Guitarists of All Levels

Do you want to learn the basics of chord progressions so you can be a better songwriter and guitar player? Then this is the book for you! Learn 14 Chord Progressions for Guitar in 14 Days seems pretty self-explanatory, but there’s so much more to it than just progressions, Roman numerals, and the Nashville Number System. For songwriters and guitar players, knowing chord progressions is the foundation for crafting unforgettable harmonies and rhythms.

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Comprendre le mixage (Partie 1) by Éric Noël

Enfin, un ouvrage complet qui vous permettra de mixer mieux! La première partie de ce livre en cinq tomes jette les bases d'une véritable compréhension du mixage. Après une brève et surprenante définition du mixage, nous présenterons en détail chacune des composantes essentielles d'un home studio professionnel.

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Lyrics and Music: Music Theory and Songwriting Techniques for Aspiring Songwriters

Are you trying to write songs, but you feel something is missing?In this book you will learn tips and tricks that have helped songwriters write great songs for the past 50 years. Author Willy Minnix covers tried and true methods that will help you improve your lyrics, chord progressions, and melodies,and help you capture that certain magic that people like the Beatles, Elton John, Brian Wilson and Bob Dylan have known for years. Whether your songs suffer from a lack of structure, or a weak hook, or are just missing that certain spark, the topics covered in “Lyrics and Music,” will offer songwriters of any level interesting things to think about that will help them hone and take their craft to another level.

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