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  • Life

    The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the Rolling Stones legend

    by Keith Richards ...
    The once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller.'Electrifying'New York Times'A masterpiece'The Word'Funny, poignant, brutally honest'Sunday Telegraph'Densely packed with incident... immensely readable'Sunday Times... ... Read more

    5,49 €

  • The SuperCollider Book, second edition

    Edited by Scott Wilson, David Cottle, Nick Collins ...
    A comprehensive update of the essential reference to SuperCollider, with new material on machine learning, musical notation and score making, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, and the cross-platform GUI library.SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with wide-ranging applications across installations, real ... Read more

    87,44 €

  • The Dirt

    Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

    by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars ...
    NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE.Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe. Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage scandals, celebrity ... Read more

    11,12 €

  • Heroes of the Metal Underground

    The Definitive Guide to 1980s American Independent Metal Bands

    by Alexandros Anesiadis, Yiannis Scarpelos ...
    The only encyclopedic and definitive book on American indie metal!If all you know about metal music was what was heard on commercial radio, then you don’t know metal at all. Heroes of the Underground profiles 600 American bands from every town and city in the United States who ever released a record.Metal bands exploded during the 1980s. Influenced by the heavy sounds coming out of Britain via ... Read more

    27,66 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gothic Rock (Author's Edition)

    by Mick Mercer ...
    Originally published in 1991, then briefly reprinted by Cleopatra in America, this irreverent tome, my second on Goth, has been out of print for over 25 years, so I am delighted to make it available online, as I own the rights. Please excuse any layout weirdness. Popping in exclusive photos meant the layout moved up and down a bit in strange ways, and I couldn't change it to anything which settled ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • Violin Varnish

    by Joseph Michelman ...
    After more than eight years of extensive research on the varnish used by the Italian Violin Makers from 1550 to 1750 A. D., it has not been possible to corroborate the results in the chemical laboratory. This is due entirely to the unavailability of samples of the varnish for confirmatory analysis. Violins made by the Italian masters of this period are so valuable and so scarce that a small sample ... Read more

    9,11 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mustaine: A Life in Metal

    by Dave Mustaine ...
    Former Metallica guitarist and founding member of Megadeth Dave Mustaine talks for the first time about his life in rock ‘n’ roll, finally telling the inside story of two of the most influential heavy metal bands in the world.Here, for the first time ever, Dave Mustaine tells the tale of two of the biggest metal bands in history; a story yet to be told from the inside. A pioneer of the thrash ... Read more

    9,85 €

  • The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference

    Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, 1956-2023

    by Daniel Bedrosian ...
    “Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of reconstructing this history-finding everybody who's been a part of, involved with, or in any way left their fingerprint on what has become the P-Funk.”- George ClintonGeorge Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective (P-Funk) stands as one of the most iconic and important groups in popular music history, with an ... Read more

    39,21 €

  • Beauty, Disrupted

    The Carre Otis Story

    by Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer ...
    Throughout her career, supermodel and actress Carré Otis has been celebrated for her striking physical beauty—but in this brazenly honest memoir she revisits the ugliest parts of her past to reveal the events that ultimately brought her to strive for, and champion, the kind of beauty that can only be found within. In Beauty Disrupted Carré details the triumphs and challenges of her career in ... Read more

    9,21 €

  • How Music Works

    by David Byrne ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.“How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual” ... Read more

    9,53 €

  • गुलफ़ाम

    किताब-ए-ग़ज़ल

    by Dr. T. C. Koul ...
    प्रस्तुत पुस्तक मुख्यतः गजलों का एक संग्रह है जिसमें लगभग 70 ग़ज़लें हैं। पुस्तक की अनूठी विशेषता यह है कि इसमें ग़ज़ल संग्रह के साथ, ग़ज़ल की साहित्यिक और सांगीतिक उत्पत्ति कैसे हुई तथा ग़ज़ल साहित्य के निर्धारित मापदंड क्या हैं, इन सभी विषयों का वर्णन भी किया गया है। एक ही पुस्तक में यह सब जानकारी पाठकों के लिए एक नवीन विषय है। ... Read more

    2,11 €

  • Church and Worship Music in the United States

    A Research and Information Guide

    by James Michael Floyd, Avery Sharp ...
    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    This fully updated second edition is a selective annotated bibliography of all relevant published resources relating to church and worship music in the United States. Over the past decade, there has been a growth of literature covering everything from traditional subject matter such as the organ works of J.S. Bach to newer areas of inquiry including folk hymnology, women and African-American ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • A Dictionary for the Modern Clarinetist

    by Jane Ellsworth ...
    Series series Dictionaries for the Modern Musician
    Titles in Dictionaries for the Modern Musician series offer both the novice and the advanced artist key information designed to convey the field of study and performance for a major instrument or instrument class, as well as the workings of musicians in areas from conducting to composing. Unlike other encyclopedic works, contributions to this series focus primarily on the knowledge required by the ... Read more

    81,40 €

  • Säveltäjä Ann-Elise Hannikainen

    Säveltäjäntyön ja reseption tarkastelua

    by Markus Virtanen ...
    Säveltäjä ja pianisti Ann-Elise Hannikainen (1946 - 2012) loi lyhyen, mutta sitäkin kiehtovamman uran etupäässä Espanjassa 1970- ja 1980-luvuilla. Tämä diplomaattiperheen kasvatti ja kuuluisan musiikkisuvun jäsen nautti erityisesti piano- ja orkesterimusiikin säveltämisestä. Toisin kuin monet suomalaiset aikalaiskollegansa, Hannikainen etsi musiikissaan avoimesti kauneutta eikä hän pelännyt pukea ... Read more

    7,49 €

  • Music Business Made Simple: A Guide To Becoming A Recording Artist

    by J. S. Rudsenske ...
    Enhance your chance for success as a recording artist by following the real-world advice found within the pages of the book. Step-by-step suggestions for:Setting career goalsDeveloping your songs and stage presenceRecording your first demo and full-length albumDesigning your promotional materialsKnowing where to hire an attorney, manager, booking agent, and producerAnd, of course, getting a record ... Read more

    8,47 €

  • Escuchame una cosa

    Herramientas para disfrutar y entender la música

    by Ariel Sánchez ...
    La música nos acompaña a diario. Se ha convertido en una parte importante de nuestra vida. Este libro recorre los fundamentos de ese lenguaje y cómo los compositores hacen uso intencional de ellos. Priorizan elementos e ignoran otros, con el objetivo de crear una experiencia estético-emocional. Estas páginas proponen reflexiones y desafíos musicales para resolver y aprender. Dividido en dos ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • Strings and Ivory: Chords and Inversions

    by Jeffrey Carl ...
    ebookIntroducing an innovative new music reference book about chords and inversions that encourages creativity and innovation…and allows each musician to create their own unique chord voicings and arpeggios!Whether you are an intermediate or advanced musician or songwriter, Strings & Ivory: Chords & Inversions is an empowering music reference book that you can use to improve musical instrument ... Read more

    Was 9,49 € Now 4,49 €

  • Человек дующий. Homo inspirans: История о том, как человек поставил дыхание на службу искусству

    by Владимир Зисман ...
    Series series Записки музыканта
    Из этой книги вы узнаете о том, как, когда, с помощью чего человек научился извлекать звуки из воздуха и вообще зачем ему это всё понадобилось. Но книга, разумеется, не только о духовых музыкальных инструментах. Они всего лишь внешнее проявление непреодолимых потребностей и особенностей, свойственных виду Homo sapiens — любознательности, изобретательности и острого желания перепробовать все ... Read more

    6,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

    The Middle East

    Edited by Virginia Danielson, Dwight Reynolds, Scott Marcus ...
    Series series Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
    Expert writers present the major traditions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, together with personal accounts of performers, composers, teachers, and ceremonies. A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of dozens of brief snap-shot essays that offer "lifestories" of typical musicmakers and their art, as well as first-person descriptions of specific music performances and ... Read more

    602,75 €

  • Records of English Court Music

    Volume II (1685 -1714)

    Edited by Andrew Ashbee ...
    Pioneering work on the musical material from the archives of the English court was undertaken by Nagel (1894), Lafontaine (1909) and Stokes (in the Musical Antiquary 1903-1913). Records of English Court Music (a series of seven volumes covering the period 1485-1714) is the first attempt to compile a systematic calendar of such references. It aims to revise these earlier studies where necessary, ... Read more

    68,18 €

  • The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume III, 1985-2015

    From Live Aid to Live Nation

    by Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan, Emma Webster ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    To date there has been a significant gap in existing knowledge about the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through a unique prism—that of live music. The key theme of the books is the changing nature of the live music industry in the UK, focused upon popular music but including all musical genres. ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • K-Pop. 100 Seiten

    Eine kurze Einführung in das globale Phänomen der koreanischen Popmusik

    by Kara Atkin ...
    Ein globales Pop-Phänomen»K-Pop ist so viel mehr als bunte Outfits, eingängige Refrains und beeindruckende Musikvideos. K-Pop ist die bunte Summe all seiner Teile, durch die es gelingt, eine Community zu schaffen, in der jede:r seinen und ihren Platz zu finden vermag.«K-Pop hat die Welt erobert – und Kara Atkin blickt hinter die Kulissen des globalen Phänomens. Von den Anfängen in Südkorea bis zu ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Storytelling, une exploration narrative du rap francophone

    by Adriano Bari, Enzo Gallice ...
    À l’instar de tout art, le rap possède sa propre histoire, sa culture et son champ d’expression, révélant une singularité narrative unique. Storytelling, une exploration narrative du rap francophone, emmène le lecteur au cœur de ce genre où chaque texte raconte une histoire unique. Des chroniques mafieuses d’Akhénaton sur La Cosca aux récits virtuoses de Dosseh, en passant par les sombres ... Read more

    8,49 €

  • This Business of Urban Music

    A Practical Guide to Achieving Success in the Industry, from Gospel to Funk to R&B to Hip-Hop

    by James Walker ...
    The first reference book all about the business side of gospel and urban music. Hip-hop and R&B hold 25 percent of the consumer music market. Another 20 percent is held by religious (gospel and Christian) music, soul, disco, dance, and jazz. Here’s the first reference book to offer sound business and legal advice specifically tailored to these areas of the music industry. Securing a record deal, ... Read more

    7,83 €