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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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • 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

    Was 11,12 € Now 2,67 €

  • Listen to Jazz!

    Exploring a Musical Genre

    by Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith ...
    Series series Exploring Musical Genres
    Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre explores jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicians, composers, bands, groups, albums, and songs.Rather than focusing on jazz as a solely American genre with a limited set of established jazz greats, Listen to Jazz! explores the diversity of jazz's sounds, compositions, recordings, and ... Read more

    61,36 €

  • Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten studentischer Kurzfilme in Deutschland

    by Lennart Biegert ...
    Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Bachelorarbeit werden die effizientesten Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten für studentische Kurzfilme in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, anhand einer qualitativen Experteninterview Reihe aufgearbeitet und vorgestellt. Die Arbeit geht der Fragen nach: Wie finanziere ich eigentlich meinen ... Read more

    29,99 €

  • Musique espagnole

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...
    Partez à la découverte de la musique espagnole avec ce Grand Article Universalis !Selon que l'on considère la traduction musicale des caractères communs à l'ensemble des peuples ibériques ou l'évolution d'une tradition savante, on pourra parler de musique espagnole ou de musique d'Espagne. La première, présente dans les folklores de la Péninsule depuis les origines de la nat...Un ouvrage ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • 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 €

  • Die Adaption von Märchen in Filmen

    Ein Vergleich von Animationsverfilmung und Realverfilmung am Beispiel "Die Schöne und das Biest"

    by Iris Gutsche ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Universität Bayreuth, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Adaption von Märchen in Filmen. Hierzu wird das Beispiel von „Die Schöne und das Biest“ herangezogen und die erfolgreiche Animationsverfilmung von Walt Disney aus dem Jahre 1991 und die Neuverfilmung von Bill Condon aus dem Jahre 2017 ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • PRiMA ViSTA 2a

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    by Susanna Király ...
    Series Book 2 - PRiMA ViSTA
    Musiikin opetuksessa tietokoneavusteisten opetusmenetelmien kehittäminen on uusi ja kehittyvä toimiala. Soitinopetukseen varsinkin etäopiskelua varten on kehitetty vielä pitempään opetusohjelmia ja – menetelmiä. Tällaiset opetusmenetelmät tarjoavat myös uusia oppimisen tapoja erilaisille oppijoille ja voivat parantaa tuntuvasti motivaatiota opiskella musiikinteoriaa ja säveltapailua. Tulokset ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Visual Style in Cinema: Die Position David Bordwells und aktuelle Tendenzen im Filmschnitt

    by Monta Alaine ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Folgenden sollen nun Bordwells Theorie, auch in Zusammenhang mit dem Neoformalismus, und ihre Begrifflichkeit näher erläutert werden. Im Anschluss daran möchte die Arbeit mit Bordwell der Frage nachgehen, welche Tendenzen der Gegenwartsfilm unter dem ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • The Berklee Contemporary Dictionary of Music

    by Kari Juusela ...
    (Berklee Guide). A comprehensive reference to terms used in the performance, creation, and study of music today. Covering instrumental and voice performance, audio technology, production, music business, and other dimensions of the modern music industry, its 3,400+ entries include many terms that are common among practicing musicians, but are found in no other dictionary. At the same time, it ... Read more

    16,10 €

  • Dare to Dream

    Life as One Direction (100% official)

    by One Direction ...
    Join the UK’s hottest new boyband on their rollercoaster ride to superstardom, with the follow-up to the Number 1 bestselling book One Direction: Forever Young: Our Official X Factor StoryIn 2010 they were just five normal boys, who didn’t even know each other, dreaming of being up on stage, with fans screaming their names… so much has happened for One Direction since then!Following their huge ... Read more

    13,24 €

  • A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player

    by Elisa Koehler ...
    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 €

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research

    Edited by Professor Allan Moore, Dr. Paul Carr ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research is the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music, why is it studied, and how does it work, both as music and as cultural activity? This volume draws together 37 of the leading academics working on rock to provide answers to these questions ... Read more

    42,28 €

  • Bassoon Reeds

    This ebook contains the main ways to scrape the reeds for the German bassoon.

    by Ambroise Charron ...
    This ebook contains the main ways to scrape the reeds for the German bassoon. ... Read more

    2,00 €

  • The History Of The Music Industry: 1910 to 1929

    The History Of The Music Industry, #5

    by Matti Charlton ...
    Series Book 5 - The History Of The Music Industry
    In the vibrant and ever-evolving landscape of the music industry during the year 1910, recording artists and musicians faced a multitude of challenges asthey navigated the rapidly growing realm of recorded sound. This era marked a significant turning point in the industry, with the advent of new technologies and the emergence of various companies that played a crucial role in shaping the course of ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The Sonny and Cher Guide

    by Daniel Wheway ...
    Together as the most-successful husband-and-wife duo ever, Sonny & Cher sold over 10 million singles worldwide and topped the charts in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States with original hits Baby Don't Go, Sing C'est La Vie, Little Man and, of course, 1960's anthem I Got You Babe. Their 3-million selling debut album Look At Us spent 8 ... Read more

    2,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus