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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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

  • Reading Song Lyrics

    An Interdisciplinary and Multimodal Approach

    by Glenn Fosbraey ...
    This book will provide an exploration of how popular songs have been analysed in the past, before detailing how an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to appreciate the multimodal format of the medium. Beginning by examining what we can gain from staying ‘inside’ the song, it will explore the role the listener has in determining meaning within a song, before moving on to how, through their ... Read more

    24,79 €

  • Gender Issues in Scandinavian Music Education

    From Stereotypes to Multiple Possibilities

    Edited by Silje Valde Onsrud, Hilde Synnøve Blix, Ingeborg Lunde Vestad ...
    Series series ISME Series in Music Education
    Gender Issues in Scandinavian Music Education: From Stereotypes to Multiple Possibilities introduces much-needed updates to research and teaching philosophies that envision new ways of considering gender diversity in music education. This volume of essays by Scandinavian contributors looks beyond the dominant Anglo-American lens while confronting a universal need to resist and rethink the gender ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Cricket Songs

    by Norman Gale ...
    Four years ago the author of this book issued a slender volume of cricket songs. Seven of these are now reprinted; the rest are new. The cricket ball, for the most part, is spoken of as a female. Once or twice the neuter gender is used. Varium et mutabile semper femina. It is hoped that the introduction of the names of prominent players (and one critic) will cause no vexation. Apologies are ... Read more

    1,46 €

  • Fast Forward Your Guitar Playing

    by Ashley J. Saunders ...
    Frustrated with your progress on guitar? Wish you could discover you learn and how this insight could change how you develop in the future?In Fast Forward Your Guitar Playing eBook, you will discover how to build a solid foundation and discover your learning style. So that you can accelerate your guitar playing. ... Read more

    1,83 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bible in Music

    A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More

    by John F.A. Sawyer, Siobhán Dowling Long ...
    There have been numerous publications in the last decades on the Bible in literature, film, and art. But until now, no reference work has yet appeared on the Bible as it appears in Western music. In The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More, scholars Siobhán Dowling Long and John F. A. Sawyer correct this gap in Biblical reference literature, providing for the first time a ... Read more

    56,38 €

  • Twentieth-Century Countertenor Repertoire

    A Guide

    by Steven L. Rickards ...
    In Twentieth-Century Countertenor Repertoire, Steven L. Rickards has provided a reference listing of over 600 entries, compiling and cataloging information about repertoire composed specifically for the countertenor from 1950 to 2000. Rickards collects works from 30 countries with texts in 31 languages-including early forms of Akkadian, English, Flemish, French, and Greek-representing over 350 ... Read more

    141,71 €

  • La musicoterapia per un migliore sviluppo cognitivo ed emotivo del bambino

    by Martina Scarimbolo ...
    Dagli anni Settanta anche in Italia nelle scuole e nelle diverse istituzioni educative si sta diffondendo ampiamente l’uso della musicoterapia per un migliore sviluppo emotivo e cognitivo di bambini, adulti e anziani.Nel testo vengono citate le principali caratteristiche della musicoterapia come pratica per raggiungere il benessere psico-fisico di ogni persona: la musica infatti superando i filtri ... Read more

    5,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Direction SongTrivia! What's Your Music IQ? "Gotta Be You", "One Thing", "Little Things" & More - Interactive Trivia Quiz Game author: SongTrivia

    by SongTrivia ...
    What's your One Direction Music IQ?- Which song broke the VEVO record held by "Boyfriend" for most video views in first 24 hours of release?(Question #1)- Which song's music video was premiered on 19th August 2011?(Question #2)-Which song from "Take Me Home" starts with 1D boy still in bed?(Question #3)CHECK YOUR ANSWERS IN THE SAMPLE!You love One Direction, but how much do you know about their ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Paul McCartney Up Close

    My Years With The Legend

    by Christian Simon ...
    "... a terrific book." – Paul McCartney Christian Simon invites you on an extraordinary journey through his years alongside one of the greatest music legends of our time: Paul McCartney. With refreshing authenticity and intimate storytelling, Simon reveals the person behind the star, avoiding over-the-top theatrics in favour of genuine insight and heartfelt moments. These memoirs offer a rare ... Read more

    18,00 €

  • Rammstein

    Provokation als Gesamtkunstwerk

    by Peter Wicke ...
    Rammstein - Provokation als Gesamtkunstwerk Kaum ein kulturelles Phänomen ist nun schon seit drei Jahrzehnten ähnlich umstritten wie die ostdeutschen Brachialrocker Rammstein. Ihre bildgewaltigen Bühnen-Exzesse, die skandalträchtigen Tabubrüche und die alle Grenzen niederreißenden, hochgradig sexualisierten Gewaltfantasien spielen virtuos mit den Empörungsreflexen der Öffentlichkeit. Auch im ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Samuel Wesley (1766–1837): A Source Book

    by Michael Kassler, Philip Olleson ...
    Hailed as a child prodigy and later acclaimed as England's finest extempore organist, Samuel Wesley - son of Charles Wesley and nephew of John Wesley, the founders of Methodism - is best known today for his musical compositions and for his promotion of the music of J. S. Bach. At the heart of this source book is a calendar of Samuel Wesley's correspondence. The editors date and summarise the ... Read more

    47,48 €

  • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

    Europe

    Edited by Timothy Rice, James Porter, Chris Goertzen ...
    Series series Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
    Here in one volume is a comprehensive look at the folk and traditional musics of the European continen - from Ireland to the new republics of Georgia and Belarus. In over seventy articles by sixty-one contributors from around the world, this encyclopedia explores musical life from historical and ethnographic perspectives and provides extensive analysis of songs and instrumental music. ... Read more

    602,75 €

  • Performance Practice

    A Dictionary-Guide for Musicians

    by Roland Jackson ...
    Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musiciansperformers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. ... Read more

    64,53 €

  • A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Manuscript Collection of the National Library of Greece

    Byzantine Chant and Other Music Repertory Recovered

    by Diane H. Touliatos-Miles ...
    The National Library of Greece (Ethnike Bibliothike tes Ellados) is one of the richest depositories of Byzantine musical manuscripts and is surpassed by its holdings in Greece only by the multitude of manuscripts found in the monasteries of Mount Athos. In spite of being such a rich archive, the National Library has never published a catalogue of its musical manuscripts - not all of which are ... Read more

    194,83 €