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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 €

  • 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

    9,11 €

  • 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

    11,33 €

  • 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

    10,48 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

    89,14 €

  • Music as Medicine

    How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power

    by Daniel Levitin ...
    **The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerA Financial Times, Telegraph and Waterstones Book of the YearShortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book PrizeWhat if music holds the key to healing our minds and bodies? Music as Medicine is the revelatory new book from the million-copy bestselling author of The Organized Mind.**'Fascinating' OBSERVER'Essential' WALL STREET JOURNAL‘Intr... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • 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

    28,19 € 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Born to Play

    The Ruby Braff Discography and Directory of Performances

    by Thomas P. Hustad ...
    Series series Studies in Jazz
    Jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden once referred to Ruby Braff as the “Ivy League'sLouis Armstrong.” That legacy of great trumpet performance and recording is brought to readers in Thomas Hustad’s Born to Play: The Ruby Braff Discography and Directory of Performances. Braff’s uncompromising standards, musical taste, and creative imagination informed his consummate artistry in creating music ... Read more

    123,69 €

  • PRiMA ViSTA 1b

    virtual.lumo.org

    by Susanna Király ...
    Series Book 1 - 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 €

  • Musica. Una storia sovversiva

    by Ted Gioia ...
    Non c’è storia ufficiale della musica che non cancelli regolarmente dalle proprie cronache ogni traccia di outsider e ribelli: i reali protagonisti che danno vita alle rivoluzioni musicali. In questo libro, Ted Gioia fa una straordinaria operazione di rovesciamento intellettuale, rivendicando il peso giocato in ogni importante innovazione musicale da tutti coloro che sono ai margini della società. ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Performing History

    Approaches to History Across Musicology

    Edited by Nancy November ...
    Designed for a broad readership including scholars, performers and amateurs of musicIncorporates the most recent approaches of scholars doing groundbreaking work in the fieldUseful for students considering approaches to the study of musicWritten in an accessible and engaging way, suitable for non-specialists ... Read more

    71,43 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Changer des vies par la pratique de l’orchestre

    Gustavo Dudamel et l’histoire d’El Sistema

    by Tricia Tunstall ...
    Translated by Cécile Roure ...
    « Si vous mettez un violon dans les mains d’un enfant nécessiteux, dit José Antonio Abreu, il ne prendra pas une arme à feu. » Un enfant qui tient un instrument sent qu’on lui confie un objet de valeur. Un enfant à qui l’on apprend à jouer d’un instrument se sent compétent, utile et capable d’enseigner aux autres. Un enfant qui joue dans un orchestre composé d’amis a un sentiment d’appartenance à ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Syvä kuin meri

    Laululintu 8

    by Terttu Lajunen ...
    Kokoelma on Laululintu-sarjan kahdeksas osa. Lauluissa on sanat, nuotit ja sointumerkit, mukana aiheisiin liittyviä kuvia luonnosta. Niin kuin kasvot heijastuvat vedenpintaan, niin säteilee Jumalan rakkaus jokaisesta pienestä pisarasta, joka Hänen maljastaan vuodatetaan. Laulut tahtoisivat olla tuollaisia pisaroita. Ei ole aika vetäytyä kuoreen. Simpukkakin tietää, että vuorovesi tulee ajallaan, ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Tori Amos

    Every Album, Every Song

    by Lisa Torem ...
    Series series On Track
    In 1992, Singer, pianist and composer Tori Amos achieved fame with the intensely personal solid gold record, Little Earthquakes, the first of fifteen studio albums. Each new recording cut new ground both musically and thematically. Since then, Amos has performed world-wide, both as a soloist and also accompanied, by a rhythm section, an octet and an orchestra. Her projects have ranged from the ... Read more

    4,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Verfremdung in Lars von Triers "Idioten"

    by Felix M. Eisenberg ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: sehr gut (1,0), Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Institut für Medienwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Poetika Kino. Die Filmtheorie der russischen Formalisten, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Arbeit wird am Beispiel des Films "Idioten" (Dänemark 1998, Lars von Trier) dargelegt, inwiefern das Verfremdungskonzept ("ostranenie") der ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • Hartmut Bitomsky "Der VW-Komplex"

    Eine Analyse

    by Cordula Gries ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Institut für Medienwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Zeitgenössischer Dokumentar- und Essayfilm in Deutschland, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Hartmut Bitomsky stellt in seinem Film über den „VW-Komplex“, die Unternehmensphilosophie des weltweit operierenden Konzerns "Volkswagen" auf den Prüfstand. ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • 30-Second Opera

    The 50 crucial concepts, roles and performers, each explained in half a minute

    by Hugo Shirley ...
    Series series 30-Second
    The bestselling 30-Second… series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one image, all digestible in just 30 seconds.Live operatic performance was once part of popular ... Read more

    10,70 €

  • Discobiografia Mutante - Álbuns que revolucionaram a música brasileira

    by Chris Fuscaldo ...
    Os Mutantes eram bem mais do que rock'n'roll. O grupo fundado por Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee e Sérgio Dias – que teve Dinho Leme, Liminha e tantos outros grandes músicos em suas diversas formações – era pura contracultura, tanto na forma quanto no conteúdo. Seus álbuns fizeram a diferença e influenciaram gerações mundo afora. A história de cada um deles está aqui nesta "Discobiografia Mutante: ... Read more

    Was 5,99 € Now 4,99 €

  • Perspectives on Mendelssohn

    Essays in Musicology for R. Larry Todd

    Edited by Anna Harwell Celenza, Katharina Uhde ...
    New essays on the Mendelssohns and their circle, illuminating their lives, works, and influence.Perspectives on Mendelssohn presents newly commissioned essays by a group of distinguished international music historians on the Mendelssohns' life, work, and influence on their contemporaries. In four sections, the book addresses Felix Mendelssohn's works and their reception by contemporary critics, ... Read more

    33,70 €

  • World Beats

    Your Passport to Music and Festivals

    by Piper Quinn ...
    Embark on a Melodic Expedition Across the GlobeImagine a journey that not only takes you around the world but also lets you experience the heart and soul of every destination through its music and festivals. World Beats: Your Passport to Music and Festivals offers you just that - a comprehensive guide to immerse yourself in the global music scene like never before.In the pages of this enchanting ... Read more

    4,54 € or Free with Kobo Plus