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  • Every Good Boy Does Fine

    A Love Story, in Music Lessons

    by Jeremy Denk ...
    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A virtuosic memoir . . . elegant, frank and well-structured, that entirely resists cliche . . . readable for both diehard classical music fans and complete newcomers alike . . . A rare feat.' - The Guardian**A uniquely illuminating memoir of the making of a musician, in which renowned pianist Jeremy Denk explores what he learned from his teachers about classical ... Read more

    €6.99

  • This is Your Brain on Music

    Understanding a Human Obsession

    by Daniel Levitin ...
    From the author of The Changing Mind and The Organized Mind comes a New York Times bestseller that unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with music*****'What do the music of Bach, Depeche Mode and John Cage fundamentally have in common?'Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language.From Mozart to the Beatles, neuroscientist, psyc ... Read more

    €5.99

  • 31 Songs

    by Nick Hornby ...
    FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ABOUT A BOY31 Songs is best-selling author Nicky Hornby's ultimate desert island disksThrough thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, Nick Hornby tells us what music means to his life. These personal and passionate pieces - refreshingly free of pretension - are a celebration of the joy that certain songs have given him. Together with ... Read more

    €6.99

  • How to Listen to Jazz

    by Ted Gioia ...
    An Economist Best Book of the YearAn acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz.**“Mr. Gioia could not have done a better job. Through him, jazz might even find new devotees.” ―**EconomistIn How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premie... ... Read more

    €8.49

  • Playing the Piano for Pleasure

    The Classic Guide to Improving Skills Through Practice and Discipline

    by Charles Cooke ...
    Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to practice every day, suggesting that they work through just that section time and again until it is ... Read more

    €10.51

  • The Music Lesson

    A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

    by Victor L. Wooten ...
    From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them.The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part ... Read more

    €7.59

  • World Within a Song

    Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

    by Jeff Tweedy ...
    What makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives? And do the lives we live help us write better songs?Following publication of Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) and How To Write One Song, both New York Times bestsellers that cemented and expanded his legacy as one of America's best-loved performers and songwriters, ... Read more

    €12.79

  • The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works

    An Introduction to the Fascinating World of Classical Music

    by Gary A. Smook ...
    His fascinating exploration takes you inside the rich music and colorful lives of the world’s greatest classical composers. From Bach to Stravinsky and beyond, you will learn how the unique life stories of these gifted composers are reflected in the musical masterpieces that we enjoy to this day.Designed as an introductory book on classical music, this comprehensive collection presents ... Read more

    €8.99

  • Do Samba à Bossa Nova: Inventando um País

    by Pedro Bustamante Teixeira ...
    A partir da leitura de canções significativas do samba e da bossa nova, em que foram observados tanto os aspectos literários quanto musicais, Do samba à bossa nova: inventando um país pretende discutir o nascimento da música popular urbana no Brasil e o seu percurso ao longo da primeira metade do século XX, até 1958, quando se dá eclosão do movimento bossa nova. Da dificuldade inicial de inserção ... Read more

    €7.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Music Dies (or Lives)

    Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts

    by Ian Brennan ...
    All recordings document life, arising from a specific time and place, and if that place is artificial, the results will be as well. Culled from a lifetime of learning through failure and designed to provoke thought and inspiration for artists in every medium, How Music Dies (or Lives) is a virtual how-to manual for those on a quest for authenticity in an age of airbrushed and Auto-Tuned so-called ... Read more

    €12.48

  • Superstar Guitars

    Explore the guitars that changed music forever

    by Eleanor Jane ...
    Foreword by James Dean Bradfield, Manic Street PreachersA collection that has to be seen to be believed, Superstar Guitars showcases the most famous six-strings in the history of music, in exquisite detail.Photographer Eleanor Jane has travelled the world, documenting the legendary guitars used to create some of the greatest music ever heard.Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock Stratocaster. The guitar on ... Read more

    €3.49

  • Nicola Ivanoff – Un tenore italiano

    by Konstantin Plužnikov ...
    Translated by Alessandro Romano ...
    IL LIBRO: Nikolàj Ivanòv (1810-1880), naturalizzato Nicola Ivanoff, fu uno dei più grandi tenori dell'Ottocento. Dopo una lunga querelle con lo zar Nicola I, si stabilí definitivamente in Italia, dove risiedeva per ragioni di studio e di salute già dal 1830. Qui strinse intima amicizia con Rossini e frequentò Verdi e Donizetti, che scrissero arie proprio per la sua voce. Plužnikov descrive la ... Read more

    €7.99

  • The Spirit of Music

    The Lesson Continues

    by Victor L. Wooten ...
    Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten's inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today's world.We may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all that it encompasses is disappearing all around us. In this fable-like story three musicians from around the world are mysteriously summoned to Nashville, the Music ... Read more

    €8.39

  • Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Secrets of Vocal Artistry

    by Pier Francesco Tosi, Rachel Kirk ...
    Translated by John Ernest Galliard ...
    In "Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers," Pier Francesco Tosi presents a comprehensive exploration of vocal ornamentation and singing styles prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries. The book deftly combines theoretical discourse with practical examples, employing a clear, engaging literary style that reflects Tosi's dual role as a performer and ... Read more

    €0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gareth Malone’s Guide to Classical Music

    The Perfect Introduction to Classical Music

    by Gareth Malone ...
    Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? In this funny, evocative, personal eBook, previously published as ‘Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music’, Gareth takes us on a journey of musical discovery that explains and entertains in equal measure.Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? The sad song of a single violin might ... Read more

    €7.40

  • Hack Music Theory, Part 1

    Learn Scales & Chords in 30 Minutes

    by Ray Harmony ...
    Series Book 1 - Hack Music Theory
    Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use! After studying 'popular' and 'classical' music theory, Ray Harmony created a unique approach that he uses to compose his songs, which feature multi-platinum Grammy winners Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Tom Morello (Rage ... Read more

    €4.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Romantic

    Cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus - Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year

    by Duncan Hamilton ...
    Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words.In The Great Romantic, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a ... Read more

    €3.99

  • Spanish Piano Music and Folklore from the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries

    Crossing Paths

    by Ana Benavides ...
    Translated by Walter Aaron Clark ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music—songs and dances—from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The piano was the dominant solo instrument in European art music of this period, including Spanish, and Ana Benavides uses this as a vehicle for examining a wide variety of vernacular songs and dances, offering a wealth of musical, historical, and ethnographic insight. First ... Read more

    €55.29

  • Music and the Reconstruction of Spanish Modernism

    The Broken Mosaic

    by Amanda García Fernández-Escárzaga ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    This book provides new critical insights into Spanish musical, artistic, and literary works produced between the concluding years of the nineteenth century and the initial decades of the twentieth century. Fernández-Escárzaga creates a conceptual map to assist in comprehending the multifarious aesthetic particularities of Spain at the turn of the century. The argument proceeds from two main ... Read more

    €55.29

  • Cadence

    A Study of Closure in Tonal Music

    by William E. Caplin ...
    Cadence is a comprehensive examination of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure. The book brings together the author's decades-long investigations into cadence, a compositional device that is readily experienced both by musicians and non-musicians, but one that has proven intractable to clear and precise theoretical formulation. Rooted in Caplin's broader theory ... Read more

    €51.49

  • From Tejano to Tango

    Essays on Latin American Popular Music

    Edited by Walter Aaron Clark ...
    Author of two books on Issac Albeniz, including Issac Albeniz: A Guide to Research (1998), Walter Aaron Clark has compiled thirteen essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well as the rhythmic development of the various genres. In this essential book, significant personalities, including Carmen Miranda ... Read more

    €64.51

  • Style and Music

    Theory, History, and Ideology

    by Leonard B. Meyer ...
    Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He explores why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and neglect others.Meyer devotes the latter part of his book to a sketch-history of nineteenth-century music. ... Read more

    €28.79

  • Say It with a Beautiful Song

    The Art and Craft of the Great American Songbook

    by Michael Lasser, Harmon Greenblatt ...
    "An illumination for music lovers and an inspiration to songwriters." - BooklistWorking within the limits of a popular song, the songwriters of the Great American Songbook wrote with a combination of familiarity and freshness—sentiment and wit. The songwriters were masters of craft who created a distinctively American popular music that still resonates strongly today.This book looks at the Great ... Read more

    Was €32.17 Now €18.26

  • Sing for Your Supper

    A DIY Guide to Playing Music, Writing Songs, and Booking Your Own Gigs

    by David Rovics ...
    Series series PM Pamphlet
    Succinct and to the point, David Rovics demystifies the very different skills necessary to cultivate the arts of songwriting, guitar-playing and tour booking. In an era when the truly independent record label is virtually a thing of the past, Rovics explains how it’s possible to make a living as a recording artist without a label. At a time when the corporate record industry is suing music fans ... Read more

    €2.57 or Free with Kobo Plus