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  • The Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary (Music Instruction)

    by Hal Leonard Corp. ...
    (Book). Here's the most contemporary music dictionary on the market! Conveniently divided into three main sections: The Dictionary of Music Terms defines over 2,000 music terms concisely, including notation and theory terms, instruments and terms used in pop music, electronic music and the music business; The Dictionary of Musicians provides more than 400 capsule biographies of composers and other ... Read more

    RM 29.49

  • 39 cose da sapere sul Tango

    by Passerino Editore ...
    Nato agli inizi del Novecento nei sobborghi poveri di Buenos Aires il tango ha conquistato il mondo intero.I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono guide agili, essenziali e complete, per orientarsi nella storia del mondo. ... Read more

    RM 7.91 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taught by the Students

    Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Deep Engagement in Music Education

    by Ruth Gurgel ...
    Series series National Association for Music Education
    Within public schools in the United States, students of color are truncating their music education experiences at higher rates than their white counterparts. Music educators have searched for explanations of this phenomenon as well as effective interventions, yet there has been little overall improvement of these statistics. Ruth Gurgel presents and analyzes the perspectives of eight students and ... Read more

    RM 135.09

  • The Music Management Bible

    by Nicola Riches ...
    Completely revised and updated, this new edition of the standard music industry textbook includes everything that you need to know as a music manager in the today’s fast-changing musical environment.With a special focus on the implications of the digital age for the music professional, this is the essential handbook for anyone involved in the music business! ... Read more

    RM 35.89

  • The Story of Boogie-Woogie

    A Left Hand Like God

    by Peter J. Silvester ...
    The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God examines the socio-historical background of the boogie-woogie piano style, from its early appearances in the barrelhouses of lumber, turpentine, and railroad camps in the southern United States, to its emergence at rent parties in Chicago and St. Louis, to its rise as a popular form of music in the nightclubs of New York, to its status as an ... Read more

    RM 415.49

  • Donde no se hiela el tiempo

    Escritos sobre música

    by Federico García Lorca, Marta Azparren, Niño de Elche ...
    Series series Escénicas
    En este volumen se reúnen tres de las conferencias sobre música que Lorca escribe: Arquitectura del cante jondo; Canciones de cuna españolas; y Juego y teoría del duende. En ellas el artista granadino despliega su prosa radicalmente poética, todo su vigor expresivo en forma de exuberantes metáforas, imágenes arrancadas del fértil suelo del folclore y el flamenco, manifestaciones en las que escucha ... Read more

    RM 35.75

  • Who Did It First?

    Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists

    by Bob Leszczak ...
    Series series Who Did It First?
    “Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an opportunity to move up and play in the majors. Musical compositions aren’t very different – some songs just don’t climb the charts the first time they’re recorded. However, with perseverance, the ideal ... Read more

    RM 162.69

  • Nick Drake: The Complete Guide to his Music

    by Peter Hogan ...
    The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Nick Drake. A thorough analysis of every officially released album by Drake, from the early albums that were largely overlooked at the time of their release in the late Sixties and early Seventies to more recent posthumous collections. Peter Hogan is among the few contemporary aficionados of Nick Drake who actually bought his records in the early ... Read more

    RM 39.19

  • The Theology of Polyphony

    Essays for David Fergusson

    Edited by Professor Paul T. Nimmo, Professor Oliver Crisp, Dr Joanna Leidenhag ...
    What does it mean to speak and write theology from different perspectives and in different voices?This volume presents a wide variety of perspectives on this perennial question, ranging from biblical and historical through literary and musical to theological and practical, and its contributors represent a range of confessional standpoints.The essays are in honour of Professor David Fergusson, one ... Read more

    RM 370.49

  • 100 cosas que tienes que saber de la música clásica

    Una guía infalible para saber cuándo aplaudir

    by David Puertas Esteve ...
    Este libro explica 100 cosas de la música clásica desde fuera y desde dentro, algunas que no habríais imaginado nunca y otras que seguro que ya sabéis. Habla de Bach, de Mozart y de Pau Casals; de las mejores obras de los últimos 500 años; de solistas, de auditorios, de festivales, de partituras, de constructores de violines...; de la capacidad de la música para emocionarnos y hacernos vibrar, y ... Read more

    RM 39.73

  • MacMillan on Music

    Essays by Sir Ernest MacMillan

    by Ernest MacMillan ...
    In addition to his activities as conductor, administrator, educator, composer, and organist, Sir Ernest MacMillan (1893-1973) found time to write more than one hundred essays and lectures on music. Always ready to use his enormous prestige to further the causes of music, MacMillan took every opportunity to admonish Canadians to develop our own composers, to honour our own performers, to educate ... Read more

    RM 34.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Performance Handbook

    for Musicians, Singers, and Performers

    by Claude Webster ...
    "This book is meant not only for artists, but also to businesspeople, teachers, public speakers – in short, to everyone who must give a performance, no matter what kind. Having been forced to learn, at the beginning of my career, how to manage terrible stress on my own, I would have really benefited from a guide like this one!" Claude speaks to all those who feel stress and anxiety when faced with ... Read more

    RM 47.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature

    Musical Modernism

    by Katherine O'Callaghan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important intervention in the growing field of Words and Music studies. It expands the existing critical debate to include lesser-known writers alongside Joyce, ... Read more

    RM 258.45

  • A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America

    by Craig Werner ...
    A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown; from Woodstock and the 'Summer of Love' to Vietnam and the race riots; from disco inferno to the Million Man March. This is an insightful and riveting study which looks at the place black music occupies in social history, its battle for the ... Read more

    RM 49.29

  • The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Music Theory Must-Know Terms

    by Michael Miller ...
    You have a passion for making beautiful music, but when it comes to understanding and speaking the musical language, you need a little help. The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Music Theory Must-Know Terms compiles dozens of the most important and commonly used terms in the musical lexicon - from notations and chords to modes and scales - explaining them all in clear, concise language. ... Read more

    RM 10.62

  • Ghosts

    Journeys To Post-Pop. How David Sylvan, Mark Hollis and Kate Bust reinvented pop music

    by Matthew Restall ...
    Three music-obsessed, suburban London teenagers set out to make their own kind of pop music: after years of struggle, success came to David Sylvian (and Japan) and to Mark Hollis (and Talk Talk); Kate Bush became an overnight star. But when their unique talents brought them international acclaim, they turned their backs on stardom. ‘Just when I think I’m winning’, sang Sylvian on ‘Ghosts’, a 1982 ... Read more

    RM 39.73 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emerson, Lake and Palmer

    by Mike Goode ...
    Series series On Track
    Emerson, Lake & Palmer were, without question, one of the great rock bands of the 1970s. Selling millions of albums across the globe, with all three members winning awards for their dazzling musical ability, ELP were no ordinary group. Their pioneering attitude was adored by their legions of fans, none more so than in the USA, where they toured widely. Despite ELP being the embodiment of the ... Read more

    RM 37.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Death of Me

    by Michelle Davies ...
    When Isaac Naylor committed suicide after a teenage fan was found dead in his hotel room, the world thought it had lost one of the greatest rock stars of a generation. Naylor, lead singer of The Ospreys, had been arrested for causing the girl's death and was on police bail when he drowned himself in the sea off the Devon coast, leaving two notes addressed to his bandmates and his younger brother, ... Read more

    RM 39.39

  • 禮崩樂不壞

    亂流下聽古典樂

    Edited by 邵頌雄 ...
    古典音樂，就是當年的流行曲。音樂家一樣要面對生死愛慾、明爭暗鬥、戰爭流離。看他們怎樣回應時代　景況相通　反照自身古典音樂觸動人心之處，正在於它對生命的各個環節，不論是愛情、友誼、政治、戰爭、飢寒、宗教、哲思等，種種恐懼和憧憬，都深刻地寫進作品之中，激盪聽者心弦，讓他們反思人生。作曲家、演奏家、樂評、樂壇軼事，總之有關古典音樂之種種，在邵頌雄筆下，皆有其魅力，這些文字，觀照了眾生百態，還原了古典音樂這門藝術的光采。評論的作品時代或遠或近，人物或雅或俗，但都能與現世景況相通，讓讀者反照自身。我們讀到的，不再只是關於一首樂曲或一位音樂家的資訊和評價，而是其整個創作的歷史文化背景，有時甚至是政治動機。他寫古典音樂，又不止於古典音樂，他以超越音符以外的世界來引導讀者欣賞這門藝術。--------------------------------------------------- ... Read more

    RM 52.81

  • Die Kap, der Hausmeister und Wolf Vostell

    by Klaus Neuhaus ...
    Was passiert, wenn Klaus W. Hoffmann und Klaus Neuhaus mit ihrem Musiker-Kollegen Jürgen Lesker gemeinsam in Belgien auf Tour sind und dort auf einen Hausmeister von der Sorte: "Macht mir ja keine Arbeit!" treffen. Und was hat Wolf Vostell mit der ganzen Sache zu tun ...? Das erzählt Klaus Neuhaus in dieser kleinen, selbst erlebten Geschichte. ... Read more

    RM 7.91 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Serial Music and Serialism

    A Research and Information Guide

    by John D. Vander Weg ...
    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    Serial or 12-tone music has proved to be an enduring 20th century style that has generated a wide range of writings. This much-needed work provides the only comprehensive, up-to-date guide to research on serial music, offering an annotated bibliography with nearly 500 citations from books and journals from 1950 to 1995. ... Read more

    RM 258.45

  • 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

    RM 36.09

  • The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

    by Jessica Hopper ...
    "Jessica Hopper's criticism is a trenchant and necessary counterpoint not just on music, but on our culture at large." —Annie Clark, St. VincentAn acclaimed, career-spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic, reissued with new materialThroughout her career, spanning more than two decades, Jessica Hopper, a revered and pioneering music critic, has examined ... Read more

    Was RM 51.59 Now RM 11.89

  • The Harvard Dictionary of Music

    Fourth Edition

    Edited by Don Michael Randel ...
    Series Book 10 - Harvard University Press Reference Library
    This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music.The Harvard Dictionary of Music has long been admired for its ... Read more

    RM 180.39