Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students. "Creative composition"-composing in your own style, rather t ...
Why did jazz become a dominant popular music genre in the 1920s and rock 'n' roll in the 1950s? Why did heavy metal, punk rock and hiphop find their w ...
Fifteen songs including: Bad Moon Rising * Who'll Stop the Rain * Proud Mary * The Midnight Special * Looking Out My Back Door * Down on the Corner * ...
This unique collection of essays examines the flow of African American music and musicians across the Atlantic to Europe from the time of slavery to t ...
Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Ne ...
I haven't had enough time to fully delve into this book, but on first inspection, it seems like a winner. It breaks down for you the skeleton of each ...
Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of ...
I got this book the other day so i could learn some of davids new songs off the album and let me tell you the craftsmanship of this book is awesome. t ...
The 1957 classic American musical "West Side Story" has been staged by countless community and school theater groups, but none more ambitious than the ...
This volume examines how the search for ''cultural authenticity,'' the dispute over the past, and the role of ''modernity'' have been instrumental in ...
La Mer stands at the center of Debussy's achievement. Described by the composer as "a seascape without figures," it is arguably the greatest and most ...
As a work of cultural criticism that recalls the concerns of Foucault, Hayden White, Zizek, and others Decentering Music examines the struggle for the ...
As a work of cultural criticism that recalls the concerns of Foucault, Hayden White, Zizek, and others Decentering Music examines the struggle for the ...
Songbook containing words and musical transcriptions for voice, guitars, bass, drums and other instruments for all songs of "Definitely Maybe", by Oas ...
In this thorough introduction to the technology behind audio workstations, Dr Francis Rumsey explains not only how digital audio works but also how to ...
One of the most fascinating figures of seventeenth-century music, composer and singer Antonia Padoani Bembo (c.1640 - c.1720) was active in both Venic ...
A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industria ...
Traditional requiem texts, among them the anonymous medieval Latin poem Dies Irae (_Day of Wrath_), have inspired an untold number of composers in dif ...
Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures acro ...
Geared towards teens, this book is for readers that are ready to move beyond the stage of simply ripping audio from CDs to the more creative ends of d ...
