How Music Works, Paperback

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*Updated with a new chapter on digital curation* How Music Works is David Byrne's incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its ...

Reducere. Being musical does not necessarily mean being a musician; it doesn't mean playing the piano at parties or composing songs for lovers. It is a way o...

In Copy This Book , Paul J. Heald draws on a vast knowledge of copyright scholarship and a deep sense of irony to explain what's gone wrong with co...

DescriptionWhile European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan HaerleApplicable for all instruments, this graded course on piano voicing skills starts with simple block chords over m...

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Reducere. This book presents 60 songs and tunes from the American Civil War that were favorites with the soldiers and those at home, arranged especially for ...

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How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into...

This book offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music. Written for musicians and music lovers wit...

Reducere. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) was the very first teacher to bring Sufism to the Western world. This is the first representa...

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What does it mean when a singing voice is detached from an originating body through recording? And how does this affect consumers of recorded song?...

Reducere. Although John Cage has been almost universally recognised as the leading figure of the post-war musical avant-garde, this is the first book to pres...

The first volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt."You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn o...

The second volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt."You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn ...

DescriptionA serious intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures conside...

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From the invention of the alphabet to the explosion of the internet, Dominic Wyse takes us on a unique journey into the process of writing. Startin...

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Reducere. DescriptionFrom his early work as lyricist for West Side Story to acclaimed creations such as A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George,...

Award-winning author Jack Boss returns with the 'prequel' to Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014) demonstrating that the term 'atonal' ...

Reducere. In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that h...

DescriptionFrom Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to ...

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526What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as specta...

The Music of Film opens up the world of film music from the inside. Through a series of interviews and conversations with professional composers, m...

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Reducere. Analyzing Classical Form builds upon the foundations of the author's critically acclaimed Classical Form by offering an approach to the analysis of...

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