Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption PDF A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner’s last opera, by one of Britain’s leading intellectuals Wagner’s last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the ‘pure fool, knowing through compassion’, who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of the Grail from the sins that have polluted it. The Grail is… Read More »
YouTube & Music: Online Culture & Everyday Life PDF YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first open access sustained exploration of YouTube and music shows how record companies, musicians and amateur users have embraced YouTube’s potential to promote artists, stage performances, build artistic (cyber)identity, initiate interactive composition, refresh music pedagogy, perform… Read More »
The Music Producer’s Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11: Level up your music recording, arranging, editing & mixing skills & workflow techniques PDF Expert guidance on enhancing your live music production skills with MIDI, audio sequencing and arrangement techniques, automation, modulation, MPE, and external instruments from an Ableton Certified Trainer Key Features Make the most of Ableton Live… Read More »
The Relationship Between the Vocal & Instrumental in Different Arts PDF This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental in music and other arts and in everyday communication alike. Presenting an in-depth systematical and historical analysis of the evolution of word and gesture art, it gives extensive information on the… Read More »
Level Up: Live Performance & Creative Process in Grime Music PDF Grime music has been central to British youth culture since the beginning of the 21st century. Performed by MCs and DJs, it is an Afrodiasporic form that developed on street corners, on pirate radio and at raves. Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music… Read More »
The Art & Science of 3D Audio Recording by Edwin Pfanzagl-Cardone PDF This professional book offers a unique, comprehensive and timely guide on 3D audio recording. Intended for sound engineers and professionals, and summarizing more than twenty-year research on this topic, it includes extensive information and details on various microphone techniques and loudspeaker layouts, such as Auro-3D®, Dolby®… Read More »
Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making & Listening to Music Whenever a person engages with music–when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest gets down on the dance floor–countless neurons are firing. Playing an instrument requires all of the… Read More »
Major Scale Harmony: Using the CAGED system For Guitar (LEFT HANDED): Key of C major PDF Explore and understand how the major scale works, by applying the chords and its inversions to your guitar playing. Major Scale Harmony was created to teach you the major scale, the chords within it, and the corresponding arpeggios. Expand your knowledge and… Read More »
The Musical Brain: What Students, Teachers & Performers Need to Know [PDF] We make or listen to music for the powerful effect it has on our emotions, and we can’t imagine our lives without music. Yet we tend to know nothing about the intricate networks that neurons create throughout our brains to make music possible. The Musical Brain… Read More »
Modern Radio & Audio Production: Programming & Performance, 10th Edition PDF Integrating cutting-edge technologies with explanations of traditional equipment and practices, MODERN RADIO AND AUDIO PRODUCTION, 10e, offers current, comprehensive coverage of radio production and programming. A clear writing style, excellent descriptions and explanations, and attention to detail make this book easy to read and understand. An all-new… Read More »
Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film PDF Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has… Read More »
Recording & Voice Processing Vol.2: Working in the Studio PDF Capturing, recording and broadcasting the voice is often difficult. Many factors must be taken into account and achieving a true representation is much more complex than one might think. The capture devices such as the position of the singer(s) or narrator(s), the acoustics, atmosphere and equipment are just… Read More »
Recording & Voice Processing Vol.1: History & Generalities PDF Capturing, recording and broadcasting the voice is often difficult. Many factors must be taken into account and achieving a true representation is much more complex than one might think. The capture devices such as the position of the singer(s) or narrator(s), the acoustics, atmosphere and equipment are just some… Read More »
Writing Audio Drama PDF Writing Audio Drama is a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online production. The book uses new and original research on the history of writing radio plays in the UK and USA to explore how this has informed and developed the art form for more than 100 years. Audio… Read More »
Electro Swing: Resurrection, Recontextualisation & Remix Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that of the age of electronic dance music. Chris Inglis considers key questions about electro swing’s place in contemporary society, including what it may mean for a contemporary genre to be so reliant… Read More »