Popular Music & Parenting PDF Popular Music and Parenting explores the culture of popular music as a shared experience between parents, carers and young children. Offering a critical overview of this topic from a popular music studies perspective, this book expands our assumptions about how young audiences and caregivers engage with music together. Using both case studies and… Read More »
A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds EPUB PDF This book presents accounts of creative processes and contextual issues of current-day and early-twentieth century women composers. This collection of essays balances narratives of struggle, artistic prowess, and of “breaking through” the obstacles in the profession. Part I: Creative Work – Then and Now illuminates historical… Read More »
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century [Audiobook] A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to… Read More »
Flourishing in Music Education: Lessons from Positive Psychology (Routledge New Directions in Music Education Series) Flourishing in Music Education: Lessons from Positive Psychology presents research, theory, and best practices about potential pitfalls, as well as strategies for how successful music teachers can negotiate issues in the wake of the COVID-19 climate, both on a daily and long-term basis.… Read More »
Electronic Sound Issue 92 PDF Blimey. We like to think we’ve had some pretty striking covers over the years, but the photo of Röyksopp on the front of this month’s Electronic Sound really is something else. We have a weighty interview with the unorthodox Norwegian group inside the magazine, plus loads more to entertain you. Röyksopp’s massively popular… Read More »
Computer Music – October 2022 PDF CREATE A PRO SOUND DELAY TACTICS The best (and cheapest) plugins plus step-by-step delay workshop CM/interview CHICANE Nick Bracegirdle – aka Chicane – made his name in the ’90s with songs like Offshore, Sunstroke and Saltwater. After experimenting with all sorts of different genres, his new album returns to the sound that… Read More »
BEAT Magazine September 2022 Beat 09/22: 111 Producer Tips for better and more finished tracks How much content does a track need? Am I investing too little time? Am I too cerebral in my approach? Why can‘t my sound keep up with Spotify and Beatport? These are questions that everyone has asked themselves at some point. But now… Read More »
Asian Sound Cultures Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology PDF This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the historical processes of… Read More »
The First-Year Music Major Strategies for Success Designed to address the many challenges that first-year undergraduate music students often encounter, The First-Year Music Major: Strategies for Success provides concrete approaches that will help anyone embarking on a degree in music develop the knowledge and skills needed to complete their first year successfully. The chapters demystify the path of… Read More »
John Lingan A Song For Everyone The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival PDF The definitive biography of Creedence Clearwater Revival, exploring the band’s legendary rise to fame and how their music embodied the cultural landscape of the late ’60s and early ’70s From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements,… Read More »
Scott Currier Super Easy Keyboard Sheet Music for Beginners A Beginner Keyboard Book for Adults & Kids PDF Learn 50 super-easy big-note sheet music songs for keyboard! This big book of easy sheet music includes extra-large music staffs and notes, letters inside every note, chord symbols, and finger numbers. No complicated keyboard sheet music arrangements here! Instead, Super… Read More »
Peter Shapiro The Music Never Stops What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Magic PDF The engrossing, insightful, and personal musical odyssey of Peter Shapiro, perhaps the most notable independent concert promoter since Bill Graham Peter Shapiro is the best known and most influential concert promoter of his generation. He owned… Read More »
Chris Hart & Simon A. Morrison The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd True PDF The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of… Read More »
Music for Film & Game Soundtracks with FL Studio PDF Create and compose production-quality music with the power of FL Studio 20 along with MuseScore and Wwise Key Features: Develop widely applicable music composition techniques and create full orchestral scores Leverage the power of FL Studio to create your own production-level soundtracks Use cutting-edge tools to fuel your… Read More »
Practical Musicology (21st Century Music Practices) PDF Practical Musicology outlines a theoretical framework for studying a broad range of current musical practices and aims to provoke discussion about key issues in the rapidly expanding area of practical musicology: the study of how music is made. The book explores various forms of practice ranging from performance and composition to… Read More »