Category Archives: Education

Push: Software Design & the Cultural Politics of Music Production PDF

By | March 8, 2022

Push: Software Design & the Cultural Politics of Music Production PDF Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video… Read More »

Learn How to Play Keyboard – Piano With Auto-Accompaniment: A Self Tuition Book For Absolute Beginners PDF

By | March 7, 2022

Learn How to Play Keyboard – Piano With Auto-Accompaniment: A Self Tuition Book For Absolute Beginners PDF As the title suggests, this book has been written for absolute beginners who wish to play keyboard using auto-accompaniment and assumes no prior musical knowledge – just the desire to do it! Items covered include: Buying your first keyboard or piano;… Read More »

More Important Than the Music: A History of Jazz Discography PDF

By | March 3, 2022

More Important Than the Music: A History of Jazz Discography PDF Today, jazz is considered high art, America’s national music, and the catalog of its recordings—its discography—is often taken for granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the intense desire to know who played what, where, and when. This… Read More »

The Sounds & Sights of Performance in Early Music: Essays in Honour of Timothy J. McGee

By | March 2, 2022

The Sounds & Sights of Performance in Early Music: Essays in Honour of Timothy J. McGee The experience of music performance is always far more than the sum of its sounds, and evidence for playing and singing techniques is not only inscribed in music notation but can also be found in many other types of primary source materials.… Read More »

Music Business Handbook & Career Guide PDF

By | March 1, 2022

Music Business Handbook & Career Guide PDF This powerhouse best-selling text remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the music industry. The breadth of coverage that Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, Eleventh Edition offers surpasses any other resource available. Readers new to the music business and seasoned professionals alike will find David Baskerville and Tim Baskerville’s handbook… Read More »

Ligeti’s Macroharmonies: A Graphical-Statistical Analysis of Book 3 of the Piano Etudes (Computational Music Science)

By | March 1, 2022

Ligeti’s Macroharmonies: A Graphical-Statistical Analysis of Book 3 of the Piano Etudes (Computational Music Science) In the third and final book of his iconic piano etudes György Ligeti charts a new path relative to the rest of his musical output, representing a significant arrival in a composer’s oeuvre known for its stylistic transformations. This monograph is the first… Read More »

Insights into Music Composition PDF

By | March 1, 2022

Insights into Music Composition PDF Insights into Music Composition is a guide and source of inspiration for beginning students of music composition. Drawing on perspectives from a range of experienced composers, the book introduces readers to the compositional process, emphasizing how to think about creating a piece of music from beginning to end by providing not only a… Read More »

From Data to Decisions in Music Education Research

By | February 24, 2022

From Data to Decisions in Music Education Research From Data to Decisions in Music Education Research provides a structured and hands-on approach to working with empirical data in the context of music education research. Using step-by-step tutorials with in-depth examples of music education data and research questions, this text draws upon concepts in data science and statistics to… Read More »

The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo PDF

By | February 23, 2022

The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo PDF A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth” (Yunte Huang, author ofCharlie Chan). Garrett Hongo’s passion for audio… Read More »

Intertextuality in Music Dialogic Composition PDF

By | February 22, 2022

Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition PDF The concept of intertextuality – namely, the meaning generated by interrelations between different texts – was coined in the 1960s among literary theorists and has been widely applied since then to many other disciplines, including music.  Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition provides a systematic investigation of musical intertextuality not only as a… Read More »

Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media PDF

By | February 21, 2022

Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media PDF This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively under-explored in a 21st century context. The music video has remained suspended between two distinct poles.… Read More »

Vinyl Age A Guide To Record Collecting Now PDF

By | February 21, 2022

Vinyl Age A Guide To Record Collecting Now PDF From Carolina Soul Records, one of the world’s largest online record sellers, comes the definitive guide to every aspect of record collecting in the digital era. Any music fan knows that there’s nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. Even with access to a variety of streaming services,… Read More »