Sound On Sound UK – December 2021 PDF Sound On Sound is the world’s best recording technology magazine, packed full of in-depth, independent product tests, including music software, studio hardware, keyboards and live sound (PA) gear. Every issue also includes SOS’s unique step-by-step tutorial and technique columns on all the leading DAW programs, as well as insightful interviews… Read More »
Classical Music For Dummies, 3rd Edition PDF Classical music was never meant to be an art for snobs! In the 1700s and 1800s, classical music was popular music. People went to concerts with their friends, they brought snacks and drinks, and cheered right in the middle of the concert. Well, guess what? Three hundred years later, that music… Read More »
Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education PDF This book surveys emerging music and education landscapes to present a sampling of the promising practices of music teacher education that may serve as new models for the 21st century. Contributors explore the delicate balance between curriculum and pedagogy, the power structures that influence music education at all levels,… Read More »
Bach & Mozart Essays on the Enigma of Genius PDF The essays in this volume, by one of America’s leading authorities on Bach and Mozart, serve a single objective: to promote a deeper understanding of those two great composers both as supremely gifted creators and as human beings. Author Robert L. Marshall draws on a diverse range of… Read More »
Digital Audio Editing by Simon Langford PDF Whether you’re comping a vocal track, restoring an old recording, working with dialogue or sound effects for film, or imposing your own vision with mash-ups or remixes, audio editing is a key skill to successful sound production. Digital Audio Editing gives you the techniques, from the simplest corrective editing like cutting,… Read More »
Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past: An Essay on Mozart & Modernist Aesthetics For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart’s music have taken a rejection of transcendence as axiomatic. This essentially modernist, antiromantic orientation attempts to neutralize the sorts of aesthetic experiences that presuppose an enchantment with Mozart’s art, an engagement… Read More »
Bossa Nova, The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World by Ruy Castro PDF Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as “The Girl from Ipanema” (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), “The Waters of March,” and “Desafinado” are known around the world. Bossa Nova–a… Read More »
Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm & Noise by David Rothenberg PDF In the spring of 2013, the cicadas in the Northeastern United States emerged from their seventeen-year cycle―the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experienced this great sonic invasion compared their sense of wonder to the arrival of a comet or a solar eclipse.… Read More »
HOW TO LEARN ELECTRIC GUITAR WITHOUT EVER TAKING A LESSON: ROCK & METAL MUSIC Have you ever wanted to play along to your favorite riffs and jam out to your favorite songs but feel like learning the electric guitar is too far out of reach for you? I am here to tell you that it is definitely possible… Read More »
Guitar Play! Motivation & Practice When we’re young we “play” the guitar, as we get older we “practice.” This book of motivation and practice concepts will help you return to a state of play. For many the most difficult part of practicing guitar is opening the case. Guitar Play! will teach you how to celebrate small victories and… Read More »
Teaching General Music: Approaches Issues & Viewpoints PDF General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods. These pedagogical frameworks guide teachers in planning and implementing instruction. Established approaches to teaching general music must be understood, critically examined, and possibly re-imagined for their potential in school and community music education programs. Teaching General Music brings… Read More »
Inner Sound Altered States of Consciousness in Electronic Music & Audio-Visual Media by Jonathan Weinel PDF Inner Sound explores how altered states of consciousness have shaped the design of electronic music and audio-visual media. The book begins by discussing consciousness, and how this may change during states such as dreaming, psychedelic experience, meditation, and trance. Next, a variety… Read More »
Retromania, Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds PDF The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop, Retromania explores rock’s nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes, and argues that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art,… Read More »
Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading PDF In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic—his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly… Read More »
An Encyclopedia of the Violin by Alberto Bachman PDF “No list of twentieth-century landmarks in music reference would be valid without Bachmann’s Encyclopedia.”—American Reference Book Annual “If there were such an award as one for the best reprint of our day, surely this book by Alberto Bachmann would be way up front with the leaders.”—American String Teacher Of… Read More »