Category Archives: Education

The Pop Palimpsest: Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music Within popular music there are entire genres (jazz “standards”), styles (hip hop), techniques (sampling), and practices (covers) that rely heavily on references between music of different styles and genres. This interdisciplinary collection of essays covers a wide range of musical styles and artists to investigate intertextuality—the shaping of one text… Read More »

What Every Pianist Needs to Know About the Body PDF Techniques on how to gain greater fluidity of movement while playing to improve the quality of the experience are offered in this manual for serious piano players. This book encourages musicians to develop a broader understanding of the involvement of the entire body in playing—and the strains playing… Read More »

DIY House Shows & Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place & Community DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of DIY (“do- it- yourself”) music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses, all- ages clubs, and guerrilla shows, with its… Read More »

Teaching Music Theory: New Voices & Approaches PDF In recent years, music theory educators around the country have developed new and innovative teaching approaches, reintroducing a sense of purpose into their classrooms. In this book, author and veteran music theory educator Jennifer Snodgrass visits several of these teachers, observing them in their music theory classrooms and providing lesson… Read More »

Life of Mozart (Vol. 1-3): Biography of Music Genius (Complete Edition) Life of Mozart in three volumes is a biography of famous Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart written for the centenary of his birth. It was written by German scholar Otto Jahn who collected the written sources on the life of the composer for the first time and… Read More »

Exercises for Voice Therapy 3rd Edition PDF Exercises for Voice Therapy, Third Edition contains eighty-four exercises contributed from fifty-five clinicians to assist speech-language pathologists in developing treatments plans and session materials for clients children and adults with all types of voice disorders. The exercises provide step-by-step instruction of varied difficulty levels. Some are suitable for novice voice clinicians,… Read More »

Join the Future: Bleep Techno & the Birth of British Bass Music PDF Since the dawn of the 1990s, British dance music has been in thrall to the seductive power of weighty sub-bass. It is a key ingredient in a string of British-pioneered genres, including hardcore, jungle, drum & bass, dubstep, UK garage and grime. In Join The… Read More »

Complete Guitar Care & Maintenance: The Ultimate Owners Guide PDF “Everything you need to maintain, set up and protect your guitar.” Cleaning & Restringing – Setups & Adjustments – Care & Storage – Minor Repairs “Complete Guitar Care & Maintenance, The Ultimate Owners Guide” is the essential care guide for guitar owners everywhere. Filled with over 170 pages… Read More »

A Sound Mind: How I Fell in Love with Classical Music & Decided to Rewrite its Entire History For readers of Mozart in the Jungle and Year of Wonder, a new history of and guide to classical music. Paul Morley made his name as a journalist covering the rock and pop of the 1970s and 1980s. But as… Read More »

Beast: John Bonham & the Rise of Led Zeppelin PDF C. M. Kushins, Dave Grohl (Foreword), “Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin” The first full-length narrative biography of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham, considered by many to be one of the greatest drummers in rock history, and a genuine wild man of epic (and sadly fatal)… Read More »

Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory 4th Edition The classic survey of the field, retooled for a new generation of students. Now published by Norton, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, with additional coverage of transformational theory and voice leading. The Fourth Edition helps students identify key theoretical points and… Read More »

Competition Policy & Music Industries: A Business Model Perspective PDF This book explores the nature of the music industries before and after the digital revolution from the point of view of the consumer, and explores the question of whether there is a role for competition policy intervention in the music industries. Considering the historically consolidated environment of the… Read More »

Thought & Play in Musical Rhythm PDF Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing. Editors Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty address a productive tension in musical studies between universalistic and… Read More »

Tim Harrison Sound Design for Film Sound Design for Film offers an in-depth study of one of cinema’s most powerful storytelling tools, exploring the creative landscape and proposing a variety of contemporary approaches to audio design. Opening up a hidden world of narrative techniques, experienced designer Tim Harrison provides key insights into how sound works on audiences to guide… Read More »