This anthology of over 40 scores and excerpts represents a wide range of music from across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, from pieces by Debussy, Stravinsky, and Bartok to...
Easily Master Jazz Guitar Soloing Quickly learn how to solo over the 13 most essential chord progressions in jazz guitar using arpeggios, substitutions and chromatic approaches....
Format: PDFWhether techno, EDM, hip-hop or chillout, drums have to sound crisp, need to be used cleverly and above all: they have to have groove. But what to look for when searching for sounds, how do kick and...
Whether large studio, home recording or laptop setup... when creative ideas come up, a well thought-out workflow is essential. But what can you do to optimize your hardware and software setup so that...
Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education develops an activist music education rooted in principles of social justice and anti-oppression. Based on the interviews of...
Musicians are masters of innovation, constantly finding new ways to adapt to accelerating change and staying ahead of the beat. In Two Beats Ahead, Michael Hendrix and Panos Panay demystify the...
Easily Master Jazz Guitar Soloing Quickly learn how to solo over the 13 most common chord progressions in jazz guitar using arpeggios, substitutions and chromatic approaches....
"Music cultures in sounds, words and images", edited by Antonio Baldassarre and Tatjana Markovic, is dedicated to the 60th birthday of the Croatian-American musicologist Zdravko Blažekovic (b. 1956,...
Format: PDFThe Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM's place on the map of popular music. The book accounts for various ambiguities, variations, transformations, and manifestations of EDM,...
Format: PDFA minimal beat at a moderate tempo, soft booming bass and dreamy melodies ... the concept for a typical melodic techno track could look like this or similar. Sure, the reality looks much more...
The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental...
Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music presents an approach to conceptualizing and utilizing technology as a tool for music learning. Designed for...
Combining a memoir by one of today's most renowned musicians with musical insights, reflections from colleagues and students, and even a few recipes, INDIRECTION is both a technical resource for...
Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal...
Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity is a practical blueprint for teachers wanting to begin teaching music technology to secondary age students. Will Kuhn...