Love is strong. Fate is stronger. Bryn Mancini was born under a lucky star. As he celebrates his silver wedding, he rejoices in a beautiful wife, handsome grownup children and the house of his dreams ...
Scarred at a young age, Dominique Maksylov, Royal Prince of Russia, has lived a reclusive life. As a musical prodigy, his music has wide reach into the world, but few ever see his face. He never ventu...
This study of Polish folk music is especially enlightening as it reveals both the history and practice of a musical tradition and offers an illuminating view of a culture and its social activities. Wi...
Ever since Stone Age humans used slabs to create sound, man has invented an extraordinary variety of instruments in the pursuit of new ways of making music. Many of the instruments featured in this da...
and the advent of professional performers in the 20th century during the so-called "folk revival." The two sides of the folk tradition will be examined - both as popular and commercial expressions. Fo...
Recording Music on Location "The material is full of techniques that go from a session planning, according to each situation, to the description of the edition and mixing processes, going through fund...
Join in the fun with other children as they blow their whistle at carnival or bang their drum to the beat! Help encourage your child's love of music by reading along as children play their favourite m...
Music Technology Workbook this practical music technology workbook with CD-Rom enables students and teachers to get the best possible results with the available equipment. The workbook provides step-b...
The study of women's activities and contributions in the creation and performance of music through the ages has attracted increasing numbers of scholars over the past two decades. Gender has additiona...
This book will offer designers a vast collection of inspiring and innovative graphic works from the world of music. The main emphasis will be on music graphics including album/CD covers and inside spr...
Take a musical journey in time-from the dawn of the Church's liturgical song through the Baroque's great choral and instrumental works to representative pieces of the 20th century. This is the sacred ...
As a sequel to Phaidon's "That Divine Order", published in 2005, which surveyed the relationship between music and the visual arts from ancient times until the mid-eighteenth century, "The Music of Pa...
The power and prestige of music in the modern world has given its practitioners extraordinary wealth and moral authority. This is taken for granted now and yet for much of Europe’s history musicians h...
Whatever your level of experience, The Dance Music Manual is packed with sound advice, techniques and practical examples to help you achieve professional results. Written by a professional producer an...
"Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture", is one of the case study volumes in the "Global Music" series, edited by Bonnie Wade and Patricia Shehan Campbell. This volume desc...
Carrying the reputation and authority of the market leader for this courseTiton's WORLDS OF MUSIC, 3RD--this SHORTER EDITION introduces world music at a more rudimentary level and in a smaller package...
"The Music in the Middle East: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture" is a case study in "The Global Music" series, edited by Bonnie Wade and Patricia Campbell. This book focuses on the variety of mu...
Though few of them make much effort to entice a new audience to their product, the recording companies continue to pour out a flood of classical music. The catalogue of current classical CDs runs to m...
The Routledge Guide to Music Technology is an A to Z trade reference aimed at music students, technophiles, and audio-video-computer users. It offers brief definitions of key concepts, biographies of ...
A practical look and listen guide to the world of music. Includes a specially created CD featuring a new work by innovative Danish composer Poul Ruders. Special symbols in the book show you when to tu...
In a shift of emphasis, A History of Western Music places people making choices at the centre of the story, not as peripheral figures in the evolution of musical works and styles. Linking historical a...
There is hardly an aspect of internet music promotion, sale and distribution which does not have a legal dimension. Since the stakeholders in the process includes artists, their managers, music publis...
Its performing traditions lost to time, early music has become the subject of significant controversy across the world of classical music and presents numerous challenges for musicians, composers, and...
A fresh appraisal of Schubert's nature and beliefs, deriving from close study of his works.
Presents innovative methods of promoting music and products for distance teaching and commercial and non-commercial purposes for both sighted and print-impaired consumers.
Provides a comprehensive description and analysis into the use of music information retrieval, from the data management perspective.
Music in Chopin's Warsaw examines the rich musical environment of Fryderyk Chopin's youth--largely unknown to the English-speaking world--and places Chopin's early works in the context of this milieu....
Learn how to create original and remix dance tracks from an expert - one of the biggest names in music production
The Popular Music Studies Reader maps the changing nature of popular music over the last decade and considers how popular music studies has expanded and developed to deal with these changes. A wide ra...