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An educational book on how to play drums. Suitable for beginner and intermediate level. It contains exercises on the drumset of increasing difficulty, useful and instantly applicable to various genres of music, such as pop, rock, funk, soul and more. It helps the student develop skills and vocabulary, exploring the role that the drums play in music and our role as musicians:having fun finding out what our musical preferences are. Ideal for beginners...
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Many students of renowned composer, conductor, and teacher Ferruccio Busoni had illustrious careers of their own, yet the extent to which their mentor's influence helped shape their success was largely unexplored until now. Through rich archival research including correspondence, essays, and scores, Erinn E. Knyt presents an evocative account of Busoni's idiosyncratic pedagogy-focused on aesthetic ideals rather than methodologies or techniques-and...
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The myth of the 27 Club "curse" started in 1969 with the untimely death of Rolling Stones founder, Brian Jones, which was soon followed by Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison. They were all only 27 years old.
But they weren't the only ones. It seems each new generation loses another beloved celebrity to the 27 Club.
This book searches for patterns to these deaths by investigating the incredible true stories behind 20 tragic celebrities...
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Durante los años 1982 y 1989, la convivencia política, cultural y cotidiana de la Argentina estuvo musicalizada por letras de rock argentino. En tiempos de transición a la democracia y posdictadura, la libertad se convirtió en un tópico central, significativo y movedizo: las bandas y solistas ampliaron los límites de comprensión, potenciaron los goces colectivos y revalorizaron las prácticas de la juventud a escala latinoamericana.
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The author of the highly successful History Channel series The Greatest Stories Never Told returns with new historic tales, this time focusing on amazing music stories that aren't taught in the average classroom
Rick Beyer plums the vast archives of the History Channel to deliver a treasure trove of obscure and fascinating stories to delight and entertain. The Greatest Music Stories Never Told continues the series tradition with short, fascinating...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Learn how Julie and the Phantoms bring their rock-and-roll dreams to life in this novel based on season one of the new Netflix show from Descendants’ director Kenny Ortega!
After the passing of her mom, Julie has lost her passion for music and is on the verge of being kicked out of her performing arts high school. That is, until she makes the ultimate comeback with her new band, Julie and the Phantoms. There's only one catch: All of her bandmates...
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From the award-winning, multi-genre author and musician Steven Heighton, Songbook brings together Heighton's lyrics and music for the first time in a single volume, including his final songs, which have never been heard or seen until now. When Steven Heighton died suddenly of cancer in 2022, he was in the middle of an intensely creative period of songwriting. He released his first album of original material, The Devil's Share, in 2021 and was preparing...
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Tulsa, Oklahoma might not be the first place mentioned when people talk about American music history. But this bustling city has a rich and diverse legacy that spans genres, generations and cultures.Tulsa Sounds: Contributions to American Music takes you into the stories behind the songs, the artists and the venues that made Tulsa not only a musical hot spot but influenced social, cultural and political change in the city as well as the nation.There's...
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This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as black-and-white photos. "Testimony changed the perception of Shostakovich's life and work dramatically, and influenced innumerable performances of his music." – New...
91) Organize
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We are musicians. We love to perform and strive to keep music a part of every day. We also juggle careers, family, and other competing obligations, but at the end of the day, we are guided by an inner compass that rarely strays from true north. When it works well, creating moments on stage with like-minded artists can be a transcendent experience. But as we can probably all attest to, getting to this point takes planning, intent, hard work, and consistent...
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Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries. The cantata became a form of elite entertainment composed to amuse listeners during banquets or pay homage to members of the royal family during special occasions. Concentrating on Baroque cantatas composed in the Habsburg court, Bennett...
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In an era defined by neon lights, cassette tapes, and the birth of grunge, the music scene of the 80's was more than just a trend-it was a revolution. This book whisks readers away to a time when music pulsed through the streets, clubs echoed with electric rhythms, and every song told a story. Journey across the State of Texas under the spell of groundbreaking artists and their iconic hits.
Meet passionate fans, ambitious musicians, and unforgettable...
94) Power, Passion and Beauty - The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra - Special Edition eBo
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2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the tumultuous break-up of the greatest band that ever was, the Mahavishnu Orchestra. The group, founded by British guitarist John McLaughlin, was the first to fuse jazz, rock and world music into critical and commercial success. In a remarkable feat, its pure instrumental albums were able to find their way into the tops of the Billboard rock charts. The Special Edition eBook "Power, Passion and Beauty - The Story...
95) Strings 'N' Wind
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Denmark is a head on Chick Corea's Spain originally written for solo piano arranged for Trumpet and Guitar.Fanfare for Albany is orchestrated for Cornet, Tenor Horn, Trombone, Baritone Horn & Bb Bass.Twenty Ten uses a set of changes I originally wrote on the guitar to create this arrangement for Trumpet and Guitar.
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Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and critics by decades Leo Ornstein passed away in 2002 at the age of 108. Frequently compared to Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, for a time Ornstein...
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In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern Ukraine. Adriana N. Helbig combines ethnographic research with music, media, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of hip hop create social and political spaces where an interracial youth culture...
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Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell, hip hop became popular in urban environments in the region, but it has often been stigmatized as inauthentic, due to an apparent lack of connection to...
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From the cacophonous surrounds of London to the sea stacks of Orkney, via the abandoned military facilities of the Suffolk coast and the watery expanses of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, from the quarries and neolithic sites of Snowdonia and the wide open skies of Norfolk to the hubbub of Nairobi and Berlin, the streets of Kyiv and the windblown wilds of Antarctica – music is everywhere. You just need to know or learn how to listen. Ears To The...
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A veteran music journalist explores rock-n-roll's bayou roots in "a jolting 18-track joy ride [that] unlocks secrets and back-stories worth savoring" (The Wall Street Journal).
The bayou of the American south-stretching from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama-is a world all its own, with a rich cultural heritage that has had an outsized influence on musicians across the globe. In this unique study of marsh music, Dave Thompson goes beyond the...
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