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Keep the Peace!: The Musician's Guide to Soundproofing
Model: 00331328

Every musician could benefit from having a soundproof place to practice their art. Keep the Peace! provides practical suggestions for creating just such a space. So if you're a guitarist who'd like to unplug the headphones from your Rockman and crank up that Boogie, or if you're a drummer who'd like to work on a new lick but it's past your daughter's bedtime, or if your band is on a first-name basis with the local police because of your neighbor's complaints, then this book is DEFINITELY for you.
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The Real Deal: How to Get Signed to a Record Label
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Revised and completely updated edition of the industry classic! The Real Deal is the only music business reference source that offers specific advice to musicians on getting that all-important record deal. Included in this thoroughly revised and updated second edition are all the business necessities, creative aspects, and marketing strategies needed for musicians to survive and thrive in the music industry. Readers learn step-by-step how to prepare a presentation package and reach the right person at the record labels, and discover dozens of no-fail procedures and time-tested techniques for making it in this incredibly competitive business. This exciting expanded edition features expert advice from dozens of successful managers, record producers, recording artists, and publicists, as well as three brand new chapters: “Taking Care of Business,” “Making Money Promoting Your Talent,” and “Using Your Songwriting Talents.” Also included is thorough, up-to-the-minute information on using the Internet and getting signed overseas, as well as two completely revised and updated appendices providing information on books, conferences, and other resources. For any musician playing popular music, this is the definitive guide to winning a recording contract!
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The Raccoon Philosopher (for Voice and Orff Instruments - Performance
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Organized in two sections:

Section One provides a series of rhythmic and musical preparations in mixed and irregular meters (with emphasis on 7/8, based on excerpts from The Raccoon Philosopher. Ideas are explored for studying specific meters to be moved, played and sung within the mini-musical. Extensions are suggested for other curricular uses under 'interdisciplinary connection.'

Section Two is the complete mini-musical, The Raccoon Philosopher, which embraces mixed and irregular meter concepts, along with playing, singing, moving and creating. This section also includes staging and costuming suggestions, speech play, songs, movement/choreography ideas and Orff orchestrations.

In both sections, true to the Orff-Schulwerk philosophy, it is the authors' intent that the process be engaging and open-ended, and that it be treated as importantly as the materials that are provided. Students and teachers are invited not only to enjoy the mini-musical suggestions, but also to revel in the preparatory work where their ideas may ultimately enhance and enliven the final performance.



- Develop musical skills using recorders and tuned and untuned percussion instruments

- Develop children's voices

- Lively, fun material suitable for performance

- To offer students opportunities to read, explore, move and have experiences with mixed and irregular metres in a playful and engaging way

- To familiarize students with stage terms and vocabulary
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Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies Paperback
Model: 00331550

Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and personal aspects, as well as Mahler's musical techniques.
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Brass Master-Class: Method for Brass Players Book
Model: 49008140

Not only does Malte Burba rank among the most interesting and versatile brass players of our time, he is also considered to be one of the best brass teachers worldwide. Many of his students play in leading orchestras or teach at major conservatories. One of the pillars of his pedagogy is the pioneering method developed by him for playing brass instruments which, in an absolutely logical manner, eliminates all technical and embouchure-related problems.

Contents: A note about the author • Why this book? • Basic considerations • Generator I • Breathing I, the first rule • Methodology • Breathing II, the second rule • Glottis I, Generator II • Tongue and lower jaw-glottis II • Mimic muscular system • Coordination and synchronization I-glottis III • Transfer to the instrument I • Coordination and synchronisation II-generator III • Transfer to the instrument II • Summary • Glossary
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Making Changes: A Practical Guide to Vernacular Harmony
Model: 50335290

Countless musical examples and a running text guide the reader through using chords and changes to create musical arrangements for folk, rock, pop and jazz. Includes information on blues and modal harmony changes, how melody makes harmony, harmonizing a minor melody, and much more.
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Pavarotti Up Close
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Pavarotti Up Close is an unprecedented and affectionate portrait of the greatest tenor of the twentieth century, told through the eyes of his longtime musical coach and accompanist Leone Magiera. The secrets of the legendary voice are revealed for the first time, written by the one person who was there throughout the singer's career and witnessed it all firsthand, making Pavarotti Up Close different from any other Pavarotti biography. Magiera discusses Luciano's humble beginnings, his early years of study, his debut, his international operatic triumphs, the most successful recording career in the history of opera, the arena concerts, the star's special relationship with Princess Diana, his personal and medical struggles, and Pavarotti's status as a cultural icon recognized around the world.
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Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of The Byrds' Gene Clark
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Gene Clark soared to fame as a founding member and frontman of The Byrds, one of the most important and influential groups of the '60s. His songwriting with The Byrds and subsequent work as a solo artist and with Dillard & Clark mark him as one of rock's key innovators and a pioneer of folk-rock, psychedelia, and alt-country. Yet Clark's personal demons shadowed him throughout his life, and until now his legacy has been clouded in mystery. Told through the personal recollections of those closest to Clark, Mr. Tambourine Man offers a rare glimpse into his life and work, a revealing portrait of one of rock's greatest bands, and a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of fame. Endorsed by the Gene Clark estate, the book also features rare and previously unseen photos from family and friends.
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How to Make It in the New Music Business
Model: 00331374

This volume leads both novice and professional musicians into today's digital world, helping them to take complete control over all aspects of their music, from writing and performing to recording and selling. Motivating readers to live their dreams, author Robert Wolff shows how anyone can: set up and run their own music business and become a highly successful businessman or businesswoman • record major label quality music in their home, aided by tips from music professionals • broadcast music over their own web site and radio station to a potential audience of over 500 million people via the world wide web • do all this without a major record label's support. The book also includes interviews with some major names in the music business, including Grammy-winning guitarist and composer Steve Lukather, Grammy-winning songwriter Diane Warren, guitar/sound system designer Bob Bradshaw, legendary engineer/producer/record mixer Bob Clearmountain, and sound mixer/masterer Bob Ludwig. This is a how-to guide for anyone, offering step-by-step advice to make it in the music business in your own way, on your own terms.
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Paul McCartney - Bass Master: Playing the Great Beatles Basslines
Model: 00331407

Paul McCartney is one of the best pop bass players in the world, and this book presents a musical analysis of his consistently inventive and influential bass playing during his tenure in the Beatles. This indispensable guide offers full transcriptions (including tablature and chord names) of nine of McCartney's most revered bass parts: “Dear Prudence,” “Drive My Car,” “In My Life,” “Lovely Rita,” and more. Each track is analyzed and explained in detail to show today's bassists how much they can still learn from McCartney's remarkable skill and imagination.
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Rudiments of Music (Book 6)
Model: 48007748

The most essential points in the study of the basics of music are presented in this combined textbook/workbook series that is comprehensive, practical and progressive. Available in 9 volumes of exercises and review tests. Volume 1: Treble clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 2: Bass clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 3: Ledger lines, treble and bass clefs, notes and spaces. Volume 4: Tonic sol-fa syllables, treble and bass clefs, ledger lines, time values, tie and slur, accidentals. Volume 5: Major key signatures, major scales, time signature, accents, triplets, syncopation. Volume 6: Accents in compound time signatures, grouping of rests, intervals, diatonic and chromatic, inversions of intervals. Volume 7: Musical terms, the dot, harmonic minor scale, minor key signatures, melodic minor scale. Volume 8: Alto and tenor clefs, chromatic scale, triads and inversions. Volume 9: Transposition, dominant seventh.
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The Go-Betweens: The Songs of Robert Forster and Grant McLennan
Model: 49017869

The Go-Betweens were formed in 1978 when two students at Queensland University in Australia, Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, met. Unlike many other bands, they played perfectly formed, timelessly beautiful, guitar-oriented pop songs from the outset. In 2005 their ninth and final album, Oceans Apart, was released and received the renowned ARIA Award. The great Grant McLennan died unexpectedly on May 6, 2006. This songbook, with a foreword by Robert Forster, an extensive history of the band by Klaus Walter, music and texts for 26 of their best and most popular songs (including: Lee Remick • Cattle and Cane • Streets of Your Town • Finding You • and more), and previously unpublished photographs is dedicated to the memory of Grant McLennan. Text in English and German.
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Reflections on Orff-Schulwerk: Essays in Celebration of Margaret Murra
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Reflections on Orff-Schulwerk is a collection of essays by collegues and friends who have worked with Margaret Murray over the years. Each essay in this collection offers an insight into a particular aspect of the Orff approach, viewed from the perspective of the life and work of Margaret, whose contribution to the establishment and development of creative music teaching and learning in the English speaking world is immeasurable.
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Choral Musicianship: A Director's Guide to Better Singing
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Touched by Grace: My Time with Jeff Buckley
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Touched By Grace is an up-close-and-personal account by the legendary guitarist and songwriter Gary Lucas of the time he spent with his friend and collaborator, Jeff Buckley, during Jeff's early days in New York City. It describes their magical performance together at the Greetings from Tim Buckley concert at the Church of St Ann in 1991 – the event that first introduced Jeff to the world at large; the creation of their songs “Mojo Pin” and “Grace,” which started life as guitar instrumentals by Gary and would later become integral to Jeff's debut album, Grace; and their plan to take on the world together in Gary's band Gods & Monsters. Just as the band was set to soar, however, Jeff pulled the plug, opting instead to sign a solo deal with Columbia Records – the very label that had recently cut short its recording contract with the original incarnation of Gods & Monsters.

In this fascinating, revelatory new book, Gary Lucas writes with vivid, heartfelt honesty about the highs and lows of this all-too-brief musical union, from his first meeting with Jeff through to the devastating phone call from an MTV journalist with news of Jeff's disappearance in the Mississippi River. Touched By Grace is an eye-opening tale of music, passion, betrayal, and more.
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The Live Sound Manual: Getting Great Sound at Every Gig
Model: 00330933

From faders to frequencies, microphones to mixing, pink noise to polarity, this is the all-inclusive manual for creating the finest sound for live performances. It applies to the entire range of stage performers and their equipment – solo acoustic guitar and vocal, full-scale band requiring complex amplification, or electronica DJ working multiple turntables. Every aspect of live sound is covered, including: analyzing venue needs, acquiring and managing the ideal sound system, setting up and testing equipment, understanding and applying the theories of acoustics, maintenance, trouble-shooting, and much more. Also features a 15,000-word technical glossary.
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Young People's Concerts
Model: 00331656

On January 18, 1958, the Columbia Broadcasting Corporation aired the first of Leonard Bernstein's 53 Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic. So successful were these performance lessons that they ran for over a decade on television. This book brings back into print a classic collection of the best of the best of these Emmy and Peabody Award-winning lectures. A total of 15 lectures are presented here in full. Here is the century's most unique musician and teacher, explaining beautifully and clearly the joy of music in a way that grasps the attention of all. Every aspect of music is so cleverly presented that everyone, regardless of age, culture, or educational background, will enjoy and understand it.
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Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, and the Basement Tapes
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Million Dollar Bash tells for the first time the whole story of the Basement Tapes, recorded in summer 1967 when Bob Dylan's career was at a crossroads. Recovering from a mysterious motorcycle crash, he gathered together a few musician friends in Woodstock, New York, and informally recorded a bunch of songs intended to be heard by no one but themselves. Instead, they changed music forever. In this new book, musician and author Sid Griffin examines the recordings in detail, demonstrating on every page a musician's insight into the Basement Tapes, the men who recorded them, and the times in which they were made. Every Dylan fan needs this book.
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The Infinite Variety of Music
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With style, wit, and expertise, Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in The Infinite Variety of Music, illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers. He begins with an “imaginary conversation” with George Washington entitled “The Muzak Muse,” in which he argues the values of actively listening to music by learning how to read notes, as opposed to simply hearing music in a concert hall. The book also features the reproduction of five television scripts from Bernstein on the influence of jazz, the timeless appeal of Mozart, musical romanticism, and the complexities of rhythmic innovation. Also included are Bernstein's analyses of symphonies by Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Brahms, a rare reproduction of a 1957 lecture on the nature of composing, and a report on the musical scene written for the New York Times after his sabbatical leave from directorship of the New York Philharmonic during the 1964-65 season.
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Skydog: The Duane Allman Story
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Now in paperback – revised and expanded, with a new afterword by the author – this is the definitive biography of Duane Allman, one of the most revered guitarists of his generation. Skydog reveals the complete story of the legendary guitarist: his childhood and musical awakening; his struggling first bands; his hard-won mastery of the slide guitar; his emergence as a successful session musician; his creation of the Allman Brothers Band; his tragic death at age 24; and his thriving musical legacy.
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Leonard Bernstein at Work: His Final Years, 1984-1990
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Leonard Bernstein is internationally renowned as one of the most significant composers, musical inspirations, and creative minds of the 20th century. In addition, many consider him to be the greatest American conductor of all time. He is legendary, not only for his brilliant music-making but equally for his extreme passion, raw charisma, powerful convictions, and insatiable appetite for life.



This remarkable photographic essay of Leonard Bernstein during the last six years of his life gives us rare insight into the disparate, sometimes vastly conflicting elements that shaped his work and deeply influenced everyone who was drawn into his inner world. It contains approximately 200 black-and-white photographs, most previously unpublished, taken on and off stage during 20 different events or concerts, along with personal comments and remembrances from over 50 of his colleagues, friends, and relatives.



The foreword is by Hollywood superstar Lauren Bacall, the preface by Jamie Bernstein (Leonard Bernstein's eldest daughter), and the introduction by James M. Keller, Leonard Bernstein scholar-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.



These vivid images reveal Leonard Bernstein at work in his final years, as mortality encroached upon his unrelenting energy and indefatigable creative genius.
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Modal Counterpoint: In the Style of the Sixteenth Century
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Music for Very Little People (Book/CD Pack)
Model: 48007784

As each day unfolds, many wonderful events evolve in a little person's life; from playing with toys to taking a bath; from eating breakfast to driving in a car; saying “Hello” to the sun and “Goodnight” to the moon. Songs and rhymes naturally enhance those daily events. Most importantly, these activities are for sharing precious moments with your favorite very little people. This delightful collection contains 50 songs and activities for infants and toddlers, compiled by John M. Feierabend, and illustrated by Gary M. Kramer. The companion CD features 50 songs with more than 44 minutes of bounces, wiggles, tickles, tapping, clapping, circles and lullabies.
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Producing in the Home Studio with Pro Tools - Second Edition
Model: 50449526

Get the most out of Digidesign's Pro Tools software with this comprehensive home studio guide that will show you how to create the highest quality recordings by honing your production skills and engineering techniques. With a complete explanation of the entire production process, you'll find out everything you need to know to make your music projects stand out from the rest. You'll learn how to: mix and master recordings like the pros; run a recording session and produce great songs; set up your home studio and improve its efficiency; set up mics to capture superior sounds; master the intricacies of Pro Tools with keystroke shortcuts and technical instruction; record real-sounding MIDI tracks; and much more. Ideal for producers, engineers, songwriters and artists. The Second Edition is fully updated for the new features of Pro Tools 6.X software and all Digidesign home studio hardware products. A new chapter on Digital Audio Editing was added to the book, and new hands-on projects have been added in every chapter. Additionally, there are new, more advanced Pro Tools sessions with audio examples that explain many in-demand Pro Tools techniques.
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Music Smarts: The Inside Truth and Road-Tested Wisdom from the Brighte
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This amazing compilation features 600 quotations from esteemed musicians and artists who have taken a moment to reflect on their influences, heroes, integrity, performances, and so much more. These gems of hard-won wisdom cover not only the highs of success, money, and fame, but also frankly reveal the lows of missteps and rejection. The shared experiences of heavy-hitters such as George Martin, Tom Petty, Phil Ramone, Brian Wilson, Jack Johnson, k.d. lang, David Foster, and Carlos Santana, to name just a few, can function as both advice for those starting out in the industry and a behind-the-scenes peek for any music fan. This handbook also includes a visual “who's who” of the music biz with the inclusion of headshots of the artists featured. A celebration of what it means to make music, this collection is a must-have for anyone who has ever hummed a tune or been inspired by an insightful lyric.
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Perspektiven und Aufgaben der Haydn-Forschung: Haydn Studies Volume IX
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All You Need to Know About the Music Business - 8th Edition
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The definitive and essential guide to the music industry, now in its eighth edition – revised and updated with crucial information on the industry's major changes in response to rapid technological advances and economic uncertainty.

The past two decades have seen file-sharing technology and digital streaming services transform the music business from top to bottom, and the changes keep coming at breakneck speed. How are the record labels adapting to the demand for instantly accessible, low-cost music while coping with piracy? And what does it all mean for aspiring and established artists today?

Donald Passman, one of the most trusted music lawyers in the country, offers his sage advice for creating, selling, sharing, and protecting your music in the Information Age in what the Los Angeles Times has called “the industry bible.” Passman's comprehenisve guide has sold hundred of thousands of copies over the past twenty years thanks to his unparalleled experience and up-to-the-minute knowledge of industry trends.
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The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's La Boh?me: Libretto, Backgr
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There's a reason La Bohème has been staged at the Met more often than any other opera: Puccini's enticing music perfectly conveys the enchantment of new young love and the anguish that comes with loss and death. La Bohème, the passionate and timeless story of love among impoverished young artists in Paris, can stake its claim as the world's most popular opera. It has a marvelous ability to make a powerful first impression (even on those new to opera) and to reveal unexpected treasures after dozens of hearings. At first glance, La Bohème is the definitive depiction of the joys and sorrows of love and loss; on closer inspection, it reveals the deep emotional significance hidden in the trivial things (a bonnet, an old overcoat, a chance meeting with a neighbor) that make up our everyday lives. This touching story of tenderness and tragedy never fails to move audiences and melt hearts.

This gorgeous souvenir libretto includes extensive background notes and photos from productions through the years.
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Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations
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If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a public-school music teacher, Jerry Kupchynsky, known as Mr. K – a Ukrainian-born taskmaster who yelled and stomped and screamed, and who drove his students harder than anyone had ever driven them before. Through sheer force of will, he made them better than they had any right to be. Strings Attached tells the inspiring, poignant, and powerful story of this remarkable man, whose life seemed to conspire against him at every turn and yet who was able to transform his own heartache into triumph for his students. Lyrically recounted by two former students – acclaimed journalist Joanne Lipman and Mr. K's daughter, Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Melanie Kupchynsky – Strings Attached takes you on a journey that spans from his days as a forced Nazi laborer and his later home life as a husband to an invalid wife, to his heart-breaking search for his missing daughter, Melanie's sister. This is an unforgettable tale – a captivating narrative that is as absorbing as fiction – about the power of a great teacher, but also about the legacy that remains long after the last note has faded into silence: lessons in resilience, excellence, and tough love.
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Technology in Today's Music Classroom: Active Music Making with Tablet
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Expand learning possibilities with the equipment you already have! From projectors and computers to tablets and IWBs, learn how you can create sophisticated activities and engage every type of student through movement, singing, instrument playing, creating and notating! Create effective visual charts to explore vocal pathways and movement, and to facilitate note reading and recorder improvisation. Create worksheets, use digital flashcards, render melodic and rhythmic dictation and use tablets to assess, record and save student work into an individualized digital portfolio. Explore IWB applications that maximize interactivity. Use pen tools for simple interactivity like tracing quarter rests, use animation features to create interactive xylophones and recorders, and link pages to create question and answer activities or simple games. Explore how to use tablets alone or IWBs and tablets in conjunction with each other, while students play instruments, sing, and move to their compositions, and much more!
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