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  • Le Sinfonie di Beethoven

    Una visione artistica

    Le fasi preparatorie, gli studi, gli abbozzi, i processi creativi, il contesto storico e culturale in cui si è sviluppato il progetto sinfonico di Beethoven. Una lettura inedita e vitale, in grado di illustrare con mano sicura l’unità e la profondità di un grande progetto sinfonico complessivo a cui Beethoven lavorò nel corso della propria intera vita. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Visions of Jazz : The First Century

    The First Century

    by Gary Giddins ...
    Poised to become a classic of jazz literature Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman jazz critic Gary Giddins ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Piano Playing

    With Piano Questions Answered

    by Josef Hofmann ...
    Series series Dover Books On Music: Piano
    Josef Hofmann (1876–1957) was a master of piano technique and an artist who had few equals at the keyboard. A student of Anton Rubinstein and a leading exponent of the works of Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann, he always balanced his virtuoso playing with a firm adherence to the piece as written. It is this balanced approach to piano playing that he advocates in this highly regarded volume on piano ... Read more

    $11.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queen

    Album by Album

    by Martin Popoff ...
    Series series Album by Album
    A thoughtfully curated and gloriously illustrated retrospective of the band’s studio releases, Queen, comes just in time for the 45th anniversary of their debut LP and biopic.Formed in 1970, Queen went on to become one of the most popular—and most successful—rock bands of all time. Even following the untimely death of beloved and magnetic frontman Freddie Mercury, and nearly 50 years after their ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano - Second Grade (Book Only)

    Second Grade

    by John Thompson ...
    (Willis). The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series. Follows uninterruptedly and in progressive sequence the musical foundation developed in Book 1. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Killer Technique: Classical Guitar

    Series series Killer Technique
    All the exercises in "Killer Technique: Classical Guitar" are either based on or inspired by challenging passages and patterns that appear in compositions. Technical elements and passages have been stripped down and transformed into exercises to help the reader concentrate on specific targets through repetition. The exercises cover various techniques, such as finger independence in both hands, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Introduction to the Lute

    for Lute and Guitar Players

    by Rob MacKillop ...
    This book is aimed at beginner lute and guitar players interested in playing Renaissance lute music on either instrument. Lute and guitar tablature are included, along with notes on technique, biographies of lute composers from the 16th century, and general advice on buying, stringing and tuning a lute. The book starts with single-line melodies, before progressing to two-part and full repertoire ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Apunta a las estrellas

    La guía para hacer de tu pasión musical una carrera exitosa

    by Leila Cobo ...
    Apunta a las estrellas es la guía esencial e imprescindible para todo el que quiera transformar sus sueños musicales en realidad¿Tienes potencial y talento? ¡Buenísimo! ¿Pero sabías que el talento solo no te llevará al estrellato? Para alcanzar a las estrellas, primero tienes que saber dónde apuntar y cuáles son las herramientas que te ayudarán a transformar tu pasión en una gran carrera.Leila ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Your Band Sucks

    What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)

    by Jon Fine ...
    **• A New York Times Summer Reading List selection • A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2015 *•*A Business Insider Best Summer Read • An Esquire Father’s Day Book selection • A New York Observer Best Music Book of 2015 •A memoir charting thirty years of the American independent rock underground by a musician who knows it intimately**Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing an... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Songbook Bossa Nova - vol. 2

    by Almir Chediak ...
    Series series Songbook
    Neste volume com 61 músicas, destacam-se: A noiva da cidade, Águas de março, Ana Luiza, Apelo, Berimbau, Bye bye Brasil, Canção do amanhecer, Chove chuva, Desafinado, Este seu olhar, Eu e a brisa, Faz parte do meu show, Feitinha pro poeta, Fim de noite, Garota de Ipanema, Ilusão à toa, Lobo bobo, Manhã de carnaval, Marcha da quarta-feira de cinzas, O que é amar, O que tinha de ser, Rapaz de bem, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hip Hop America

    by Nelson George ...
    From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • The Ox

    The Authorized Biography of The Who's John Entwistle

    by Paul Rees ...
    Unearth a piece of music history with this definitive, no-holds-barred biography of John Entwistle, The Who's legendary bass guitarist.It is an unequivocal fact that in terms of rock bands, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who represent Year Zero, the beginning of all things, ground-breakers all. To that incontrovertible end, John Entwistle—The Who's beloved bassist—remains an enigmatic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Sound of Pictures

    Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity

    by Andrew Ford ...
    The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds can be even more evocative: the sounds of nature, of cities and of voices.In The Sound of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bass Training Vol. 4

    Rhythm Control

    by Kamel Sadi ...
    Series Book 4 - Bass Training
    25 rhythms-exercises to improve your feel for time. Each exercices is played at different tempos. Tabs with pick stroke and audio on line. Difficulty: medium (intermediate level). ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Advanced Reading Studies for Guitar (Music Instruction)

    Guitar Technique

    (Guitar Solo). This Berklee Workshop is designed for serious guitarists who want to sharpen their high register reading skills and take their playing expertise to the next level. It introduces studies in all keys, using positions 8 through 12 and all major, minor and symmetric scales. Individual studies consist of scale passages, arpeggios, intervals and notated chord sequences in various time ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Just around Midnight

    Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

    by Jack Hamilton ...
    By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

    by John Major ...
    Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the underdog, it held a mirror to the audiences’ hopes, fears and the general absurdity of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Complete Jazz Guitar Method

    If you're getting into jazz or expanding your jazz chops, this comprehensive approach is for you. From comping and chord voicings to single-note soloing, you will learn, step by step, the tools necessary for playing jazz guitar. The book is easy to understand and contains hundreds of great-sounding playable examples to serve as springboards for applying the concepts to jazz standards or your own ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Pentacorde: La guía completa de acordes de cinco notas y sus intervalos

    pentacorde, #1

    Series Book 1 - pentacorde
    El pentacorde es una serie de cinco notas consecutivas dentro de una escala musical, que se tocan juntas como un conjunto armónico. Estas notas pueden ser seleccionadas de cualquier escala musical y se usan comúnmente en la música tradicional y popular. El uso del pentacorde puede crear armonías únicas y complejas y se utiliza a menudo en la improvisación musical. Hay muchos tipos de pentacordes ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Basics in Jazz Arranging

    (Jazz Instruction). Renowned educator and writer Paris Rutherford has adapted the text he used for over 30 years in teaching university-level arranging at one of the nation's most illustrious jazz schools. For anyone wanting to enter the exciting world of jazz arranging, this book is a must-have resource! Useful as a classroom teaching tool for beginning arrangers or as a self-study book, this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Party Out of Bounds

    The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia

    Series Book 2 - Music of the American South Ser.
    Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider’s look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town. Brown uses half-remembered stories, local anecdotes, and legendary lore to chronicle the 1970s and 1980s and the spawning of Athens bands such as the B-52’s, Pylon, and R.E.M. Their creative ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Bass Scales Vol. 2

    Minor Pentatonic

    by Kamel Sadi ...
    Series Book 2 - Bass Scales
    Minor pentatonic scale in 12 keys. By key : five patterns with fingerings, five patterns with note names, five patterns with intervals. All in 12 keys. Tabs and audio tracks in key of A. And 50 backing tracks in diffrents keys and styles (country, blues, blues rock, funk, jazz…) and 25 drum tracks to practice and improvise. ... Read more

    $2.21 USD

  • Clarinet Lessons for Beginners

    Teach Yourself How to Play Clarinet (Free Video Available)

    Series series Progressive Beginner
    Teach yourself how to play clarinet with our easy clarinet lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free clarinet videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along. Also includes music score and clarinet animation for easy music learning.***"This is a beginner's book that really starts with the basics, like assembling the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Treatise on Musical Objects

    An Essay across Disciplines

    Series Book 20 - California Studies in 20th-Century Music
    The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the recording studio. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also on philosophy and the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD