Young Adult Nonfiction

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Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison - Paperback

$73.71

by Peter Mills (Author)This is a groundbreaking study of every aspect of Van Morrison's artistic career - his influences, lyrical themes, vocal performances, his relationship with America, and more. In 1991 Van Morrison said, 'Music is spiritual, the music business isn't'. Peter Mills' groundbreaking book investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison, proceeding from this identified starting point. "Hymns to the Silence" is a detailed investigative study of Van Mo...

To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic - Paperback

$56.43

by William Jelani Cobb (Author)2007 Arts Club of Washington's National Award for Arts Writing - FinalistSEE ALSO: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. An inside look into the beats, lyrics, and flow of hip-hop's history With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip-hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth. To the Break of Dawn uniquely examines this...

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by Raquel Z. Rivera (Editor), Wayne Marshall (Editor), Deborah Pacini Hernandez (Editor)A hybrid of reggae and rap, reggaeton is a music with Spanish-language lyrics and Caribbean aesthetics that has taken Latin America, the United States, and the world by storm. Superstars--including Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Ivy Queen--garner international attention, while aspiring performers use digital technologies to create and circulate their own tracks. Reggaeton brings together critical assessments ...

Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris - Paperback

$45.29

by Jeffrey H. Jackson (Author)Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United States: jazz. Roaring through cabarets, music halls, and dance clubs, the upbeat, syncopated rhythms of jazz soon added to the allure of Paris as a center of international nightlife and cutting-edge modern culture. In Making Jazz French, Jeffrey H. Jackson examines n...

$66.73

by Philip Larkin (Author)Philip Larkin (1922-85) was not only one of the foremost English poets of the twentieth century, but also a notable novelist and a distinguished writer on jazz. He was jazz critic for The Daily Telegraph between 1961 and 1971. Jazz Writings brings together Larkin's reviews, articles and essays written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New Statesman, and numerous other publications.Author BiographyRichard Palmer is Head of English at Bedford School, an HMC-Ofsted Ins...

A Golden Age of Jazz Revisited 1939-1942: Three Pivotal Years of Musical Excitement When Jazz Was World's Popular Music - Paperback

$36.00

by Hazen Schumacher (Author), John Stevens (Author) Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN Publication Date: December 12, 2008

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by Reynaldo Hahn (Author)As composer, critic, and music director of the Paris Opera, Reynaldo Hahn embodied the refined taste of La Belle poque. This book is a series of nine lectures Hahn delivered in 1913 and 1914, concerned primarily with style and taste rather than technique. Number of Pages: 244 Dimensions: 1 x 9.48 x 6.52 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2003

Sight Singing Through Melodic Analysis: A Guide to the Study of Sight Singing and an Aid to Ear Training Instruction - Paperback

$143.91

by Leland D. Bland (Author)This book is a guide to the study of sight singing and a valuable aid to ear training instruction. Although the book draws upon theoretical concepts it is easy to read and to follow. Readers learn to distinguish between structural and decorative tones within horizontal triad outlines, recognize melodic shapes associated with triad outlines in various positions, and interpret overall melodic shapes within entire phrase. Material is arranged logically for learning bas...

Music for Piano: A Short History - Paperback

$88.11

by F. E. Kirby (Author)This historical survey focuses on music for piano solo but also includes important compositions for piano duet and two pianos. Scholarly yet readable, it covers the entire repertoire from the Renaissance to the late 20th century and incorporates a bibliography of 1 100 sources for further study.Back JacketWhen F. E. Kirby published A Short History of Keyboard Music in 1966, scholars and keyboard players welcomed it as the first detailed historical interpretation of musi...

Song Starters: 365 Lyric, Melody, & Chord Ideas to Kickstart Your Songwriting - Paperback

$22.93

by Robin Frederick (Author)With Song Starters, you'll spend more time creating and less time struggling to come up with ideas. Discover an endless supply of exciting, creative concepts that will launch song after song. Use the Starters to spark a brainstorm or set a series of notes in motion, get your feet dancing or fill your head with music. Listen to hit song examples as you work. All of the Starters are based on time-tested concepts used by hit songwriters, but you make them your own.365 ...

Head First: The Language of the Head Voice - Paperback

$98.91

by Denes Striny (Author), Birgit Nilsson (Foreword by)Denes Striny's international singing career brought him to the major opera houses of the world in leading roles. At the same time, he was evolving his vocal technique in a quest to find his full vocal potential. This book documents his struggles and successes with himself, teachers, coaches, and other singers. Striny, while maintaining his singing career, also had a full studio of singers studying with him in New York City.In this his firs...

How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education - Paperback

$93.94

by Lucy Green (Author)Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help from trained instrumental teachers. How do they go about this process? Despite the fact that popular music has recently entered formal music education, we have as yet a limited understanding of the learning practices adopted by its musicians. Nor do we know why so many popular musicians in the past turned away from music education, or how you...

Rammstein on Fire: New Perspectives on the Music and Performances - Paperback

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by John T. Littlejohn (Editor), Michael T. Putnam (Editor) This volume contains 13 original essays exploring Rammstein's stage performance and recorded works from multiple academic perspectives. Topics range from Rammstein's connection with 19th century German literature and their East German heritage to cannibalism and the supernatural. The panoramic view of approaches to Rammstein's music and performance goes beneath the surface and provides fan and scholar alike with a deeper appreciation ...

Guitar World Presents Classic Rock - Paperback

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by Various Authors (Author)Pop music comes and goes with dull regularity, but classic rock is always there. Led Zeppelin. Jimi Hendrix. The Eagles. The Doors. Creedence. The Who. These are the bands and artists who changed the face of American rock and whose innovations remain fresh and exciting today. This book is an unprecedented collection of hard-hitting & informative interviews with the artists who made rock classic, including David Gilmour, Angus Young, Robby Krieger (The Doors), Do...

Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays - Paperback

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by Scott F. Parker (Editor) Eminem is the best-selling musical artist of the 21st century. He is also one of the most contentious and most complex artists of our time. His verbal dexterity ranks him among the greatest technical rappers ever. The content of his songs combines the grotesque and the comical with the sincere and the profound, all told through the sophisticated layering of multiple personae. However one finally assesses his contribution to popular culture, there's no denying his c...

Breaking Through: From Rock to Opera, the Basic Technique of Voice - Paperback

$34.11

by Gloria Bennett (Author)BREAKING THROUGH 2ND EDITION REVISED 3/01 VOCAL TECHNIQUE Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.28 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1997

Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond - Paperback

$170.91

by Erik Levi (Editor), Florian Scheding (Editor), Michael Beckerman (Contribution by)The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume that aims to fill this gap as it...

Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions - Paperback

$134.91

by Ralph Lee Smith (Author)This book describes the recovery of the Appalachian dulcimer's lost history, tracing the dulcimer's roots in a German instrument, the scheitholt; describing the early history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer in America, and outlining the development of distinctive dulcimer styles in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. This fully revised and expanded edition provides additional information about the instrument's history before the Civil War and d...

Encyclopedia of Rhythm & Blues and Doo-Wop Vocal Groups - Paperback

$198.00

by Mitch Rosalsky (Author)With its easy-to-use alphabetical format, accurate and hard-to-find information and plenty of rare photos, this is an essential reference for deejays, collectors, and music historians.Author BiographyMitch Rosalsky was a long-time member of the United in Group Harmony Association (UGHA) until 1993. In his tenure with UGHA, he has served on the organization's board of directors. A devoted collector of R&B music since 1961, he has had many articles published relate...

Organ Literature: Historical Survey - Paperback

$170.91

by Corliss Richard Arnold (Author)Now in paperback. Cloth edition 0-8108-2964-9 originally published in 1995. Number of Pages: 398 Dimensions: 0.89 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1995

Scandinavian Song: A Guide to Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Repertoire and Diction - Hardcover

$162.00

by Anna Hersey (Author)An extensive survey of available music, sample IPA transcriptions and translations, as well as a website link devoted to demonstrating phonemes unfamiliar to native English speakers, make this book an invaluable resource for students and professors in North American college, university, and conservatory voice programs.Author BiographyAnna Hersey is assistant professor University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and editor in chief of VOICEPrints, the peer-reviewed journal of the Ne...

Saxophone Secrets: 60 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Saxophonist - Paperback

$122.31

by Tracy Lee Heavner (Author)Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in her Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), Tracy Heavner's Saxophone Secrets provides advanced saxophonists with 60 performance secrets that will assist in their musical development. This work is the result of 30 years of personal teaching and performance experience. Heavner offers both intermediat...

The Repertoire of Iraqi Maqam - Hardcover

$198.00

by Rob Simms (Author)The classical music of Iraq, known as Iraqi Maqam, features classical and vernacular poetry sung by a virtuoso soloist and accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble. It is a remarkably cosmopolitan art, sharing many features with neighboring classical traditions, particularly Iranian. Its repertoire consists of orally transmitted, multi-sectioned compositions, performed with some flexibility regarding ornamentation, arrangement and development. Focusing on the period b...

Stage Presence from Head to Toe: A Manual for Musicians - Paperback

$104.31

by Karen Hagberg (Author), John Cammarosano (Other)Stage Presence From Head to Toe: A Manual for Musicians is the only resource of its kind: a practical, authoritative guide to accepted practices of stage presence for performing musicians. It answers the basic questions every musician has about a performance: how to prepare, how to dress, how to walk out on stage, how to bow, how to look confident and put your audience at ease, how to interact with other musicians on stage and with backstage ...

Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll - Paperback

$122.31

by Larry Birnbaum (Author)An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions, it examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white...

Stride!: Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers - Hardcover

$162.00

by John L. Fell (Author), Terkild Vinding (Author)Drawing on the authors' personal interviews and biographies, Stride! traces stride piano from generation to generation, from the originators Eubie Blake, Luckey Roberts, and James P. Johnson, through a succession of pianists like Willie the Lion Smith. Fell and Vinding also examine its influence on Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Joe Sullivan, and Johnny Guarnieri, concluding with a third and fourth generations that include Ralph Sutton, Dick Hym...

Drum Kit Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Drummer - Paperback

$122.31

by Matt Dean (Author)Drum Kit Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Drummer is an indispensable guide for any drum kit player. Drummer and historian Matt Dean covers a broad range of drum kit-related subjects to assist drummers already well versed in the instrument to advance and polish their skills for both live and studio performance.Author BiographyMatt Dean is a professional drummer who records and tours with artists in numerous genres, as well as writing for music publicati...

Jazz Arranging and Performance Practice: A Guide for Small Ensembles - Paperback

$134.91

by Paul E. Rinzler (Author)Deals with the real substance of arranging for small jazz ensembles, in addition to the rudiments.Author BiographyPaul Rinzler (Doctor of Arts, University of Northern Colorado) teaches music theory and jazz studies classes at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has played jazz piano professionally for many years and was recently awarded an NEA jazz performance grant. His big band compositions are published by Walrus publishing, and his articles on jazz have...

State Songs: Anthems and Their Origins - Paperback

$161.91

by John Hladczuk (Author), Sharon Schneider Hladczuk (Author)Histories of these songs, biographical information about the composers and lyricists, and background on each song's entrance into status as 'official' make this source the most comprehensive in existence. The entries include sheet music, allowing readers to reproduce for themselves the tunes that have proved so important in the history of the Union.Author BiographyJohn Hladczuk has published and worked in the areas of literacy, read...

The Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the Choral Rehearsal - Hardcover

$198.00

by Duane Richard Karna (Editor), Susan Bender (Contribution by), Rene Clausen (Contribution by)In The Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the Choral Rehearsal, Duane R. Karna brings together 30 essays by experts from around the world to describe how the character symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used by singers in the choral rehearsal. Holding firmly to the belief that basic instruction in IPA character is part of a choir's training, Karna and his contribu...

Chinese Music Handbook: How to write Chinese Style Music - Paperback

$32.24

by Brian Voon Yee Yap (Author)This book is written as a guide for people who know the western staff notation and want to know about writing music that sounds like traditional Chinese music.This book is split into two parts. The first part describes the techniques needed to create Chinese style music. The second part is about the underling theory of the notation systems and pitch selection.The Chinese music system is quite prescriptive. Of course, you do not need to follow it. But if you do, y...

The Pianist's Craft: Mastering the Works of Great Composers - Hardcover

$198.00

by Richard Paul Anderson (Editor)In The Pianist's Craft, Richard Anderson collects from his fellow pianist-scholars 18 articles on the teaching, preparation, and performance of works by the greatest composers in the standard piano repertoire. The contributors--all recognized nationally and internationally for their contributions as performing artists, teachers, recording artists, and clinicians--write thoughtfully about the composers whose work they have studied and played for years, examinin...