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Hachette Books
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2022.
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"An effective and inspiring guide to songwriting by prolific singer-songwriter Dar Williams. How to Write a Song That Matters is an invaluable guide to writing music by a woman who knows how to do it and do it well: iconic singer-songwriter, Dar Williams. For years now, Williams has led songwriting retreats for musicians, from beginners to professionals, in which she elevates the process of songwriting over the assessment of the product. This book...
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Straight-from-the-record transcriptions with tab for 11 of the best from these album rockers: The Best of Times * Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) * Come Sail Away * Crystal Ball * The Grand Illusion * Lorelei * Mademoiselle * Miss America * Renegade * Rockin' the Paradise * Suite Madame Blue.
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Easy guitar arrangements for all 16 tracks on Taylor's blockbuster album: All Too Well * Begin Again * Everything Has Changed * Holy Ground * I Almost Do * I Knew You Were Trouble * The Last Time * The Lucky One * Red * Sad Beautiful Tragic * Starlight * State of Grace * Stay Stay Stay * Treacherous * 22 * We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. Includes standard notation and tablature.
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The Christmas collection that all jazz cats will want in their stocking! This unique fake book features 150 custom arrangements of carols and contemporary holiday songs featuring sophisticated jazz chord changes in the popular, user-friendly Real Book format. Players will enjoy putting the cool back into these Christmas classics: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Auld Lang Syne * Baby, It's Cold Outside * Blue Christmas * The Chipmunk Song * Christmas...
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Sonic Youth's distinctive, uncompromising sounds have provided a map for innumerable musicians who followed, from '90s groundbreakers like Nirvana and Pavement to current faves like the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. More than perhaps any other act, Sonic Youth has brought fringe" art to the mainstream, helping spawn an alternative arts scene that prospers to this day: a world of punk rock, underground films and comics, experimental music, conceptual...
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"Essays Before a Sonata" by Charles Ives. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
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When jazz evolved in the United States there were many genres such as Bebop and Hard Bop. Cozy Eggleston was born in the small town of Cairo, Illinois. He was a self-taught saxophonist who had high aspirations to become a successful jazz musician. Cozy came along in the era when saxophonist Lester "The Prez" Young was "Boss on the scene." "Prez" became Cozy's idol the day they met.
Cozy wrote a song called "Big Heavy." During that time jazz...
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This is a short musical composition written by Harry Burleigh and F. L. Stanton. He was an African-American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer known for his baritone voice. He was instrumental in developing characteristically American music and made black music available to classically trained artists both by introducing them to spirituals and by arranging spirituals in a more classical form, and has often collaborated with the...
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Over three decades and more than 150 million albums, AC/DC has established itself as much more than just a great rock band. For millions of fans spanning several generations across the world, they are an ear-bleedingly loud, sweat-soaked religion, courtesy of such classic albums as Highway to Hell and Back in Black. Now, in a book of astonishing breadth and scope, comes, for the very first time, the complete story of AC/DC. Everything you ever wanted...
13) Playlist
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Quand il commence à écrire pour le journal Le Soir, Thierry Coljon tape ses textes sur une machine à écrire, n'a pas de GSM et écoute ses disques vinyles sur une chaîne Hifi. Trente ans plus tard, le PC, le CD, l'iPod, le smartphone et les fichiers MP3 sont passés par là, transformant considérablement notre vie et notre façon de consommer la musique. De 1982 à aujourd'hui, ce sont trente ans o tout a changé. Le CD, qui a régné en maître,...
14) Keiko Abe y la marimba: Historia, análisis e interpretación musical del Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
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La interpretación de la obra para marimba Dream of the Cherry Blossoms, de la artista japonesa Keiko Abe, origina numerosas preguntas como consecuencia de su distancia cultural y la complejidad de su composición. El presente libro es el resultado de una búsqueda que coloca a la interpretación (y al intérprete) en el centro de sus reflexiones.
El camino de Abe para convertir a la marimba en un instrumento sinfónico, su riqueza compositiva y las...
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Alois Schöpf, Schriftsteller, Journalist sowie Gründer und Leiter der Innsbrucker Promenadenkonzerte, blickt auf eine zwanzigjährige Praxis als Dirigent verschiedener Blasorchester und Musikkapellen zurück. 'Das erfolgreiche Konzert' verarbeitet die konkreten Erfahrungen des ausübenden Musikers ebenso wie die Anforderungen, die ein langjähriger Veranstalter an ein Orchester, an ein Konzert und an die Organisation eines erfolgreichen Konzerts...
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Der fünfte Band der Reihe clarino.extra ist die zweite 'Komponistenwerkstatt'. Der Untertitel verdeutlicht, dass der Leser zahlreiche 'Werke internationaler Blasorchesterkomponisten' kennenlernt. Dieser Band ermöglicht dem Leser einen tiefen Einblick in die Welt der Musik. Und zwar zum großen Teil aus der Sicht der ultimativen Quelle ihrer Kreativität ? der des Komponisten. Und auch die anderen Autoren haben sich tiefgehend mit den Werken beschäftigt...
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Robert Soubeyran war Professor für Musikwissenschaft am regionalen Nationalkonservatorium für Musik in Montpellier, Organist, Pädagoge und Komponist. Ihm ist die Unterstützung durch große Lehrer wie Olivier Messiaen zugutegekommen.
Allerdings war es die Begegnung mit Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, durch die er die Fragen beantwortet bekam, die sich seiner Musiker-Seele stellten, so dass er den lichtvollen Pfad fand, nach dem er sich sehnte.
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Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two. By combining the influences...
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Get the Summary of Peter Guralnick's Last train to Memphis in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Last Train to Memphis" chronicles the early life and rise to fame of Elvis Presley, from his humble beginnings in Tupelo, Mississippi, to his induction into the U.S. Army. Born to Vernon and Gladys Presley in 1935, Elvis grew up in a loving yet financially unstable household. His musical journey began in church and continued...
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