Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films by Christine Lee Gengaro PDF The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick’s films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an important part in his productions, however, the ways in which Kubrick used music to great effect is still somewhat mysterious to many viewers. Although some… Read More »
Music as Image: Analytical Psychology & Music in Film by Benjamin Nagari PDF Through a theoretical and practical exploration of Jungian and post-Jungian concepts surrounding image, this book moves beyond the visual scope of imagery to consider the presence and expression of music and sound, as well as how the psyche encounters expanded images – archetypal, personal or… Read More »
EZ-Sound Bass-Pro v1.00 WIN Bass-Pro is a simple monophonic bass synth VSTi for Windows, designed by a mastering engineer. It features optimal compression, EQ and stereo imaging plus slide / portamento and soft distortion to make your sound “groove”. Bass-Pro is a mix between synthetic and acoustic instrument and features optimal compression, eq and stereo imaging. Play it… Read More »
Music: A Social Experience by Steven Cornelius & Mary Natvig PDF By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Second Edition demonstrates how music reflects and deepens both individual and cultural understandings. Musical examples are presented within universally experienced social frameworks (ethnicity, gender, spirituality, love, and more) to help students understand… Read More »
Women & Music: A History by Karin Anna Pendle PDF This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good… Read More »
Music & the Mind by Anthony Storr PDF Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he… Read More »
The Healing Power of Sound: Recovery From Life Threatening Illness Using Sound, Voice & Music by Mitchell L. Gaynor Since 1991, Dr. Mitchell Gaynor has been achieving remarkable results by integrating music, vocalization, breathing, and meditation techniques in his work with patients. In The Healing Power of Sound, he presents his sound-based techniques for self-healing—techniques that anyone can… Read More »
Video Game Music by Daniel Ross PDF From electronic beeps to orchestral scores, video game music has truly arrived. Rapidly growing in popularity around the world, it looks set to play an important role in the future of classical music. This handy reference guide from Classic FM steers you through the evolution of video game music, from the… Read More »
Music: The Business, 8th Edition PDF This essential and highly acclaimed guide, now updated and revised in its eighth edition, explains the business of the British music industry. Drawing on her extensive experience as a media lawyer, Ann Harrison offers a unique, expert opinion on the deals, the contracts and the business as a whole. She examines in… Read More »
The Daily Adventures of Mixerman PDF Mixerman is a recording engineer working with a famous producer on the debut album of an unknown band with a giant recording budget. Mixerman is supposed to be writing about recording techniques, but somehow, through that prism, he has hit upon a gripping story. Like all great narratives, Mixerman’s diary has many… Read More »
Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature & Loneliness PDF Jazz can be uplifting, stimulating, sensual, and spiritual. Yet when writers turn to this form of music, they almost always imagine it in terms of loneliness. In Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness, Sam V. H. Reese investigates literary representations of jazz and the cultural narratives often associated with it, noting… Read More »
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, 2nd Edition The Jazz Standards is an essential comprehensive guide to some of the most important jazz compositions, telling the story of more than 250 key jazz songs and providing a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings. The fan who wants to know more about a tune heard at… Read More »
Myth & Magic in Heavy Metal Music PDF Myth pervades heavy metal. With visual elements drawn from medieval and horror cinema, the genre’s themes of chaos, dissidence and alienation transmit an image of Promethean rebellion against the conventional. In dialogue with the modern world, heavy metal draws imaginatively on myth and folklore to construct an aesthetic and worldview… Read More »
English Cathedral Music & Liturgy in the Twentieth Century PDF This book examines the stylistic development of English cathedral music during a period of liturgical upheaval, looking at the attitudes of cathedral clergy, liturgists, composers, leading church music figures and organisations to music and liturgy. Arguments that were advanced for retaining an archaic style in cathedral music are… Read More »
Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture & Learning by Gareth Dylan Smith, Mike Dines & Tom Parkinson PDF Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning brings together a collection of international authors to explore the possibilities, practices and implications that emerge from the union of punk and pedagogy. The punk ethos—a notoriously evasive and multifaceted beast—offers unique applications in music education… Read More »