Category Archives: Education

Hit Movie Songs for Beginning Piano Solo

By | August 31, 2021

Hit Movie Songs for Beginning Piano Solo Ten popular hits from equally popular movies arranged for beginning piano solo: Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Downton Abbey (Theme) * The Hidden World * A Million Dreams * The Place Where Lost Things Go * Shallow * Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)… Read More »

Depeche Mode FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the World’s Finest Synth-Pop Band PDF

By | August 31, 2021

Depeche Mode FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the World’s Finest Synth-Pop Band PDF The preeminent synth-pop outfit for four decades, Depeche Mode have endured an ever-shifting musical landscape, rising above fads and battles with personal demons, somehow managing to retain a hold on the charts and the audience, the latter which continues to grow as new… Read More »

Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer: Nathan Burkan and the Making of American Popular Culture

By | August 31, 2021

Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer: Nathan Burkan & the Making of American Popular Culture Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popular culture. With a client list that included Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson,… Read More »

Ukulele Sheet Music 2010-2019: 60 Hits to Strum & Sing

By | August 31, 2021

Ukulele Sheet Music 2010-2019: 60 Hits to Strum & Sing This 272-page collection lets you strum and sing along to 60 of the decade’s top hits. Arrangements include melody, lyrics and chord diagrams for standard G-C-E-A ukulele tuning. Includes: All of Me (John Legend) Believer (Imagine Dragons) Despacito (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee) Get Lucky (Daft Punk) Happy… Read More »

Son of a Milkman: My Crazy Life with Tesla

By | August 31, 2021

Son of a Milkman: My Crazy Life with Tesla Brian Wheat is far from your typical rock star. As bassist for the multi-platinum band, Tesla, he’s enjoyed the spoils of success and lived the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle to the hilt. But it came at a cost, one that took years to repair. In this… Read More »

Violin for Beginners: Contemporary Tips & Tricks for Playing Beautiful Music Using an Orchestra Violin

By | August 31, 2021

Violin for Beginners: Contemporary Tips & Tricks for Playing Beautiful Music Using an Orchestra Violin Have you always loved the violin, but only from afar? Have you ever wondered how on Earth such beautiful, out-of-this-world sounds could come from an instrument? Do you wonder what those weird lines and dots that the pros look at as they play… Read More »

Guitar Fretboard: 3 in 1- Beginner’s Guide+ Tips and Tricks+ Simple & Effective Strategies for Optimizing the Fretboard PDF

By | August 31, 2021

Guitar Fretboard: 3 in 1- Beginner’s Guide+ Tips and Tricks+ Simple & Effective Strategies for Optimizing the Fretboard PDF If you are reading, then chances are you love the guitar, and you want to do something about that passion. Why wouldn’t you? It is one of the most beautiful sounding instruments out there, and most of your favorite… Read More »

English & German Diction for Singers: A Comparative Approach PDF

By | August 31, 2021

English & German Diction for Singers: A Comparative Approach PDF Lyric diction is a portal to powerful and meaningful vocal performance because diction enables singers to communicate the vision of both the poet and the composer. The study of diction involves learning to perceive speech patterns in different languages, practicing their precise articulation, recognizing this in speech and… Read More »

Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord PDF

By | August 31, 2021

Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord PDF Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord explores the dynamics between musicians and teachers within educational settings, illustrating how new musical worlds are discovered and accessed through music-in-education initiatives. An international array of scholars from ten countries present leading debates and issues—both theoretical and empirical—in order to identify and expand upon key questions: How… Read More »

Beginner Guitar Chords In Theory & Practice: Master Essential Beginner Guitar Chords, Progressions & Scales

By | August 29, 2021

Beginner Guitar Chords In Theory & Practice: Master Essential Beginner Guitar Chords, Progressions & Scales Want To Learn Beginner Guitar Chords But The Right Way, From The Start? In the 25 + years that I’ve been playing the guitar, I’ve learnt a lot about what works and why it works for beginner guitar players. I’ve given a lot… Read More »

The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music

By | August 27, 2021

The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades following the Second World War, before becoming the object of widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both… Read More »

Schoenberg’s Atonal Music: Musical Idea, Basic Image & Specters of Tonal Function

By | August 27, 2021

Schoenberg’s Atonal Music: Musical Idea, Basic Image & Specters of Tonal Function Award-winning author Jack Boss returns with the ‘prequel’ to Schoenberg’s Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014) demonstrating that the term ‘atonal’ is meaningful in describing Schoenberg’s music from 1908 to 1921. This book shows how Schoenberg’s atonal music can be understood in terms of successions of pitch and… Read More »

John Williams Score Collection PDF

By | August 27, 2021

John Williams Score Collection PDF This is a huge PDF collection of John Williams scores acquired over the years. It contains most of the publicly available Suites, as well as complete scores for many well known pictures, some piano transcriptions and also handwritten sketches. Because of the different nature of those scores, legibility is not always of the… Read More »