ilość książek w kategorii: 43036
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The Violin Maker: A Search for the Secrets of Craftsmanship, Sound, and Stradivari
ISBN: 9780060012687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. How does a simple piece of wood become the king of instruments? The violin does something remarkable, magical, and evocative. It is capable of bringing to life the mathematical marvels of Bach, the moan of a Gypsy melody, the wounded dignity of Beethoven's Concerto in D Major. No other instrument is steeped in such a rich brew of myth and lore--and yet the making of a violin starts with a simple block of wood. The Violin Maker takes the reader on a journey as that block of wood, in the hands of a master craftsman, becomes an instrument to rival one made by the greatest... How does a simple piece of wood become the king of instruments? The violin does something remarkable, magical, and evocative. It is capable o... |
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71,36 zł |
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Dylan's Visions of Sin
ISBN: 9780060599249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On of the most distinguished literary critics of our time presents a scholarly, in-depth analysis of Bob Dylan's lyrics.
On of the most distinguished literary critics of our time presents a scholarly, in-depth analysis of Bob Dylan's lyrics.
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80,28 zł |
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50 Years Down a Country Road
ISBN: 9780060937034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the past half century, Ralph Emery's incredibly popular radio and television programs have allowed millions to tune into the newest hits and savor their old favorites. Now Ralph combines his unique perspective with an encyclopedic wealth of country lore as he examines the changing face of the music he loves. From Hank Williams, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, and Johnny Cash to Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, and the Dixie Chicks, he chronicles the lives and careers of the stars, many of them his close friends. He shows how country music has changed over the years, but also reveals how its... For the past half century, Ralph Emery's incredibly popular radio and television programs have allowed millions to tune into the newest hits and sa... |
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111,52 zł |
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The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling
ISBN: 9780061139024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' The Boy Who Cried Freebird is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant, insightful, and wonderfully strange, this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . . except when it isn't. Myers outrageously blends short fiction, straight journalism, comic interludes, memoirs, serious artist profiles, satire, and related fan-boy hokum--including the classic stories he first narrated on NPR's All Things Considered. Focusing on iconic... Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' The Boy Who Cried Freebird is a treatise ... |
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66,72 zł |
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Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga
ISBN: 9780061473081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The members of Led Zeppelin are major deities in the pantheon of rock gods. The first and heaviest of the heavy metal monsters, they violently shook the foundations of rock music and took no prisoners on the road. Their tours were legendary, their lives were exalted--and in an era well known for sex and drugs, the mighty Zeppelin set an unattainable standard of excess and mythos for any band that tried to follow them. They were power, they were fantasy, they were black magic. No band ever flew as high as Led Zeppelin or suffered so disastrous a fall. And only some of them lived to tell the... The members of Led Zeppelin are major deities in the pantheon of rock gods. The first and heaviest of the heavy metal monsters, they violently shoo... |
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80,28 zł |
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HarperCollins College Outline History of Western Music
ISBN: 9780064671071 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This valuable reference guide provides extensive information for students studying the history of music.
This valuable reference guide provides extensive information for students studying the history of music.
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71,36 zł |
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HarperCollins College Outline Music Theory
ISBN: 9780064671682 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Elementary Acoustics and the Properties of Sound, Music Notation, Intervals and Scales, Chords, Symbolization, Expression Marks and Foreign-Language Terms, Tonality and Key Feeling, Melody Writing, Four-Part Vocal Texture (SATB), Chord Connection, Chord Choice, Harmonizing a Melody, Nonharmonic Tones, Seventh and Ninth Chords, Altered Chords and Chromaticism, Solving Figured Bass, Analysis and Score Reading, Foreign-Language Names for Orchestral Instruments, Range and Transposition of Orchestral Instruments, Homophonic Forms. Also includes Illustrations, Diagrams, Review Questions,... Elementary Acoustics and the Properties of Sound, Music Notation, Intervals and Scales, Chords, Symbolization, Expression Marks and Foreign-Languag... |
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75,86 zł |
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How to Do Everything with MP3 and Digital Music
ISBN: 9780072194135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The authors show novice users as well as more tech-savvy music fans and musicians all they need to know about MP3 and digital music. They give thorough coverage of all the latest and best MP3 players, both desktop and portable. This book shows the basics of finding and downloading online music, choosing the best MP3 player and setting it up to work with your PC. It also shows musicians and music fanatics how to get their music uploaded and available for other listeners on the Internet.
The authors show novice users as well as more tech-savvy music fans and musicians all they need to know about MP3 and digital music. They give thoroug...
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133,88 zł |
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Build Your Own PC Recording Studio
ISBN: 9780072229042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Making a professional recording and burning it to CD is so easy anyone with a PC can do it at home in an afternoon. This guide takes readers through the easy steps that will enable them to produce master-quality recordings at home.
Making a professional recording and burning it to CD is so easy anyone with a PC can do it at home in an afternoon. This guide takes readers through t...
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165,11 zł |
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How to Do Everything with Musicmatch
ISBN: 9780072257083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here's everything you need to know to download, play, and manage music with Musicmatch. Learn how to purchase legal downloads online, rip and burn CDs, manage music collections, and work with different kinds of audio files. Convert old albums and cassettes to digital format, listen to Internet radio, create custom playlists, and much more. Plus, get the technical low-down on compression, bit rates, portable players, and MP3 vs. WMA. As music enhances your world, this informative book will enhance your Musicmatch experience.Convert your albums, cassettes, and CDs into a digital music library...
Here's everything you need to know to download, play, and manage music with Musicmatch. Learn how to purchase legal downloads online, rip and burn CDs...
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133,88 zł |
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The Science of Musical Sounds
ISBN: 9780126769487 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book is concerned with the scientific aspects of musical sounds. It presents basic acoustics, auditory theory, and sound generation from both a theoretical and a practical view. Room acoustics, sound analysis, recording and reproduction, and sound synthesis as well as cognition are examined from the perspective of music.
This book is concerned with the scientific aspects of musical sounds. It presents basic acoustics, auditory theory, and sound generation from both a t...
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818,48 zł |
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Teaching Woodwinds
ISBN: 9780131577121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For one semester/quarter courses in woodwind methods. Teaching Woodwinds has draws on the authors thirty-five years of experience teaching woodwinds to students. Organized by specific teach topics from the fundamentals of hand and finger position to articulation and intonation. Drawing on a classic set of teacher/student duets, the included twenty-five class lessons enable students to learn by doing and by listening as they play duets with the instructor.
For one semester/quarter courses in woodwind methods. Teaching Woodwinds has draws on the authors thirty-five years of experience teaching woodwinds t...
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444,23 zł |
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Temptation: From the musical play, Butterflies
ISBN: 9781517292096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Search for "dawn labuy" to find all Dawn LaBuy-Brockett's offerings on Amazon. Temptation is a most alluring Blues tune. Butterflies is a Romeo and Juliet saga, but with a bit of peculiar behavior. This is because it's a story which takes place in the environment of a traveling clown company. It all takes another curve because the clowns' behaviors are based on the behaviors of butterflies and moths. You won't believe how this all comes together to be so very real and entertaining. Your audience will laugh, cry, and get so totally involved that they will be there, in this very special space,...
Search for "dawn labuy" to find all Dawn LaBuy-Brockett's offerings on Amazon. Temptation is a most alluring Blues tune. Butterflies is a Romeo and Ju...
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32,75 zł |
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A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
ISBN: 9780142003527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn tells the story of the genesis, creation, and aftermath of this classic recording. Featuring interviews with more than one hundred musicians, producers, friends, and family...
Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a reco...
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71,40 zł |
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
ISBN: 9780143036722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdotes and populated by charismatic...
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music ...
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75,86 zł |
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Handel's Messiah: A Celebration
ISBN: 9780156001380 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An authority on eighteenth-century music explores the background and composition of Messiah and gives the complex subsequent history of the work. Paintings, engravings, caricatures, and facsimiles of Handel's autograph score illustrate the text. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
An authority on eighteenth-century music explores the background and composition of Messiah and gives the complex subsequent history of the work. Pain...
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89,21 zł |
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Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale
ISBN: 9780156032964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It was 1994: post Liz Phair, mid Courtney Love, just shy of Alanis Morissette. After seven years of slogging it out in the Boston music scene, Jen Trynin took a hard look at herself and gave making it one last shot.
It worked. Suddenly Trynin became the spark that set off one of the most heated bidding wars of the year. Major labels vied for her, to the tune of millions of dollars in deals. Lawyers, managers, and booking agents clamored for her attention. Billboard put her on the cover. Everyone knew she was the Next Big Thing. But then she wasn t. In a series of dizzying,... It was 1994: post Liz Phair, mid Courtney Love, just shy of Alanis Morissette. After seven years of slogging it out in the Boston music scene, Jen Try...
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98,13 zł |
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The American Songbag
ISBN: 9780156056502 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sandburg was not only a poet but also a noted collector and performer of american folk music. This anthology contains words and music to 290 songs that people have sung in the making of americanca. New Introduction by Garrison Keillor; Prefatory Notes by the Author; Index.
Sandburg was not only a poet but also a noted collector and performer of american folk music. This anthology contains words and music to 290 songs tha...
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142,80 zł |
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Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship
ISBN: 9780193112100 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these essays, the leading French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez explains many of his most significant ideas about music. The essays are divided into four parts, the first three concerned with common preoccupations (aesthetic, technical, and polemical) and the last a collection of entries intended for a music encyclopedia. Boulez offers penetrating and provocative analyses of the music of the major figures of twentieth-century music including Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Debussy, Messiaen, and Ravel. His illuminating comments arise from intimate knowledge of the music, and...
In these essays, the leading French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez explains many of his most significant ideas about music. The essays are divid...
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1246,38 zł |
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The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments
ISBN: 9780193113343 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Musical instruments, from the simplest pipes and drums to those of the utmost complexity, have formed an integral part of the cultures of all peoples of the world from the beginning of time. Their range and diversity have inspired the skill and genius of maker, composer, and player. This book is a celebration of that achievement, examining in one alphabetical sequence the astonishing variety of Western and non-Western acoustic musical instruments. Individual entries encapsulate the essential information about the instrument considered. Each entry offers a concise description and, with the aid...
Musical instruments, from the simplest pipes and drums to those of the utmost complexity, have formed an integral part of the cultures of all peoples ...
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662,29 zł |