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Perfect Tunes

Author : Emily Gould
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501197517
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Tunes written by Emily Gould and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intoxicating blend of music, love, and family from one of the essential writers of the internet generation” (Stephanie Danler). Have you ever wondered what your mother was like before she became your mother, and what she gave up in order to have you? It’s the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York City’s East Village in the hopes of recording her first album. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she’s just beginning to book gigs with her beautiful best friend when she falls hard for a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on the rise. Their time together is stormy and short-lived—but will reverberate for the rest of Laura’s life. Fifteen years later, Laura’s teenage daughter, Marie, is asking questions about her father, questions that Laura does not want to answer. Laura has built a stable life in Brooklyn that bears little resemblance to the one she envisioned when she left Ohio all those years ago, and she’s taken pains to close the door on what was and what might have been. But neither her best friend, now a famous musician who relies on Laura’s songwriting skills, nor her depressed and searching daughter will let her give up on her dreams. “A zippy and profound story of love, loss, heredity, and parenthood (Emma Straub), Perfect Tunes explores the fault lines in our most important relationships, and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed. It is a delightful and poignant tale of music and motherhood, ambition and compromise—of life, in all its dissonance and harmony.

Perfect Pitch

Author : Tim Bouverie
Publisher : Short Books
ISBN 13 : 1780725299
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Pitch written by Tim Bouverie and published by Short Books. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sharply insightful and vividly imaginative... the perfect Christmas gift for anyone asking: 'How do I get into classical music?'' - Rupert Christiansen, Mail on Sunday 'A treat from the very first page... written with style and humour, this is a perfect introduction to classical music for a beginner, a companion for the music lover, and sheer entertainment for both.' - Joanna Lumley Nearly all of us have the capacity to enjoy classical music but too often we are put off by not knowing where to look, or what we are actually looking for. We feel the need of a guide to help navigate such vast and varied artistic terrain. With this delightful book, historian Tim Bouverie provides just this. Drawing on his lifelong passion for music, he has created a compilation of 100 classical masterpieces sure to move and be enjoyed by almost anyone. Some are well-known, some more idiosyncratic, others hidden gems waiting to be brought into the light. All are intended to comfort and inspire. He provides a short introduction to each piece - variously anecdotal, personal, historical and quirky - and a recommended recording to try. Highly accessible and entertaining, Perfect Pitch is filled with engrossing stories and insights that bring to life 300 years of the world's greatest music. An accompanying playlist is available on Spotify.

Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment

Author : Michael Titlebaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367854751
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment written by Michael Titlebaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment teaches fundamental concepts of jazz improvisation, highlighting the development of performance skills through embellishment techniques. Written with the college-level course in mind, this introductory textbook is both practical and comprehensive, ideal for the aspiring improviser, focused not on scales and chords but melodic embellishment. It assumes some basic theoretical knowledge and level of musicianship while introducing multiple techniques, mindful that improvisation is a learned skill as dependent on hard work and organized practice as it is on innate talent. This jargon-free textbook can be used in both self-guided study and as a course book, fortified by an array of interactive exercises and activities: musical examples performance exercises written assignments practice grids resources for advanced study and more! Nearly all musical exercises--presented throughout the text in concert pitch and transposed in the appendices for E-flat, B-flat, and bass clef instruments--are accompanied by backing audio tracks, available for download via the Routledge catalog page along with supplemental instructor resources such as a sample syllabus, PDFs of common transpositions, and tutorials for gear set-ups. With music-making at its core, Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment implores readers to grab their instruments and play, providing musicians with the simple melodic tools they need to "jazz it up."

Great Mandolin Picking Tunes

Author : Joe Carr
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 161065188X
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Great Mandolin Picking Tunes written by Joe Carr and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of 30 great tunes from a variety of fiddle traditions. Each tune has been specially arranged for mandolin and is presented in both standard notation and tablature. the accompanying CD features all 30 tunes. the tunes include a variety of styles including bluegrass, Texas style, Old Time, Irish reels, some underplayed gems and even a Joe Carr original! This tune book is perfect for building your repertoire.

The Perfect Sound

Author : Garrett Hongo
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375425063
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Sound written by Garrett Hongo and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth” (Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan). Garrett Hongo’s passion for audio dates back to the Empire 398 turntable his father paired with a Dynakit tube amplifier in their modest tract home in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. But his adult quest begins in the CD-changer era, as he seeks out speakers and amps both powerful and refined enough to honor the top notes of the greatest opera sopranos. In recounting this search, he describes a journey of identity where meaning, fulfillment, and even liberation were often most available to him through music and its astonishingly varied delivery systems. Hongo writes about the sound of surf being his first music as a kid in Hawai‘i, about doo-wop and soul reaching out to him while growing up among Black and Asian classmates in L.A., about Rilke and Joni Mitchell as the twin poets of his adolescence, and about feeling the pulse of John Coltrane’s jazz and the rhythmic chords of Billy Joel’s piano from his car radio while driving the freeways as a young man trying to become a poet. Journeying further, he visits devoted collectors of decades-old audio gear as well as designers of the latest tube equipment, listens to sublime arias performed at La Scala, hears a ghostly lute at the grave of English Romantic poet John Keats in Rome, drinks in wisdom from blues musicians and a diversity of poetic elders while turning his ear toward the memory-rich strains of the music that has shaped him: Hawaiian steel guitar and canefield songs; Bach and the Band; Mingus, Puccini, and Duke Ellington. And in the decades-long process of perfecting his stereo setup, Hongo also discovers his own now-celebrated poetic voice.

Perfect Sound Whatever

Author : James Acaster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472260314
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Sound Whatever written by James Acaster and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fiddle Tunes

Author : Antoine Silverman
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780757904806
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Fiddle Tunes written by Antoine Silverman and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect introduction to bluegrass and traditional fiddle tunes. Sections include: Fiddle Tunes, Hornpipes, Waltzes, Jigs, Strathspeys, Reels, and Improvisation. The 43 traditional fiddle standards covered in the book comprise the core fiddle tune repertoire. All songs are demonstrated on the included CD! Each song is taught in a basic standard" arrangement and then in an advanced variation."

Bluegrass Picker's Tune Book

Author : Richard Matteson Jr.
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1609745523
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Bluegrass Picker's Tune Book written by Richard Matteson Jr. and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bluegrass Picker's Tune Book is a must for all bluegrass pickers! Included are the melody line and chords to over two hundred favorite gospel and bluegrass songs. Detailed information about the origin and performers is given for each song as well as the history and development of the bluegrass genre. the lyrics are large and easy to read during a performance.

Melody - How to Write Great Tunes

Author : Rikky Rooksby
Publisher : Backbeat Books
ISBN 13 : 1476852782
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Melody - How to Write Great Tunes written by Rikky Rooksby and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Melody is the true heart of music, often inspired by nothing more than the songwriter's muse. Yet melody can be learned. This book teaches the art of melody and how to write effective tunes. Starting from basics, it covers the essentials rhythm, intervals, scales, and harmony and builds to offer a wealth of advanced techniques and tricks. Audio examples are provided for every musical example in the book, allowing musicians to increase their awareness of melody through both sight and sound.

Stray

Author : Stephanie Danler
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101911875
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Stray written by Stephanie Danler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. After selling her first novel--a dream she'd worked long and hard for--Stephanie Danler knew she should be happy. Instead, she found herself driven to face the difficult past she'd left behind a decade ago: a mother disabled by years of alcoholism, further handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm; a father who abandoned the family when she was three, now a meth addict in and out of recovery. After years in New York City she's pulled home to Southern California by forces she doesn't totally understand, haunted by questions of legacy and trauma. Here, she works toward answers, uncovering hard truths about her parents and herself as she explores whether it's possible to change the course of her history. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the landscapes of damage and survival.

Record Cultures

Author : Kyle Barnett
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472131036
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Record Cultures written by Kyle Barnett and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Record Cultures tells the story of how early U.S. commercial recording companies captured American musical culture in a key period in both music and media history. Amid dramatic technological and cultural changes of the 1920s and 1930s, small recording companies in the United States began to explore the genres that would later be known as jazz, blues, and country. Smaller record labels, many based in rural or out of the way Midwestern and Southern towns, were willing to take risks on the country’s regional vernacular music as a way to compete with more established recording labels. Recording companies’ relationship with radio grew closer as both industries were on the rise, propelled by new technologies. Radio, which had become immensely popular, began broadcasting more recorded music in place of live performances, and this created profitable symbiosis. With the advent of the talkies, the film industry completed the media trifecta. The novelty of recorded sound was replacing film accompanists, and the popularity of movie musicals solidified film’s connections with the radio and recording industries. By the early 1930s, the recording industry had gone from being part of the largely autonomous phonograph industry to being major media industry of its own, albeit deeply tied to—and, in some cases, owned by—the radio and film industries. The triangular relationships between these media industries marked the first major entertainment and media conglomerates in U.S. history. Through an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach to recording industry history, Record Cultures creates new connections between different strands of media research. It will be of interest to scholars of popular music, media studies, sound studies, American culture, and the history of film, television, and radio.

And the Heart Says Whatever

Author : Emily Gould
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143913734X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book And the Heart Says Whatever written by Emily Gould and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by former editor of Gawker.com—and the new female voice of her generation. In And the Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould tells the truth about becoming an adult in New York City in the first decade of the twenty-first century, alongside bartenders, bounty hunters, bloggers, bohemians, socialites, and bankers. These are essays about failing at pet parenthood, suspending lust during the long moment in which a dude selects the perfect soundtrack from his iTunes library, and leaving one life behind to begin a new one (but still taking the G train back to visit the old one sometimes). For everyone who has ever had a job she wishes she didn't, felt inchoate ambition sour into resentment, ended a relationship, regretted a decision, or told a secret to exactly the wrong person, these stories will be achingly familiar. At once a road map of what not to do and a document of what's possible, this book heralds the arrival of a writer who decodes the new challenges of our post-private lives, and the age-old intricacies of the human heart.

Perfect Pigeons

Author : Katherine Battersby
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN 13 : 153445781X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Pigeons written by Katherine Battersby and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One plucky pigeon dares to fly against the flock in this brightly illustrated, laugh-out-loud picture book about embracing the things that make us different. A colorful flock of pigeons pride themselves on their perfect unity. All except one: a bespectacled pigeon who is happiest doing its own thing. While the flock all looks the same, this pigeon enjoys wearing cowboy boots. While the flock flies in perfect formation, this pigeon soars like a superhero. When the flock finally confronts their contrary friend, they learn a thing or two about true perfection—and that we don’t all have to be the same to belong together.

Perfect Pitch

Author : David L. Burge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Pitch written by David L. Burge and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only ear-training technique handbook for developing absolute pitch.

Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo

Author : John Lithgow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442467444
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo written by John Lithgow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and lyrical picture book jaunt from actor and author John Lithgow! Oh, children! Remember! Whatever you may do, Never play music right next to the zoo. They’ll burst from their cages, each beast and each bird, Desperate to play all the music they’ve heard. A concert gets out of hand when the animals at the neighboring zoo storm the stage and play the instruments themselves in this hilarious picture book based on one of John Lithgow’s best-loved tunes.

The Improv Comedy Musician

Author : Laura Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692753408
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book The Improv Comedy Musician written by Laura Hall and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn musical improv from Laura Hall of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" Are you a musician who performs with an improv comedy group? If so, this book is for you! You'll also greatly benefit if you are a music director, improv team leader, improv teacher or coach, improv actor or singer, or just a hardcore Whose Line fan. From the Foreword by Colin Mochrie: "On Whose Line, Laura supplies note-perfect music styles for Wayne Brady, Brad Sherwood, Chip Esten, Jeff Davis, et al, to shine on. But Laura's true genius is that she can make caterwaulers like me sound good and, more important, makes caterwaulers like me feel safe enough to try. "Laura Hall is a damn fine musician, period. There is no musical style she isn't well versed in. With Laura you get experience, knowledge, and a teacher you can trust. What more could you ask for? So get reading, start playing, and have more fun than you're ready for." "I'm a Laura Hall-ic!" -Chip Esten, Nashville, Whose Line Is It Anyway? "I know and highly respect both Laura and Bob. I can't think of a better pair to teach you the fundamentals of musical improv." -Bill Chott, actor and founder of the Improv Trick Laura Hall is an accomplished musician best known as the pianist on Whose Line Is It Anyway? She also stays busy recording film scores, writing musicals, leading improv workshops with her husband Rick, and performing with her Americana music trio, The Sweet Potatoes. Bob Baker is a prolific author, musician, artist and actor, as well as an improv teacher and performer. Through his books and workshops Bob teaches creative people of all kinds how to get exposure, connect with fans, and increase their incomes.

Irish Music on the Silver Flute

Author : Philippe Barnes
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Irish Music on the Silver Flute written by Philippe Barnes and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for someone who can already play the silver flute to some extent. I hope to show you some of the techniques to engage with the sounds of traditional wooden flute, as well as teach you a few tunes along the way. There are lots of my own tunes included which are particularly suited to the silver flute and a few traditional tunes to help illustrate the techniques."a wealth of information for silver flute players who wish their instrument to sound more like a traditional wooden flute...deeply thought through and gives really useful practical advice. ...It really is an impressive book...both entertaining and really useful." - Living Tradition Magazine"hugely important book...Philippe is a master of those techniques...Irish Music Magazine's John Brophy's comment is quoted in the book; "I've heard nobody else who can make the Boehm flute sound like the true traditional thing, who can mould tone to the tune so nicely, the sheer musicality is exceptionally impressive."...This is an invaluable resource for Silver flute players and is a great teaching aid; it should be in every secondary school music room in the country." - Seán Laffey, IRISH MUSIC MAGAZINE"This book serves as an ideal introduction for any Boehm flute players who are interested in exploring the traditional language of Irish Music. One of the most important elements in idiomatic Irish flute playing is the execution of a wide range of ornaments, and they are clearly explaned her and backed up with examples from the repertoire. Barnes stresses the difference between classical ornamentation (which is essentially melodic) and Irish ornamentatin where the focus is on rhythm. He disusses differences in hand position and an appropriate approach to vibrato, and covers techniques such as feathering, cuts, rolls, cranns, bounces and slides. Each technique is clearly explaned in straigntforward language, and there is plenty of repertoire included to help skills develop in each area. Recommended." Carla Rees, British Flute Society Magazine