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Folk Song Style and Culture
ISBN: 9780878556403 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range of human culture, according to the methods explained in this volume. Cantometrics, which means song as a measure of man, finds that traditions of singing trace the main historic distributions of human culture and that specific traits of performance are communications about identifiable aspects of society. The predictable and universal... Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of perf... |
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226,42 zł |
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How to Play the Harmonica (Diatonic or Chromatic): Combines Step-By-Step Instruction with Practice Songs and Reference Information on Blues & Rock Har
ISBN: 9780882841571 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical book explains all the basics of good harmonica playing for both chromatic and diatonic harmonicas. Step-by-step instruction is combined with practice songs and reference information on blues and rock harmonica to give you a well-balanced knowledge of the harmonica. In addition to learning to hold the harmonica and how to read music, information is included on the 12-bar blues, "straight harp," and "cross harp."
This practical book explains all the basics of good harmonica playing for both chromatic and diatonic harmonicas. Step-by-step instruction is combined...
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25,60 zł |
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Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments
ISBN: 9780911572087 / Angielski / Twarda / 1010 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is truly the bible on automatic music machines.
This book is truly the bible on automatic music machines.
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534,19 zł |
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Musical Instruments of the Southern Appalachian Mountains
ISBN: 9780916838805 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings to life the distinctive bluegrass music made for hundreds of years with dulcimers, violins, jew harps, mouth bows, and such from the Appalachian mountain areas.
Brings to life the distinctive bluegrass music made for hundreds of years with dulcimers, violins, jew harps, mouth bows, and such from the Appalachia...
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75,80 zł |
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How to Make a Noise
ISBN: 9780955495502 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How To Make A Noise-perhaps the most widely read book about synthesizer programming-is a comprehensive, practical guide to sound design and synthesizer programming techniques using subtractive (analog) synthesis, frequency modulation synthesis, additive synthesis, wave-sequencing, and sample-based synthesis. The book looks at programming using examples from six software synthesizers.
How To Make A Noise-perhaps the most widely read book about synthesizer programming-is a comprehensive, practical guide to sound design and synthesize...
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113,39 zł |
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Ear Training Vol. I: Scale Forms through Six Basic Tetrachords [With 2 CD's]
ISBN: 9780962094125 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This three volume 11-CD Ear Training Course, of which Volume I is the introductory volume, is meant for the serious-minded musician. Its primary mission is to help students hear, identify, play and sing scales, modes, intervals, and chords. In addition, it provides the foundation for excellence in music performance, insights into improvisation, and a better understanding of melodic and harmonic invention.
Volume I and its 2-CD set explains how six simple four-note forms (tetrachords) are combined and assembled into modern scales and performing modes through the study of ear training. Upon... This three volume 11-CD Ear Training Course, of which Volume I is the introductory volume, is meant for the serious-minded musician. Its primary missi...
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125,41 zł |
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Musical Memories
ISBN: 9781406739107 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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114,83 zł |
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Ornamentation In J.S. Bach's Organ Works
ISBN: 9781406742626 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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162,69 zł |
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Choirs and Choral Music
ISBN: 9781410213655 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This authoritative history of choral music begins with the ancient Hebrews and Greeks. Special attention is given to the contributions of development of the amateur choral group in Bach, Handel and Mendelssohn, and to England, Germany and the United States. The book covers the beginnings and development of chorus singing, and the development and history of choral forms. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and the Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College. "[This is] a book for the amateur which will tell him something about the beginnings and the course...
This authoritative history of choral music begins with the ancient Hebrews and Greeks. Special attention is given to the contributions of development ...
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90,89 zł |
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Ukulele: Pila Li'i Li'i
ISBN: 9781425910723 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,71 zł |
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Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity
ISBN: 9781566394840 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Merengue is a quintessential Dominican dance music. This work aims to unravel the African and Iberian roots of merengue. It examines the historical and contemporary contexts in which merengue is performed and danced, its symbolic significance, its social functions, and its musical and choreographic structures.
Merengue is a quintessential Dominican dance music. This work aims to unravel the African and Iberian roots of merengue. It examines the historical an...
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164,70 zł |
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The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It: An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution [With CD]
ISBN: 9781580460880 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of a particular Javanese group of -matching- musical instruments called the gamelan Digul, and their creator, the Indonesian musician and political activist Pontjopangrawit (1893-ca. 1965). He was a superb Javanese court musician, who had entertained at the of king Paku Buwana X as a child. In this magnificent artistic environment he learned how to build gamelans, and also became a sought-after teacher. Involved in radical political activities, Pontjopangrawit was arrested in 1926 for his participation in the movement to free Indonesia from Dutch rule, and spent the next six...
This is the story of a particular Javanese group of -matching- musical instruments called the gamelan Digul, and their creator, the Indonesian musicia...
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539,95 zł |
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The Pipe Organ and Player Piano - Construction, Repair, and Tuning
ISBN: 9781929148165 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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359,00 zł |
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An enactive approach to digital musical instrument design-Theory, Models, Techniques
ISBN: 9783836419260 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital musical instruments bring about new problems and prospects for musical performance. In An enactive approach to digital musical instrument design, Newton Armstrong argues that these problems and prospects are theoretical and philosophical as much as they are technical. Drawing on the enactive cognitive science of Francisco Varela and others, as well as the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Armstrong outlines a model of interaction based around circular chains of embodied interdependency between performer and instrument, and examines the ways in which...
Digital musical instruments bring about new problems and prospects for musical performance. In An enactive approach to digital musical instrument desi...
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304,98 zł |
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Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance
ISBN: 9780807133330 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues to grow. Brass bands waned during the civil rights era but revived around 1970 and then flourished in the 1980s when the music became cool with the younger generation. In the only book to cover this revival, Burns interviews members from a variety of bands, including the Fairview Baptist Church... Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands ... |
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85,26 zł |
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Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China: Ethos, Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9789004165007 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to a reader's report, this is "one of the finest studies on (any kind of) Chinese music to emerge in recent years." Based on extensive fieldwork and a thorough knowledge of the scholarly literature, the author examines the theoretical underpinnings of the 'silk and bamboo' instrumental ensemble traditions of the Chaozhou, Hakka and Cantonese peoples of South China. Stepping back far into history, the book opens with a penetrating examination of Confucian theory, the ancient corpus of behavioral doctrine which promoted music as a means of achieving social harmony and which, together...
According to a reader's report, this is "one of the finest studies on (any kind of) Chinese music to emerge in recent years." Based on extensive field...
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557,96 zł |
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Foundations of Mariachi Education: Materials, Methods, and Resources
ISBN: 9781578867646 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foundations of Mariachi Education: Materials, Methods, and Resources, the first book of its kind, is a comprehensive handbook on teaching mariachi in secondary school to music students of all levels. Beginning with how to start a mariachi program, each chapter addresses a specific topic in mariachi education, including choosing appropriate repertoire, preparing for performances, and teaching each mariachi instrument-including voice. Each instrument chapter includes practical advice on care of the instrument, tuning, posture, fingerings, technique, and the role of the instrument within the...
Foundations of Mariachi Education: Materials, Methods, and Resources, the first book of its kind, is a comprehensive handbook on teaching mariachi in ...
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222,14 zł |
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The Gig Bag Book Of Scales For All Keyboards
ISBN: 9780825616617 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Music Sales America). Over 220 scales, in all 12 keys, for all keyboardists presented in standard notation and easy to-read diagrams.
(Music Sales America). Over 220 scales, in all 12 keys, for all keyboardists presented in standard notation and easy to-read diagrams.
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64,06 zł |
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After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock
ISBN: 9780879100636 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Limelight). An irreverent and engaging chronicle of popular music dating from the 1880s, when Tin Pan Alley was founded, to the present by a British-born songwriter and onetime pop star. "Brash, learned, funny, and perspicacious." The New Yorker
(Limelight). An irreverent and engaging chronicle of popular music dating from the 1880s, when Tin Pan Alley was founded, to the present by a British-...
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76,71 zł |
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Sound Bites: Book & CD
ISBN: 9780571525553 / Angielski / Miękka / 999 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sound Bites is a collection of imaginative, practical ideas for time efficient music making. Lin Marsh and Richard Frostick have gathered over 150 ideas for composing, performing and appraising all of which are complemented by lyrical, catchy songs written by Lin Marsh. Sound Bites is the perfect resource for busy elementary school teachers and is useful for both music specialists and non-specialists alike. Contents: What Shall We Bring to the Harvest Festival?; Tips on Singing; Taking the Register; Visiting Museums and Galleries; Teeth; Sirens and Bells; Builders in School; Telling a Story;...
Sound Bites is a collection of imaginative, practical ideas for time efficient music making. Lin Marsh and Richard Frostick have gathered over 150 ide...
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59,55 zł |