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English
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The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener
Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are "gifted listeners." But today's listeners must choose between classical and rock, opera and rap, and the choices can seem overwhelming at times. In The Essential Canon of Classical Music, David Dubal comes to the aid of the struggling listener and provides a cultural-literacy handbook...
Author
Publisher
IDG Books Worldwide
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the blues, identifying the key elements of the blues sound, profiling artists from 1900 through the 1990s, offering suggestions for building a collection, providing advice about playing the blues at both the amateur and professional level, and including a sampler CD.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it-including rock, country, punk, R&B, dance and hip-hop-woven together into a cosmic reckoning with music's evolution as a popular art form, as a huge cultural and economic force, and as an essential component to our identities, from Black Sabbath to Black Flag to Beyoncé, and beyond"--
11) Chuck's band
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chuck and his barnyard friends form a band, but they have trouble finding an instrument for Fat Cat Pat to play, since all the cat wants to do is sleep all day.
12) Jazz for dummies
Author
Publisher
IDG Books Worldwide
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Beginners guide to understanding jazz, including history, differing styles, and behind-the-scenes looks at the masters and their music. Accompanying audio disc features excerpts of jazz explored in the text.
14) Music
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Series
Publisher
DK Pub. Inc
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes some of the many different types of instruments made throughout history, and discusses their construction and sound. Includes photographs.
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Language
English
Description
The Importance of Music to Girls is the story of the adventures that music leads us into-how it forms and transforms us. As a soundtrack, it's there in the background while we go about the thrilling and mortifying business of growing up: raging, falling in love, wanting to change the world. Lavinia Greenlaw turns the volume up loud, and in prose of pure fury and beauty makes us remember how the music came first.
For Greenlaw, music-from bubblegum...
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English
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There's a reason hit songs offer such guilty pleasure--they're designed that way. Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one that is almost inescapably catchy. Pop songs have always had a "hook," but today's songs bristle with them: a hook every seven seconds is the rule. Painstakingly crafted to tweak the brain's delight in melody, rhythm, and repetition, these songs are highly processed products. Like snack-food engineers,...
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