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After four years, Adele returns to the music scene with a highly anticipated third album, which features her first new songs since the Oscar-winning single Skyfall. Her latest includes the single Hello.
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A primer on the principles and theories of music that presents the elements of music by building upon the fundamentals of acoustics, proportion and relationship. Topics covered include musical notation, intervals, triads, and the circle of fifths, major/minor keys, and modulation.
7) The complete singer-songwriter: a troubadour's guide to writing, performing, recording & business
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The Complete Singer-Songwriter is the ultimate guide for the modern performer, chock-full of tips, tools, and inspiration for both aspiring troubadours and those looking to take their craft and career to the next level. Author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers draws on firsthand interviews with songwriting legends and rising stars; expert advice from managers, agents, lawyers, and publishers; and his own experiences as a performing songwriter. He offers this...
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In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring listeners a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.
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In his first book of new writing since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, Bob Dylan offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music through a series of essays that double as meditations and reflections on the human condition.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition.
“Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind.”...
“Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind.”...
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Klezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and prayer. Born in the middle Ages, it came of age in the shtetl (the Eastern European Jewish country town), where "a wedding without klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears." Most of the European klezmorim (klezmer players) were murdered in the Holocaust; in the last 25 years, however, klezmer has been reborn,...
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"Classical Music For Dummies is perfect for anyone who loves music. It's also a funny, authoritative guide to expanding your musical horizons--and to learning how the world's greatest composers laid the groundwork for every piece of music written since."--Amazon.com.
19) Believe
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The teen sensation turned musical superstar is now 18 years old. Justin Bieber releases his third full-length album, which contains the single Boyfriend that set a new record, debuting at #1 on iTunes in 32 countries. It sold 521,000 copies its first week in the U.S., making it the biggest selling first week single in USA Universal history.
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"In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success--but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in obscurity. Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the night manager of a Best Western--she's tired, broke, and unhappy. Everything changes when a shocking act of violence turns her life upside down, and she begins to suspect...