All About Music

All About Music
Title All About Music PDF eBook
Author IglooBooks
Publisher Igloo Books
Total Pages 10
Release 2021-08-03
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9781800228092

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TOOT! PLINK! BANG! Learn all about music with this noisy, fact-filled book. With 10 musical instrument sounds and easy-to-use shaped tabs, this book is the perfect introduction to music.

Physics and Music

Physics and Music
Title Physics and Music PDF eBook
Author Harvey E. White
Publisher Courier Corporation
Total Pages 448
Release 2014-04-15
Genre Science
ISBN 0486794008

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Comprehensive and accessible, this foundational text surveys general principles of sound, musical scales, characteristics of instruments, mechanical and electronic recording devices, and many other topics. More than 300 illustrations plus questions, problems, and projects.

Sound System

Sound System
Title Sound System PDF eBook
Author Dave Randall
Publisher Left Book Club
Total Pages 0
Release 2017
Genre Music
ISBN 9780745399300

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The story of one musician's journey to discover how music can be used as a political tool, for good and bad.

The Bakersfield Sound

The Bakersfield Sound
Title The Bakersfield Sound PDF eBook
Author Robert E. Price
Publisher Heyday.ORIM
Total Pages 309
Release 2018-03-06
Genre Music
ISBN 1597144371

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An immersive look at the country music sub-genre, from its 1950s origins to its heyday to the twenty-first century. In California’s Central Valley, two thousand miles away from Nashville’s country hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music during the later half of the twentieth century. Fueled by the steel twang of electric guitars, explosive drumming, and powerfully aching lyrics, the Sound transformed hard times and desperation into chart-toppers. It vaulted displaced Oklahomans like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard to stardom, and even today the Sound’s influence on country music is still widely felt. In this fascinating book, veteran journalist Robert E. Prince traces the Bakersfield Sound’s roots from Dust Bowl and World War II migrations through the heyday of Owens, Haggard, and Hee Haw, and into the twenty-first century. Outlaw country demands good storytelling, and Price obliges; to fully understand the Sound and its musicians we dip into honky-tonks, dives, and radio stations playing the songs of sun-parched days spent on oil rigs and in cotton fields, the melodies of hardship and kinship, a soundtrack for dancing and brawling. In other words, The Bakersfield Sound immerses us in the unique cultural convergence that gave rise to a visceral and distinctly California country music. Praise for The Bakersfield Sound “A savvy blend of personal anecdotes and broader historical narrative.” —Kirkus Reviews “This book all but reads itself. Price’s sense of history, his command of facts, his sense of humor, his sensitivity to class and race, and a love of the music—it’s all here.” —Greil Marcus

Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds

Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds
Title Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds PDF eBook
Author James Beauchamp
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages 328
Release 2007-08-30
Genre Science
ISBN 038732576X

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This book contains a complete and accurate mathematical treatment of the sounds of music with an emphasis on musical timbre. The book spans the range from tutorial introduction to advanced research and application to speculative assessment of its various techniques. All the contributors use a generalized additive sine wave model for describing musical timbre which gives a conceptual unity, but is of sufficient utility to be adapted to many different tasks.

Sound Health

Sound Health
Title Sound Health PDF eBook
Author Steven Halpern
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages 236
Release 1985
Genre Health & Fitness
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The Sight of Sound

The Sight of Sound
Title The Sight of Sound PDF eBook
Author Richard Leppert
Publisher Univ of California Press
Total Pages 352
Release 1993-12-01
Genre Music
ISBN 9780520917170

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Richard Leppert boldly examines the social meanings of music as these have been shaped not only by hearing but also by seeing music in performance. His purview is the northern European bourgeoisie, principally in England and the Low Countries, from 1600 to 1900. And his particular interest is the relation of music to the human body. He argues that musical practices, invariably linked to the body, are inseparable from the prevailing discourses of power, knowledge, identity, desire, and sexuality. With the support of 100 illustrations, Leppert addresses music and the production of racism, the hoarding of musical sound in a culture of scarcity, musical consumption and the policing of gender, the domestic piano and misogyny, music and male anxiety, and the social silencing of music. His unexpected yoking of musicology and art history, in particular his original insights into the relationships between music, visual representation, and the history of the body, make exciting reading for scholars, students, and all those interested in society and the arts.