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Sampler 3 captures and celebrates some of the most innovative and challenging art and graphic design work from the contemporary music scene. Album covers are recognized as a testing ground for creative visual expression, inspired by and amplifying our enjoyment of the music itself. The book features the best graphics from cutting-edge covers around the world. It includes work by leading graphic designers such as Non-Format, Trevor Jackson (PlayGroup), Rudy VanderLans, Alorenz, Fehler and Designe...

This illustrated encyclopedia covers seven decades of the guitar, an icon of modern pop music. Here you will find photos of electric guitars produced by every significant manufacturer, from Alembic to Zemaitis, alongside detailed information and action pictures of key players - from Chet Atkins to Joey Z. The most iconic electric guitars are displayed throughout this encyclopedia, with over 800 classic, rare, and unusual instruments from all the major manufacturers, along with images of importan...

Now newbie songwriters can learn the craft-and sing their own praises online. Beginning songwriters can hit the right note by starting out with the basics in this guide, including: • How to create melodies. • How to create many different harmonies. • Techniques using deliberate rhythm and stylistic changes. • How to enable one's songwriting to grow and evolve. • How to deal with songwriter's block. • The best places to upload one's work for maximum exposure and opportuniti...

As the brain child of Jack White, The Blue Series started in tandem with Third Man Records in 2009. The series of 7-inch singles were recorded in the same studio, with the same producer (White), and photos taken in the same locale (TMR s Blue Room). Whether Beck, Tom Jones, Stephen Colbert, the polarizing Insane Clown Posse, or the debut of previously unknown performers, The Blue Series epitomizes TMR/Jack White. With written contributions from David Fricke and every Blue Series recording artist...

The son of an 18th century Austrian wheelwright, Haydn is acknowledged for refining the symphony and string quartet and praised for his oratorios and masses. Deeply involved in the evolution of the Classical style, its subsequent growth can be seen in his own music. Indeed, he is considered to be one of the most significant composers of the Classical Period. Under his care the symphony and string quartet came to life, and the oratios and masses of his late years belong to the consummation of the...

This book is ideal for primary teachers with little or no experience of teaching music. It will also offer fresh ideas and inspiration to the most experienced music specialists. "Teaching Key Stage 1" contains an entire scheme of work for pupils in Year 1 and Year 2, with a CD of performance and accompaniment tracks and photocopiable resources. The scheme has been devised by Ann Bryant to offer guidance for those with no formal musical training and build the confidence of all primary level teach...

Hours of lost sleep with a tune running around one's head--and that voice. Whose is it, and from which Broadway production? Debates over a performer's repertoire devolving into acid arguments, blows traded, friendships torn asunder. Must the maddening question of exactly who sang just what continue? It cannot--and thanks to this book, it shall not. This massive compendium lists alphabetically every performer who sang on Broadway in the role of a named character, earning mention in the program o...

During his lifetime (1888-1970), Hall Johnson's concert arrangements of spirituals have been performed and recorded by stellar singers, such as Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and Denyce Graves, and were sung by school and concert choirs all over the world. The Hall Johnson Negro Choir was acclaimed in concert halls throughout America and Europe, on Broadway, on radio, and in Hollywood and can be seen and heard in movie classics like Lost Horizon, Jezebel, Dumbo,...