What is creativity? Where does it come from? Whether it is defined as coming from God, the universe, or some collective font of eternal knowledge, most creative individuals acknowledge that at times their inspiration seems to emanate from a mysterious metaphysical source. Songs affect people's lives on a profound level, and songwriters are especially attuned to this. Author Dan Kimpel - who has interviewed virtually every major songwriter in the history of American popular music - has observ...
Tchaikovsky (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.)
by Simon Mundy
Russian composer Tchaikovsky was famous for his ballets, such as Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. Drawing on personal letters, recollections, paintings and photographs, this book explores his work and the scandal of his failed marriage, homosexuality and the circumstances of his death.
The Goldberg Variations (Belwin Edition: Belwin Classic Library) (Kalmus Edition)
Still going strong after four decades, The Rolling Stones are the ultimate rock band. The Rough Guide to The Rolling Stones explores every aspect of the music, and charts how Mick, Keith and the boys invented rock stardom. Features include: The Story: From the blues clubs of 60s Chelsea to the world tours and millionaire mansions, The Music: 50 essential songs and the stories behind them, plus the albums, bootlegs, soundtracks and solo projects, The Entourage: the girlfriends, managers and music...
The sounds comprising music were selected by hearing. If we survey what was selected from the beginning to make simple western music, and how it developed, it raises a series of questions about intervals and scales, the tone of instruments, pitch, loudness and time, the answers to which must lie in the nature of our hearing mechanism. Not least, this review throws doubt on the role normally attributed to harmonics. A simplified account of how musical sounds are coded by the ear, and of the proce...
Die Kulturpolitik im Dritten Reich. Beethoven-Rezeption in der nationalsozialistischen Ideologie
by Friedrich Muhlstein
Julian Cope's long-awaited follow up to The Modern Antiquarian, his bestselling and critically acclaimed guide to ancient Britain. The Megalithic European takes us on a breathtaking journey around prehistoric Europe's first temples. Contents* The Megalithic European is a monumental colour guide to the standing stones and ancient temples of prehistoric Europe.* In a 6-year personal odyssey (leaving no stone unturned) Julian Cope covers 300 of the important sites of Northern Europe and t...
Forever Punk! Punk als Musikstil, Protestkultur und Weltanschauung
by Katrin Wissentz, Ingo Teichert, and Katharina Bergmaier
The outdoor music festival market has developed and commercialised significantly since the mid-1990s, and is now a mainstream part of the British summertime leisure experience. The overall number of outdoor music festivals staged in the UK doubled between 2005 and 2011 to reach a peak of over 500 events. UK Music (2016) estimates that the sector attracts over 3.7 million attendances each year, and that music tourism as a whole sustains nearly 40,000 full-time jobs. Music Festivals in the UK is t...
The Ultimate Live Sound Operator's Handbook (Music Pro Guides) (Hal Leonard Music Pro Guides)
by Bill Gibson
If you're a sound operator, you know that regardless of the musical genre or venue, high-quality audio is imperative to your and the artist's success. Any live act must sound great to be well received by today's increasingly demanding audiences. Fully revised and updated, The Ultimate Live Sound Operator's Handbook focuses on each aspect of live sound operation in a way that is straightforward and easy to understand-from basic system and acoustic considerations to miking, mixing, and recording...
