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Aimed at everyone with an interest in pianos, amateurs and professionals alike, this is a thorough but highly readable technical guide to the world's most influential musical instrument. Most people, even competent pianists, have no idea how a piano works, yet understanding a piano's truly remarkable technology can greatly increase the pleasure of owning and playing one. Even though the most humble upright has thousands of working parts, this innovative manual explains how straightforward it can...

Music scores have always presented unique problems to those charged with their care and preservation. The author's goal throughout this book is to present practices developed to balance cost-effectiveness with archival soundness for binding and preserving musical scores. This is a necessary reference for music librarians and composers who want to gain both specific skills and new perspectives on the central issues of binding and care.

The French Song Companion is the most comprehensive book of French melodie in any language. The great accompagnist Graham Johnson, a noted authority of song, provides repertoire guides to the work of some 150 composers - the majority of them from France, but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music. There are major articles on such figures as Faure, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc; substantial articles on Bizet, Chabrier, Gouno...

Stop just using social media and learn how to promote with it with ÊSocial Media Promotions for MusiciansÊ. The book reveals a host of online insider tips and tricks that will help you gain more fans and followers increase your views and grow your ticket and merch sales. ÊSocial Media Promotions for MusiciansÊ shows artists bands engineers and producers the latest techniques and strategies to increase your online presence more effectively and efficiently than you ever thought possible. The b...

Written specifically for students in a group or class setting, "Pianolab" is well-known for its engaging step-by-step approach to playing the piano, as well as, helping you understand how music works.

From Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band to Zoom by ELO, this indispensable, innovatively designed book celebrates fifty years of British album charts, telling you everything you could possibly want to know about every album to reach the Top 100. With new feature material covering a huge range of areas, bands and history, it's an essential part of any serious music fan's collection.The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums covers everything, from the classics (Sgt Pepper, Nevermind, The Dark Side o...

En una larga y fascinante historia, Música. La historia visual definitiva, presenta las apasionantes biografías de los compositores e intérpretes que conformaron estos sonidos y, con llamativas ilustraciones y fotografías, nos descubre los numerosos y maravillosos instrumentos que percutimos, frotamos, punteamos o soplamos. Dado que cada tema musical se presenta en una concisa y atractiva doble página, es fácil viajar entre mundos musicales separados por continentes y siglos de distancia en un...

Franz Liszt has become for music historians the archetypical genius--able to upstage such titans as Chopin and Thalberg on the piano, then moving with ease into composition and effortlessly traveling outside the boundaries of his age with wildly original music. Such a figure will always be difficult to evaluate and thus this comprehensive bibliography and guide will be all the more valuable for student and scholar.