|
Music
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning by Gary Marcus Publisher Comments On the eve of his 40th birthday, Gary Marcus, a renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone—of any age —can become musical. Do you have to be born musical to become musical? Do... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
add to wish list |
|
The Complete Classical Music Guide by Dk Publishing Publisher Comments Packed with photographs, composer biographies, analyses of major works, and essential information on every musical genre, style, form, instrument, and ensemble, DK's Complete Classical Music Guide is a portable encyclopedic guide to more than one... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Best Music Writing 2009 (Da Capo Best Music Writing) by Greil Marcus Publisher Comments Best Music Writing has faithfully collected the years most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so its appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music and popular culture, Greil Marcus, author of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks Publisher Comments You will receive one of the two covers. We cannot guarantee which one. Remember the first time you saw Michael Jackson dance with zombies in "Thriller"? Diamond Dave karate kick with Van Halen in "Jump"? Tawny Kitaen turning... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Best Music Writing 2011 (Da Capo Best Music Writing) by Alex Ross Publisher Comments Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Music in the Western World by Piero Weiss Publisher Comments This classic anthology assembles over 200 source readings, bringing to life the history of music through letters, reviews, biographical sketches, memoirs, and other documents. Writings by composers, critics, and educators touch on virtually every aspect... (read more) List Price $94.40 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner Publisher Comments In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
A History of Music in Western Culture by Evan Bonds Publisher Comments A History of Music in Western Culture 3/e is based on the premise that the best way to convey the history of Western music is to focus squarely on the music. Organized around a carefully selected repertory of works, this text integrates the... (read more) List Price $90.75 Your price: $45.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Defining Moments in Music: The Greatest Artists, Albums, Songs, Performances and Events That Rocked the Music World by Sean Egan Publisher Comments From breakthroughs in recording technology to a songs political repercussions, this electrifying collection will have music fans debating for years. Edited by Sean Egan, a writer for such major magazines as Billboard and Goldmine, this decade-by... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.98 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Source Readings in Music History by Oliver Strunk Publisher Comments Forty-five years after the appearance of the first edition, Oliver Strunk's monumental anthology of writings about music has been thoroughly revised and extended by a team of scholars working under the direction of musicologist Leo Treitler. For this new... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin Review “This is one of the most extraordinary, clever, beautiful, and impeccably researched books I have read in years. A fascinating story deftly told—and, for me at least, ideally read with Bachs thirty-six movements playing softly in the background;... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
What Makes It Great: Short Masterpieces, Great Composers by Robert Kapilow Publisher Comments Praise for Rob Kapilow "Kapilow . . . has been helping audiences hear more in great music for almost twenty years. . . . Clearly, he wants to switch people on to classical music, to encourage the same people who 'get' the music of a Broadway show... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer Publisher Comments Did you know about: The ballet that sparked a riot? The rock star who became an astrophysicist? The song that saved Wheaties? The man killed by his own conducting? The controversy behind "Mary Had a Little Lamb"? Prepare to be astonished, bewildered... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Best Music Writing (Da Capo Best Music Writing) by Ann Powers Publisher Comments Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals out there. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments 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. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
![How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond [With CD (Audio)]](http://covers.powells.com/9780316098311.jpg)
|
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond [With CD (Audio)] by John Powell Publisher Comments What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitch? Why do 10 violins sound only twice as loud as one? Do your Bob Dylan albums sound better on CD or vinyl? John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot Publisher Comments No less than a decade ago, the majority of mainstream music was funneled through a handful of media conglomerates. But now more individuals are listening to more music from a greater variety of sources than at any time in history. Ripped tells the story... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Sweat, Tears, and Jazz Hands: The Official History of Show Choir from Vaudeville to Glee by Mike Weaver Publisher Comments Featuring more than 100 competitive show choirs from around the United States in photos, quotations, and stories, this edutainment-style book details the pop culture and theater influences that, over time, built this unique entertainment genre into the... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes Publisher Comments Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented—block by block, by... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places by Bernie Krause Publisher Comments Bernie Krause is one of the world's experts in natural sound, and here we listen through Krause's ears as he collects the sounds of purring jaguars, snapping shrimp, cracking glaciers--and the roar of the wild. It is an intensely personal narrative of... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
