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The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth through Music
by Victor L. Wooten  Publisher Comments From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes The Music Lesson, the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived....
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Celine Dion: Let's Talk about Love (33 1/3 Series)
by Carl Wilson Publisher Comments Non-fans regard Celine Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband’s struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There’s nothing cool...
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How to Make Drums, Tom-Toms and Rattles
by Bernard S Mason Publisher Comments Making your own primitive instruments from simple materials such as coffee cans and flower pots. Includes 121 figures....
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Writers & Readers Documentary Comic Book #0066: Classical Music for Beginners
by Stacy Combs Lynch Publisher Comments See 'Jazz'....
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Complete Bass Guitar By Ear
by Mark John Sternal Synopsis LEARN EVERY NOTE ON YOUR GUITAR BY EAR! No written text or sheet music. Recorded lessons focus on ear training, finger strength, and music theory. So simple a complete beginner can use it. Just pop in the CD and follow the lessons from your very first...
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For the Love of Music: Invitations to Listening
by Michael Steinberg Publisher Comments The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists-...
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The Future of Modern Music: A Philosophical Exploration of Modernist Music in the 20th Century and Beyond
by James L Mchard Publisher Comments A selective survey of the major pioneering composers of the 20th century, this resource focuses on the development of the new emphases in music creation, including tone color and density—elements which prior to 1900 had been subordinated in their...
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On the Sensation of Tone (54 Edition)
by Hermann Helmoholtz Publisher Comments This masterly treatment of classical acoustics embodies the great physicist's lifetime of research and presents his vast knowledge of the field in an easy-to-follow account. Among the topics explored: physical phenomena, the physiology of hearing, the...
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Music for Analysis : Examples From the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Century -with CD (6TH 07 Edition)
by Thomas Benjamin Publisher Comments This superbly varied collection offers more than 400 pieces of music from the Baroque period to the present. Selected by Thomas Benjamin, Michael Horvit, and Robert Nelson--three nationally respected composers and music theory teachers--the selections...
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How We Hear Music: The Relationship Between Music and the Hearing Mechanism
by James Beament Publisher Comments Choice Outstanding Academic Title Informed by a broad expertise comprehending all of the disciplines for which human hearing is pertinent. Beament('s) model for the hearing of music...is not only the most speculative section of the book but also the most...
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What to Listen for in Music (Signet Classics)
by Aaron Copland Publisher Comments "The definitive guide to musical enjoyment" (Forum) with over 1.5 million copies in print....
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Listen: A History of Our Ears
by Peter Szendy Publisher Comments In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician; but where exactly does the listener stand in...
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Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
by Pauline Oliveros Publisher Comments Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, meditators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be...
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U2: Achtung Baby (33 1/3 Series)
by Stephen Catanzarite Publisher Comments Stephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2's most fully formed album through the prisms of religion, politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplored depths, arguing that it's a concept album about...
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Listening
by Jean Luc Nancy Publisher Comments In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what is seen? Can philosophy even address...
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The Joy of First Year of Piano
by Not Available (na) Publisher Comments Designed for use as a method book, this volume allows the teacher to vary the approach according to the needs of the student. The book can also be used as a source of carefully graded pieces, for use with any first-year method....
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
by Rob Sheffield 
Powells.com Staff Pick In this incredible work on music and soul mates, Sheffield shares his story of two loves with great humor and pathos. Love Is a Mix Tape is a moving tribute to a lost friend and the power of song. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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Opera for Dummies
by David Pogue Synopsis Pogue is a wonderful teacher... He can teach anybody. -- Gay Talese, bestselling author of Honor Thy Father Scott Speck is a great communicator of classical music.... Concert audiences and readers alike can't help getting caught up in the joy of his...
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Ear Training One Note Complete
by Bruce E. Arnold Publisher Comments This edition comes with no CDs. You must purchase either the 3 associated CDs separately or digitally download the CDs from an on-line vendor. Otherwise this book is exactly the same as the book/CD edition. Just as an artist must know every color in...
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Alfred's Group Piano for Adults
by E. L. Lancaster Synopsis Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 1 is designed for non-keyboard music majors with little or no keyboard experience. Upon completion of the course, students will have a strong grasp of functional skills, keyboard technique and musical styles. The...
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