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En este libro podrás leer 17 entrevistas apasionantes que dejan titulares como estos:
Amaral: "En España, todavía veo a gente con ganas de apostar e ir a conciertos y ver música en directo". Joey Tempest (Europe): "El mundo del pop es muy variable, no puedes confiar en él". Jorge Martínez (Ilegales): "Hemos pasado momentos duros... y los que nos quedan por venir, esto es así. La vida no se va sin hacer daño". Love Of Lesbian: "En nuestra furgo...
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¿Qué ventajas nos puede reportar el aprendizaje de la música? ¿Es preciso que el niño que quiere aprender a tocar un instrumento tenga oído musical? ¿Y si desafina? ¿Y qué hay del adulto que decide lanzarse a dicho aprendizaje, aunque sea tarde, cuando se jubila? ¿Podrá aprender a componer música? Según las últimas investigaciones, el alumno que dedica un tiempo a una actividad musical destaca en el ámbito escolar y es más altruista.
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Are you rhythmically challenged? Can't hear the beat? This mini-course in rhythm and musicality will help you discover your natural connection to music. This book will teach you how to hear the beat by counting. But you'll learn to count the easy way-using the 8-count, the way dancers count. Want the ability to predict what a song will do next? Want to hear the common patterns present in all popular music? Want to clap to a song (on "count 2"-the...
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Related closely to the field of physical acoustics is that of psychoacoustics, which deals with the phenomena of musical hearing from a psychological and aesthetic point of view. One of the major contributors to our understanding of the subject is Fritz Winckel. When this book first appeared in German in 1960, reviewers pressed for an English translation. This Dover volume is an answer to that demand: it makes Professor "Vinckel's important study...
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This is a hacks-only version of Part 1 in the series: Hack Music Theory. Each hack delivers all the vital info you need to know about each topic. Read through all these hacks in a half hour, and you'll be making good music in less than an hour from now. However, you'll miss out on a bunch of bad jokes and deep insights that are only revealed in its companion, so go grab a copy at HackMusicTheory.com Ray Harmony is an award-winning music lecturer and...
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How can certain songs carry us through a tough workout, comfort us after a breakup, or unite 50,000 diverse fans? In this fascinating field guide, neuroscientist and opera singer Indre Viskontas investigates what music is and how it can change us for the better-from deep in our neurons to across our entire society. Whether hip-hop fans, classically trained pianists, or vinyl collectors, readers will think about their favorite songs in a whole new...
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"What begins as an affectionate reminiscence of Mannie Murphy's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix--specifically his role in Gus Van Sant's classic film, My Own Private Idaho--slowly transforms into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's long and shameful history of white nationalism. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with wet, blue ink washes, the form reveals the author to...
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"Jordan works hard to improve Vera Van Alsts collection of classic detective stories. So when Chadwick Kauffman--heir to the Kauffman fortune--offers a very good price on a fine collection of Ngaio Marsh first editions owned by his recently deceased stepfather, she is thrilled to meet with him at his fabled summer estate, Summerlea. The next day, Jordan and Vera are shocked to read that Chadwick has died in a fall from the grand staircase at Summerlea....
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The Perpetual Beginner is part memoir, part musical instruction manual. Relating stories of his experiences as a young musician and music student in 1980's New York, author Dave Isaacs describes the key lessons that shaped his musical life and how they can help any aspiring musician at any age.
The title refers to the average music hobbyist with more enthusiasm than skill or time to practice. Many people play for years without developing more than...
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Robert Schumann escribió este libro en 1848 como parte de la obra Album for the Young. Estos consejos siguen siendo hoy en día uno de los textos más influyentes para músicos de todas las categorías. Steven Isserlis, uno de los chelistas más famosos del mundo y autor de dos libros sobre las vidas de varios compositores que se han convertido en referencia por su humor y agudeza, ha ampliado el texto con comentarios y consejos de su propia cosecha,...
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The year of 2010 set the tone for mixtapes to come. Follow the list of 2010 mixtapes that would change music industry. Some of these artits would become the most talented for next generation rap artist. At each level these artist are becoming legend, eachs on right. Mixtapes, albums, underground, these artist have become the best and most creative.
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Fascinating introductory text explores scientific, aesthetic aspects of musical sounds. Noted educator, physicist, and flutist covers simple and complex vibrating systems, ear's reception of sound, sound-making capacities of the piano, violin, trumpet, bugle, trombone, oboe, clarinet, flute, saxophone, many other instruments. Also, how to build a working trumpet, flute, and clarinet. Includes 76 illustrations. Bibliography.
97) Johannes Vermeer
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2002
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An overview of the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter, famous for creating realistic scenes of everyday life.
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"In Amina Cain's first nonfiction book, a series of essayistic inquiries come together to form a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors-including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee...
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"Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime's reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. Christopher Prendergast, one of the world's foremost literary scholars, and general editor of the most recent translation of À la recherche du temps perdu, has produced a highly entertaining book that takes in such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food and digestion, color, addiction,...
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For anyone who has been intimidated, overwhelmed, or just plain confused by what they think opera is, WHO'S AFRAID OF OPERA? offers a lively, readable guide to what author Michael Walsh describes as "the greatest art form yet invented by humankind." From opera's origins in Renaissance Italy to The Who's rock odyssey "Tommy" and Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods," Walsh explores what opera is and what it's not, what makes a great singer, and why it...
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