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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
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Daniel J Levitin
Neuroscientist and professional musician Levitin presents a fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind--and the role of melodies in shaping our lives. Photos throughout.
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Music: An Appreciation
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Roger Kamien
Whether from a concert stage or at the front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to reach an audience--blending intelligence and passion to lift music from the page and bring it to life. His unique combination of artistic and teaching skills makes "Music: An Appreciation," Brief Edition an invaluable tool for students wanting to learn more ...
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Exit Music
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Ian Rankin
As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on Detective Inspector John Rebus's desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Only a few days shy of the end to his long, controversial career, will Rebus even make it that far?
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Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces
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Maynard Mack (Editor)
Edited by scholars, translators and teachers of the literary traditions represented, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces , Expanded Edition, offers nearly 3,000 pages per volume of the world's greatest literary landmarks, from early Egyptian love poetry to Chinua Achebe's stunning Things Fall Apart . Prized by teachers and students ...
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
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Bill Martin, Jr.
Bright, bold, and rhythmic, CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM is an imaginative and fun introduction to the letters of the alphabet. Like excited children, the lowercase letters of the alphabet engage in a daring race to the very top of the coconut tree. All seems to be going well, but once the entire alphabet has made the climb, their collective weight ...
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Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet
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Gail Grant
From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide and cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions also included.
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All You Need to Know about the Music Business
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Donald S Passman
In this guide, a successful entertainment lawyer offers aspiring performers, writers, and executives advice on protecting themselves in the cutthroat music industry. He includes information on copyrights, merchandising deals, and Internet technologies.
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Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals
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William Duckworth
This market-leading book for the Fundamentals of Music course addresses students' differing abilities. Internationally renowned composer William Duckworth covers the fundamentals in 14 concise main chapters that are supplemented by 11 enrichment appendices. These offer extended coverage for teachers or students who desire additional instruction. ...
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This Lullaby
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Sarah Dessen
This "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year from the acclaimed author of "Dreamland" is a captivating novel about a tough-as-nails girl and the unexpectedly charming boy who's determined to soften her up.
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Norton Anthology of Western Music, Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque
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Professor J Peter Burkholder (Editor), Professor Claude V Palisca (Editor)
The ideal companion to "A History of Western Music, Seventh Edition," the two-volume "Norton Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition," includes 172 historically significant scores, 71 of them new to this edition, with a strengthened emphasis on twentieth-century music. Revised and enlivened commentaries closely examine the scores to clarify ...
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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Motley Crue, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil
Gripping and compulsively readable, Motley Crue's entry in the tell-all autobiographical stakes is a tour de force of a genre that had its genesis in books like S.T.P., Robert Greenfield's memoir of life on the road with the Rolling Stones, and Stephen Davis's classic Led Zeppelin saga HAMMER OF THE GODS. THE DIRT transports us from the band's ...
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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Alex Ross
Ross, music critic for "The New Yorker," journeys from Vienna before the First World War to New York in the 1970s and 80s. The result is not so much a history of 20th-century music as it is a history of the 20th century through its music.
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Tonal Harmony
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Stefan Kostka, Dorothy Payne
Designed to meet the needs of the two-year theory curriculum for music majors, this straightforward market-leading text emphasizes practicality and ease of use for both the student and the instructor. Its outstanding ancillaries, which include a collection of audio examples on CD (for both the text and workbook), Finale Workbook Software, and an ...
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Scar Tissue
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Anthony Kiedis, Larry Ratso Sloman
Red Hot Chili Peppers member Anthony Kiedis' autobiography, SCAR TISSUE, has all the sex, drugs, and rock & roll you'd expect from the story of a handsome young heroin-addicted vocalist of one of rock's most successful and influential bands. Kiedis' childhood sets the scene for his later life: his drug dealer father and the infant Kiedis party in ...
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Beach Music
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Pat Conroy
The story of a man whose wife's suicide leads him to dark family truths and the terror of the Holocaust.
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Cash: The Autobiography
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Johnny Cash
In his own words, "The Man in Black" sets the record straight--and dispels a few myths--as he looks unsparingly at his remarkable life: from his turbulent past to the joys of the present to his plans down the road. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Dr. Billy Graham. As powerful and ...
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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Oliver Sacks
Sackss compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains. Here, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people.
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Wee Sing Bible Songs
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Pamela Conn Beall
A celebration of the Bible in music and song. Bible heroes, teachings, parables, praises and prayers are all contained in this collection of traditional songs. Children will love celebrating the Bible by singing these songs for years to come.
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The long hard road out of hell
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Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss
Hard rock's favorite whipping boy's tell-all autobiography is a surprisingly candid and well-written confessional of Marilyn Manson's deprived youth, his depraved teenage years, and how, much like Alice Cooper a generation before him, he turned a variety of childhood traumas to his advantage in constructing a rock & roll persona that audiences ...
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Modern Recording Techniques
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David Miles Huber, Robert E Runstein (Editor)
A manual, reference, and teaching tool, offering thorough coverage of each topic, this book will be useful for recording workshops, sound engineers, musicians and electronic musicians, producers, multimedia developers, audio for video professionals, universities, schools, and audio enthusiasts in general. Includes a glossary, up-to-date ...
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Guitar for Dummies
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Mark Phillips, Jon Chappell
"Guitar For Dummies" offers full coverage of the subject, from picking out a guitar to learning to play, expert advice from America's leading guitar authorities, musical exercises and fretboard illustrations--plus a tutorial CD that features licks and songs from the book. Illustrations.
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High fidelity
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Nick Hornby
A pop music junkie, deserted by his girlfriend, fulfills his lifelong dream of dating a singer with a recording contract. It doesn't help.
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Rose That Grew from Concrete
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Tupac Shakur
By the time of his murder at the age of 25, Tupac Shakur was a major force in rap music, with a dozen albums and six movies under his belt. But this collection of poems, written in a poetry workshop by the future star at the age of 19, shows that Shakur possessed both a poet's disarming simplicity and a writer's raw talent well before the start of ...
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The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening
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Kristine Forney
With three million copies sold over nine editions, "The Enjoyment of Music" is the best-selling music appreciation text of all time. Spanning the Middle Ages through the twenty-first century, the text offers a thorough introduction to the elements of music, a broad overview of the history of musical styles, and fascinating cultural contexts and ...
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Free Play
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Stephen Nachmanovitch
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