Author : Christina Tourin
Publisher :
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Harp music
ISBN : 9780974094717
A Cradle of Sound
Christina Tourin
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Up from the Cradle of Jazz
Jason Berry
Author : Jason Berry
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN :
Up from the Cradle of Jazz is the inside story of New Orleans music from the rise of rhythm and blues through the post-Hurricane Katrina resurrection.
Perfecting Sound Forever
Greg Milner
Author : Greg Milner
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1429957158
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, the equation is reversed. Whereas Edison proposed that a real performance could be rebuilt with absolute perfection, Pro Tools and digital samplers now allow musicians and engineers to create the illusion of performances that never were. In between lies a century of sonic exploration into the balance between the real and the represented. Tracing the contours of this history, Greg Milner takes us through the major breakthroughs and glorious failures in the art and science of recording. An American soldier monitoring Nazi radio transmissions stumbles onto the open yet revolutionary secret of magnetic tape. Japanese and Dutch researchers build a first-generation digital audio format and watch as their "compact disc" is marketed by the music industry as the second coming of Edison yet derided as heretical by analog loyalists. The music world becomes addicted to volume in the nineties and fights a self-defeating "loudness war" to get its fix. From Les Paul to Phil Spector to King Tubby, from vinyl to pirated CDs to iPods, Milner's Perfecting Sound Forever pulls apart musical history to answer a crucial question: Should a recording document reality as faithfully as possible, or should it improve upon or somehow transcend the music it records? The answers he uncovers will change the very way we think about music.
I Hear You Knockin'
Jeff Hannusch
Author : Jeff Hannusch
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN :
Loves Music, Loves To Dance
Mary Higgins Clark
Author : Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473505739
Erin and Darcy, answering personal ads as research for a TV show, discover a whole new New York sub-culture - adulterers, con men, the shy and frankly weird, all looking for love. And one man looking for something darker . . . A serial killer who has just got away with murder for fifteen years, and has promised himself just two more . . .
First Harp Book
B. Paret
Author : B. Paret
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 1987-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780793555239
Harp
Jane Doe and Cradle of All Worlds
Jeremy Lachlan
Author : Jeremy Lachlan
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1541546539
John Doe and his infant daughter, Jane, appeared on the steps of the Manor the night the earthquakes started and the gateway to the Otherworlds closed. The people on the remote island of Bluehaven have despised them ever since, blaming Jane and her father for their exile. Fourteen years after that night, the largest earthquake yet strikes. The Manor awakens, dragging John into its labyrinth. Accompanied by a pyromaniac named Violet and a trickster named Hickory, Jane must rescue her father and defeat an immortal villain who is trying to harness the mythical power of the Manor.
Alpha Boys School
Heather Augustyn
Author : Heather Augustyn
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780692980736
Facing a life of poverty, neglect, abandonment and even homelessness, young Jamaican boys are placed in a disciplinarian Catholic boarding school. With a rigorous musical training program overseen by an eccentric jazz-loving nun, the young virtuoso graduates of Alpha Boys' School went on to change the shape of music forever. It's the 1950s in Jamaica and a musical revolution is brewing. People all over Kingston dance nightly to vast outdoor sound systems blasting American rhythm and blues records across the shanty towns. In the hotels and theaters big bands are playing jazz and calypso. Street musicians are playing home-grown folk music called mento. Out of this musical stew, Jamaica will soon birth a dance music all of its own, a sound that will conquer the globe. Starting with ska in the early 1960s, followed by rocksteady, eventually arriving at reggae in 1969, a group of virtuoso graduates of a Roman Catholic boarding school spearhead a musical and cultural revolution that still reverberates around the world over half a century later. The Sisters of Mercy nuns at Alpha provided a home alongside industrial trades apprenticeships and religious indoctrination. One in particular, Sister Mary Ignatius, dedicated 64 years of her life to running the school's music program. Her deep appreciation of jazz and her sense of fun endeared her to the boys in the band, inspiring them to attain greatness. From early Jamaican jazz giants like Joe Harriott and Dizzy Reece to the greatest ska band of all time, The Skatalites, and some of reggae's most inspirational artists such as Cedric Brooks, Johnny Osbourne, Leroy Smart and Yellowman, the Alpha story is the untold history of Jamaican music. Join Heather Augustyn and Adam Reeves as they delve into the history of this remarkable institution and reveal the life and works of 47 of the greatest Alpha boys. The culmination of many combined years of work, using musicians' personal recollections and a wealth of rarely seen photographs, Alpha Boys' School: Cradle of Jamaican Music will take you to the heart of the Jamaica music story. Whether you are a lover of original ska and rocksteady, roots, dub, dancehall and beyond, these stories will take you deeper into the music. If you enjoyed Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae by David Katz, Bass Culture by Lloyd Bradley or So Much Things To Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley by Roger Steffens, then this is definitely for you.
The Sound of Waves
Yukio Mishima
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307834344
A timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan. • "A story that is both happy and a work of art.... Altogether a joyous and lovely thing." —The New York Times A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.
The Listening Book
W. A. Mathieu
Author : W. A. Mathieu
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 1991-03-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0834827670
The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on many aspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to help readers appreciate the connection between sound, music, and everyday life.