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A fun, interactive, and award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness learning solution for children ages 3 to 6 years. With hundreds of lessons in math, science, social studies, language and literacy, art, and music, the curriculum increases in difficulty as the user progresses through the program.
Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"This reference classic has approximately doubled in size since its last publication 20 years ago, and the expansion involves more than the thorough revision and addition of articles about music of the past. More articles about 20th-century composers and composer-performers have been added, as well as topical articles about the gender-related, multicultural, and interdisciplinary ways that music is now being studied. Add to these changes that New...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes...
Author
Publisher
Watson-Guptill Publications
Pub. Date
©1959-1965
Language
English
Description
"There has long been a need for a ... textbook which would ... codify and delineate that elusive procedure known as jazz improvisation. Of course, no improvisation can ever be explained down to its roots; therein lies the mystery and joy of spontaneous creation ... Still, there is a basis to improvisation of any kind: a coupling of traditions and technique. And that basis can be explained"--
Publisher
Hal Leonard
Pub. Date
[199-?]
Language
English
Description
Over 400 pages of slow and sentimental ballads: Bali Ha'i -- Bewitched -- Chances Are -- Climb Every Mountain -- Endless Love -- Feelings -- Hawaiian Wedding Song -- Love Is Blue -- Memory -- More -- People -- Sunrise, Sunset -- Young at Heart -- more.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of Paul McCartney through 154 of his most meaningful songs. From his early Liverpool days, through the historic decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his long solo career, The Lyrics pairs the definitive texts of 154 Paul McCartney songs with first-person commentaries on his life and music. Spanning two alphabetically arranged volumes,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this unique celebration of classical music, one inspirational piece is showcased for each day of the year. Classical music has a reputation for being stuffy, boring, and largely inaccessible, but Burton-Hill introduces readers to pieces that are artfully selected from across genres, time periods, and composers. Her short introductions contextualize each piece, and makes the music come alive in modern and playful ways. And in some cases the pieces...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it-including rock, country, punk, R&B, dance and hip-hop-woven together into a cosmic reckoning with music's evolution as a popular art form, as a huge cultural and economic force, and as an essential component to our identities, from Black Sabbath to Black Flag to Beyoncé, and beyond"--
Publisher
Hal Leonard Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating 25 years of the magazine that continues to bring you the very best in guitar music, news, and reviews, Acoustic guitar presents this collection of guitar master works for you to play. From the classic, gritty blues of Lead Belly, tot he intricate figerpicking of the Beatles, to songs from more modern artists like the Avett Brothers and Ben Harper, this is a collection for every player in any style. Each song is transcribed note-for-note...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Smarsh witnessed firsthand the vulnerabilities and strengths of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard times, and surviving. Country music was a language among women-- and no one provided that language better than Dolly Parton. Here Smarsh explores the overlooked contributions to social...
19) Classical music: an introduction to classical music through the great composers & their masterworks
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
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