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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A vinyl collector, journalist, and music buff examines the tinkering, experimentation, and technological developments that allowed humans to both record and reproduce sound, from the earliest attempts in the 1850s to the present day resurgence of vinyl records.
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"What does a double bass or a sitar sound like? What's the difference between bongos and congas? Which instrument has only one note? Which one takes just 30 seconds to learn? This book engagingly presents 50 common and uncommon musical instruments with practical and curious facts that will spark interest in music of all kinds. Each instrument features a piece of music composed by an award-winning musician, accessed via QR code. With instruments presented...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of love and redemption, this film is about what happened to singer/songwriter Donnie Emerson and his family when the album he and his brother recorded as teens was rediscovered after thirty years of obscurity and was suddenly hailed by music critics as a lost masterpiece. While the album's rediscovery brings hopes of second chances, it also brings long-buried emotions as Donnie, his wife Nancy, brother Joe, and father Don Sr. come to...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"You'll never listen to the world the same way again. A truly ear-opening experience!" -Chris Ferrie, award-winning physicist and author of Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions
For readers of Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill O'Neill, What the Ear Hears (and Doesn't) is a fascinating science book for adults that explores the physics principle of frequency and the (sometimes weird) role it plays in our everyday lives.
What do...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The unbelievably true story of music industry's most colorful and brilliant music producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records. Along with a rag tag team of young music lovers, Neil and Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever, igniting the careers of legendary icons like Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight and KISS, whose mix of creative insanity shaped our culture and ultimately defined a generation....
Author
Language
English
Description
A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.
Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make us smile or cry, it helps us bond with the people around us, and it even has the power to alleviate a range of medical conditions. The songs you love (and hate,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Do you feel like there's no way you'll mix a song demo as good as (insert name here)?
Are you struggling to understand how to make the worship band sound better?
Do you want to start being confident with your mixes?
Stephen Robert Cass has been playing and mixing songs in church and for bands for over 50 years. He has 14 album projects and hundreds of studio hours as a musician and producer and wants to help produce your next song demo or worship...
Author
Publisher
Girl Friday Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1978, Seattle writer Janet Yoder took a Lushootseed class at the University of Washington. She was expecting to learn a little about this Salish language, and while Yoder did begin her Lushootseed lessons, what followed was lifelong learning and lots of adventures with Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert. Drawn from thirty years of friendship and interviews, Where the Language Lives is a tribute to Vi Hilbert's life, work, and her quest to preserve...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A Little Book of Noises gathers together sounds from the cosmos, the natural world, the human world, and the invented world, as well as containing pockets of silence. From the vast sound of sand in the desert to the tuneful warble of a songbird, from the meditative resonance of a temple bell to the improvisational melodies of jazz, this is a celebration of all things "auraculous," or "ear marvelous." Sound shapes our world in invisible but significant...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Dolores Madrigal has the amazing ability to hear things that are very far away, from across the whole Encanto she calls home. But one morning when she wakes up, she doesn't hear something she usually does. But what? To find out, join Dolores and her magical Madrigal family as they team up to solve a mystery in this sweet and silly story set in the world of Disney Encanto!"--
13) ZigZag
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When ZigZag, an alligator who can taste words, accidentally swallows "tambourine" with all of its vowels, he finds disappointing "ppls" instead of tart, green apples and a too-short "bd" instead of his comfy, cozy bed.
14) Spector
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter between charismatic actress Lana Clarkson and legendary music producer Phil Spector ended in a fatal shooting that forever warped his legacy. How could one of the most important figures in 20th-century pop music also be a monster? This four-part docuseries peels back the layers of one of Hollywood's most tragic crimes to paint a more human portrait of Lana Clarkson and the deeply disturbed man convicted of her murder.
15) How music works
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Three Rivers Press edition.
Language
English
16) La naturaleza
Author
Series
Publisher
Catapulta Editores
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Un encantador libro pensado para que tu bebé aprenda a reconocer los sonidos de la naturaleza y disfrute acariciando las texturas"--Back cover.
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