Product Description: Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, genres, and techniques used in both analog and digital synthesis. This textbook has been greatly expanded and revised with the needs of both students and instructors in mind...read more

Product Description: Backbeat's successful Handbook format applied to the world's most popular instrument. The Electric Guitar Handbook is the latest entry in Backbeat's best-selling handbook series, combining a two-part book and an audio CD in a practical lay-flat binding for ease of reference when playing...read more

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Product Description: Manufactured at the end of the 1950s, the original sunburst Gibson Les Paul - known as the "Burst" - is the most celebrated electric guitar of all time. This book by renowned historian Tony Bacon explores why these instruments have become so desirable...read more

Product Description: Create a Live template for performance/studio Work with Live's software instruments Create complex instrument and effect chains Control Live via wireless Audio editing workrounds within Live Prepare a Live set for performance Use Live with other music software Ableton Live is the cross-platform software which has rocked the music world - gathering ardent fans in a way usually associated with performers rather than software...read more

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Product Description: Musicians are always quick to adopt and explore new technologies. The fast-paced changes wrought by electrification, from the microphone via the analogue synthesiser to the laptop computer, have led to a wide diversity of new musical styles and techniques...read more

Get complete guidance on both traditional orchestration and modern production techniques with this unique book. With effective explanations and clear illustrations, you will learn how to integrate the traditional approach to orchestration with the modern sequencing techniques and tools available. You will discover how to bridge the two approaches in order to enhance your final production.The accompanying CD includes a comprehensive and wide selection of examples, templates and sounds to allow you to hear the techniques within the book.By covering both approaches, this book provides a comprehensive and solid learning experience that will develop your skills and prove extremely competitive in the music production business. * Complete orchestration manual covering both traditional and modern techniques* Versatile, non-software specific, perfect choice for professionals and colleges* Accompanying DVD with examples, templates and sounds brings techniques to life

Product Description: The Gibson Electric Guitar Book is a comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to Gibson electrics past and present. Starting with the ES-150 - generally acknowledged as the first commercially successful electric guitar - through the 335s, Les Pauls, SGs, Firebirds, and more, it is packed with facts, stories, and images that tell the story of Gibson's great guitars and their most famous and influential players...read more

Product Description: 15 solos from one of the finest new age artists. Features new songs from Silver Ship and Pianissimo II, as well as favorites spanning her career. Includes: Anthem * Berceuse * Butterflies * Celtic Nights * Dentecane * For Lise * Full Moon Sonata * Go Gently * La Mer * Meeting Mozart * Pretend * Snow Crystals * Sogno Agitato * Turning * The Velocity of Love...read more

Product Description: All About Electronic Percussion is a beginner's guide to this exciting new world. The book explains the fundamentals and benefits of electronic percussion, and presents introductions to drum pads and triggers, percussion sound modules, and much more...read more

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Product Description: Unlocking the Groove is a groundbreaking, award-winning, music-driven analysis of electronic dance music (EDM). Author Mark Butler interweaves traditional and non-traditional musical analysis with consideration of the genre's history and social significance, deconstructing several typical examples of electronic dance music and focusing on the interaction of beat and rhythmic structure in creating an overall musical design...read more

Product Description: Albert Glinsky's "Theremin" blends the whimsical and the treacherous into a chronicle that takes in everything from the KGB to Macy's store windows, Alcatraz to the Beach Boys, Hollywood thrillers to the United Nations, Joseph Stalin to Shirley Temple...read more

Product Description: Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music -- notes and their intervals -- into a more fluid and supple medium...read more

Product Description: No church musician today is completely prepared to offer their music ministry in the varied and demanding settings of worship without a working knowledge of music technology. Providing instrumentations of great sounds created, arranged and enhanced for worship is a real workout, even for those of us who are not technologically challenged...read more

Product Description: When music store owner and drum teacher Jim Marshall set to work designing an amp to realize the musical vision of local guitarists, he laid the very foundations of rock music. After playing the sixth prototype of 'Number 1', which would later become the JTM45, Jim said, "That's it! That's going to be the Marshall sound from now on!" And so it was...read more

Indispensible to anyone interested in recording or broadcasting music, this practical, comprehensive guide to digital audio explains the advanced concepts behind the equipment, focusing on underlying theories rather than individual pieces of equipment.

Offering ratings of more than four thousand albums by more than one thousand artists, along with discussions of styles including ambient, trance, trip-hop, and hardcore, a comprehensive reference source provides an authoritative and detailed guide to dance, electronic, and experimental music. Original.