Musical Instruments, Material Culture, and Social Networks in East and S
The musical instruments of East and Southeast Asia enjoy increasing recognition as parts of humanity's intangible cultural heritage. Helen Rees edits a collection that offers vibrant new ways to link these objects to their materials of manufacture, the surrounding environment, the social networks they form and help sustain, and the wider ethnic or ......
Apple's Logic 7 sets the standard for Mac-based audio and music but the sheer size and complexity of the program can be a little daunting to the beginning user. This training DVD will get you quickly up to speed so you're recording and mixing professional audio with Apple's Logic Express or Logic Pro 7 in no time at all! Logic instructor Andrew ......
The true power of Logic Pro 7 lies in its virtual instruments synthesizers sampling power and its vast array of incredible software plug-ins. The more you know about using these revolutionary music production tools the better your Logic Pro 7 experience will be. In this extended program instructor Andrew Eisele takes you on an in-depth tour of ......
Drum Set Pitched Percussion Hand Percussion Marching...and more!
Offers students a comprehensive introduction to drums and percussion, from hand drums to digital kits, and everything in between. This title covers the history of the drum, tracing the development of the modern drum kit while also discussing hand, concert, marching, and electronic percussion.
In Oboe Unbound: Contemporary Techniques, Libby Van Cleve opens up the tradition-bound assumptions of the instrument's capabilities. She discusses: *standard technique; *multiphonics, microtones, altered timbres; *musical examples; *professionally tested fingering charts; *use of electronics and amplification; *recording; *and sound enhancement.
This book discusses the historical and musical development of the diatonic harp in Paraguay, an analysis of the musical contributions by harp composers and performers, a survey of the various traditional genres associated with the instrument, and a discussion of the popular and academic settings where the instrument has been cultivated.
The catalog of the 2017 exhibition "PedalCulture: The Guitar Effects Pedal as Cultural Artifact" illustrates the cultural significance and visual design semiotics of contemporary guitar effects pedals. The text shows the pedals' application as objects of power transference from on high and explores their symbolic associations with select objects, ......
The Philadelphia Orchestra is the most-recorded orchestra in the United States. This discography contains a chronological list of recordings, detailing works performed, conductors, soloists, dates, venues, producers, and matrix information for 78-rpm recordings.
In The Pianist's Craft 2, pianist and scholar Anderson gathers together a new collection of essays by renowned performing artists and teachers and discusses the preparation, pedagogy, and performance of selected works by an entirely different set of composers whose works are standard in the piano literature.