A fun journal for whenever you come across a fab track or want to record your musical memories. Filled with great quotes and doodles, it has handy spaces to list the best tracks to listen to for travel, work and relaxing, and sections to remember your best gigs, your fave albums and artists, upcoming events and space for notes and clippings.
In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally ...
Listen to the Music is a narrative non fiction trip through the history of music, complete with 12, 10 second sound clips of the world's best loved, era defining pieces from baroque to bebop.
Whether it’s bass-heavy hip-hop from Nas that inspired a thousand MCs to pick up a mic or experimental indie dance from LCD Soundsystem that blurred genres and tempted musicians to trade in their guitars for synthesizers, this is an ...
Listen to the Music from Around the World
This new age of listening brings with it astonishing new possibilities--as well as dangers. In Every Song Ever, the veteran New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff reimagines the very idea of music appreciation for our times.
Discover how the brain works when you listen and make music, the relationship between rhythm, movement and health, between pleasure, emotion and music, and the many ways in which music improves your health, slows down the aging process, ...
This volume develops, supports and challenges that body of research, examining key issues in the field, such as the difficulty of writing about music, the formation of musical preferences, the emotional impact of musical sounds, the ...
Here's where my American history--and yours--goes to find itself."--Jonathan Lethem, author of "You Don't Love Me Yet"
Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for almost twenty years with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR, at Lincoln Center, and in concert...
This book will be your listening companion to Songs For A Better Future, my first musical album. We will travel together through it's seventeen songs discovering pictures, the stories that inspired them, their lyrics and much more.