Music/Songbooks

Piano Concerto in a Minor Op. 54: Eulenburg Audio+score Series

Based on the autograph manuscript and the composer's personal copy of the first printed edition, editor Thomas Lab has produced a new critical edition of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54. Lab has included extensive historical background, helpful performance suggestions, expert fingering and a new orchestral reduction for second piano, making this among the most comprehensive editions available of Schumann's only published piano concerto.

Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C Minor Op. 37 [With CD (Audio)]

The Eulenburg Audio+Score Series covers more than 200 years of the world's favorite classical music. Each of the 50 volumes consists of a clearly-presented and authoritative musical score, an informative preface detailing the biographical and creative background, and a Naxos CD containing the work in full length. Eulenburg Audio+Score is the new way to hear, read, and understand music for everyone from the casual music lover to the expert enthusiast. Each volume includes a study score of the music with an informative article and a CD with a complete recording of the featured piece.

Julius Wiedemann, Joaquim Paulo Fernandes

Jazz Covers

This volume contains representations of 1,000 jazz record covers, from the 1940s through the early 1990s. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing the album's name, art director, photographer, illustrator, year, label, and more.

Andras Batta, Andrs Batta

Opera: Composers. Works. Performers.

This magnificent, richly illustrated book contains most of what is covered by contemporary repertoires and allows one to experience at first hand all the vitality of the world of opera.

Joaquim Paulo

Funk & Soul Covers

Following the success of "Jazz Covers"," " this volume features "over 500 legendary covers "from two genres of black music that have conquered the world. From Marvin Gaye to Michael Jackson, the Temptations to Earth, Wind & Fire, and James Brown to Prince, "Funk & Soul Covers "portrays the often breathtaking album art that helped make these essentially African-American musical forms both world famous and massively influential, and an essential part of 20th century music history. Featuring interviews with key industry figures—including performers, producers, designers and writers—"Funk & Soul" "Covers "provides cultural context and design analysis for each featured record cover.

Dafydd Rees, Luke Crampton

Michael Jackson

It's All about L.O.V.E.

Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix

MATTEO CARCASSI, Bryan Townsend

Matteo Carcassi: 25 Etudes Melodiques Op. 60

AMA-Circle of Fifths for Guitar

The Circle of Fifths is a schematic diagram of the well-tempered tonal system. The 12 major keys and their parallel minors are arranged around the circle like the numbers denoting the 12 hours on a clock. The root notes of neighboring keys are separated by the interval of a fifth, clockwise a fifth up and counterclockwise a fifth down. The AMA Circle of Fifths emphasizes important harmonic interrelationships that can be easily recognized using the wheel.

Michael John Simmons

Taylor Guitars: 30 Years of a New American Classic

This gorgeous, premium book tells the story of how Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug took a small San Diego guitar-building company and transformed it into an industry leader that produces more than 70,000 high-quality guitars a year. Features dozens of full-color photos of many rare guitars, including instruments Bob Taylor built before the company's founding, standard production models (including the acoustic bass and the new nylon string series), custom-built instruments, and special celebrity models.

Hubert Kappel

Introducing the Guitar [With CD (Audio)]

A String Around Autumn: Viola and Piano Reduction

Ultimate Minus One Pink Floyd

Ernesto Assante

Masters of Rock Guitar

Try to imagine a world with no guitars. Neither blues, nor flamenco or rock would exist. The guitar is a major component of jazz, folk, and blues, and in it's electric embodiment, the foundation of rock 'n' roll. Here, most of all, we want to celebrate the electric guitar legend, the sound that gave voice to youth all over the world, the key that opened the doors of sensation, creativity, and of life itself. Lots of figures have contributed to this history: legendary musicians Chuck Berry, B. B. King, Frank Zappa, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, George Harrison, Brian May, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Mark Knopfler, and, above all, Jimi Hendrix. A handsomely illustrated tribute to the instruments that have earned these exemplary guitarists their reputations as some of the greatest musicians of all time, this volume will strike a chord with music enthusiasts of all ages.

John Lennon: In His Life

Thirty years ago, John Lennon's life was tragically cut short, ending one of the most influential and brilliant musical careers of the 20th century. This photo-biography, with a preface by his wife, Yoko Ono Lennon, takes a look back at the enigmatic legend, and a life marked by restless exploration-into art and music, consciousness and spirituality, politics and protest, love and peace. Featuring family photos and reproductions of documents that bear witness to momentous events and the origins of his "Imaginative" songs, this compilation, like no other, sheds light on his relationships with Paul, George, and Ringo; his attitudes toward mind-expanding drugs, social revolution, and the Vietnam War; the cataclysmic breakup of the Beatles; and the tenderness of his love for Yoko Ono and their only child Sean.

Pink Floyd: Guitar Tab Anthology

Alessandro Cipriani, Maurizio Giri

Electronic Music and Sound Design - Theory and Practice with Max/Msp - Volume 1

Structured for use in university courses, the book is an overview of the theory and practice of Max/MSP, with a glossary of terms and suggested tests that allow students to evaluate their progress. Comprehensive online support, running parallel to the explanations in the book, includes hundreds of sample patches, analyses, interactive sound-building exercises, and reverse engineering exercises. This book will provide a reader with skill and understanding in using Max/MSP for sound design and musical composition.

Jaclyn Alexis Bond

The 100 Best and Absolute Greatest Heavy Metal Albums in the World. Ever.

This collection of the 100 greatest heavy metal albums honors those bands andalbums that have made the genre what it is today.

Music and Media in the Arab World

Key issues of contemporary Arab society addressed through the culture of music