A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becoming

How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time?

The Complete Idiot's Guide Music Dictionary Book. Written in clear, concise language, The Complete Idiot's Guide Music Dictionary spans the gamut of musical knowledge, making it indispensable to any musician. Covering various terms, theories, instruments, important works, musicians, and composers, music

Learn About The World Of Sync

If you've ever wanted to hear your music playing in

film, ​TV, commercials, video games, or movie trailers,

then this is the book for you.

As one of the most timeless music genres, Ambient has always kept a firm place in the flood of electronic styles. Thanks to inspiration from other styles of music, several successful subgenres have emerged, such as Drones and Psybient. We‘ll go through the most important varieties of Ambient and show you how to produce tracks in the style of Suduaya, Deepbass, Align as well as DJ Shadow. Finally, genre pioneers like Ian Boddy and Banco de Gaia as well as current innovators like Solar Fields and Carbon Based Lifeforms give exciting insights into their creative process.

Streaming & Musician’s rights - finally fair?

Streaming is no longer the future. Streaming is the now. But the problems created by a shift to streaming are by no means a thing of the past. Rather, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezr and Tidal have given labels more power over their music than ever before. Maybe it had to be like this. But can it go on like this?

Guitar Chords For Dummies is full of, well, guitar chords. This indispensable reference is a must for guitarists of every ambition, skill level, and musical genre, providing a key to the simplest and most complex guitar chords—over 600 in all. Each chord is illustrated with a chord diagram and a photo with guitarist’s tips sprinkled throughout the book. You’ll also get a tiny bit of music theory, so you know what’s going on with all those symbols, and voicings for each chord in each of the 12 keys. And it’s even small enough to fit in your guitar case. Add sparkle and range to your musical repertoire.

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research. The author argues that as well as providing objective evidence, music corpora can themselves be treated as texts to be subjectively read and creatively interpreted, allowing new levels of understanding and insight into music traditions.

Medieval art has most often been extracted from its audible ambience, denying us means to understand the way it would have been experienced in a sonic context. Although sound is probably the most difficult component of the past to reconstruct, it was also the most pervasive, whether planned or unplanned, instrumental or vocal, occasional or ambient.

This volume brings together specialists in architecture, manuscript illumination, and musicology to reconsider the relationship between sound and image in the visual cultures of eastern and western Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The authors of Resounding Images take a variety of approaches to the now-missing intersection between the visual and the aural.

Joseph Banowetz and four distinguished contributors provide practical suggestions and musicological insights on the pedaling of keyboard works from the 18th to the 20th century.

" . . . a most precious book which every serious pianist and teacher must own." —Journal of the American Liszt Society

This book explores music with respect to quantum computing, a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly. There is a long history of research into using computers for music since the 1950s.

Nowadays, computers are essential for the music economy. Therefore, it is very likely that quantum computers will impact the music industry in the time to come. Consequently, a new area of research and development is emerging: Quantum Computer Music.

This unprecedented book presents the new field of Quantum Computer Music. It introduces the fundamentals of quantum computing for musicians and the latest developments by pioneering practitioners.