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The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection : The 350 Essential Works

-- Theodore Libbey, et al; Usually ships in 24 hours; Workman Publishing Company; Paperback; 536 pages; 2nd Rev&up edition; September 1999
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Book Description:
In his informed and indispensable guide, National Public Radio's Ted Libbey takes listeners by the hand through the classical repertory to build a music library. Now, five years after its original publication - with five years of new performances to consider, new releases to review. reissues to...Read more

The Inner Game of Music
-- Barry Green, W. Timothy Gallwey (Contributor); Usually ships in 24 hours; Doubleday; Hardcover; 225 pages; March 1986
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Book Description:
By the best-selling co-author of Inner Tennis, here's a book designed to help musicians overcome obstacles, help improve concentration, and reduce nervousness, allowing them to reach new levels of performing excellence and musical artistry. Read more

Digital Home Recording - Tips, Techniques, and Tools for Home Studio Production
-- Carolyn Keating(Editor), Craig Anderton (Editor); Usually ships in 24 hours; Miller Freeman Books; Paperback; 182 pages; 1998
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Explores the technical workings behind a range of home music technology and explains how best to take advantage of them. Topics covered include musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) technology, computer-driven CD recorders, sound cards, studio setup and maintenance, and multitrack mixing. Book...Read more

Rent
-- Jonathan Larson, et al; Usually ships in 24 hours; William Morrow & Co; Hardcover; 160 pages; June 1997
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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This is by far the must-get theater book of the year. With dazzling punk graphics that will quickly win book industry awards, the volume contains the entire libretto of the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical about love and loyalty among starving AIDS-stricken artists in New York's East Village. But...Read more

This Business of Artist Management
-- Xavier M., Jr. Frascogna, H. Lee Hetherington (Contributor); Usually ships in 2-3 days; Watson-Guptill Pubns; Hardcover; 304 pages; 3Rd/Rev/en edition; September 1997
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Synopsis:
The authoritative, standard reference on artist management in the music industry expands its insights even further in this updated edition, formerly titled Successful Artist Management. Professional and aspiring managers and career-minded performers will find guidance on topics such as setting up...Read more

Spirit into Sound : The Magic of Music
--Mickey Hart, et al; Usually ships in 24 hours; Acid Test; Paperback; 208 pages; 1 Ed edition; November 1999
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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In Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music, a magical collection of inspirational quotes, former Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart and ethnomusicologist Fredric Lieberman explore what it is about music that gives it the power to heal, or simply to transform an everyday moment into something of...Read more

Piano Lessons : Music, Love, & True Adventures
-- Noah Adams; Usually ships in 24 hours; Delta; Paperback; 272 pages; Reprint edition; April 1997
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
The difference between the piano lessons Noah Adams took and the ones most of us took was that he was 51, not 7, and -- lucky Noah -- his mother didn't make him practice. This is not only a delightful account of his twelve-month nose-to-the-grindstone attempt to learn to play the $11,000 Steinway he...Read more

Musician's Business and Legal Guide, The
-- Mark Halloran(Compiler), Beverly Hills Bar Association Committee; Usually ships in 24 hours; Prentice Hall; Textbook Binding; 462 pages; 2 edition; February 12, 1996
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
From Book News, Inc. , September 1, 1996:
Twenty-two entertainment lawyers share their expertise in legal matters affecting musicians using precise, colloquial language that every guitar player should understand. It's an A to Z treatment outlining topics such as preparing for group breakups before you sign the record deal (and hire an...Read more

The Art of Practicing : A Guide to Making Music from the Heart
-- Madeline Bruser, Yehudi Menuhin (Foreword); Usually ships in 24 hours; Bell Tower; Paperback; 288 pages; February 1999
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Book Description :
This landmark book enlightens amateur and professional musicians about a way of practicing that transforms a sometimes frustrating, monotonous, and overly strenuous labor into an exhilarating and rewarding experience. Acclaimed pianist and teacher Madeline Bruser combines physiological and...Read more

Scales over Chords : How to Improvise and Never Play Bad Notes
-- Wilbur M. Savidge, Randy Lee Vradenburg; Usually ships in 2-3 days; Music Sales Corp; Paperback; 3rd Bk&Cd edition; September 1996
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Synopsis:
"Scales Over Chords" is a book arranged in a variation of styles and tempos to give readers the excitement of playing on location with a live band. Also includes personal instruction on how to use pentatonic scales. Read more

The Real Deal : How to Get Signed to a Record Label from A to Z
-- Daylle Deanna Schwartz, Daylle Deanna Schwarz; Usually ships in 24 hours; Watson-Guptill Pubns; Paperback; 256 pages; May 1997
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Synopsis:
Indispensable insider information on launching a recording career is packed into this essential music industry primer. Any artist in popular music looking to land a record deal will want to get the complete score from this vital industry resource. Read more

Scuse Me... While I Kiss This Guy : And Other Misheard Lyrics
-- Gavin Edwards, Chris Kalb (Illustrator); Usually ships in 24 hours; Fireside; Paperback; 186 pages; April 1995
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Book Description:
DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy is a hilarious collection of over 275 lines people think they've heard in pop songs from the 1960s to the 1990s. Now you can come out of that closet and proudly sing whatever you think you hear. Don't deny it! You know you've sung totally...Read more

Bomb the Suburbs
-- William Upski Wimsatt; Usually ships in 24 hours; Soft Skull Pr; Paperback; 112 pages; 2nd Rev edition; September 1999
Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
fulton , April 28, 2000:
its the truth all i really can say about this book is after reading it my life has since changed i feel a review should be as good or better than a book and i just can't put it into words how good this book is if you like urban literature start with this book thank you upski Read more

Stand and Be Counted : Making Music, Making History : The Dramatic Story of the Artists and Causes That Changed America
-- David Crosby, David Bender; Usually ships in 24 hours; Harper San Francisco; Hardcover; 244 pages; March 2000
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Book Description:
"NOBODY KIDS THEMSELVES INTO BELIEVINGTHAT THEY CAN SOLVE THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS.WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, TOCHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER WHEREVER WECAN. AND IF IT TAKES A LONG PUSH, THEN WE'RE IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL. A LOT OF TIMES THIS ISN'T ABOUT THE GENIUS OF THEMOMENT. IT'S ABOUT...Read more

The Art of the Native American Flute
-- R. Carlos Nakai, et al; Usually ships in 24 hours; Mel Bay Publications; Paperback; 1 Ed edition; February 1997
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Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting
-- Jimmy Webb; Usually ships in 24 hours; Hyperion; Paperback; 448 pages; October 1999
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Synopsis:
From the legendary pop artist who has given the American songbook an unparalleled number of unforgettable hits comes the definitive guide for aspiring songwriters. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this titleRead more

The Great Pianists
-- Harold C. Schonberg; Usually ships in 24 hours; Fireside; Paperback; 525 pages; Rev/Updtd edition; June 1987
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Eric , March 29, 1999:
An extraordinarily informaive account This book, by Harold Schonberg, is an endless description of the pianists who made the piano what it is today. It's humurous, factual, entertaining and most of all informative to maximum level that we laymen can cope with. Well, done. I will certainly read other Schonberg books - in between... Read more

A Year With Swollen Appendices
-- Brian Eno; Usually ships in 24 hours; Faber & Faber; Paperback; 416 pages; August 1996
Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Synopsis:
Provocateur, cult figure, cerebral rock star, and studio experimentalist, Brian Eno has greatly influenced an encyclopedia of styles--from art rock to punk to world music to techno to ambient music. A founding member of Roxy Music, he went on to work as a solo artist and a producer/collaborator with...Read more

Nurtured by Love: The Classical Approach to Talent Education
-- Shinichi Suzuki; Usually ships in 24 hours; Warner Bros Publications; Paperback; 108 pages; 2 edition; January 1983
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Book Description:
This book is the cornerstone upon which to build any Suzuki-oriented library. In it the author presents the philosophy and principles of Suzuki's teaching methods. Through the examples from his own life and teaching, Suzuki establishes his case for early childhood education and the high potential of...Read more

Nine Inch Nails : Self-Destruct
-- Martin Huxley; Usually ships in 24 hours; St. Martin's Press; Paperback; 224 pages; 1 stmartin edition; October 1997
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Those who hunger for throbbing bombast in all aspects of contemporary life will flock to this not incredibly revealing portrait of the man, the myth, the arrested adolescent behind the band Nine Inch Nails--Trent Reznor. Reznor is Nine Inch Nails and vice versa, just as the Mothers of Invention were...Read more

Goldmine Record Albums Price Guide
--by Tim Neely(Introduction); Usually ships in 24 hours; Krause Publications; Paperback; 548 pages; September 1999
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Avg. Customer Review. 4 out of 5 stars
mip45@aol.com, November 9, 1999
Now includes Compilation, Soundtrack, and Cast Album values Eliminating common LP's and concentrating on $20 and up items is a good idea. Adding various artist, soundtrack, and cast recording LP's is helpful. Also thankfully includes classical LP's, particularly RCA Living Stereo. Read more

Radiohead : From a Great Height
-- Jonathan Hale; Usually ships in 24 hours; E C W Pr; Paperback; 250 pages; March 1999
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Book Description:
a picture-packed, story-filled, music-loving feast for Radiohead fans. Rolling Stone named them Band-of-the-Year for 1998, Spin magazine did the same. Entertainment Weekly pronounced their last CD the Album-of-the-Year. People said they had the Best Song for 1997. Us called them one of the biggest...Read more

The Complete Gilbert & Sullivan : Librettos from All Fourteen Operettas
-- Arthur Sullivan, et al; Usually ships in 24 hours; Black Dog & Leventhal Pub; Hardcover; 736 pages; September 1998
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
The publisher, Black Dog & Leventhal , December 30, 1998:
Description With over 200 line drawings by the author. This ultimate book for the millions of Gilbert & Sullivan fans across the country offers the complete text and lyrics of all the operettas of this most original, creative and much-loved musical team. * Now both veteran and new fans can catch all the...Read more

The Player's Guide to Guitar Maintenance
-- Dave Burrluck; Usually ships in 24 hours; Miller Freeman Books; Hardcover; 84 pages; 1998
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Library Journal, October 15, 1998:
"Here is a new book geared to those without specialized repair skills...The illustrations are particularly effective in detailing the minute adjustments involved in intonation. These basic skills allow players to respond quickly to changing conditions during performance or recording instead of...Read more

Midi for the Professional
-- Paul Lehrman, Tim Tully (Contributor); Usually ships in 2-3 days; Music Sales Corp; Paperback; 239 pages; 1st edition; 1993
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
A reviewer, July 12, 1998:
This is THE reference work for MIDI users of all kinds. MIDI For The Professional, now in its second edition, is the standard textbook for college-level courses in MIDI in the US and abroad. It has received rave reviews Keyboard, the Electronic Music Foundation, the IMA Newsletter, Piano & Keyboard magazine, and many other publications. For the... Read more