An Injury Prevention Guide for Musicians-Making music at any level is a powerful gift. While musicians have endless resources for learning the basics of their instruments and the theory of music few books have explored the other subtleties and complexities that musicians face in their quest to play with ease and skill. The demands of solitary practice hectic rehearsal schedules challenging repertoire performance pressures awkward postures and other physical strains have left a trail of injured hearing-impaired and frustrated musicians who have had few resources to guide them.Playing Less Hurt addresses this need with specific tools to avoid and alleviate injury. Impressively researched the book isinvaluable not only to musicians but also to the coaches and medical professionals who work with them. Everyone from dentists to orthopaedists audiologists to neurologists massage therapists and trainers will benefit from Janet Horvath's coherent account of the physiology and psyche of a practicing musician. Writing with knowledge sympathetic insight humour and aplomb Horvath has created an essential resource for all musicians who want to play better and feel better.

Apple's Logic 9 is the most comprehensive and complete music production software package on the market today. Logic 9 Studio comes with an impressive array of software instruments plug-ins synthesizers applications and more while the slimmed-down Logic 9 Express delivers an amazing amount of power with many of the same plug-ins and a nearly identical digital audio and MIDI workstation production application. Power Tools for Logic 9 unlocks Logic's immense capabilities to help you achieve amazing results for your audio and music productions with techniques you won't find in beginner-level books or videos. Rick Silva teaches you powerful ways to use both Studio and Express giving you easy-to-understand strategies for using the complex production tools built into Logic. You'll tap into known features in ways you never thought of before while learning to use new features to produce spectacular audio recordings. Go beyond beginner with Power Tools for Logic 9 ! DVD-ROM included with new music-making strategies demonstrated in videos and session files.

The Martin is considered the finest acoustic guitar in the world a distinction it has held for more that 160 years. Martin guitars have been played by performers Eric Clapton Stephen Stills Judy Collins and Johnny Cash as well as hundreds of thousands of other professional and amateur musicians. In C.F. Martin and His Guitars 1796-1873 Philip Gura chronicles the career of Christian Frederick Martin from his humble start as an importer and repairman of musical instruments in New York City in the 1830s through his move to Nazareth Pennsylvania and the founding of C.F. Martin & Company. Gura is the first historian to thoroughly studythe Martin company records dating back to the 1830s: Letters account books inventories and other documents. Using this rich archive Gura establishes how a German immigrant from Saxony's guild tradition became the finest American guitar maker of his time and created a uniquely American business that successfully eclipsed its competition. As Gura shows Martin's success was based on his successful navigation of the rapid economic expansion and industrialization of his time. The many sketches and hundreds of photographs illustrate how Martin adapted his artisanal craft to modern industrial methods maintaining quality while meeting increased demand for instruments. Gura traces the network of suppliers who provided Martin with his raw materials and explores the advertising and other methods Martin employed to build a market for his goods. After Martin's death in 1873 the company continued to grow. It thrives today under the leadership of a sixth-generation Martin producing instruments that are still the most sought after and collectable in the world. Includes an 80-page color section!

During their golden years of 1977 to 1982, The Jam's frontman Paul Weller was their outspoken leader, but it was drummer Rick Buckler who was the beating heart of the band, and it is his fascinating story that is told in his autobiography, That's Entertainment: My Life In The Jam, replete with insights into his life and music.From his childhood in the 1950s to his musical growth to becoming the backbone of one of the most successful punk rock British bands, the story goes on to detail his post-Jam musical career, incorporating a number of other musicians in his continuous projects. Featuring some incredible photographs from Buckler's personal archives, in-depth details about his personal and musical life, as well as new information about his projects since The Jam, That's Entertainment: My Life In The Jam presents a great biography that is an antidote to many of the other popular music books out there.As The Jam rose to fame in 1977, their blend of rock, punk, mod and new-wave made them a musical force to be reckoned with. Weller's in-your-face attitude and songwriting combined with Bruce Foxton's powerful bass lines and Buckler's brilliant drumming to create a sound that has been often replicated but rarely matched. This book is the story of the man at the back of the band, absent from the bitter quarrels but always looking forward from the middle, both physically on-stage and metaphorically. There have been a vast number of other books written about The Jam, but none come close to the intimacy and personality of this portrayal of a pioneering band and their interesting story. Through Rick Buckler's eyes, That's Entertainment: My Life In The Jam chronicles the highlights of their heyday and the low points of the dissolution of friendships. It's a brilliant read if you're a fan of The Jam, or even at all interested in popular music, this Rick Buckler autobiography has it all. / Livre

Story Of Jazz As Told By The Men Who Made It. Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ? Charlie Parker What is jazz? The rhythm ? the feeling. ? Coleman Hawkins The best sound usually comes the first time you do something. If it's spontaneous, it's going to be rough, not clean, but it's going to have the spirit which is the essence of jazz. ? Dave Brubeck Here, in their own words, such famous jazz musicians as Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Clarence Williams, Jo Jones, Jelly Roll Morton, Mezz Mezzrow, Billie Holiday, and many others recall the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years. From its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century in the red-light district in New Orleans (or Storyville, as it came to be known), to Chicago's Downtown section and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Chicago's South Side to jam sessions in Kansas City to Harlem during the Depression years, the West Coast and modern developments, the story of jazz is vividly and colorfully documented in hundreds of personal interviews, letters, tape recorded and telephone conversations, and excerpts from previously printed articles that appeared in books and magazines. There is no more fascinating and lively history of jazz than this firsthand telling by the men who made it. It should be read and re-read by all jazz enthusiasts, musicians, students of music and culture, students of American history, and other readers. A lively book bearing the stamp of honesty and naturalness. ? Library Journal. A work of considerable substance. ? The New Yorker. Some of the quotations are a bit racy but they give the book a wonderful flavor. ? San Francisco Chronicle.

Salzburg Mannheim Rome Paris Prague Vienna - Mozart lived and worked in some of Europe's most beautiful cities; this lavishly-illustrated biography brings his world vividly to life. Musical extracts from some of Mozart's best-loved works - in simple keyboard arrangement - complete the picture of this flamboyant personality.Composerâ??s World is a series of books illustrating the life and times of the world's greatest composers. With pictures words and music it places each composer's life and work within the circumstances that shaped their career.

Each volume in the Année De Formation Musicale series features 25 progressive lessons covering information learned in the first four years of musical training. Featuring lessons on rhythm singing ear training aswell as theory and analysis this Première Année will provide a fantastic introduction to musical training for beginners. These tuition books also include additional lessons that recommend homepractice sight-reading exercises musical extracts to work on as well as instrument recognition and analysis.

The Taylor Guitar Book. Growing from a small custom shop in the early 1970s to the only new brand to have challenged the traditional Big Three of American acoustic Guitars (Gibson, Guild, and Martin), Taylor has effectively changed the marketplace for acoustic steel-string Guitars and influenced every other maker of acoustic stringed instruments. But Taylor's influence in the Guitar market goes far beyond the Guitars themselves. Having pioneered the use of modern building techniques ? such as utilizing CNC machines, UV-finishing, etc. ? the company has been an undisputed leader when it comes to innovation. Taylor's latest efforts are concentrated on wood conservation, and again, the company is setting the example that the industry is following. The Taylor Guitar Book combines a historical storyline with useful hands-on information about model changes over the years ? to help readers learn how to identify and date a Taylor ? and features shop and factory photos (both historical and current) as well as full-color images of Guitars.

The American Song Book contains beautiful reproductions of original sheet music of the Tin Pan Alley Era. This book places these songs in historical context and provides fascinating and amusing backgrounds to the songs. Based on original archival research. The American Song Book Volume I: The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint original sheet music including covers of songs that constitute the enduring standards of Irving Berlin Jerome Kern the Gershwins and other lyricists and composers of what has been called the 'Golden Age' of American popular music. These songs havedone what popular songs are not supposed to do-stayed popular. They have been reinterpreted year after year generation after generation by jazz artists such as Charlie Parker and Art Tatum Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. In the 1950s Frank Sinatra began recording albums of these standards and was soon followed by such singers as Tony Bennet Doris Day Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt. In more recent years these songs have been reinterpreted by Rod Stewart Harry Connick Jr. Carly Simon Lady GaGa K.D. Laing Paul McCartney and most recently Bob Dylan. As such these songs constitute the closest thing America has to a repertory of enduring classical music. In addition to reprinting the sheet music for these classic songs authors Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson place these songs in historical context with essays about the sheet-music publishing industry known as Tin Pan Alley the emergence of American musical comedy on Broadway and the 'talkie' revolution that made possible the Hollywood musical. The authors also provide biographical sketches of songwriters performers and impresarios such as Florenz Ziegfeld. In addition they analyze the lyrical and musical artistry of each song and relate anecdotes sometimes amusing sometimes poignant about how the songs were created. The American

Contains manuscript paper with enlarged stages for use by younger pupils. Ideal for use with the John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course series books.

A Complete History of Epiphone Guitars-The story of Epiphone one of the oldest and most famous guitar companies is told by former staff historian Walter Carter. It's an epic story spanning three centuries from Old World roots in the 19th century to the golden age of American makers in the 20th century and onward into the global market of the new millennium. It's the story of America's business from an individual luthier to a family business and on to corporate ownership. And it's the story of American popular music powered by Epiphone guitars from big-bodied Emperor that drove the swing bands of the 1930s to the electric hollowbodies of the 1960s used by TheBeatles and studio ace Howard Roberts to custom solidbody models for such modern rockers as Noel Gallagher (Oasis) Jeff Waters (Annihilator) and Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance). Beautifully illustrated with photos of all the important Epiphone instruments and the extraordinary musicians who played them this is a fascinating history of an iconic name in the world of the guitar.

Each volume in the Année De Formation Musicale series features 25 progressive lessons covering information learned in the first four years of musical training. Featuring lessons on rhythm singing ear training aswell as theory and analysis this?Troisième?Année will provide a fantastic introduction to musical training for beginners. These tuition books also include additional lessons thatrecommend home practice sight-reading exercises musical extracts to work on as well as instrument recognition and analysis.

Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton is a comprehensive and revealing biography which includes interviews with family members, musicians and producers who have worked with Dolly over the years. This new and fully updated edition includes a detailed section on the superstar's legendary performance at 2014's Glastonbury Festival.This book is a detailed assessment of her music as a singer and songwriter over the last forty years, and author Stephen Miller discusses how she shrugged aside the male-dominated world of Nashville in the early 1960s to take hold of her career, sell millions of albums and appear in films with Jane Fonda, Burt Reynolds and Sylvester Stallone.Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton throws new light on her private life - her mysterious and closely guarded relationship with her husband Carl Dean, and her lifelong friend Judy Ogle as well as her seeming love of cosmetic surgery. This is the story of an artist and performer who is deadly serious about music but is often seen as frivolous about her image. The updated version of this Dolly Parton biography includes details of her Glastonbury 2014 performance, the cherry on the cake of her illustrious career. Finding new fans and putting on a characteristically entertaining show for old ones, the UK tour led to her most recent album being her biggest-selling album in the UK ever.This incredible detailed Dolly Parton biography is a must for all fans, old and new, of this jewel in country music's crown. Boasting an authoritative account of her ongoing career, this is the only biography on the legendary lady, the queen of country, the philanthropist and perfect performer.Stephen Miller practised as a solicitor until the early Nineties when he retired in order to pursue other interests, notably American country music. For six years he reviewed albums, books and concerts and interviewed a variety of artists for a weekly country music show on commercial radio station Scot FM. He is also the author of Johnny Cash: The Life on an American Idol, also published by Omnibus Press.If you've bought the biography and been inspired by Parton's incredible songwriting, why not learn some of her Greatest Hits with our Dolly Parton sheet music. / Livre

(age 7-8): In this fourth book of the series the programme for Year 3 again builds upon the earlier books of the infant stage whilst increasing demands and expectations particularly in skill acquisition. Attuned to the range of National Curriculum experiences particular features of this book are: the progressive development of vocal and instrumental techniques a module focusing on a structured approach to reading and writing music knowledge and understanding of music placed in an historical context a musical production.

All That's Left to Know About the Iconic Rock Survivors-Offering a fresh perspective on one of the most prolific and well-loved catalogs of songs in the rock 'n' roll canon Fleetwood Mac FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Iconic Rock Survivors digs deeper than your average music compendium and sidesteps the tediousness of most generalized band histories. Professional yet playful the book's most unique feature is its structure: a hybrid of historical breakdowns Q