Search this site      How to Succeed in the Music Business Authors: Dann, Allan / Underwood, John ISBN: 0-86001-454-1 Pages: 88 Format: Paperback Publisher: Music Sales Corporation Published: June 1992 Condition: Price: USD $2.99 Country & Blues Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless Authors: Gindick, Jon / Geller, Barry ISBN: 0-932592-08-2 Pages: 112 Format: Paperback Publisher: Klutz Press Published: September 1984 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Book Description: This friendly book is a musical first-aid kit that picks up where your third-grade piano teacher quit. Music Theory Author: Jones, George Thaddeus ISBN: 0-06-460137-4 Pages: 325 Format: Paperback Publisher: HarperPerennial Published: 1974 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Book Description: Elementary Acoustics and the Properties of Sound, Music Notation, Intervals and Scales, Chords, Symbolization, Expression Marks and Foreign-Language Terms, Tonality and Key Feeling, Melody Writing, Four-Part Vocal Texture (SATB), Chord Connection, Chord Choice, Harmonizing a Melody, Nonharmonic Tones, Seventh and Ninth Chords, Altered Chords and Chromaticism, Solving Figured Bass, Analysis and Score Reading, Foreign-Language Names for Orchestral Instruments, Range and Transposition of Orchestral Instruments, Homophonic Forms. Also includes Illustrations, Diagrams, Review Questions, Exercises, Bibliography, and Full Index. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. All You Need to Know About the Music Business Author: Passman, Donald S. ISBN: 0-671-88304-6 Pages: 415 Format: Hardcover Publisher: SS Published: 1994 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 Amazon.com: Our band is about to get beyond the local scene and start wrestling with the industry for record deals and national tours, so I practically jumped out of my skin when I finally found this book. It completely demystifies the workings of the entire music industry--in a musician-friendly way. A tiny, selfish neuron in me hesitated for a moment about telling the world of this book--but hey, we musicians are all in this together. If everyone negotiating with record companies read and used this book, we'd collectively be better able to get the sort of financial rewards our art deserves. Just so you know this isn't a load of hype, here are the section and chapter titles. Your Team of Advisors How to Pick a Team; Personal Managers; Business Managers; Attorneys; Agents Record Deals Broad-Strokes Overview of the Record Business; Advances and Recoupments; Real-Life Numbers; Other Major Deal Points; Producer Deals; Advanced Record Deal Points; Advanced Royalty Computations; Loan-out, Independent Production, Label, and Distribution Deals Songwriting and Music Publishing Copyright Basics; Publishing Companies and Major Income Sources; Secondary Publishing Income; Songwriter Deals; Copublishing and Administration Deals; Advanced Copyright Concepts; Even More Advanced Copyright Concepts Group Issues Touring Merchandising Tour Merchandising; Retail Merchandising Motion Picture Music Overview of Motion Picture Music; Performer Deals; Film Songwriting Deals; Composer Agreements; Licensing Existing Recordings and Existing Songs for Motion Pictures; Music Supervisors; Soundtrack Album Deals Each and every chapter is full of wisdom, humor, and support, written by an actively practicing Harvard Law grad who has also been teaching music law at UCLA (a stone's throw from the heart of darkness) since 1978. David Geffen (Jillionaire owner of Geffen Records) I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the music business. CD & DVD Recording for Dummies 2nd Edition Author: Chambers, Mark L. ISBN: 0-7645-5956-7 Pages: 360 Format: Paperback Publisher: For Dummies Published: March 5, 2004 Condition: Price: USD $2.99 Book Description: Most new PCs and Macs today are equipped with the latest in recording and storage equipment: CD-RW and DVD-R/RW drives. Even if your computer is a little older, you can still join the revolution with add-on hardware and software. You can record music and movies, store photos and data, and organize things you want to preserve for posterity, safely and easily. CD and DVD Recording For Dummies®, Second Edition, takes the frustration out of choosing and using these cool recording systems. This easy-to-follow guide will help you find what you need and use it efficiently, and it covers all the newest equipment. You'll discover how to Choose and install a CD or DVD recorder Pick the best software for your needs Store large data files safely on CD Use EasyCD and DVD Creator and Toast Record mixed media disks Create electronic photo albums, baby books, genealogies, and more Once upon a time, videotape, vinyl record albums, and floppy disks were state of the art for preserving movies, music, and data. The superior durability and capacity of CDs and DVDs have made these tools as obsolete as the washboard, but never fear. CD and DVD Recording For Dummies®, Second Edition, makes it easy to Transfer your favorite VHS movies to DVD Preserve those classic LPs on CD Archive records and data files, and safely store treasured family photos Ask the right questions when shopping for CD or DVD recording hardware and software Record original material, copy and erase rewriteable disks, and make backups of important data Add menus to your disks, label them, and care for them properly Record a bootable CD-ROM Today's CD and DVD recorders can produce everything from superb sound quality to original movies you can play on your DVD player. CD and DVD Recording For Dummies® will get your recording career going in a jiffy. Book Info Friendly guide covers everything the recording novice needs to select, buy, install, use and troubleshoot a CD-RW or DVD-R drive, including software selection, optimization, built-in software like iTunes and iMovie 2 and much more. Softcover. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The Enjoyment of Music An Introduction to Perceptive Listening Authors: MacHlis, Joseph / Forney, Kristine ISBN: 0-393-97299-2 Pages: 687 Format: Hardcover Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Published: December 1998 Condition: Price: USD $3.29 Book Description: A new edition of the premiere college appreciation text used by over two generations of students. This immensely popular book is available in Chronological, Standard (more familiar music first), and Shorter versions. Among the many special features are detailed Listening Guides for numerous pieces, Cultural Perspectives that shed light on music of the world's peoples, and quotes from composers "In Their Own Words." The Norton Recordings provide outstanding performances of all guided listening examples. How to Listen to Modern Music Without Earplugs Author: Walden, David E. / Duncan, Mike (Illustrator) ISBN: 0-920151-31-0 Pages: 160 Format: Paperback Publisher: Sound And Vision Published: April 1, 1999 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Book Description: If you thought How to Stay Awake During Anybody's Second Movement was the least bit funny, you'll die laughing at David Walden's second volume, tackling the last musical taboo--the subject that virtually no one has dared expose to the public eye--namely, Modern Serious Music of the 20th Century. About the Author David Walden is an Associate Professor of music at Toronto's Ryerson Polytechnic University and he continues to write, perform and compose. Mike Duncan is a successful non-graduate of both Sheridan College and Brock University. After nine years in commercial radio, Mike decided to become a freelance illustrator. Piano Author: Palmer, Willard A. / Manus, Morton /                 Vick Lethco, Amanda ISBN: none Pages: 63 Format: Paperback Publisher: Alfred Publishing Co. Published: 1981 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 This is a new, easy, step-by step method. It emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. It gives a solid foundation in music theory. It is a TRUE MULTI-KEY APPROACH. Although key signatures are not introduced in Level 1A, the student actually plays in SEVEN DIFFERENT KEYS! The student plays satisfying and entertaining pieces from the very first lesson. Each new challenge brings enjoyment to the student and the teacher and because the material progresses so carefully it is problem-free. For reinforcement of each principle as it is introduced, supplementary material is carefully coordinated, page for page, at each level of instruction. 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