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  • Brian May's Red Special: The Story of the Home-Made Guitar That Rocked Queen and the World by Bradley, Simon
    Simon Bradley

    Brian May's Red Special: The Story of the Home-Made Guitar That Rocked Queen and the World

    In 1963, Brian May and his father started to build the Red Special--an electric guitar meant to outperform anything commercially made. Here, Brian talks about his one-of-a-kind instrument, which he played on every single Queen album and during the band's amazing shows. Along with...
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  • The Definitive Guitar Handbook (2017 Updated) by Peña, Paco
    Paco Pe

    The Definitive Guitar Handbook (2017 Updated)

    Updates with new diagrams and links. This best-selling one-stop resource is packed with practical advice on how to tackle the basics, such as simple chords and finger-picking, right through to more complex power chords, slurs, bends and slides. It also includes tips on stagecraft...
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  • Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives by Dillane, Aileen
    Aileen Dillane

    Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives

    Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive, cutting-edge companion guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from a range of fields, it explores a wide range of examples of, and contexts for, songs and their performance that have...
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  • Definitive Opera Encyclopedia: New & Expanded Edition by Sadie, Stanley
    Stanley Sadie

    Definitive Opera Encyclopedia: New & Expanded Edition

    Updated and expanded version of the classic reference work, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Opera, this new text edition examines the history and development of opera, from its roots in the theatrical choral dances of Ancient Greece, through the sublime compositions of Handel and Mozart...
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  • Classical Music Encyclopedia: New & Expanded Edition by Sadie, Stanley
    Stanley Sadie

    Classical Music Encyclopedia: New & Expanded Edition

    The Classical Music Encylopedia, now fully updated, traces the development of Western music from medieval times through to the twenty-first century. Each chapter begins with an Introduction to the era, followed by an A to Z of the key composers and musicians of the...
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  • Leonard Bernstein by Laird, Paul R.
    Paul R. Laird

    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein was one of twentieth-century music's most successful and recognizable figures. In a career spanning five decades, he conducted many of the world's leading orchestras and composed scores for landmark musicals such as West Side Story. With an iron self-belief, he negotiated risky...
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  • There's Your Quote, Mate: An Anthology of Outrageous Interviews from the Mixed-Up, Muddled-Up Music Scene by Tati, Antonino
    Antonino Tati

    There's Your Quote, Mate: An Anthology of Outrageous Interviews from the Mixed-Up, Muddled-Up Music Scene

    Antonino Tati (founding editor of Cream Magazine) celebrates 20 years of publishing by pulling together an anthology of unorthodox interviews with artists from the international music scene - delving into juicier subjects like sex and sexuality, drink and drugs, money and politics, race and...
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  • The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: Classical Period Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire by Dabelstein, Craig
    Craig Dabelstein

    The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: Classical Period Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire

    Classical Period Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Repertoire is the eighth volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. This volume is a companion to the fourth volume in this series, The Wind...
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  • The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: The Nineteenth-Century Wind Band and Wind Ensemble by Dabelstein, Craig
    Craig Dabelstein

    The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: The Nineteenth-Century Wind Band and Wind Ensemble

    The Nineteenth-Century Wind Band and Wind Ensemble is the fifth volume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground breaking thirteen-volume History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble series. Whitwell's meticulous scholarship reveals the continuous history of the wind ensemble, from its earliest roots...
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  • The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: The Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Before 1500 by Dabelstein, Craig
    Craig Dabelstein

    The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: The Wind Band and Wind Ensemble Before 1500

    The Wind Band and Wind Ensem-ble Before 1500 is the first vol-ume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground break-ing thir-teen vol-ume His-tory and Lit-er-a-ture of the Wind Band and Wind Ensem-ble series. Whitwell's metic-u-lous schol-ar-ship reveals the con-tin-u-ous his-tory of the wind ensem-ble, from its...
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  • The top 43 punk albums 2018: the essential guide to the best punk music of the year by Miller, Gary
    Gary Miller

    The top 43 punk albums 2018: the essential guide to the best punk music of the year

    Are you a profound follower of punk music?2018 was a prolific year for new albums across the punk rock spectrum, and we have selected the top 43to help you find both the innovative and original artists making great music today.From the author of the...
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  • I Was Britpopped: The A-Z of Britpop by Natasha, Jenny
    Jenny Natasha

    I Was Britpopped: The A-Z of Britpop

    Britpop: it's the only term that can accurately encompass the bright, bold sound and attitude that burst from the United Kingdom in the '90s. Beginning with the release of Blur's single 'Popscene' in 1992, peaking with Oasis' triumphant outdoor live shows at Knebworth in...
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  • Sounds of the Sixties: The Ultimate Sixties Music Companion by Swern, Phil
    Phil Swern

    Sounds of the Sixties: The Ultimate Sixties Music Companion

    The book contains fascinating facts about memorable hits from key Sixties artists, hard-to-fi nd tracks alongside many hidden gems This is a comprehensive collection that music fans and hardened Sixties collectors will cherish. The book includes features on: Beatles covers / Double A-Sides /...
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  • I Was Britpopped: The A-Z of Britpop by Natasha, Jenny
    Jenny Natasha

    I Was Britpopped: The A-Z of Britpop

    Britpop: it's the only term that can accurately encompass the bright, bold sound and attitude that burst from the United Kingdom in the '90s. Beginning with the release of Blur's single 'Popscene' in 1992, peaking with Oasis' triumphant outdoor live shows at Knebworth in...
    $19.99
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  • The Progressive Underground Volume One by Rowland, Kev
    Kev Rowland

    The Progressive Underground Volume One

    Contrary to popular belief, progressive rock didn't disappear with the advent of punk, and the lack of media support didn't prevent new bands from forming and new music being created, it just drove it underground. It is hard to imagine these days, with everyone...
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  • Catching Up: Connecting With Great 21st Century Music by Fusilli, Jim
    Jim Fusilli

    Catching Up: Connecting With Great 21st Century Music

    Written by Jim Fusilli, the long-time rock and pop critic of The Wall Street Journal and editor and founder of ReNewMusic.net, "Catching Up" does more than introduce grownup music fans to some of the best, most dynamic and enjoyable music of the 21st century....
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  • Cognitive Musicology by Morrison, Heath
    Heath Morrison

    Cognitive Musicology

    Cognitive musicology is a branch of cognitive science concerned with computationally modeling musical knowledge with the goal of understanding both music and cognition. This useful curated reference guide covers such topics as cognitive musicology, music psychology, psychoacoustics, evolutionary musicology, background music, bio-musicology, the mathematics...
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  • Carpenters - Album by Album: Song by Song by Henry, Rick
    Rick Henry

    Carpenters - Album by Album: Song by Song

    An extensive look at every album and every song recorded and released by Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter as a duo and as solo artists. This e-book covers each songs giving historical data and personal viewpoints along with comments from fans. This is the...
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  • Manageable Left-Handed Guitar Chords: Illustrated with black and white strings to show which strings to play for each chord by Green, P. M. P.
    P. M. P. Green

    Manageable Left-Handed Guitar Chords: Illustrated with black and white strings to show which strings to play for each chord

    This book is a unique guitar chord reference. 468 chords are shown for left-handed guitarists. It not only shows the chord shape but the notes and scale degrees in each chord. This is very useful for all guitar players. Beginners should not only try...
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  • Manageable Guitar Chords: Illustrated with black and white strings to show which strings to play for each chord by Green, P. M. P.
    P. M. P. Green

    Manageable Guitar Chords: Illustrated with black and white strings to show which strings to play for each chord

    This book is a unique guitar chord reference. 468 chords are shown. It not only shows the chord shape but the notes and scale degrees in each chord. This is very useful for all guitar players. Beginners should not only try to learn the...
    $18.37
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  • Did You Know?: A Music Lover's Guide to Nicknames, Titles, and Whimsy by Benstock, Seymour L.
    Seymour L. Benstock

    Did You Know?: A Music Lover's Guide to Nicknames, Titles, and Whimsy

    The book is user-friendly and extremely handy as a reference tool. In addition, it makes for enjoyable and highly informative reading.Author: Seymour L. BenstockISBN-10: 1466972920ISBN-13: 9781466972926Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2013Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
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  • We Are The Road Crew: Life on the Road and How I Got There by Barr, Ken
    Ken Barr

    We Are The Road Crew: Life on the Road and How I Got There

    Starting in 1978 and ending in 2000, I worked in the music indusrty as a technician. My journey started in the bars and rock clubs on Long Island, New york, and eventually took me to arenas and stadiums around the world working for KISS,...
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  • Unsung: A History of Women in American Music: Volume 1 by Ammer, Christine
    Christine Ammer

    Unsung: A History of Women in American Music: Volume 1

    This updates and expanded edition of the classic text in the field describes hundreds of women musicians -- composers, instrumentalists, orchestra and opera managers, music educators, and music patrons, and their activity from the 18th to 21st centuries. It includes their most important compositions...
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  • Sunfly Karaoke lists: reference numbers song/artist titles for Karaoke by Cdg Karaoke, Sunfly
    Sunfly Cdg Karaoke

    Sunfly Karaoke lists: reference numbers song/artist titles for Karaoke

    the karaoke lists for Sunfly CDG's 001 - 300. Rather than use photocopies and folders to hand out to your audience use professionally made printed books for your audience to select their songs.Author: Sunfly Cdg KaraokeISBN-10: 1482355620ISBN-13: 9781482355628Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2013Pages:...
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  • Making Music: The History of Duquesne University's Mary Pappert School of Music by Rishel, Joseph F.
    Joseph F. Rishel

    Making Music: The History of Duquesne University's Mary Pappert School of Music

    Experience the rich history of the Mary Pappert School of Music, one of the most prestigious music schools in the nation. In 1926, Duquesne University, a Catholic college in Pittsburgh, humbly founded its music school with a handful of students. The institution quickly grew...
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  • The Spirituality of Richard Gere by Nigro, Nicholas
    Nicholas Nigro

    The Spirituality of Richard Gere

    One constant of popular culture is its value of celebrities and public figures. Some icons transcend divides and appeal to all kinds of individuals for various reasons. They are leaders in their own ways, using their celebrity platforms to make a difference. Regardless of...
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  • Sleep by Silvestri, Charles Anthony
    Charles Anthony Silvestri

    Sleep

    (Book). This beautifully illustrated children's book is the latest result of a collaboration between poet Charles Anthony Silvestri and composer Eric Whitacre. The text was originally written to accompany Whitacre's enormously popular choral work "Sleep." This hardcover book is a new way to enjoy...
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  • A View from the Side: Stories and Perspectives on the Music Business: Interviews with Bass Giants Will Lee, Marcus Miller, Leland Sklar, Ton by Visceglia, Michael
    Michael Visceglia

    A View from the Side: Stories and Perspectives on the Music Business: Interviews with Bass Giants Will Lee, Marcus Miller, Leland Sklar, Ton

    With A View from the Side, musician Michael Visceglia attempts to give the reader a window in which to view the lives, aspirations, adventures and misadventures, phenomenal successes and tragic failures of some of the leading practitioners of an art that he is intimately...
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  • Accessible Orchestral Repertoire: An Annotated Guide for Community and School Orchestras by Chetel, Daniel
    Daniel Chetel

    Accessible Orchestral Repertoire: An Annotated Guide for Community and School Orchestras

    Accessible Orchestral Repertoire is a repertoire and programming resource for any conductor who leads a non-professional symphonic orchestra. Modeled on and complimentary to Daniels' Orchestral Music, the book will help every conductor selecting repertoire that will feature and enrich individual non-professional ensembles.Author: Daniel ChetelISBN-10:...
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  • Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician by Coppenbarger, Brent
    Brent Coppenbarger

    Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician

    Rhythms, melodies, and harmonies are the building blocks of music. In Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician, Brent Coppenbarger offers a full range of methods to help musicians, not only grasp, but remember those key elements upon which the music they...
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  • Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists by Leszczak, Bob
    Bob Leszczak

    Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists

    In Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the second volume in Bob Leszczak's exciting Who Did It First? series, readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, pop songs and standards. As Leszczak points out,...
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  • Tipbook Violin and Viola: The Complete Guide by Pinksterboer, Hugo
    Hugo Pinksterboer

    Tipbook Violin and Viola: The Complete Guide

    Here is a totally new and expanded edition of the 2005 original. The new 6"x9" format offers string players at all levels essential information on auditioning and buying a new instrument, bow, and strings. Chapters on maintenance and tuning are included, as well as...
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  • The Merciless Book of Metal Lists by Abrams, Howie
    Howie Abrams

    The Merciless Book of Metal Lists

    The Merciless Book of Metal Lists is an irreverent and illustrated compendium of the most random, funny, and challenging information about Heavy Metal from the last 40 years. You want to know which Metal albums "jumped the shark"? Curious to know what non-Metal bands...
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  • Brinsley Schwarz: Happy Doing What We're Doing by Blaney, John
    John Blaney

    Brinsley Schwarz: Happy Doing What We're Doing

    Happy Doing What We're Doing tells the story of Brinsley Schwarz from their earliest days in amateur beat groups to their last gig at London's Marquee Club. Catapulted into the limelight by a dodgy management company looking to make a fast buck, they quickly...
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  • Reading Guitar Music by Centola, Ron
    Ron Centola

    Reading Guitar Music

    (Book). Take the mystery out of reading music This unique copyrighted fret and strong staff enables you to sight read melodies on your guitar instantly. The notes are large and easy to read. Sixteen favorite songs include "Kum Ba Ya" and "Tom Dooley."Author: Ron...
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  • Rap and Hip Hop: A Day by Day History Guide by Brown, Mason
    Mason Brown

    Rap and Hip Hop: A Day by Day History Guide

    More than 3,500 entries are listed in chronological order in a day-by-day record of rap and hip hop including industry awards, television and film appearances, noteworthy concerts and music festivals, personal disputes and controversies, arrests and court trials, and birthdays and deaths. There is...
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  • Peep This! Hip Hop Trivia Volume 1 by Youngblood, Joe
    Joe Youngblood

    Peep This! Hip Hop Trivia Volume 1

    This book will entertain, inform and challenge the realest hip hop fan from the old to the new. Peep This Hip Hop Trivia Vol. 1 features over 400 questions on the artists you know and love. You can test yourself or your friends on...
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  • Guerrilla Music Marketing Online: 129 Free & Low-Cost Strategies to Promote & Sell Your Music on the Internet by Baker, Bob
    Bob Baker

    Guerrilla Music Marketing Online: 129 Free & Low-Cost Strategies to Promote & Sell Your Music on the Internet

    An easy-to-digest overview of the many free and low-cost ways independent musicians, managers and promoters can harness the Internet to gain widespread exposure, attract more fans, and make money with their music. Veteran author, speaker and teacher Bob Baker reveals guerrilla marketing tactics to...
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  • Classic Tracks: The Real Stories Behind 68 Seminal Recordings by Buskin, Richard
    Richard Buskin

    Classic Tracks: The Real Stories Behind 68 Seminal Recordings

    What really went on behind the doors of the world's top studios while recording the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and R.E.M.? How did producers deal with the legendary egos of Oasis and Paul Simon? Or the haunted perfectionism of Michael Jackson and Phil...
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  • Chords for Mandolin, Irish Banjo, Bouzouki, Tenor Mandola, Mandocello by Loesburg, John
    John Loesburg

    Chords for Mandolin, Irish Banjo, Bouzouki, Tenor Mandola, Mandocello

    (Music Sales America). This is the perfect reference for chords for mandolin, banjo and bouzouki. The book contains easy chords in all keys, with sections on tunings, capos and chord relations. John Loesberg has created another intelligible and intuitive didactic book which will be...
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  • The Meaning and Performance of Ornaments in Lute Tablature by Buetens, Stanley
    Stanley Buetens

    The Meaning and Performance of Ornaments in Lute Tablature

    This mono-graph by Stan Buetens finally solves the mys-tery of the use of orna-ments in Elizabethan times. The solu-tion is both simple and com-plex because one of the signs has two meanings and dif-ferent man-u-scripts employed differ-ent signs to rep-re-sent the same ornaments. This...
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  • Recorder Techniques: intermediate to advanced by Rowland-Jones, Anthony
    Anthony Rowland-Jones

    Recorder Techniques: intermediate to advanced

    Author: Anthony Rowland-JonesISBN-10: 0907908756ISBN-13: 9780907908753Publisher: Peacock PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2013Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.34d
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  • U2 FAQ: Anything You'd Ever Want to Know About the Biggest Band in the World...And More! by Luerssen, John D.
    John D. Luerssen

    U2 FAQ: Anything You'd Ever Want to Know About the Biggest Band in the World...And More!

    Few would dispute U2's position as the biggest rock band in the world. Active and relevant for nearly thirty-five years, Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen, Jr. have been masters of reinvention, thriving artistically while continuing to sell out concerts across the...
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  • Pink Floyd FAQ: Everything Left to Know... and More! by Shea, Stuart
    Stuart Shea

    Pink Floyd FAQ: Everything Left to Know... and More!

    More than four decades since their first album, and 35 years after the release of the iconic Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd continue to inspire and mystify rock fans around the world. Pink Floyd FAQ, by pop culture author Stuart Shea, lays...
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  • Bass Player Presents The Funky Bass Book by Leigh, Bill
    Bill Leigh

    Bass Player Presents The Funky Bass Book

    This is the ultimate collection of funked-up wisdom and inspiration, from the grooving pioneers of R & B, soul, and funk to the flame-tending funkateers of hip-hop, neo-soul, and gospel. With interviews and analyses from both groundbreaking old-school innovators and ongoing revolutionaries - players...
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  • The Drum Handbook: Buying, Maintaining and Getting the Best from Your Drum Kit by Nicholls, Geoff
    Geoff Nicholls

    The Drum Handbook: Buying, Maintaining and Getting the Best from Your Drum Kit

    THE DRUM HANDBOOK - BUYING MAINTAINING AND GETTING THE BEST FROM YOUR DRUM KIT SFTAuthor: Geoff NichollsISBN-10: 0879307501ISBN-13: 9780879307509Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2004Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.41d
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  • Jambands: The Complete Guide to the Players, Music, & Scene [With CDROM] by Dean Budnick
    Dean Budnick

    Jambands: The Complete Guide to the Players, Music, & Scene [With CDROM]

    JAMBANDS BK/CD COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE PLAYERS MUSIC AND SCENEAuthor: Dean BudnickISBN-10: 0879307455ISBN-13: 9780879307455Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2003Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.42w x 0.81d
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  • Actor's Alchemy: Finding the Gold in the Script by Miller, Bruce
    Bruce Miller

    Actor's Alchemy: Finding the Gold in the Script

    An actor's script is both a gold mine, and the map to discovering it: if properly read, a script will reveal its riches to you. Unfortunately, most actors never learn to efficiently read the map, or master how to convert what they find in...
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  • What to Listen for in the World by Adolphe, Bruce
    Bruce Adolphe

    What to Listen for in the World

    With disciplined lyricism and entirely devoid of technical jargon, Bruce Adolphe's book probes into the heart of such matters as the role of memory and imagination in creative expression, the meaning of inspiration, spirituality in music, the challenge of arts education and how music...
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  • Manage Your Stress and Pain Through Music [With CD (Audio)] by Hanser Ed D. Mt-Bc, Suzanne B.
    Hanser Ed D. Mt-Bc Suzanne B.

    Manage Your Stress and Pain Through Music Book/Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]

    (Berklee Guide). Heal your body, mind and spirit using the profound power found in music. This research-based approach to wellness will help you to feel better. Learn to use music to manage your stress and reduce your physical suffering, whether due to the everyday...
    $34.99
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