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THE HISTORY OF MUSIC: A HANDBOOK AND GUIDE

HISTORY OF MUSIC: A HANDBOOK AND GUIDE
WALDO SELDEN PRATT | ISBN: 1417938714 | Publisher: SCHIRMER, E.C., MUSIC CO. INC. | 1907 | 700 pages | PDF | OCR | 39 MB

1907. The book is meant to be distinctly a book of reference for students rather than a literary or critical survey of a few salient aspects of the subject, or a specialist's report of original research. Aiming at a certain degree of encyclopedic fullness, it brings together facts and conclusions from a great variety of sources. Much labor has been expended in grouping the material in such a way as to give a systematic impression of the enormous field in view. The Contents are divided into the following nine parts: Uncivilized and Ancient Music; Mediaeval Music; The Sixteenth Century; The Seventeenth Century; The Early Eighteenth Century; The Later Eighteenth Century; The Early Nineteenth Century; The Middle Nineteenth Century; and The Later Nineteenth Century.

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Electronic and Computer Music, by Peter Manning

Electronic and Computer Music, by Peter Manning
ISBN 0195144848 | 481 pages | 2004 | OUP | DJVU | 4.80 MB

This updated and expanded third edition of Peter Manning's classic text, Electronic and Computer Music, deals with the development of the medium from its birth to the 21st century. The first section of the book, which remains essentially unchanged in this edition, covers electroacoustic music from its beginning at the turn of the century to 1945, the development of post-1945 'classical' studios, development of voltage-controlled technology, and its commercial exploitation in tape works, live electronic music, and the early use of electronics in rock and pop music. Section two, Computer Music, is heavily revised and significantly expanded and treats the digital revolution from the early experiments during the late 1950s and early 1960s to the advanced systems of today. Emphasizing the fu nctional characteristics of emerging digital technologies and their influence on the creative development of the medium, Manning covers key developments in both commercial and the non-commercial sectors.

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Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns

Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns (Text)
Amsco Publications | ISBN 082561449X | 1975-12-11 | PDF | 356 pages | 16.56 MB

Since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres - from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard - have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns for composition and improvisation.

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The Music Effect: Music Physiology And Clinical Applications

The Music Effect: Music Physiology And Clinical Applications
Jessica Kingsley Publishers | ISBN:1843107716 | Edition 2006-01 | PDF | 272 pages | 1.21 MB

This book is really worth the read whether you are a clinician, SPED teacher, therapist or parent. Schneck and Berger not only explain the effect that music has on the body but skillfully discuss the way the sensory system is effected. As a music therapist who works daily with children on the autism spectrum (ALL with challenging sensory integration issues) I recommend putting this one on your "must read" list!

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I Should Have Known Better: A Life in Pop Management--The Beatles, Brian Epstein and Elton John

I Should Have Known Better: A Life in Pop Management--The Beatles, Brian Epstein and Elton John
Thorogood Publishing | ISBN 1854182196 | 2005-11-25 | PDF | 208 pages | 1.8 Mb

Geoffrey Ellis spent forty years in the music business, working closely with the Beatles and Brian Epstein during the 60s, and Elton John and his management in the '70s. From an unrivalled position he has written a highly informed account of the music business from the 60s to the mid 90s and an insider's view of the careers of many of the most significant players. His insight is less than adulatory and often critical, in particular of the Beatles and Brian Epstein, his friend. During the '60s Geoffrey Ellis was chief Executive of NEMS Enterprises, Brian Epstein's company, at the time when the Beatles became global superstars. His book contains insights and stories, many previously unpublished, concerning the often tortuous business and personal affairs of Epstein, and the aftermath of his death. There is also much about Elton john, of whose management Ellis formed a vital part from the earliest days with Dick James Music and then with John Reid Enterprises, including a trenchant account of the High court action brought by Elton John against Dick James, in the course of which Ellis himself spent two and a half days in the witness box.

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Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) By Noel Carroll
Publisher: Routledge 1999-11 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0415159636 | PDF | 1 MB

Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics. It aims to introduce the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this field of inquiry. These include the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art, neo-Wittgensteinism, the Institutional Theory of Art, as well as historical approaches to the nature of art. Throughout the book, abstract philosophical theories are illustrated by examples of both traditional and contemporary art, thereby enriching the readers understanding of art theory as well as the appreciation of art.

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Recording the Classics: Maestros, Music, and Technology
by James Jessen Badal

Recording the Classics: Maestros, Music, and Technology
By James Jessen Badal

Publisher: Kent State University Press
Number Of Pages: 186
Publication Date: 1996-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 087338542X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780873385428
Binding: Hardcover

Badal interviews maestros Vladmir Ashkenazy, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Antal Dorati, Charles Dutoit, Christopher Hogwood, Neeme Jarvi, Erich Kunzel, Erich Leinsdorf, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Simon Rattle, and Leonard Slatkin. Together they examine the effect of technology not only on the listening public’s perception of music, but also on the manner in which music is made

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Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques and Controls

Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls
By Allen Strange

Publisher: William C Brown Pub
Number Of Pages: 274
Publication Date: 1983-05
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0697036022
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780697036025
Binding: Paperback

Summary: Out of print but can be ordered direct from the publisher for little.
Rating: 5

This book can be ordered from McGraw-Hill’s Higher Education eBookstore in PDF format for $15.23. I downloaded my pdf copy from them in about 15 mins. Just register, pay and download.
If I’m right, this textbook is still being used to this day in academia hence it’s availability through their site only. You may also get binded copies for you and your students for a good price if you happen to be a teacher.
I hope Mcgraw-hill considers reprinting this book.

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Music and Philosophy

ISBN: 087462665X | 147 page | September 30, 2005 | 1.45 M

Thanks torai.
This seems to be a rather obscure book (which may explain why there are neither editorial reviews nor customer reviews on Amazon's page). This description from Alibris is about the best I can find:
"Music played a central role in the thought of existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973). One of the most tantalizing claims he made was in a set of conversations with Paul Ricoeur. Employing a geographic metaphor, he claimed that philosophy was the continent of his work while his plays formed the off-shore islands; but what was deepest was music as the water that conjoins the two. One who wishes to understand how he thought of music will find that his philosophical writings contain only a few, quasi-aphoristic, though significantly penetrating things about the nature of music and its relation to his thought. Disappointingly, neither his short "An Essay in Autobiography" of 1947 nor his larger autobiography of 1971, Awakenings, adds much to that beyond a few remarks. But the latter work makes reference to an article, "La musique dans mon vie et mon oeuvre," a lecture he delivered in Vienna in 1959, that turned out to be a significantly richer source. And if one turns to his bibliography, one discovers that, as a music critic, Marcel published over 100 items on music--including Musique dans mon vie"! None of them are available in English. Those of greater length and philosophical interest were gathered together, along with several shorter representative pieces, in the work entitled L'esthetique musicale de Gabriel Marcel that appeared in the Presence de Gabriel Marcel series. In order to enrich and deepen the appreciation of Marcel's thought in the English-speaking world by following up his understanding of the central role of music in his thought, but also to underscore the central role of music in his thought, but also to underscore the central importance of the aesthetic inhuman experience, we have selected the main articles that appeared in that work for translation here. Marcel complained that (as of 1959) commentators had not paid significant attention to the close connection between music and philosophy. The present text should remedy that."

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Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music

This book is about using electronic techniques to record, synthesize, process, and analyze musical sounds, a practice which came into its modern form in the years 1948-1952, but whose technological means and artistic uses have undergone several revolutions since then. Nowadays most electronic music is made using computers, and this book will focus exclusively on what used to be called computer music", but which should really now be called electronic music using a computer". password: www.AudioZ.info
1 Sinusoids, amplitude and frequency 3
1.1 Measures of Amplitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2 Units of Amplitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3 Controlling Amplitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.4 Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.5 Synthesizing a Sinusoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.6 Superposing Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.7 Periodic Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.8 About the Software Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Quick Introduction to Pd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
How to Find and run the examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.9 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Constant amplitude scaler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Amplitude control in decibels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Smoothed amplitude control with an envelope generator . . . . . 23
Major triad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Conversion between frequency and pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
More additive synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2 Wavetables and samplers 29
2.1 The Wavetable Oscillator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.2 Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.3 Enveloping samplers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.4 Timbre stretching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.5 Interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.6 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.6.1 wavetable oscillator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.6.2 wavetable lookup in general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
2.6.3 using a wavetable as a sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
2.6.4 looping samplers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
2.6.5 Overlapping sample looper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
2.6.6 Automatic read point precession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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3 Audio and control computations 61
3.1 The sampling theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.2 Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3.3 Control streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
3.4 Converting from audio signals to numeric control streams . . . . 69
3.5 Control streams in block diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3.6 Event detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3.7 Control computation using audio signals directly . . . . . . . . . 73
3.8 Operations on control streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
3.9 Control operations in Pd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
3.10 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
3.10.1 Sampling and foldover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
3.10.2 Converting controls to signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
3.10.3 Non-looping sample player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
3.10.4 Signals to controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3.10.5 Analog-style sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3.10.6 MIDI-style synthesizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
4 Automation and voice management 89
4.1 Envelope Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.2 Linear and Curved Amplitude Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
4.3 Continuous and discontinuous control changes . . . . . . . . . . . 94
4.3.1 Muting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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