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Education » Literary » Magazines
Beat Magazin - September 2015 screenshot
Beat Magazin - September 2015
German | 100 pages | True PDF | 22 MB
Spezial: DJ-Mixing

Ob Strand-Party, Firmenfeier oder Hochzeit – der versierte DJ ist auf jeder Fete Garant für Stimmung und gute Laune. Bei der Performance kommt es aber nicht nur auf die richtige Musikauswahl an, sondern auch auf das Reflektieren der Stimmung auf der Tanzfläche. Folglich stehen im Spezial nicht nur technische Themen wie Beatmatching im Vordergrund, sondern auch die Soft Skills eines DJs, die eine Party zu einem gelungenen Abend machen.
Education » Literary
Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology screenshot
2015 | ISBN-10: 0754669866 | 200 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Singing the Body Electric explores the relationship between the human voice and technology, offering startling insights into the ways in which technological mediation affects our understanding of the voice, and more generally, the human body. From the phonautograph to magnetic tape and now to digital sampling, Miriama Young visits particular musical and literary works that define a century-and-a-half of recorded sound. She discusses the way in which the human voice is captured, transformed or synthesised through technology. This includes the sampled voice, the mechanical voice, the technologically modified voice, the pliable voice of the digital era, and the phenomenon by which humans mimic the sounding traits of the machine.
Education » Literary
Song Interpretation in 21st-century Pop Music screenshot
English | ISBN: 1472428005 | 2015 | 326 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and methodology, and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as examples. The impression often given is that songs are being chosen simply to illuminate and exemplify a theoretical position. In this book the obverse is true: songs take centre stage and are given priority. The authors analyse and interpret them intensively from a variety of theoretical positions that illuminate the song. Thus, methods and theories have to prove their use value in the face of a heterogeneous, contemporary repertoire.
Education » Literary
This Is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture screenshot
English | ISBN: 1472442598 | 2015 | 257 pages | PDF | 1,54 MB
The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular music is especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even fundamental to the music, the business of making music and the politics of messaging. Contributors to this collection address a variety of musical ironies found in the 'notes themselves,' in the text or subtext, and through performance, reception and criticism. The chapters explore the linkages between irony and the comic, the tragic, the remembered, the forgotten, the co-opted, and the resistant.
Education » Literary
Playing with Something That Runs: Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ and Laptop Performance screenshot
2014 | ISBN: 0195393619, 0195393627 | English | 280 pages | PDF | 4.81 MB
The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as vinyl records and digital samples to create fluid, dynamic performances. These performances are also largely improvised, evolving in response to the demands of a particular situation through interaction with a dancing audience. Within performance, musicians make numerous spontaneous decisions about variables such as which sounds they will play, when they will play them, and how they will be combined with other sounds. Yet the elements that constitute these improvisations are also fixed in certain fundamental ways: performances are fashioned from patterns or tracks recorded beforehand, and in the case of DJ sets, these elements are also physical objects (vinyl records).
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AudioTechnology App - July 2015 screenshot
AudioTechnology App - July 2015
English | PDF | 76 Pages | 17.74 MB
If you’re serious about audio then AudioTechnology is your magazine: whether it be the inside story behind the world’s great albums or the best-sounding concert productions, videogame sound, software tips, reviews of the latest gear, opinion and news – AudioTechnology has you covered.
Education » Literary » Magazines
Future Music - September 2015 PDF screenshot
English | True PDF | 61 MB
Future Music brings you the most in-depth reviews by respected industry professionals plus news on all the latest hardware and software releases. We also interview musicians at the cutting edge of technology, and give you all the advice, music and free samples you need to get the most out of your existing set-up and improve your music making.
Education » Literary
Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music screenshot
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1472421868 | 240 pages | PDF | 1.34 MB
Vibe Merchants offers an insider's perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the actual details of music-making practice, rationalized in the context of the economic and creative forces that locally drive music production. By focusing on the work of audio engineers and musicians, recording studios and recording models, Ray Hitchins highlights a music creation methodology that has been acknowledged as being different to that of Europe and North America. The book leads to a broadening of our understanding of how Jamaican Popular Music emerged, developed and functions, thus providing an engaging example of the important relationship between music, technology and culture that will appeal to a wide range of scholars.
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Keyboard Magazine - August 2015 screenshot
Keyboard Magazine - August 2015
True PDF | 56 pages | English | 20.84 MB
Keyboard Magazine is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, including those not strictly pertaining to the keyboard related instruments.
Education » Literary » Magazines
Computer Music - September 2015 screenshot
Computer Music - September 2015
English | 116 pages | True PDF | 30.45 MB
Computer Music's goal is to help its readers create great music with a PC or Mac. Each month find easy-to-follow tutorials for all sorts of music software, unbiased reviews of the latest products and answers to technical questions.
Education » Literary
Contemporary Orchestration: A Practical Guide to Instruments, Ensembles, and Musicians screenshot
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0415741904, 0415741912 | 484 pages | PDF | 32 MB
Contemporary Orchestration: A Practical Guide to Instruments, Ensembles, and Musicians teaches students how to orchestrate for a wide variety of instruments, ensembles, and genres, while preparing them for various real-world professional settings ranging from the concert hall to the recording studio. Unlike most orchestration texts, it includes coverage of contemporary instruments and ensembles alongside traditional orchestra and chamber ensembles.

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Stereophile - October 2017 screenshot
English | 204 pages | True PDF | 38 MB
Every month Stereophile magazine offers authoritative reviews, informed recommendations, helpful advice and controversial opinions, all stemming from the revolutionary idea that audio components should be judged on how they reproduce music. Stereophile never loses sight of the fact that its primary responsibility is toward its readers and how they choose to spend their hard-earned money. Whether you enjoy your music on LP, CD, DVD or SACD, Stereophile enables you to get the most from it.
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Hi-Fi World - October 2017 screenshot
English | True PDF | 100 pages | 19 MB
Dedicated to equipment of all types, the emphasis is on 'affordable audiophile' kit which doesn't have to be expensive, but has to perform. Their readership is worldwide and diverse in nature. It shares all the passions for music and the desire to help consumers enjoy it as much as possible. It's run by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, using their commitment to show everything technical on almost every product.
Education » Literary » Magazines
Hi-Fi News - October 2017 screenshot
English | 156 pages | True PDF | 27 MB
Every issue, Hi-Fi News delivers uniquely in-depth reviews of high-end audio equipment, including the best in vinyl replay and iconic vintage gear from the early days of audio. It is essential reading for all music enthusiasts.
Education » Literary » Magazines
What Hi-Fi India – September 2017 screenshot
English | 102 pages | True PDF | 25 MB
The world’s largest selling audiophile magazine is also India’s best offering for the AV enthusiast. Packed with scoops, unbiased reviews and expert opinions, What Hi-Fi India is respected for, is its no-nonsense content, packaged in a friendly and easy-to-understand language that will nurture your love for quality audio.
Education » Literary » Magazines
audioXpress - October 2017 screenshot
English | 68 pages | True PDF | 32 MB
Combining great articles, projects, tips and techniques for producing the best in quality audio, audi0Xpress connects manufacturers and distributors with audio engineers and enthusiasts eager for innovative solutions in sound, acoustic and electronics.
Education » Literary
Absolute Music Mechanical Reproduction screenshot
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0520264797, 0520264800, 9780520264793, 9780520264809, B003WQAMWU | 336 Pages | PDF | 1.64 MB
Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of “absolute” instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive and instruments of a musical vernacular, but also finds that recording and absolute music actually involve similar notions of removing sound from context.
Education » Literary
Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance screenshot
2015 | ISBN-10: 1107082293 | 548 pages | PDF | 8.41 MB
Throughout the Renaissance, composers often expressed themselves in a language of riddles and puzzles, which they embedded within the music and lyrics of their compositions. This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the period. Katelijne Schiltz focuses on the compositional, notational, practical, social and theoretical aspects of musical riddle culture c.1450–1620, from the works of Antoine Busnoys, Jacob Obrecht and Josquin des Prez to Lodovico Zacconi's manuscript collection of Canoni musicali.
Education » Literary
Absolute Music - The History of an Idea screenshot
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0199343632 | 400 Pages | PDF |14 MB
What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have struggled to isolate the essence of "pure" or "absolute" music in ways that also account for its profound effect. In Absolute Music: The History of an Idea, Mark Evan Bonds traces the history of these efforts across more than two millennia, paying special attention to the relationship between music's essence and its qualities of form, expression, beauty, autonomy, as well as its perceived capacity to disclose philosophical truths.
Education » Literary
Playing in the Cathedral - Music, Race, and Status in New Spain screenshot
English | ISBN: 0190236817 | 2016 | 248 pages | PDF | 23 MB
Throughout Spanish colonial America, limpieza de sangre (literally, "purity of blood ") determined an individual's status within the complex system of social hierarchy called casta. Within this socially stratified culture, those individuals at the top were considered to have the highest calidad-an all-encompassing estimation of a person's social status. At the top of the social pyramid were the Peninsulares: Spaniards born in Spain, who controlled most of the positions of power within the colonial governments and institutions.
Education » Literary
Holy Treasure and Sacred Song: Relic Cults and their Liturgies in Medieval Tuscany screenshot
2014 | ISBN: 019935135X | English | 320 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In the Middle Ages, relic cults provoked rich expressions of devotion not only in hagiographic literature and visual art but also in liturgical music and ritual. Despite the long-recognized inter-play between these diverse media, historians of the period rarely integrate analysis of sacred music into their research on other modes of worship espoused by relic cults. Holy Treasure and Sacred Song situates this oft-neglected yet critical domain of religious life at the center of an examination of relic cults in medieval Tuscany.

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