Popular Music

Popular Music
Author: Roman Iwaschkin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 675
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317223454

This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.

Intro to Jazz Piano

Intro to Jazz Piano
Author: Mark Harrison
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480387894

(Keyboard Instruction). This comprehensive book with audio is the perfect Intro to Jazz Piano . From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, the tools, and the techniques used by the pros. The audio demonstrates most of the music examples in the book. The full band tracks feature the rhythm section on the left channel and the piano on the right channel, so that you can play along with the band. Covers: jazz chords and progressions; jazz swing and bossa nova comping; voicings and patterns; melodic treatment; soloing techniques; how to play from a fake book; and more. Get started today!

Putting Popular Music in Its Place

Putting Popular Music in Its Place
Author: Charles Hamm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521028615

Essays on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with politics and ideology.

The Jazz Theory Book

The Jazz Theory Book
Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 725
Release: 2011-01-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457101459

The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.

The Contemporary Arranger

The Contemporary Arranger
Author: Don Sebesky
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1975
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780882840321

An authoritative, easy-to-understand text covering all aspects of arranging. This beautifully bound edition contains a compact disc with examples performed by jazz greats such as George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws and Don Sebesky's complete orchestra. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.

Jazz

Jazz
Author: Eddie S. Meadows
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 773
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136776036

Jazz: Research and Pedagogy is the third edition of an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 1995, the quantity and quality of books on jazz research, performance, and teaching materials have increased. Although the 1995 book was the most comprehensive annotated jazz bibliography published to that date, several books on research, performance, and teaching materials were omitted. In addition, given the proliferation of new books in all jazz areas since 1995, the need for a new, comprehensive, and annotated reference book on jazz is apparent. Multiply indexed, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the last decade.

The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony

The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony
Author: Joe Mulholland
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480360856

(Berklee Guide). Learn jazz harmony, as taught at Berklee College of Music. This text provides a strong foundation in harmonic principles, supporting further study in jazz composition, arranging, and improvisation. It covers basic chord types and their tensions, with practical demonstrations of how they are used in characteristic jazz contexts and an accompanying recording that lets you hear how they can be applied.

The Serious Jazz Practice Book

The Serious Jazz Practice Book
Author: Barry Finnerty
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011-01-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457101343

All musicians need to thoroughly learn their scales, chords, intervals and various melodic patterns in order to become complete musicians. The question has always been how to approach this universal task. Guitar legend Barry Finnerty (Miles, The Crusaders, Brecker Bros., etc.) provides in this book a rigorous practice regime that will set you well on the road to complete mastery of whatever instrument you play. Endorsed by Randy Brecker, Mark Levine, Dave Liebman, etc.

Metaphors For Musicians

Metaphors For Musicians
Author: Randy Halberstadt
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2011-01-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457101432

This practical and enlightening book gives insight into almost every aspect of jazz musicianship---scale/chord theory, composing techniques, analyzing tunes, practice strategies, etc. For any level of player, on any instrument. Endorsed by Jessica Wiliams, Jerry Bergonzi, Bill mays, etc.