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Musical Instrument Design

Practical Information for Instrument Making

by Bart Hopkin ...

This is an encyclopedic, large-format book containing hundreds of illustrations. While not geared toward making conventional instruments, Musical Instrument Design provides all the information that anyone (amateur or professional) should ever need to construct an amazingly wide variety of percussion, string, and wind instruments. Includes many designs along with parts lists and detailed ... Read more

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This is an encyclopedic, large-format book containing hundreds of illustrations. While not geared toward making conventional instruments, Musical Instrument Design provides all the information that anyone (amateur or professional) should ever need to construct an amazingly wide variety of percussion, string, and wind instruments. Includes many designs along with parts lists and detailed
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Making Musical Instruments with Kids

67 Easy Projects for Adults Working with Children

by Bart Hopkin ...

Written for adults, this hands-on guide demonstrates how to make easy musical instruments with children. Detailed instructions are included for making more than 60 unique instruments that are suitable for children as young as five years. Serving as a resource in the classroom or home, this manual is extensively illustrated with drawings and photographs along with an audio sample of the instruments ... Read more

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Written for adults, this hands-on guide demonstrates how to make easy musical instruments with children. Detailed instructions are included for making more than 60 unique instruments that are suitable for children as young as five years. Serving as a resource in the classroom or home, this manual is extensively illustrated with drawings and photographs along with an audio sample of the instruments
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Sound Inventions

Selected Articles from Experimental Musical Instruments

Edited by Bart Hopkin, Sudhu Tewari ...

Series series Sound Design
Sound Inventions is a collection of 34 articles taken from Experimental Musical Instruments, the seminal journal published from 1984 through 1999. In addition to the selected articles, the editors have contributed introductory essays, placing the material in cultural and temporal context, providing an overview of the field both before and after the time of original publication.The Experimental ... Read more

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Sound Inventions is a collection of 34 articles taken from Experimental Musical Instruments, the seminal journal published from 1984 through 1999. In addition to the selected articles, the editors have contributed introductory essays, placing the material in cultural and temporal context, providing an overview of the field both before and after the time of original publication.The Experimental
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How to Play Dizi, the Chinese Bamboo Flute: The Basic Skills

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by H.H. Lee ...

Series Book 1 - How to Play Dizi, the Chinese Bamboo Flute
This book will teach you to play the dizi at the beginner's level and no prior knowledge is needed. The dizi structure, the ways to choose and maintain a dizi, the numbered music notation and key signatures of the dizi will be introduced, whereas a number of sheet music will also be provided for practices. After reading the whole book, you should have a basic understanding of the dizi and can play ... Read more

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This book will teach you to play the dizi at the beginner's level and no prior knowledge is needed. The dizi structure, the ways to choose and maintain a dizi, the numbered music notation and key signatures of the dizi will be introduced, whereas a number of sheet music will also be provided for practices. After reading the whole book, you should have a basic understanding of the dizi and can play
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Introduction to Fingerstyle Guitar

by Ashley J. Saunders ...

So, you want to learn some guitar fingerpicking ideas, tips and tricks? Well, Introduction to Fingerstyle Guitar eBook is for you!This eBook will teach you patterns that you can use today, how to use a capo if the song is in a key that isn't guitar friendly and how to find the best key to move it into for you. As well as much more! ... Read more

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So, you want to learn some guitar fingerpicking ideas, tips and tricks? Well, Introduction to Fingerstyle Guitar eBook is for you!This eBook will teach you patterns that you can use today, how to use a capo if the song is in a key that isn't guitar friendly and how to find the best key to move it into for you. As well as much more!
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Composing Electronic Music

A New Aesthetic

by Curtis Roads ...

Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. In this new domain, pitch occurs as a flowing and ephemeral substance that can be bent, modulated, or dissolved into noise ... Read more

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Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. In this new domain, pitch occurs as a flowing and ephemeral substance that can be bent, modulated, or dissolved into noise
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Sound

A Very Short Introduction

by Mike Goldsmith ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Sound is integral to how we experience the world, in the form of noise as well as music. But what is sound? What is the physical basis of pitch and harmony? And how are sound waves exploited in musical instruments? In this Very Short Introduction Mike Goldsmith looks at the science of sound and explores sound in different contexts, covering the audible and inaudible, sound underground and ... Read more

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Sound is integral to how we experience the world, in the form of noise as well as music. But what is sound? What is the physical basis of pitch and harmony? And how are sound waves exploited in musical instruments? In this Very Short Introduction Mike Goldsmith looks at the science of sound and explores sound in different contexts, covering the audible and inaudible, sound underground and
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Corridors (The Geometry, Physics and Mathematics of Chess) Vol 1

(The Geometry, Physics and Mathematics of Chess) Vol 1

by Herman Tolbert Sr. ...

Chess enthusiast Herman Tolbert Sr takes three of the four elements of chess (space, time, force) and parallels a one to one mapping that relates Geometry, Physics and Mathematics in a unique theme he terms "Corridors". Compiling over-the-board tournament experience along with online worldwide games as well as friendly pick-up games, Corridors is a repeated process which eventually zones in on the ... Read more

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Chess enthusiast Herman Tolbert Sr takes three of the four elements of chess (space, time, force) and parallels a one to one mapping that relates Geometry, Physics and Mathematics in a unique theme he terms "Corridors". Compiling over-the-board tournament experience along with online worldwide games as well as friendly pick-up games, Corridors is a repeated process which eventually zones in on the
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Electronic Music

by Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson ...

Series series Cambridge Introductions to Music
This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental manifestations of electronic music. From early recording equipment to the most recent multimedia performances, the history of electronic music is full of interesting characters, fascinating and unusual music, and radical technology. Covering many different eras, genres and media, analyses of works appear alongside critical ... Read more

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This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental manifestations of electronic music. From early recording equipment to the most recent multimedia performances, the history of electronic music is full of interesting characters, fascinating and unusual music, and radical technology. Covering many different eras, genres and media, analyses of works appear alongside critical
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The Sound Book

The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World

by Trevor Cox ...

"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds." —New York TimesIn this tour of the world’s most unexpected sounds, Trevor Cox—the “David Attenborough of the acoustic realm” (Observer)—discovers the world’s longest echo in a hidden oil cavern in Scotland, unlocks the secret of singing sand dunes in California, and alerts ... Read more

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"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds." —New York TimesIn this tour of the world’s most unexpected sounds, Trevor Cox—the “David Attenborough of the acoustic realm” (Observer)—discovers the world’s longest echo in a hidden oil cavern in Scotland, unlocks the secret of singing sand dunes in California, and alerts
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Music: A Mathematical Offering

by Dave Benson ...

Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, much has been written about the relation between mathematics and music: from harmony and number theory, to musical patterns and group theory. Benson provides a wealth of information here to enable the teacher, the student, or the interested amateur to understand, at varying levels of technicality, the real interplay between these two ancient disciplines. The ... Read more

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Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, much has been written about the relation between mathematics and music: from harmony and number theory, to musical patterns and group theory. Benson provides a wealth of information here to enable the teacher, the student, or the interested amateur to understand, at varying levels of technicality, the real interplay between these two ancient disciplines. The
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GUITAR Mechanics

by Terry Relph-Knight ...

If you have ever wondered why music is constructed the way it is, or why the guitar and other stringed instruments are made the way they are, then GUITAR Mechanics is the book is for you. Packed with facts and little known information, in addition to the specifically guitar related information, the book also contains many references to sources of useful accessories for the guitarist, mandolin and ... Read more

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If you have ever wondered why music is constructed the way it is, or why the guitar and other stringed instruments are made the way they are, then GUITAR Mechanics is the book is for you. Packed with facts and little known information, in addition to the specifically guitar related information, the book also contains many references to sources of useful accessories for the guitarist, mandolin and
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