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  • 20 Steps to Jazz Keyboard Harmony

    by Howard Sidney Thomas ...
    This book represents a way of thinking about jazz harmony. It explains how chords are built, named and used. It presents examples in the form of conventional notation and images of the piano keyboard. A glossary of terms is included. If you need some kind of structure or framework of understanding to be able to do music at all, you may find it here. At the very least, by Step 20 you should be able ... Read more

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  • Senescence

    by Howard Sidney Thomas ...
    Senescence is a journey from the Big Bang to the Big Sleep. It tells the story of life, death and everything in between. We learn about autumn leaves, Josef Stalin's toes, fruit ripening, the inventor of Marmite and the precarious state of the world's food supply. Senescence can be read as a continuous narrative or opened at random to sample one-page stand-alone mini-essays. The book includes ... Read more

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    What Makes Us Curious

    by Mario Livio ...
    “Have you ever wondered why we wonder why? Mario Livio has, and he takes you on a fascinating quest to understand the origin and mechanisms of our curiosity. I thoroughly recommend it.” —Adam Riess, Nobel Prize Winner in PhysicsAstrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—in this “lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down ... Read more

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  • Jazz Composition

    Theory and Practice

    by Ted Pease ...
    (Berklee Press). When you think of jazz composers, who comes to mind? Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Bob Brookmeyer. This book is about what they (and many others) do. Jazz composition has evolved into a disciplined art that often evidences great emotional depth and breadth of sophistication. Berklee College of Music legend Ted Pease ... Read more

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  • Love Songs

    The Hidden History

    by Ted Gioia ...
    The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how have our changing perceptions about topics such as sexuality and gender roles changed our attitudes towards these songs? In ... Read more

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  • Jazz Bass Guitar Lessons for Beginners

    Teach Yourself How to Play Bass (Free Audio Available)

    by LearnToPlayMusic.com, Stephan Richter ...
    Series series Progressive
    Teach yourself how to play bass guitar with our easy jazz bass lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"I think it is excellent. [...] it presents Bass theory in a method that I subscribe to [...] a very useful way to look at bass lines and solos." - ZedsDead [Harmony Central ... Read more

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  • The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls

    by M ...
    What if we could create life from chemicals? What if we could reduce love to molecules, regrow new hearts from skin cells, or regrow new humans from cuttings, like plants? What if we could resurrect our ancestors, make ourselves immortal, or even grow younger? If these science fiction scenarios give you pause, you are a little behind the news. It's already happening, in labs all over the world.The ... Read more

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  • Clawing at the Limits of Cool

    Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever

    by Farah Jasmine Griffin, Salim Washington ...
    When the renowned trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis chose the members of his quintet in 1955, he passed over well-known, respected saxophonists such as Sonny Rollins to pick out the young, still untested John Coltrane. What might have seemed like a minor decision at the time would instead set the course not just for each of their careers but for jazz itself.Clawing at the Limits of Cool is the ... Read more

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  • Writings on Music, 1965-2000

    by Steve Reich ...
    In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism. These early works, characterized by a relentless pulse and static harmony, focused single-mindedly on the process of gradual rhythmic change. Throughout his career, Reich has continued to reinvigorate the music world, drawing from a wide array of classical, popular, ... Read more

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  • Evolutionary Biology - Concepts, Molecular and Morphological Evolution

    Edited by Pierre Pontarotti ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille aim to bring together leading scientists, promoting an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and the formation of inter-group collaborations. This book presents the most representative contributions to the 13th meeting, which was held in September 2009. It comprises 21 chapters, which are organized into the following three categories: • ... Read more

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  • Mr Modernsky

    How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg

    by Meredith Oakes ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    Mr Modernsky tells a story about two heavyweights of twentieth-century classical music: Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.It traces the gradual change there has been in the way these two great rivals are perceived, looks in their music for the reasons and reflects on the nature of modernity in art and the sometimes pernicious effects of ideology. Meredith Oakes explores the tension between ... Read more

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  • The Circle of Fifths

    Visual Tools for Musicians, #1

    by Philip Jackson ...
    Series Book 1 - Visual Tools for Musicians
    Struggling to connect majors with relative minors? Learn music's most powerful tool for making rapid progress linking theory to practice.Musical theories falling on deaf ears? Worrying how to calculate tritone intervals? Do you get confused when defining a chord? Technical music instructor and bestselling author Philip Jackson has spent the last two decades helping musicians master tricky concepts ... Read more

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