Search results for “[Subject: music-instruments]”

• Author(s): Mark S. Reinhart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Musical Instruments - Guitar Highlighting Chet Atkins' 50-plus-year career as a virtuoso singer, songwriter and record produc...

• Author(s): C. J. Nederveen • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Musical Instruments - WoodwindsThis classic study, now revised and updated, shows how scientific calcula...

• Author(s): Lester Chafetz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Chamber Witty and practical, this book is for amateur string instrument players who want to play quartets...

• Author(s): Lothar Cremer | John S. Allen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Musical Instruments - StringsThis major work covers almost all that has been learned about the acoustics of stringed instruments from Helmho...

• Author(s): Peter Kivy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralWhat makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener f...

• Author(s): Michael C. Thomsett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Noted lexicographer Thomsett here dissects more than 1,400 terms, a buttula to zither, with clarity and precisi...

• Author(s): Myles W. Jackson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHistorically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music--from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial sp...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Nicholas Agar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EthicsA nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings. ...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...