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Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A vinyl collector, journalist, and music buff examines the tinkering, experimentation, and technological developments that allowed humans to both record and reproduce sound, from the earliest attempts in the 1850s to the present day resurgence of vinyl records.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Dolores Madrigal has the amazing ability to hear things that are very far away, from across the whole Encanto she calls home. But one morning when she wakes up, she doesn't hear something she usually does. But what? To find out, join Dolores and her magical Madrigal family as they team up to solve a mystery in this sweet and silly story set in the world of Disney Encanto!
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Español
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Los Beatles produjeron una de las mayores revoluciones culturales del siglo XX y seguramente de toda la historia. Nadie puede quedar indiferente a su música, sus letras, sus opiniones y sus locuras, y han sido estudiados desde todo punto de vista: melódico, rítmico, ingenieril, sociológico y hasta psicoanalítico.
Pues bien, faltaba algo: ¡la ciencia! Y aquí viene el gran físico y divulgador Ernesto Blanco a reparar ese "agujero por donde...
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Español
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¿Por qué, de entre todas las artes, la música ha sido la que más ha influido en científicos tan importantes como Pitágoras, Newton, Kepler o Galileo?
A través de estas páginas no solo conoceremos algunas de las más fascinantes obsesiones que asediaron a estos genios, también comprobaremos cómo hasta en la canción más sencilla puede esconderse un principio matemático.
En La lira desafinada de Pitágoras, Almudena Martín Castro, una de...
5) ZigZag
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When ZigZag, an alligator who can taste words, accidentally swallows "tambourine" with all of its vowels, he finds disappointing "ppls" instead of tart, green apples and a too-short "bd" instead of his comfy, cozy bed.
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English
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Roy is a lion and a sound catcher. He catches the sounds of the city and makes them into music, trying to avoid the annoying attentions of his neighbour, Jemmy. Feeling like his music isn't good enough, he goes on a journey to find the best sound in the world for inspiration. He hears the pitter-patter of the rain in the forest, the wind whistling through the desert and the hustle and bustle of the souk at sunrise, but none of it helps - he can't...
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English
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"You'll never listen to the world the same way again. A truly ear-opening experience!" -Chris Ferrie, award-winning physicist and author of Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions
For readers of Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill O'Neill, What the Ear Hears (and Doesn't) is a fascinating science book for adults that explores the physics principle of frequency and the (sometimes weird) role it plays in our everyday lives.
What do...
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English
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Audio and visual cues facilitate some of our most powerful sensory experiences and embed themselves deeply into our memories and subconscious. Sound and light waves interact with our ears and eyes-our biological interpreters-creating a textural experience and relationship with the world around us. This well-researched volume explores the science behind acoustics and optics and the broad application they have to everything from listening to music and...
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English
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The 20th century saw radical changes in the way serious music is composed and produced, including the advent of electronic instruments and novel compositional methods such as serialism and stochastic music. Unlike previous artistic revolutions, this one took its cues from the world of science.
Creating electronic sounds, in the early days, required a well-equipped laboratory and an understanding of acoustic theory. Composition became increasingly...
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English
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Learn a Proven Step By Step Mixing Process That's Helped Thousands of Musicians Like Yourself Make Amazing Mixes in Their Home Studio, Using Only EQ, Compression, Reverb, Delay, and Saturation
Let Me Ask You This:
• Do you fight to make all your instruments fit together in a busy mix?
• Do you struggle to EQ each instrument to sit in their frequency range without getting in the way of everything else?
• Do you tear your hair out finding the...
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English
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As the author mentions in the Preface, the intent of the book is to explain in a non-technical manner the main outlines of parts of science specially related to the questions and problems of music, assuming no previous knowledge either of science or of mathematics on the part of the reader.
Sir James Jeans, who was a noted British scientist, gave a physical analysis of musical sounds, in what is considered to be the best exposition on the subject,...
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English
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A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.
Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make us smile or cry, it helps us bond with the people around us, and it even has the power to alleviate a range of medical conditions. The songs you love (and hate,...
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English
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A straightforward collection of advice not typically found in other recording books. From the author: Mixing many band-recorded albums, I've noticed there are several recurring issues in the tracking stage that have made mixing more difficult than it needs to be. These issues often require me to do a lot of salvage work before the actual mixing can begin. With the right tools and knowledge, flawed tracks can be greatly improved upon, but the results...
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Français
Description
Ce livre explore l'histoire de la transmission de la parole à partir des inventions telles que le phonographe, le microphone et l'aérophone permettant d'amplifier tellement les sons qu'il deviendra possible de les entendre à plusieurs kilomètres de distance.
Les travaux scientifiques du Nouveau Monde présentent ce caractère spécial de toujours viser un but pratique et immédiat. Semblable au touriste traditionnel des Alpes, l'homme de science...
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English
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In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and cultural borderland, sound mattered. People listened carefully to each other and the world around them. In Moravian communities, cultures of hearing...
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English
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What John Berger did to ways of seeing, well-known indie musician Damon Krukowski does to ways of listening in this lively guide to the transition from analog to digital culture. Having made his name in the late 1980s as a member of the indie band Galaxie 500, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital. And as an artist who has weathered the transition, he has challenging, urgent questions for both creators and consumers...
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English
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Do you feel like there's no way you'll mix a song demo as good as (insert name here)?
Are you struggling to understand how to make the worship band sound better?
Do you want to start being confident with your mixes?
Stephen Robert Cass has been playing and mixing songs in church and for bands for over 50 years. He has 14 album projects and hundreds of studio hours as a musician and producer and wants to help produce your next song demo or worship...
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English
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and master violin maker and acoustician Joseph Curtin, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. This in-depth conversation explores Curtin's long quest to characterize the sound of a Stradivari violin and the rigorous series of double-blind tests he and his colleagues developed to probe whether or not professional musicians can really tell the difference between a Stradivari and...
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