A comprehensive guide history and owner's manual for all players and fans of National Resonator Dobro and electro-acoustic stringed instruments. Bob Brozman eats sleeps breathes and plays Nationals and in this detailed volume he covers the facts and figures necessary for serious collectors as well enthusiasts. It includes the instrument's history background innovators and its place in the culture of the 1920s and 1930s. Includes a generous selection of colour and black and white historical photos.

This is the ideal handbook for musicians who want to make high-quality recordings at home. The author's basic philosophy is that musicianship not equipment is the essential ingredient in a great recording. With skill creativity and a can-do attitude anyone can produce CD-quality recorded music at home with a minimum of technology and training. The book makes general practical musical sense of the complex technology of home recording. It will prove useful to those just getting started in home recording to those trying to fill in holes in their recording background and to musicians who would just like to understand more clearly what goes on in the studio. Thebook is based on a popular series of columns in Guitar Player magazine.

This book recounts the story of all the electric steel guitars - or electric 'Hawaiian' guitars as they were called during most of their tenure - that were built by Gibson between 1935 and 1967. Hawaiian guitars were the most popular form of electric guitars until the 1950s and they contributed to some crucial developments in pickups and amplification in addition to lending their voice to the earliest solid body electrics. Aesthetically the early postwar instruments are also amongst the coolest designs ever produced by Gibson.Over 450 illustrations including a wealth of colour pictures catalogue reproductions and patent drawingsA comprehensive section ondating instruments as well as detailed shipping totals for the 1935-1967 period.

The Musical Dramas Of Claudio Monteverdi-Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first great opera composer and is often hailed as the creator of modern music. His genius was often likened to that of Mozart Wagner and Verdi but in many of the world's opera houses hisoperas often receive an almost chilly respect far removed from the nearly universal love aroused by those later masters. This book the first layperson's guide to Monteverdi seeks to stimulate appreciation for his operas byexamining them not as musicological relics but as the vital theatrical experiences they are. Ringer places Monteverdi's operatic works within the musical and theatrical framework of his era offering a brief sketch of thecomposer's early years and detailing the complex forces that led to the emergence of opera in late sixteenth-century Florence. Opera's First Master enables opera lovers to see and hear Monteverdi's masterpieces anew whileopening new channels of inquiry into how Monteverdean opera “works” in the theater.

Few composers since the mid-twentieth century have escaped Mahler's influence. This book is the first discussion of Mahler's ten completed symphonies to offer music lovers a comprehensive overview of the music as it strikes today's listeners. The book caters to the novice as well as the expert as David Hurwitz describes what the listener will hear section by section. He explains how each work is arranged how the various parts relate to one another and how one work leads to the next. The emphasis throughout is on the experience of listening and how each symphony embodies Mahler's dictum that the symphony 'must embrace the world. It must contain everything'. Hurwitz describes the emotional extravagance that lies at the root of Mahler's popularity the consistency of his symphonic thinking and his dazzling and revolutionary use of orchestral instruments to create an expressive musical language that is varied in content and immediate in impact.

A host of secrets hints and how-to tips that will improve and enhance your recording work whether at home or in the pro studio. Contains dozens of entries from the personal experiences of producers such as Tom Dowd Pete Anderson Dick Shurman Desmond Child and Steve Vai. The accompanying CD features nearly an hour of audio demonstrations to help you finally get the results you've been striving for.

Dans cette représentation brillante de l'un des compositeurs plus célèbres du monde, Lewis Lockwood entrelace des dimensions musicales et biographiques de Beethoven et les place dans leurs contextes historiques et artistiques. Ecrit pour le lecteur lay, ce livre décrit les problèmes spéciaux Beethoven comme une artiste qui a rempli son destin comme successeur de Mozart, tout en restant un original true, rebelle. Il esquisse les cadres turbulents de personnels, historiques et culturels dans lequel il travailla et illustre leur effet sur sa musique. Enfin, elle se tourne vers le compositeur dans ses dernières années, avec grandes réalisations derrière lui, surmonter la crise de conclusion encore plus de défis à affronter. / Livre

A Scrapbook of Artifacts Treasures and Inside Information-The Martin Archives Scrapbook provides a fascinating glimpse into the history of America's oldest and most revered Guitar maker bringing the company's story to life with all kinds of memorabilia from their expansive archives - from a fold-out floorplan of their North Street factory and early purchase ledgers to letters and photographs from the many world-famous musicians who have favoured Martin Guitars.  The Martin Archives contain over 700 000 artifacts many of which have lain unseen for generations. The images documents and other souvenirs in this book have been carefully selected in order to paint acomplete picture of the company and its instruments from the concert halls of the pre-Civil War United States and the Grand Ole Opry stage to Woodstock Coachella and beyond. Whilst some Guitar makers in the U.S.A. predate the advent of the business computer Martin predates the typewriter electric lights and even the steam locomotive and this scrapbook reveals what an interesting ride that's been. In addition to 104 full-colour pages The Martin Archives Scrapbook also features pockets containing reproductions of original posters swing tags and more. The perfect gift for any Martin Guitar enthusiast or collector this illuminating book examines the impressive role played by Martin in the Golden Age of American music and the birth of rock 'n' roll.