Keyboard Presents Synth Gods

Keyboard Presents Synth Gods

Author: Ernie Rideout

Publisher: Berklee Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0879309997

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The invention of the synthesizer in the 1960s opened the door to a new musical universe that fused technology with a traditional instrument, allowing artists to explore not just notes on the keyboard but also sounds the world had never heard before. In the decades that followed, synths continued to evolve through the efforts of pioneering designers and artists.


Guitar Player: The Inside Story of the First Two Decades of the Most Successful Guitar Magazine Ever

Guitar Player: The Inside Story of the First Two Decades of the Most Successful Guitar Magazine Ever

Author: Jim Crockett

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2015-02-01

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 149502590X

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(Book). Foreword by Joe Satriani Guitar Player: The Inside Story of the First Two Decades of the Most Successful Guitar Magazine Ever is a reflection on Guitar Player 's often pioneering early days, from its 1967 founding through its 1989 sale by founder Bud Eastman and editor/publisher Jim Crockett. This book looks at the magazines evolution from a 40-page semi-monthly to a monthly exceeding 200 pages, with a gross yearly income that grew from $40,000 to nearly $15 million. The story is told by many people important to Guitar Player 's history, including Maxine Eastman, Bud Eastman's widow, and Crockett, who edited this book with his daughter Dara. Also here are recollections of key personnel, including Tom Wheeler, Jas Obrecht, Roger Siminoff, Mike Varney, Jon Sievert, George Gruhn, and Robb Lawrence; leading early advertisers, such as Martin, Randall, and Fender; and prominent guitar players featured in the magazine, including Joe Perry, George Benson, Pat Travers, Country Joe McDonald, Pat Metheny, Steve Howe, Lee Ritenour, Johnny Winter, Steve Morse, Larry Coryell, Michael Lorimer, John McLaughlin, Stanley Clarke, Liona Boyd, Steve Vai, and many others. Among the many illustrations are then-and-now shots of performers and staff, early ads, behind-the-scenes photos from company jam sessions (with such guests as B. B. King and Chick Corea), various fascinating events, and key issue covers. Rich in history and perspective, Guitar Player: The Inside Story of the First Two Decades of the Most Successful Guitar Magazine Ever is the definitive first-person chronicle of a music magazine's golden age.


Keyboard Presents the Best of the '80s

Keyboard Presents the Best of the '80s

Author: Ernie Rideout

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780879309305

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(Keyboard Presents). No single decade revitalized the keyboard as a focal point as much as the 1980s. Now, the editors of Keyboard magazine have culled that era's most insightful articles and combined them with a wealth of insight to create this landmark book. Features 20 interviews with noted players and producers like Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes, Depeche Mode's Vince Clarke, Peter Gabriel, and The Human League, as well as such visionary pioneers as Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Frank Zappa.


Steal this Sound

Steal this Sound

Author: Mitchell Sigman

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1423492811

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A single-volume guide to recreating 100 top-selected synthesizer sounds from hit songs provides illustrated two-page spreads that list details about how the sound was originally created on professional-grade synthesizers and how to create the same sounds today using modern plug-ins and readily available software instruments. Original.


Keyboard Presents Classic Rock

Keyboard Presents Classic Rock

Author: Ernie Rideout

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0879309520

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A collection of in-depth interviews from Keyboard magazine highlighting the leading keyboardists of classic rock.


Duruflé's Music Considered

Duruflé's Music Considered

Author: Ronald Ebrecht

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-10-16

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1498527884

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In this book, Ronald Ebrecht has meticulously studied each of Duruflé’s works and put together the first book to discuss in detail all of Duruflé’s music. With encouragement from Duruflé’s editor and the foundation established in his name, Ebrecht has compiled copious examples from manuscript sources to be published for the first time along with the little-known contextualizing works of Messiaen and Barraine. Most widely known for his masterpiece Requiem, the composer’s orchestral gems are analyzed alongside his delightful miniature: the orchestration of the Sicilienne. The organ works which set the standard for virtuosity at conservatories around the world are given new insightful and thorough evaluation by Ebrecht, whose long association with late 19th and early 20th century France and French music affords illuminating connections between Duruflé and his predecessors and successors with sweeping insight and minute detail.


Strange Sounds

Strange Sounds

Author: Mark Brend

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780879308551

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What do David Bowie, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Radiohead, The Troggs, The Human League, The Osmonds and The Beach Boys have in common? They've all used unusual musical instruments on big hit records. Strange Sounds tells the stories behind these recordings and many more. It includes some of the biggest names in pop music from the 1950s to the present, explaining and illustrating what instruments were used - their history, how they were played, how the artists came to choose them - and in the process uncovering a parallel history of pop music, one where guitars and drums make way for claviolines, ocarinas and stylophones. The accompanying CD includes demonstration recordings of many of the instruments documented, as well as incidental music composed by the author, recorded using a unique line-up of the instruments featured in the book.


Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-composer (1849-1908)

Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-composer (1849-1908)

Author: Geneva H. Southall

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780810845459

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Blind Tom was the stage name of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind black pianist born into slavery in 1849. In this focused, consequential study, Southall reformulates the debate surrounding Blind Tom and expands its dimensions significantly.