http://www.ebooks.com/MusicFeatured Music titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2009 Ebooks Corporation Ltd11/17/2009 4:50:13 PMhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=45143320091711.45143311/17/2009 4:50:13 PMIn The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a “bible” for success in life and work based on a single principle: fear nothing. With intimate stories from 50 Cent's life on the streets and in the boardroom as he rose to fame after the release of his album Get Rich or Die Tryin’, as well as examples of others who have overcome adversity through understanding and prhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=27895720091711.27895711/17/2009 4:50:13 PMA fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind—and the role of melodies in shaping our lives. Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Both a cutting-edge study and a tribute to the beauty of music itself, This Is Your Brainhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=34682720091711.34682711/17/2009 4:50:13 PMhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=41401220091711.41401211/17/2009 4:50:13 PMThere is no denying it: With the introduction of the iPod and iTunes, Apple changed the face of music. While the iPod and iTunes are user-friendly, figuring them out for the first time can be tricky. Plus, they can do way more than meets the eye. In this fully updated best-seller, award-winning author Scott Kelby delivers what users need to know to get up to speed fast on Apple's popular iPod digital audio players and iTunes software. Through full-color illustrations and simple step-by-step http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=36122120091711.36122111/17/2009 4:50:13 PMAnalyses the music of The Velvet Underground. This work examines the musical influences of the Velvets on punk, post-punk and subsequent rock movements, culminating in the group's reunion of 1993. It also indexes the variety of media constructions that the group endured through the years and how these affected Cale, Nico and Reed.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=40761820091711.40761811/17/2009 4:50:13 PMShaped by Prohibition, the Depression and World War II, Sinatra became the spokesman of urban loneliness. In this tribute, the author draws upon intimate conversations over the course of many years, examining his art and his legend.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=35465420091711.35465411/17/2009 4:50:13 PM"Irresistible....A captivating picture that hasn't beenseen before....THE BEATLES amplifies and corrects some of what is knownabout the band's formative years.... It powerfully evokes both theexcitement and the price of such a sudden rise." --NEW YORK TIMES At last in paperback: the biography the Beatles deserve. It's all here, rawand right--the highs and the lows, the love and the rivalry, the awe andthe jealousy, the drugs, the tears, the thrill, the magic never to berepehttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=41962420091711.41962411/17/2009 4:50:13 PMIn Search of the Beats: Were they angel-headed hipsters, dope smoking dropouts or the most exciting group of writers in postwar American literature? Their stories of drugs, sex and the search for an alternative to 'squaresville' have cornered the market in cult literature, remaining hip even while being taught on university courses and in schools. On the Road, Naked Lunch and Howl have become milestones of underground literature and the key Beats (Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg) are mythic figuhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=34057920091711.34057911/17/2009 4:50:13 PMFrederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) was one of the most influential musicians of the 19th Century. Discovered as a child-prodigy pianist in his native Poland, he later travelled to France, where he remained after the Polish uprising of 1830-31. There he gave few public performances, but worked as composer and piano teacher. He later became a French citizen and conducted a stormy relationship with French writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant). He died at 39 of pulmonary tuberculosis...http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=27608320091711.27608311/17/2009 4:50:13 PMA newly translated LIBRETTO of Verdi's OTELLO with many music examples.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=33167620091711.33167611/17/2009 4:50:13 PMExplains how to use music theory to write music in a variety of forms. This book introduces the basic chord construction and shows readers how to compose music both with chords and melody, develop simple melodic motifs and themes into longer compositions, arrange compositions, and select the right instruments and voicing to express musical ideas.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=36135820091711.36135811/17/2009 4:50:13 PMSalsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music--and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy César Miguel Rondón's celebrated El libro de la salsa . For this first English-language edition, Rondón has ahttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=28724420091711.28724411/17/2009 4:50:13 PMLudwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston. Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of Beethoven, brings the great composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative pershttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=22090620091711.22090611/17/2009 4:50:13 PMThe first two volumes of Peter Williams's classic study of Bach's organ works have been fully revised, taking account of Bach scholarship of the past 25 years. This one-volume edition provides a piece-by-piece commentary on this ever-popular repertoire, showing what its unique qualities are, and how we might hear and play it today.http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=41621520091711.41621511/17/2009 4:50:13 PMThe ideal hands-on reference for piano students who want to strengthen their skills and refine their technique--and the perfect companion and next step to the bestselling Piano For Dummies.