Six Steps to Songwriting Success, Revised Edition
The Comprehensive Guide to Writing and Marketing Hit Songs
Written by Jason Blume

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2010
Price: $14.99

What’s the secret to writing a hit song? It’s as simple as 1-2-3-4-5-6! Innovative, practical, and inspiring, Six Steps to Songwriting Success presents a surefire step-by-step approach to mastering the elements consistently found in hit songs. Author Jason Blume, a songwriter with the rare distinction of having had songs on the... Read more >

Like Me
Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer
Written by Chely Wright

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $25.95

Chely Wright, singer, songwriter, country music star, writes in this moving, telling memoir about her life and her career; about growing up in America’s heartland, the youngest of three children; about barely remembering a time when she didn’t know she was different.
 
She writes about her parents, putting down roots in their... Read more >

The Mysticism of Sound and Music

Written by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 3, 1996
Price: $24.95

Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), the first teacher to bring the Islamic mystical tradition to the West... Read more >

Stradivari's Genius
Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
Written by Toby Faber

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $16.00

Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive, their quality unequalled by any subsequent violin-maker. In this... Read more >

The Music Business
Career Opportunities and Self-Defense
Written by Dick Weissman

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2003
Price: $17.00

The Must-Have Guide for Breaking
into the Music Business

Completely revised and updated for the twenty-first century, The Music Business provides essential career advice and information on how to get started and advance in all areas of the music industry—from an author who’s had careers in music as an artist and professor... Read more >

Check the Technique
Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Written by Brian Coleman
Introduction by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $20.00

A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals

It’s a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have... Read more >

With Strings Attached
The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars
Written by Jonathan Kellerman

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $75.00

For thirty-five years, bestselling author and accomplished musician Jonathan Kellerman has been, as he puts it in his Introduction to this lavishly illustrated, endlessly fascinating volume, “chasing fabulous sound.” The result of that quest is a world-class collection of guitars, mandolins, and other stringed instruments that number more than 120 ... Read more >

Make Your Voice Heard
An Actor's Guide to Increased Dramatic Range Through Vocal Training
Written by Chuck Jones

Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2010
Price: $14.99

• Focuses on the relationship between
voice training and acting


• Simple, easy-to-follow exercises to strengthen the voice in just 10 minutes
per day


• Revised and expanded edition includes
new techniques


• Replaces ISBN 0-8230-8333-0

Chuck Jones, the leading expert on using the voice to convey character, explains his groundbreaking techniques clearly and concisely... Read more >

Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Read by Simon Prebble

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat.  But the power of music goes much... Read more >

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
Written by Thad Carhart

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $13.99

Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn... Read more >