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This book explores the multifaceted skill of choral conducting, from vocal training and gesture to interpretation and rehearsal techniques. It examines the core skills every budding conductor needs to confidently build and lead a choir, offering a thorough foundation for developing into a skilled conductor capable of shaping a cohesive, disciplined and effective choir.

Whether you're launching a record label or taking your music career into your own hands, the second edition of The Label Machine gives you a complete system. It combines timeless industry knowledge with fresh insights into today’s fast-changing landscape, including the use of AI, new licensing models, and current marketing strategies that actually work.

This Handbook explores and critiques a new sonic reality – one which unearths new narratives that chart embryonic practices from the early twentieth century that have developed in parallel with accepted narratives of electronic music.

Recording Orchestra and Other Classical Music Ensembles explores techniques and methodologies specific to recording classical music. Whether the reader is a newcomer or a seasoned engineer looking to refine their skills, this book speaks to all levels of expertise and covers every aspect of recording symphonic and concerto repertoire, opera, chamber music and solo piano.

Sound Signatures: Crafting Your Electronic Music Identity explores ways to help electronic musicians establish their unique signature sound through new methods of sound creation and manipulation. It covers an extensive range of creative techniques for music production and sound design that might not be immediately obvious to those who are self-taught or at the beginning of their career or study programme.

The Mix Essentials Kit gives you a simple but powerful system to make your loops and beats sound clean, hard hitting, and professional – without overthinking every move or relying on random YouTube tips.

A Genre-Based Guide to Drum Patterns and Chord Progressions is the ultimate cheat code for producers, musicians, and beat nerds who want to stop fumbling around in the dark and start building bangers by design. Whether you’re crafting gritty boom bap, soulful jazz progressions, or EDM drops that melt faces, this guide breaks down the essential rhythms and chord movements behind the world’s most iconic genres.

How to Release Music offers artists, mentors, and music educators working at the secondary or collegiate level an overview of what goes into releasing independent music--both original music and covers. Designed as an easy-to-read reference guide and resource for those teaching students who are curious about how the music industry works, it offers fundamental knowledge for those who not only want to release their own music but whose students are interested in releasing music.

Mixing in Flow is a focused guide for mix engineers who are familiar with the basics of mixing and now seek greater consistency and refinement in their work. Rather than covering every fundamental aspect of mixing, it picks up where many mixers experience a plateau – when they know the mechanics but struggle with inconsistent or lacklustre results.

Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games brings together a range of perspectives that explore how music and sound in video games interact with virtual and real environments, often in innovative and unexpected ways. Drawing on a range of game case studies and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors consider the sonic environment in games as its own storytelling medium.

Chord Transformations in Higher-Dimensional Networks proposes an in-depth formal framework for generalized Tonnetze. It takes an algebraic approach and studies systems of k-chords in n-TET scales derived from a given k-mode (array of step intervals) through mode permutations and chord root translations, by combining key ideas of the neo-Riemannian Tonnetz theories with serial approaches to chordal structures.

Welcome to the fifth volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices – the first series of its kind dedicated to the art, science, and craft of game audio programming. In this volume, some of the top game audio programmers in the industry delve into audio programming topics from low-level subjects like oscillator techniques to high-level topics such as automated testing, reverb, and music.

This book explores the representation and application of music and new media in the archive. Its case studies interrogate twentieth and twenty-first-century musical engagements with new media, ranging from notation, recording, and broadcast technologies to new analogue and electronic instruments, exploratory sound making techniques, and experimental compositional practice.

ElectroPunk is the result of 11 months of obsessive research, sound experimentation, and cultural immersion. Designed for forward-thinking producers and artists, this sample pack channels the spirit of raw, underground electronic movements from across Europe.

The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu has become one of the most influential theories in music education and sociology of music. Generations of scholars in both fields have applied, criticized and advanced the concepts and methods invented by Bourdieu and his school.