Mark Jones 
Grandpa Jones 5-String Banjo [PDF ebook] 

The term “flow“ refers to experiences where the musician moves into a consciousness in which time seems to be suspended and perception of reality is blurred by unconscious forces. An essential part …

Movie soundtrack music is big business. In both film studios and at major record labels, entire divisions focus exclusively on marketing movie music. Film composers like John Williams have become int …

Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of compositi …

First published in 1998. Volume 14 out of a collection of 25 of Seventeenth- Century Italian Sacred Music, focuses on the works of Vesper, and compline music for four principal voices. This series pr …

‚The Craft of Modal Counterpoint‘ is the companion book to Benjamin“s ‚The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint, ‚ recently republished in a second edition by Routledge. Modal counterpoint is the style of co …

Increasingly, it is becoming evident that those involved in socio-musical studies must focus their investigative lens on musical practice and articulation of the self, on music and community involvem …

The music industry has been waging some very significant battles in recent years, reacting to numerous inter-related crises provoked by globalization, digitalization and the ever more extensive comme …

The interrelationship of music and theology is a burgeoning area of scholarship in which conceptual issues have been explored by musicologists and theologians including Jeremy Begbie, Quentin Faulkne …

This is Volume V in a series of seven on the Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Originally published in 1924. The trained musician may have made a thorough study of technical methods in c …

Caritas relates the “true“, yet largely undocumented story of Christine Carpenter, a 14th-century anchoress who moves towards insanity as her desire for a divine revelation continues to be unfulfil …