Best Selling Books by Peter Townsend

All aspects of music are evolving and driven by culture, experience, star performers, better instruments and concert halls, plus access to international musical styles offered by recordings and broadcasting. Musical expectations have risen and our appreciation is more diverse and flexible. Composition has matched these developments. Sounds of Music explores driving forces from new instrument designs, cult of personality, and the immense impact of electronics and recording. Each and every change means we never experience older music in the way that it was first heard. Even from the same CD. Musical experience is highly personal. It differs with mood, and seating in a concert hall or room. In addition to describing past changes and influential innovations, the book offers thoughts on where we are heading, electronic influences, and the reasons why current CD and MP3 formats may become obsolete, plus new instruments and styles that could appear.

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Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s by Peter Townsend. This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyzes the changes in the world of the professional musician brought about both by the outbreak of World War II and by long-term changes in the music business, in popular taste, and in American society itself. It describes how the infrastructure of American music-the interdependent fields of recording, touring, live engagements, radio, and the movies-was experiencing change in the conditions of wartime and how this impacted upon musical styles and hence upon the later history of popular music. Successive chapters of the book examine the impact of these changed conditions upon the songwriting and music publishing industries, upon the world of the touring big bands, and upon changing conceptions of the role of jazz and popular music. Not only the economic conditions, but also ideas were changing. The book traces a movement among writers and critics which created new definitions of "jazz" and other terms that had a permanent influence on the way musical styles were thought of for the rest of the century. The book deals in some depth with the work of a number of important artists in these various fields, including Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Johnny Mercer, and Frank Sinatra. It also looks at the growing presence of bebop, the rise of country music, and the contemporary musical scenes in such locations as New York and Los Angeles. The book combines detail of the day-to-day working lives of musicians with challenging views of the long-term development of musical style in jazz and popular music. Peter Townsend lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University and in the School of Music at the University of Huddersfield, England.

Voted the most unfashionable seaside resort in England Rushmoor Bay seemed destined for a massive leisure redevelopment by a local tycoon that would see the miniature railway and its pride and joy, The Flying Star locomotive, destined for the scrapheap. The dedicated volunteers that ran the railway met in the engine shed. It was clear to everyone present that without the tycoon the leisure scheme would never go ahead and that nothing could be allowed to stand in their way in restoring the line to its former pride and glory. They took a vote. It was unanimous that the man must be murdered. When the dead body of the tycoon is discovered on the beach and the police become involved the volunteers wonder if they have now reached the end of the line.

1961, was an interesting year on the railways. This book focuses on London''s Waterloo terminus. It also features ''West Country'', ''Merchant Navy'', ''Pacifics'', Birmingham and the Midlands, including Western and Midland scenes.

More than 100 double sided music theory flash cards. Useful for both music/instrument teachers and students. Contents pages showing topics and numbers/codes for each card. In a handy book - no more jumbled or lost flash cards! Includes: * note values (including dotted) * rest values* clefs * key signatures * time signatures (simple, compound, complex) * flats & sharps * articulation & other symbols. Easy to use with clear definitions/examples on the back of cards. Other books in the series cover tempo & dynamics; and notation. Book is 5.5 by 8.5 inches (14 by 22 cm). This edition is in black & white.

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