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  • How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
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    • John Powell

    How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond

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    • By John Powell
    • Narrated By Walter Dixon
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    Have you ever wondered how off-key you are while singing in the shower? Or if your Bob Dylan albums really sound better on vinyl? Or why certain songs make you cry? Now, scientist and musician John Powell invites you on an entertaining journey through the world of music. Discover what distinguishes music from plain old noise, how scales help you memorize songs, what the humble recorder teaches you about timbre (assuming your suffering listeners don't break it first), and more.

    M.J. says: "Music is my business"
  • 528hz Solfeggio Meditation: Transform Your Life, Repair DNA and Create Miracles
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    • Glenn Harrold , Ali Calderwood (music)

    528hz Solfeggio Meditation: Transform Your Life, Repair DNA and Create Miracles

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    • By Glenn Harrold, Ali Calderwood (music)
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    This is one of a series of six meditation recordings by Glenn Harrold and Ali Calderwood, which are based upon the ancient Solfeggio musical scale. Each note in this scale has specific healing properties, and this recording uses the third note, which resonates to a frequency of 528hz. This frequency works to heal broken DNA, healing on all levels - emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical - bringing relief from anxiety, fatigue, and control issues. It helps to release negative thinking.

    Margaret says: "Surprisingly Effective Results"
  • Zen Buddhism Stories
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    • Trout Lake Media

    Zen Buddhism Stories

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    • Narrated By Alec Sand
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    A collection of Zen stories to amuse and illuminate. Includes all the stories from classic Zen literature: 101 Zen Stories, The Gateless Gate, The Ten Bulls and Centering. Includes the soundtrack The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo - a 43 minute collection of Zen inspired Japanese music by The Matsu Take Ensemble.

    Austin says: "Zen stories"
  • Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: The Autobiography
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    • Steven Tyler , David Dalton

    Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: The Autobiography

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 5 mins)
    • By Steven Tyler, David Dalton
    • Narrated By Steven Tyler, Jeremy Davidson
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    WITH AN INTERVIEW RECORDING OF STEVEN TYLER. The no-holds-barred memoir from the legendary Aerosmith frontman has arrived. Tales of debauchery, sex, drugs and rock n' roll are read for the audiobook. The Demon of Screamin' describes the highs and lows as lead singer of the biggest rock band in the world.

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  • The Modern Scholar: Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music
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    • Richard Freedman

    The Modern Scholar: Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music

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    • By Richard Freedman
    • Narrated By Richard Freedman
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    This course is not designed as a chronological survey of musical history and its many stylistic periods or moments, nor an exploration of the lives and output of individual composers. Instead, these lectures focus on the development of listening skills. Through this course you will develop new levels of aural awareness that will allow you to better appreciate the richness, complexity and excitement at the heart of all great concert music.

    Flaminia says: "Not my best pick"
  • A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
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    • Katie Hafner

    A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 45 mins)
    • By Katie Hafner
    • Narrated By William Coon
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    Hugely talented and famously eccentric, pianist Glenn Gould fought a running battle with a long list of less than perfect pianos. A Romance on Three Legs is the story of a love that changed Gould's life: his partnership with the Steinway CD 318, a piano whose peculiar action and temperament ushered Gould closer than ever to interpretive perfection. Katie Hafner weaves the compelling tale of Gould, his favorite piano, and the men who worked on it, revealing new details and nuances in the work and mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists.

  • Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
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    Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

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    Inspired by the attitude and energy of punk, Peter Hook and school friend Bernard Sumner joined lead-singer and lyricist Ian Curtis and drummer Stephen Morris, and with some cobbled-together instruments, they created their own unique sound. In 1980 they had released two albums and were on the cusp of touring America when Ian Curtis committed suicide. In this no-holds-barred account, Peter Hook gives us the inside story of life with Joy Division. He talks with candour and reflection about Curtis's suicide and covers the band's friendships and fall-outs....

    Ciaran says: "Quite perfect"
  • The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
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    • Stanley Booth

    The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

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    • By Stanley Booth
    • Narrated By Adrian Mulraney
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    Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night with them listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway: a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation's dreams of peace and freedom.

    s says: "Addictive"
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  • The Story of Music
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    • Howard Goodall

    The Story of Music

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    • By Howard Goodall
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    Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3. Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly specialised and complex. In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology.

    Michael says: "Needed Music!"
  • Farewell to the East End
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    Farewell to the East End

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    • By Jennifer Worth
    • Narrated By Saskia Butler
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    Written by Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End is one of the trilogy of memoirs upon which the popular BBC series Call the Midwife is based. London's East End in the 1950s was a vibrant place-a close-knit community of families where children made playgrounds on bombsites and a lively social scene emerged.

    Helen says: "Brilliant !"
  • The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy
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    • Nile Southern

    The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy

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    • By Nile Southern
    • Narrated By Richard Topol
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    In the spirit of VH1's Behind the Music comes this revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making, breaking, remaking, pirating, filming and legal wrangling of the '60s cult phenomenon Candy. An erotic satire vaguely inspired by Voltaire's Candide and penned under the name Maxwell Kenton (the nom de plume of its ex-pat coauthors, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg), Candy was first published in 1958 by the notorious French publisher Maurice Giordias. The book was immediately banned, then reissued under the title Lollipop, banned again, then reissued again, sanitized in England and eventually shipped stateside, where thanks to Putnam and a slew of publishing pirates, it leapt to bestsellerdom and was eventually crowned "the world's most talked about book." Southern's own son, Nile, has recounted the novel's bumpy and adventurous journey in a magnificent epistolary style, reprinting the correspondence between Candy's authors, its publisher and its increasingly complicated web of involved parties. The compilation perfectly captures the "growing misunderstandings, temper tantrums, paranoid fixations, jealousies, dreams and utter despair that each of these men went through as they tried to regain control over their book lost in a miasma of cloudy copyright." (Miasma is an apt term: by the second half of the book the legal fog is so thick that it's nearly impossible to keep track of who's suing whom.)

  • Jazz 101
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    • John F. Szwed

    Jazz 101

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    • By John F. Szwed
    • Narrated By Grover Gardner
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    Jazz 101 is a fascinating entry into the world of jazz, for the beginner, novice, or jazz enthusiast. Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the avant-garde in less than 50 years.

    Diane says: "supremely boring"

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  • A Pianist Under the Influence
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    A Pianist Under the Influence

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    • By Jonathan Biss
    • Narrated By Jeff Woodman
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    A Pianist Under the Influence reflects on Biss' lifelong, intense, multilayered relationship with the composer's music and historical treatment. As Biss writes from the unique position of performer, scholar, and fan, his work is both a personal and professional love letter to the 19th-century composer. An engaging listen for anyone interested in the creative process, it also includes a guide for listeners who wish to delve further into the material.

  • The Crowd, The Critic, and the Muse: A Book for Creators
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    The Crowd, The Critic, and the Muse: A Book for Creators

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    • Narrated By Michael Gungor
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    In The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse, Michael Gungor takes an uncompromising - and humorous - look at our creative selves and the world that we have fashioned around us. Through story and reflection, Gungor shows how our deepest beliefs and assumptions about the universe affect how we order creation. Surveying pop songs and church services, fine art and movies, Gungor shows what these works of creation reveal about us - for better and worse - and offers a powerful argument for why we can do better.

  • Beethoven's Shadow
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    • Jonathan Biss

    Beethoven's Shadow

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    • By Jonathan Biss
    • Narrated By Jeff Woodman
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    The American pianist Jonathan Biss is known to audiences throughout the world for his artistry, musical intelligence and deeply felt interpretations. What is less known until now is that Jonathan Biss writes about music in a most compelling and engaging way. For anyone who has ever enjoyed a Beethoven concert or a Beethoven recording or one of the many films about Beethoven, this audiobook is an inspiring listening experience. For those of you who have heard Beethoven in concert or listened to a Beethoven recording, Jonathan Biss takes you behind the scenes of those performances.

  • Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music
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    • Tricia Tunstall

    Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music

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    • By Tricia Tunstall
    • Narrated By Carol Monda
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    When Gustavo Dudamel, at the age of 28, ascended the podium at the Hollywood Bowl for his inaugural concert as conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he immediately captivated the hearts of his audience, just as he had the minds of music critics who designated him a modern-day Leonard Bernstein. In Changing Lives, the maestro's story becomes the entry point to an equally captivating subject: El Sistema, the music education program that nurtured his musical talent, first as a young violinist and then as a budding conductor under the mentorship of its founder, Jos Antonio Abreu.

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  • Drum Workshop
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    Top drum workshop teacher Chris Puleston invites listeners to participate in their own home drum workshops. This audiobook program, with music by Chris Puleston, incorporates easy exercises and techniques for both beginners and more advanced students.

  • Relentless: The Memoir
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    • Yngwie J. Malmsteen

    Relentless: The Memoir

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    • By Yngwie J. Malmsteen
    • Narrated By Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Fred Berman
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    Yngwie Malmsteen's revolutionary guitar style - combining elements of classical music with the speed and volume of heavy metal - made him a staple of the 80s rock scene. Decades later, he's still a legend among guitarists, having sold 11 million albums and influenced generations of rockers since. In Relentless, Malmsteen shares his personal story, from the moment he burst onto the scene seemingly out of nowhere in the early 80s to become a household name in the annals of heavy metal.

  • Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times
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    Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

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    • Narrated By Brian Sutherland
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    The music of Frank Sinatra, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and many other artists provides the score to the reflections of a musician on the road in this memoir of Neil Peart's travels from Los Angeles to Big Bend National Park. The emotional associations and stories behind each album Peart plays guide his recollections of his childhood on Lake Ontario, the first bands that he performed with, and his travels with the band Rush. The evocative and resonant writing vividly captures the meanderings of a musical mind, leading rock enthusiasts to discover inside information about Rush and the musical inspirations of a rock legend.

  • Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up
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    Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up

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    Pamela Des Barres, celebrated "queen of the groupies," chronicled her adventures with rock stars in her bestseller I'm with the Band. This book picks up where that one left off, with Pamela embarking on marriage and motherhood, all the while sharing quarters and making friends with stars. But this is a survivor's story about the anguish of coping with loved ones' addictions, about suffering divorce, about the joys and terrors of raising a gifted son.

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  • The Royal Opera House in the 20th Century
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    • Frances Donaldson

    The Royal Opera House in the 20th Century

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    The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is home of two of the most famous opera and ballet companies in the world. In this official history, Frances Donaldson discusses Covent Garden's many legendary achievements - Der Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann, the unparalleled partnership of Fonteyn and Nureyev, the recent Otello with Domingo. She follows the attitude of the English to opera and their Opera House, and the crusade for opera to be sung in English.

  • The Pied Pipers of Rock 'n' Roll: Radio Deejays of the '50s and '60s
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    • Wes Smith

    The Pied Pipers of Rock 'n' Roll: Radio Deejays of the '50s and '60s

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    • Narrated By Gary Theroux
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    In The Pied Pipers of Rock 'n' Roll, Wes Smith examines the phenomenon of the AM deejays who captivated a generation and helped define the counterculture that has forever changed the landscape of American youth. Smith takes a close look at nine of the men who made this happen and explores the reasons for their influence and its lasting effects on the generation whose lives still unfold to the soundtrack laid down by these platter-spinners of their youth.

  • E Street Shuffle: The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
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    • Clinton Heylin

    E Street Shuffle: The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

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    • By Clinton Heylin
    • Narrated By Dan John Miller
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    Before he was the swaggering, stadium-packing megastar, Bruce Springsteen was a brooding introvert, desperate to strike a balance between his nuanced songwriting and the heft of his backing band. Clinton Heylin's revelatory biography, E Street Shuffle, chronicles the evolution and influence of Springsteen's E Street Band as they rose from blue-collar New Jersey to the heights of rock stardom.

  • Early Music: A Very Short Introduction 
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    Early Music: A Very Short Introduction 

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    • Narrated By Alex Hyde-White
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    From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a compact overview of the music itself, but also a lively look at the many attempts over the last two centuries to revive it.