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What Is Music?: An Introduction to the subject of Music
Author(s): Bill Keis (Author)
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date: November 7, 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 24 pages
- ISBN-10: 1542350840
- ISBN-13: 9781542350846
Book Description
Music is a language which can express virtually unlimited concepts and emotions. If you want to “make music”, there are definite things that need to be learned. However, you don’t need to master all of them to have fun making music. As a matter of fact, you can learn a couple simple things and begin to make music in a few minutes. Then, depending on how far you want to take it, you can continue to learn more. This Book answers many questions: * What is music? * What is musicianship? * What is music theory? * What are melody, harmony, rhythm? * Can anyone learn to play music? * What are the 3 important elements of sound? * What is “tone deafness” and can it be cured? * What is “perfect pitch” and can it be learned? And many more!
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About the Author
A professional, multi-talented musician: Bill Keis has been a professional musician, teacher, author, pianist, composer, producer and musical director for over 30 years in the Los Angeles area. He has performed with such notable and talented musicians and composers as Chick Corea, Mark Isham, David Campbell, Stanley Clarke, Ronnie Spector, Edgar Winter, Chaka Khan and Kate Ceberano. One of Bill’s compositions was used in the 2015 blockbuster movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron, which grossed over $1.4 billion worldwide.
