5 Music eBooks

A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home by Alan Doyle
Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them by Rhian Jones, Eli Davies, Tamar Shlaim
Eve Ruggieri, "Dictionnaire amoureux de Mozart"
Sibelius 7 Music Notation Essentials
James Humberstone, "Sibelius 7 Music Notation Essentials"

*A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home by Alan Doyle

English | Oct. 17 2017 | ISBN: 0385686196 | EPUB | 256 pages | 23.9 MB
Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time.
Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book, Alan Doyle turns his perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it was like to venture away from the comforts of home and the familiarity of the island.
Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, occasionally in a car with broken wipers "using Bob's belt and a rope found by Paddy's Pond" to pull them back and forth, Alan and his bandmates charted new territory, and he constantly measured what he saw of the vast country against what his forefathers once called the Daemon Canada. In a period punctuated by triumphant leaps forward for the band, deflating steps backward and everything in between—opening for Barney the Dinosaur at an outdoor music festival, being propositioned at a gas station mail-order bride service in Alberta, drinking moonshine with an elderly church-goer on a Sunday morning in PEI—Alan's few established notions about Canada were often debunked and his own identity as a Newfoundlander was constantly challenged. Touring the country, he also discovered how others view Newfoundlanders and how skewed these images can sometimes be. Asked to play in front of the Queen at a massive Canada Day festival on Parliament Hill, the concert organizers assured Alan and his bandmates that the best way to showcase Newfoundland culture was for them to be towed onto stage in a dory and introduced not as Newfoundlanders but as "Newfies." The boys were not amused.
Heartfelt, funny and always insightful, these stories tap into the complexities of community and Canadianness, forming the portrait of a young man from a tiny fishing village trying to define and hold on to his sense of home while navigating a vast and diverse and wonder-filled country.

*Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them by Rhian Jones, Eli Davies, Tamar Shlaim

English | October 19th, 2017 | ASIN: B074HBR8LG, ISBN: 191092461X | 238 Pages | EPUB | 0.35 MB
Discussions and analyses of music - whether on TV, in books or in the music press - have always been full of the stories of men. When female fans appear in these stories it is often through the eyes and from the perspectives of men - as muses, groupies or fangirls - meaning that women’s own experiences, ideas and arguments about the music they love are marginalised or glossed over.
Women in music are frequently fetishised and objectified both in song lyrics and in real life, viewed purely in relation to men and through their impact on the male ego. But this hasn’t stopped generations of women from loving, being moved by and critically appreciating music - however that music may feel about them.
Under My Thumb: The Songs that Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them is a study of misogyny in music through the eyes of women. It will bring together stories from music writers and fans about artists or songs they love despite their questionable or troubling gender politics, as well as looking at how these issues intersect with race, class and sexuality.
The collection explores the joys of loving music and the tensions, contradictions and complexities it can involve. It is intended to be as much celebration as critique - a kind of feminist guilty pleasures.

*[b]Eve Ruggieri, "Dictionnaire amoureux de Mozart"