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Claude Debussy was the father of the modern era in classical music. His innovations liberated Stravinsky Schoenberg and Bartìk to write their iconoclastic works and his harmonic inventions are still heard in American jazz. Though he was among the most compelling figures of the Belle »poque his life is little known to all but scholars; and of his considerable musical output only ÊPrelude to the Afternoon of a FaunÊ ÊLa merÊ and ÊClair de luneÊ are widely known.ÞHarvey Lee Snyder addresses this cultural neglect by presenting the composer and his music without jargon or biographical trivia in a richly detailed accurate narrative that reads like a novel. Here is the story of a poor unschooled Parisian boy swept by odd coincidences to the Paris Conservatory at age ten. Here is a brilliant man struggling to invent a tonal language capable of expressing his unique musical vision finding inspiration not in Bach and Beethoven but in Mallarm©''s poetry and the paintings of Whistler and Turner; a man determined to end two centuries of Germanic domination of European music. Here is a reclusive gentle man whose misguided love affairs ended in scandal and scorn. His hard work failed to end decades of poverty and debt but when he died in 1918 he was and has remained the foremost French composer of the twentieth century.

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ÊGetting Started with Music ProductionÊ is for anyone interested in developing a more efficient and creative approach to music production and it''s structured so thoughtfully that it can be used as a textbook for a modular activity-oriented course presented in any learning environment. As an added bonus the text and accompanying examples are built around the free version of Studio One from PreSonus so no matter what their musical or technical experience level students don''t need to purchase expensive recording software to benefit from the presented material. The fundamental concepts and techniques delivered in this book apply seamlessly to any modern DAW.ÞThe author includes 73 video tutorials formatted for portable devices that help further explain and expand on the instruction in the text. All supporting media is provided exclusively online so whether you''re using a desktop computer or a mobile device you''ll have easy access to all of the supporting content.ÞÊGetting Started with Music ProductionÊ is intended for college music majors high school students and independent learners. The first ten chapters can be used by schools on the quarter system with an additional five chapters provided for those on the semester system.