To Music

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The series Practica Musica seeks to present to scholars and interested readers a wide span of documents concerning the theory and practice of music. These documents cover a range of statements and opinions concerning how music was conceived at a given time, how musical compositions have functioned in given social, institutional and cultural contexts, and how particular works have been evaluated by contemporary writers on music, not to mention matters of performing practice and compositional technique. The texts come from professional theorists, composers and performers, as well as from laymen and amateur observers of contemporary musical life. The series as a whole will contain different types of documents - ranging from systematic treatises to the jottings of dilettantes - but whatever their origins, they offer an intriguing insight into music and its crucial place in society.

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This unique guide helps all musicians: open up new avenues of expression through a pain-free, healthy, fluid approach to music-making; overcome performance anxiety, general tension, and muscular injury; and increase learning skills and facilitate more effective motor coordination.

The Pro - Audio dictionary is intended for music producers, recording and mixing engineers, film sound recordists, sound engineers and multimedia producers. The dictionary may also be helpful to musicians and other users of electroacoustic equipment and computer audio technology, as well as to persons interested in sound recording technology who read professional literature in English.
Besides the terminology exactly related to sound recording technology, the dictionary also includes the most common technology, the dictionary also includes the most common vocabulary of musical performance, film, television, sound quality assessment, acoustics, electroacustics, digital audio technology and production management. The dictionary comprises vocabulary used in the literature as well as colloquial terms.