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Meakin    by Peter Cowlam
Price: $3.99 USD. 3980 words. Published on September 6, 2010. .

A jaded academic and musicologist embarks on a new career as an insurance salesman, though he can't shake off his past as easily as that...
Sticks and Drones    by Ed Drury
Price: $2.99 USD. 110040 words. Published on September 18, 2011. .

Story of the explosion of didjeridu playing around the world from the mid nineties on. Told through interviews with the members of the didj community.
For Viktor. The story of Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'.    by Robert Philip Bolton
Price: $1.99 USD. 7490 words. Published on November 2, 2011. .

Based on fact, and historically accurate, 'For Viktor' is written in Modest Mussorgsky’s own voice as he guides a young companion around the picture exhibition held in honour of his friend Viktor Hartman at the Academy of Artists in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1874. It was this exhibition which inspired Mussorgsky to write the suite of music he called 'Pictures at an Exhibition'.
Midnight Arpeggios: An Illustrated Philosophy of Practicing & Music    by M.J. Murphy
Price: $4.99 USD. 22720 words. Published on April 24, 2012. .

This book looks beyond the technicalities of theory and into the mental and spiritual processes we go through in practicing and in becoming musical human beings. You will find a collection of 23 short, original essays on music that are inspired, informal, and brilliantly illustrated with classic artwork.