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Available books
Please read Rationale and Download instructions before proceeding
  • Kojak - 50 Seconds of Television Music [more info] [go to download]
  • Fernando the Flute [more info] [go to download]
  • Ten Little Title Tunes [more info] [go to download]
  • Rock in the Reservation [more info]
  • Everyday Tonality [more info] [go to download]

Rationale
As a pensioner I can’t go on running this site without some sort of income to cover a small part of what it actually costs me. On the other hand, I don’t see why students, especially those in non-OECD nations, should have to pay ‘first-world’ prices for accessing knowledge and ideas about the sort of music that most people hear on an everyday basis. That’s why the books I put on line can now be downloaded by those who donate as little as $2 (Canadian) towards the running of my site (including the MMMSP pages). More about this...

Download instructions
- [1] Decide how much you want to donate (see minimum and suggested amounts, below).
- [2] Click the requisite ‘Add to cart’ button.
- [3] In the shopping cart screen, enter the amount you want or are able to donate.
- [4] Enter your PayPal account or your credit card details and ‘Send’ your donation.
- [5] In the email you receive from e-junkie.com, click the relevant download link.
- [6] If you receive a ZIP file, save it to disk and extract its constituent files.

• I have zipped (compacted) many files to save disk space and download times.

All financial quantifications on this page are in Canadian dollars (CAD). Here are today's exchange rates from the Bank of Canada.
All books have the page format 7×10" = 177×254 mm which fits easily on both A4 and US ‘Letter’ paper.

Philip Tagg: Fernando the Flute (1992/2000).

min. $2 Canadian
suggested donation $7.50
   Was $21 + shipping!

144 pp. Illustrated, numerous music examples, complete transcription.
ISBN 0-9701684-1-1.

This analysis of an Abba mega-hit from 1975 is required reading for popular music analysis classes in several universities. More...

Monumental study of everyday musical meanings in the mass media, from sighing sixths to cowboy cadences, from pastoral romance to urban urgency, from the musical mediation of gender to matters of educational democracy, etc., etc. ‘Compelling’, ‘erudite’, ‘shocking’, ‘staggering’, ‘useful’, ‘it made my Christmas’, ‘essential reading’... More

Yngvar Steinholt: Rock in the Reservation (2004)


Hard-copy book ($21.95?).
Please contact the author for info and ordering.

254 pages. Illustrated, music examples. $21.95.
ISBN 0-9701684-3-8.

How does rock in 1980s Leningrad relate to the demise of the Soviet Union? How could rock flourish in a system that did not recognise its existence? A convincing multidisiplinary account of central issues in the recent musical, literary, social and political history of Europe‘s largest nation.

Philip Tagg: Everyday Tonality - Towards a tonal theory of what most people hear (2009)

min. $3.50 Canadian
suggested donation $13
Hard copy would've cost $45 + shipping!

iv+334 pages. 50 diagrams, charts and tables, 160 music examples.
ISBN 978-0-9701684-4-3

What do terms like note, pitch, octave, tone, tonality, mode, modality, melody, polyphony and harmony really mean? And how do you talk about the tonality of all the everyday music that contains no dominants, subdominants or perfect cadences and works just fine without them? Everyday Tonality makes sense of these issues... More.

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