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1. Music: An Appreciation
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2. A History of Western Music (Tenth Edition)
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6. How to Write Songs on Guitar: A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course
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7. Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo: Revised and Enhanced Edition
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9. György Ligeti: Music of the Imagination
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10. Twenty-Four Italian Songs & Arias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medium High Voice (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics, Vol. 1722) (Italian and English Edition)
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I have this one. Now I just realised it says that it's an amplifier, but it does have the functions of a mixer (I think) :D
Well, I mean I use it to transfer audio from my TV to the speakers and also from my audio streamer to the same speakers, so yeah, I'm pretty sure there won't be much problems with this one, it's quite strong.
I use 100% pure nickel strings on my electric guitar now. After years of buying all different metal combos and thicknesses I came to the conclusion that these Fender 3150R's where the best sounding. They work for me but I play mostly clean with very powerful humbuckers.
Well...point being don't overcomplicate it I guess. There are many good books about writing lyrics, definitely read one. It will at least give you all the mechanics of writing and good tips on writing in general.
This is one of the ones I have read that I found really helpful: http://www.amazon.com/How-To-Write-Songs-Guitar/dp/0879309423
Second if you are writing in a group it's exponentially more difficult than alone. For one thing it's hard to communicate a full vision for lyrics or a song until some sort of tipping point. Actually this is true of anything creative, so it might be better, if you are in a group to get at least a bit written ahead of time before collaborating. Also you absolutely need to just say upfront, this is gonna be corny and awkward as hell. In fact writing parody or joke songs is so easy cause you are detached from the emotion of it a bit. In real lyrics I suppose this isn't the case and so if you think of something you think is great others may not agree and feelings get hurt. Gotta get over this quick or you will get nowhere fast.
Disclaimer: I am not a professional musician, I have no songs written that are even worth sharing but I do collaborate with people creatively a lot. I have done a lot of improvised jams with lyrics and stuff to try and write but I should say that probably any professionals opinion would be better than mine.
Once I felt I had hit the wall of what I could figure out by ear, I picked up (and had a lot of luck with) this book. It's the one that Earl Scruggs wrote, and it's very well paced. I might even suggest starting out with it, because I ended up having to do a lot of right hand reprogramming.
I don't think you'll likely find a book just about micropolyphony. Although it is sort of a type of counterpoint, it's not representative of a style or movement of composing in the same way that renaissance or baroque counterpoint is, so there's not as extensive a practice of it to write about. There's Ligeti and his works, and a few other composers that have done some similar things.
There is an article about micropolyphony called 'Micropolyphony:Motivations and Justifications Behind a Concept
Introduced by György Ligeti' which is maybe worth a read.
Paul Griffiths's book on Ligeti has a discussion of Atmospheres and micropolyphony.
Richard Steinitz's book Gyorgy Ligeti: Music of the Imagination also has a discussion of micropolyphony.
The best thing to do is probably to try and get a look at the score to Atmospheres by Ligeti. You'll learn a lot by just perusing the score.
You could also look into the term 'heterophony', which is not a million miles away from micropolyphony.
In the opera world, there are usually a handful of arias that an accomplished singer of a given voice type should know - for example, most professional coloratura sopranos should be able to sing the Doll Song from Tales of Hoffman, or "Der Hölle Rache" from The Magic Flute. The same basically applies for every voice type, and usually includes repertory from the major German, Italian, and French opera composers.
In the artsong world, there's a somewhat similar list, although it's less standardized than jazz. Most experienced singers should be able to sing almost anything from the 24 Italian Songs and Arias book, because it's seen as one of the "must-haves" for beginning to intermediate level classical singers. There are a number of other pieces that are pretty common - Debussy's "Mandoline" or Fauré's "Lydia" come to mind in terms of chansons, and Schubert's "Lachen und Weinen" or Schumann's "Widmung" are very common in terms of Lieder. Again, it varies a bit based on voice type - I'm a soprano, so I'm mostly familiar with that.
So anyway, as others have mentioned, virtually every genre (or subgenre) has music that is so common it's treated as a standard. For some genres, the important part is having the skill to pull off a lot of this music with limited rehearsal, not necessarily having the whole thing memorized on the spot.
It should also be noted that in the case of most of this vocal music, it would also be considered very standard for a professional collaborative pianist to know the accompaniment with limited rehearsal.
You might want to start with a broad overview, such as this:
https://www.amazon.com/Music-Appreciation-Roger-Kamien/dp/0078025206
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The standard history text is this:
https://www.amazon.com/History-Western-Music-Tenth/dp/0393668177/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=grout+music+history&qid=1556390719&s=gateway&sr=8-3
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You can surely find an older used edition of the Grout cheaply. Your contemporary music degree, is it a B.A. or Associates?
what do you mean by trouble tuning it, if it does not stay in tune, or doesnt not reach the right note you should buy a better one, I recommend the https://www.musicroom.com/product-detail/product1147748/variant1147748/flight-tus35-abs-travel-ukulele-white-with-bag/ or if you're willing to spend a bit more the https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0194X3W5I/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bmetcheverry-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B0194X3W5I&linkId=c96c4614202f25c4da0cfe7460499e7f
Sounds good! Also, since I want stereo sound, what if i bought two ip300s (no subwoofer), instead of two ip2000s. Link for the turbosound ip300: https://www.amazon.com/TURBOSOUND-IP300-iNSPIRE-iP300/dp/B079LQLNFH/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=turbosound&qid=1556915773&s=gateway&sr=8-2
This way would be cheaper, but perhaps the lack of a subwoofer take too much away from the intended sound? Otherwise, maybe some regular loudspeakers (not columns) would be more affordable.