Music-Instruction & Study -Appreciation

Author: Tony PappasISBN-10: 0988963965ISBN-13: 9780988963962Publisher: Prosonic Studios, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2013Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.61d

Sherrell explores American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European-influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works and thus provides listeners with the tools and background necessary to gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of Broadway music.Author:...

In Experiencing Stravinsky, music historian Robin Maconie takes a completely fresh approach to understanding the great composer's works, explaining what makes Stravinsky's "sound" unique and what we, as listeners, need to know in order to appreciate the variety and brilliance of his compositions. In...

This book supplies detailed explanations for young singers, teachers, and professional singers with "troubled" voices. Striny's previous book, Head First, discussed this process but without specific instructions to accomplish the task. This completely original process was conceived by Striny to correct major problems in...

Frog Opera, With Pollywog Chorus is a musical extravaganza written by Charles Thurber Miller in 1880. The story is based on the classic nursery tale and old song ""A Frog He Would A Wooing Go."" The book features a cast of frog characters who...

The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than ever. Music videos, television and film music, interactive video games, and social media are now part...

Easy As Do - Re - Mi, complete in two books, is a modern method for teaching strings in a classroom setting, based on time-honored principles of noted pedagogues of the past. It is a method for teachers with differing backgrounds, training, and expertise,...

Don't Sweat the Technique equips aspiring performers with the tools and knowledge needed to become a better rapper. Written in easy-to-understand language, this book helps build techniques and unlocks solutions to common stumbling blocks. It includes exclusive advice from dozens of MCs who give...

Join the author on a captivating journey through the world of timeless music in Cevere's Chronicles Vol. 2: Cevere's Classics. In this volume, his book explores the essence of what makes a classic. Unveiling the art of album creation, discover the cohesive and immersive...

Donizetti's Opera L'Elisire D'Amore is a book that contains the Italian text of the famous opera, along with an English translation and the music of all the principal airs. The book was originally published in 1885 and was written by the composer himself, Gaetano...

In the first issue of electriCushion music mag we discuss contemporary music and offer an interactive experience with QR-codes that link to videos from shows and songs from artists. We are on a mission to help educate the planet on the benefits of neuron-growing...

Arrangements of familiar Christmas songs for beginning pianists. Play and sing along with tunes you know. Read music on the staff from F3 to A4 for beginning treble and bass clef notes. Use this book to build confidence in early musicians. Author: Heather BrunnerISBN-10:...

Good music always takes time to make, whether you're a seasoned veteran or a bedroom producer just cutting your teeth. So why work harder, when you could just work smarter? Efficient Music Production: How to Make Better Music, Faster offers essential tips for streamlining...

Classical Themes for Easy Piano contains 100 pieces arranged for easy piano. Each arrangement is a single page, suitable for beginning and early intermediate piano players, and features music from J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Carcassi, Chopin, Carulli, Clementi, Czerny, Debussy, Giuliani, Handel, Haydn, Liszt,...

Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes V3: Of Music and Musicians, Ancient and Modern (1825) is a book written by Thomas Busby. It is a collection of anecdotes and stories related to music and musicians from different eras, including ancient and modern times. The book...

Taking a practical and common-sense approach, the Contemporary Theory Workbooks provide students with an overview of many aspects of music theory, revealing many musical mysteries which traditional theory books have neglected in the past. The information presented allows the student to venture into popular,...

This book of gently graded teaching pieces for piano is designed to provide extra repertoire, technique and reading practice and for students using Margaret Brandman's Contemporary Piano Method Books 1A and 1B. Covering a variety of styles from folk tunes to classical pieces and...

What would a Deleuzian music philosophy be like? For Deleuze, music informed his work on several levels. He did not merely write about music, it formed part of his thinking. Deleuze and Music is the first volume to explore Deleuze's ideas from the perspective...

The Dictionary Of 12,500 Italian, French, German, English And Other Musical Terms, Phrases And Abbreviations by John Hiles is a comprehensive reference book that provides a detailed description of musical terms, phrases, and abbreviations used in Italian, French, German, English and other languages. The...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account of our own cultural...

The contents of this book have been personally selected by Dennis Alexander as some of his all-time favorite sheet music solos. Many of the solos are among the most requested by piano teachers and students alike. The varied styles of each piece makes this...

Discovering Music offers the context that students need to appreciate music, in a concise format that is visually appealing. Written to inspire students to connect intellectually and emotionally with music from the Western canon and beyond, the text is supported by a suite of...

The Educated Listener: A New Approach to Music Appreciation helps students develop the skills they need to creatively and intelligently discuss and listen to classical music. Readers will learn about the musical genres, forms, and techniques used by composers of classical music, which will...

"A fascinating thesis and a timely synthesis. . . . Becker urges the reader to view certain arcane cultural rituals as being in the mainstream of spiritual development and argues that the resulting trance-like states may relate to the basic fabric of emotions and...

Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes. The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners' horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by companies like...

Millions of people adore classical music. Millions of other people want to, but simply don't know how or where to start--so many composers, so many pieces, so many versions, so much music! In either case, this book is for you. In this informal and...

CLIFFORD ODETS AMERICAN PLAY WRIGHT 1906-1940Author: Margaret Brenman-GibsonISBN-10: 1557834571ISBN-13: 9781557834577Publisher: Applause BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 1Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.47lbsSize: 8.93h x 6.50w x 1.58dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 03/15/2002 pg. 113

As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the history of elective affinities between philosophy and music from German classicism, romanticism, and idealism to...

Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful (Vom Musikalisch-Schen, 1854), written and published before the author turned 30, is a watershed document in the history of aesthetics, and of thought about music generally. The notion of "absolute music," which lies at the heart of the...

Legendary maestro Leonard Slatkin provides personal insights and offers his ideas to solve the current dilemmas of classical music.As the new millennium poses some of the greatest challenges to the relevance of the art form, Slatkin reflects on the modern evolution of classical music...

What's Inside? You can see some sample pages from this Doctor Mozart workbook at DoctorMozart.com/LookInside.php Help Your Child Succeed with Music Music theory knowledge is essential for your child's success. Doctor Mozart's keyboard-based approach to music theory can help your child succeed with any...

Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, mediators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be effected by profound attention to the sonic environment....

Charles Fierro In His Own Words is a welcome collection ofenlightening articles by Dr. Charles Fierro, a distinguishedCalifornia concert artist and university professor. Dr. Fierro'sincisive writings cover a variety of genres: memoirs of hisencounters with renowned composers, musical portraits, concert reviews, philosophical musings on...

Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture. But in 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and fans who saw country...

In 1974, Stormbringer was a pivotal album for Deep Purple. The second one made by the Mk3 lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Glenn Hughes and David Coverdale, it was ultimately the album that would see Blackmore call it a day with...

In 1970, In Rock marked the studio arrival of Deep Purple Mk2. When it came to making a follow-up, times were turbulent and divisive, so much so that there were doubts as to whether Deep Purple would even last! Sandwiched between In Rock and...

Crowd Control 2nd edition is a nuts-and-bolts manual for teachers of middle and high school performance-based classes such as band, orchestra, and chorus. This practical 'how-to' guide shows teachers, pre-service or experienced, efficient ways to manage large performance-based classrooms. With wit and sage tried-and-true...

Slaves And Masters is arguably one of the most divisive albums in Deep Purple's history. A product of Ian Gillan's sacking from the band and the recruitment of former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner, in 1990, Slaves And Masters divided the fanbase enormously. But...

The album that made a huge star out of David Bowie in 1972 and introduced his Ziggy Stardust persona, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars is iconic for many reasons. Featuring the much-loved 'Starman', 'Moonage Daydream' and 'Five...

Compassionate Music Teaching provides a framework for music teaching in the 21st century by outlining qualities, skills, and approaches to meet the needs of a unique and increasingly diverse generation of students. The text focuses on how six qualities of compassion (trust, empathy, patience,...

This book is intended to expand the beginning to intermediate mandolin player's Classical Music appreciation and repertoire. Each piece is arranged in standard notation and in tablature. I have included two versions of each piece: A simpler version with only the melody, and a...

This book is written as a guide for people who know the western staff notation and want to know about writing music that sounds like traditional Chinese music.This book is split into two parts. The first part describes the techniques needed to create Chinese...

Francis Knights studied at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He has held positions at the Royal Northern College of Music, Somerville College, Oxford, the BBC and King's College, London, and been editor of four music journals. Since 2009 he...

Disruptive Divas focuses on four female musicians: Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndeg駮cello and P. J. Harvey who have marked contemporary popular culture in unexpected ways have impelled and disturbed the boundaries of "acceptable" female musicianship.Author: Lori Burns, Melisse LaFranceISBN-10: 0815335539ISBN-13: 9780815335535Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Get your piano students listening to great classical music!The Shades of Sound Listening and Coloring Books are a great way to encourage students to listen to great piano and orchestral repertoire. Students of all ages will love coloring the fun pictures while listening to...

This book is intended to expand the beginning to intermediate ukulele player's Christmas Music appreciation and repertoire. Each Piece is arranged in standard notation and in tablature. I have included two versions of each song: A simple version with only the melody notated, and...

By the author of the critically acclaimed Choral Music in the Twentieth Century, this volume is an indispensable resource for choral conductors, a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers, and an essential text for educators and their students. As with his...

This edition comes with no CDs. You must purchase either the 3 associated CDs separately or digitally download the CDs from an on-line vendor. Otherwise this book is exactly the same as the book/CD edition. Just as an artist must know every color in...

Historical recordings by opera singers have proven since 1900 to offer much reward to the singer, student, listener, and collector alike. In the first book of this kind to appear in decades, Nicholas Limansky explains why critical listening is important and describes the merits...