Music-Instruction & Study -Appreciation

In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion, writer, teacher, and renowned jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz provides a pleasurable and sometimes dizzying listening experience...

The life and music of Beethoven still fascinate classical music lovers, new and old. His many symphonies, sonatas, concertos, string quartets, and his one opera enchant audiences, challenge performers, engage students, and support scholars in their work. In Experiencing Beethoven, music historian Geoffrey Block...

Esoteric Music is a book written by Corinne Heline that explores the spiritual and mystical aspects of music. The author delves into the hidden meanings and symbolism behind different types of music, including classical, folk, and religious music. Heline also discusses the role of...

""Florian Mayr, Der Kraft-Mayr: A Humorous Tale Of Musical Life"" is a book written by Ernst Von Wolzogen and published in 1914. The story follows the life of a fictional character named Florian Mayr, who is a musician and composer. The book is a...

Take your music to the next level with Prosonic Charts, a new series of cutting-edge books designed to give your playing a boost Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar will expand your tonal color palette, giving you more ways to express yourself through the guitar.Imagine...

Take your music to the next level with Prosonic Charts, a new series of cutting-edge books designed to give your playing a boost Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar will expand your tonal color palette, giving you more ways to express yourself through the guitar.Imagine...

Since the eighteenth century, violin concertos have provided a showcase for dramatic interplay between a soloist's virtuosity and the blended sonority of an orchestra's many instruments. Using this genre to showcase skill and ingenuity, composers cemented the violin concerto as a key genre of...

In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion, writer, teacher, and renowned jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz provides a pleasurable and sometimes dizzying listening experience...

Take your music to the next level with Prosonic Charts, a new series of cutting-edge books designed to give your playing a boost Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar will expand your tonal color palette, giving you more ways to express yourself through the guitar.Imagine...

What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across musical languages and generations, from Detroit techno to jam bands to baroque opera--or to dive deeper into the set of tastes that...

No composer has ever achieved the amazing progression that Haydn has. He invented the string quartet as we know it today, became "the Father of the Symphony " and founded the greatest school in the history of music. His life was one of ceaseless...

With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience? A protégé of Leonard Bernstein--his colleague...

FILM NOIR FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S GOLDEN AGE OF DAMES DETECTIVEAuthor: David J. HoganISBN-10: 1557838550ISBN-13: 9781557838551Publisher: Applause BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2013Pages: 442Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d

On 26th March 1971 at Newcastle City Hall, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake & Carl Palmer performed their version of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition. An iconic classical piece given an innovative spin by the talented trio, it was released as an album following...

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with...

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with...

Take your music to the next level with Prosonic Charts, a new series of cutting-edge books designed to give your playing a boost Fretboard Chord Charts for Guitar will expand your tonal color palette, giving you more ways to express yourself through the guitar.Imagine...

Claude Debussy holds a place as a one of the most recognizable and influential composers in the classical music. Debussy forged a new and influential sound for the twentieth century with his remarkable harmonies, fluid rhythms, airy textures, and an instinct for mystery and...

This book recounts the story of all the electric steel guitars - or electric "Hawaiian" guitars, as they were called during most of their tenure - that were built by Gibson between 1935 and 1967. Hawaiian guitars were the most popular form of electric...

Learn to Produce EDM Like a Pro & Take Your Music To A Whole New Level Why do some producers make great music after just one year, while others still sound average?The answer? It's how they learn and practice. The most successful EDM producers...

(Berklee Guide). The Ear Training curriculum of Berklee College of Music is known and respected throughout the world. Now, for the first time, this unique method has been captured in one comprehensive book by the chair of the Ear Training Department. This method teaches...

Released in 1978, This Year's Model was Elvis Costello's second album and his first with The Attractions. Abundant in clever songwriting that often-made bold observational statements (even about the music industry itself!), This Year's Model grabbed the attention of both UK and US audiences.In...

Experiencing Alice Cooper: A Listener's Companion takes a long overdue look at the music and stage act of rock music's self-styled arch-villain. A provocateur from the very start of his career in the mid-1960s, Alice Cooper, aka Vince Furnier, son of a lay preacher...

For well over twenty years, M. Owen Lee has been offering intermission talks during the Saturday afternoon Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, which now reach countries on six continents. In this book, Father Lee covers various operas of Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini and Richard Strauss,...

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music--highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original--and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals. In Good Music,...

The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through...

In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology. In the culmination of a vast body of research undertaken since his influential and award-winning Conceptualizing Music (OUP 2002), Lawrence M....

Mark Barnett knows and loves jazz, and he has a special talent for explaining the music-and his passion for it-in words that everyone can understand. It's a talent that shines from every line in this book.The contents of the book originally appeared in columns...

(Educational Piano). These all occasion blank cards come with envelopes. The design features a grand piano with a staffed background of black and white notes.ISBN-10: 1495081974ISBN-13: 9781495081972Publisher: Schaum PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2016Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.50w x 0.40d

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...