Music-Instruction & Study -Appreciation

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...

Featuring the music of: J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Fr馘駻ic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Leopold Mozart, W.A. Mozart, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet, Friedrich Burgm?ler, Muzio Clementi, Carl Czerny, Anton...

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...

MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSICWho are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and...

The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored. The engagement and tensions between modernism and tradition, and institutionalized religion and spirituality are inherent issues for many composers who have sought to invoke spirituality and...

This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the...

Best Start Music Lessons Book 2 For Teachers Piano accompaniments for all songs and aural work in the Best Start Music Lessons Book 2 for Recorder, Fife or Flute. Includes 24 songs using notes B, A, G, E, F, C and D. www.beststartmusic.com.Author: Sarah...

A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis. Bach's 6 Suites for solo cello are among the most cherished of all the works in the classical music literature. Shrouded in mystery - they were largely unknown for...

Cello Online String Sampler Study Guide explains the history, style, and musical form of the 54 cello pieces featured in the Cello Online String Sampler Cello Sheet Music (sold separately). This study guide provides a brief overview of the various styles, music history periods,...

This musical coloring book is the first volume in a series that visualizes music from B la Bart k's Mikrokosmos. Each piece is displayed in a graphical notation, using different shapes for each hand. This volume contains pieces 1-36 of Mikorokosmos. In addition to...

Camp Granada is a curriculum and administrative guide to organize a music camp in your school, church, community center, or wherever there are people who love music and who desire to share that love of music with young children. Its theme-based lessons blend the...

Music is, in one sense, merely a series of fleeting vibrations that arise and subside. How could it be that something so insubstantial fills us, and calms us, and makes us weep? Because, says W. A. Mathieu, music bridges mind and heart, self and...

The contents of this book have been personally selected by Catherine Rollin as some of her 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...

Julie Nagel explores how work, personal identity, and various actions and feelings, including mental health, are importantly linked to music career choices and how the pandemic has dramatically impacted that. The book looks to the future and suggests ways in which musicians can find...

Julie Nagel explores how work, personal identity, and various actions and feelings, including mental health, are importantly linked to music career choices and how the pandemic has dramatically impacted that. The book looks to the future and suggests ways in which musicians can find...

Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Using the sources of musical history and philosophy, Erik...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.Author: Frank G. SpeckISBN-10: 1497946360ISBN-13: 9781497946361Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.19d

Although the music of Spain is diverse, profound, colorful and deserving of recognition, a collection of nineteenth century Spanish songs has never been available to singers in the United States. Until now, Spain has been neglected in the study of music history. Collections of...

Along with Beethoven's sonatas and the purely idiomatic works for piano of Chopin and Debussy, the solo keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach represents the heart of the pianist's repertory; in the more specialized field of music for the organ, Bach's primacy seems beyond...

Melodic dictation plays an important role in music theory classes, but instruction is often based on tradition rather than research. Dictation teachers and students do not just need more exercises and drills; they need to see deeper into the materials, consider how we connect...

The Catechism of Music, written by Johann Christian Lobe and published in 1896, is a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of music theory and practice. The book is structured as a series of questions and answers, covering topics such as notation, scales, chords, harmony,...

Widely considered a classic, Beyond Talent is the "go to" guide for musicians. This newly revised and updated third edition cracks the code of how to build a creatively fulfilling career in music. With key insights into the mindset issues that often plague musicians,...