Music-Instruction & Study-Composition

(Willis). Part 2 of a comprehensive step-by-step course specifically designed to suit the needs of all students beginning the piano. Includes: characters and illustrations * writing exercises * sight reading drills * review work * accompaniments * and more Includes audio files accessible online.Author:...

Create a viable, meaningful program that will motivate your students and have them participating with enthusiasm with Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day. A welcome guidebook for music teachers trying to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of middle school general...

"Oh, I didn't know that you can do this in Logic"."Logic Pro X - Tips, Tricks, Secrets #1" from the GEM series (Graphically Enhanced Manuals) is packed with information that will supercharge your workflow in Logic immediately. On over 200 pages you will hear...

Music manuscript book. 96 pages of blank staff paper. 12 staves per page. Includes music reference charts.Author: Em Music PublishingISBN-10: 1517188377ISBN-13: 9781517188375Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2015Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.21d

Drawn from the world's most beloved songs, the more than 70 examples in this book explore the history and crucial elements of melody, which is the very basis of song. Focusing solely on how simple musical lines combined with the right texts can make...

Now there's an easy way to learn how to record tracks on your home computer, create MIDI files, and master your own CDs. This book demystifies the recording process. It provides simple, easy-to-follow instructions on: choosing and setting up computer and audio equipment, MIDI...

Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approachpresents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music theory through an emphasis on melody and counterpoint. This focus explains the "why" of musical construction more clearly than the traditional approach of beginning with chords. By starting with a single...

Structured to accommodate the three most-prevalent avenues of learning: A) In the classroom: as a text book resource for a three-year course of study when used with the included student practice assignments.Year 1 - Embracing all the essential materials leading up to the construction,...

(Music Instruction). All musicians should be able to sit down at the keyboard and make sense of a tune. With that goal in mind, every instrumentalist and singer can profit from this book. It covers many techniques for exploring, understanding, and performing the songs...

Twelve-Tone Tonality: Expanded Diatonicism - Dr. Joseph Krush presents new Dodecaphonic Tonal sets and leads readers through Expanded Diatonicism, Nonaphonic and Decaphonic Bi-modality, culminating with "The World's Best Dodecaphonic Tonal Set." He illustrates Semi-Modulation through Rotating Quintcircles. Relative Compatibility of Keys and Chromatic Clashes...

This book is the result of a lifelong love of music and an obsession with patterns. The authors have for many years been exploring methods to find, create, describe and analyze patterns. They wrote this book to show how some of these methods can...

Essays on musical performance practice by an acknowledged expert in the field. These selected essays by conductor Andrew Parrott reflect the thinking behind some four decades of his ground-breaking performances and recordings. Bringing together seminal writings on the performance expectations of, amongst others, Monteverdi,...

"WHO was Philip Herschkowitz? He was a composer - who had virtually no performances of his work, and a teacher - who claimed 'I do not have any pupils' (p. 1) And if fellow composer and sometime pupil Dmitri Smirnov presents these riddles as...

Writer's block can be a b*tch. At least, it can if you let it.The truth is, there's no simple secret to busting writer's block. In fact, the only way round it usually isn't round, but through.Welcome to The 30-Day Speed Songwriting Challenge: a unique...

Rising out of the American art music movement of the late 1950s and 1960s, minimalism shook the foundations of the traditional constructs of classical music, becoming one of the most important and influential trends of the twentieth century. The emergence of minimalism sparked an...

Creative Harmony is an advanced theory textbook by the famous American composer George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) whose music has been presented by conductors Leopold Stokowski, Sir Thomas Beecham, Leonard Slatkin, Arthur Fiedler, Howard Hanson, Karl Krueger, Frederick Fennell, Arthur Benjamin and John McLaughlin Williams....

Playing and composing music at the piano can be easy, fun, and incredibly rewarding, and you don't even need to know how to read notes to do it. When you learn to play by ear, you'll be able to play your favorite music by...

The state of contemporary music is dizzyingly diverse in terms of style, media, traditions, and techniques. How have trends in music developed over the past decades? Music Composition in the 21st Century is a guide for composers and students that helps them navigate the...

The definitive study of arranging by America's premiere composer, arranger and conductor. A must" for every musician interested in a greater understanding of arranging. Includes chapters on instrumentation, orchestration and Nelson Riddle's work with Sinatra, Cole and Garland. Two-hundred pages with biography and pictures."Author:...

An authoritative, easy-to-understand text covering all aspects of arranging. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.Author: Don SebeskyISBN-10: 0882844857ISBN-13: 9780882844855Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1984Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.82lbsSize: 11.86h x 9.60w x 0.63d

Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, Volumes I and II, she provides a seasoned expert's guidance and insight...

Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, Volumes I and II, she provides a seasoned expert's guidance and insight...

Overturning the inherited belief that popular music is unrefined, Form as Harmony in Rock Music brings the process-based approach of classical theorists to popular music scholarship. Author Drew Nobile offers the first comprehensive theory of form for 1960s, 70s, and 80s classic rock repertoire,...

A comprehensive anthology bringing together more than one thousand of the best American and English song lyrics of the twentieth century; an extraordinary celebration of a unique art form and an indispensable reference work and history that celebrates one of the twentieth century's most...

The perfect TAB book for any guitar player, guitar teacher, or guitar student Every guitar player, regardless of experience, needs to be able to write down things they're learning, from songs they're working on, to their own music. Now you have a way of...

The perfect blank scale chart book for any guitar player, guitar teacher, or guitar student Every guitar player, regardless of experience, needs to be able to write down what they're learning, from songs they're working on, to scales, to their own music. With Guitar...

(Easy Piano Songbook). 12 songs from the hit motion picture arranged for easy piano: All I Ask of You * Angel of Music * Learn to Be Lonely * The Music of the Night * The Phantom of the Opera * Think of Me...

Unleash your Creativity and develop your Musical capacity!♥Our Music manuscript is a very useful tool to learn writing music, or compose and keep track of your music. ����The Perfect Gift for you and your loved ones!����Our Coloring Book features: Medium Staves 120 Pages Our...

Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) was, at once, one of the century's foremost composers and a founder of American music theory. These two aspects of his creative life--"thinking in" and "thinking about" music, as he would put it--nourished each other. Theory and analysis inspired fresh compositional...

Doing Research in Sound Design gathers chapters on the wide range of research methodologies used in sound design. Editor Michael Filimowicz and a diverse group of contributors provide an overview of cross-disciplinary inquiry into sound design that transcends discursive and practical divides. The book...

An innovative contribution to Scriabin studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, and interaction with contemporary Russian culture. This book is an innovative contribution to Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) studies, covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output, as...

Improvisation is a practice of musical exploration and discovery. What we explore is our lived experience and what we discover we share with our audience. As improvisers, our creative resources include sense perception, imagination, somatic presence, and the vitality of emotional expression. In collaboration...

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians in the French jazz world and the ways in which women thrive as professionals despite such conditions. The author shines a light on the paradox for women in jazz: to express...

Produce Your Own Sounds with GarageBand!Whether you want to record lyrics, an instrument, or a podcast, GarageBand can help you achieve ultimate sound perfection.GarageBand Basics is a beginner-friendly guide of all the basic knowledge you need to start using GarageBand.With mini tutorials on each...

Girolamo Frescobaldi was the greatest Italian keyboard composer of the early Baroque. Throwing caution to the wind he introduced his own 'unconventional' style of inventive harmony, quirky rhythms and innovative embellishment, establishing his prominence as a beacon of musical excellence, and an inspiration for...

The selection of the composers and classical pieces reviewed and analyzed in this book have stood the test of time and considered to be among the finest Classical Music Masterpieces ever composed.This book presents a complete descriptive analyses of the structural components that make...

From the earliest years of the 20th century composers sought ways in which to break from earlier musical traditions. Serialism is one of the most prominent innovations resulting from this. From Schoenberg to Stockhausen, Berg to Boulez, this introduction tells the story of how...

The book is divided into three major sections, Part I deals with basic information about the nature of sound and of hearing--acoustics and psychoacoustics. In Part II, the equipment and methods of synthesis are discussed in terms of the three primary techniques--studio work, integrated...

The Art of Synthesis is a comprehensive guidebook written by Leo Alan that provides readers with a detailed insight into the art of synthesizing. The book covers various aspects of synthesis, including the history of synthesis, the different types of synthesis, and the techniques...

Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer, Second Edition provides effective explanations and illustrations to teach you how to integrate traditional approaches to orchestration with the use of the modern sequencing techniques and tools available to today's composer. By covering both approaches, Pejrolo...

Digital technology is transforming the musical score as a broad array of innovative score systems have become available to musicians. From attempts to mimic the print score, to animated and graphical scores, to artificial intelligence-based options, digital scoring affects the musical process by opening...

Professional Orchestration's Orchestral Sketchbook is a companion to the multi-volume Professional Orchestration textbook series, which is a massive revision of the original Rimsky-Korsakov's Principles of Orchestration. Modeled after music papers used in film-scoring in Los Angeles, printed on heavy 50lb weight white paper. Organized...

Professional Orchestration's Orchestral Sketchbook is a companion to the multi-volume Professional Orchestration textbook series, which is a massive revision of the original Rimsky-Korsakov's Principles of Orchestration. Modeled after music papers used in film-scoring in Los Angeles with four pre-ruled bars per page, on heavy...

Offers performers, teachers and students new insights into ornamentation.An important new reference work that has earned praise from America's leading Bach scholar and an impressive list of distinguished cellists.The Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach contain some one hundred trills, many open to diverse...

Notion is a unique program that combines notation, sequencing, and live performance into one easy-to-use package. This book shows all types of users - amateurs, teachers, and professionals - how to best use the program, and how it fits their creative needs for efficient...

This is the book now being serialized in conjunction with a free video course at americansongwriter.com (series began on 9/16/2013). Once-a-month blogs explain the content of each chapter. Free PDFs of selected content from the book are provided through americansongwriter.com. Video blogs will illustrate...

Basic Atonal Counterpoint is a guided course in atonal contrapuntal composition using pitch groups known as "sets." Included are sections on set theory, melodic construction, counterpoint in two and multi-voice writing, nesting, phrase structure and formal construction and innovative sections on transformations and variants,...

(Book). Tom Harrison's book How to Become a Film Composer gives up-and-coming composers the inspiration, information and the tools necessary to succeed in today's music for media industry. Harrison has spent years working on the front line in Hollywood, where he has held key...

If you are a C programmer interested in music or a composer hoping to expand your musical horizons, Computer Music in C provides you with a practical library of algorithms and related C programming functions that will ease your transition into computer-assisted composition. Phil...

In Nashville they call it "The Number System." Easy to understand, this book will have you immediately composing your own tunes and arranging simple ways to accompany any song you want to play or sing. In fact, I know a girl who joined a...