Music-Instruction & Study -Voice

This book is a comprehensive guide to operas. Whether you are a novice or an experienced musician, Fellner's book serves as an indispensable resource. Basic musical and dramatic materials accompany vocal scores of operas from the repertoire of great opera houses. With rich summaries,...

For Singers at Every Stage of Their Careers Whether you're a performing arts college student, a newbie to the music industry or vocalist who is a seasoned professional, you can learn to stand out from amongst the sea of great singers and become a...

The Guinness Book of World Records calls her the best-selling female singer in history. Billboard named her the Celebrity of the Century. Diana Ross, lead singer of the most popular girl group of the 1960s and later a consummate solo artist, has been in...

A delightful dramatization, with enchanting songs, of Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of river-bank animals. Toad finds himself in prison but manages to escape, but not before Toad Hall, his pride and joy, has been overrun by the wicked Weasels. Thanks to the efforts of...

This exuberant musical, with a delightful score, conjures up the timeless dream world of work-shy, beer-swilling Andy Capp, known the world over from Reg Smythe's cartoon strip in the Daily Mirror.9 women, 11 menAuthor: Trevor PeacockISBN-10: 0573080569ISBN-13: 9780573080562Publisher: Samuel French LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1984Pages: 78Format:...

Fred Cochran, the hero, is a down-at-heel gangster, trying to make a comeback. Lil Smith is his loyal moll, a tart with a heart of gold, who longs for respectability and keeps a marriage licence ready for her lucky day. Fred's shpieler (gambling den)...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The motets of J. S. Bach are probably the most sophisticated works ever composed in the genre. Nevertheless, Daniel Melamed maintains, the view that they constitute a body of work quite separate from the German motet tradition is mistaken. He starts by considering the...

The main purpose of this book is to clarify the meaning and use of the conventions governing the practice of implied accidentals in vocal polyphony from the early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century - a problem which has fascinated musicologists for over a hundred...

Since its premiere Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) has been widely regarded as his finest masterpiece. It was written in the wake of personal events that shook the foundations of his life in 1907 and, like all his...

Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Sch tz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Sch tz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627,...

The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm M ller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder--in particular Die sch ne M llerin. Professor Youens shows how this archetypal tale of love and rejection is reflected in the poet's own experience. She...

Vocal Authority is about how singing styles develop and change, why classical singing is different from pop singing, and what singers actually mean when they sing. It takes a historical perspective, beginning with the ancient world, looking at changes in style up to the...

In this "rousing book that salutes the passion, the joy, and the pleasures of singing, music, and practice" (Spirituality and Health), Joan Oliver Goldsmith celebrates America's over 20 million singers and "teaches us that...to pursue a creative passion is a true act of love"...

Although the choral arrangements of the African-American spirituals constitute the largest group of folk song arrangements in western literature, they have received little scholarly attention. This book provides the needed historical and stylistic information about the spirituals and the arrangements. It traces the history...

Author: Carol Lucha BurnsISBN-10: 0313246483ISBN-13: 9780313246487Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/1986Pages: 598Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d

Grafting musicology and literary studies together in an unprecedented manner, Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut investigates French and Occitan "courtly love" songs from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries and explores the paradoxical relationship of music...

A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Author Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two volumes which move from Medieval music and the Renaissance era up...

There is often a dichotomy between the academic approach to singing that voice students learn in the studio and what professional singers do on the operatic and concert stage. Great singers at the top of the performing profession achieve their place with much analysis...

This book surveys North German church music from the period of the best-known of J.S. Bach's immediate German predecessors, Dietrich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707). Webber places particular emphasis on composers whose work has suffered unjust neglect, and on the influence of contemporary Italian church music. As...

Are you struggling to sing in a foreign language? The Language of Song are graded songbooks that provide classic song repertoire, carefully selected by examiners and professional singers Heidi Pegler and Nicola-Jane Kemp to develop the vital skills required to sing in a foreign...

(Vocal Score). Reduction for voice and piano based on the critical edition. With detailed prefatory notes in Italian and English.Author: Antonio VivaldiISBN-10: 8875928851ISBN-13: 9788875928858Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2011Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.90w x 0.60d

(Vocal Collection). 3 new keys. Now available in 5 keys Newly researched and engraved collections, including the original Schirmer "24" plus four additional songs. With International Phonetic Alphabet, word for word translations, and historical information on each song and composer. Online recordings feature accompaniments...

Totally insane. And totally hilarious. You all know the story of Hamlet--but never has a plot line been followed by such gleefully drunken footsteps, singing all the way! can you envision Horatio as "an amiable sponge" always seeking the nearest buffet table? Can you...

(Music Sales America). Learn the essential elements of music theory for vocalists performing contemporary music, be it jazz, pop, rock, gospel or R&B. This self-study book is for singers who aspire to perform or who may already be leading a band, going to jam...

Adler, along with Freud and Jung, created an entirely new branch of psychology, namely psychoanalysis. What Life Should Mean to You brings his conclusions to a popular audience. The book covers adolescence, feelings of superiority and inferiority, the importance of cooperation, work, friendship, love...

In recent decades, world music styles have been making increasing inroads into Western popular music, music theater, choral concerts, and even concert hall performances. So You Want to Sing World Music is an essential compendium of these genres and provides technical approaches to singing...

(Vocal Collection). A collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type. The selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores. Contents: THE ADDAMS FAMILY: Waiting * BIG FISH: I Don't Need a Roof * THE BRIDGES...

(Vocal Score). This exciting revised edition was created to convey in complete and correct form the musical score and lyrics of this beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical as performed in the original Broadway production. Includes: Ballet * Blow High, Blow Low * Geraniums in...

Titles are: Baby, Baby, Baby * At Night She Comes Home to Me * Fatherhood Blues * I Chose Right * The Story Goes On * Patterns * Easier to Love * Two People in Love * With You * And What If We...

(Vocal Score). Vocal score to Sondheim's classic tale of the demon barber of Fleet Street. 25 songs, including: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd * The Contest * God, That's Good * Johanna * Kiss Me * My Friends * No Place like London *...

(Vocal Score). Music from Wonderful Town has been out of print for more than 40 years, so we are very proud to present this new edition of the brilliant musical comedy currently running in an acclaimed Broadway revival! The music by Leonard Bernstein and...

(Vocal Score). This vocal score features all 21 songs from the 1954 Broadway hit penned by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Includes: Factory Music * Hernando's Hideaway * Hey There * I'm Not at All in Love * A New Town Is a Blue...

(Vocal Score). Includes 21 songs: Abduction * Aldonza La Mancha * Barber's Song * The Combat * Dubbing * Dulcinea * Golden Helmet of Mambrino * I Really Like Him * I, Don Quixote * I'm Only Thinking of Him * The Impossible Dream...

24 Songs by Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel contains youthful gems by two great Romantic composers, originally published only under Felix Mendelssohn's name. Includes word-by-word translations of the Italian, French and German text as well as a translation into the International Phonetic Alphabet.Author:...

(Vocal Collection). Songs include: All for the Best (from Godspell) * All I Ask of You (from The Phantom of the Opera) * Anything You Can Do (from Annie Get Your Gun) * By My Side (from Godspell) * Freedom (from Shenandoah) * Getting...

The epitome of the diva as artist, Maria Callas is brought vividly to life in this fantastic album-like compilation of archival photographs, personal documents and newspaper clippings from Callas' own collection. The images and articles preserved by Callas are frequently enhanced by her own...

The exciting discovery of new music from the Middle Ages sheds new light on knowledge of the medieval motet. From its origins in the thirteenth century, the Latin-texted motet in England and France became the most significant and diverse polyphonic genre of the fourteenth,...

(Vocal). This aphorism after Aristotle - 13 bars plus a lunga pausa - was written for the wedding of Cheryl and the American trumpeter and percussionist, Brant Tilds, 31 August 2013. The three singers on the occasion were Natalie Raybould (soprano), Jennifer Johnson (mezzo-soprano)...

(Easy Piano Songbook). Easy arrangements of 12 modern hits: Everlasting God * From the Inside Out * Glory to God Forever * Hosanna * How He Loves * I Am Free * I Will Rise * My Savior Lives * Offering * Revelation Song...

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). The two sets of Old American Songs are beloved, standard vocal literature. This edition combines them in one publication, and also transposes them from the original Medium Voice keys both up for High Voice, and down for Low Voice. The...

Examining breath in its role as the "delivery system" for ideas in musical performance, this provocative book makes a compelling case for the power of submitting oneself to its miracles. The study is divided into two sections--the first discussing the "why" of breathing and...

(Vocal Solo). Contents: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 * Three Scenes from Vanessa (Do not utter a word; Must the winter come so soon?; Under the willow tree) * Andromache's Farewell * Two Scenes from Antony and Cleopatra (Give me some music; Death of Cleopatra).Author:...

(Full Score). English Only Cloth Score.Author: Gian-Carlo MenottiISBN-10: 1540069257ISBN-13: 9781540069252Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 12.00h x 9.00w x 0.41d

(Vocal Collection). An expansive selection of songs from new musicals and films from 2010-2019, representing hits like Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Mean Girls, Waitress, and more. Contents: THE ADDAMS FAMILY: Pulled * ANASTASIA: In My Dreams * THE BAND'S VISIT: Omar Sharif * BE...

(Vocal Collection). Songs especially good for auditions have been chosen from Volumes 1-5 of The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology and edited to 30-40 second "16-Bar" excerpts. Each volume includes over 100 songs in original keys.Author: Richard WaltersISBN-10: 1540020282ISBN-13: 9781540020284Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

(Vocal Collection). Companion CDs for The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology: Duets, Volume 4 . 00234343/Book OnlyAuthor: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 1540019659ISBN-13: 9781540019653Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2018Pages: 8Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.40d

(Vocal Collection). Poulenc compiled a catalogue of 150 songs, a body of work of consistently high quality, containing great diversity, that marks him oout as the last major exponent of this genre of music. This volume is part of "Musique vocale francaise," a series...

Author: Joaquin RodrigoISBN-10: 1705174027ISBN-13: 9781705174029Publisher: Ediciones Joaquin RodrigoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2022Pages: 53Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 12.00h x 8.50w x 0.50d

Author: Joaquin RodrigoISBN-10: 1705173993ISBN-13: 9781705173992Publisher: Ediciones Joaquin RodrigoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2022Pages: 19Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 10.81h x 8.66w x 0.09d