"e;Poker with Michael and Guitar with the Boston Symphony"e; is the remarkable autobiography of Ron Steele — a recording engineer, guitarist, producer, and studio pioneer whose 70-year career placed him alongside some of the biggest names in music history.
Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer is both a history of this popular form of traditional Jewish music and an instructional book for professional and amateur musicians.
In The Musical Instrument Desk Reference, Michael Pagliaro, musical instrument authority extraordinaire, provides the one-stop shop for those in need of a quick, visually-rich reference guide to band and orchestral instruments.
In At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists, Caroline Benser explores the kaleidoscopic world of twenty-first-century pianism through a series of extended interviews with eight major pianists: Leif Ove Andsnes, Jonathan Biss, Simone Dinnerstein, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Stephen Hough, Steven Osborne, Yevgeny Sudbin, and Yuja Wang.
No pianist can experience the full flowering of her art without eventually grappling with those great musical minds who composed specifically for piano.
American organist David Craighead's influence in the United States and abroad is widespread and extensive: 37 years as professor of organ at the Eastman School of Music, 48 years as church organist at St.
In The Musical Instrument Desk Reference, Michael Pagliaro, musical instrument authority extraordinaire, provides the one-stop shop for those in need of a quick, visually-rich reference guide to band and orchestral instruments.
No pianist can experience the full flowering of her art without eventually grappling with those great musical minds who composed specifically for piano.
Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), the Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician series is designed for instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers, and other instructors and professionals seeking quick pointers to improve their work as performers and producers of music.
Richard Egues and Jose Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachacha.
Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in her Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), Tracy Heavner's Saxophone Secrets provides advanced saxophonists with 60 performance secrets that will assist in their musical development.
In The Drum: A History, drummer, instructor, and blogger Matt Dean details the earliest evidence of the drum from all regions of the planet, looking at cave paintings, statues, temple reliefs, and burial remains before finding existing relics of actual drums, which have survived thousands of years.
Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, during the first quarter of the 20th century, Alabama-born organist and composer Lee Orville Erwin, like many of the 20th century's great American composers, spent time studying in Paris.
Origins and Development of Musical Instruments describes the creation, use, and development of musical instruments from the Old Stone Age to the present day.
Although it lies far back, running roughly from about 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period is far from forgotten and Baroque music is played widely today as well, exercising numerous musicians and attracting rather substantial audiences.
The Athletic Musician is an innovative approach that teaches musicians how to prevent and manage injuries, presented in a unique format that combines sound medical protocol with a musician's point of view.
Artie Shaw, the world famous clarinet-playing bandleader who became popular during the Swing Era, was immersed in the music business as a performer for 30 years, from the summer of 1924, when he began to study saxophone, until the summer of 1954, when he stopped performing.
In the hierarchy of British jazz & rock musicians, the electrifying guitarist, composer, and bandleader John McLaughlin arguably holds an unassailable position at the very top.
Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, during the first quarter of the 20th century, Alabama-born organist and composer Lee Orville Erwin, like many of the 20th century's great American composers, spent time studying in Paris.
Richard Egues and Jose Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachacha.
Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), the Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician series is designed for instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers, and other instructors and professionals seeking quick pointers to improve their work as performers and producers of music.
Actualmente gran parte de la informacion confidencial en las redes computacionales es cifrada con el uso de un sistema criptografico o criptosistema; no obstante, se cree que desde el inicio de la civilizacion se han codificado mensajes con la implementacion de sistemas secretos, es decir: mensajes que se vuelven incomprensibles para quien no conoce la clave, asi como los criptogramas.
El Manual de Armonia Tonal, para guitarra, de Pablo Izurieta, funciona como un primer libro de armonia para estudiantes de musica, proponiendo un conocimiento exhaustivo de la guitarra al mismo tiempo que avanza en un desarrollo ordenado y detallado de la armonia tonal basica.
Partitions de chants de Noel pour guitare est un recueil pedagogique qui propose une selection de chansons traditionnelles et populaires de Noel, specialement arrangees pour une pratique simple et accessible de la guitare.
Hoy, que esta sobre la mesa y con una condicion de urgencia preguntarse sobre la ensenabilidad de nuestras musicas populares y tradicionales, asi como la influencia secular y aun dominante de las logicas de estudio centroeuropeas, este trabajo de la artista y pedagoga Cindy Gomez Gutierrez nos da una mano de cara anuestra actitud respecto al relacionamiento que nuestros instrumentos debieran tener con la academia.
Música para trío de Jorge Rapp es una obra pensada para flauta, clarinete en Sib y piano, que ofrece una composición rica en matices y texturas sonoras, ideal para grupos de cámara.
