The flageolet occupies a unique niche in musical history, and this book traces its history from its beginnings to its peak of popularity in the nineteenth century.
This book provides students and music teachers with a comprehensive overview of the saxophone from its origin to its use and important facts not covered in traditional method books.
Wind Talk for Woodwinds provides instrumental music teachers, practitioners, and students with a handy, easy-to-use pedagogical resource for woodwind instruments found in school instrumental programs.
From 1922 until his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwangler was the foremost cultural music figure of the German-speaking world, conductor of both the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras.
The Woodwinds: Perform, Understand, Teach provides comprehensive coverage about the woodwind family of musical instruments for prospective instrumental music teachers.
Drawing from his highly praised French work, Une simple flute, distinguished flutist and teacher Michel Debost has compiled a useful and imaginative introduction to playing the flute.
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), Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician: A Scarecrow Press Music Series is designed for instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers, and other instructors and professionals seeking a quick set of pointers to improve their work as performers and producers of music.
This technical volume is addressed to advanced treble recorder players looking for repertoire that is suited for consistent work on the foundations of their instrumental and musical abilities.
The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fit unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources.
Notes for Flutists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about three dozen of the best-known pieces written for the instrument.
Avec CHECK-UP, Peter-Lukas Graf propose un programme d'entraînement permettant au flûtiste de contrôler et d'améliorer constamment sa technique, grâce à une série d'exercices journaliers de base, ayant chacun un but précis.
With the benefit of her many years' study of the repertoire and teaching of the instrument, Diana Poulton has completely re-cast her earlier book ("e;An Introduction to Lute Playing"e;, 1961) to produce, in "e;A Tutor for the Renaissance Lute"e;, the most comprehensive method for the lute based on Renaissance precepts.
The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble (TTTE) is one of the most successful performing collegiate ensembles in history, with an enviable record of 25 recording projects, seven Carnegie Hall appearances, two Worlds Fairs performances, numerous national and international conference engagements, and a performance history in venues like Preservation Hall in New Orleans, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, and the Kennedy Center in Washington.
The fascinating story of a hugely popular instrument, detailing its rich and varied history from the Middle Ages to the present The recorder is perhaps best known today for its educational role.
Wind Talk for Woodwinds provides instrumental music teachers, practitioners, and students with a handy, easy-to-use pedagogical resource for woodwind instruments found in school instrumental programs.
"e;Advanced Recorder Technique"e; is intended for advanced players of the alto recorder who are seeking rigorous practise material for developing their instrumental and musical skills.
This reference guide to the life and work of the prolific American wind band composer, Alfred Reed, includes a brief biography followed by detailed bibliography and discography sections.
Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing the Flute has long been recognized as one of the primary sources of information about eighteenth-century performance practice.
Este clásico método de saxofón, creado originalmente por Hyacinthe Klosé, fue adaptado y ampliado por Roque Saraceno para cubrir las necesidades actuales de estudiantes y docentes del instrumento.
The fact that classical music and jazz are not mutually exclusive is proven by the new volume in the popular series by Uwe Korn: For the tune book, 10 classical themes have been carefully arranged for flute and piano and made into jazz pieces for two.
With their technique clothed in imaginative music, Gariboldi's etudes are an excellent addition to the classical scale and triad studies for the intermediate flautist at the threshold of the advanced level.
This 'School of Velocity - Working on fingering and tonguing technique' contains a collection of exercises and studies that provide clarinettists with the opportunity to focus on improving fluency in fingering and staccato playing: Basic exercises, finger technique for the left and the right hand, exercises in various keys, exercises for working on tonguing technique, staccato studies and exercises in double-tonguing.