Musical instruments

This vintage book offers the reader a comprehensive, elementary course in learning to play the organ, specially designed for those with absolutely no previous musical training.

Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners.

Based on primary sources, many of which have never been published or examined in detail, this book examines the music of the late seventeenth-century composers, Biber, Schmeltzer and Muffat, and the compositions preserved in the extensive Moravian archives in Kromeriz.

The renaissance flute, with its rich history, stunning repertoire, and mellow tone, has attracted a significant following among flutists, whether they specialize in modern flute or historical instruments.

This edited volume explores how selected researchers, students and academics name and frame creative teaching and learning as constructed through the rationalities, practices, relationships, events, objects and systems that are brought to educational sites and developed by learning communities.

Reproduced in high quality with wide margins, this edition is perfect for students and musicians with an interest in Chopin's seminal work.

From cowering, introverted founders of the alternative rock movement to one of the twenty best-selling American bands of all time, the story of R.

This historical survey focuses on music for piano solo but also includes important compositions for piano duet and two pianos.

Written by a composer and a musician, The Contemporary Violin offers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring.

How is creativity understood and facilitated across music education settings?

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847) was a German pianist, organist, composer, and conductor during the Romantic period.

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 21st Century, the guitar, as both a material object and tool for artistic expression, continues to be reimagined and reinvented.

The Teaching of Instrumental Music, Sixth Edition, introduces music education majors to basic instrumental pedagogy for the instruments and ensembles commonly found in the elementary and secondary curricula.

Recent scholarship has vanquished the traditional perception of nineteenth-century Britain as a musical wasteland.

"Probably the best maker who ever lived at Füssen.

It's difficult to imagine Franz Liszt performing in Peoria, but his contemporary and foremost rival, Sigismund Thalberg, did just that.

Inside Computer Music is an investigation of how new technological developments have influenced the creative possibilities of composers of computer music in the last 50 years.

Serge Chaloff (1923-1957) is most widely remembered as the flamboyant baritone saxophone star with Woody Herman's 2nd Herd whose problems with drugs extended to erratic personal behavior.

The anthology La donna e mobile is the follow-up volume to the best-seller Eine kleine Nachtmusik with masterpieces of classical music (ED 20764).

Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide provides a detailed outline of resources available for research and/or training in piano pedagogy.

Learn to: Select the right classical guitar for you Develop correct hand position and posture Tune your guitar Play along with exercises and pieces on the audio CD The fun and easy way to start playing classical guitar!

Playing with Ease is a book about ergonomic technique for the guitar, as well as other instruments.

Schuberts späte Klaviermusik in neuer PerspektiveGemeinsam entwickelten Jürgen Uhde und Renate Wieland in dem zum Klassiker gewordenen Buch "Denken und Spielen" die Methode, aus der Struktur einer Musik die Beziehung der einzelnen Gestalten untereinander und zum Ganzen, d.

This book is a collection of papers on the set-bells of Marquis Yi to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their discovery.

Featuring large, clear note heads and wide margins, this edition is perfect for studying and following the music.

This captivating book explores the intersection where performing art meets human interaction and delves into the application of human factors' principles in this field.

Contains simple tips for maintaining guitars, amps, PA equipment and drums which will help prevent your kit from breaking down at inopportune moments, saving you money by avoiding expensive repair bills.

A thematic exploration of Schubert''s style, applied in readings of his instrumental and vocal literature by international scholars.

Penetrating, innovative analyses of numerous compositions by Chopin, integrating Schenkerian principles and a fresh perspective on harmony.

An unprecedented exploration of Stravinsky''s use of the piano as the genesis of all his music - Russian, neoclassical and serial.

Revered Hindu religious scriptures of the Vedas speak of the use of musical instruments in worship.

By the early 20th century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices.

This book is a convenient, alphabetized reference work that deals comprehensively with the demands of caring for historic musical instruments.

Keyboard artists in the time of J.

An engaging integration of scholarship and storytelling, Reflections on Elizabeth A.

Barcelonian Gaspar Cassado (1897-1966) was one of the greatest cello virtuosi of the twentieth century and a notable composer and arranger, leaving a vast and heterogeneous legacy.

This 40-Day devotional from Brian “Head” Welch, former lead guitarist of Korn and the New York Times bestselling author of Save Me From Myself, is an intimate tour through the Bible passages that have meant the most to him on his trying journey from substance abuse to salvation.

In 2007, the great Bach scholar Anne Leahy died at the age of 46.

The two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Performance provides a resource that musicians, scholars and educators will use as the most important and authoritative overview of work within the areas of music psychology and performance science.

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This companion volume to The Courtly Consort Suite in German-Speaking Europe surveys an area of music neglected by modern scholars: the consort suites and dance music by musicians working in the seventeenth-century German towns.

The easy way to get keyed up on the keyboard Where Piano For Dummies helps budding musicians to master the black-and-white musical keyboard, Keyboard For Dummies helps them understand the possibilities that unfold when those black-and-whites are connected to state-of-the-art music technology.

Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass traces the stylistic evolution of jazz from the bass player's perspective.

Rooted in the experience of a professional choral conductor, this book provides a guide to practical issues facing conductors of choral ensembles at all levels, from youth choruses to university ensembles, church and community choirs, and professional vocal groups.