Musical instruments

This book surveys the breadth, richness, and meaning of Duke Ellington''s celebrated career, examining his impact on jazz music and its surrounding culture.

Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kika kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) was a seminal German composer.

Ausgelöst durch Glenn Goulds Aufnahmen, haben die sogenannten Goldberg-Variationen – im Original die "Aria mit verschiedenen Veraenderungen vors Clavicimbal mit 2 Manualen" – von Johann Sebastian Bach im letzten halben Jahrhundert einen Triumphzug durch die Konzertsäle und Aufnahmestudios angetreten.

Foreword by James Dean Bradfield, Manic Street PreachersA collection that has to be seen to be believed, Superstar Guitars showcases the most famous six-strings in the history of music, in exquisite detail.

Take a (violin) bow and let your inner musician shine!

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.

String Methods for Beginners is designed for students to receive the essential playing and teaching skills on all orchestral string instruments.

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.

This book presents an introduction to more than a dozen different types of Balinese gamelan, each with its own established tradition, repertoire and social or religious context.

Improve your guitar-playing rhythm, feel, and timing If you want to improve your timing, sharpen your technique, or get inspired by new ideas, Guitar Rhythm & Technique For Dummies breaks down the basics of reading, counting, strumming, and picking rhythms on guitar to make you an ace on the axe in no time.

Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.

Keith Jarrett ranks among the most accomplished and influential pianists in jazz history.

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Pine Apple Rag, originally composed in 1908.

Inventing the American Guitar is the first book to describe the early history of American guitar design in detail.

Face it, being a rock guitarist is just about the coolest thing you can be next to a secret agent with a black belt in karate.

Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass summarizes three centuries of string pedagogy treatises to create a comprehensive resource on methods and approaches to teaching all four bowed string instruments.

This book assesses the influence and reception of many different forms of guitar playing upon the classical guitar and more specifically through the prism of John Williams.

This collection contains pieces of varying degrees of difficulty (easy to moderate) from three centuries of music.

In the nineteenth century, use of the violone, a bass instrument with many sizes and variations, was nearly eliminated from musical repertoires, and its traditional parts were parceled out to other instruments such as the violoncello.

Originally published in 1943 and subsequently as a revised and enlarged edition in 1978, Musical Instruments has long been held in high regard, not only for its erudition, but for its originality of approach.

Djembe drum Tutorial Guide.

A Companion to the piano, one of the world''s most popular instruments.

A collection of favourite Christmas carols for piano, voice and guitar with full texts.

Jan Ladislas Dussek, einer der herausragendsten Pianisten und Komponisten des 18.

For one semester/quarter courses in woodwind methods.

The last quarter of the twentieth-century saw a renewed interest in the hammered dulcimer in the United States at the grassroots level as well as from elements of the Folk Revival.

"Violintechnik intensiv" ist ein dreibändiges Kompendium zu allen technischen Aspekten des Geigenspiels und wendet sich an Orchestermusiker, Studenten, jugendliche Spieler und Laienmusiker und gibt vielfältige Anregungen für den Violinunterricht.

This book offers an insight into Beethoven''s career, showing in well-documented detail the rise and decline of his powers as a performer.

"e;The Secrets of Violin Playing"e; is a classic guide to playing the violin, dealing with every aspect from care and maintenance of the instrument to mastering the basics and avoiding common problems.

Der VdM legt eine neue Generation an Lehrplänen vor und gibt damit sowohl Lehrenden wie Lernenden einen aktuellen Leitfaden für erfolgreichen Instrumentalunterricht.

The author describes how playing drum kit enables him to experience transcendence through being fully present with himself and others.

This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions.

The transition from the valveless natural horn to the modern valved horn in 19th-century Paris was different from similar transitions in other countries.

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

Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Antoinette, originally composed in 1906.

"e;The Fiddler's Nurser"e; is a classic guide to playing the violin written for beginners an young players.

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

Today, the saxophone is an emblem of "e;cool"e; and the instrument most closely associated with jazz.

Creativities, Media, and Technology in Music Learning and Teaching is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education.

This innovative study of nineteenth-century cellists and cello playing shows how simple concepts of posture, technique and expression changed over time, while acknowledging that many different practices co-existed.

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.

Mozart's piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the pianist's repertoire.

In Percussion Pedagogy, author Michael Udow offers a practical guide for students interested in teaching percussion as well as improving their technique.

Growing from a small custom shop in the early 1970s to the only new brand to have challenged the traditional Big Three of American acoustic guitars (Gibson, Guild, and Martin), Taylor has effectively changed the marketplace for acoustic steel-string guitars and influenced every other maker of acoustic stringed instruments.

A comprehensive study of the clarinet in use through the classical period, 1760 to 1830, a period of intensive musical experimentation.

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