Musical instruments

This practical guide is an essential and stimulating reference book for all clarinet enthusiasts.

This book provides students and music teachers with a comprehensive overview of the oboe from its origin to its use and important facts not covered in traditional method books.

"Simone Baccis Volkslieder für Gitarre Dein Einstieg in die Welt der deutschen VolksmusikDieses Buch ist der perfekte Begleiter für alle Gitarrenanfänger, die gerne bekannte Volkslieder spielen und ihre Notenlesefähigkeiten verbessern möchten.

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

The first comprehensive technical and historical study of stringed keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to modern times.

Examines Joseph Joachim's vital legacy through a range of philological, philosophical and critical approaches.

Notes Become Music: A Guidebook from the Viennese Piano Tradition addresses the many unwritten nuances of dynamics, articulation and agogics as an expression of fundamental principles of a common European musical language.

Lateness and Brahms takes up the fascinating, yet understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna.

Master guitar scales and start strumming with this updated edition of The Everything Guitar Scales Book that features over 700 scale patterns for every style of music, perfect for beginners and seasoned guitarists alike.

Twentieth-century composers created thousands of original works for solo percussion and percussion ensemble.

Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music explores the nature, production, and evolution of timpani tone and provides insights into how to interpret the music of J.

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.

Lots of piano books offer either in-depth analysis or quick gimmicks that don't really teach music theory.

Master the most popular woodwind Want to play the clarinet?

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The Encyclopedia of Percussion is an extensive guide to percussion instruments, organized for research as well as general knowledge.

Everything beginners need to know to start playing guitar Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions?

Learn everything ukulele from chord progressions to playing pop, folk, and holiday favorites and, yes, even Hawaiian music!

Learn to play the fiddle?

This easy-to-understand beginner's guide provides an introduction to playing the harmonica and includes helpful information about basic techniques, tools, and music knowledge.

Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interdisciplinary field of Concert Studies, offering fresh ways of understanding the classical music concert in the twenty-first century.

A 1999 Companion to the saxophone, containing essays by the finest performers and experts on the instrument.

First Published in 1994.

Stuart Isacoff - pianist, critic and teacher - explores the history and evolution of the piano: how its sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners.

This reference work catalogs music for organ and harpsichord written by more than 700 women composers from 40 countries.

Written by an experienced musician, recording artist, and music journalist, The Everything Rock & Blues Piano Book with CD offers the basics of rock and blues piano playing in a fun, easy-to-follow manner.

Interactive Composition empowers readers with all of the practical skills and insights they need to compose and perform electronic popular music in a variety of popular styles.

Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century is a richly detailed thematic study of the history of the piano in Russian society from its beginnings with the European artisans who settled in St.

Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration of Coltrane's sound and its spiritual qualities that are rooted in Black American music-culture and aspirations for freedom.

This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson.

Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff PrizeMusical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England.

In 1982, Fender revived an old guitar-string name for its new line of Japanese-made electric guitars.

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The electronic medium allows any audible sound to be contextualized as music.

Practice, practice, practice to play like Chopin or the Piano Man The piano will help you add a touch of fun to your life, impress your friends at parties, and even reduce stress.

Renowned scholars and performers present a wide range of different perspectives on Mozart''s chamber music with keyboard.

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.

Master the most popular woodwind Want to play the clarinet?

For 30 years, Guitar World magazine has served as North America's leading publication for rock guitarists - and with more than 325 issues under its belt, the world's bestselling guitar magazine is showing no signs of slowing down.

This 1999 book is a comprehensive introduction to Beethoven''s most popular piano sonata, and Opp.

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.

A state-of-the-art overview of the analysis of electroacoustic music, which includes discussions of a wide range of works.

CO-WINNER: The Triennial Alan Walker Book Award, sponsored by the American Liszt Society 2023A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.

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.

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

First Published in 1994.

Brazilian Research on Creativity Development in Musical Interaction focuses on creativity that involves interactive musical activities, with different groups, such as professional musicians, students, and student teachers.