Musical instruments

Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegum Flute Performance describes the taegum as a representation of Korean culture in the contemporary world.

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.

With Contemporary Piano: A Performer and Composer's Guide to Techniques and Resources, Alan Shockley provides a comprehensive resource for composers writing music that uses extended techniques for the piano, and for pianists interested in playing repertoire that makes use of techniques and/or implements unfamiliar to them.

More than eighty years have passed since Edgard Varese's catalytic work for percussion ensemble, Ionisation, was heard in its New York premiere.

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Harps and harp music have enjoyed a renaissance over the past century and today can be heard in a broad array of musical contexts.

Make your music come alive with this indispensable guitar guide There's no denying that guitar players have cachet.

This interesting and authoritative book includes essential facts about the various forms of Japanese music and musical instruments and their place in the overall history of Japan.

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

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

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.

Notation in Johannes Brahms's sonata scores tells violinists and pianists far more than merely what pitches to play and how long to play them--if read carefully, these scores reveal an immense amount of expression, both of musical and human essences.

To mark its 250th anniversary, the Schott publishing house has dug up and reedited treasures from its historical publishing archives.

Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Instrumental Music is a long awaited compilation of best practices for instrumental music education.

Often abstracted by the aesthetic implications of music itself, musical instruments can be seen as physical signifiers apart from the music that they produce.

Piano Lessons with Claudio Arrau provides an insider's view of the art of piano performance as exemplified by one of the great artists of the twentieth century.

Despite their central role in many forms of music-making, drummers have been largely neglected in the scholarly literature on music and education.

The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th.

Written for the cellist looking for an approach that demystifies cello playing, Cello, Bow and You is an innovative text in the field of string pedagogy written by a 40+ year veteran of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.

Offers unique perspectives on the clarinet's historical role in various styles, genres, and ensembles, from jazz and ethnic traditions to classical chamber music, concertos, opera, and symphony orchestras.

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.

Drawing on recent ideas that explore new environments and the changing situations of composition and performance, Simon Emmerson provides a significant contribution to the study of contemporary music, bridging history, aesthetics and the ideas behind evolving performance practices.

The Element argues that creative visions occur in the wake/sleep boundary, a rarely examined experience.

The Guitar in America offers a history of the instrument from America's late Victorian period to the Jazz Age.

Beginning early in the 1980s, a dance music revolution swept across Europe and Britain, merging rock, new wave, disco and worldbeat sounds.

This modern, high-quality reproduction is perfect for students and would make for a worthy addition to any music collection.

Music has long been a way in which visually impaired people could gain financial independence, excel at a highly-valued skill, or simply enjoy musical participation.

Learning to play the guitar has never been easier!

Die schönsten 20 neuen Kinderlieder-Hits von Detlev Jöcker.

Achieving Musical Success in the String Classroom describes a fully pragmatic pedagogical approach toward developing complete musicianship in beginning through advanced level string players by incorporating the ideas of Mimi Zweig, Paul Rolland, and Shinichi Suzuki.

A guide containing practical help on both the aquisition and playing of historical clarinets.

Bei keinem anderen Musikinstrument ist der Gegensatz klein - groß so ausgeprägt wie bei der Orgel.

This third edition is a basic textbook on the development of pipe organ composition in geographically diverse schools.

These volumes present the recently discovered archives of the Erard firm, perhaps the largest record of musical instrument making anywhere.

Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship provides early-career singers with an overview of the structure of the opera industry and tools for strategically approaching a career within it.

As the first book of its kind, Nancy Lee Harper's Portuguese Piano Music: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography fills the gap in the historical record of Portuguese piano music from its start in the 18th century to the present.

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.

Der neue Lehrplan Kontrabass vermittelt alle wesentlichen Aspekte eines zeitgemäßen Unterrichts und bildet eine unverzichtbare Arbeits- und Orientierungshilfe.

Roger Waters, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Stevens, Jeff Stinco, Patrick Norman et Michel Cusson jouent de ses guitares…

Robert Godin, le plus important fabricant de guitares en Amérique du Nord, est un trésor caché du Québec Inc.

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A complete guide to interpretation of music and the rules and principles of playing and teaching the piano.

Charles-Valentin Alkan was a pianist and composer of unparalleled brilliance, whose intricate compositions and extraordinary skill at the keyboard earned him the admiration of contemporaries such as Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin.

An icon of global Punjabi culture, the dhol drum inspires an unbridled love for the instrument far beyond its application to regional vernacular music.

In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism.

Performer and researcher Peter O'Hagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed consideration of the ensemble work sur Incises, which stands at the heart of Boulez's later output.

Teachers and flutists at all levels have praised Nancy Toff'sThe Flute Book, a unique one-stop guide to the flute and its music.