Musical instruments

For nearly a decade, "e;Dear Guitar Hero"e; - where everyday fans get a chance to ask their hero a question - has remained one of Guitar World magazine's most popular departments.

In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women in music, and information on the music of a handful of black women composers, such as Florence Price and Mary Lou Williams, has been published.

This is a comprehensive guide designed to build foundational keyboard skills for musicians pursuing careers in the commercial music industry.

In this intimate and open account - nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read - Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate.

In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

This comprehensive study treats the wind works of Anton Bruckner as a complete genre and uses them to illustrate how the composer evolved in style throughout his career.

This book explores the fundamentals of popular music performance for students in contemporary music institutions.

A History of the Trombone, the first title in the new series American Wind Band, is a comprehensive account of the development of the trombone from its initial form as a 14th-century Medieval trumpet to its alterations in the 15th century; from its marginalized use in a particular Renaissance ensemble to its acceptance in various kinds of artistic and popular music in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Using a replica of Beethoven's Erard piano, scholar and performer Tom Beghin launches a striking reinterpretation of a key period of Beethoven's work.

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb.

The harmonica is one of the most basic and traditional musical instruments in America.

Puerto Rican born Jesus Maria Sanroma (1902-1984) was one of the leading pianists in the United States.

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

Drummers from beginners to pros will relish this comprehensive guide to the tools of the trade!

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.

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.

Widor's pedagogical writings, translated for the first time, offer essential guidance for interpreting his organ compositions as well as those of his followers in the French Romantic organ school.

Take your ukulele playing to the next level - fast!

The first edition of Albert R.

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

Buzz to Brilliance engages students personally, technically and musically as they begin their study on the trumpet.

In this collection, Shipton has drawn together conversations with some of the key jazz pianists.

Keyboard Skills for Music Educators: Score Reading is the first textbook equip future educators with the ability to play from an open score at the keyboard.

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.

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Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a giant of twentieth-century classical music, but one whose eccentricities have sometimes obscured the moral seriousness of his approach to art.

How to get a good sound, read music, and master a variety of styles-including classical, pop, jazz, and Latin Listening to a trumpet trilla series of high notes during a military march or wail longingly during a blues rendition-is a pleasure second to none.

The Woodwinds: Perform, Understand, Teach provides comprehensive coverage about the woodwind family of musical instruments for prospective instrumental music teachers.

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

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.

Leo Fender's company changed the course of popular music in 1954 when they introduced the Stratocaster.

Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s.

The intriguing cultural history of the piano in AustraliaFrom the instruments that floated ashore at Sydney Cove in the late eighteenth century to the resurrection of derelict heirlooms in the streets of twenty-first-century Melbourne, A Coveted Possession tells the curious story of Australia s intimate and intrepid relationship with the piano.

Does music make kids smarter?

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

One of Europe's foremost experts on early guitar music explores this little known but richly rewarding repertoire.

In The Positive Pianist: How Flow Can Bring Passion to Practice and Performance, author Thomas J.

Frank Zappa was an unremitting musical innovator and experimenter, always looking for ways to exploit the latest advances in technology.

The music of Edvard Grieg is justly celebrated for its harmonic richness, a feature especially apparent in the piano works written in the last decades of his life.

Adaptive Strategies for Small-Handed Pianists brings together information from biomechanics, ergonomics, physics, anatomy, medicine, and piano pedagogy to focus on the subject of small-handedness.

Music Engineering is a hands-on guide to the practical aspects of electric and electronic music.

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

Peter Williams revisits Bach''s biography through the lens of his music, revealing the development of the composer''s interests and priorities.

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

Pedro de Alcantara's The Integrated String Player: Embodied Vibration is a practical guide for all string players: violinists and violists, cellists and bassists, but also gamba players and anyone who makes music drawing a bow across a string.

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.

The Unorthodox Guitar: A Guide to Alternative Performance Practice is a comprehensive resource for experimentally minded guitarists and composers wishing to write for or perform on the instrument in new ways.

A comprehensive introduction to the electric guitar''s history and cultural impact, for students, guitar fans, and researchers.

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