Musical instruments

The Appalachian dulcimer is one of America's major contributions to world music and folk art.

In einer Zeit, in der Frauen in der Musikwelt selten die Anerkennung erhielten, die ihnen gebührte, stach eine Ausnahmeperson hervor: Sophia Corri.

This is the first full-length study of British women's instrumental chamber music in the early twentieth century.

The award-winning, much-loved memoir of renowned author and musician Anna Goldsworthy about her first steps towards a life in music.

William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.

A jazz writer for three decades, W.

Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student violists alike.

First Published in 1988.

English keyboard music reached an unsurpassed level of sophistication in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as organists such as William Byrd and his students took a genre associated with domestic, amateur performance and treated it as seriously as vocal music.

The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble (TTTE) is one of the most successful performing collegiate ensembles in history, with an enviable record of 25 recording projects, seven Carnegie Hall appearances, two World's Fairs performances, numerous national and international conference engagements, and a performance history in venues like Preservation Hall in New Orleans, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, and the Kennedy Center in Washington.

Sebastien Erard's (1752-1831) inventions have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano building today.

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

This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.

As guitar instruction increases in popularity in secondary schools, many band, choir, and orchestra teachers are asked to teach guitar.

This guide to the piano literature for the one-handed pianist surveys over 2,100 individual piano pieces which include not only concert literature but pedagogical pieces as well.

Joaquin Rodrigo, Spain's leading composer of the second half of the twentieth century, was also a writer of considerable distinction.

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

This book is the first to explore the interconnections between ecology and performance in South Asia.

This Companion explores percussion and rhythm and is written by performers, composers, conductors, scholars, instrument designers, and scientists.

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

The ideal hands-on reference for piano students who want to strengthen their skills and refine their technique--and the perfect companion and next step to the bestselling Piano For Dummies.

The leading textbook in jazz improvisation, Creative Jazz Improvisation, Fifth Edition represents a compendium of knowledge and practice resources for the university classroom, suitable for all musicians looking to develop and sharpen their soloing skills.

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.

The work of French musicologist, ethnologist and critic Andre Schaeffner (1895- 1980) grew out of his first organological studies of the history of Western classical instruments in the late 1920s and encapsulated in his wide-ranging Origine des instruments de musique, which captures his studies in Paris between 1931 and 1936.

Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom: A Guide for Group Instruction assists music education students, in-service teachers, and performers to realize their goals of becoming effective string educators.

"e;Acoustic Guitar Styles"e; introduces the most popular traditional styles for the acoustic guitar.

Intended as a supplement to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.

This book addresses the analysis of musical sounds from the viewpoint of someone at the intersection between physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians.

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

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

Narratives on famous guitarists and the extra details on guitar history are fine, but that's not what readers need or want when they are eager to master their new guitar.

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.

This is the first full-length study of British women's instrumental chamber music in the early twentieth century.

Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student violists alike.

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.

This book explores the historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz across 1900–65, from both perspectives.

Dein Song möchte Kinder und Jugendliche darin ermuntern, sich aktiv mit Musik zu beschäftigen und bietet talentierten Nachwuchssongwritern Raum für die Entfaltung ihrer eigenen musikalischen Ideen.

The garamut is a log idiophone that is found in many of the coastal and island areas of Papua New Guinea.

An essential Companion to all aspects of the organ and its music.

Shura Cherkassky's life story, like his piano playing, is provocative and captivating.

This Element navigates 20th century musical communications from Varèse to Stockhausen and provides an introduction to information theory.

This book of parent-to-parent advice aims to encourage, support, and bolster the morale of one of music's most important back-up sections: music parents.

With Hit Me, Fred, sensational sideman Fred Wesley Jr.

Transformational Piano Teaching: Mentoring Students from All Walks of Life examines the concept of the piano teacher as someone who is more than just a teacher of a musical skill, but also someone who wields tremendous influence on the development of a young person's artistic and empathic potential, as well as their lifelong personal motivational framework.

Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times.

This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition, the most significant composers and their works, and the evolving role of the instrument and its music.

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

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

A treasure trove for any fan of the four-stringed (and occasionally more) instrument.