The last few years have seen a tremendous increase in almost every area of musical life in Canada; more orchestras are playing longer seasons; Canadian composers are winning recognition at home and abroad; opera is coming into its own; the National Arts Centre in Ottawa is now a reality; as are various other centres for the arts; and interest in music among local groups, and among young people especially, is continually growing.
In this groundbreaking book, noted director and educator William Wesbrooks provides an exciting and eminently practical approach for singers and actors who want to think about their work in a way that brings them a greater sense of vitality, freedom, and empowerment.
Thousands of music apps - designed to assist you with every aspect of your life as a musician, hobbyist, student, or educator - are available for the iPad.
In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, personhood, and materiality in ways that support white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
Stretching from the Florida Coast, down to the beautiful island of sunny Jamaica, with an origin of African roots; this multi culture book will surely amuse, relax, inform, educate and more than all, guide you to a more positive way of living.
Rikky Rooksby's revised and updated bestseller explores more than 200 classic riffs, from Cream and Led Zeppelin, through Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica, U2, and the White Stripes.
How to Play Blues Guitar gives you vital instruction in blues basics from top guitar teachers and reveals the screts of blues greats, often in their own words.
Another entry in the Fretmaster series, this book teaches you both the history and technique of slide guitar's masters, such as Brian Jones, Lowell George, Bonnie Raitt, and Robert Johnson.
Widely recognized as the most complete and rigorous text of its kind since it was first published in 1942, Speak With Distinction is an invaluable resource.
Time magazine music critic Michael Walsh has created for the rock n roll generation a complete and totally irreverent guide to listening to, collecting, and enjoying classical music.
Piazzolla Álbum es el primer volumen de una colección sin precedentes dedicada a reunir lo mejor del genial bandoneonista y compositor argentino Astor Piazzolla, en cuidadas versiones originales para piano y canto, además de arreglos con guías para violín, bajo y guitarra.
Affordable, versatile, portable, and popular once again, the ukulele is an ideal instrument for lifelong music making that can also be an engaging component of school music programs.
Designed to serve as a primary text for the first two years of college music theory, TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS OF MUSIC, 7th Enhanced Edition covers all the basics of composition--including harmony, melody, and musical form.
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.
Originally published in 1920, this early works is an informative look at the importance of music in education with one of the most important factors being the training and development of the sense of Rhythm.
Originally published in 1920, this neat little book is the result of the authors desire to tabulate in a concise form, his own ideas on violin playing, with regard to both the technical and the interpretive aspects of the subject.
"e;My object in writing this book is to encourage and help those students of the violin who are sufficiently intelligent to wish to advance with the times and who realise that in order to free violin playing from the rut of tradition in which it has complacently remained for so long, it is necessary to bring greater insistence to bear on the imaginative and poetical side of violin playing than has been done up to the present"e; Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
Contents Include: To my Friend To my Enemy To the New Woman To the New Men A Ballad in Blank Verse of the Making of a Poet A Ballad of the Exodus from Hounds ditch A Ballad of a Nun The Vengeance of the Duchess A Ballad of Heaven A Ballad of Hell London A Loafer Thirty Bob a Week To the Street-Piano A Labourer's Wife After the End Song of a Train In Romney Marsh A Cinque Port Spring Summer Autumn Winter The Happiest Way For Hesper Joyce Le Gallienne In Memoriam Mildred Le Gallienne
