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Mixing and mastering are the final challenges in creating great recordings.

This book outlines in simple terms and illustrations how to safely create the illusions of unarmed stage violence.

Twelve internationally-known keyboard artists entertainingly discuss their daily lives of practicing and performing in informative interviews, including reflections on learning new music, reviving repertoire, performing, controlling nerves, recording sessions, playing with ensemble groups, touring, playing in competitions, and the future of the piano.

Winding it Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings is a collaborative effort written by practicing music educators, teacher educators, pedagogy experts, researchers, and inclusion enthusiasts with a combined one hundred plus years in the field of music education.

The singer-songwriter, someone who writes and performs their own music, is an ever-present and increasingly complex figure in popular music worlds.

In this elegantly written, passionately argued book, Fowler presents a convincing case for teaching the arts to all children.

Covering all the essentials of craft and marketing for launching and sustaining a long, successful writing career, this cutting-edge revision contains an exclusive interview with Oscar-winning songwriter Melissa Etheridge - "e;I Need to Wake Up"e; - and shows you, step by step, how to write a hit song.

Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture.

In Chances and Choices, Stephanie Pitts surveys the aims and impact of formative musical experiences, evaluating the extent to which music education of various kinds provides a foundation for lifelong involvement and interest in music.

With its unique blend of eastern and western traditions of music and poetry, the world of Russian vocal music is rich in spirituality, intimacy, and passion for singers and their audience.

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

Irma Collins's Dictionary of Music Education is more than just a lexicon.

"e;The fusion of text with music is one of the most powerful methods by which a composer can express emotion to an audience, yet, all too often, the diction of choral groups is lacking to such a degree as to make the text unintelligible.

Der Erfolg eines Instrumentalisten hängt von der Qualität seines Übens ab und nicht zuletzt vom konkreten Wissen, wie man effizient übt.

In an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century, the guidance of a skilled music producer is quickly becoming indispensable for producing a great recording.

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental electronic music and includes many suggestions for further reading and listening.

This new study draws on analysis, literary criticism, and source studies to propose a new conception of the nineteenth-century romantic cycle.

Now in paperback.

This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance Common Tone Sequences.

All shared Informations in this eBook are based on Secrets that we received from Label A&R's, own Tests and ways that showed how to grow fast in todays Music Market.

It is no secret that the opera industry is contracting and that there are fewer professional opportunities.

- An approach based on self-learning and recognition of rhythmic and melodic patterns - Original tunes rather than abstract sight-reading exercises - 237 carefully graded pieces in a range of musical styles - Nine sections ranging from open strings to extensions and slurs - Each section concludes with a set of duets and accompanied pieces for practice of ensemble sight-reading - Tunes progress to all key signatures up to four sharps and three flats - Preliminary towards grade 4

Inspired by Dalcroze-eurhythmics, this book is a practical guide for teachers and students interested in integrating the moving body into the aural skills classroom.

This second edition of Clarinet Secrets is a compilation of Distinguished Professor Michele Gingras's acclaimed books that spearheaded Rowman & Littlefield's Music Secrets series: Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets.

Master the guitar in no time with this one-stop guide to learning guitar!

In der sängerischen Ausbildung ist der Griff zur richtigen Arie, zum passenden Repertoire mindestens so entscheidend wie gesangstechnische Perfektion.

The ability to bring meaning to music notation without the assistance of an accompanist playing choral parts is a requisite skill on a musician's journey to self-reliance and full artistic expression.

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

Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves.

In Percussion Pedagogy, author Michael Udow offers a practical guide for students interested in teaching percussion as well as improving their technique.

Once the domain of a privileged few, the art of record production is today within the reach of all.

In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi, veteran opera director William Ferrarapresents a detailed, practical exploration of the staging of twenty-one scenes from two of opera's most beloved composers.

New music teachers often struggle to find a way to connect the content learned in college classes with the content that will be taught in the classroom, since the nature of their work demands a high level of both musical and educational ability, while also the skills to switch from tuning an orchestra to leading a marching band or practicing voice parts with a chorus.

Policy and the Political Life of Music Education is the first book of its kind in the field of Music Education.

Gerhard Mantel geht in diesem Buch der Frage nach, über welche Mittel und Werkzeuge ein Interpret verfügen sollte, um einen Notentext zu dem vom Komponisten intendierten geistig-emotionalen Erlebnis zu machen.

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us.

Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin guides readers through eight of the most beloved orchestral pieces of the twentieth century:Claude Debussy's La MerDmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.

All children must have an opportunity to share the joy of choral music participation - whether in school, church, or community choirs.

Prosody as a system of suprasegmental linguistic information such as rhythm and intonation is a prime candidate for looking at the relation between language and music in a principled way.

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In today's multi-ethnic classroom, multiculturalism plays an increasingly vital role.

The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions.

This book provides both preservice and seasoned music educators with a unique and powerful way of teaching.

Musical interpretation is first and foremost a question of shaping a melody or the melodic line of a setting.

As children, many of us learn to sing, "e;If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.

This is the right-hand man for players who live and breathe bass, or for beginners who want an all-in-one guide to the instrument that ';shakes the low end' of rock, pop, jazz and more.