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Singers must equip themselves with enough knowledge to clearly convey specific sensations and difficulties with their instrument.

A practical guide to starting a successful career in a music department in higher education, this book thoroughly details the application, interview, and negotiation processes.

Noted music education and arts activist Charles Fowler has inspired music educators for more than 60 years.

Young pianists pursuing a professional career face a barrage of questions, choices, and challenges.

In the late 1960s, a new movement emerged championing historically informed 'authentic' approaches to performance.

The Mind's Ear offers a unique approach to stimulating the musical imagination and inspiring creativity, as well as providing detailed exercises aimed at improving the ability to read and imagine music in silence, in the "e;mind's ear.

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

Novice music teachers and music education students struggle to form an identity that synthesizes 'musician' with 'music teacher,' and to separate themselves from their prior experiences to think critically about music-making and music instruction.

Music education takes place in many contexts, both formal and informal.

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.

Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers.

Creating Sounds from Scratch is a practical, in-depth resource on the most common forms of music synthesis.

The Art of Music Production is the first book to comprehensively analyze and describe the role of the music producer in creating successful music recordings.

Our sense that a waltz is "e;in three"e; or a blues song is "e;in four with a shuffle"e; comes from our sense of musical meter.

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

While composers and percussionists are working more closely than ever with one another, there are few resources that address this collaborative relationship in depth.

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

Tonality and Transformation is a groundbreaking study in the analysis of tonal music.

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V.

Making quality moving pictures has never been easier or more affordable, and the proliferation and ease of access to digital recording devices has prompted scores of amateurs to record and post videos to YouTube and its ilk.

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

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Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners.

A musician's life is filled with many stressful situations: passing auditions, rehearsing and performing with difficult partners, sitting for long hours in uncomfortable chairs, going on stage to face audiences large and small, who may or may not be receptive to the performance they are presented.

It has never been easier or more fun for students to compose, improvise, arrange, and produce music and music-related projects than with today's technology.

The 19th-century Italian singing teacher Giovanni Battista Lamperti once wrote, "e;'Know thyself' applies to the singer more than to other professions, because to sing well, body, soul, and mind are tuned together.

Making great audio recordings requires striking the right balance between technical know-how and practical understanding of recording sessions.

Time after time, people turn to music when coping with traumatic life events.

At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition.

Music education takes place in many contexts, both formal and informal.

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 guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time.

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.

Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music presents an approach to conceptualizing and utilizing technology as a tool for music learning.

Distinguished music theorist and composer David Lewin (1933-2003) applies the conceptual framework he developed in his earlier, innovative Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations to the varied repertoire of the twentieth century in this stimulating and illustrative book.

David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is recognized as the seminal work paving the way for current studies in mathematical and systematic approaches to music analysis.

Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800.

Focusing on the music of the great song composers--Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss--Poetry Into Song offers a systematic introduction to the performance and analysis of Lieder .

Contemporary electronic music has splintered into numerous genres and subgenres, all of which share a concern with whether sound, in itself, bears meaning.

This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory.

Facing the Music investigates the practices and ideas that have grown from some five decades of cultural diversity in music education, developments in ethnomusicology, and the rise of 'world music'.

The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry.

When the artist moves into the classroom or community to educate and inspire students and audience members, this is Teaching Artistry.

Learning to play an instrument can be fun and, at times, frustrating.

Teaching Piano in Groups provides a one-stop compendium of information related to all aspects of group piano teaching.

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Wind Talk for Woodwinds provides instrumental music teachers, practitioners, and students with a handy, easy-to-use pedagogical resource for woodwind instruments found in school instrumental programs.

Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music.

Known internationally for his work as a teacher of conducting, Gustav Meier's influence in the field cannot be overstated.

Perhaps the most renowned writer in the field of vocal pedagogy, Richard Miller has delivered a new and outstanding contribution to the study of vocal technique in Securing Baritone, Bass-Baritone, and Bass Voices.