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Music performance anxiety has long frustrated the artistic
community and, while tricks and folk remedies abound, a
comprehensive plan to solve this problem has remained elusive.
Accomplished violinist Casey McGrath combines her experiences with
the research of Karin S. Hendricks and Tawnya D. Smith to provide a
resource guide to the most current solutions and therapies, as well
as educational applications, for both individual and classroom use.
Divided by area of therapeutic interest, Performance Anxiety
Strategies presents relevant and noteworthy research and insight
into some of the most popular and many lesser-known
therapies-including holistic, exposure, cognitive, behavioral, and
medicinal treatments. Each chapter also features self-guided
activities and exercises, words of wisdom from established
performing artists and athletes, and suggestions for music
teachers, as well as first-person narratives about the authors'
personal journeys with music performance anxiety both onstage and
in the classroom. Including a wealth of offerings and approaches,
this book is an invaluable resource for anyone who has ever
experienced performance anxiety, from the aspiring classical
musician to the garage band guitarist.
Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 1 (Early Elementary) is
part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to
improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome
problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through
rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical
issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions,
and finally by 'going solo' with a series of meticulously graded
sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio
available online for students to check their performances against.
The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your
reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will
ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.
In this concise and accessible volume, a noted keyboard artist and
Bach specialist takes a fresh look at the performance of J. S.
Bach's keyboard music. Addressing the nonspecialist player, Richard
Troeger presents a wide range of historical information and
discusses its musical applications. The author shares accounts of
the musical styles Bach employed and the instruments he knew. In
direct and pragmatic terms, he clarifies the importance of
notational and style details as guides to the composer's
intentions, particularly emphasizing changes in notational norms
between Bach's time and the present. Troeger offers core
information on dynamics, articulation, tempo, rhythm, ornamentation
and accompaniment. He considers controversial issues as well,
establishing the importance of the clavichord in Bach's milieu and
examining the link between baroque music and rhetoric - a dramatic
relationship that can bring great vitality to performance.
One of the finest books available on jazz guitar chords. Joe covers
all the bases with two sections on chord forms and chord passages.
Chords are divided into six categories: Major, Seventh, Augmented,
Minor, Diminished, and Minor Seventh Flat Fifth, each showing
substitutions and inversions that Joe would play when confronted
with "basic" chord symbols. The chord passage section is divided
into nine categories, including such topics as Major Sounds,
Diminished Sounds, Augmented Sounds, Standard Patter Chord
Substitutions, and other chord progression - related topics.
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