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(Guitar Method). Newly revised The second edition of this
world-famous method by Will Schmid and Greg Koch is preferred by
teachers because it makes them more effective while making their
job easier. Students enjoy its easy-to-follow format that gives
them a solid music education while letting them play songs right
away. Book 1 provides beginning instruction including tuning, 1st
position melody playing, C, G, G7, D7, and Em chords, rhythms
through eighth notes, solos and ensembles and strumming. Features a
chord chart, and traditional songs like: Amazing Grace *
Greensleeves * and When the Saints Go Marching In.
Contents are: Berceuse, Wiegenlied or Lullaby, Op. 98, No. 2 (F.
Schubert) * Tonalization: The Moon over the Ruined Castle (R. Taki)
* Gavotte (J.B. Lully) * Minuet from Sei Quintetti for Archi No.
11, Op. 11, No. 5 in E Major (L. Boccherini) * Tonalization: The
Moon over the Ruined Castle (R. Taki) * Scherzo (C. Webster) *
Minuet in G, Wo0 10, No. 7 for Piano (L. van Beethoven) * Gavotte
in C Minor, Gavotte en Rondeau from Suite in G Minor for Klavier,
BWV 822 (J.S. Bach) * Minuet No. 3, BWV Anh. II 114/Anh. III
183/Anh. II, 115 (J.S. Bach) * Humoresque, Op. 101, No. 7 for Piano
(A. DvorAk) * La Cinquantaine (Gabriel-Marie) * Allegro Moderato
from Sonata I in G, BWV 1027 for Viola da Gamba (J.S. Bach).
The Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti
(1755-1824) is considered today to have been one of the most
significant forces in the history of violin playing. In 1792 he met
Margaret and William Chinnery, a wealthy English couple with strong
connections in the world of arts and letters. From that point
onwards Viotti's life became inextricably bound up with theirs; he
moved into their home and became a second father to their children,
forming a remarkably successful menage A trois. Henceforth, all
Viotti's career decisions were taken with this family's welfare in
mind. The Chinnery Family Papers feature over 100 Viotti letters
and other documents. Drawing extensively on these papers, this book
investigates the new light that they cast on Viotti's life and
career, as well as the context in which he lived and worked. Fresh
insights are given into the reception of Viotti's concertos in
London and the solo performances he gave while in England, together
with new information on his role as a music teacher in the Chinnery
household, and his relationship with Mme de StaA"l and the
Philharmonic Society.
Johann Peter Salomon, the celebrated violinist and impresario, made
his debut in England in March 1781. History has credited Salomon
with bringing Haydn to London, yet as Ian Woodfield reveals in this
monograph, Salomon's introduction of the composer to the London
musical scene owed as much to luck as to skilful planning. Haydn's
engagement in London proved to be a much-needed uplift to Salomon's
career which, as Woodfield illustrates, had been on the wane for a
number of years. In addition to its reassessment of Salomon's
uneven career in London during the 1780s, this book throws light on
the general relationship between public and private spheres of
professional music-making at the time, and on the relationship
between the social and professional attributes required of
musicians if they were to be successful. Nowhere are these tensions
better illustrated than in the letters and journals of the Burney
family, especially those of Susan Burney, which are drawn on in the
book to provide a vivid picture of the fiercely competitive musical
world of eighteenth-century London.
Intermediate-level solos based on 68 fiddling favorites of reels,
jigs, hornpipes and all styles of barn-dance tunes is not only
interesting and fascinating, it is also very beneficial for the
development of technique. As technique studies, in their respective
grades, these barn-dance tunes are in a class by themselves.
Excellent repertoire. Guitar chords included.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 4 Cello syllabus
for 2020-2023, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C.
The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and
varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an
excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book
also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams,
useful syllabus information. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Cello Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing
of the string quartet, often represented as a smooth and logical
progression from first violin-dominated homophony to a more equal
conversation between the four voices. Yet this progression was
neither as smooth nor as linear as previously thought, as Mara
Parker illustrates in her examination of the string quartet during
this period. Looking at a wide variety of string quartets by
composers such as Pleyel, Distler and Filtz, in addition to Haydn
and Mozart, the book proposes a new way of describing the
relationships between the four instruments in different works.
Broadly speaking, these relationships follow one of four patterns:
the 'lecture', the 'polite conversation', the 'debate', and the
'conversation'. In focusing on these musical discourses, it becomes
apparent that each work is the product of its composer's stylistic
choices, location, intended performers and intended audience.
Instead of evolving in a strict and universal sequence, the string
quartet in the latter half of the eighteenth century was a complex
genre with composers mixing and matching musical discourses as
circumstances and their own creative impulses required.
A very popular beginner's text which presents a step-by-step method
of soprano (descant) recorder instruction supported by carefully
written studies, examples and songs. This book is designed to meet
the deamnd for a clear, easy-to-understand, and Pedagogically well
constructed method, in a form that is suitable for both classroom
teaching and individual instruction. It may be used in class with
the companion Fun with the Alto Recorder.
Learn to play the ukulele at home or in the classroom with these
popular kids instruction books specially written for beginners!
This songbook will get you singing and strumming from the very
first lesson, with tunes that you'll really want to play. Starting
with just the open strings, and progressing at a steady pace to
more challenging pieces with several chords and chord changes,
you'll soon be playing your ukulele in all sorts of styles. Ideal
to use with Ukulele Magic Tutor Book 1 or any other ukulele tutor
book, this book gives you plenty of songs to make sure you keep
playing as you learn.
The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and reflects some of the best teaching ideas from around the world.
This super-convenient Complete Edition features the new and improved method books 1, 2 and 3 spiral-bound together. This edition includes online access to 164 full-band tracks for demonstration or play-along. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded.
The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from
the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this
comprehensive study, Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction
to the instrument -- its construction, technique and history -- for
the non-specialist, interweaving this information with a wealth of
original archival scholarship that experts will relish. The book
begins with a description of the instrument, and here Hoffmann
grapples with the complexity of various names applied to this and
related instruments. Following two chapters on the instrument's
construction and ancestry, the core of the book is given to a
historical and geographical survey of the instrument from its
origins into the classical period. The book closes with a look at
the revival of interest in the 19th and 20th centuries.
(Bass Instruction). Legendary jazz bassist Ray Brown reveals his
lessons and teaching philosophy in this in-depth book. Includes:
solo exercises and arpeggios; music fundamentals; right- and
left-hand positions; scales; chords; exercises in tenths; rhythm
patterns with "drops"; diminished chords; runs and variations;
blues patterns; extension scales; and much more.
A workshop guide to building Irish bouzoukis and citterns. In the
past forty years bouzoukis, citterns and octave mandolins have
become an essential part of acoustic music. The Bouzouki Book is
the first, and only, book to guides the reader through the steps to
build one of these fascinating stringed musical instruments. The
book includes nearly 200 colour and B&W illustrations as well
as plans for all major components.
The first detailed contextual study of chamber music in Beethoven's
Vienna, at a time when the string quartet reigned supreme among the
different chamber genres This book is the first detailed contextual
study of string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when that
genre reigned supreme among the different chamber genres. Focusing
on a key transition period in the early nineteenth century, which
bore witness to fundamental shifts in the 'private' sphere of
music-making, it explores the 'cultivation' of string quartets by
composers, critics, listeners, performers, publishers and patrons.
The book highlights these parties' interactions, ideas and ideals,
which were central to defining the unique cultures of chamber music
arising at this time. We gain fresh insights into publishing and
marketing, performance venues and practices, review culture,
listening theories and practices, and composition in early
nineteenth-century Vienna. Until now, the unique theatricality of
chamber music, and the 'social' nature of its discourse, has been
poorly appreciated. Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's
Vienna addresses this misconception and enriches our understanding
of this crucial period of change, in which concert life began and
previously 'private' music was moved out onto the stage. NANCY
NOVEMBER is Associate Professor in Musicology at the University of
Auckland.
Beethoven's middle-period quartets, Opp. 59, 74 and 95, are pieces
that engage deeply with the aesthetic ideas of their time. In the
first full contextual study of these works, Nancy November
celebrates their uniqueness, exploring their reception history and
early performance. In detailed analyses, she explores ways in which
the quartets have both reflected and shaped the very idea of
chamber music and offers a new historical understanding of the
works' physical, visual, social and ideological aspects. In the
process, November provides a fresh critique of three key paradigms
in current Beethoven studies: the focus on his late period; the
emphasis on 'heroic' style in discussions of the middle period; and
the idea of string quartets as 'pure', 'autonomous' artworks, cut
off from social moorings. Importantly, this study shows that the
quartets encompass a new lyric and theatrical impetus, which is an
essential part of their unique, explorative character.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 5 Cello syllabus
for 2020-2023, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C.
The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and
varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an
excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book
also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams,
useful syllabus information. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Cello Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloadsfor more details).
(Guitar Recorded Versions). 13 songs from the album Alice in Chains
Unplugged, including: Angry Chair * Brother * Down in a Hole *
Frogs * Got Me Wrong * Heaven Beside You * Killer Is Me * No
Excuses * Nutshell * Over Now * Rooster * Sludge Factory * Would?
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 5 Violin syllabus
for 2020-2023, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C.
The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and
varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an
excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book
also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams,
useful syllabus information. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Violin Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
Violins: Local Meanings, Globalized Sounds examines the violin as
an object of meaning in a variety of cultural and historical
contexts, and as a vehicle for introducing anthropological issues.
Each chapter highlights concepts as taught in lower-level
anthropology courses, and includes teaching and learning tools.
Chapters range from a memoir-like social biography of a single
instrument to explorations of violins in relation to technology,
labor, the environment, migration, globalization, childhood,
cultural understandings of talent and virtuosity, and prestige.
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