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Features step by step pictures that take you from the first day
exercises to playing along with a backing track. Designed to tell
you what you need to know, this book uses pictures instead of long
explanations. It also includes CD audio tracks to show you how
things should sound, and full length accompaniment tracks to play
along with.
This exciting new series by the authors of Fiddle Time, Viola Time,
and Cello Time provides great new ensemble material for all string
groups, whatever their size. String Time Joggers is a must-have for
all those looking for imaginative and enjoyable ensemble
repertoire.
"'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: He could not
make Antonio Stradivari's violins without Antonio."
-George Eliot
Antonio Stradivari (1644--1737) was a perfectionist whose
single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In
the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of
Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments;
approximately six hundred survive. In this fascinating book, Toby
Faber traces the rich, multilayered stories of six of these
peerless instruments-five violins and a cello-and the one towering
artist who brought them into being.
Blending history, biography, meticulous detective work, and an
abiding passion for music, Faber embarks on an absorbing journey as
he follows some of the most prized instruments of all time.
Mysteries and unanswered questions proliferate from the
outset-starting with the enigma of Antonio Stradivari himself. What
made this apparently unsophisticated craftsman so special? Why were
his techniques not maintained by his successors? How is it that
even two and a half centuries after his death, no one has succeeded
in matching the purity, depth, and delicacy of a Stradivarius?
In Faber's illuminating narrative, each of the six fabled
instruments becomes a character in its own right-a living entity
cherished by artists, bought and sold by princes and plutocrats,
coveted, collected, hidden, lost, copied, and occasionally played
by a musician whose skill matches its maker's.
Here is the fabulous Viotti, named for the virtuoso who enchanted
all Paris in the 1780s, only to fall foul of the French Revolution.
Paganini supposedly made a pact with the devil to transform the art
ofthe violin-and by the end of his life he owned eleven Strads.
Then there's the Davidov cello, fashioned in 1712 and lovingly
handed down through a succession of celebrated artists until, in
the 1980s, it passed into the capable hands of Yo-Yo Ma.
From the salons of Vienna to the concert halls of New York, from
the breakthroughs of Beethoven's last quartets to the first
phonographic recordings, Faber unfolds a narrative magnificent in
its range and brilliant in its detail. "A great violin is alive,"
said Yehudi Menuhin of his own Stradivarius. In the pages of this
book, Faber invites us to share the life, the passion, the
intrigue, and the incomparable beauty of the world's most marvelous
stringed instruments.
"From the Hardcover edition.
Now you can be the featured artist on and play along to six classic
Peter Green tracks! In Session With Peter Green contains
note-for-note transcriptions in standard notation and guitar tab,
with lyrics and chord symbols. There is a breakdown and analysis of
each solo, containing essential hints and tips as well as
biographical notes on the music and a full discography. The CD
contains full demonstration tracks of all the featured songs, full
backing tracks of all the songs for you to join in with and the
solo demonstrated in full and slowed down versions. There is also a
backing track for the solo slowed down to practise along with.
Beginning with basic left- and right-hand techniques, Dennis
Caplinger guides you through developing great backup parts and
playing all over the neck. You'll study over 20 classic bluegrass
standards and you'll learn how to play them in several different
styles. All books in the Ultimate Beginner Bluegrass Basics Series
are fully correlated with each other. This is the ideal method for
the family that wants to play music together!
Practice material for candidates preparing for ABRSM Harp exams.
The tests, for pedal and non-pedal players, explore different keys,
styles and tempi and are representative of the technical levels
expected in each exam.
(Music Sales America). Russian Fantasia No. 2 in D Minor by Leo
Portnoff for violin with piano accompaniment.
Prolific guitar-writer Jamie Humphries offers a complete 8-week
crash course of "speed chapters" in the electric guitar. Featuring
two CDs packed with demonstrations and examples, this volume starts
at the very beginning with your first chords and rhythms. You will
then tackle blues shapes and your first soloing ideas, expand your
chordal vocabulary, and learn a library of scales and exactly how
to apply them. Each chapter features a brief goal summary, a core
lesson, and ends with a test to assess your progression. Get off
the ground fast with this innovative approach to guitar study!
The definitive collection of songs by the greatest names in
country. 90 songs, all arranged for acoustic guitar including full
lyrics, chord symbols, guitar boxes and playing guide.
Orchestra Expressionsa[ provides music educators at all levels with
easy-to-use, exciting tools to meet daily classroom challenges and
bring new vibrancy and depth to teaching music. The lessons were
written based on the National Standards for the Arts in Music --
not retro-fitted to the Standards. The program is music
literacy-based and satisfies reading and writing mandates in
orchestra class.
Unique Features of Orchestra Expressionsa[:
* "Four-fingers-down" start for every instrument
* Separate but simultaneous development of both hands
* Bass begins in III position developing early shifting
* Orchestra arrangements by Sandra Dackow
* Final full orchestra concert piece
Arranged for guitar tablature and standard notation with complete
lyrics and chord symbols. Songs include: Wildest Dream, Rainmaker,
No More Lies, Dance of Death, Gates of Tomorrow, Journeyman and
many more.
Titles: Largo and Allegro from the Sonata in G minor (H. Eccles) *
Bourr?es from the Suite in C Major, BWV 1009 (J.S. Bach) * Gavotte,
Op. 23, No. 2 (D. Popper) * Sicilienne (M.T. von Paradis).
This title is available in SmartMusic.
Titles: Sonata in G Major (Allegro, Grave, Vivace) (G.B.
Sammartini) * Allegro Appassionato, Op. 43 (C. Saint-Sa?ns) *
?legi? (G. Faur?) * Scherzo (D. van Goens).
This title is available in SmartMusic.
Acoustic classics arranged for guitar and voice.
Yehudi Menuhin shares with the reader his unique store of
understanding about the violin, about how to exercise and practise,
about the techniques of performance. His reflections on the nature
and scope of his instrument are profoundly illuminating and his
theories on interpretation particularly valuable. A section on the
violinist as teacher/student contains a fascinating transcript of a
lesson with Yehudi Menuhin, who also writes separately about the
violinist as orchestral player, leader, chamber music player,
recitalist and soloist. William Primrose writes the distinguished
monograph on the viola and describes the instrument as 'a violin
with a college education'. He was an acknowledged technical master
of the viola who, along with Lionel Tertis, was one of the finest
exponents of this beautiful instrument of the 20th century. Denis
Stevens, the British musicologist and specialist in early music,
provides and interesting chapter on the history of the violin and
looks in detail at the monumental challenge that is Bach's Six
Solos for Violin without Bass Accompaniment better known as the
Sonatas and Partitas for Violin.
Arranged for guitar tablature and standard notation including
lyrics and chord symbols.
The original guitar case chord reference book just got better! Each
diagram is now in full colour and we've added a full colour photo
to show you exactly how to position your fingers. The diagrams also
colour-code the finger positions within each chord. Suitable for
all standard tuned guitars. Chords are logically grouped by key.
Slips easily into your guitar case.
Full lyrics for 70 rock classics complete with chord symbols and
guitar boxes.
(Guitar Educational). This handy booklet includes 120 of the most
commonly used chords, as well as information on chord theory and
easy-reference diagrams.
This volume offers the complete collection of of Stone Roses songs
and includes lyrics, chord symbols, guitar boxes and playing guide.
Songs include: "Fools Gold", "I Am The Resurrection", "The Bangs
the Drums", "Ten Storey Love", "I Wanna Be Adored", "Sally
Cinnamon", "Waterfall", "Love Spreads", "Made of Stone", and What
The World is Waiting For".
String Methods for Beginners is designed for students to receive
the essential playing and teaching skills on all orchestral string
instruments. The goal of this textbook is to be truly methodical in
its approach, and to assist the instructor, completely eliminating
the need to do additional research, or reorganization in
preparation to teach this class. Students will gain the basic
knowledge and experience to teach bowed stringed instruments in
public schools. String Methods for Beginners covers the necessary
topics to learn and teach the violin, viola, cello, and string
bass. It explores the fundamentals of those instruments and
teaching considerations, utilizing a heterogeneous approach. As the
primary resource to any college- and university-level String
Techniques, String Methods, or Instrumental Methods class, this
course book fits into a standard semester, comprised of 25 lessons,
which correspond with two hourly classes per week for the term. It
provides the instructor with the tools to teach a classroom of
non-majors or string education majors, or a mixed classroom of
both. FEATURES Offers a blueprint for a semester long string
methods course. For beginning students, and also comprehensive for
more in-depth study or for reference. Logical, step-by-step
"recipe-like" approach.
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