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This collection features a selection of classical pieces by the
world's most renowned composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, George
Frideric Handel, Johannes Pachelbel, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Johannes
Brahms, Johann Strauss, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Edvard
Grieg and Edward Elgar. For the beginnner Trumpet & Piano
player. Includes: 1812 Overture A Little Night Music The Blue
Danube Bridal Chorus Canon in D Dance of the Flowers Greensleeves
In the Hall of the Mountain King Jesu, Joy Of Man Desiring La Donna
e Mobile Land of Hope and Glory Lullaby Ode to Joy Spring - Four
Seasons Water Music
A musical and highly systematic method for trumpet players who want
to improve their all-round game. This method covers all areas of
techniques for trumpet. No matter how good you are or the style of
music you play, you can and will benefit from an improved
technique. This book is a compilation of all four volumes in the
"Improve Your Game" series for Trumpet.
Paul Harris's Basics Series is widely regarded as the leading
method for beginner players and their teachers. Clarinet Basics
Teacher's book contains piano and clarinet accompaniments for the
pieces in Clarinet Basics Pupil's book along with a general
introduction and guidance for teachers. Starting at beginner level
and progressing to Grade 2, this edition offers a fresh design,
clear technical drawings, and includes all of the great tunes
featured in the original Clarinet Basics, as well as: * a wide
range of repertoire, including original pieces and well-loved
favourites from every genre * warm ups and fun original exercises *
invaluable fact files, quizzes and technical advice covering
notation, general musicianship and care of the instrument * helpful
fingering diagrams and rhythm boxes * duets throughout - ideal for
group teaching * pull-out fingering chart to pin on your wall
This collection features a selection of classical pieces by the
world's most renowned composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, George
Frideric Handel, Johannes Pachelbel, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Johannes
Brahms, Johann Strauss, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Edvard
Grieg and Edward Elgar. For the beginnner Trombone & Piano
player. Includes: 1812 Overture A Little Night Music The Blue
Danube Bridal Chorus Canon in D Dance of the Flowers Greensleeves
In the Hall of the Mountain King Jesu, Joy Of Man Desiring La Donna
e Mobile Land of Hope and Glory Lullaby Ode to Joy Spring - Four
Seasons Water Music
This collection features a selection of classical pieces by the
world's most renowned composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, George
Frideric Handel, Johannes Pachelbel, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Johannes
Brahms, Johann Strauss, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Edvard
Grieg and Edward Elgar. For the beginnner
Alto/Baritone/Tenor/Soprano Saxophone player. Includes: 1812
Overture A Little Night Music The Blue Danube Bridal Chorus Canon
in D Dance of the Flowers Greensleeves In the Hall of the Mountain
King Jesu, Joy Of Man Desiring La Donna e Mobile Land of Hope and
Glory Lullaby Ode to Joy Spring - Four Seasons Water Music
This collection features a selection of classical pieces by the
world's most renowned composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, George
Frideric Handel, Johannes Pachelbel, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Johannes
Brahms, Johann Strauss, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Edvard
Grieg and Edward Elgar. For the beginnner Clarinet & Piano
player. Includes: 1812 Overture A Little Night Music The Blue
Danube Bridal Chorus Canon in D Dance of the Flowers Greensleeves
In the Hall of the Mountain King Jesu, Joy Of Man Desiring La Donna
e Mobile Land of Hope and Glory Lullaby Ode to Joy Spring - Four
Seasons Water Music
This collection features a selection of classical pieces by the
world's most renowned composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, George
Frideric Handel, Johannes Pachelbel, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Johannes
Brahms, Johann Strauss, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Edvard
Grieg and Edward Elgar. For the beginnner Flute & Piano player.
Includes: 1812 Overture A Little Night Music The Blue Danube Bridal
Chorus Canon in D Dance of the Flowers Greensleeves In the Hall of
the Mountain King Jesu, Joy Of Man Desiring La Donna e Mobile Land
of Hope and Glory Lullaby Ode to Joy Spring - Four Seasons Water
Music
Fergus McWilliam has been a member of the Berlin Philharmonic since
1985 and was a founding member of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind
Quintet in 1988. He has spent the last twenty years touring the
world with the Berlin Philharmonic and has made over a dozen
recordings with his ensemble. Durng his career, he has performed
with many of the major conductors of our times, including Herbert
von Karajan, Claudio Ababado, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Bernstein,
Carlos Kleiber, Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Daniel
Barenboim and more. In addition, McWilliam also founded the Horns
of Berlin Philharmonic and has helped re-establish the Winds of
Berlin Philharmonic. His solo and chamber music activities continue
to take him throughout Europe, the Americas and the Far East.
Fergus McWilliam is also an internationally esteemed and
sought-after teacher. He continues to give master classes at
leading music schools in many countries, including the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra Academy, the Hans-Eisler Musikhochschule in
Berlin, the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School in
London, the Paris Conservatoire, the Tokyo University of Fine Arts,
the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, the
Venezuela Youth Music programme and more. Blow your OWN Horn is
Fergus McWilliams 'take' on horn playing and more generally on
music education.Written in a very spirited style, the book covers
all aspects of playing and the profession, including, practical
elements such as: auditions, embouchure, breathing, exercises. In
addition, McWilliam explores topics such as: mind games, attitude,
strategies, relativity, under pressure, why do we need teachers and
much more Fergus McWilliam was born in Scotland and grew up in
Toronto. He currently resides in Berlin. Blow your OWN Horn is
indispensible for anyone who has a fascination with the musical
world, both professionals and amateurs.
The first English language book to focus on these traditional free
reed wind instruments from Southwestern China, providing complete
instruction for the absolute beginner. Includes background of the
bawu and hulusi, advice on buying an instrument, basic and
not-so-basic playing techniques, some familiar Western tunes to
help you find your way around your instrument, a dozen traditional
Chinese melodies, advice on care and maintenance, how to read
JianPu (Chinese musical notation), fingering charts, recommended
listening and more. .mp3 files of all the musical examples in the
book are available for free download from the author's web site.
Fifty for Flute is a collection of progressive studies in two
volumes for unaccompanied flute. Carefully written to explore
different aspects of the flautist's technique through the grades,
these attractive and well-crafted studies also contain a mix of
articulations, speeds, time signatures and rhythms to provide
original and varied study repertoire for teacher and pupil. All
fifty studies have their own individual character and mood,
indicated by the titles that head each piece. Pupils will enjoy the
good-humoured (but very easy) syncopations of 'Bouncy flute', the
thrill of the big top in 'Circus flute' and the wicked Offenbach
parody in 'Comical flute'.
The exercises in this book are designed to help students learn the
scales, articulations, technic, and style necessary to play in the
jazz idiom, particularly in the Big Band or swing styles.
Volume 1 of "Personal Trainer" is the first book in a training
program offering musical workouts and enrichment activities for
piano students of many ages and skill levels. The overall structure
consists of five books, each containing four sections dealing with
specific issues. These four sections are entitled:
Explorations Eye-So-Metrics Foundations Repertoire
The authors believe the development of technique, sight playing
and analytical skills are part of an integrated approach to total
musicianship; all are stepping-stones to aesthetic expression and
musical understanding. They want their students to feel comfortable
as they learn to hear what they see, see what they hear, and grow
in their understanding of the building blocks of music. Those,
simply stated, are fundamental goals of "Personal Trainer."
This book was created to work well by itself. It works even better
when used with "Home Concert Xtreme," an interactive software
environment for learning, practicing, and performing music.
The soloist in the premiere performance in Vienna of Beethoven's
monumental "Emperor Concerto," Carl Czerny, was a prolific composer
but is today only remembered for the exercises and etudes that he
composed for piano students. He studied under such masters as Muzio
Clementi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Antonio Salieri, and Ludwig van
Beethoven.
Now one does not always love Czerny studies, for they can be
rather long and repetitive-and taxing. However, early in the
author's training he came to understand the value of such study.
During that early training he worked exclusively in a volume
entitled "160 Eight-Measure Exercises" (op. 183). This was a wise
choice on the part of his mentor because these particular etudes
are short and succinct-and absolutely charming and beautiful. From
that collection of 160 etudes he has chosen twenty of his special
favorites.
The road to developing technical skill involves a considerable
amount of repetition. It can be lonely and a bit wearisome. With
this in mind, the author added a second piano part for each of the
twenty studies. A teacher or another student may play these on a
second piano or you may make use of the MIDI files that you can
easily obtain.
Professor Sheftel is a member of the faculty of The Juilliard
School. He has served on the faculties of the Mannes College of
Music, The Manhattan School of Music, and Hunter College.
Paul Sheftel has performed in most of the capitols of Europe and
throughout the United States. In New York City alone he has
performed in most of the noted performing venues including Carnegie
Hall, Alice Tully, Town, and Merkin Concert Halls.
William Vacchiano (1912-2005) was principal trumpet with the New
York Philharmonic from 1942 to 1973, and taught at Juilliard, the
Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes College of Music, Queens
College, and Columbia Teachers College. While at the Philharmonic,
Vacchiano performed under the batons of Arturo Toscanini, Bruno
Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Leonard Bernstein and played in
the world premieres of almost 200 pieces by such composers as
Vaughan Williams, Copland, and Barber. Vacchiano was important not
only for his performances, but also for his teaching. His students
have held the principal chairs of many major orchestras and are
prominent teachers themselves, and they have enriched non-classical
music as well. Two of his better known students are Miles Davis and
Wynton Marsalis.
"Last Stop, Carnegie Hall "features an overview of the life of this
very private artist, based on several personal interviews conducted
by Brian A. Shook and Vacchiano's notes for his own unpublished
memoir. Shook also interviewed many of his students and colleagues
and includes a chapter containing their recollections. Other
important topics include analyses of Vacchiano's pedagogical
methods and his interpretations of important trumpet pieces, his
"rules of orchestral performance," and his equipment. A
discography, a bibliography of Vacchiano's own works, and lists of
his students and the conductors and players with whom he performed
round out this richly illustrated examination of one of the most
influential trumpet players and teachers of the twentieth century.
Choice Magazine (a major library review magazine): "After an
introductory section on the history of the piano, particularly as
reflected in and influenced by works of the major composers for the
instrument, this interesting and informative book describes various
compositional "schools," from Austro-German, French, and Italian
through English, American, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, and others.
This section constitutes a brief course in music history beginning
with the Renaissance. ... The body of the work consists of
historical and stylistic sketches of 17 composers, with brief
remarks about several works of each, and lists of selected works,
ending with a complete work or movement. These sketches are
exceptionally well written, assuming an intelligent reader, and
convey a great deal of information concisely.... this book contains
much well-organized and useful material. For libraries serving
serious amateur pianists, high school upward. ******************
Booklist (The book review magazine of the American Library
Association): This authoritative volume will make a solid addition
to the public library music collection. After offering a brief
opening chapter on the evolution of the piano as instrument and the
changing styles of technique, author Pat Hammond provides
opinionated but well-reasoned analyses of the works of the major
piano composers, with focus on the Baroque era (Bach and Handel),
the Classical age (Haydn, Mozart Beethoven), Romanticism (Schubert,
Chopin Liszt, and others), Impressionism (Debussy) and Modernism
(Bartok). This book's unique feature is its inclusion of musical
examples of each composer's work, which are meant to be played as
one reads along. Pertinent biographical material is also featured
for the great masters. Appendixes include a suggested
twentieth-century piano repertoire and a bibliography. Piano music
- Bibliography ******************* Clavier Magazine "Compiled and
annotated by Patricia Fallows-Hammond. Suitable as a reference
source, this handbook supplies concise biographical and stylistic
sketches of composers and annotation of selected compositions. ...
Fallows-Hammond has a knack for setting and maintaining an
appropriate level of sophistication. Writing in a crisp, direct
style, she steers the student toward complicated subjects and gives
them a palpable hold on them. To explain the concept of the
concerto grosso, for example, she explains that, "In Handel's time,
Concerto Crosso meant a small group of instruments playing in
contrast to a larger body of strings." Her synopsis of the
development of sonata form is equally apt....Commentary on the
composers is well-researched and written at a uniform level of
detail that will make it useful to a wide
audience....Fallows-Hammond does a good job of compiling accurate
information on the composers she has chosen. If the contents of the
book serve your purposes, you will find this handbook a handy
reference source. " **************** The American Organist "The
author has created a self-instruction course which gives
information about the evolution of the piano and changing styles in
piano technique, and then discusses topics with emphasis on special
composers: ..... Piano students seeking background information will
profit from this book. Recommended for public libraries."
******************** Keyboard Magazine "Patricia Fallow-Hammond's
302 page study embraces the proposition that historical context is
an important, and frequently neglected, element in building an
understanding of classical repertoire. .... she has assembled a
fairly basic catalogue of keyboard works, arranged chronologically
by composer, and preceded each list with a short biography relating
milestones from each composer's life. ....... Her decision to
further enlighten the reader with short samples of their handiwork
is a happy extra addition. Her efficiency at summarizing and
packaging that line is what makes her debut in print a success."
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