The Violin Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the CD to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and lyrics included in the book, you may also choose to sing along. Chord symbols are provided should you wish to elaborate on the melody. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! This volume includes the songs: Foggy Mountain Breakdown * Gold Rush * John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man * Orange Blossom Special * Panhandle Rag * Salty Dog Blues * Tennessee Waltz * You Don't Know My Mind.

(Fretted). Play your favorite Christmas songs Hawaiian style with expert uke player Chika Nagata. This book/CD pack includes 12 songs, each played 3 times: the first and third time with the melody, the second time without the melody so you can play or sing along with the rhythm-only track. Songs include: Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas to You) * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * Jingle Bells (with Hawaiian lyrics) * Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * Deck the Halls * Hark The Herald Angels Sing * Joy to the World * O Come, All Ye Faithful * Silent Night * Up on the Housetop * We Three Kings.

The Suzuki MethodA(R) of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that man is the son of his environment. According to Dr. Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the greatest joy an adult can know comes from developing a child's potential so he/she can express all that is harmonious and best in human beings. Students are taught using the "mother-tongue" approach. Suzuki Cello School materials include: Cello Parts (Vol. 1-10) * Piano Accompaniments (Vol. 1-8) * Cassettes (Vol. 1-3, 7, & 8 performed by Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Vol. 4-6 performed by Ron Leonard) * Compact Discs (Vol. 1-3, 7, & 8 performed by Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Vol. 4-6 performed by Ron Leonard). Suzuki MethodA(R) Core Materials available for piano, violin, viola, cello, string bass, flute, harp, guitar, and recorder.

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.

Basic Guitar Workout offers a condensed schedule of tips and advice which will let you maintain or improve your playing standard with the minimum of time and in such an entertaining way you won't know you are practising.

176 Tage verbrachte Wolfgang Amade Mozart in der kurpfalzischen Residenz Mannheim. Von den insgesamt vier Aufenthalten war der zwischen November 1777 und Marz 1778 der langste und fur sein weiteres Leben zugleich entscheidende. Ohne Vater Leopold, der von Salzburg aus die Geschicke seines Sohnes zu lenken versuchte, fand der damals gerade 21jahrige in Begleitung seiner Mutter Maria Anna rasch Anschluss an den Hof des Kurfursten Carl Theodor sowie zu den Musikern der Hofkapelle und deren Familien. Doch die ersehnte Anstellung als Kapellmeister und Compositeur zerschlug sich. Auch die Liebe zu Aloysia Weber, einer 16jahrigen talentierten Sangerin, zerbrach; Mozart heiratete spater in Wien deren Schwester Konstanze. Mannheim - eine Kette von Enttauschungen, von begrabenen Hoffnungen, von Niederlagen? Gewiss! Doch Mozart wuchs an ihnen und durch sie als Mensch, als Kunstler und als Komponist: notwendige Stationen des Reifens und des Erwachsenwerdens fur ein zukunftiges musikalisches Genie. Der Tagungsband versammelt Beitrage zu Kunst und Kultur des Hofes und seines beruhmten Orchesters, zu Analyse, Deutung und Auffuhrungspraxis der in Mannheim entstandenen Werke, zur Korrespondenz als wesentliche musikhistorische Quelle des Aufenthaltes, zur kompositorischen Rezeption sowie zwei Aufsatze zu Mozarts Prager Beziehungen.

While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbott Ferriss's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form. Since then he has worked to understand how this collection came to exist and be set aside. With Stephen T. Austin, Bolick has transcribed the subsequent 1939 audio recordings. Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s presents the history of the collecting work, with over three hundred of the tunes and songs and a beautiful selection of period photographs. In the summer of 1936, over one hundred fiddle tunes, many of them unique, along with thousands of songs, were collected and notated throughout a large part of Mississippi. Roughly 130 novice field workers captured beautiful tunes and tantalizing fragments. As a body of work, it is an unparalleled and fascinating snapshot of vernacular music as heard in Mississippi in the early part of the recorded era. However, this music was unpublished and forgotten. In 1939, building on the contacts made three years earlier, Herbert Halpert led one of the last and best executed of the WPA folklore projects which recorded audio performances in Mississippi. Some, but not all, of those distinctive fiddle tune recordings have been published. Additionally through cassette tape copies passed hand to hand, some of these distinctive tunes have regained currency and popularity among contemporary fiddlers. In Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s, this great music is at last widely available.

J. S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin have been central to the violin repertoire since the mid-eighteenth century. This engaging volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the place of these works within Bach's music: it focuses on their structural and stylistic features as they have been perceived since their creation. Joel Lester, a highly regarded scholar, teacher, violinist, and administrator, combines an analytical study, a full historical guide, and an insightful introduction to Bach's style. Individual movements are related to comparable movements by Bach in other media and are differentiated from superficially similar works from later eras.

Lester employs descriptions of historical and contemporary recordings, as well as accounts of nineteenth-century performances and commentaries on historical editions, to explore these works as they evolved through the centuries. Wherever possible, he uses analytic tools culled from eighteenth-century ideas, key notions originally developed for the specific purpose of describing the repertoire under consideration. Beginning with an overview of the solo violin music's place within Bach's oeuvre, this study takes the Sonata No. 1 in G minor as the paradigm of Bach's compositional strategy, examining each movement in detail before enlarging the discussion to cover parallel and contrasting features of the A-minor and C-minor sonatas. Next, a chapter is devoted to the three partitas and their roots in various dance-music traditions. The book concludes with a summary of form, style, and rhetoric in Bach's music, in which Lester muses on these masterpieces with an overall command of the music, criticism, and history of the 1700s that is quite rare among scholars.

A novel and unprecedented investigation of a particular portion of Bach's accomplishment and a particular aspect of his universal appeal, Bach's Works for Solo Violin will help violinists, students, scholars, and other listeners develop a deeper personal involvement with these wonderful pieces.

Witty and practical, this book is for amateur string instrument players who want to play quartets and other forms of chamber music. It covers everything. The long chapter discussing the ?literature? is exceptionally valuable.

The Original Guitar Case Chord Book has long been considered the essential reference for guitarists. Now the Silver Anniversary Edition includes a specially recorded, full-length audio CD.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Straight-from-the-record transcriptions with tab for 11 of the best from these album rockers: The Best of Times * Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) * Come Sail Away * Crystal Ball * The Grand Illusion * Lorelei * Mademoiselle * Miss America * Renegade * Rockin' the Paradise * Suite Madame Blue.

(Guitar Method). This value-priced pack contains everything a beginning electric or acoustic guitarist needs to get started It includes the Second Edition of the Level 1 book/CD pack in the world-famous Hal Leonard Guitar Method, as well as the method's correlating DVD.

This handbook provides a historical account of the development of the violin, viola and their close relatives as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. It aims to help performers to play in a historically appropriate style and to guide listeners toward a clearer understanding of the issues that affected string performance during this series' core period (c.1700-c.1900). Its six detailed case studies, which include Bach and Beethoven, will assist readers in forging well-grounded, period interpretations of major works from the repertory.

Throughout its history the violin has had a mystique with many curious beliefs. This book, now available in paperback, offers an explanation, without assuming any scientific background, of how a violin produces sound, and of how that sound causes what we hear. This explodes many of the long-standing myths. It also shows there is no place for modern technology in making or playing. Practical advice for players and parents is included.

The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world. It features in music as diverse as heavy metal, blues, indie and flamenco, as well as Indian classical music, village music making in Papua New Guinea and carnival in Brazil. This cross-cultural popularity makes it a unique starting point for understanding social interaction and cultural identity. Guitar music can be sexy, soothing, melancholy or manic, but it nearly always brings people together and creates a common ground even if this common ground is often the site of intense social, cultural, economic and political negotiation and contest.This book explores how people use guitars and guitar music in various nations across the world as a musical and symbolic basis for creating identities. In a world where place and space are challenged by the pace of globalization, the guitar provides images, sounds and styles that help define new cultural territories. Guitars play a crucial part in shaping the commercial music industry, educational music programmes, and local community atmosphere. Live or recorded, guitar music and performance, collecting and manufacture sustains a network of varied social exchanges that constitute a distinct cultural milieu.Representing the first sustained analysis of what the guitar means to artists and audiences world-wide, this book demonstrates that this seemingly simple material artefact resonates with meaning as well as music.

(Essential Elements String Folio). A collection of popular movie songs which can be played by the entire string group or by individual soloists with optional CD accompaniment. Each song is correlated with a specific level in the Essential Elements Method Books. Includes: Chariots of Fire * Apollo 13 * Theme from E.T. * Forrest Gump Theme * The John Dunbar Theme * Jurassic Park * The Man from Snowy River * Mission: Impossible Theme * Raiders March * Somewhere Out There * Star Trek The Motion Picture.

This volume is an introduction to cello playing by an outstanding recitalist, soloist and teacher of international repute whose natural wish - as a teacher - would be to sing, play and demonstrate what he means. Devoted pupil, Nona Pyron, herself a figure of some authority in the world of the cello, has guided and marshalled William Pleeth's brilliantly perceptive advice - based on his lifetime's playing and teaching - into the confines of this valuable book.

This book examines two notable forms of chamber music involving piano and strings. Smallman surveys the development of these genres from their origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.