Join the superhero world of Lang Lang and come on a piano adventure with The Lang Lang Piano Method Level 5. Level 5 progresses with the following: extending technique, rhythms and keys through progressive repertoire featuring fun original pieces, classic themes and evocative world tunes. The five progressive books in The Lang Lang Piano Method provide a unique and imaginative way for complete beginners to learn the piano with the world's most successful concert pianist, Lang Lang. There's plenty to play all around the keyboard right from the start. Fun, imaginative pieces develop the left and right hands equally and supporting audio features exclusive performances by Lang Lang of the concert pieces. Musicianship is developed through theory pages and listening to exclusive performances by Lang Lang of piano classics for children. "I've written The Lang Lang Piano Method to inspire today's kids with my passion for the piano." Lang Lang

Now the best-selling band method is even better! The same great method that directors have come to trust now includes a CD AND a DVD. Features include: * BOOK: Same great Essential Elements 2000 method! * CD/CD-ROM FEATURES: Play-Along Tracks 1-58 (with a professional player for every instrument) * DVD FEATURES: Startup Video (learn the basics - 15 min.); ALL 185 Play-Along Tracks; More Duets and Trios; Music Listening Library * CD AND DVD EACH FEATURE: SmartMusic Software (practice, record, and e-mail a performance, plus on-screen assessment - includes Ex. 1-99 with special offer to continue); Finale NotePad Software; Tempo Adjustment Software (for Play-Along Tracks)

Leavitt's practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for Berklee's guitar program. After mastering the fundamentals from Volumes 1 and 2, guitarists will be ready to take their skills to a more challenging level. This book teaches: techniques relating to scales, arpeggios, rhythm guitar, chord/scale relationships, chord construction and voicings, tips for advanced playing, and more.

This is the ideal guide for those who wish to get to grips with music to a greater depth, to learn to play faster, more complicated scores, to compose and arrange music - the possibilities are endless. This guide provides everything you need to know, explaining pitch, the treble clef, the bass clef, rhythm, accidentals, key signatures, scales and chords, along with a compendium of additional information. Then practise what you have learnt with the 'Play Along' sections containing simple, well-known examples of music, from 'Scarborough Fair' to 'Jerusalem'. With helpful diagrams, clear accessible text and a practical ringbound format.

Use this especially with students who serve as vocal, choral and instrumental accompanists! The three central sections are preceded by choral studies and chorales for practice in 4-part reading. The accompaniment section includes 9 popular vocal and instrumental solos; score-reading is practiced from accompanied SATB works, orchestral and string quartet scores; transposition of the most familiar symphonies. An important course of study for any piano student!

This practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for Berklee's guitar program. Volume 2 is an intermediate-level book that continues and builds upon the study of melody, scales, arpeggios and chords, covering the entire fingerboard. Also covers: intervals, chord voicings, improvisation, rhythm guitar techniques, and play-along duets.

String SoloFor unaccompanied viola.

(Willis). A comprehensive step-by-step course specifically designed to suit the needs of all children beginning the piano. Includes: characters and illustrations * writing exercises * sight reading drills * review work * accompaniments * and more.

"For one semester/quarter courses in woodwind methods." "Teaching Woodwinds" has draws on the authors thirty-five years of experience teaching woodwinds to students. Organized by specific teach topics from the fundamentals of hand and finger position to articulation and intonation. Drawing on a classic set of 19th century teacher/student duets, the included twenty-five class lessons enable students to learn by doing and by listening as they play duets with the instructor.

Radio Production is for professionals and students interested in understanding the radio industry in today’s ever-changing world. This book features up-to-date coverage of the purpose and use of radio with detailed coverage of current production techniques in the studio and on location. In addition there is exploration of technological advances, including handheld digital recording devices, the use of digital, analogue and virtual mixing desks and current methods of music storage and playback. Within a global context, the sixth edition also explores American radio by providing an overview of the rules, regulations, and purpose of the Federal Communications Commission.

The sixth edition includes:

Updated material on new digital recording methods, and the development of outside broadcast techniques, including Smartphone use.

The use of social media as news sources, and an expansion of the station’s presence.

Global government regulation and journalistic codes of practice.

Comprehensive advice on interviewing, phone-ins, news, radio drama, music, and scheduling.

This edition is further enhanced by a companion website, featuring examples, exercises, and resources: www.focalpress.com/cw/mcleish.

Table of Contents

Preface

Characteristics of the medium

The radio studio

Using the Internet and Social Media

Ethics

Writing for the ear

News – policy and practice

Interviewing

Vox pop

Cues and links

Newsreading and presentation

The discussion

Phone-ins

Listener participation

Music programming

Sequences and magazines

Making commercials

Outside broadcasts (remotes)

Commentary

Music recording

Drama – principles

Documentary and feature programmes

The work of the producer

The executive producer

Programme evaluation

Training

Back-announcement

Glossary

Further reading – a selection

Index

Written by an experienced and diverse lineup of veteran jazz educators, Teaching School Jazz presents a comprehensive approach to teaching beginning through high school-level jazz. Thoroughly grounded in the latest research, chapters are supported by case studies woven into the narrative. The book therefore provides not only a wealth of school jazz teaching strategies but also the perspectives and principles from which they are derived. The book opens with a philosophical foundation to describe the current landscape of school jazz education. Readers are introduced to two expert school jazz educators who offer differing perspectives on the subject. The book concludes with an appendix of recommended audio, visual, digital, and written resources for teaching jazz. Accompanied by a website of playing exercises and audio examples, the book is invaluable resource for pre- and in-service music educators with no prior jazz experience, as well as those who wish to expand their knowledge of jazz performance practice and pedagogy.

Collegiate a cappella, part of a long tradition of unaccompanied singing, is known to date back on American college campuses to at least the colonial era. Considered in the context of college glee clubs, barbershop quartets, early-twentieth-century vocal pop groups, doo-wop groups, and late-twentieth-century a cappella manifestations in pop music, collegiate a cappella is an extension of a very old tradition of close harmony singing-one that includes but also goes beyond the founding of the Yale Whiffenpoofs. Yet despite this important history, collegiate a cappella has until now never been the subject of scholarly examination. In Powerful Voices: The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella, Joshua S. Duchan offers the first thorough accounting of the music's history and reveals how the critical issues of sociability, gender, performance, and technology affect its music and experience. Just as importantly, Duchan provides a vital contribution to music scholarship more broadly, in several important ways: by expanding the small body of literature on choruses and amateur music; by addressing musical and social processes in a field where the vast majority of scholarship focuses on individuals and their products; and by highlighting a musical context long neglected by musicologists-the college campus. Ultimately, Powerful Voices is a window on a world of amateur music that has begun to expand its reach internationally, carrying this uniquely American musical form to new global audiences, while playing an important role in the social, cultural, and musical education of countless singers over the last century.

For many beginning-to-intermediate level guitarists, guitar tunings are a mystery. Everyone begins with "standard" tuning and knows its basic strengths - and limitations. But, once a guitarist gets beyond basic skills, the desire to play in different styles and achieve individual sounds leads inevitably to exploring alternate tunings. Guitar Tunings: AComprehensive Guide is the first book to offer practical advice for how to use the most common special tunings for the greatest creative and musical effect. Illustrated throughout with examples in standard notation and guitar tablature, the author introduces different musical styles through the use of appropriate tunings. Including downloadable resources, this book gives clear and concise instruction for the guitarist who has mastered basic skills but wants to go beyond them. It will appeal to guitar students of all ages, and can be used for individual self-instruction or in one-on-one or group teaching situations. In short, Guitar Tunings: A Comprehensive Guide offers a comprehensive approach for all guitarists to enhance their playing skills and creative music making. Also includes 75 musical examples.

Practical Recording Techniques covers all aspects of recording, perfect for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts. Filled with tips and shortcuts, this hands-on, practical guide gives advice on equipping a home studio (whether low-budget or advanced) and suggestions for set-up, acoustics, effects, choosing mics and monitor speakers, and preventing hum. This best-selling guide also instructs how to mike instruments and vocals, judge recordings and improve them, work with MIDI and loops, do mastering, and put your music on the web. Two chapters cover live recording of classical and popular music.

New in the seventh edition:

Complete update of all types of recording equipment, plug-ins, and recording software

Increased focus on current industry and classroom trends like DAW signal flow and operation (during recording and mixdown), while still covering analog fundamentals

Updated organization to focus and break up topics

Updated tips on optimizing your computer for multitrack recording – for both Windows and Mac

New sections on streaming audio, mobile-device recording, live recording with digital consoles, and psychoacoustics

Listen Online boxes highlight where audio samples on the website relate to chapter discussions

Updated companion website with audio examples, articles, and suggested activities, plus expanded and more user-friendly links to the best sites for videos and articles, recording techniques, equipment, and other learning resources. Instructors can download figures from the book, the audio files, and a test bank

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1: A Basic Overview of the Recording Process

CHAPTER 2: Sound and Psychoacoustics

CHAPTER 3: Studio Acoustics

CHAPTER 4: Signal Characteristics of Audio Devices

CHAPTER 5: Equipping Your Studio

CHAPTER 6: Monitoring

CHAPTER 7: Microphones

CHAPTER 8: Microphone Technique Basics

CHAPTER 9: Microphone Techniques for Instruments and Vocals

CHAPTER 10: Equalization (EQ)

CHAPTER 11: Effects and Signal Processors

CHAPTER 12: Mixers and Mixing Consoles

CHAPTER 13: Digital Audio

CHAPTER 14: Computer Recording

CHAPTER 15: DAW Signal Flow

CHAPTER 16: DAW Operation

CHAPTER 17: Judging Sound Quality with Critical Listening

CHAPTER 18: MIDI and Loops

CHAPTER 19: Session Procedures

CHAPTER 20: Mastering and CD Burning

CHAPTER 21: On-Location Recording of Popular Music

CHAPTER 22: On-Location Recording of Classical Music

CHAPTER 23: Web Audio, Streaming, and Online Collaboration

APPENDIX A: dB or Not dB

APPENDIX B: Optimizing Your Computer for Multitrack Recording

APPENDIX C: Impedance

APPENDIX D: Phantom Power Explained

APPENDIX E: Legacy Recording Devices

AUDIO GLOSSARY

INDEX

For professional and amateur flautists as well as students of the flute, this book offers a practical introduction to all aspects of playing the flute. Using an accessible A-Z format, Debost offers a logical and imaginative work on flute performance that places technique at the service of music on every page. In these concise essays, readers will find simple, sensible answers to all of the problems flautists regularly encounter. Debost covers the expected topics - such as breathing, articulation, and tone - and offers personal insights into such issues as "jawboning", "finger phrasing," and "the little devils". Offering concise, common-sense solutions for flautists of all levels, this book is an ideal reference guide on flute performance.