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This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 4 Piano syllabus
for 2021 & 2022, 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. The enclosed CD features
inspiring recordings of all 30 pieces on the Grade 4 syllabus,
performed by Yulia Chaplina, Mei Yi Foo, Nikki Iles, Dinara
Klinton, Charles Owen, Robert Thompson and Richard Uttley.
Signature Licks - Queen is a step-by-step breakdown of Brian May
playing technique by Wolf Marshall. The book features excerpts from
18 songs recorded over Queen's extensive playing career, in-depth
studies of each song and example, and a CD for practice
accompaniment.
This book contains all the scales and arpeggios required for
ABRSM's Grade 5 Piano exam. It covers all the new requirements from
2021.
Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive "Playing Piano for
Pleasure." With the wonderful writing one would expect from a
longtime "New Yorker" reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke,
offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A
pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to practice
every day, suggesting that they work through just that section time
and again until it is perfect. In addition to his own thoughts,
Cooke includes material from his interviews with master pianists,
artists, and writers. The result is a book that should be cherished
for years to come.
Music-Dance explores the identity of choreomusical work, its
complex authorship and its modes of reception as well as the
cognitive processes involved in the reception of dance performance.
Scholars of dance and music analyse the ways in which a musical
score changes its prescriptive status when it becomes part of a
choreographic project, the encounter between sound and motion on
stage, and the intersection of listening and seeing. As well as
being of interest to musicologists and choreologists considering
issues such as notation, multimedia and the analysis of
performance, this volume will appeal to scholars interested in
applied research in the fields of cognition and neuroscience. The
line-up of authors comprises representative figures of today's
choreomusicology, dance historians, scholars of twentieth-century
composition and specialists in cognitive science and performance
studies. Among the topics covered are multimedia and the analysis
of performance; the notational practice of choreographers and the
parallel attempts of composers to find a graphic representation for
musical gestures; and the experience of dance as a paradigm for a
multimodal perception, which is investigated in terms of how the
association of sound and movement triggers emotions and specific
forms of cognition.
In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly
interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known
in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed
practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised
music as a rhapsodic endeavour-a musical blossoming out of the
capricious genius of the player-that dominated throughout the
twentieth century. In the Renaissance and Baroque eras, composing
in the mind (alla mente) had an important didactic function. For
several categories of musicians, the teaching of counterpoint
happened almost entirely through practice on their own instruments.
This volume offers the first systematic exploration of the close
relationship among improvisation, music theory, and practical
musicianship from late Renaissance into the Baroque era. It is not
a historical survey per se, but rather aims to re-establish the
importance of such a combination as a pedagogical tool for a better
understanding of the musical idioms of these periods. The authors
are concerned with the transferral of historical practices to the
modern classroom, discussing new ways of revitalising the study and
appreciation of early music. The relevance and utility of such an
improvisation-based approach also changes our understanding of the
balance between theoretical and practical sources in the primary
literature, as well as the concept of music theory itself.
Alongside a word-centred theoretical tradition, in which rules are
described in verbiage and enriched by musical examples, we are
rediscovering the importance of a music-centred tradition,
especially in Spain and Italy, where the music stands alone and the
learner must distil the rules by learning and playing the music.
Throughout its various sections, the volume explores the path of
improvisation from theory to practice and back again.
This book contains valuable practice material for ABRSM's Initial
Grade Piano exam. * Specimen tests for the exam sight-reading
requirements * Representative of the technical level expected in
the exam
- An important and timely volume, presenting and delivering a
much-needed (and inclusive) counter-narrative in the field of
Community Music - Chimes with the International Society of Music
Education's World 2020 Conference theme on celebrating equity and
diversity in music education (including Community Music) research
and practices - Appropriate and required reading for a large range
of readers including (but not limited to) undergraduates, graduate
students, academics, scholars, university professors,
practitioners, and researchers
Barcelonian Gaspar Cassado (1897-1966) was one of the greatest
cello virtuosi of the twentieth century and a notable composer and
arranger, leaving a vast and heterogeneous legacy. In this book,
Gabrielle Kaufman provides the first full-length scholarly work
dedicated to Cassado, containing the results of seven years of
research into his life and legacy, after following the cellist's
steps through Spain, France, Italy and Japan. The study presents
in-depth descriptions of the three main parts of Cassado's creative
output: composition, transcription and performance, especially
focusing on Cassado's plural and multi-facetted creativity, which
is examined from both cultural and historical perspectives.
Cassado's role within the evolution of twentieth-century cello
performance is thoroughly examined, including a discussion
regarding the musical and technical aspects of performing Cassado's
works, aimed directly at performers. The study presents the first
attempt at a comprehensive catalogue of Cassado's works, both
original and transcribed, as well as his recordings, using a number
of new archival sources and testimonies. In addition, the
composer's significance within Spanish twentieth-century music is
treated in detail through a number of case studies, sustained by
examples from recovered score manuscripts. Illuminated by
extraordinary source material Gaspar Cassado: Cellist, Composer and
Transcriber expands and deepens our knowledge of this complex
figure, and will be of crucial importance to students and scholars
in the fields of Performance Practice and Spanish Music, as well as
to professional cellists and advanced cello students.
(Guitar Method). This Berklee Workshop, featuring over 20 solos and
duets by Bach, Carcassi, Paganini, Sor and other renowned
composers, is designed to acquaint intermediate to advanced
pick-style guitarists with some of the excellent classical music
that is adaptable to pick-style guitar. With study and practice,
this workshop will increase a player's knowledge and proficiency on
this formidable instrument.
Designed to coordinate page-by-page with the Lesson Books. Contains
enjoyable games and quizzes that reinforce the principles presented
in the Lesson Books. Students can increase their musical
understanding while they are away from the keyboard.
The first full-length narrative biography of Led Zeppelin's John
Bonham, considered by many to be one of the greatest drummers in
rock history, and a genuine wild man of epic (and sadly fatal)
proportions. Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin is the
first-ever biography of the iconic John Bonham, considered by many
to be one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) rock drummer of all
time. Bonham first learned to play the drums at the age of five,
and despite never taking formal lessons, began drumming for local
bands immediately upon graduating from secondary school. By the
late 1960s, Bonham was looking for a more solid gig in order to
provide his growing family with a more regular income. Meanwhile,
following the dissolution of the popular blues rock band The
Yardbirds, lead guitarist Jimmy Page sought the company of new
bandmates to help him record an album and tour Scandinavia as the
New Yardbirds. A few months later, Bonham was recruited to join the
band who would eventually become known as Led Zeppelin-and before
the year was out, Bonham and his three bandmates would become the
richest rock band in the world. In their first year, Led Zeppelin
released two albums and completed four US and four UK concert
tours. As their popularity exploded, they moved from ballrooms and
smaller clubs to larger auditoriums, and eventually started selling
out full arenas. Throughout the 1970s, Led Zeppelin reached new
heights of commercial and critical success, making them one of the
most influential groups of the era, both in musical style and in
their approach towards the workings of the entertainment industry.
They added extravagant lasers, light shows, and mirror balls to
their performances; wore flamboyant and often glittering outfits;
traveled in a private jet airliner and rented out entire sections
of hotels; and soon become the subject of frequently repeated
stories of debauchery and destruction while on tour. In 1977, the
group performed what would be their final live appearance in the
US, following months of rising fervor and rioting from their
fandom. And in September of 1980, Bonham-plagued by alcoholism,
anxiety, and the after-effects of years of excess-was found dead by
his bandmates. To this day, Bonham is posthumously described as one
of the most important, well-known, and influential drummers in
rock, topping best of lists describing him as an inimitable,
all-time great. As Adam Budofsky, managing editor of Modern
Drummer, explained, "If the king of rock 'n' roll was Elvis
Presley, then the king of rock drumming was certainly John Bonham."
(Piano Solo Songbook). 100 pop and classical standards that every
piano player should master, including: Air on the G String * Bridge
over Troubled Water * Canon in D * Clair de Lune * Fields of Gold *
Fur Elise * I Dreamed a Dream * I Will Always Love You * Imagine *
Lullaby of Birdland * Memory * Misty * Moon River * On My Own *
Over the Rainbow * The Shadow of Your Smile * Smile * Stardust *
Summertime * Sunrise, Sunset * Time After Time * Unexpected Song *
The Way You Look Tonight * We've Only Just Begun * What a Wonderful
World * Yesterday * You Raise Me Up * Your Song * and more
One chanter, three drones, three regulators, thirteen keys, too
many near-extinctions to mention and 300 years of heroes: that,
with a frisson of fairies on moonlit knolls, is the Irish uilleann
('ill-in') pipes. The Wheels Of The World presents an epic tale of
triumph and survival, where the soulful heart of a nation has been
kept alive across ages by a slender thread of guardians - blind
men, eccentrics, self-aggrandisers, noble heroes, bloody-minded
revivalists and at least three people compared to Jimi Hendrix.
Uilleann piping is Ireland's equivalent to the story of the blues
in America, save that here the trail of legends and lore is richer
and deeper by far. It is the sound of 18th-century blues - a
microtonal virtuoso machine wielded by misfits and geniuses, often
one and the same. This is the story of a continuum, from John
McSherry, a 21st-century icon, backwards in time through Paddy
Keenan, Liam O'Flynn, Finbar Furey, Seamus Ennis, Willie Clancy,
Johnny Doran, Leo Rowsome and Patsy Touhey - at the dawn of
recorded sound - and thence to find a litany of unrecorded legends
before them. It is also a snapshot of professional Irish
traditional musicians, after the gold rush of the late 20th
century, keeping calm and carrying on.
You can now teach yourself to play the piano, even though you have
never taken a lesson. Teach yourself to play the piano and progress
at your own pace! Covers the basic fundamentals of piano playing in
a concise and logical fashion. Its appealing music will encourage
you to play every day. Features: Rhythms made simple; How to form
the most important chords; Finger aerobics help to make playing
easier; Techniques of playing with feeling and expression;
Step-by-step approach to learning the entire keyboard; Letter-notes
provide and easy introduction to reading music. The Enhanced CD for
this book contains great audio accompaniments you can play on your
stereo and doubles as an interactive and fun multimedia learning
tool that works on any Windows-compatible PC. The song player shows
you exactly how each song should be played, lets you customize the
audio levels, adjust playback tempo, and even record your own
performance! CD-ROM is for Windows & Macintosh.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 2 Piano syllabus
for 2021 & 2022, 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. The enclosed CD features
inspiring recordings of all 30 pieces on the Grade 2 syllabus,
performed by Nikki Iles, Dinara Klinton, Robert Thompson and
Anthony Williams.
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