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The aim of this book is to turn the complete piano beginner into an
accomplished performer using easy-to-follow steps. Based on popular
songs, the book uses text and diagrams so there is no need to read
music.
This fake book is a cornerstone for many musicians' libraries. With
over 1200 songs in all styles of music, the fourth edition has been
updated to include even more great songs and recent hits. From jazz
standards to Broadway blockbusters and country classics to pop
chart-toppers, this book has the songs you're looking for all in
one convenient collection. It is comb-bound with locked tabs to
ensure long-lasting durability. Songs include: All the Things You
Are * Blue Skies * Body and Soul * Come Fly With Me * Endless Love
* The Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) * The House of the
Rising Sun * Love and Marriage * Memory * Moon River * Mustang
Sally * Night Moves * Piano Man * Satin Doll * Shout * Smooth *
Start Me Up * Strawberry Fields Forever * Tears in Heaven *
Unforgettable * hundreds more!
A book that clearly explains the principles of jazz soloing.
Logically organized, with hundreds of musical examples, this method
is the result of many years of Ted's teaching and research.
This book brings together in one place selected exam pieces, scales
and sight-reading to support ABRSM's Initial Grade Violin syllabus
for 2020-2023. The pieces, three from each of Lists A, B and C,
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. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in the book, plus piano accompaniment tracks for
use when practising, are available from
www.abrsm.org/initialgrade/audio (access code included in the
book).
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Chords and lyrics for 40 of Nirvana's most popular songs,
including: About a Girl * All Apologies * Big Cheese * Come as You
Are * Floyd the Barber * Heart Shaped Box * The Man Who Sold the
World * Mexican Seafood * Smells like Teen Spirit * Something in
the Way * You Know You're Right * and more. 6 inch. x 9 inch.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 6 Violin syllabus
for 2020-2023, 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. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Violin Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 5 Violin syllabus
for 2020-2023, 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. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Violin Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 1 Violin syllabus
for 2020-2023, 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. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Violin Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 2 Violin syllabus
for 2020-2023, 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. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Violin Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 4 Violin syllabus
for 2020-2023, 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. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Violin Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021 * Shortlisted for the 2021
Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize * A
critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book
of 2020 * Now with colour photography by Michael Turek 'Richly
absorbing... An impressive exploration of Siberia's terrifying
past.' Guardian 'Evocative and wonderfully original.' Colin Thubron
__________ Siberia's expansive history is traditionally one of
exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to
tell. Dotted throughout this remote and beautiful landscape are
pianos created during the boom years of the nineteenth century.
They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture
under the influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run
through the country like blood. How these pianos made the journey
into this snow-bound wilderness in the first place is remarkable.
That they might be capable of making music in such a hostile
landscape feels like a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia is an
absorbing story about a piano hunt - a quixotic quest through two
centuries of Russian history and eight time zones stretching across
an eleventh of the world's land surface. It reveals not only an
unexpected musical legacy, but profound and brave humanity in the
last place on earth you might expect to find it. __________ What
readers are saying about The Lost Pianos of Siberia: ***** 'You
know a book's good when, on finishing it, you just want to start
again.' ***** 'Beautifully written, full of compelling anecdotes
celebrating Siberia's extraordinary history.' ***** 'The most
unusual and intelligent way to tell a travel story.'
(Harp). This book was designed to help harp players develop and
maintain strength, suppleness, and agility in the fingers and
hands. It is intended for use by players of all levels. The
repetition of patterns common to the harp should enable the player
to perform with greater ease and confidence.
This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna
Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of
archival material, including some discussed here for the very first
time, Fritz Tr mpi offers new insight into the orchestras' place in
the larger political constellation. Tr mpi looks first at the
decades preceding National Socialist rule, when the competing
orchestras, whose rivalry mirrored a larger rivalry between Berlin
and Vienna, were called on to represent "superior" Austro-German
music and were integrated into the administrative and social
structures of their respective cities becoming vulnerable to
political manipulation in the process. He then turns to the Nazi
period, when the orchestras came to play a major role. As he shows,
each philharmonic, in its own unique way, became a tool of soft
power by showcasing Germanic culture through the mass media,
performances for troops and the general public, and fictional
representations in literature and film. Accompanying these
propaganda efforts was an increasing radicalization of the
orchestras, which ranged from the dismissal of Jewish members to
the programming of ideologically appropriate repertory all in the
name of racial and cultural purity. Richly documented and
refreshingly nuanced, The Political Orchestra is a bold exploration
of the ties between music and politics under fascism.
Dive hands-on into the tools, techniques, and information for
making your own analog synthesizer. If you're a musician or a
hobbyist with experience in building electronic projects from kits
or schematics, this do-it-yourself guide will walk you through the
parts and schematics you need, and how to tailor them for your
needs. Author Ray Wilson shares his decades of experience in
synth-DIY, including the popular Music From Outer Space (MFOS)
website and analog synth community. At the end of the book, you'll
apply everything you've learned by building an analog synthesizer,
using the MFOS Noise Toaster kit. You'll also learn what it takes
to create synth-DIY electronic music studio. Get started in the fun
and engaging hobby of synth-DIY without delay. With this book,
you'll learn: The differences between analog and digital
synthesizers Analog synthesizer building blocks, including VCOs,
VCFs, VCAs, and LFOs How to tool up for synth-DIY, including
electronic instruments and suggestions for home-made equipment
Foundational circuits for amplification, biasing, and signal mixing
How to work with the MFOS Noise Toaster kit Setting up a synth-DIY
electronic music studio on a budget
Separating fact from fiction, this book explores how the legendary
violinist challenged the very notion of what it meant to be a
musician. Our inherited image of Nicolo Paganini as a 'demonic
violinist' has never been analysed in depth. What really made him
'demonic'? This book investigates the legend of Paganini.
Separating fact from fiction, it explains how the virtuoso
violinist challenged the very notion of what it meant to be a
musician. Mai Kawabata considers Paganini's performance
innovations, violin techniques and musical ethos in the light of
contemporary attitudes towards musicand the supernatural, gender,
sexuality, violence, heroism and masculinity as well as conceptions
of power. The many perceptions of Paganini as demonic - Faust,
magician, devil, rake/libertine, Napoleon - were inter-related but
not equivalent. A swirl of cultural factors coalesced in the
performer to create that phenomenon of Romanticism, a
larger-than-life Gothic villain. Kawabata shows how the idea of
virtuosity spiralled out of control, acquiring a potent,
overwhelmingly negative aura in the process, as the mythology
surrounding Paganini outlived and outgrew the man to monstrous
proportions. An appendix brings together late nineteenth-century
British press and literature coverage of Paganini that contributed
to the developing myth surrounding the now famous composer and
performer. MAI KAWABATA is Lecturer in Music at the University of
East Anglia and a professional violinist.
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Harry Abley was a nightmare of a father: depressive, self-absorbed,
unpredictable, emotionally unstable. He was also a dream of a
father: gentle, courageous, artistically gifted. Mark Abley, his
only child, grew up in the shadow of music and mental illness. How
he came to terms with this divided legacy, and how he learned to be
a man in the absence of a traditional masculine role model, are
central to this beautifully written memoir. This extraordinary
story will speak to all those who love music, who struggle with
depression, or who wrestle with the difficult bonds of love between
a parent and a child. Praise for The Organist: "A wise and haunting
book." -Martha Baillie, author of The Search for Heinrich Schloegel
"The Organist is a rich and wonderful book, a deeply insightful and
moving story of a family's journey through the 20th
century....Abley's tale is fearless in its revelations, yet also
loving, funny, and beautifully told." -Ronald Wright, author of A
Scientific Romance and A Short History of Progress "'What does a
life add up to?' This question is central to Mark Abley's haunting
family memoir, The Organist. Both expansive in the themes it raises
and intimate in details required to bring those themes to life,
it's a question that draws on Abley's talents as a remarkably clear
and thoughtful writer. In The Organist, he ventures bravely into
territory that is, for almost everyone, mysterious: what our
parents were like before we, their children, became (so we like to
imagine) central to their lives. What this compelling book makes
clear is that what we don't know about them is often what we don't
know about ourselves." -David Macfarlane, author of The Danger Tree
"Beautiful, tender, and raging, The Organist comes from where the
best writing usually does-deep emotion affirmed by hard-won
experience of how humans are in their relationships, and in their
own hearts. It has taken Mark Abley nearly a lifetime to produce
the book of his life. Not a moment too late, or too soon" -Charles
Foran, author of Mordecai: The Life & Times
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