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This lively and highly informative contribution to the Menuhin
Music Guides covers all aspects of percussion - the instruments,
the percussion section within the orchestra and the use of
percussion in chamber music and as a solo instrument. James Holland
is not afraid to attack composers, conductors and music publishers
as he puts the percussionist's point of view. Among his comments on
how to interpret a percussion score and lay out and play a vast
array of complex instruments are detailed analyses of Walton's
'Facade' and works by Gerhard and Stockhausen.
In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata
is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical
forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad
constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs
contrary to conventional theories of the Romantic sonata that place
this nineteenth-century musical form squarely outside inherited
Classical sonata procedures. Building on Sonata Theory, Davis
examines moments of fracture and fragmentation that disrupt the
cohesive and linear temporality in piano sonatas by Chopin, Brahms,
and Schumann. These disruptions in the sonata form are a narrative
technique that signify temporal shifts during which we move from
the outer action to the inner thoughts of a musical agent, or we
move from the story as it unfolds to a flashback or flash-forward.
Through an interpretation of Romantic sonatas as temporally
multi-dimensional works in which portions of the music in any given
piece can lie inside or outside of what Sonata Theory would define
as the sonata-space proper, Davis reads into these ruptures a
narrative of expressive features that mark these sonatas as
uniquely Romantic.
As the follow-up to the best-selling book Zen Guitar, The Book of
Six Strings presents musical examples that will help you bring the
Zen philosophy to life on your guitar. Learn how these ancient
ideas can help you become more "in the moment" in your musical
approach.
The Book of Six Strings will help you break out of a creative rut
and take your playing to the next level. This book's centerpiece is
"One Sound One Song," composed by Philip Toshio Sudo, as a musical
launching pad for Zen Guitar exploration. You will also find
inspiring quotes, philosophical concepts, and historical facts
mixed in with the musical examples. If you are looking to be
inspired and to deepen your spirituality and musical understanding,
this book is for you.
Written for easy recorder, this book gives you everything you need
to start playing today! It features big, easy-to-read notes, a
beginner's guide to playing the recorder, and a clear, simple
introduction to reading music. Seven themes from the first four
Harry Potter movies are included. Titles: Double Trouble * Fawkes
the Phoenix * Harry's Wondrous World * Hedwig's Theme * Hogwarts
Forever! * Hogwarts' March * Nimbus 2000.
Video game soundtracks both old and new feature work by some of the
greatest composers of our time. Orchestras all over the world play
entire concerts of video game music. This collection of themes from
The Legend of Zelda(tm) series is arranged for solo guitar
performance with full notation and TAB. Each song is arranged in
easy guitar keys at an easy--intermediate level, and all pieces are
suitable for recitals, concerts, and solo performances. There are
33 songs drawn from The Legend of Zelda(tm), Zelda II(tm) - The
Adventure of Link(tm), The Legend of Zelda(tm): A Link to the
Past(tm), The Legend of Zelda(tm): Link's Awakening(tm), The Legend
of Zelda(tm): Ocarina of Time(tm), The Legend of Zelda(tm):
Majora's Mask(tm), The Legend of Zelda(tm): The Wind Waker(tm), The
Legend of Zelda(tm): Four Swords Adventures, The Legend of
Zelda(tm): Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda(tm): Phantom
Hourglass, and The Legend of Zelda(tm), Spirit Tracks.
"Best in Show" Award at Winter NAMM 2012 presented by Music Inc.
magazine.
Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom: A Guide for Group
Instruction assists music education students, in-service teachers,
and performers to realize their goals of becoming effective string
educators. It introduces readers to the school orchestra
environment, presents the foundational concepts needed to teach
strings, and provides opportunities for the reader to apply this
information. The author describes how becoming an effective string
teacher requires three things of equal importance: content
knowledge, performance skills, and opportunities to apply the
content knowledge and performance skills in a teaching situation.
In two parts, the text addresses the unique context that is
teaching strings, a practice with its own objectives and related
teaching strategies. Part I (Foundations of Teaching and Learning
String Instruments) first presents an overview of the string
teaching environment, encouraging the reader to consider how
context impacts teaching, followed by practical discussions of
instrument sizing and position, chapters on the development of each
hand, and instruction for best practices concerning tone
production, articulation, and bowing guidelines. Part II
(Understanding Fingerings) provides clear guidance for
understanding basic finger patterns, positions, and the creation of
logical fingerings. String fingerings are abstract and thus
difficult to negotiate without years of playing experience-these
chapters (and their corresponding interactive online tutorials)
distill the content knowledge required to understand string
fingerings in a way that non-string players can understand and use.
Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom contains pedagogical
information, performance activities, and an online virtual teaching
environment with twelve interactive tutorials, three for each of
the four string instruments. ACCOMPANYING VIDEOS CAN BE ACCESSED
VIA THE AUTHOR'S WEBSITE: www.teachingstrings.online
In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata
is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical
forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad
constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs
contrary to conventional theories of the Romantic sonata that place
this nineteenth-century musical form squarely outside inherited
Classical sonata procedures. Building on Sonata Theory, Davis
examines moments of fracture and fragmentation that disrupt the
cohesive and linear temporality in piano sonatas by Chopin, Brahms,
and Schumann. These disruptions in the sonata form are a narrative
technique that signify temporal shifts during which we move from
the outer action to the inner thoughts of a musical agent, or we
move from the story as it unfolds to a flashback or flash-forward.
Through an interpretation of Romantic sonatas as temporally
multi-dimensional works in which portions of the music in any given
piece can lie inside or outside of what Sonata Theory would define
as the sonata-space proper, Davis reads into these ruptures a
narrative of expressive features that mark these sonatas as
uniquely Romantic.
Music in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Hadrian, presented in a concise and user-friendly way. Chapters include: * contexts in which music played a role * a detailed discussion of instruments * an analysis of scales, intervals and tuning * the principal types of rhythm used * and an exploration of Greek theories of harmony and acoustics. Music in Ancient Greece and Rome also contains numerous musical examples, with illustrations of ancient instruments and the methods of playing them.
What are the key topics that define Romantic violin playing? This
book discusses key issues (and barriers) of putting into practice
nineteenth-century violin performing practices. It deals with a
number of well-known problems concerning romantic performance
including the widely perceived 'gap' between scholarship and the
act of performance. Taking account of a modernist revolution in
performing practices and aesthetic thought in the twentieth
century, the book focuses on key topics to define romantic violin
playing. Practically-focused chapters discuss key aspects of
performing practice evidence. The book then moves into a case-study
phase to discuss examples from the author's long experience. It
concludes with practical advice and exercises to enable students to
begin experimenting with the assimilation of such practices into
their own performance. In this way, the proposed structure aims to
be a 'handbook' proper. The handbook ends by looking to the future
and suggesting practical ways for violinists to adopt what has been
discussed in the text. The continued centrality of
nineteenth-century music in contemporary concert life makes the
importance of the topic self-evident.
The author of Beyond the Notes demonstrates how a working musician
draws energy from the events of daily life, and sometimes seeks a
refuge from them in music. Out of Silence is a diary of a year in
Susan Tomes's life as a performer. Taking as its inspiration
Schumann's remark that 'I am affected by everything that goes on in
the world, and I think it all over in my own way', it aims to show
how a working musician mulls over and draws energy from the events
of everyday life. We follow this internationally renowned pianist
as she prepares for concerts and performs, both as a soloist and as
part of a chamber ensemble; we experience the highs and lows of
practising and the challenges of live performance, we see her
planning masterclasses and interacting with both musicians and
audiences. She casts her mind back to her childhood - practicing
before school on cold Edinburgh mornings, playing 'Danny Boy' for a
relative - and reflects on paintings, dance, books, sport and
gardening. 'A delight and a revelation...She writes with
Schubertian intimacy, modesty and grace,' said the Independent of
her first book, Beyond the Notes. Here Susan Tomes strives to
unlock the secrets of great music and to understand its place in
the wider world. SUSAN TOMES has won a number of awards for her
recordings of chamber music. For fifteen years she was the pianist
of Domus, and for another fifteen she has been the pianist of the
Florestan Trio, one of the world's leading piano trios. She is the
author of Beyond the Notes and A Musician's Alphabet. She writes
occasionally for the Guardian and on a blog on her own website,
www.susantomes.com.
(Banjo). The best-selling banjo method in the world Earl Scruggs's
legendary method has helped thousands of banjo players get their
start. The "Revised and Enhanced Edition" features more songs,
updated lessons, and many other improvements. It includes
everything you need to know to start playing banjo, including: a
history of the 5-string banjo, getting acquainted with the banjo,
Scruggs tuners, how to read music, chords, how to read tablature,
right-hand rolls and left-hand techniques, tuning the banjo,
exercises in picking, over 40 song tablatures, how to build a
banjo, making Scruggs tuners, autobiographical notes, and much more
(Piano Solo Personality). Recorded in a remote monastery in Verona,
Ludovico Einaudi's In a Time Lapse explores the concept of
capturing emotions and experiences in a single moment in time. This
exclusive matching piano folio presents all 14 tracks from the
album plus five bonus pieces.
In this book, the contributors reconsider the fundamentals of Music
as a university discipline by engaging with the questions: What
should university study of music consist of? Are there any aspects,
repertoires, pieces, composers and musicians that we want all
students to know about? Are there any skills that we expect them to
be able to master? How can we guarantee the relevance, rigour and
cohesiveness of our curriculum? What is specific to higher
education in music and what does it mean now and for the future?
The book addresses many of the challenges students and teachers
face in current higher education; indeed, the majority of today's
music students undoubtedly encounter a greater diversity of musical
traditions and critical approaches to their study as well as a
wider set of skills than their forebears. Welcome as these
developments may be, they pose some risks too: more material cannot
be added to the curriculum without either sacrificing depth for
breadth or making much of it optional. The former provides students
with a superficial and deceptive familiarity with a wide range of
subject matter, but without the analytical skills and intellectual
discipline required to truly master any of it. The latter easily
results in a fragmentation of knowledge and skills, without a
realistic opportunity for students to draw meaningful connections
and arrive at a synthesis. The authors, Music academics from the
University of Glasgow, provide case studies from their own
extensive experience, which are complemented by an Afterword from
Nicholas Cook, 1684 Professor of Music at the University of
Cambridge. Together, they examine what students can and should
learn about and from music and what skills and knowledge music
graduates could or should possess in order to operate successfully
in professional and public life. Coupled with these considerations
are reflections on music's social function and universities' role
in public life, concluding with the co
The Justinguitar Pop Songbook is the latest addition to Justin
Sandercoes series of guitar songbooks, following on from his hugely
successful Justinguitar Beginners Songbook and Justinguitar
Beginners Guitar Course. The Justinguitar Pop Songbook is for
beginner-intermediate guitar players who are looking to improve
their playing and increase their pop repertoire. Songs are arranged
by difficulty, with introductory notes, scales and chord shapes
provided for each difficulty level. Much more than just a songbook,
this book contains valuable tips and tutorials that will help you
with every aspect of your playing.
The Woodwinds: Perform, Understand, Teach provides comprehensive
coverage about the woodwind family of musical instruments for
prospective instrumental music teachers. What sets this book apart
is its focus on how to teach the instruments. Preparing students in
the how of teaching is the ultimate goal of the woodwind class and
the ultimate goal of this book, which organizes information by its
use in teaching beginning instrumentalists. In developing
performance and understanding, pre-service teachers are positioned
to learn to teach through performance-contrasted with an
"old-school" belief that one must first spend much time tediously
trying to understand how things work before playing the
instruments. The book is organized in three parts: Preliminaries,
Teaching the Instruments, and Foundations. Chapters in Teaching the
Instruments are organized by instrument (flute, clarinet,
saxophone, oboe, bassoon) and, within each instrument, according to
how an effective teacher might organize experiences for novice
learners. Basic embouchure and air stream are covered first,
followed by instrument assembly, then hands and holding. Embouchure
coverage returns in greater depth, then articulation, and finally
"the mechanism," which includes sections on the instruments of the
family, transposition, range, special fingerings, tuning and
intonation, and reeds. In Foundations, topics are situated in big
picture contexts, calling attention to the broad applicability of
information across instruments.
(Piano Solo Songbook). 12 piano pieces from the 2006
Oscar-nominated film, including: Another Dance * Darcy's Letter *
Dawn * Georgiana * Leaving Netherfield * Liz on Top of the World *
Meryton Townhall * The Secret Life of Daydreams * Stars and
Butterflies * and more.
Play-along with the best-known selections from the first five
movies in the Harry Potter series Books include a play-along CD
with a backing and performance track for each title. Titles
include: Hedwig's Theme * Harry's Wondrous World * Nimbus 2000 *
Fawkes The Phoenix * Double Trouble * A Window to the Past *
Hogwarts' March * Hogwarts' Hymn * Professor Umbridge * Fireworks
(Grade 2-3) This title is available in SmartMusic.
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