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Celebrate the world's most seductive instrument. An obsessive,
full-color book in the irresistible format of Shoes and
Handbags--which together have over 700,000 copies in print--guitarS
delivers a feast of 500 guitars in vibrant color, plus players,
makers, legends, myths, and more.
Here are guitars that made history, that changed the course of
music, that inspired new generations of players and listeners. Here
are milestones in the guitar's search for its true self--Torres's
classical, the amazing Gibson L-5--and experiments that ushered in
a new world of sound--Rickenbacker's "Frying Pan" and Les Paul's
"Log." Plus B. B. King's Lucille, Willie Nelson's Trigger, Eric
Clapton's Brownie, the J-160E that John Lennon played during his
1968 "bed-in" with Yoko, Jimi Hendrix's hand-painted Flying V in
full psychedelic regalia. And the far-out Gittler--no body, no
neck, no peghead, yet every inch a guitar.
Also here are profiles of famous builders, including C. F. Martin,
Orville Gibson, Leo Fender--the Henry Ford of guitars--and the mad
genius Lloyd Loar. And individual luthiers, like Linda Manzer (her
Pikasso II has 42 tunable strings), the maverick Ken Parker, and
old-world artisan John D'Angelico, staring at skyscrapers from his
Lower East Side shop and creating the ultimate art deco
masterpiece, "The New Yorker."
Marrying visual pleasure with layers of information, "Guitars"
captures the soul, the significance, history, magic, and the raw
mojo of this most beloved of instruments.
Beginning pianists of all ages will cherish this excellent
compilation of beloved piano classics. Selections include Bach's
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Chopin's Funeral March, Tchaikovsky's
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Mozart's Rondo alla Turca and
Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, plus compositions by Schubert,
Debussy, Handel, Mendelssohn, and others.
The New International Edition of Suzuki Piano School, Volume 1
includes French, German and Spanish translations as well as a newly
recorded CD performed by internationally renowned recording artist
Seizo Azuma. Now the book and CD can be purchased together or
separately. While the music selections in Volume 1 remain the same
as the earlier edition, the spacious new engraving with minimal
editing generally keeps only one piece per page. Instruction
material in many pieces from Volume 1 has been removed in lieu of
right-hand studies at the top of the page and left-hand studies at
the bottom. Tempo markings are now included on many pieces.
Titles: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" Variations (Shinichi
Suzuki) * Lightly Row (German Folk Song) * The Honeybee (Bohemian
Folk Song) * Cuckoo (German Folk Song) * Lightly Row (German Folk
Song) * French Children's Song (French Folk Song) * London Bridge
(English Folk Song) * Mary Had a Little Lamb (American Nursery
Song) * Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) * Au Clair de la Lune (J. B.
Lully) * Long, Long Ago (T. H. Bayly) * Little Playmates (F. X.
Chwatal) * Chant Arabe (Anonymous) * Allegretto 1 (C. Czerny) *
Goodbye to Winter (Folk Song) * Allegretto 2 (C. Czerny) *
Christmas-Day Secrets (T. Dutton) * Allegro (S. Suzuki) * Musette
(Anonymous).
(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). These delightful collections
of carefully-selected pieces provide the perfect repertoire
resource for aspiring Grade 1 and Grade 2 instrumentalists. Each
piece included in these wide-ranging collections is complemented by
useful practice and performance tips. A CD of demonstration and
backing tracks is also included to enhance both private practice
and public performance.
Piano Time 2 builds on the techniques acquired in Piano Time 1,
extending the range of notes and time signatures and including
tones and semitones, chords and triads, arpeggios, major and minor
scales, and keep-fit exercises for the left hand. It also
introduces simple pedalling, new signs and symbols, and pieces to
help players get around the whole keyboard.
In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German
Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as
Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music
in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early
popular American musical cultures such as minstrelsy and operetta a
strain of high camp-a mode of engagement that relishes both the
superficial and serious aspects of an aesthetic experience-that
runs antithetical to German Idealism's musical paradigms. By
considering the disservice done to Haydn by German Idealism
alongside the emergence of musical camp in American popular music,
Knapp outlines a common ground: a humanistically based aesthetic of
shared pleasure that points to ways in which camp receptive modes
might rejuvenate the original appeal of Haydn's music that has
mostly eluded audiences. In so doing, Knapp remaps the
historiographical modes and systems of critical evaluation that
dominate musicology while troubling the divide between serious and
popular music.
This comprehensive approach to basic guitar skills includes varied
repertoire, theory, detailed instruction about seating and hand
position, standard music notation, an introduction to tablature,
basic improvisation, and teaches both the pickstyle and fingerstyle
techniques. Great for college non-music majors, continuing
education classes, music dealer in-store programs, and group guitar
classes at the middle and high school levels.
Book 1 contains 16 units, each with a variety of repertoire,
exercises, and timed tests at the end. Unit 16 provides
instructions for playing 11 hit songs. Students can cut out
flashcards provided at the back of the book to use for home study.
The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study
and performance.
This book traces the development of the viol from its late medieval
Spanish origins to the sixteenth century, when it became the most
widely played bowed instrument in western Europe. Ian Woodfield
examines the two most important ancestors of the instrument, the
Moorish rahab and the vihuela de mano. From these two instruments
emerged an early form of viol, the Valencian vihuela de arco, which
spread rapidly across the Mediterranean during the papacy of
Rodrigo Borgia. The viol was enthusiastically accepted by the
d'Este and Gonzaga families and other Italian arbiters before
migrating across the Alps and into the rest of Europe. The author
discusses all aspects of the viol during its Renaissance hey-day:
the growing perfection of viol design at the hands of Italian
craftsmen; the gradual evolution of tuning systems; the development
of advanced playing techniques and the wide range of music, both
solo and consort. The final chapter examines the growth of a viol
playing tradition in sixteenth-century England, in particular in
the London choir-schools. Dr Woodfield brings iconographic evidence
and an interesting approach to this study which will be of interest
to musicologists, iconographers, organologists and viol players.
Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of
Light. This book situates Satie's work within the context and sonic
environment of contemporary Paris. Erik Satie's (1866-1925) music
appeals to wide audiences and has influenced both experimental
artists and pop musicians. Little about Satie was conventional, and
he resists classification under easy headings such as "classical
music". Instead of pursuing the path of a professional composer,
Satie initially earned a living as a cafe pianist and moved in
bohemian circles which prized satire, popular culture and
experiment. Small wonder that his music is fundamentally new in
conception. It is music which is not always designed to be listened
to attentively: music which can be machine-like but is to be played
by humans. For Satie, music was part of a wider concept of artistic
creation,as evidenced by his collaborations with leading
avant-garde artists and in works which cross traditional genre
boundaries such as his texted piano pieces. His music was created
in some of the most exciting and creatively stimulating
environments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century:
Montmartre and Montparnasse. Paris was the artistic centre of
Europe, and Satie was a notorious figure whose music and ideas are
inextricably linked with the City of Light. This book situates
Satie's work within the context and sonic environment of
contemporary Paris. It shows that the influence of street music,
musicians and poets interested in new technology, contemporary
innovations and radical politics are all crucial to an
understanding of Satie. Music from the ever-popular Gymnopedies to
newly discovered works are discussed, and an online supplement
features rare pieces recorded especially for the book. CAROLINE
POTTER is Reader in Music at Kingston University London. A graduate
in both French and Music, she has published widely on French music
since Debussy and was Series Advisor to the Philharmonia
Orchestra's Paris2014-15 season.
(Book). PRS guitars today appeal to a growing number of musicians,
from Carlos Santana to Al Di Meola, from Zach Myers to Mark
Tremonti. This book examines every part of PRS history, with an
in-depth story, beautiful photographs, and detailed collector's
info. Paul Reed Smith set up his first PRS factory in 1985 in
Maryland and has devised guitars from the regular Custom and
McCarty models, through the outrageously decorated Dragon specials
and the controversial Singlecut, and on to recent achievements such
as the Mira, Dave Grissom DGT, JA-15, and the S2 models. Dozens of
guitars are pictured inside along with players, ads, catalogs, and
rare memorabilia. A detailed reference section helps musicians and
collectors identify and date PRS instruments, making this revised
and updated edition of The PRS Electric Guitar Book a must for all
guitar fans.
Titles: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Variations (Shinichi Suzuki)
* French Folk Song (Folk Song) * Lightly Row (Folk Song) * Song of
the Wind (Folk Song) * Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) * O Come,
Little Children (Folk Song) * May Song (Folk Song) * Long, Long Ago
(T.H. Bayly) * Allegro (Shinichi Suzuki) * Perpetual Motion
(Shinichi Suzuki) * Allegretto (Shinichi Suzuki) * Andantino
(Shinichi Suzuki) * Bohemian Folk Song (Folk Song) * Etude
(Shinichi Suzuki) * Minuet No. 1, Minuet III from Suite in G Minor
for Klavier, BWV 822 (J.S. Bach) * Minuet No. 2, BWV Anh. 116 (J.S.
Bach) * Minuet No. 3, Anh. II 114/Anh. II 183 (J.S. Bach) * The
Happy Farmer from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 10 (R. Schumann)
* Gavotte (F.J. Gossec) * Practice Suggestions (Doris Preucil).
This title is available in SmartMusic.
Contemporary Orchestration: A Practical Guide to Instruments,
Ensembles, and Musicians teaches students how to orchestrate for a
wide variety of instruments, ensembles, and genres, while preparing
them for various real-world professional settings ranging from the
concert hall to the recording studio. Unlike most orchestration
texts, it includes coverage of contemporary instruments and
ensembles alongside traditional orchestra and chamber
ensembles.
Features
- Practical considerations: Practical suggestions for choosing a
work to orchestrate, and what to avoid when writing for each
instrument.
- Pedagogical features
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- In the Profession: Professional courtesies, considerations and
expectations.
- Building the Score: Step-by-step construction of an
orchestration.
- Scoring Examples: Multiple scoring examples for each
instrument.
- Exercises: Analyzing, problem solving, and creating
orchestration solutions.
- Critical Thinking: Alternate approaches and solutions.
Alfred's Teach Your Child To Play Guitar, Books 1 and 2, are
designed for parents who want to share the gift of music with their
children before they begin formal study with a professional
teacher. They are based on Alfred's Kid's Guitar Course, a fun
method that teaches students to play songs on the guitar right
away. Families who are part of the homeschool movement especially
will find the books useful.
Using the same music and fundamentals included in the original
editions, an easy and user-friendly Parent Guide precedes each
student page to aid with teaching the music to the child. The guide
suggests steps for introducing the concept or page to the student,
follow-up practice suggestions, and suggestions for reviewing the
material in subsequent lessons.
The enclosed CD contains a recording of every piece in the book.
Listening or playing along with the recording is fun, but more
importantly, it reinforces concepts such as rhythm and switching
smoothly between notes and chords. Using this book and CD, any
parent can teach their child the basics of guitar.
A deeply researched biography of the great French organist, who
composed some of the best-loved works in the organ repertory -- and
the masterful Requiem. Maurice Durufle: The Man and His Music is a
new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86),
and the most comprehensive in any language. James E. Frazier traces
Durufle's musical training, his studies withTournemire and Vierne,
and his career as an organist, church musician, composer,
recitalist, Conservatoire professor, and orchestral musician.
Frazier also examines the career and contributions of Durufle's
wife, the formidable organist Marie-Madeleine Durufle-Chevalier.
Durufle brought the church's unique language of plainsong into a
compelling liaison with the secular harmonies of the modern French
school (as typified by Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas)in works for his
own instrument and in his widely loved masterpiece, the Requiem Op.
9 for soloists, chorus, organ, and orchestra. Drawing on the
accounts of those who knew Durufle personally as well as on
Frazier's own detailed research, Maurice Durufle offers a broad
sketch of this modest and elusive man, widely recognized today for
having created some of the greatest works in the organ repertory --
and the masterful Requiem. James E. Frazier holds advanced degrees
in philosophy, organ, theology, and sacred music from St. Alphonsus
College, Mt. St. Alphonsus Seminary, Hartt School of Music, the
Yale University Divinity School, and the Yale Institute of Sacred
Music. He served Episcopal churches in Hartford, Connecticut, and
St. Paul, Minnesota, as organist and director of music. For ten
years he was director of music for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and
Minneapolis.
This Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643-50) was the first French
document to discuss keyboard performance practice in any detail.
Jean Denis was both a harpsichord builder of renown and the
organist of a prominent Parisian church, and is thus an authority
worthy of careful study. The treatise addresses numerous matters of
interest to both scholars and performers, including temperament,
ornamentation, fugue, and the use of the organ in liturgical
practice. Also included in the treatise are a keyboard prelude
designed to reveal errors in tuning, and two delightful anecdotes
attesting to the power of music. The forthright character of
Denis's writing lends a unique and distinctly enjoyable tone to the
work."
In this unique rhythm section workbook, 23 James Brown classics
have been transcribed, broken down into individual lessons, and
meticulously recreated on two one-hour CDs. Featuring legendary
grooves from the guitarists, bassists, and drummers who ignited the
Godfather of Soul for over three decades (including Jabo Starks,
Bernard Odum, Clyde Stubblefield, Bootsy Collins, Jimmy Nolen,
Country Kellum, and more), this book will enlighten and challenge
your soul.
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