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Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to
his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both
1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of
the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A
theorist as well as a composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two
treatises on music theory: the well-known A Briefe Discourse
(1614), and 'A Treatise of Practicall Musicke' (c.1607), which
remains in manuscript. This is the first book to bring together
both theoretical works by this important Jacobean musician and to
provide critical studies and transcriptions of these treatises. A
Briefe Discourse furthermore introduces an anthology of music by
Ravenscroft, John Bennet, and Ravenscroft's mentor, Edward Pearce,
illustrating some of the precepts in the treatise. The critical
discussion provided by Duffin will help explain Ravenscroft's
complicated consideration of mensuration, in particular.
Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and
Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new
interdisciplinary field of Concert Studies, offering fresh ways of
understanding the classical music concert in the twenty-first
century. It brings together essays, research articles, and case
studies from scholars and music professionals including musicians,
music managers, and concert designers. Gathering both historical
and contemporary cases, the contributors draw on approaches from
sociology, ethnology, musicology, cultural studies, and other
disciplines to create a rich portrait of the classical concert's
past, present, and future. Based on two earlier volumes published
in German under the title Das Konzert (The Concert), and with a
selection of new chapters written for the English edition, this
companion enables students, researchers, and practitioners in the
classical and contemporary music fields to understand this emerging
field of research, go beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries
and methodologies, and spark a renaissance for the classical
concert.
More than eighty years have passed since Edgard Varese's catalytic
work for percussion ensemble, Ionisation, was heard in its New York
premiere. A flurry of pieces for this new medium dawned soon after,
challenging the established truths and preferences of the European
musical tradition while setting the stage for percussion to become
one of the most significant musical advances of the twentieth
century. This 'revolution', as John Cage termed it, was a
quintessentially modernist movement - an exploration of previously
undiscovered sounds, forms, textures, and styles. However, as
percussion music has progressed and become woven into the fabric of
Western musical culture, several divergent paths, comprised of
various traditions and a multiplicity of aesthetic sensibilities,
have since emerged for the percussionist to pursue. This edited
collection highlights the progressive developments that continue to
investigate uncharted musical grounds. Using historical studies,
philosophical insights, analyses of performance practice, and
anecdotal reflections authored by some of today's most engaged
performers, composers, and scholars, this book aims to illuminate
the unique destinations found in the artistic journey of the modern
percussionist.
The author is a drummer with experience in a variety of musical
genres and contexts, with emphasis on rock and related styles. This
auto ethnographic Element presents the author's philosophy of
playing drum kit. The text explains how playing drum kit matters to
this musician and may resonate with others to whom making music
matters in similar ways. The Element contains audio files of music
in which the author plays drum kit in the ensemble settings
described. There are photos of the author's drums and of him
drumming. Based on June Boyce-Tillman's non-religious model of
holistic spirituality and Tim Ingold's notion of correspondences,
the author describes how playing drum kit enables him to experience
transcendence - the magical nexus at which Materials, Construction,
Values/Culture and Expression meet. Each of these domains, and the
magic derived from their combination, is illustrated through
examples of the author's live and recorded musical collaborations.
Teach violin with the popular Suzuki Violin School. Revised edition
features:
New engravings in a 9" x 12" format
New editing of pieces, including bowings and fingerings
16 additional pages
Additional exercises, some from Dr. Suzuki, plus additional insight
and suggestions for teachers
Glossary of terms in English, French, German and Spanish
Musical notation guide
Fingerboard position.
Titles: Study Points * Tonalization * Vibrato Exercises * Gavotte
(P. Martini) * Minuet (J. S. Bach) * Gavotte in G Minor (J. S.
Bach) * Humoresque (A. Dvor?k) * Gavotte (J. Becker) * Gavotte in D
Major (J. S. Bach) * Bourr?e (J. S. Bach).
This title is available in SmartMusic.
The violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) is considered among the
most influential performers in history and still maintains a strong
following among violinists around the world. Dario Sarlo
contributes significantly to the growing field of analytical
research into recordings and the history of performance style.
Focussing on Heifetz and his under-acknowledged but extensive
performing relationship with the Bach solo violin works (BWV
1001-1006), Sarlo examines one of the most successful performing
musicians of the twentieth century along with some of the most
frequently performed works of the violin literature. The book
proposes a comprehensive method for analysing and interpreting the
legacies of prominent historical performers in the wider context of
their particular performance traditions. The study outlines this
research framework and addresses how it can be transferred to
related studies of other performers. By building up a comprehensive
understanding of multiple individual performance styles, it will
become possible to gain deeper insight into how performance style
develops over time. The investigation is based upon eighteen months
of archival research in the Library of Congress's extensive Jascha
Heifetz Collection. It draws on numerous methods to examine what
and how Heifetz played, why he played that way, and how that way of
playing compares to other performers. The book offers much insight
into the 'music industry' between 1915 and 1975, including touring,
programming, audiences, popular and professional reception and
recording. The study concludes with a discussion of Heifetz's
unique performer profile in the context of violin performance
history.
The first detailed study of the working relationship and productive
friendship between Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Adrian
Boult (1889-1983). From 1918 onwards, Boult became one of Vaughan
Williams's most important interpreters, giving the world premieres
of the Pastoral, Fourth and Sixth Symphonies, performing almost all
his major works (not only at home but with some of the world's
greatest orchestras), and working in close collaboration with the
composer on major projects including the first complete recording
of Vaughan Williams's symphonies. Boult continued to be the most
devoted advocate of Vaughan Williams's music to the end of his long
career. As this book shows, Boult's scores include numerous
annotations derived from conversations and correspondence with
Vaughan Williams and these provide important evidence of the
composer's wishes including adjustments to orchestration, comments
on interpretation, dynamics, phrasing and revisions to Vaughan
Williams's notoriously unreliable metronome marks. The evidence of
these scores is considered alongside the extensive correspondence
between Vaughan Williams and Boult, Boult's private diaries and
other relevant documents including contemporary press reports. The
book includes three substantial supplements: a detailed description
of Boult's marked scores, a comprehensive list of Boult's Vaughan
Williams performances and a discography including surviving
recordings of unpublished broadcasts. It will be indispensable
reading for scholars and students of Vaughan Williams and
historical conducting, Vaughan Williams enthusiasts and those
interested in the history of recorded music.
(String). The Wohlfahrt Op. 45 Studies are a mainstay of violin
study. Book 1 (50256580) and Book 2 (50256590) are bestsellers in
the Schirmer Library. The entire set, Books 1 and 2 combined, is
available in this new complete publication, value priced at only
$7.95
This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola
d'amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with
a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings.
Composers like Bach made use of the viola d'amore for its
particular sound, but the instrument subsequently fell out of
fashion amid orchestral standardisation, only to see a revival as
interest in early music and historical performance grew. Drawing on
literary accounts, iconography, and surviving instruments, this
study examines the origins and development of this eye-catching
string instrument in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It
explores the rich variation of designs displayed in extant viola
d'amore specimens, both as originally constructed and as a result
of conversion and repair. The viola d'amore is then set into the
wider context of Elizabethan England's development of instruments
with wire strings, and its legacy in the form of the baryton which
emerged in the early seventeenth century, followed by a look at the
viola d'amore's own nomenclatorial and organological influence. The
book closes with a discussion of the viola d'amore's revival, and
its use and manufacture today. Offering insights for organological
research and historical performance practice, this study enhances
our knowledge of both the viola d'amore and its wider family of
instruments.
*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* 'Utterly enthralling - a
beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the
heart of music-making' Deborah Moggach From the moment she hears
Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She
is told that it is an Italian instrument, named after its former
Russian owner. Eager to discover all she can about its ancestry and
the stories contained within its delicate wooden body, she sets out
for Cremona, birthplace of the Italian violin. This is the
beginning of a beguiling journey whose end she could never have
anticipated. Making its way from dusty workshops, through Alpine
forests, cool Venetian churches, glittering Florentine courts, and
far-flung Russian flea markets, Lev's Violin takes us from the
heart of Italian culture to its very furthest reaches. Its story of
luthiers and scientists, princes and orphans, musicians, composers,
travellers and raconteurs swells to a poignant meditation on the
power of objects, stories and music to shape individual lives and
to craft entire cultures.
Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with
this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours
of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends,
and colleagues.When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on
October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed to stop and grieve. Since
his band Van Halen burst onto the scene with their self-titled
debut album in 1978, Eddie had been hailed as an icon not only to
fans of rock music and heavy metal, but to performers across all
genres and around the world. Van Halen's debut sounded unlike
anything that listeners had heard before and remains a
quintessential rock album of the era. Over the course of more than
four decades, Eddie gained renown for his innovative guitar
playing, and particularly for popularizing the tapping guitar solo
technique. Unfortunately for Eddie and his legions of fans, he died
before he was ever able to put his life down to paper in his own
words, and much of his compelling backstory has remained
elusive-until now. In Eruption, music journalists Brad Tolinski and
Chris Gill share with fans, new and old alike, a candid,
compulsively readable, and definitive oral history of the most
influential rock guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. It is based on more
than 50+ hours of unreleased interviews they recorded with Eddie
Van Halen over the years, most of them conducted at the legendary
5150 studios at Ed's home in Los Angeles. The heart of Eruption is
drawn from these intimate and wide-ranging talks, as well as
conversations with family, friends, and colleagues. In addition to
discussing his greatest triumphs as a groundbreaking musician,
including an unprecedented dive into Van Halen's masterpiece 1984,
the book also takes an unflinching look at Edward's early struggles
as young Dutch immigrant unable to speak the English language,
which resulted in lifelong issues with social anxiety and substance
abuse. Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen also examines
his brilliance as an inventor who changed the face of guitar
manufacturing.As entertaining as it is revealing, Eruption is the
closest readers will ever get to hearing Eddie's side of the story
when it comes to his extraordinary life.
(Educational Piano Library). Unit 1 of Book 3 begins by introducing
eighth notes in 4/4 and 2/4 time. Swing eighths are also presented
in the first half of the book. Folk, jazz, classical, and
contemporary selections provide students with an interesting
variety of repertoire. The second half of Book 3, teaches relative
and parallel major/minor five-finger patterns, and students learn
to improvise their own songs using these basic patterns. This
package includes a Piano Lessons Book and an enhanced CD. The CD
works in any CD player but it also contains MIDI files for Windows
and Mac computer users.
What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we
hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in
playing music in "equal temperament" the equal division of the
octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning
method? Thanks to How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony, "we may
soon be able to hear for ourselves what Beethoven really meant when
he called B minor 'black'" (Wall Street Journal).In this
"comprehensive plea for more variety in tuning methods" (Kirkus
Reviews), Ross W. Duffin presents "a serious and well-argued case"
(Goldberg Magazine) that "should make any contemporary musician
think differently about tuning" (Saturday Guardian)."
A catalog of baritone uke chords in photo/diagram form grouped by
type. Major, minor, seventh, diminished, augmented, and ninth
chords are all shown in all keys in fretboard photos and diagrams.
Major seventh, minor seventh, sixth, minor sixth, seventh augmented
fifth, and seventh diminished fifth chords are shown in diagram
form only. Also includes helpful photos and information on the
correct way to hold the baritone ukulele and the pick, and on
tuning the baritone uke. This book may also be used with the tenor
ukulele in D-G-B-E tuning.
(Educational Piano Library). 120 color-coded cards to learn basic
musical symbols, all notes from low ledger C to high ledger C, and
rhythm patterns in 4/4 and 3/4. Also includes cards that focus on
recognition of steps and skips on the staff.
This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and
note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book 2 continues
where Level 1B finishes. This book introduces dotted half notes and
dotted quarter notes, plus intervals of 6ths, 7ths and octaves.
Teaches greater movement of the hands, including crossing two over
one and scalework. Students will also learn more about triads,
primary chords, and blocked and broken chords.
All the key chords, in every key, organised as a chord per page,
this is a flexible, comprehensive solution for anyone learning or
playing the guitar at any level. This no-nonsense, easy to carry,
concealed spiral book will fit into a gig bag, flight case or hand
bag with the minimum of fuss.
**WINNER OF BEST JAZZ PUBLICATION AT THE 2020 PRESTO MUSIC AWARDS**
The Faber Music Jazz Piano Anthology is a timeless collection of
some of the best Jazz music ever written, beautifully presented in
progressive order and specially arranged for the intermediate
pianist. Featuring Jazz favourites such as Ev'ry Time We Say
Goodbye, My Baby Just Cares For Me, I Got Rhythm, My Funny
Valentine and many more.
(Educational Piano Library). Book 4 expands on the related
five-finger patterns learned in Book 3 to introduce the scales of C
Major, A Minor, G Major, and E Minor. Chord progressions in close
position are also presented in each of these keys. Syncopated
rhythms, syncopated pedaling and opposing articulations between the
hands create performances with style, color, and texture. This
package includes a Piano Lessons Book and an enhanced CD. The CD
works in any CD player but it also contains MIDI files for Windows
and Mac computer users.
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