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Movie Hereos for Students, Book 1 - Piano (Book): Tom Gerou Movie Hereos for Students, Book 1 - Piano (Book)
Tom Gerou
R239 R221 Discovery Miles 2 210 Save R18 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Movie Heroes for Students, Book 1, is arranged at the late-elementary level. Dotted-quarter notes and triplets have been avoided with minimal use of eighth notes. Key signatures are limited to one sharp or flat. A maximum of two-note intervals in either hand and simple meters of 4/4 or 3/4 allow for greater accessibility. Titles: Batman Theme * Hedwig's Theme (from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) * Iron Man * James Bond Theme * Luke and Leia (from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi) * The Medallion Calls (from Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) * Raiders March (from Raiders of the Lost Ark) * Star Wars (Main Theme) * Theme from Superman.

London College of Music Piano Handbook 2021-2024: Grade 1 (Paperback): London College Of Music Examinations London College of Music Piano Handbook 2021-2024: Grade 1 (Paperback)
London College Of Music Examinations
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Mazurkas (Hardcover): Frederic Chopin Mazurkas (Hardcover)
Frederic Chopin
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vladimir Ussachevsky - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, New): Ralph M. Hartsock, Carl Rahkonen Vladimir Ussachevsky - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, New)
Ralph M. Hartsock, Carl Rahkonen
R2,104 Discovery Miles 21 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990), a pioneer in electronic music, was also a composer, teacher and administrator of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. His more than 44 works involving electroacoustics reflect the importance of his contribution to electronic music. Ussachevsky studied with Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers and Otto Luening and his style varied from neoromantic and Russian Orthodox influences in choral music and other compositions before 1952 to electronic and computer music from 1952 to his death in 1990. This volume in the Greenwood series Bio-Bibliographies in Music includes a brief biography and detailed list of works and performances, discography, mediagraphy, and bibliography of writings about and by Ussachevsky.

Music scholars, especially those with an interest in electronic music or those interested in learning more about Vladimir Ussachevsky, will appreciate the detailed information about his works and writings compiled in this one volume. The works and performances section is organized by type of music, including electronic, orchestral, chamber, keyboard, choral and vocal. Also included are both an alphabetical and chronological list of compositions, a list of Ussachevsky's collaborations, arrangements and sound effects, and an index.

Orchestrating the Nation - The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise (Hardcover): Douglas Shadle Orchestrating the Nation - The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise (Hardcover)
Douglas Shadle
R1,904 Discovery Miles 19 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the nineteenth century, nearly one hundred symphonies were written by over fifty composers living in the United States. With few exceptions, this repertoire is virtually forgotten today. In Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise, author Douglas W. Shadle explores the stunning stylistic diversity of this substantial repertoire and uncovers why it failed to enter the musical mainstream. Throughout the century, Americans longed for a distinct national musical identity. As the most prestigious of all instrumental genres, the symphony proved to be a potent vehicle in this project as composers found inspiration for their works in a dazzling array of subjects, including Niagara Falls, Hiawatha, and Western pioneers. With a wealth of musical sources at his disposal, including never-before-examined manuscripts, Shadle reveals how each component of the symphonic enterprise-from its composition, to its performance, to its immediate and continued reception by listeners and critics-contributed to competing visions of American identity. Employing an innovative transnational historical framework, Shadle's narrative covers three continents and shows how the music of major European figures such as Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Liszt, Brahms, and Dvorak exerted significant influence over dialogues about the future of American musical culture. Shadle demonstrates that the perceived authority of these figures allowed snobby conductors, capricious critics, and even orchestral musicians themselves to thwart the efforts of American symphonists despite widespread public support of their music. Consequently, these works never entered the performing canons of American orchestras. An engagingly written account of a largely unknown repertoire, Orchestrating the Nation shows how artistic and ideological debates from the nineteenth century continue to shape the culture of American orchestral music today.

The Music of Anthony Braxton (Hardcover, New): The Music of Anthony Braxton (Hardcover, New)
R2,849 Discovery Miles 28 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For three decades, Anthony Braxton has been alternately celebrated, dismissed, and attacked for his musical innovations. His ambitious efforts to reconcile and personalize the historically divergent and often conflicting worldviews and principles of African-American (jazz), American Experimental (post-Ives), and Western European (post-serial) traditions have attracted both loyal supporters and passionate critics. Mike Heffley has followed Braxton's widely varied music from its beginning, and in 1988 began a professional musical relationship with him. His "biography" of Braxton's music is just that--a look at the music as if it were a living entity, with a traceable ancestry, a describable place in the world, and a history full of drama, intrigue, and passion. The music scholar will find here all the information necessary to understand the contents, contexts, and concepts of Braxton's music, and to further that understanding. The general reader will find the human and trans-human qualities that make the music so compelling to its makers and lovers.

Classics To Moderns 3 (Book): Denes Agay Classics To Moderns 3 (Book)
Denes Agay
R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Unfinished Business (Paperback, New): Ralph Heibutzki Unfinished Business (Paperback, New)
Ralph Heibutzki
R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a music business amply buffered against surprise, Danny Gatton swam stubbornly, from country, to gospel, rockabilly, soul, and standards. "Redneck Jazz" became Gatton's calling card for playing whatever and whenever he wanted. Hailed as the best unknown guitar player by both Rolling Stone and Guitar player magazines, he was a players' player who never received the popular acclaim he deserved. The struggle to reach a wider audience while staying true to his own muse proved to much for him to bear, and in 1994 he took his own life. Gatton's legend has only grown since his untimely death, along with appreciation for his blinding speed, effortless genre-hopping, flawless technique, and never-ending appetitie for tinkering and problem-solving. Unfinished Business places Gatton's musical contributions into context, as well as his influence on those peers who admired him most, including Albert Lee, Vince Gill, Arlen Roth, and Lou Reed.

The Lang Lang Piano Method: Level 2 (Paperback): Lang Lang The Lang Lang Piano Method: Level 2 (Paperback)
Lang Lang
R198 Discovery Miles 1 980 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Join the superhero world of Lang Lang and come on a piano adventure with The Lang Lang Piano Method Level 2. Level 2 builds on the first book by introducing: eighth notes (quavers) simple hands together and thumb-under technique. The five progressive books in The Lang Lang Piano Method provide a unique and imaginative way for complete beginners to learn the piano with the world's most successful concert pianist, Lang Lang. There's plenty to play all around the keyboard right from the start. Fun, imaginative pieces develop the left and right hands equally and supporting audio features exclusive performances by Lang Lang of the concert pieces. Musicianship is developed through theory pages and listening to exclusive performances by Lang Lang of piano classics for children. "I've written The Lang Lang Piano Method to inspire today's kids with my passion for the piano." Lang Lang

Around the Orkney Peat-fires - Being Sketches of Notable Orcadians, Smuggling Anecdotes, Stories of the Press-gang, and Witch... Around the Orkney Peat-fires - Being Sketches of Notable Orcadians, Smuggling Anecdotes, Stories of the Press-gang, and Witch and Other Stories / Compiled by W.R. Macintosh (Hardcover)
W R Macintosh
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Not by Love Alone - The Violin in Japan, 1850 - 2010 (Hardcover): Margaret Mehl Not by Love Alone - The Violin in Japan, 1850 - 2010 (Hardcover)
Margaret Mehl
R1,116 Discovery Miles 11 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book C (Paperback): Nancy Faber, Randall Faber My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book C (Paperback)
Nancy Faber, Randall Faber
R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Book C of the Fabers' young beginner method continues the staff-reading adventure with the introduction of skips (3rds). Students first explore skips aurally and kinesthetically across the full range of the keyboard. A delightful variety of songs follow which carefully and comfortably guide the child toward line-line and space-space staff recognition. The new CD for Book C offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the course: when children listen, sing, tap, and move to their piano music, they play more musically.

Song of the Bells - The Art, Music, Politics, and Culture (Hardcover): Jaan Whitehead Song of the Bells - The Art, Music, Politics, and Culture (Hardcover)
Jaan Whitehead
R868 R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
London College of Music Piano Handbook 2021-2024: Grade 2 (Paperback): London College Of Music Examinations London College of Music Piano Handbook 2021-2024: Grade 2 (Paperback)
London College Of Music Examinations
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
A Pianist's Dictionary - Reflections on a Life (Paperback): Alan Hersh A Pianist's Dictionary - Reflections on a Life (Paperback)
Alan Hersh
R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Pianist's Dictionary is an exploration of the world of the classical pianist and piano professor. The author deconstructs the many familiar words that help describe these worlds as well as their practitioners. Based upon a lifetime of experience as an active concert artist and college professor, this book will resonate with both past and current students of the piano and with music lovers with even a passing interest in these worlds. Written in an accessible style, A Pianist's Dictionary covers the piano world from accompanist to tone and voicing, and helps the reader understand the mysteries of practicing and the challenges of how to find a suitable piano teacher. Filled with amusing anecdotes and observations, this book is a welcome addition to the literature about pianos and pianists.

The Art of Effective Piano Teaching (Hardcover): Dino P. Ascari The Art of Effective Piano Teaching (Hardcover)
Dino P. Ascari
R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Yardbird Suite a Compendium of the (Hardcover): Koch Yardbird Suite a Compendium of the (Hardcover)
Koch
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A comprehensive study of jazz great Charlie Parker, including details of record dates, more than 200 musical illustrations, and biographical material arranged chronologically and linked with Parker's recordings. The "Bird Stories" are all here, from Parker's Kansas City roots to his untimely death, as well as the seminal journal article on Parker's music, "Ornithology" that appeared in the Journal of Jazz Studies.

A Catalogue of French Harpsichord Music 1699-1780 (Hardcover, New): Bruce Gustafson, David Fuller A Catalogue of French Harpsichord Music 1699-1780 (Hardcover, New)
Bruce Gustafson, David Fuller
R7,681 Discovery Miles 76 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This catalogue completes the bibliographic survey of French harpsichord music begun in Bruce Gustafson's French Harpsichord Music of the Seventeenth Century: A Thematic Catalogue of Sources with Commentary (Ann Arbor, 1979). It has entries for all of the printed music known to have existed, over 230 volumes, and 150 manuscripts. It offers precise transcriptions of the title pages, full contents, dating, locations, editions, facsimiles, evaluations in the contemporary press, identifications of dedicatees, and stylistic comments. The eighteenth-century French harpsichord repertory is shown to extend from 1699 to about 1780, from Louis Marchand's Pieces de clavecin to the four Symphonies concertantes by Jean-Francois Tapray that juxtapose the harpsichord and piano as solo instruments. All original keyboard music is included. Since the introduction of the piano into France occurred during the twenty years preceding 1780, this Catalogue includes some music that may have been intended for that instrument rather than for the harpsichord. This period of transition is discussed in full in the Introduction.

Mining Congress Journal; 8 no.11 (Hardcover): American Mining Congress Mining Congress Journal; 8 no.11 (Hardcover)
American Mining Congress
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Suzuki Viola School 2 - Viola Part (Paperback): Alfred Music Suzuki Viola School 2 - Viola Part (Paperback)
Alfred Music
R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Contents are: Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus (G.F. Handel) * Musette, Gavotte II or the Musette from English Suite II in G Minor for Klavier, BWV 808 (J.S. Bach) * Hunters' Chorus from 3rd Act of the opera Der Freischutz (C.M. von Weber) * Long, Long Ago (with variation) (T.H. Bayly) * Waltz, Op. 39, No. 15 (J. Brahms) * BourrA(c)e, Sonata in F Major for Oboe, HHA IV/18, No. 8 (G.F. Handel) * The Two Grenadiers, Die Beiden Grenadier, Op. 49, No. 1 for Voice and Piano (R. Schumann) * Theme from Witches' Dance (N. Paganini) * Gavotte from Mignon (A. Thomas) * Gavotte (J.B. Lully) * Minuet in G, Wo0 10, No. 2 (L. van Beethoven) * Minuet from Sei Quintetti per Archi No. 11, Op. 11, No. 5 in E Major (L. Boccherini) * Practice Suggestions (Doris Preucil).

A Reader's Guide to the Chopin Preludes (Hardcover, New): Jeffrey Kresky A Reader's Guide to the Chopin Preludes (Hardcover, New)
Jeffrey Kresky
R3,044 Discovery Miles 30 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Chopin's set of 24 interconnected "Preludes (Op. 28)," we are presented with 24 distinct compositional surfaces, aiming at as many distinguishable emotional expressions. As such, the Preludes stand as a virtual survey of the developing musical manners of the 19th century--which was, after all, the stylistic period in which mood was promoted most energetically and frankly. Under analytic investigation, the technical means to these varied expressive ends can be discovered and assessed. 24 separate explorations reveal themselves to the inquiring musician, who can investigate any or as many of the pieces as is wished or needed. At the same time, the Preludes form a fairly compelling total entity, related by precise balances of mood and key, as well as certain subtler interconnecting details.

The individual analyses aim at conjoined descriptive statements that take into account the various separable, but ultimately fused, musical elements: line and harmony in the pitch domain; rhythm in terms of local detail, but also at the levels of meter, phrase, and form; and the various expressive modifications of dynamics and articulation. Form is seen to grow out of the harnessed progress of these elements, which together determine expressive content. "The Chopin Preludes," a centerpiece of 19th-century Romanticism, are unique: two dozen distinct moods that seem to summarize the musical manners of the time, they also function as an organic whole. This book is a detailed guide through the "Preludes," both individually and as a group. The analyses assess technical and expressive means and ends.

2016 Greatest Christian Hits - Deluxe Annual Edition (Paperback): Carol Tornquist 2016 Greatest Christian Hits - Deluxe Annual Edition (Paperback)
Carol Tornquist
R250 R233 Discovery Miles 2 330 Save R17 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Physics of Musical Instruments (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 1998. Corr. 5th printing 2008): Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas D. Rossing The Physics of Musical Instruments (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 1998. Corr. 5th printing 2008)
Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas D. Rossing
R3,384 Discovery Miles 33 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While the history of musical instruments is nearly as old as civilisation itself, the science of acoustics is quite recent. By understanding the physical basis of how instruments are used to make music, one hopes ultimately to be able to give physical criteria to distinguish a fine instrument from a mediocre one. At that point science may be able to come to the aid of art in improving the design and performance of musical instruments. As yet, many of the subtleties in musical sounds of which instrument makers and musicians are aware remain beyond the reach of modern acoustic measurements. This book describes the results of such acoustical investigations - fascinating intellectual and practical exercises. Addressed to readers with a reasonable grasp of physics who are not put off by a little mathematics, this book discusses most of the traditional instruments currently in use in Western music. A guide for all who have an interest in music and how it is produced, as well as serving as a comprehensive reference for those undertaking research in the field.

Piano Pieces for Children - Volume 2 (Hardcover): Maxwell Eckstein Piano Pieces for Children - Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Maxwell Eckstein; Illustrated by Albert Barbelle
R803 R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Save R84 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Giant Book of Classic Rock Sheet Music - Easy Piano (Paperback): Dan Coates The Giant Book of Classic Rock Sheet Music - Easy Piano (Paperback)
Dan Coates
R679 R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Save R60 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Play everyone's favorite songs with this collection of the most memorable hits of the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s Classic rock fans will have a blast applying their talent to more than 40 enduring songs made famous by legendary artists like The Beatles, David Bowie, Journey, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Rush, The Who, and more. The arrangements in this collection capture the essence of the original recordings in fun, easy piano renditions that are great for solo performance or sing-alongs. Titles: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon) * Africa (Toto) * All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix) * All My Love (Led Zeppelin) * Behind Blue Eyes (The Who) * Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) * Blinded by the Light (Manfred Mann's Earth Band) * Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan) * Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen) * Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel) * Closer to the Heart (Rush) * Dancing in the Moonlight (King Harvest) * Do You Feel Like We Do (Peter Frampton) * Don't Stop Believin' (Journey) * Faithfully (Journey) * Fool in the Rain (Led Zeppelin) * From Me to You (The Beatles) * Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) (Parliament) * Going Up the Country (Canned Heat) * The Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd) * I Love L.A. (Randy Newman) * I Saw Her Standing There (The Beatles) * Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) * Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney) * Love Reign O'er Me (The Who) * Money (Pink Floyd) * Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues) * Paranoid (Black Sabbath) * P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) (Parliament) * Pinball Wizard (The Who) * River (Joni Mitchell) * Saturday in the Park (Chicago) * She Loves You (The Beatles) * She's a Rainbow (The Rolling Stones) * The Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel) * Space Oddity (David Bowie) * St. Stephen (Grateful Dead) * Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin) * Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen) * Tom Sawyer (Rush) * Uncle John's Band (Grateful Dead) * A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum) * Wild Hors

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