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Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important
historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the
best-known pieces written for the instrument. Numerous contextual
and theoretical insights make it an essential resource for
professional, amateur, and student clarinetists. With engaging
prose supported by fact-filled analytical charts, the book offers
rich biographical information and informative analyses to help
clarinetists gain a more complete understanding of Three Pieces for
Clarinet Solo by Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland's Concerto for
Clarinet, String Orchestra, Harp, and Piano, Robert Schumann's
Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 73. and Time Pieces for
Clarinet and Piano, Op. 43. by Robert Muczynski, among many others.
With close attention to matters of context, style, and harmonic and
formal analysis, Albert Rice explores a significant portion of the
repertoire, and offers a faithful and comprehensive guide that
includes works by Boulez, Brahms, and Mozart to Hindemith, Poulenc,
and Stamitz. Rice includes biographical information on each
composer and highlights history's impact on the creation and
performance of important works for clarinet. Intended as a starting
point for connecting performance studies with scholarship, Rice's
analysis will help clarinetists gain a more complete picture of a
given work. Its valuable insights make it essential to musicians
preparing and presenting programs, and its detailed historical
information about the work and composer will encourage readers to
explore other works in a similarly analytical way. Covering
concertos, chamber pieces, and works for solo clarinet, Rice
presents Notes for Clarinetists as an indispensable handbook for
students and professionals alike.
This classic of music criticism provides detailed studies of 23 of
Mozart's piano concertos. In addition to establishing the lines
along which the genre developed, the concertos also shed light upon
the technical and inspirational growth of their creator.
The first full-length survey devoted to these works, this scholarly
book presents a full, concrete musical analysis that makes liberal
use of musical examples -- 417 in all -- and presents authoritative
information on the concertos' form, tone, style, and balance as
well as the circumstances of their composition. The author compares
and contrasts each piece with Mozart's other works and with
compositions by Beethoven, Haydn, and other composers. A definite
text for musicologists, performers, teachers, and students, this
study's clarity and personable tone make it accessible to any lover
of Mozart's music.
This wonderful anthology presents a fascinating survey of music by
African composers, both those living in Africa and those now
resident elsewhere in the world. The music, much of which is
published here for the first time, includes a kaleidoscope of
different styles, moods, genres, and colours. You will find works
influenced by the blues, jazz, and ragtime and works built on
exotic scales, African folk-tunes, and drumming rhythms. The
volumes are graded, ranging from beginner (Vol. 1) to advanced
(Vol. 5). They provide exciting material for pianists just
beginning their studies and for those who are looking for new and
exciting recital repertoire.
Start picking the five-string banjo like a pro with this definitive
guide to bluegrass banjo! Whether you re an absolute beginner or an
experienced player, Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies gets you started
off the right way and is your road map for mastering today s most
popular traditional and contemporary banjo picking styles. Online
audio and video clips combine with the book s clear step-by-step
instructions to provide the most complete and fun - banjo
instruction experience available anywhere! Bluegrass banjo has
never been more popular and is heard today not only in country and
folk music, but in jazz, rock and country styles. Bluegrass Banjo
For Dummies provides everything you need to know to play just about
any kind of music on the five-string banjo by getting you started
with the roll patterns essential to Scruggs style picking. You ll
then add left-hand techniques such as slides, hammer-ons and
pull-offs, play great sounding licks and perform classic tunes like
Cripple Creek and Old Joe Clark. You ll navigate up the neck on the
instrument as well as learn the essential skills you need to play
with others in jam sessions and in bands. You ll even tackle
contemporary banjo styles using melodic and single-string scales
and picking techniques. * Choose a banjo and accessories that are
just right for you and your budget. * Put on your fingerpicks, find
your optimal hand position and start playing with the help of
online audio and video. * Explore the fingerboard using melodic and
single-string playing styles. * Accompany others in different keys
with roll patterns and chord vamping techniques. * Keep your banjo
sounding its best with practical and easy set up tips. Bill Evans
is one of the world s most popular banjo players and teachers, with
over forty years of professional experience. In Bluegrass Banjo For
Dummies, he shares the tips, secrets and shortcuts that have helped
thousands of musicians, including many of today s top young
professionals, to become great banjo players.
Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kk kila, the
Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here
historian and steel guitarist John W. Troutman offers the
instrument's definitive history, from its discovery by a young
Hawaiian royalist named Joseph Kekuku to its revolutionary
influence on American and world music. During the early twentieth
century, Hawaiian musicians traveled the globe, from tent shows in
the Mississippi Delta, where they shaped the new sounds of country
and the blues, to regal theaters and vaudeville stages in New York,
Berlin, Kolkata, and beyond. In the process, Hawaiian guitarists
recast the role of the guitar in modern life. But as Troutman
explains, by the 1970s the instrument's embrace and adoption
overseas also worked to challenge its cultural legitimacy in the
eyes of a new generation of Hawaiian musicians. As a consequence,
the indigenous instrument nearly disappeared in its homeland. Using
rich musical and historical sources, including interviews with
musicians and their descendants, Troutman provides the complete
story of how this Native Hawaiian instrument transformed not only
American music but the sounds of modern music throughout the world.
Vaughan Williams began this work - his earliest known piece for a
solo instrument with orchestra - in 1896, shortly after returning
to the Royal College of Music to study composition with Stanford,
and completed it in 1904. After his death, the manuscript was
donated to the British Library, and it was here that the pianist
Mark Bebbington rediscovered it in 2010, subsequently recording it
for Somm Records. The work shows influences of late
nineteenth-century composers, but also hallmarks of Vaughan
Williams's later style and maturity. As such, it offers a
fascinating glimpse into the composer's development, as well as
being a powerful work in its own right. This is its first
publication; a reduction for two pianos is also available on sale.
Orchestral material is available on hire/rental.
More String Time Joggers is an exciting collection from the authors
of the award-winning Fiddle Time series. It provides enjoyable and
inventive ensemble material for all string groups, in flexible
scoring (for violin, viola, cello, and double bass with piano or CD
accompaniment) from two parts to large string ensemble. There are
pupil books with lively illustrations for violin, viola, cello, and
double bass.
(Guitar Recorded Versions). Here's the desert-island tab collection
you've been waiting for Features 50 awesome guitar classics as
featured on the popular tab website, transcribed note for note
Includes: Blackbird * Bohemian Rhapsody * Born to Be Wild * Dream
On * Dust in the Wind * Free Ride * Hallelujah * Hey Joe * Iron Man
* Let Me Hear You Scream * Maggie May * Message in a Bottle * The
Sky Is Crying * Smells like Teen Spirit * Smoke on the Water *
Sweet Child O' Mine * 21 Guns * Under the Bridge * Wonderwall * and
more.
Violin Globetrotters brings together 12 toe-tapping original tunes
in styles from around the world - from Arabic to Chinese and from
klezmer to the Argentinian tango - for the budding violinist. This
unique book presents a kaleidoscope of musical traditions, with
supporting background information and backing tracks that capture
each sound-world. To help with technique and interpretation, every
piece includes tailored warm-ups and stylistic tips from the
author. With options for violin or piano accompaniment, and an
inspirational CD, Violin Globetrotters is the ultimate resource for
aspiring violinists looking to go travellin' ... Winner of the
Music Industries Association Best Education Publication in 2011.
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