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Violin Specimen Sight-Reading Tests, ABRSM Grades 6-8 - from 2012 (Sheet music): Violin Specimen Sight-Reading Tests, ABRSM Grades 6-8 - from 2012 (Sheet music)
R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for ABRSM Violin exams, Grades 6-8. Includes many specimen tests for the revised sight-reading requirements from 2012, written in attractive and approachable styles and representative of the technical level expected in the exam.

Suzuki Cello School 3 (Revised) (Paperback, Revised ed.): Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi Suzuki Cello School 3 (Revised) (Paperback, Revised ed.)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
R594 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R42 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
String Quartets - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Mara Parker String Quartets - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Mara Parker
R4,398 Discovery Miles 43 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original publication (chapters for general references, histories, individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and critical editions, and miscellaneous topics) and has been updated to cover research since publication of the first edition. Listings in the previous volume have been updated to reflect the burgeoning interest in this genre (social aspects, newly issued critical editions, doctoral dissertations). It also offers commentary on online links, databases, and references.

Himnos de Gloria Y Triunfo (Spanish, Paperback): Vida Himnos de Gloria Y Triunfo (Spanish, Paperback)
Vida
R212 R176 Discovery Miles 1 760 Save R36 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

SPANISH EDITION. This is one of the most popular hymnals, used by million of believers because it contains traditional hymns as well as praise and worship songs.

Understanding Mozart's Piano Sonatas (Hardcover, New Ed): John Irving Understanding Mozart's Piano Sonatas (Hardcover, New Ed)
John Irving
R4,202 Discovery Miles 42 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mozart's piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the pianist's repertoire. In this study, John Irving looks at a wide selection of contextual situations for Mozart's sonatas, focusing on the variety of ways in which they assume identities and achieve meanings. In particular, the book seeks to establish the provisionality of the sonatas' notated texts, suggesting that the texts are not so much identifiers as possibilities and that their identity resides in the usage. Close attention is paid to reception matters, analytical approaches, organology, the role of autograph manuscripts, early editions and editors, and aspects of historical performance practice - all of which go beyond the texts in opening windows onto Mozart's sonatas. Treating the sonatas collectively as a repertoire, rather than as individual works, the book surveys broad thematic issues such as the role of historical writing about music in defining a generic space for Mozart's sonatas, their construction within pedagogical traditions, the significance of sound as opposed to sight in these works (and in particular their sound on fortepianos of the later eighteenth-century) , and the creative role of the performer in their representation beyond the frame of the text. Drawing together and synthesizing this wealth of material, Irving provides an invaluable reference source for those already familiar with this repertoire.

Piano Star, Book 1 (Sheet music): David Blackwell Piano Star, Book 1 (Sheet music)
David Blackwell
R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Piano Star is an exciting series for young pianists, offering a rich selection of new repertoire to help players build confidence and musical skills. Piano Star 1 is suitable for learners who have worked through a first tutor and includes compositions by David Blackwell, Jane Sebba, Nancy Litten, Mike Cornick, Sarah Watts, Edmund Jolliffe, Andrew Eales, Kathy Blackwell, Aisling Greally, Alan Bullard, Alasdair Spratt, and Karen Marshall. Key features of the series: - Solo pieces, plus a number of duets - A rich mix of musical styles, with techniques introduced progressively - Fun extension activities - Beautifully illustrated

Piano Star - Book 2 - 26 Pieces for Young Pianistsprep Test Level (Sheet music): Piano Star - Book 2 - 26 Pieces for Young Pianistsprep Test Level (Sheet music)
R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Piano Star is an exciting series for young pianists, offering a rich selection of new repertoire to help players build confidence and musical skills. Piano Star 2 is at ABRSM Prep Test level and provides alternative repertoire for that assessment and includes compositions by David Blackwell, Edmund Jolliffe, Mike Cornick, Aisling Greally, Christopher Norton, Mark Tanner, Sarah Watts, Alasdair Spratt, Andrew Eales, Heather Hammond, Karen Marshall, Nicholas Scott-Burt, Nancy Litten, Paul Harris, Alan Bullard, and Peter Gritton. Key features of the series: - Solo pieces, plus a number of duets - A rich mix of musical styles, with techniques introduced progressively - Fun extension activities - Beautifully illustrated

Play Guitar With... The Best Of Metallica (Paperback): Play Guitar With... The Best Of Metallica (Paperback)
R731 R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Save R69 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

On the CD you will find two specially and professionally recorded 'soundalike' tracks for each song, the first being a full demonstration with guitar showing exactly how the song should sound. The second version is a full backing track without guitar for you to play along with Metallica themselves! The matching music book contains both standard notation and tablature for every song plus chord symbols and complete lyrics for vocalists. This title includes songs such as: "Enter Sandman"; "Fade to Black"; "Nothing Else Matters"; and; "Ain't My Bitch".

The New Guitarscape in Critical Theory, Cultural Practice and Musical Performance (Hardcover, New edition): Kevin Dawe The New Guitarscape in Critical Theory, Cultural Practice and Musical Performance (Hardcover, New edition)
Kevin Dawe
R4,213 Discovery Miles 42 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In The New Guitarscape, Kevin Dawe argues for a re-assessment of guitar studies in the light of more recent musical, social, cultural and technological developments that have taken place around the instrument. The author considers that a detailed study of the guitar in both contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives is now absolutely essential and that such a study must also include discussion of a wide range of theoretical issues, literature, musical cultures and technologies as they come to bear upon the instrument. Dawe presents a synthesis of previous work on the guitar, but also expands the terms by which the guitar might be studied. Moreover, in order to understand the properties and potential of the guitar as an agent of music, culture and society, the author draws from studies in science and technology, design theory, material culture, cognition, sensual culture, gender and sexuality, power and agency, ethnography (real and virtual) and globalization. Dawe presents the guitar as an instrument of scientific investigation and part of the technology of globalization, created and disseminated through corporate culture and cottage industry, held close to the body but taken away from the body in cyberspace, and involved in an enormous variety of cultural interactions and political exchanges in many different contexts around the world. In an effort to understand the significance and meaning of the guitar in the lives of those who may be seen to be closest to it, as well as providing a critically-informed discussion of various approaches to guitar performance, technologies and techniques, the book includes discussion of the work of a wide range of guitarists, including Robert Fripp, Kamala Shankar, Newton Faulkner, Lionel Loueke, Sharon Isbin, Steve Vai, Bob Brozman, Kaki King, Fred Frith, John 5, Jennifer Batten, Guthrie Govan, Dominic Frasca, I Wayan Balawan, Vicki Genfan and Hasan Cihat A-rter.

Shostakovich in Dialogue - Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7 (Hardcover, New edition): Judith Kuhn Shostakovich in Dialogue - Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7 (Hardcover, New edition)
Judith Kuhn
R4,368 Discovery Miles 43 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A thorough examination of Shostakovich's string quartets is long overdue. Although they can justifiably lay claim to being the most significant and frequently performed twentieth-century oeuvre for that ensemble, there has been no systematic English-language study of the entire cycle. Judith Kuhn's book begins such a study, undertaken with the belief that, despite a growing awareness of the universality of Shostakovich's music, much remains to be learned from the historical context and an examination of the music's language. Much of the controversy about Shostakovich's music has been related to questions of meaning. The conflicting interpretations put forth by scholars during the musicological 'Shostakovich wars' have shown the impossibility of fixing a single meaning in the composer's music. Commentators have often heard the quartets as political in nature, although there have been contradictory views as to whether Shostakovich was a loyal communist or a dissident. The works are also often described as vivid narratives, perhaps a confessional autobiography or a chronicle of the composer's times. The cycle has also been heard to examine major philosophical issues posed by the composer's life and times, including war, death, love, the conflict of good and evil, the nature of subjectivity, the power of creativity and the place of the individual - and particularly the artist - in society. Soviet commentaries on the quartets typically describe the works through the lens of Socialist-Realist mythological master narratives. Recent Western commentaries see Shostakovich's quartets as expressions of broader twentieth-century subjectivity, filled with ruptures and uncertainty. What musical features enable these diverse interpretations? Kuhn examines each quartet in turn, looking first at its historical and biographical context, with special attention to the cultural questions being discussed at the time of its writing. She then surveys the work's reception history, and follows with a critical discussion of the quartet's architectural and harmonic features. Using the new tools of Sonata Theory, Kuhn provides a fresh analytical approach to Shostakovich's music, giving valuable and detailed insights into the quartets, showing how the composer's mastery of form has enabled these works to be heard as active participants in the Soviet and Western cultural discourses of their time, while remaining compelling and relevant to twenty-first-century listeners.

Chamber Music - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover, 3rd edition): John H Baron Chamber Music - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
John H Baron
R4,439 Discovery Miles 44 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Chamber Music: A Research and Information Guide is a reference tool for anyone interested in chamber music. It is not a history or an encyclopedia but a guide to where to find answers to questions about chamber music. The third edition adds nearly 600 new entries to cover new research since publication of the previous edition in 2002. Most of the literature is books, articles in journals and magazines, dissertations and theses, and essays or chapters in Festschriften, treatises, and biographies. In addition to the core literature obscure citations are also included when they are the only studies in a particular field. In addition to being printed, this volume is also for the first time available online. The online environment allows for information to be updated as new research is introduced. This database of information is a "live" resource, fully searchable, and with active links. Users will have unlimited access, annual revisions will be made and a limited number of pages can be downloaded for printing.

Zen Guitar (Paperback, New edition): Philip Toshio Sudo Zen Guitar (Paperback, New edition)
Philip Toshio Sudo
R470 R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Save R122 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Each of us carries a song inside us, the song that makes us human. ZEN GUITAR provides the key to unlocking this song - a series of life lessons presented through the metaphor of music. Philip Sudo offers his own experiences with music to enable us to rediscover the harmony in each of our lives and open ourselves to Zen awareness uniquely suited to the Western Mind. Through fifty-eight lessons that provide focus and a guide, the reader is led through to Zen awareness. This harmony is further illuminated through quotes from sources ranging from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Miles Davis. From those who have never strummed a guitar to the more experienced, ZEN GUITAR shows how the path of music offers fulfillment in all aspects of life - a winning idea and an instant classic.

Finding Fretless - The story of George Harrison's mad guitar (Paperback): Finding Fretless - The story of George Harrison's mad guitar (Paperback)
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
How To Play Bass Guitar - Easy to Read, Easy to Play; Basics, Styles & Techniques (Spiral bound, New edition): Alan Brown How To Play Bass Guitar - Easy to Read, Easy to Play; Basics, Styles & Techniques (Spiral bound, New edition)
Alan Brown; Graeme Aymer
R325 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R55 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

No band would be complete without a bass element giving depth and unity. "How to Play Bass Guitar" contains everything the new or intermediate bass player needs to perfect their playing of this vital instrument. Highly practical, the book leads you from the basics of how to hold, fret, pluck and play scales through to playing chord-framing patterns and muted percussive rhythms - understanding how the bass underpins the harmonies of a band. The clear text is accompanied by illustrative photos and diagrams, and the guide is complemented by a chord finder, scales and modes finder, a glossary and further reading.

101 Movie Hits for Cello (Book): Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 101 Movie Hits for Cello (Book)
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
R499 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R78 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jazz Guitar Fake Book - Volume 1 - Lead Sheets for 200 Jazz Standards (Paperback): Hal Leonard Corp Jazz Guitar Fake Book - Volume 1 - Lead Sheets for 200 Jazz Standards (Paperback)
Hal Leonard Corp
R1,241 R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Save R214 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Keys to the Drama - Nine Perspectives on Sonata Forms (Hardcover, New Ed): Gordon Sly Keys to the Drama - Nine Perspectives on Sonata Forms (Hardcover, New Ed)
Gordon Sly
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sonata form is fundamentally a dramatic structure that creates, manipulates, and ultimately satisfies expectation. It engages its audience by inviting prediction, association, and interpretation. That sonata form was the chief vehicle of dramatic instrumental music for nearly 200 years is due to the power, the universality, and the tonal and stylistic adaptability of its conception. This book presents nine studies whose central focus is sonata form. Their diversity attests both to the manifold analytical approaches to which the form responds, and to the vast range of musical possibility within the form's exemplars. At the same time, common compositional issues, analytical methods, and overarching perspectives on the essential nature of the form weave their way through the volume. Several of the essays approach the musical structure directly as drama, casting the work as an expression of its composer's engagement with an idea or principle that is dynamic and at times intensely difficult. Others concentrate their attention on a composer's use of "motive," which typically takes the form of a simple melodic span that shapes the musical architecture through an interdependent series of structural levels. Integrating these motivic threads within the musical fabric often warrants departures from formal norms in other areas. Analyses that seek to understand works with anomalous formal qualities-whether engendered by a motivic component or not-have a prominent place in the volume. Among these, accounts of idiosyncratic tonal discourse that threatens to undermine the unfolding of form-defining qualities or events are central.

Recorder Magic: Descant Tutor Book 2 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Jane Sebba, David Moses Recorder Magic: Descant Tutor Book 2 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Jane Sebba, David Moses; Illustrated by Evelline Andrya; Contributions by Collins Music
R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Teach kids how to play the recorder with fun lessons and sheet music for beginners. The recorder is the most widely taught instrument in schools. For the majority of children, it is their first introduction to playing and reading music. This book which is part of a scheme is designed for teaching new notes - D, F sharp and high D. Recorder magic is an acclaimed recorder method for beginners, with fresh new tunes and performance opportunities right from the start. Perfect resources for whole class teaching of recorders in the Wider Opportunities classroom. Suitable for both generalist and specialist teachers.

Piano Pedagogy - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover): Gilles Comeau Piano Pedagogy - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)
Gilles Comeau
R4,511 Discovery Miles 45 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide provides a detailed outline of resources available for research and/or training in piano pedagogy. Like its companion volumes in the Routledge Music Bibliographies series, it serves beginning and advanced students and scholars as a basic guide to current research in the field. The book will includes bibliographies, research guides, encyclopedias, works from other disciplines that are related to piano pedagogy, current sources spanning all formats, including books, journals, audio and video recordings, and electronic sources.

The American Symphony (Hardcover): Neil Butterworth The American Symphony (Hardcover)
Neil Butterworth
R3,496 Discovery Miles 34 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998, this volume is the first book to focus on the American symphony. Neil Butterworth surveys the development of the symphony in the United States from early European influences in the last century to the present day, and asks why American composers have shown such allegiance to a musical form which their European contemporaries appear to have discarded. An overview of the growth of musical societies in America during the eighteenth century and the establishment of the first professional orchestras during the early part of the nineteenth century is followed by chronological analyses of the works of those composers who have played important parts in the progress of symphony in the United States, from Charles Ives, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, to contemporary figures such as William Bolcom and John Harbison. Complete with a comprehensive catalogue of symphonies and an extensive discography, this book is an indispensable reference work.

The Bel Canto Violin - The Life and Times of Alfredo Campoli, 1906-1991 (Hardcover): David Tunley The Bel Canto Violin - The Life and Times of Alfredo Campoli, 1906-1991 (Hardcover)
David Tunley
R2,738 Discovery Miles 27 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999, this biography from David Tunley draws on newly researched documentary evidence to chart Campoli's early success and his later struggle for recognition as a serious artist. Campoli's early success and his later struggle for recognition as a serious artist. Campoli's career emerges as one particularly shaped and directed by the great economic and social forces of the first half of the century, and the story here is as much that of his times, as of his life. Described by Szigeti as 'one of the last great individualists among violinists', Alfredo Campoli was a household name in the field of British light music prior to the Second World War. Having made his debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1923 Campoli toured with Melba and Butt, then turned to light music during the Depression. He became one of Decca's early recording artists and broadcast frequently for the BBC with his light music ensembles and pursued a long, successful career as a distinguished international performer.

Classic Guitar Technique, Volume 1 (Third Edition) (Paperback, 3rd ed.): Aaron Shearer, Thomas Kikta Classic Guitar Technique, Volume 1 (Third Edition) (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
Aaron Shearer, Thomas Kikta
R569 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R85 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pioneer Violin Virtuose in the Early Twentieth Century - Maud Powell, Marie Hall, and Alma Moodie: A Gendered Re-Evaluation... Pioneer Violin Virtuose in the Early Twentieth Century - Maud Powell, Marie Hall, and Alma Moodie: A Gendered Re-Evaluation (Hardcover)
Tatjana Goldberg
R3,464 Discovery Miles 34 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tatjana Goldberg reveals the extent to which gender and socially constructed identity influenced female violinists' 'separate but unequal' status in a great male-dominated virtuoso lineage by focussing on the few that stood out: the American Maud Powell (1867-1920), Australian-born Alma Moodie (1898-1943), and the British Marie Hall (1884-1956). Despite breaking down traditional gender-based patriarchal social and cultural norms, becoming celebrated soloists, and greatly contributing towards violin works and the early recording industry (Powell and Hall), they received little historical recognition. Goldberg provides a more complete picture of their artistic achievements and the impact they had on audiences.

Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy - Bright Futures, Dark Pasts (Hardcover): Ian Pace, Nigel McBride Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy - Bright Futures, Dark Pasts (Hardcover)
Ian Pace, Nigel McBride
R3,927 Discovery Miles 39 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is an unmistakeable presence in the British and international new music scene, both for his immeasurable generosity as prolific composer for many different types of musicians, major advocate for the works of others, and performer and conductor who has also been a driving force behind ensembles; he was also President of the International Society for Contemporary Music from 1990 to 1996. His vast and enormously varied output confounds those who seek easy categorisations: once associated strongly with the 'new complexity', Finnissy is equally known as composer regularly engaged with many different folk musics, for working with amateur and community musicians, for a long-term engagement with sacred music, or as an advocate of Anglo-American 'experimental' music. Twenty years ago, a large-scale volume entitled Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy gave the first major overview of the output of any 'complex' composer. This new volume brings a greater plurality of perspectives and critical sensibility to bear upon an output which is almost twice as large as it was when the earlier book was published. A range of leading contributors - musicologists, composers, performers and others - each grapple with particular questions relating to Finnissy's music, often in ways which raise questions relating more widely to new music, and provide theoretical foundations for further of study both of Finnissy and other composers.

Noel! Carols And Anthems For Advent, Christmas - & Epiphany for Mixed Voice Choirs, Vol. 2 (Sheet music): David Hill Noel! Carols And Anthems For Advent, Christmas - & Epiphany for Mixed Voice Choirs, Vol. 2 (Sheet music)
David Hill
R533 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R48 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

(Music Sales America). Noel 2 is an exciting collection of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed voice choirs, from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. The contents range from the Renaissance to the present: from Bach and Sweelinck, familiar settings of traditional and lesser known carols through the ages to Howells and Leighton and works by today's composers include Richard Rodney Bennett, Eric Whitacre, John Tavener, Tarik O'Regan and Richard Allain. Among the 43 anthems, mixed voice choirs of all levels will find new arrangements of favorite carols, hymns with new descants, as well as stimulating original works for the Christmas season. Songs include; Angelus Ad Virginem * Coventry Carol * E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come (Manz) * Gloria, Dei Sir Gesungen (Bach) * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn) * Lullay My Liking (Holst) * Once in Royal David's City * Of a Rose (McDowall) * Resonet in Laudibus (Praetorius) * Rocking (Tavener) * Threshold of Night (O'Regan) * Torches (Joubert) * What Sweeter Music (Allain) * and more.

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