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I Scare Myself
- A Memoir
(Paperback)
Dan Hicks; Foreword by Elvis Costello; Afterword by Tommy LiPuma; Edited by Kristine McKenna
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'Dan is a national treasure and one of America s great songwriters.
Elvis Costello. 'Dan s songs were funny, serious, and entertaining,
and the combo of old-timey folk, country, and jazz knocked me out.
Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. 'Dan Hicks is like
lightning in a bottle. Bette Midler. Dan Hicks didn t have his
heart set on a career in music. It all just sort of happened to
him. It didn t hurt, of course, that he was in the right place at
the right time San Francisco, 1966 and had a front-row seat for the
birth and death of the counterculture. Among other things, this is
a classic story of the 60s. More importantly, it s a story of
musical genius. By the time the Summer of Love limped to a close in
the fall of 67, Hicks had quit the Charlatans the pioneering
psych-rock band with whom he played the drums and turned to jazz,
the music he d secretly loved all along, as he began building his
own band, the Hot Licks. 'I just started taking ingredients I liked
and putting them together to see what came out, Hicks writes. What
came out was an amazing blend of complex time signatures, unusual
instrumentation, and intricate vocal harmonies that took him to the
top of the 70s rock world but also into a downward spiral of drink
and drug abuse. Emerging from a long wilderness, which he writes
about here with wit and candour, the man described by Tom Waits as
'fly, sly, wily, and dry eventually returned to recording and
performing, making a number of acclaimed albums, including Beatin
The Heat, a set of duets with Waits, Costello, Rickie Lee Jones,
and more. Along the way, his music continued to subtly permeate the
culture, turning up everywhere from The Sopranos to commercials for
Levi s and Bic. Hicks passed away in early 2016, but his music, and
the stories he tells here, remain as fresh and irresistible as
ever. I Scare Myself takes readers on a journey behind the music,
and into the life and mind of the fantastic artist who created it.
(Book). The Jazz Guitar Handbook is a step-by-step guide to jazz
guitar playing. It takes you from the basics through to advanced
harmony and soloing concepts, and teaches you the music theory a
jazz guitarist needs to know. Along the way it covers a wide range
of styles, including jazzy blues, swing, bebop, modal, jazz-funk,
Gypsy, and more. The handbook features over 120 exercises in
notation and tab and includes a 96-track CD of examples,
play-alongs, and backing tracks. It also presents the history of
the jazz guitar and its great players. Easy to use and useful for
players at various levels, this volume is a must-have reference for
players looking to expand their jazz skillset.
A contemporary of Handel and Bach, Scarlatti is best remembered now
for his 555 keyboard sonatas. Distinctive and playful, the sonatas
are testament to Scarlatti's great skill and show the influence of
his time spent as a composer in Spain, Italy and Portugal.
Featuring over twenty pieces by the Baroque composer, Domenico
Scarlatti: Sheet Music for Piano gathers some of his best works and
are suitable for a range of abilities. With difficulty levels
indicated and fingerings clearly marked, these books are designed
for easy reading and are the ideal resource of any piano or
keyboard player.
It is most interesting to know that nowadays the recorder has more
admirers than ever before. Especially the treble recorder is most
suited to be played in the home circle. There exists a lot of music
for this particular instrument already, mainly of the period from
Bach to Mozart. The works of the great masters during the above
mentioned period, such as Bach, Handel, Telemann, Mattheson, etc.,
require a high technical proficiency. The object of this booklet is
to familiarize the player with this technical proficiency, by means
of special exercises.
First Published in 1994. In their quest for new sound materials,
avant-garde musicians often produce sounds which accidentally bear
a strong resemblance to traditional instruments. While conventional
Western instruments have taken on a functional role, instruments
such as the shakuhachi are still closely associated with their
cultural, religious, and historical roots. The colorful and unique
shakuhachi has become the most widely known and used Japanese
instrument. This collection provides a comprehensive historical
overview of the shakuhachi, its technical aspects and its
relationship to the flute.
The revised edition for Suzuki Violin School, Volume 5 is now
available. Like the other revised violin books, the music has been
edited by the International Violin Committee. Other features
include:
* New engravings in a more easily readable 9 x 12 format
* New editing of pieces, including bowings and fingerings
* Available together with a newly recorded CD for $19.95
* CD recorded by William Preucil, Concertmaster of the Cleveland
Orchestra
* Piano accompaniments recorded by Linda Perry
This comprehensive survey shows how the larger scale works relate
to Beethoven's chamber music and how the composer evolved an
increasing freedom of form. Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context
provides professional and amateur musicians, and music lovers
generally, with a complete survey of Beethoven's chamber music and
the background to each individual work - the loyalty of patrons,
musicians and friends on the one hand; increasing deafness and
uncertain health on the other. Attention is paid to the influence
of such large-scale compositions as the Eroica Symphony and Fidelio
on the chamber music of his middle years and the Missa Solemnis and
the Ninth Symphony on his late quartets. The author also lays
stress on Beethoven's ever-increasing freedom of form - largely a
result of his mastery of improvisationand a powerful symbol of the
fusion of classical discipline with the subversive spirit of
romantic adventure which characterises his mature music.
Beethoven's friends were not shy about asking him what his music
meant, orwhat inspired him, and it is clear that he attached the
greatest importance to the words he used when describing the
character of his compositions. 'The tempo is more like the body,'
he wrote when commending Malzel's invention ofthe metronome, 'but
these indications of character certainly refer to the spirit.'
Angus Watson, a violinist and conductor, has been Director of Music
at Stowe School, Winchester College and Wells Cathedral School, one
of Britain's specialist music schools. From 1984-1989 he was Dean
of Music at the newly founded Hong Kong Academy for Performing
Arts.
This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their
fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano.
It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural
and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance
periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well as the
early music revival. Stewart Pollens identifies and describes the
types of keyboard instruments played by major composers and
virtuosi through the ages and provides the reader with detailed
instructions on their regulating, stringing, tuning and voicing
drawn from historical sources.
This piano course has been specifically written to help students
progress through the tricky intermediate stages of learning the
piano. Through carefully chosen repertoire, quick studies, key
technical information and musicianship activities, students will
develop the skills that they require. Note-reading will be
improved, technique developed and a greater understanding of style
and music theory will be gained. The Intermediate Pianist Book 1 is
suitable for Grade 3 level pianists and forms part of the Piano
Trainer series.
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101 Hit Songs
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Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
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The Faber Music Soundtracks Piano Anthology is an essential
collection of some of the best-loved music from film and
television, specially arranged for solo piano for the intermediate
pianist. Featuring music from television favourites such as
Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Killing Eve and Planet Earth, and movies
including Lord of the Rings, Pan's Labyrinth, The Piano, The
Favourite and Manchester by the Sea.
Pipers takes the reader inside the world of the performer community
of Scottish piping, introducing the instrument itself and the
various different repertories. It also discusses piping techniques
as well as information on some of the great piping dynasties and
individual pipers. Dr Willie Donaldson shows how 'traditional
music', often assumed to be the anonymous product of a dim and
distant past, is the creation of gifted individuals operating in a
sophisticated and vigorously ongoing enterprise. Since pipers have
often been skilled also on the fiddle, keyboards and small-pipes,
or as singers or dancers, their story offers fascinating insights
into the whole traditional music and song repertoire of Scotland.
Pipers is a well-informed and highly readable account by a
prize-winning author who is a piper and composer of pipe music as
well as an internationally recognised historian of Scottish
tradition.
Andras Schiff is one of the most important pianists of our time.
This stimulating account of his life and work, told in two parts,
takes readers on an intimate journey from Schiff's childhood in
Hungary through to the present day. In conversationw with Martin
Meyer, Schiff discusses a diverse range of topics from his
experiences with anti-Semitism and communist rule to his musical
training with maestros such as Pal Kadosa and Ferenc Rados, as well
as his thoughts on playing techniques and musical interpretation.
In a collection of Schiff's writings we are enthralled by a guided
tour of Bach's 'Goldberg' Variations, sobered by Schiff's public
defiance against nationalistic and racist attitudes - to the extent
that he refused to perform in Haider's Austria or Orban's Hungary -
and delighted by the playful 'Ten Commandments' for concertgoers.
More than a memoir, this is a seminal compilation of the thoughts
and experiences of one of the greatest musicians of our time, of
his inimitable art of making music out of silence.
Film Themes: The Piano Collection brings together 30 favourite
themes and songs from such films as Star Wars, Frozen, Hunger
Games, How To Train Your Dragon and Twilight, plus several pieces
from the Harry Potter film series and "Mia and Sebastian's Theme"
from the acclaimed new movie La La Land. All pieces have been
arranged for the intermediate pianist.
This book will guide students through everything they need to know
to become a confident sight reader, working up towards
exam-standard practice tests. The accompanying CD demonstrates
every piece in the book, offering spoken hints and encouragement
along the way. It is designed to help students check and improve
their own playing when they are working away from their teacher,and
has been written and composed by two experienced teachers and
examiners.
Taking account of Bach scholarship of the past twenty-five years, the first two volumes of Peter Williams's classic study of Bach's organ works are fully revised. This work is a piece-by-piece commentary on this ever-popular repertoire, demonstrating the music's unique qualities and how we might hear and play it today. The book follows the order of the Bach catalog (BWV): beginning with the sonatas, followed by the "free works" and the chorales, and ending with the doubtful works, including the "newly discovered chorales" of 1985.
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