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Pumping Nylon [2nd Edition] - A Classical Guitarist's Technique Handbook (Spiral bound, 2nd ed.): Scott Tennant Pumping Nylon [2nd Edition] - A Classical Guitarist's Technique Handbook (Spiral bound, 2nd ed.)
Scott Tennant
R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Harmonica For Dummies, 2nd Edition (Book, 2nd Edition): W Yerxa Harmonica For Dummies, 2nd Edition (Book, 2nd Edition)
W Yerxa
R856 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R271 (32%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wail on your harmonica! The harmonica is one of the most popular and versatile instruments in the world. There are several reasons harmonicas are awesome--you can play them anywhere, they're inexpensive, and you can show off in dozens of musical styles. The friendly and pleasingly tuneful Harmonica For Dummies is the fastest and best way to learn for yourself! You'll find an easy-to-follow format that takes you from the basics to specialized techniques, with accompanying audio and video content included to make learning even more simple and fun. Before you know it, you'll be playing jazz in your living room and the blues on your way to work or school--and that's just the prelude to mastering classical riffs. That's right, the humble harmonica has graced some of the grandest concert halls on planet Earth! Choose the right harmonica Enhance your sound with tongue technique Develop your own style Perfect your live performance The harmonica is awesome to learn, but even more awesome to&nlearn well, and Harmonica For Dummies will get you on the road from being an occasional entertainer to becoming an accomplished live performer. P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Harmonica For Dummies (9781118880760). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!

Suzuki Piano School 5 (Book, New International ed.): Alfred Music Suzuki Piano School 5 (Book, New International ed.)
Alfred Music
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The New International Edition of Suzuki Piano School, Volume 5, includes French, German and Spanish translations as well as a newly recorded CD performed by internationally renowned recording artist Seizo Azuma. Now the book and CD can be purchased together or separately.
The contents have changed to include Romantic pieces: Schumann's "About Foreign Lands and People" and Chopin's "Waltz in A Minor." Daquin's "The Cuckoo" has been moved here from Book 6. Schumann's "First Loss" and "Siciliana" as well as J. S. Bach's "Prelude in C" have been permanently removed.
Titles: F?r Elise, WoO 59 (Beethoven) * Old French Song, from the Album for the Young, Op. 39, No. 16 (Tchaikovsky) * Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772, from 15 Two-Part Inventions (J. S. Bach) * Sonatina in F Major, Anh. 5, No. 2 (Beethoven) * About Foreign Lands and People, from Scenes from Childhood (Schumann) * Sonata in C Major (Allegro con brio; Adagio; Allegro), Hob. XVI/35 (Haydn) * Waltz in A Minor, Op. posthumous (Chopin) * The Cuckoo (Daquin).

Rhapsody (Book): David Bednall Rhapsody (Book)
David Bednall
R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This powerful piece, dating from 2010, shows off the full resources of any organ it is played on. Its driving rhythms and exhilarating, often bitonal, harmonies recall such French organist-composers as Langlais and Messiaen, and while there is often an improvisatory feel, the music is far from formless, and its carefully planned structure contributes crucially to its success.

'Composing with Tones' - A Musical Analysis of Schoenberg's Op.23 Pieces for Piano (Hardcover, New Ed): Kathryn... 'Composing with Tones' - A Musical Analysis of Schoenberg's Op.23 Pieces for Piano (Hardcover, New Ed)
Kathryn Bailey
R2,812 Discovery Miles 28 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Schoenberg's Op.23 for solo piano, written between 1920 and 1923, represented a move from his atonal music of the preceding twelve years to 12-note music. In this analysis of the five pieces which make up Op.23, Kathryn Bailey discusses the ways in which Schoenberg clearly explores new ideas in these pieces in the context of his old style. Op.23 marked the development of a new way of organizing pitches and establishing centres of gravity in the absence of tonality; but it was also an extension of what had gone before. While moving on from Op.23 was not a big step for Schoenberg, it represented a climacteric in the history of musical composition. It was a long time before anyone outside of Schoenberg's circle would be able to see past the revolutionary idea of composing from a single pre-determined arrangement of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale to notice that in most ways this New Music answered the same conditions and fulfilled the same expectations that music had for generations.

Sun Dance - from Organ Dances (Sheet music): Bob Chilcott Sun Dance - from Organ Dances (Sheet music)
Bob Chilcott
R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sun Dance is a slightly modified version of the fifth movement from the composer's Organ Dances, originally conceived for organ solo, strings, and percussion. The music is for the most part celebratory in character, its spiky rhythms driven along by the pervasive alternation of 3/8 and 4/4 metrical groupings, although the composer also has fun with 7/8 and 5/8 patterns.

Piano & Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies (Paperback, 2nd Edition): H. Day Piano & Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies (Paperback, 2nd Edition)
H. Day
R812 R623 Discovery Miles 6 230 Save R189 (23%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The comprehensive go-to guide for building keyboard skills Being able to play a tune on the piano can bring you a lifetime of sheer aesthetic pleasure and put you in serious demand at parties! Whatever your motivation for tinkling the ivories, the latest edition of Piano & Keyboard All-In-One For Dummies gives you the essentials you need both to build your playing skills and expand your knowledge of music theory, from deciding what keyboard suits you best to musing on the science of what makes music so emotionally compelling. This indispensable resource combines the best of Piano For Dummies, Keyboard For Dummies, Music Theory For Dummies, and Piano Exercises For Dummies and includes practice strategies, as well as access to streaming and downloadable audio to help guide your progress. In addition to becoming acquainted with the latest in music theory, you ll learn to develop your sight-reading skills and performance techniques until you can reproduce pieces flawlessly on request! Choose and care for your keyboard Practice until perfect Compose your own songs Hook up to speakers, computers, and more Learning to play the keys is a never-ending journey of new discoveries and joy, and there s no better companion on your voyage than this friendly, erudite, and comprehensive guide. P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you re probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Piano and Keyboard AIO For Dummies (9781118837429). The book you see here shouldn t be considered a new or updated product. But if you re in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We re always writing about new topics!

Paradise and the Peri (Hardcover): Thomas 1779-1852 Moore, Owen 1809-1874 Jones, Henry 1794-1879 Warren Paradise and the Peri (Hardcover)
Thomas 1779-1852 Moore, Owen 1809-1874 Jones, Henry 1794-1879 Warren
R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Maestros in America - Conductors in the 21st Century (Hardcover): Roderick L. Sharpe, Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman Maestros in America - Conductors in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Roderick L. Sharpe, Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman
R3,542 Discovery Miles 35 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century provides short biographical and critical essays of over 100 American conductors-and conductors in America-in the twenty-first century. Roderick L. Sharpe and Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman made their selections based on three categories of persons: American-born; naturalized US citizens; and foreign conductors holding a permanent appointment in the US. In addition, all individuals included had to have been active as conductors at the start of the new millennium. These criteria allowed the authors to incorporate up-and-comers as well as those more established, offering an extensive cross-section of the upper echelons of the conducting profession focused on the present, recent past, and future. Each entry is a biographical essay containing essential facts of the conductor's life and work, as well as assessment and commentary gleaned from articles, interviews, reviews, and, in some cases, personal observation. The entries conclude with the conductor's website, a list of further reading, and selected recordings. These sketches of currently or recently practicing conductors provide insight into the state of orchestral music-making in the US as it is, has been, and may become, highlighting the efforts these conductors made to ensure its survival. Complete with two appendixes and an index, this important reference will be beneficial to music students and faculty, reference librarians, orchestral administrators, and music lovers alike.

Alfred's Basic Piano Library Lesson 4 (Staple bound): Willard A Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco Alfred's Basic Piano Library Lesson 4 (Staple bound)
Willard A Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco
R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book 4 concepts include: tarantellas; eighth note triplets; arpeggiated chords; first and second inversion triads in C; triads in all positions; major scales in parallel motion; two-part writing; seventh chords and inversions of seventh chords; E harmonic minor scale in contrary motion; primary chords in E minor; sixteenth notes; dotted eighth notes; primary chords in B-flat Major and G Minor; repeated-note warm-ups; and harmonic minor scales in parallel motion.
For reinforcement of each principle as it is introduced, supplementary material is carefully coordinated, page for page, at each level of instruction. Coordinating supplemental books for Level 4 include: Classic Themes * Duet * Ear Training * Merry Christmas * Musical Concepts * Recital * Repertoire * Sight Reading * Technic * Theory and Top Hits! Solo, Christmas and Duet books.

The Renaissance Flute - A Contemporary Guide (Hardcover): Kate Clark, Amanda Markwick The Renaissance Flute - A Contemporary Guide (Hardcover)
Kate Clark, Amanda Markwick
R2,622 Discovery Miles 26 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The renaissance flute, with its rich history, stunning repertoire, and mellow tone, has attracted a significant following among flutists, whether they specialize in modern flute or historical instruments. Yet, actually delving into the study of renaissance flute has proven a challenge - there exists a confusing array of editions of renaissance music, specialized (and often expensive) facsimiles of manuscripts and early prints, and in unfamiliar notations, while at the same time there is a dearth of resources for beginners. Confronting this challenge with the first ever practitioners' handbook for renaissance flute, Kate Clark and Amanda Markwick offer flutists of all levels a clear and accessible introduction to the world and repertoire of the instrument. In The Renaissance Flute: A Contemporary Guide, Clark and Markwick cover all aspects, from practicalities such as buying and maintaining the instrument, to actual music for solo and group performance, to theory designed to improve the understanding and playing of renaissance polyphony. This approach enables students to immerse themselves at their own pace and build on their skills with each chapter. With nearly 40 full pages of exercises, and a companion website with recorded examples and filmed instructions from the authors, The Renaissance Flute provides professionals and newcomers alike a new entryway into the world and practice of renaissance music.

The Really Big Really Easy Piano Book (Book): The Really Big Really Easy Piano Book (Book)
R1,101 R1,012 Discovery Miles 10 120 Save R89 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Processional (Sheet music): William Mathias Processional (Sheet music)
William Mathias
R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Toccata in Seven (Sheet music): John Rutter Toccata in Seven (Sheet music)
John Rutter
R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Evocation of Wells Cathedral (Sheet music): David Bednall Evocation of Wells Cathedral (Sheet music)
David Bednall
R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Walton's Paean (Sheet music): David Bednall Walton's Paean (Sheet music)
David Bednall
R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Commissioned for the 40th birthday of the organist Paul Walton, Walton's Paean is a work of great verve, with compelling rhythms, exciting harmonies, and catchy melodies propelling the celebratory music forward. Through the boisterous excitement, legato passages emerge as the piece hurtles towards the resounding finale. There is also a little joke in the occasional references to the music of Paul Walton's namesake, William.

Really Easy Piano - Coldplay (Book): Really Easy Piano - Coldplay (Book)
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Teaching Performance: A Philosophy of Piano Pedagogy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Jeffrey Swinkin Teaching Performance: A Philosophy of Piano Pedagogy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Jeffrey Swinkin
R2,978 R2,014 Discovery Miles 20 140 Save R964 (32%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How can the studio teacher teach a lesson so as to instill refined artistic sensibilities, ones often thought to elude language? How can the applied lesson be a form of aesthetic education? How can teaching performance be an artistic endeavor in its own right? These are some of the questions Teaching Performance attempts to answer, drawing on the author's several decades of experience as a studio teacher and music scholar. The architects of absolute music (Hanslick, Schopenhauer, and others) held that it is precisely because instrumental music lacks language and thus any overt connection to the non-musical world that it is able to expose essential elements of that world. More particularly, for these philosophers, it is the density of musical structure-the intricate interplay among purely musical elements-that allows music to capture the essences behind appearances. By analogy, the author contends that the more structurally intricate and aesthetically nuanced a pedagogical system is, the greater its ability to illuminate music and facilitate musical skills. The author terms this phenomenon relational autonomy. Eight chapters unfold a piano-pedagogical system pivoting on the principle of relational autonomy. In grounding piano pedagogy in the aesthetics of absolute music, each domain works on the other. On the one hand, Romantic aesthetics affords pedagogy a source of artistic value in its own right. On the other hand, pedagogy concretizes Romantic aesthetics, deflating its transcendental pretentions and showing the dichotomy of absolute/utilitarian to be specious.

M. Owen Lee - The Great Instrumental Works (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed): Owen Lee M. Owen Lee - The Great Instrumental Works (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)
Owen Lee
R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

(Unlocking the Masters). From Mozart to Debussy to Olivier Messiaen, the works of 50 composers are closely examined in The Great Instrumental Works . It is a book for anyone who enjoys the lively arts of opera, drama, film, literature, and popular song and who wants to find out what is really going on in the symphonies of Mozart, the string quartets of Beethoven, the orchestral works of Debussy and Ravel, and the contemporary pieces of Olivier Messiaen and Arvo Part. The author, Father Owen Lee, is an internationally known commentator on music and the arts, and writes with a style that has been called "rich, dense, and profound" (Citizen's Weekly), "highly readable" (Choice), and "often irreverently amusing" (Opera News). With Father Lee as a guide, the intricacies of classical forms and key relationships are rendered not only intelligible but meaningful, the music itself becomes life-enhancing, and its great composers come vividly to life.

Adult Piano Adventures - Classics Book 1 - Symphony Themes, Opera Gems and Classical Favorites (Paperback): Nancy Faber,... Adult Piano Adventures - Classics Book 1 - Symphony Themes, Opera Gems and Classical Favorites (Paperback)
Nancy Faber, Randall Faber
R311 Discovery Miles 3 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Progressive Keyboard Book 1 - Method for Young Beginners (Paperback): Andrew Scott, Gary Turner Progressive Keyboard Book 1 - Method for Young Beginners (Paperback)
Andrew Scott, Gary Turner
R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This title includes a Book, 1 DVD & 1 CD. Learning to play the keyboard is fun with this carefully designed method for the young beginner. The key features include: easy to follow lesson-by-lesson format for the absolute beginner; incorporates a repertoire of well-known children's songs; introduces 5 notes with the right hand & 3 one-fingered chords with the left hand; teaches music theory in an interesting and practical way; full colour illustrations throughout the whole book; the student can continue on to "Keyboard Method for Young Beginners" Book 2 and Book 3; and a must-have for any child with an interest in playing a musical instrument. This method for Young Beginners also comes with a CD and DVD with recordings of all examples and exercises contained in the book.

The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads (Abridged, Hardcover, Abridged edition): Bertrand Harris Bronson The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads (Abridged, Hardcover, Abridged edition)
Bertrand Harris Bronson
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes written down between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unsurpassed in its presentation of texts, this exhaustive collection devoted little attention to the ballad music, a want that was filled by Bertrand Harris Bronson in his four-volume Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. The present book is an abridged, one-volume edition of that work, setting forth music and text for proven examples of oral tradition, with a new comprehensive introduction. Its convenient format makes readily available to students and scholars the materials for a study of the Child ballads as they have been preserved in the British-American singing tradition.

La La Land (Piano Solo) (Sheet music): Benj Pasek, Justin Hurwitz, Justin Paul La La Land (Piano Solo) (Sheet music)
Benj Pasek, Justin Hurwitz, Justin Paul 2
R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The romantic musical comedy-drama film La La Land is the winner of six Oscars, seven Golden Globes and five BAFTAs. This artist-approved selection of 10 songs from the Oscar-winning music by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul has been expertly arranged for intermediate solo piano, including the Oscar winning City of Stars.

Steinway & Sons (Paperback): Laura Lee Smith Steinway & Sons (Paperback)
Laura Lee Smith; Foreword by Michael Feinstein
R586 R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Save R57 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Monarch of the Flute - The Life of Georges Barrere (Hardcover): Nancy Toff Monarch of the Flute - The Life of Georges Barrere (Hardcover)
Nancy Toff
R1,916 Discovery Miles 19 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Georges Barrere (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varese--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance.
Barrere's story is a musical tale of two cities, and this book uses his life as a window onto musical life in Belle Epoque Paris and twentieth-century New York. Recurrent themes are the interactions of composers and performers; the promotion of new music; the management, personnel, and repertoire of symphony orchestras; the economic and social status of the orchestral and solo musician, including the increasing power of musicians' unions; the role of patronage, particularly women patrons; and the growth of chamber music as a professional performance medium.
A student of Paul Taffanel at the Paris Conservatoire, by age eighteen Barrere premiered the landmark Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. He went on to become solo flutist of the Concerts Colonne and to found the Societe Moderne d'Instruments a Vent, a pioneering woodwind ensemble that premiered 61 works for 40 composers in its first ten years. Invited by Walter Damrosch to become principal flute of the New York Symphony in 1905, he founded the woodwind department at the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard). His many ensembles toured the United States, building new audiences for chamber music and promoting French repertoire as well as new American music. Toff narrates Barrere's relationships with the finest musicians and artists ofhis day, among them Isadora Duncan, Yvette Guilbert, Andre Caplet, Paul Hindemith, Albert Roussel, Wallingford Riegger, and Henry Brant. The appendices of the book, which list his 170 premieres and the 50 works dedicated to Barrere, are a resource for a new generation of performers.
Based on extensive archival research and oral histories in both France and the United States, this is the first biography of Barrere. It is being published in conjunction with the centennial of his arrival in the United States in May 1905.

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