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Time To Begin, the cornerstone of the Music Tree series, is a
unique and highly effective approach to beginning piano
instruction. Starting with off-staff notation, it leads the student
to reading direction and intervals, and climaxes with the discovery
of the Grand Staff. Also included is a carefully designed program
of rhythm, technic and creative work. The cassette features
electronic renditions of the music: it offers the accompaniment
alone, or both the student's and teacher's parts. The Teacher's
Handbook is an invaluable tool. This volume contains essays
regarding how students learn, on technic, and how rhythm is
presented. Teaching aspects are discussed, and suggestions are
offered for each unit of the book.
Vaughan Williams's famous romance for solo violin and orchestra is
given new life in this beautiful arrangement. For the first time,
violinists can perform the original solo line as part of a string
quartet, while also joining the other players for the longer tutti
sections. Perfect as a rehearsal tool in preparation a larger-scale
orchestral concert, the arrangement is also ideal for performance
in a chamber recital.
J.G. Tromlitz's German tutor for the keyed flute explains in great detail how to play a flute of that period. In addition to a complete translation, this edition contains a study of the flute's history, and assesses Tromlitz's importance as a designer. It contains information vital to the historically informed performance of the music of the period.
Pick and roll your way through bluegrass banjo basics The banjo
nearly defines the bluegrass sound, and you'll be playing your own
favorite tunes--or maybe writing some new ones--with the help of
this book. Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies is the place to start if
you're ready to start learning banjo or upgrade your skills to play
in the bluegrass style. Written by an expert musician and educator,
this book makes it easy to start plucking your 5-string banjo using
common bluegrass techniques. You'll also have access to over 100
online audio files, and 35 video lessons, so you can see and hear
the techniques in practice. This book serves as your first step to
becoming a bluegrass banjo player, even if you're completely new to
playing musical instruments. Choose the right banjo, pick up the
basics, learn classic banjo licks, and more--the easy way. Learn
how to read banjo tablature and perform on a five-string banjo Get
insight on playing as part of a bluegrass combo band Practice with
classic bluegrass tunes and banjo licks Create banjo solos that
will wow your audiences This friendly For Dummies guide is great
for fledgling banjo players interested in the bluegrass style.
Whether or not you already play another instrument, you'll pick up
the banjo basics you can show off at your next local bluegrass
festival.
Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of
contemporary opera productions. What are the most striking and
decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to
stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers' bodily
presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones?
Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi
explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between
performers and the audience, representation and presence, the
familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical
descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings,
and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the
German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book
to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts
our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides
tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera.
This book will particularly interest scholars and students in
theater and performance studies, musicology, and the humanities,
and may also appeal to operagoers and theater professionals.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CRAIG BROWN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE TWO
THREE FOUR Everybody knows the Beatles: John, Paul, George, Ringo
... and Brian. The Fab Four's meteoric rise is one of the most
famous rags-to-riches stories ever told. And behind it all was
Brian Epstein, the 'fifth Beatle' and legendary manager, who
transformed the group from a small-time club band into global
superstars. What was his secret? How did one man lead these scruffy
Liverpool lads to change the world of popular music forever? A
Cellarful of Noise is Brian Epstein's original 1964 memoir of a
life spent making music history. It includes thirty contemporary
photographs which offer a glimpse of Brian and the Beatles on their
way to phenomenal success. Eye-opening, moving and constantly
entertaining, this is essential reading for every Beatles fan.
This study of American liberty and war songs is among the first to
examine them in a historical and literary context and to focus
almost exclusively on the lyrics. Unlike other works that are
primarily songbooks, this book provides a fresh view of an
important aspect of American culture and offers new insight into
the thoughts and feelings of Americans during periods of crisis.
Special attention is given to the songs that emerged from the early
American wartime experiences, including those written before and
during the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the
Civil War, with an emphasis on the similarities and differences in
song themes, techniques and styles.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). The 2nd Edition Level 2B Lesson Book
offers a systematic approach to scales, primary chords (I, IV, V7),
and transposition for the keys of C, G, and F major. This new
edition features nine new songs, plus enhanced arrangements of
favorite pieces from the first edition. The new "Scale and Chord
Adventures" appendix offers teachers the flexibility to explore
major and minor scale and chord patterns in all twelve keys.
The cross-genre approach of this volume attempts to build a
dialogue and synergies between communities of artists. The proposed
monograph would appeal to academic readerships and postgraduate
students in music and/or sound studies in a broad sense, with
particular appeal to specialists in contemporary art music and or
as music technology.
In this ground-breaking study, Paul Laird examines the process and
effect of orchestration in West Side Story and Gypsy, two musicals
that were among the most significant Broadway shows of the 1950s,
and remain important in the modern repertory. Drawing on extensive
archival research with original manuscripts, Laird provides a
detailed account of the process of orchestration for these
musicals, and their context in the history of Broadway
orchestration. He argues that the orchestration plays a vital role
in the characterization and plot development in each major musical
number, opening a new avenue for analysis that deepens our
understanding of the musical as an art form. The orchestration of
the score in Broadway musicals deeply shapes their final
soundscapes, but only recently has it begun to receive real
attention. Linked by a shared orchestrator, in other ways West Side
Story and Gypsy offer a study in contrasts. Breaking down how the
two composers, Leonard Bernstein and Jules Styne, collaborated with
orchestrators Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal, and Robert Ginzler, Laird's
study enables us to better understand both of these two iconic
shows, and the importance of orchestration within musical theatre
in general.
* Describes the creative energy of two highly respected 20th
century artists, Iannis Xenakis both as engineer and composer, and
Roger Reynolds, Pulitzer prize winning musician in 1989 * Will
appeal to the professional sector of musicians and architects, and
students in both of these disciplines * Connects the creative path
of architecture and music, i.e., Xenakis' treatment of "light" in
an architectural context parallels his use of varying textural
density in his music. * Analyzes chamber works Achorripsis,
Thallein, and his string quartet, Tetras, which pertain to the
interactive house design
A method in how to play jazz and hot guitar.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 3 Piano syllabus
for 2021 & 2022, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B
and C. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an
attractive and varied range of styles, creating a collection that
provides an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer.
The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing
for exams, useful syllabus information. The enclosed CD features
inspiring recordings of all 30 pieces on the Grade 3 syllabus,
performed by Nikki Iles, Dinara Klinton, Robert Thompson and
Anthony Williams.
This book presents a novel method of grafting musical wind
instruments by exchanging an instrument's standard mouthpiece with
different tone generators. Using the concrete example of the
soprano saxophone, it describes how, with six other tone
generators, including brass, double reed, and free reed mechanisms,
the saxophone can be extended to nearly every wind instrument
category in the von Hornbostel and Sachs classification system. The
book demonstrates how it is possible to play these instrument
variations with high proficiency, and describes the method of
hyper-specialization, including acoustical insights, conservatory
training methods and the underlying philosophy. The latter is based
on the cultural traditions of the different wind instrument
prototypes and the Deep Listening philosophy of cultivating
internal diversity, and approach that leads to a new level of wind
instrument virtuosity that offers great timbral variety combined
with the flexibility of a regular acoustic wind instrument.
The Contemporary Guitar traces the extraordinary rise of the
instrument in concert music over the past century. Though
recognized worldwide as a popular music icon, the all-to-recent
time when the guitar was looked down upon as a second-class citizen
in the world of "serious" music is finally past, and it can now be
found in the scores of the most important composers. The guitar's
rightful place in chamber music, orchestral music, or as a solo
instrument is now without question, whether in the classic acoustic
form or the more recent electric version. While the guitar has
stood in the vanguard of musical experimentation, its many new
techniques and notations remain a mystery for many composers and
players. In The Contemporary Guitar, musician and scholar, John
Schneider explains each class of technique and illustrates them
with examples. Moreover, because the guitar is easily refretted, it
has also become a leading instrument in the exploration of the
relatively new musical language of microtonality. In this revised
and enlarged edition from the original work of three decades ago,
Schneider adds a broad-ranging, entirely new chapter on the
instruments, notation and repertoire with insights into the
interpretation of historical works through the application of
accurate contemporary tunings and temperaments. The guitar's unique
timbre-its tone color-is one of the most versatile among modern
instruments, both acoustic and electric. Most players who
intuitively explore the subtleties of tone color will find outlined
in The Contemporary Guitar the specific principles of physics that
determine these subtleties which, once mastered, permit guitarists
to control more completely the expressive palette of their
instrument. Designated the Rational Method of Tone Production by
its author, Schneider defines in great detail the timbral
characteristics of acoustic and electric instruments from
theoretical, physical, and musical viewpoints. Players in search of
new repertoire will find an historical survey of the literature, an
exhaustive list of new music, and a multitude of techniques for
bringing such music to life. The Contemporary Guitar provides audio
examples online for those seeking to discover new sounds and
includes the notation to perform them.
This Element investigates the balance and interaction of
imagination (visions) and technique (decisions) in the composition
of music and includes current scientific research on dreams, the
hypnagogic state, emotions, and feelings. It also includes thoughts
of composers past and present, and examines how works start from
visions in a range of music, comparing musical ideas and techniques
to models in other creative disciplines. The Element elucidates
aspects of musical discourse by imagining how Haydn, Mozart, and
other composers would order falafel for takeout. This unorthodox
approach emphasizes parallels between music and theater that are
central to this Element.
(Guitar Reference). Until the launch of the Flying V and Explorer
in 1958, electric guitars were supposed to look like...guitars.
Suddenly, Gibson turned conventional design upside down, almost
literally, by using straight lines and angular body shapes,
changing the way electrics could look and, in the process, creating
a set of rare future collectables. Flying V, Explorer, Firebird
tells the story of those first peculiar instruments and goes on to
describe Gibson's second attempt at nonstandard designs with the
Firebird of the early '60s. The book shows how most of these were a
commercial failure at first and goes on to detail the influence of
the designs on guitar-makers such as Hamer, Jackson, Dean, Ibanez,
and BC Rich, all of whom embraced Gibson's original weird-is-good
design ethic. In parallel with the story of the makers is an
absorbing account of the players who discovered these odd-shaped
instruments, including Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society), Edge (U2),
and Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick). Interviews with players and makers
illuminate the story of this fascinating assortment of electric
guitar innovations, alongside specially commissioned images of
every key model and brand and an enviable collection of guitar
memorabilia, plus a gallery of leading guitarists photographed in
action with their instruments. If it's weird and has strings, it's
in Flying V, Explorer, Firebird .
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