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In Great Songwriting Techniques, veteran composer and teacher Jack
Perricone shares years of experience in the art, science, and
pedagogy of songwriting to teach readers the craft. Whether they
write for a small group of friends or in the hopes of creating a
smash hit, aspiring songwriters can learn how to focus on topics
essential to their success in this competitive field; every
songwriter must be aware of audience, thick-skinned enough to
handle rejection and competition, and most importantly have the
confidence to master the craft of composing and producing.
Perricone teaches readers to accomplish this through a targeted
series of lessons on key elements of songwriting from building
blocks like melody, harmony, and rhythm to more advanced topics
like lyric placement and tone texture. Chapters explore loop-based
harmonic patterns, tone tendencies, form, function, and lyric
writing, all in service of preparing the aspiring songwriter to be
a master of prosody and keen in understanding the relationship
between words and music. The volume includes examples of
exceptional songwriting from well-known artists such as Irving
Berlin, Prince, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, and
Taylor Swift.
Flute 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 flautist. This
unique book presents a kaleidoscope of musical traditions, with
supporting information and backing tracks that capture each
sound-world. To help with technique and interpretation, every piece
includes warm-ups and stylistic tips from the authors. With options
for flute or piano accompaniment, and inspirational recordings,
Flute Globetrotters is the ultimate resource for those looking to
go travellin' ...
(Essential Elements Guitar). The songs in the Hal Leonard Essential
Elements Guitar Ensembles series are playable by multiple guitars.
Each arrangement features the melody (lead), a harmony part, and a
bass line. Chord symbols are also provided if you wish to add a
rhythm part. For groups with more than three or four guitars, the
parts may be doubled. All of the songs are printed on two facing
pages so no page turns are required. This series is perfect for
classroom guitar ensembles or other group guitar settings. Your
guitar ensemble will enjoy playing these 15 holiday hits: Angels
from the Realms of Glory * Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a
Manger * Coventry Carol * Deck the Hall * The First Noel * God Rest
Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Good King Wenceslas * Hark the Herald Angels
Sing * It Came upon the Midnight Clear * Jingle Bells * Joy to the
World * O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) * Silent Night *
We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Nancy and Randall Faber re-release their
popular supplementary publications for the Adult Piano Adventures
series. Christmas for All Time, Book 1 features three sections:
Beginning Christmas Songs, Christmas Songs in the Key of C major,
and Christmas Songs in the key of G major. Contents include: We
Wish You a Merry Christmas * Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in
a Manger * Jingle Bells * We Three Kings of Orient Are * (There's
No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * It Came Upon the Midnight
Clear * O Little Town of Bethlehem * Frosty the Snowman *
Jingle-Bell Rock * I'll Be Home for Christmas * Little Drummer Boy
* Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * and more. The included
CD contains background accompaniments, MIDI files, and solo piano
performance examples.
Faure was not drawn to compose a Requiem because of the death of a
loved one, even though his mother had died during the early stages
of composition and his father had passed away two years before.
Faure's composition does not set his Requiem to the standard
liturgical text, instead adding a lyrical Pie Jesu and transcendent
Paradisum, and omitting the Dies Irae and Tuba Mirum - which, for
most composers, are opportunities to demonstrate the dramatic
possibilities available with the choral and orchestral forces. As a
result the mood of the Requiem is relatively calm and peaceful and
often referred to as a lullaby of death. Faure's unconventional
composition has become a firm favourite in the repertoire and
available here is the vocal score, for soloists and SATB choir with
piano accompaniment, as edited by Desmond Ratcliffe.
Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker,
Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical
theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the
orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book
ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose
work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the
careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as
it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit. Steven
Suskin has meticulously tracked down thousands of original
orchestral scores, piecing together enigmatic notes and notations
with long-forgotten documents and current interviews with dozens of
composers, producers, conductors and arrangers. The information is
separated into three main parts: a biographical section which gives
a sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre
orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another
thirty arrangers and conductors; a lively discussion of the art of
orchestration, written for musical theatre enthusiasts (including
those who do not read music); a biographical section which gives a
sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators,
as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty
arrangers and conductors; and an impressive show-by-show listing of
more than seven hundred musicals, in many cases including a
song-by-song listing of precisely who orchestrated what along with
relevant comments from people involved with the productions.
Stocked with intriguing facts and juicy anecdotes, many of which
have never before appeared in print, The Sound of Broadway Music
brings fascinating and often surprising new insight into the world
of musical theatre.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 3 Cello syllabus
for 2020-2023, 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. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Cello Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 5 Violin syllabus
for 2020-2023, 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. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Violin Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
This treasure trove of an anthology is full to the brim with songs
and seasonal verses that will delight children and encourage them
to sing and play. Illustrated throughout with colour images, the
Winter Songbook features four thematic sections: `Christmas',
`Winter Indoors', `Wintry Weather' and `Winter Outdoors'. Providing
ample material for teachers and parents, the book also includes
selections of rhyming words, commentary on the significance of
repetition, rhythm and beat, suggestions for seasonal stories, and
practical teaching and parenting tips. For years, teachers, parents
and students have requested that Sally Schweizer publish her
collections of songs and verses - so here they are, presented in
four wonderful anthologies to inspire the imagination and to
celebrate the seasonal cycle!
Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 6 (Late Intermediate) is
part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to
improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome
problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through
rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical
issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions,
and finally by `going solo' with a series of meticulously graded
sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio
available online for students to check their performances against.
The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your
reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will
ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.
Grieg's Thirty-eight Pianoforte Pieces are published as part of
ABRSM's 'Signature' Series - a series of authoritative performing
editions of standard keyboard works, prepared from original sources
by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions and
performance notes.
Boom Boom! Classics! contains ten simple and effective arrangements
of classic themes from all-time great composers that will give
students a fun way to learn about and perform classical music. A CD
is included with rhythm band accompaniments and full performance
with BoomwhackersA(R) for each selection. It provides the student
with musical concepts and a terrific accompaniment for performance.
Opportunities to incorporate movement and other Orff instruments
into the lessons are outlined by the author in her teaching
suggestions for each piece. Contains: Turkish March * Hungarian
Dance No. 5 * Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 7 * Spinning Song * Theme
from The Merry Widow * Rondeau Theme from Symphonic Suite No. 1 *
Hopak * Can-Can * William Tell Overture * Theme from "The Trout"
Quintet.
Jazz on a Winter's Night is a Christmas piano album of stylish,
swinging arrangements. Favourite Christmas carols and songs receive
the complete jazz treatment, with rhythm, harmony, grooves, and
solos all carefully notated. The expertise of the arranger, a
celebrated jazz pianist and composer, guarantees an authentic jazz
sound, and a range of styles from Nat King Cole to John Coltrane.
While paying homage to American Christmas jazz, the collection also
reflects a European tradition, in such time-honoured classics as
'In the bleak mid-winter'.
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century
swaggering carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and
marries naive millworker Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as
he learns that Julie is pregnant and a desperately intent upon
providing a decent life for his family a he is coerced into being
an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the
certainty of prison he takes his own life and is sent up there.
Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day 15 years later and
he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely
friendless teenager her father's reputation as a thief and bully
having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills a
sense of hope and dignity in both the child and her mother is a
dramatic testimony to the power of love. It's easy to understand
why of all the shows they created ECarouselE was Rodgers and
Hammerstein's personal favorite.
(String). Compilations of violin literature appropriate for
students, arranged by difficulty level.
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