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Books > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Percussion instruments
Growing out of the collaborative research of an American
ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The
Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument
known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the
analysis of the improvisatory processes that propel mbira music's
magnificent creativity. In this book, Berliner provides insight
into the communities of study, performance, and worship that
surround mbira. He chronicles how master player Costas Magaya and
his associates have developed their repertory and practices over
more than four decades, shaped by musical interaction, social and
political dynamics in Zimbabwe, and the global economy of the music
industry. At once a detailed exposition of the music's forms and
practices, it is also an indispensable historical and cultural
guide to mbira in a changing world. Together with Berliner and
Magaya's compendium of mbira compositions, Mbira's Restless Dance,
The Art of Mbira breaks new ground in the depth and specificity of
its exploration of an African musical tradition, and in the
entwining of the authors' collaborative voices. It is a testament
to the powerful relationship between music and social life--and the
rewards of lifelong musical study, performance, and friendship.
The "Goldenberg book" has been used by generations of orchestral
mallet players to develop their skills. As well as studies and
etudes, this book includes excerpts of major orchestral repertoire
for keyboard percussion instruments. This edition, edited by Tony
Cirone, includes phrasings that were inherent in the music but not
specifically written out. Stickings are also addressed: the
original stickings are in uppercase letters, and the added
stickings are in lowercase. This book is the primary source for
keyboard percussion players to learn technique and orchestral
repertoire.
The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before
the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a
provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key
innovators in the development of the drum kit: inventors and
manufacturers like the Ludwig and Zildjian dynasties, jazz icons
like Gene Krupa and Max Roach, rock stars from Ringo Starr to Keith
Moon, and popular artists who haven't always got their dues as
drummers, such as Karen Carpenter and J Dilla. Tackling the history
of race relations, global migration, and the changing tension
between high and low culture, author Matt Brennan makes the case
for the drum kit's role as one of the most transformative musical
inventions of the modern era. Kick It shows how the drum kit and
drummers helped change modern music-and society as a whole-from the
bottom up.
(Harmonica). The songbook no harmonica player should be without
Features 45 pop, rock, Broadway, movie hits and standards: Brown
Eyed Girl * Daydream Believer * Dust in the Wind * Edelweiss *
Heart and Soul * Imagine * Let It Be * Maggie May * Raindrops Keep
Fallin' on My Head * Stand by Me * We Will Rock You * What a
Wonderful World * Yellow Submarine * You Are My Sunshine * Your
Cheatin' Heart * and more.
(Berklee Guide). If you want to take your drumming chops to the
next level, you must know how to read drum music. Written by
Professor Dave Vose, this Berklee Workshop is ideal for both
beginners and pros and includes everything you'll need to make
sightreading drum notation easy and natural. Features: more than 50
lessons complete with general practice tips; steady learning
progression from reading quarter notes to 16th-note triplets;
practice rhythms containing accents, flams, rolls, ruffs, tempo and
meter changes; and much more.
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