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A carefully graded series of exercises, solos, duets, and chord
studies which are an ideal supplement to the Mel Bay Modern Guitar
Method Grade 1 and to the note-reading section of Mel Bay's Guitar
Class Method. Studies are included for each string, and the keys of
C, A minor, G, and E minor are presented. Guitar Studies Grade 1,
in addition, will be a valuable aid to any beginning guitar student
and the content will augment and enhance learning regardless of the
basic instructional text being used. In notation only.
This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing
with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the
original publication (chapters for general references, histories,
individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and
critical editions, and miscellaneous topics) and has been updated
to cover research since publication of the first edition. Listings
in the previous volume have been updated to reflect the burgeoning
interest in this genre (social aspects, newly issued critical
editions, doctoral dissertations). It also offers commentary on
online links, databases, and references.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Major and minor pentascales; intervals
through the 6th; C. G, and F major scales. Contents include: Almost
Like a Dream * America * American Fiddle Tune * Beach Party *
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Theme * Blues Train * The Boogie Machine
* Brahms' Lullaby * Can-Can * Cathedral Chimes * Chord Jumps *
Classical Dance * Cross-Hand Arpeggios * El Matado.
No single American could personify what Henry Luce called the
American Century but Isaac Stern came closer than most. Despite
modest origins as the child of Jewish immigrants in San Francisco,
by the early 1940s talent and practice had brought him a Carnegie
Hall debut, critical acclaim and the attention of the legendary Sol
Hurok. As America came of age, so too did Stern. He would go on to
make music on five continents, records in formats from 78 rpm to
digital, friends as different as Frank Sinatra and Isaiah Berlin,
and policy from Carnegie Hall to Washington, Jerusalem and
Shanghai. He also loaned instruments to young players, brokered
gigs for Soviet emigres and replied in person to inquiring fans.
Wide-ranging yet intimate, The Lives of Isaac Stern is a portrait
of an artist and musical statesman who left a profound musical and
cultural legacy.
We are living in an emerging technoculture. Machines and gadgets
not only weave the fabric of daily life, but more importantly
embody philosophical and religious values which shape the
contemporary moral vision-a vision that is often at odds with
Christian convictions. This book critically examines those values,
and offers a framework for how Christian moral theology should be
formed and lived-out within the emerging technoculture. Brent
Waters argues that technology represents the principal cultural
background against which contemporary Christian moral life is
formed. Addressing contemporary ethical and religious issues, this
book will be of particular interest to students and scholars
exploring the ideas of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Grant, Arendt, and
Borgmann.
The Step by Step series is a collection of exercise books/CDs for
violin based on the Mother-Tongue approach. From the very
beginning, it will provide a solid foundation in instrumental
technique for Suzuki and traditional approaches in private lessons
or group settings. The focus is on teaching correct,
child-appropriate practice habits that range from listening,
singing, and dancing to playing music. The ideas presented,
including information for parent and practice tips should stimulate
daily practice and also make it more effective. Includes new piano
arrangements by David Andruss. This volume is the Complete Version
based on Suzuki Violin School, Volume 1, and includes the Violin
Exercise Book in English with the CD. Pages: 74
This new edition contains all the scales and arpeggios required for
ABRSM's Grade 1 Violin exam. Includes all Grade 1 scales and
arpeggios for the revised syllabus from 2012, with bowing patterns,
along with a helpful introduction including advice on preparing for
the exam.
A brand new book of great pieces to work alongside the bestselling
Abracadabra tutorial books. Accompaniments are provided on the CD,
providing great pieces for concerts throughout the year. Anyone can
take the stage and stand in the spotlight! This brand new book
works alongside the bestselling Abracadabra tutorial books to
provide additional pieces which are longer in length, great fun and
perfect for concert performances or simply more musical fun. 14
pieces, from classics to folk and jazz are carefully selected for
violinists to enjoy playing for themselves and audiences. Suitable
for players at grades 1-3 level. Includes CD of fantastic backing
tracks specially arranged for this book, providing sparkle to any
performance. Four songs include optional duet parts for friends to
join in.
One of the finest books available on jazz guitar chords. Joe covers
all the bases with two sections on chord forms and chord passages.
Chords are divided into six categories: Major, Seventh, Augmented,
Minor, Diminished, and Minor Seventh Flat Fifth, each showing
substitutions and inversions that Joe would play when confronted
with "basic" chord symbols. The chord passage section is divided
into nine categories, including such topics as Major Sounds,
Diminished Sounds, Augmented Sounds, Standard Patter Chord
Substitutions, and other chord progression - related topics.
This songbook contains every song recorded by The Smiths specially
arranged in the original keys. Each song includes chord symbols,
guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics.
“A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history”
(The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative
masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated
the electric guitar’s amplified sound—Leo Fender and Les
Paul—and their intense competition to convince rock stars like
the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments
they built. In the years after World War II, music was evolving
from big-band jazz into rock ’n’ roll—and these louder styles
demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender’s tiny firm
marketed the first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire,
musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered,
Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a
competitive product. The company designed an “axe” that would
make Fender’s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul—whose
endorsement Leo Fender had sought—to put his name on it. Thus was
born the guitar world’s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus
Fender, Les versus Leo. While Fender was a quiet, half-blind,
self-taught radio repairman, Paul was a brilliant but headstrong
pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical
technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most
inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s—including bluesman
Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric
Clapton—adopted one maker’s guitar or another. By 1969 it was
clear that these new electric instruments had launched music into a
radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume
never before attainable. In “an excellent dual portrait” (The
Wall Street Journal), Ian S. Port tells the full story in The Birth
of Loud, offering “spot-on human characterizations, and erotic
paeans to the bodies of guitars” (The Atlantic). “The story of
these instruments is the story of America in the postwar era: loud,
cocky, brash, aggressively new” (The Washington Post).
North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide is
the first large-scale annotated bibliography and research guide on
the fiddle traditions of the United States and Canada. These
countries, both of which have large immigrant populations as well
as Native populations, have maintained fiddle traditions that,
while sometimes faithful to old-world or Native styles, often
feature blended elements from various traditions. Therefore,
researchers of the fiddle traditions in these two countries can not
only explore elements of fiddling practices drawn from various
regions of the world, but also look at how different fiddle
traditions can interact and change. In addition to including short
essays and listings of resources about the full range of fiddle
traditions in those two countries, it also discusses selected
resources about fiddle traditions in other countries that have
influenced the traditions in the United States and Canada.
First published in 1999, this biography from David Tunley draws on
newly researched documentary evidence to chart Campoli's early
success and his later struggle for recognition as a serious artist.
Campoli's early success and his later struggle for recognition as a
serious artist. Campoli's career emerges as one particularly shaped
and directed by the great economic and social forces of the first
half of the century, and the story here is as much that of his
times, as of his life. Described by Szigeti as 'one of the last
great individualists among violinists', Alfredo Campoli was a
household name in the field of British light music prior to the
Second World War. Having made his debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1923
Campoli toured with Melba and Butt, then turned to light music
during the Depression. He became one of Decca's early recording
artists and broadcast frequently for the BBC with his light music
ensembles and pursued a long, successful career as a distinguished
international performer.
This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing
with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the
original publication (chapters for general references, histories,
individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and
critical editions, and miscellaneous topics) and has been updated
to cover research since publication of the first edition. Listings
in the previous volume have been updated to reflect the burgeoning
interest in this genre (social aspects, newly issued critical
editions, doctoral dissertations). It also offers commentary on
online links, databases, and references.
Violin Star is a three-book series offering beginner violinists a
refreshing and inspirational choice of pieces to help build
confidence and musical skills. The repertoire is imaginatively
tailored to develop specific techniques through an exciting range
of musical styles. This Student's book contains the solo violin
parts, along with colourful illustrations, activities and a
playalong CD. The Accompaniment book, available separately,
includes piano and violin accompaniments for every piece. Key
features of the series include: an approachable progression from
beginner level to Grade 2; playalong CDs with each Student's book,
which contain specially created instrumental arrangements to convey
style and mood; and original compositions and arrangements by
Edward Huws Jones.
This new edition contains all the scales and arpeggios required for
ABRSM's Grades 1-5 Cello exams. Contains all scales and arpeggios
for the revised syllabus from 2012, with bowing patterns and
suggested fingering, and a helpful introduction including advice on
preparing for the exam.
In The New Guitarscape, Kevin Dawe argues for a re-assessment of
guitar studies in the light of more recent musical, social,
cultural and technological developments that have taken place
around the instrument. The author considers that a detailed study
of the guitar in both contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives
is now absolutely essential and that such a study must also include
discussion of a wide range of theoretical issues, literature,
musical cultures and technologies as they come to bear upon the
instrument. Dawe presents a synthesis of previous work on the
guitar, but also expands the terms by which the guitar might be
studied. Moreover, in order to understand the properties and
potential of the guitar as an agent of music, culture and society,
the author draws from studies in science and technology, design
theory, material culture, cognition, sensual culture, gender and
sexuality, power and agency, ethnography (real and virtual) and
globalization. Dawe presents the guitar as an instrument of
scientific investigation and part of the technology of
globalization, created and disseminated through corporate culture
and cottage industry, held close to the body but taken away from
the body in cyberspace, and involved in an enormous variety of
cultural interactions and political exchanges in many different
contexts around the world. In an effort to understand the
significance and meaning of the guitar in the lives of those who
may be seen to be closest to it, as well as providing a
critically-informed discussion of various approaches to guitar
performance, technologies and techniques, the book includes
discussion of the work of a wide range of guitarists, including
Robert Fripp, Kamala Shankar, Newton Faulkner, Lionel Loueke,
Sharon Isbin, Steve Vai, Bob Brozman, Kaki King, Fred Frith, John
5, Jennifer Batten, Guthrie Govan, Dominic Frasca, I Wayan Balawan,
Vicki Genfan and Hasan Cihat A-rter.
First published in 1999, this biography from David Tunley draws on
newly researched documentary evidence to chart Campoli's early
success and his later struggle for recognition as a serious artist.
Campoli's early success and his later struggle for recognition as a
serious artist. Campoli's career emerges as one particularly shaped
and directed by the great economic and social forces of the first
half of the century, and the story here is as much that of his
times, as of his life. Described by Szigeti as 'one of the last
great individualists among violinists', Alfredo Campoli was a
household name in the field of British light music prior to the
Second World War. Having made his debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1923
Campoli toured with Melba and Butt, then turned to light music
during the Depression. He became one of Decca's early recording
artists and broadcast frequently for the BBC with his light music
ensembles and pursued a long, successful career as a distinguished
international performer.
After decades of stagnation during the reign of his father, the
'Barracks King', the performing arts began to flourish in Berlin
under Frederick the Great. Even before his coronation in 1740, the
crown prince commenced recruitment of a group of musician-composers
who were to form the basis of a brilliant court ensemble. Several
composers, including C.P.E. Bach and the Graun brothers, wrote
music for the viola da gamba, an instrument which was already
becoming obsolete elsewhere. They were encouraged in this endeavour
by the presence in the orchestra from 1741 of Ludwig Christian
Hesse, one of the last gamba virtuosi, who was described in 1766 as
'unquestionably the finest gambist in Europe'. This study shows how
the unique situation in Berlin produced the last major corpus of
music written for the viola da gamba, and how the more virtuosic
works were probably the result of close collaboration between Hesse
and the Berlin School composers. The reader is also introduced to
the more approachable pieces which were written and arranged for
amateur viol players, including the king's nephew and ultimate
successor, Frederick William II. O'Loghlin argues that the
aesthetic circumstances which prevailed in Berlin brought forth a
specific style that is reflected not only in the music for viola da
gamba. Characteristics of this Berlin style are identified with
reference to a broad selection of original written sources, many of
which are hardly accessible to English-speaking readers. There is
also a discussion of the rather contradictory reception history of
the Berlin School and some of its composers. The book concludes
with a complete thematic catalogue of the Berlin gamba music, with
a listing of original manuscript sources and modern publications.
The book will appeal to professional and amateur viola da gamba
players as well as to scholars of eighteenth-century German music.
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