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This book brings together, for the first time, nine pieces from
ABRSM's Grade 2 Guitar syllabus from 2019. The pieces - two solos
and one duet chosen from each of lists A, B and C - have been
carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of
styles, creating an excellent source of repertoire to suit every
performer. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those
preparing for exams, useful syllabus information. Recordings of all
30 pieces on the Grade 2 syllabus are available. These can be
purchased as part of the Guitar Exam Pieces with CD package or as
audio downloads (see www.abrsmdownloads.org for more details).
ABRSM also offers a range of apps to support musical learning,
available from www.abrsm.org/apps. Support material for ABRSM
Guitar exams [GEPs with CD] [Scales] [Specimen sight-reading]
[Specimen aural tests]
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Songs Without Words
(Paperback)
Felix Mendelssohn; Created by Constantin Von Sternberg
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Contents: The Adieu * Agitation * Boat-Song * The Brook *
Confidence * Consolation (Still, Still With Thee) * Contemplation *
Delirium * The Departure * Duet, Op. 38, No. 6 * Elegy * The
Evening Star * Faith * The Fleecy Clouds * The Flight * Folk-Song *
Funeral March * Homeless * Hope * Hunting Song * The Joyous Peasant
* Lost Happiness * Lost Illusions * Lullaby * May Breezes *
Meditation * Morning Song * On the Seashore * Passion * The Poet's
Harp * Regrets * Restlessness * Retrospection * The Return *
Reverie * Sadness of Soul * The Shepherd's Complaint * The Sighing
Wind * Song of the Pilgrim * Song of the Traveller * Spinning-Song
* Spring Song * Sweet Remembrance * Tarantella * Unrest * Venetian
Boat Song No. 1 * Venetian Boat-Song #2 * Venetian Boat-Song #3 *
The Wanderer.
A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website
where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble
them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas,
the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the
prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S"
words that reveal a "spectacular story!" With creative characters,
humorous dialogue and great music, The "S" Files is a children's
Christmas musical your kids will love performing.
(Willis). This popular 3-book series features original Gillock
piano solos that progress from elementary to early intermediate
level. All the pieces in the first book include memorable lyrics to
help the beginner in retention. 14 pieces, including * Circus Clown
* Clocks and Watches * Daddy's Rocking Chair * Flying Carpet *
Glass Beads * Puppy Dog * Wind in the Bamboo Tree.
Bach for Violin contains a varied collection of 14 attractive and
popular pieces arranged for upper-intermediate standard violinists
(Grades 5-7), exploring a range of keys, finger patterns, styles,
and moods. The collection covers simpler dance movements and
chorale melodies, as well as the solo Gigue from the Partita in E
major. Other popular pieces include arrangements of Jesu, Joy of
Man's Desiring and the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria. Each piece is
accompanied by background footnotes explaining provenance and
points of style.
The most in-depth, revolutionary presentation of the harmonic
framework of music is applied to the guitar fingerboard ever
presented. Leads to total mastery of harmonic and technical aspects
of the guitar. The material in this landmark series of 3 massive
volumes address virtually every aspect of playing jazz guitar
representing the fruits of years of the author's investigation of
harmony and fingerboard mobility. This series of books leads to
total mastery of the harmonic and technical aspects of the guitar.
In notation only.
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Note Speller
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John Thompson
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(Willis). Thompson's popular Note Speller includes drills in
notation and musical rudiments for the piano student. Notes are
presented so that learning to read notes goes hand-in-hand with the
student's piano lessons.
For many beginning-to-intermediate level guitarists, guitar tunings
are a mystery. Everyone begins with "standard" tuning and knows its
basic strengths - and limitations. But, once a guitarist gets
beyond basic skills, the desire to play in different styles and
achieve individual sounds leads inevitably to exploring alternate
tunings. Guitar Tunings: AComprehensive Guide is the first book to
offer practical advice for how to use the most common special
tunings for the greatest creative and musical effect. Illustrated
throughout with examples in standard notation and guitar tablature,
the author introduces different musical styles through the use of
appropriate tunings. Including downloadable resources, this book
gives clear and concise instruction for the guitarist who has
mastered basic skills but wants to go beyond them. It will appeal
to guitar students of all ages, and can be used for individual
self-instruction or in one-on-one or group teaching situations. In
short, Guitar Tunings: A Comprehensive Guide offers a comprehensive
approach for all guitarists to enhance their playing skills and
creative music making. Also includes 75 musical examples.
EGuitar Effects Pedals: The Practical HandbookE opens up the world
of effects pedals vintage and new alike for the guitarist. In an
easy guitarist-friendly style the book explores the history of
different effects pedals what each type of effect does and how it
does it the best ways in which to use and combine your own effects
and how to make the most of the pedals you own. It includes
exclusive author interviews with a dozen leading pedal makers and
designers plus a cover-mounted CD with nearly 100 recorded sound
samples of effects pedals both popular and obscure. This updated
edition includes the addition of profiles of more than 20 other
contemporary makers 50 percent more manufacturer interviews and
revisions to the original text.THThis is the only book on the
market that includes all of these important elements in the
examination of effects pedals a a comprehensive history of the art;
profiles on both vintage and contemporary (including boutique )
units; and expert advice on all aspects of using these tools. For
any serious player interested in honing the perfect tone the right
way this is the go-to reference.
(Musicians Institute Press). Master the art of blending melody and
harmony on the guitar with this book/CD pack. It includes in-depth
studies of chords and chord melodies as well as a CD containing 90
demonstration tracks. Lessons include: the five patterns; chord
shells; inversions; voice leading; cadences; diminished chords; and
more.
EThe Gibson 335 Guitar BookE tells the story of Gibson's ES-335 and
related models as played by B.B. King Alvin Lee and Eric Clapton
among other virtuosos. It's full of great guitars cool players and
fascinating historical detail. The book traces the story from
Gibson's first thinline models to the company's signature
instruments and modern re-creations of today.THThe book is in the
tradition of Tony Bacon's bestselling guitar series with a
carefully researched story a gallery section of full-color pictures
of the most important guitars and players and a reference section
detailing production years and specifications.THThe 335 was
launched in 1958. It had a double-cutaway body but the interesting
features were hidden inside. A solid block in an otherwise hollow
body created a new semi-solid structure cleverly combining the
sonic qualities of a hollowbody guitar and a solidbody. Variants
included the stereo 345 and the upscale 355 and players have lined
up ever since for a taste of these attractively different
flavors.THSome of those players featured in the book include Larry
Carlton Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) Peter Hayes (Black Rebel
Motorcycle Club) Justin Hayward (Moody Blues) Eric Clapton Pepper
Keenan (Down) B.B. King Elvin Bishop (Butterfield Blues Band) Alvin
Lee (Ten Years After) Alex Lifeson (Rush) Eddie Phillips (the
Creation) Johnny Marr (the Smiths) Lee Ritenour Andy Summers (the
Police) Bill Nelson (Be-Bop Deluxe) and Andrew White (Kaiser
Chiefs).
The Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti
(1755-1824) is considered today to have been one of the most
significant forces in the history of violin playing. In 1792 he met
Margaret and William Chinnery, a wealthy English couple with strong
connections in the world of arts and letters. From that point
onwards Viotti's life became inextricably bound up with theirs; he
moved into their home and became a second father to their children,
forming a remarkably successful menage A trois. Henceforth, all
Viotti's career decisions were taken with this family's welfare in
mind. The Chinnery Family Papers feature over 100 Viotti letters
and other documents. Drawing extensively on these papers, this book
investigates the new light that they cast on Viotti's life and
career, as well as the context in which he lived and worked. Fresh
insights are given into the reception of Viotti's concertos in
London and the solo performances he gave while in England, together
with new information on his role as a music teacher in the Chinnery
household, and his relationship with Mme de StaA"l and the
Philharmonic Society.
Johann Peter Salomon, the celebrated violinist and impresario, made
his debut in England in March 1781. History has credited Salomon
with bringing Haydn to London, yet as Ian Woodfield reveals in this
monograph, Salomon's introduction of the composer to the London
musical scene owed as much to luck as to skilful planning. Haydn's
engagement in London proved to be a much-needed uplift to Salomon's
career which, as Woodfield illustrates, had been on the wane for a
number of years. In addition to its reassessment of Salomon's
uneven career in London during the 1780s, this book throws light on
the general relationship between public and private spheres of
professional music-making at the time, and on the relationship
between the social and professional attributes required of
musicians if they were to be successful. Nowhere are these tensions
better illustrated than in the letters and journals of the Burney
family, especially those of Susan Burney, which are drawn on in the
book to provide a vivid picture of the fiercely competitive musical
world of eighteenth-century London.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Correlated with the 12 units of the
Lesson Book, this book provides valuable reinforcement of theory,
concepts through writing, sightreding, and ear training activities
This comprehensive collection for all guitarists includes 100 songs in genres from jazz standards, to pop/rock favorites, Motown masterpieces and movie music, to traditional tunes, country numbers and classical pieces. Notation styles include: note-for-note transcriptions (Blue on Black * Give Me One Reason * Sweet Child O' Mine * Wild Thing); Easy Guitar with Notes and TAB (Building a Mystery * Circle of Life * Day Tripper * Fur Elise * Misty * Torn * Walk This Way); Easy Guitar (Boot Scootin' Boogie * I Shot the Sheriff * My Favorite Things * Unchained Melody); Chord Melody Guitar (Alman * Bourree * Estudio); Fingerstyle Guitar (Amazing Grace * Greensleeves * My Heart Will Go On); and Guitar Riffs (Angie * Brown Eyed Girl * Here Comes the Sun * Layla * My Girl); and more! Essential for every player!
`Valentin Berlinsky (1925-2008) was a founding member of the
Borodin Quartet and its cellist and mainstay for more than six
decades. A proud Russian but also a man of compromise, his was a
life lived for and through the Borodin Quartet. This book tells his
story in his own words, lovingly compiled and edited by his
grand-daughter, Maria Matalaev, from his diaries, correspondence
and interviews, and his accounts of his close friendships with the
likes of Shostakovich and Richter, Rostropovich and Oistrakh.
Supplemented by tributes from family and friends, as well as an
impressive annexure giving every performance, broadcast and
recording made by the Borodin Quartet, this book constitutes one of
the most revealing chronicles of Soviet and post-Soviet Russian
musical life. In 2005, at the celebrations for both his 80th
birthday and the 60th anniversary of the Borodin Quartet, Valentin
Berlinsky sat down at a table with his students and said: `My
dears, please, keep going: never leave Russia!'
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