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This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 2 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 book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 2 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 7 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. The enclosed CD features inspiring
recordings of the nine pieces in this book, plus piano
accompaniment tracks for use when practising. A version of this
book without the CD is also available, as are audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
Beethoven's middle-period quartets, Opp. 59, 74 and 95, are pieces
that engage deeply with the aesthetic ideas of their time. In the
first full contextual study of these works, Nancy November
celebrates their uniqueness, exploring their reception history and
early performance. In detailed analyses, she explores ways in which
the quartets have both reflected and shaped the very idea of
chamber music and offers a new historical understanding of the
works' physical, visual, social and ideological aspects. In the
process, November provides a fresh critique of three key paradigms
in current Beethoven studies: the focus on his late period; the
emphasis on 'heroic' style in discussions of the middle period; and
the idea of string quartets as 'pure', 'autonomous' artworks, cut
off from social moorings. Importantly, this study shows that the
quartets encompass a new lyric and theatrical impetus, which is an
essential part of their unique, explorative character.
(Ukulele Chord Songbook). Over 40 songs from these folk era icons,
including: All My Trials * All Through the Night * And When I Die *
Blowin' in the Wind * Blue * Children, Go Where I Send Thee * Five
Hundred Miles * Follow Me * Freight Train * Goodnight, Irene *
Hush-A-Bye * If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) * Leaving on a Jet
Plane * Light One Candle * Mockingbird * Puff the Magic Dragon *
This Land Is Your Land * This Train * The Times They Are A-Changin'
* We Shall Overcome * Where Have All the Flowers Gone? * and more.
(Guitar Educational). This book provides 365 exercises one for
every day of the year to keep your rhythm chops fine tuned. The two
CDs include demos of all 365 exercises. The book covers chord
theory and the fundamentals of rhythm; basic and complex
fingerpicking and strum patterns; popular diatonic and non-diatonic
progressions; major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads;
major, minor, and dominant seventh chords; extended and altered
chords; major and minor keys; and more. By practicing these you'll
gain greater knowledge of chord construction and progressions,
exposure to the rhythm styles of several musical genres, improved
fingerpicking and strumming technique, increased chord-voicing
vocabulary, and more
This is a handy reference chart detailing the common chord
positions that all squareneck resonator slide players should know.
Major, dominant and minor chords are illustrated in both closed and
open string versions.
In addition, four major scale patterns and a diagram of the
location of the notes on the neck are included.
In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art-a
cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its
life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and
resided in Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, and the United
States. In 1978, the Piatti became the musical soul mate of
world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, with whom it has given
concerts around the world. In this delightful book, Mr. Prieto
recounts the adventurous life of his beloved "Cello Prieto,"
tracing its history through each of its previous owners from
Stradivari in 1720 to himself. He then describes his noteworthy
experiences of playing the Piatti cello, with which he has
premiered some eighty compositions. In this part of their mutual
story, Prieto gives a concise summary of his own remarkable career
and his relationships with many illustrious personalities,
including Igor Stravinsky, Dmitry Shostakovich, Pablo Casals,
Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A new
epilogue, in which he describes recent concert tours in Moscow,
Siberia, and China and briefer visits to South Korea, Taiwan, and
Venezuela, as well as recent recitals with Yo-Yo Ma, brings the
story up to 2009. To make the story of his cello complete, Mr.
Prieto also provides a brief history of violin making and a
succinct review of cello music from Stradivari to the present. He
highlights the work of composers from Latin America, Spain, and
Portugal, for whose music he has long been an advocate and
principal performer. The print edition of this book includes a CD
of fourteen recordings by Carlos Prieto, including works by J. S.
Bach, Dmitry Shostakovich, Astor Piazzolla, and Eugenio Toussaint.
Guitar Star offers beginner guitarists a refreshing and
inspirational choice of pieces to help build confidence and musical
skills. These original compositions and arrangements by Gary Ryan
are imaginatively tailored to develop techniques progressively
through an exciting and varied range of musical styles. Key
features -An engaging collection of pieces from beginner level to
Prep Test and beyond - Solo pieces, with some optional teacher duet
parts-Play-along CD of creative backing tracks-Fun extension
activities-Brought to life with colour illustrations. Gary Ryan
studied at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal Academy of
Music. He has taught at the Royal College of Music since 1996 and
combines his role there as Assistant Head of Strings with a varied
freelance career as a performer, composer, adjudicator and
examiner. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music
in 2013.
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