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Books > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > String instruments
Features all 30 greatest hits from the album arranged for guitar
tab and complete with full lyrics.
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.
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.
The most comprehensive resource available for beginning and experienced guitarists alike, whether acoustic or electric. Completely redesigned and with many more full-color photos than the original, this new edition surveys recent models and profiles current masters, includes an expanded lesson section, and encompasses 10 years of technological change in recording and amplification.
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.
Books I and II of this traditional edition in Schirmer's Library of
Musical Classics have been combined in an affordable new volume. An
excellent resource for Late Elementary to Early Intermediate
pianists.
(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.
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.
(Guitar Method). Here's your complete guide to getting your guitars
to play and sound their best In a convenient 6 x9 size, this
full-color edition features step-by-step instructions and photos
that teach you how to adjust the action, truss rod, bridge saddles,
nut, intonation and more on electric and acoustic guitars. Basic
electronic repairs are covered as well. If you've been timid about
"looking under the hood" of your guitar but don't want to keep
spending money at the repair shop, this book will get you started
on the road to becoming your own guitar repair person
Adagio is a Samuel Barber piece arranged for violin and piano by
Jerry Lanning. It contains both score and part. This is a solo work
of Barbe r's popular Adagio for Strings.
The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing
of the string quartet, often represented as a smooth and logical
progression from first violin-dominated homophony to a more equal
conversation between the four voices. Yet this progression was
neither as smooth nor as linear as previously thought, as Mara
Parker illustrates in her examination of the string quartet during
this period. Looking at a wide variety of string quartets by
composers such as Pleyel, Distler and Filtz, in addition to Haydn
and Mozart, the book proposes a new way of describing the
relationships between the four instruments in different works.
Broadly speaking, these relationships follow one of four patterns:
the 'lecture', the 'polite conversation', the 'debate', and the
'conversation'. In focusing on these musical discourses, it becomes
apparent that each work is the product of its composer's stylistic
choices, location, intended performers and intended audience.
Instead of evolving in a strict and universal sequence, the string
quartet in the latter half of the eighteenth century was a complex
genre with composers mixing and matching musical discourses as
circumstances and their own creative impulses required.
22 melodies for violin and piano designed to help students learn
the correct method of shifting from one position to another. The
position changes are from 1st to 3rd and vice versa and when
mastered the same technique can be applied to all other position
changes. This book is suitable for individual and class tuition.
Solo Time for Violin is a three-volume series of concert pieces for
the intermediate to more advanced violinist. Featuring arrangements
and original pieces by the authors of the award-winning Fiddle Time
series, these graded collections provide sophisticated repertoire
from the Baroque to the modern age and introduce styles and
techniques for the developing performer.
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