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An authoritative account of the 500-year history of the bassoon,
with new research findings and dozens of rare illustrations This
welcome volume encompasses the entire history of the bassoon, from
its origins five centuries ago to its place in twenty-first-century
music. James Kopp draws on new archival research and many years'
experience playing the instrument to provide an up-to-date and
lively portrait of today's bassoon and its intriguing predecessors.
He discusses the bassoon's makers, its players, its repertory, its
myths, and its audiences, all in unprecedented detail. The bassoon
was invented in Italy in response to the need for a bass-register
double-reed woodwind suitable for processionals and marching.
Composers were quick to exploit its agility and unique timbre.
Later, during the reign of Louis XIV, the instrument underwent a
major redesign, giving voice to its tenor register. In the early
1800s new scientific precepts propelled a wave of invention and
design modifications. In the twentieth century, the multiplicity of
competing bassoon designs narrowed to a German (or Heckel) type and
a French type, the latter now nearly extinct. The author examines
the acoustical consequences of these various redesigns. He also
offers new coverage of the bassoon's social history, including its
roles in the military and church and its global use during the
European Colonial period. Separate historical chapters devoted to
contrabassoons and smaller bassoons complete the volume. Published
in association with the William Waterhouse Archive
Music from all three films arranged for string instruments.
Desirable and collectible, these instrumental folios are loaded
with full-color photos of scenes from all three films. They are
printed on top-quality antique paper stock, and the covers showcase
the new "trilogy" artwork. The string series was written especially
for violin, viola, and cello. Each book features a piano
accompaniment and a carefully crafted removable string part
complete with bowings, articulations, and keys well suited for the
Level 2-3 player. A fully orchestrated accompaniment CD, with demo
tracks (featuring live string performances) and play-along tracks,
completes each package. The string books are completely compatible
with each other and can be played together or as solos. Due to
level considerations, the string books are not compatible with the
books in the wind series. Titles are the twelve major themes from
the blockbuster trilogy: from The Fellowship of the Ring: The
Prophecy * In Dreams * Concerning Hobbits * Many Meetings * The
Black Rider; from The Two Towers: Gollum's Song * Rohan * Evenstar
* Forth Eorlingas; from The Return of the King: Into the West * The
Steward of Gondor * Minas Tirith.
This book contains nine pieces selected from ABRSM's 2018-2021
Grade 6 Flute syllabus. Key features: Nine pieces in a range of
styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C with piano accompaniment
Classic repertoire and newly commissioned pieces and arrangements
Footnotes with helpful information about the pieces Audio
performances of the nine pieces by expert musicians plus
accompaniment-only tracks for use when practising (download code
included in the book)
This book brings together - for the first time - selected exam
pieces, scales and arpeggios, sight-reading and audio downloads, to
support ABRSM's 2018-2021 Grade 5 Clarinet syllabus. Key features:
Nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C with
piano accompaniment Classic repertoire and newly commissioned
pieces and arrangements Footnotes with helpful information about
the pieces All the new scales and arpeggios from 2018 Sample
sight-reading tests for the new requirements from 2018 Audio
performances of the nine pieces by expert musicians plus
accompaniment-only tracks for use when practising (download code
included in the book)
The Woodwinds: Perform, Understand, Teach provides comprehensive
coverage about the woodwind family of musical instruments for
prospective instrumental music teachers. What sets this book apart
is its focus on how to teach the instruments. Preparing students in
the how of teaching is the ultimate goal of the woodwind class and
the ultimate goal of this book, which organizes information by its
use in teaching beginning instrumentalists. In developing
performance and understanding, pre-service teachers are positioned
to learn to teach through performance-contrasted with an
"old-school" belief that one must first spend much time tediously
trying to understand how things work before playing the
instruments. The book is organized in three parts: Preliminaries,
Teaching the Instruments, and Foundations. Chapters in Teaching the
Instruments are organized by instrument (flute, clarinet,
saxophone, oboe, bassoon) and, within each instrument, according to
how an effective teacher might organize experiences for novice
learners. Basic embouchure and air stream are covered first,
followed by instrument assembly, then hands and holding. Embouchure
coverage returns in greater depth, then articulation, and finally
"the mechanism," which includes sections on the instruments of the
family, transposition, range, special fingerings, tuning and
intonation, and reeds. In Foundations, topics are situated in big
picture contexts, calling attention to the broad applicability of
information across instruments.
"...this work is likely to become a standard work very quickly and
is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are
undertaken" -Oliver James,Contact Magazine. A novel and
comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument.
430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two
parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble
repertoire of Bach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An
outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's
brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and
recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes,
concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new
note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the
outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very
popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the
Enjoy the Recorder series.
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