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The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008. Few jazz musicians have
had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as
John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles,
and his own recorded legacy, the "facts" about Coltrane's life and
work have never been definitely established. Well-known Coltrane
biographer and jazz educator Lewis Porter has assembled an
international team of scholars to write The John Coltrane
Reference, an indispensable guide to the life and music of John
Coltrane. The John Coltrane Reference features a a day-by-day
chronology, which extends from 1926-1967, detailing Coltrane's
early years and every live performance given by Coltrane as either
a sideman or leader, and a discography offering full session
information from the first year of recordings, 1946, to the last,
1967. The appendices list every film and television appearance, as
well as every recorded interview. Richly illustrated with over 250
album covers and photos from the collection of Yasuhiro Fujioka,
The John Coltrane Reference will find a place in every major
library supporting a jazz studies program, as well as John Coltrane
enthusiasts.
Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and
Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field
recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological
evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the
Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture. There are seven
ivory trumpet ensembles in residence at the Asante Manhyia Palace
in Kumase, and ivory trumpets are blown at every Akan court. The
Asante trumpets, which are made from elephant tusks, are symbols of
Asante strength and have an important role in Asante cosmology.
Surrogate speech is performed via lipped tones through a tusk in
praise of the Asante royal ancestors and the living Asante king.
This book contains transcriptions and analyses of surrogate speech
texts and their accompanying ensemble songs. When several ensembles
play simultaneously as a representation of power, they make
staggered entrances, beginning separate songs in order. This
results in a simultaneous performance of separate songs. This
phenomenon, which Kaminski has termed 'sound-barrage', is an
ancient aesthetic, and is performed to protect the kingdom and the
ancestors. It is both spiritual and acoustical. This 'sound
barrage' is believed to act in the metaphysical world, dispelling
evil spirits from court rituals, ancestor venerations, and
funerals, for there is a spirit in the sound.
The Music and Life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro: Infatuation is the
first comprehensive study of the jazz trumpeter Theodore "Fats"
Navarro. It provides biographical and discographical information on
this talented musician, whose premature death from tuberculosis at
26 robbed the jazz world of his brilliance. Through an analysis of
his recorded legacy, this book offers new perspectives on Navarro's
role in the history and emergence of Bebop. Through years of study
and collecting ephemera, some of which is reprinted here, Leif Bo
Petersen and Theo Rehak depict an inclusive history of Navarro and
his music. Their information is based on interviews with musicians
and people in the music business, contemporary newspaper and
magazine articles, and the music itself, which has not been
commonly known or described until now. The book features images,
musical examples, and depictions of Navarro's recordings, and it
provides several appendixes, including explanations of contemporary
recording techniques and discographical terms, lists of Navarro's
recordings and compositions, and a chronological overview of
Navarro's performances, recording sessions, and engagements.
Complete with a comprehensive list of sources and a full index,
this volume presents a host of new and useful information for
anyone interested in jazz and its history.
Flute Meditations is a beautiful collection of pieces for flute
with piano accompaniment and flute duet suitable for late
elementary to intermediate players (Grades 3-5), all inspired by
paintings of a meditative nature. By bestselling composer Pam
Wedgwood, this book includes online piano accompaniment audio as
recorded by Pam herself and is complemented by a stunning pull-out
poster of images providing the visual inspiration for each piece.
This edition of Improve your sight-reading! Horn Grades 1-5 has
been revised to support the ABRSM syllabus from 2022. It also
includes online audio of the 'going solo' pieces for students to
check their performances against. The ability to sight-read
fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces
more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling
Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul
Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills and improve
confidence. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each
piece, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to
specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with
associated questions, and finally 'going solo' with a series of
meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.
This edition of Improve your sight-reading! Trumpet Grades 1-5 has
been revised to support the ABRSM syllabus from 2022. It also
includes online audio of the 'going solo' pieces for students to
check their performances against. The ability to sight-read
fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces
more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling
Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul
Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills and improve
confidence. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each
piece, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to
specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with
associated questions, and finally 'going solo' with a series of
meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.
This handbook for flautists addresses all who wish to consider the issues raised when performing music of the past, and experiment with them on old or new instruments. Its aim is to provide an authoritative and practical guide with evidence drawn from a variety of primary sources directly and indirectly associated with the flute. The author provides sound advice on instruments and their care, historical techniques, stylistic issues and historically informed interpretation, with examples drawn from a wide range of case studies, including Bach, Handel, Mozart and Brahms.
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
Two flute parts. Contents: Sonata (Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) *
Allegro and Minuet (Beethoven) * Concert (Couperin) * Air du Fat
puni (Francois DeVienne) * Duo Concertant (Louis-Francois-Phillipe
Drouet) * Sonatina (Kohler) * Sonatine (Kasper Kummer) * Scherzo
from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn) * Sonata (Jean-Jacques
Naudot) * Theme and Variations (Anton Reicha) * Sonata (Johann
Christian Schultze) * Sonata (Telemann).
"For one semester/quarter courses in woodwind methods." "Teaching
Woodwinds" has draws on the authors thirty-five years of experience
teaching woodwinds to students. Organized by specific teach topics
from the fundamentals of hand and finger position to articulation
and intonation. Drawing on a classic set of 19th century
teacher/student duets, the included twenty-five class lessons
enable students to learn by doing and by listening as they play
duets with the instructor.
Federico Maria Sardelli writes from the perspective of a
professional baroque flautist and recorder-player, as well as from
that of an experienced and committed scholar, in order to shed
light on the bewildering array of sizes and tunings of the recorder
and transverse flute families as they relate to Antonio Vivaldi's
compositions. Sardelli draws copiously on primary documents to
analyse and place in context the capable and surprisingly
progressive instrumental technique displayed in Vivaldi's music.
The book includes a discussion of the much-disputed chronology of
Vivaldi's works, drawing on both internal and external evidence.
Each known piece by him in which the flute or the recorder appears
is evaluated fully from historical, biographical, technical and
aesthetic standpoints. This book is designed to appeal not only to
Vivaldi scholars and lovers of the composer's music, but also to
players of the two instruments, students of organology and those
with an interest in late baroque music in general. Vivaldi is a
composer who constantly springs surprises as, even today, new
pieces are discovered or old ones reinterpreted. Much has happened
since Sardelli's book was first published in Italian, and this new
English version takes full account of all these new discoveries and
developments. The reader will be left with a much fuller picture of
the composer and his times, and the knowledge and insights gained
from minutely examining his music for these two wind instruments
will be found to have a wider relevance for his work as a whole.
Generous music examples and illustrations bring the book's
arguments to life.
Harold Meek writes from a lifetime's experience playing the horn
(often first chair) in several of America's great orchestras,
notably the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He shares anecdotes and
insights about the joys and travails of playing under Fritz Reiner,
Otto Klemperer, Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, and others. Meek
also brings together some important information about changes in
the instrument itself, including a little-known letter from the
great British horn virtuoso, Dennis Brain, about the virtues of
different makes of horn. A valuable section prints interpretively
challenging horn passages from over three dozen masterpieces,
ranging from Beethoven symphonies to Weber's Der Freischutz, and
evaluates the solutions offered in recordings by various prominent
conductors, from Leopold Stokowski, Sir Adrian Boult, George Szell,
and Herbert von Karajan to Carlo Maria Giulini, Neville Marriner,
Kurt Masur, and Christopher Hogwood.
A collection of essays written by specialists and performers in the
field of music and musicology, The Versatile Clarinet examines the
evolution of the clarinet and clarinet playing throughout the
instrument's history. The Versatile Clarinet is wide-ranging survey
of the types of music that have been played on the instrument, key
players, and issues facing clarinetists as they seek to expand the
instrument's repertory and recognition. The topics covered include
everything: playing early and historic clarinets; jazz clarinet
technique; contemporary and avant-garde music; klezmer clarinet;
and, the history of clarinet recording. The book will appeal to
clarinetists, music historians, musical instrument scholars, and
general readers interested in the development of this important
instrument.
For professional and amateur flautists as well as students of the flute, this book offers a practical introduction to all aspects of playing the flute. Using an accessible A-Z format, Debost offers a logical and imaginative work on flute performance that places technique at the service of music on every page. In these concise essays, readers will find simple, sensible answers to all of the problems flautists regularly encounter. Debost covers the expected topics - such as breathing, articulation, and tone - and offers personal insights into such issues as "jawboning", "finger phrasing," and "the little devils". Offering concise, common-sense solutions for flautists of all levels, this book is an ideal reference guide on flute performance.
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