Music-General Books

This highly acclaimed, innovative approach for teaching keyboard is for very young children. The series incorporates creative cartoons, vivid color, and teaching techniques in an extremely workable and well-researchedmethod.Author: Gail GilbertISBN-10: 0871665875ISBN-13: 9780871665874Publisher: Creative Keyboard PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/25/1981Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 11.69h x 7.92w...

Ten classic jazz, blues, & Latin hits in melody line arrangements with specially recorded backing tracks Step into the spotlight with the superb backing tracks on the specially recorded CDAuthor: Heather RamageISBN-10: 082563525XISBN-13: 9780825635250Publisher: Amsco MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2007Pages: 31Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 11.93h x 8.88w...

(Music Sales America). Ten classical favorites in melody line arrangements are coupled with specially recorded backing tracks in these book/CD packs. Step into the spotlight & play along Contents: Air from Water Music (Handel); Air on the G String (J.S. Bach); Habanera from Carmen...

Investigates the changing representations of jazz women in American cultureWomen have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot looks at all-girl bands and...

Over the past 15 years, photographer Autumn de Wilde and musician Beck Hansen's friendship and collaboration have yielded a body of work every bit as playful, innovative, and lyrical as his music. This beautifully designed volume featuring a circular fold-out poster jacket collects the...

Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song, Antony of Antony and the Johnsons pres­ents his debut collection of visual art, thought-provoking dreamscapes composed of paintings, drawings, photogra­phy, collage, song lyrics, and writings. Often fragmentary images, these pieces capture liminal states and elements of the...

LESSON ONE: KING OF MODERN BLUES: B.B.KING, ALBERT KING, FREDDIE KING and T.BONE WALKER - By analyzing sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric single-string blues licks. You will learn several scale positions and how to improvise with them, how to do the...

A comprehensive 96-page, pocket/case sized perfect-bound collection of all time favorite violin tunes. Includes sea shanties, folk songs, Civil War songs, gospel songs, Celtic favorites, classics, and more; guitar chords included.Author: William BayISBN-10: 0786674458ISBN-13: 9780786674459Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2005Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 5.75h...

A comprehensive 96-page, pocket/case sized perfect-bound book of over 90 all time favorite mandolin tunes. Includes American fiddle tunes, Celtic reels, gospel favorites, jazz tunes and more; guitar chords & tablature included.Author: William BayISBN-10: 078667430XISBN-13: 9780786674305Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2005Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize:...

The influence of Rock & Roll music can be found in about every style of contemporary music. This book focuses on many classic R & R style grooves.The grooves vary in difficulty from beginner to intermediate. All 50 examples are recorded on an accompanying...

A handy yet complete guide to 7-string jazz guitar chords. Shows rhythm chords with root, 3rd and 5th in the bass along with great sounding chord extensions ideal for rhythm or solo performance.Author: William BayISBN-10: 0786667095ISBN-13: 9780786667093Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/08/2003Pages: 3Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Here is a book for guitar students who wish to develop their instrumental capabilities to the point of mastery. This book, while not a method, is an attempt to help students internalize the most important aspects of practicing and performing music: Mechanism, the set...

This methodology book designed for the intermediate to advanced mandolinist offers you, as a mandolin player, a new voice. Or, if you're already crosspicking, many new ideas can be added to your arsenal. Each song includes a preparatory study that allows you the opportunity...

This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships in all 12 keys for the tenor banjo in C-G-D-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major, seventh, minor, diminished, and augmented, with relative minor I, IV, and V7 chords al...

With the Three-Chord Children's Songbook you will need only minimal playingskills and three chords-G, C, and D7-to accompany each song in this great book. The jam-packed book is invaluable for all beginning musicians, casual musicians, teachers, family bands, and performers. Melody, lyrics, and chords...

This comprehensive edition contains a wealth of music for virtually every situation and church occasion such as: preludes, interludes, postludes, prayer time, Communion, offertory, Christmas, Easter, Father's Day, funerals, graduation, Mother's Day, andAuthor: Gail SmithISBN-10: 0786653833ISBN-13: 9780786653836Publisher: Creative Keyboard PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2000Pages: 205Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) is a musician about whom most remains to be discovered. More than a decade after his death our knowledge of Messiaen is largely conditioned by what he said about himself in lectures and interviews, in his work as...

Double Tap: Social Media Marketing 101 for Musicians by Kelly Samuel. As told by a Music Industry Arts Professor, touring musician and Forbes-published social media expert, this book is a compilation of trials, failures, insights and marketing experience for artists and bands. Tactical information...

1. Introduction2. Sweetness in the Gambia3. Moving with Gambians.4. Doing Time: The Balafon Workshops, United States5. Direct Transmissions: Going with the Flow6. At Home: Lessons in Respecting Time7. Enchanting Cosmopolitan New York8. Manding New York: Jeliya Bara Bang9. Patronage: Becoming a Jatigi10. Living "in...

Inspired by the famous Gymnop馘ies of Erik Satie, these two orchestral works, scored for two flutes, oboe, trumpet, horn, harp and strings were composed in 1966 in honor of Erik Satie's hundredth anniversary of his birth. Originally conceived as piano works, they were then...

1. Introduction.- Part I: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Music Business.- 2. 'Losing Work, Losing Purpose': Representations of Musicians' Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19.- 3. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Incomes of Freelance Classical Musicians in...

For over ten years Jane Quinn has been sharing a cup of tea with some of the biggest names in the music and entertainment world as she has engaged them in a long running series of intimate interviews that go beyond the public image...

Scoring the Hollywood Actor in the 1950s theorises the connections between film acting and film music using the films of the 1950s as case studies. Closely examining performances of such actors as James Dean, Montgomery Clift, and Marilyn Monroe, and films of directors like...

This book addresses the need to rethink the concept and enactment of professionalism in music, and how such concepts underpin professional higher music education. There is an urgent imperative to enable the potential of professional musicians in our contemporary societies to be more fully...

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. Centred around the concept of...

Multilevel Grounding develops a new approach to musical meaning-Multilevel-Grounded Semantics, addressing the well- known paradox that music seems full of meaning yet there is little consensus among listeners on what exactly it is that this meaning communicates. Offering a balance between formalist and referentialist...

RESILIENT is about the lives of nine homeless people who, with their bravery, strength, courage and resilience, just want to come in out of the cold and have a decent place to live, ...Author: Lord Chester L. II BaldwinISBN-10: 8985226541ISBN-13: 9798985226546Publisher: Lord Chester L....

You will find within this book a number of my most recent original compositions. They are in both low G and high G (standard) tuning and cover a variety of styles, keys and techniques. I start out with a tune written for baritone uke...

The Book of love is the true story of a girl growing up in America searching for the truth in a world of falsehoods only to discover her real identity.Author: Cynthia MarkovitchISBN-10: 8765226526ISBN-13: 9798765226520Publisher: Balboa PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2022Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...

Want to learn how to play drums? Whether you've just bought your first kit or you aren't sure how to get started, this book covers the basics of drumming. "The Drums" is the comprehensive guide available that simultaneously provides instruction for rhythm reading, technique...

The book about the cases you love and explore your journey to find the truth. An arduous journey to find the ultimate killer.Join Marty and her dog, Patron, as they eliminate suspects in the murder of a beloved rock star in Palm Springs, California.Author:...

Songbook with 48 Folk and Gospel Songs from all over the world - notated for the chromatic Harmonica.The tones of the melodies were prepared with simple symbols, the rhythm of the tones is given by the lyrics and / or the classical music notation.The...

Taking Mary Shelley's novel as its point of departure, this collection of essays considers how her creation has not only survived but thrived over 200 years of media history, in music, film, literature, visual art and other cultural forms. In studying monstrous figures torn...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in...

For Theodore Gracyk meaning in popular music depends as much on the context of reception and performer's intentions as on established musical and semantic practices. Songs are structures that serve as the scaffolding for meaning production, influenced by the performance decisions of the performer...

Based on highly original archival and palaeographical research, this is the first methodological and factual primer in English on the distinctive liturgical tradition of early medieval Spain. It provides clear and approachable blueprints for future work on the description and analysis (musical, theological and...

This collection of essays addresses technical developments in telecommunications and sound recording that have guided the direction of musical aesthetics in the post-1950 era. Such information is readily available online but may appear counterintuitive to many who find its priorities difficult to grasp from...

(Music Sales America). The violinist Oskar Rieding wrote a few Concertos for young performers, and these are therefore included as part of this 'Easy Concertos And Concertinos' series. Concerto in E Minor (Op.7), written in 1922, is for Violin with Piano accompaniment.Author: Oskar RiedingISBN-10:...

This selective annotated bibliography places Alma Mahler with three other female composers of her time, covering the first generation of active female composers in the twentieth century. It uncovers the wealth of resources available on the lives and music of Mahler, Florence Price, Yuliya...

Lisa Lehmberg and Victor Fung present a groundbreaking look at quality of life via the music participation of older adults in diverse US senior centers. The state of musical activities in senior centers pre- and mid-pandemic is elucidated through original research conducted in senior...

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederic Handel and Domenico Scarlatti received more performances, publications and appreciation in Britain between 1750-1850 than in any other country during this era. The compositions of these three seminal baroque composers were heard in the numerous public...

A most gifted musician of his generation, this book traces Gideon Klein's short life through his music, his diaries and documents as well as the reminiscences of his friends and family. Don't Forget about Me' chronicles the extraordinary and moving story about the young...

Peggy Lee holds a special place in the history of American popular and jazz music. From her birth on May 26, 1920, to her final recording on August 26, 1995, to the New Yorker's obituary from February of 2002, this chronological record covers every...

In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus. The writer expressly invited the philosopher to 'consider, with me, how such a work - and I mean Leverkuhn's...

What do Harpists, in Ireland and Hawai'i, have in common? They both engage in music and fascinating stories that tweak the imagination. The Bards of Ireland and the Mo'olelo storytellers of Hawai'i are kindred spirits when it comes to magically captivating the listener with...

With this book, my goal is to help piano students practice more, practice better, and learn their pieces faster. However, to achieve complete mastery, the student must go above and beyond the suggestions of this book to find thier own unique artistic interpretation.Author: Michael...

This is the remix. Featuring 30 coloring and activity pages of original artwork celebrating Dj culture.Author: Dj FeverISBN-10: 8640245282ISBN-13: 9798640245288Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2020Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.14d

In the beginning there was John. Soon after, there was a ukulele and John, then there was skiffle music and John. Next came the Quarry Men, with their pseudo rockabilly, with John on guitar and various friends playing on an assortment of items, including...

An innovative new erasure chapbook from Warren C. Longmire, BIRD/DIZ [AN ERASED HISTORY OF BEBOP] navigates the personal and artistic lives of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie through the author's own roving imagination. stages, it strives to find, in the continued disappearance of Black...

These piano technical exercises are based on the author's years of piano practice experiments and provide the optimum level of practice for refining the abilities of and coordination between fingers. Although some exercises are similar to other piano technical training studies, such as the...