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This page last updated on 4 February, 2012
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Note: Collections with multiple composers are listed under "Various".


  Adolpho
 Phrasing in Brazilian Music, w/CD
  Phrasing is the way the elements of music (melody, harmony and rhythm) are interpreted by different cultures (or different musicians, including vocalists). In Phrasing In Brazilian Music, Antonio Adolfo demonstrates through written and recorded musical examples on the piano, how the different elements of music play an important role when musicians are performing Brazilian Music. The book covers Phrasing in different Brazilian styles in two beat and is enhanced b...

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Item: 69802
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  Altenburg
 Trumpeters' & Kettledrummers' Art
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  Arnold
 Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass v.1
  A solid grounding in musical techniques of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is essential to a complete understanding of Baroque music. Arnold's legendary work is a comprehensive survey of the topic, covering every issue of significance to today'sperformers. The text is fully amplified with numerous musical examples, authoritative citations, scholarly interpretations and syntheses, and the author's own conclusions. This rich collection of source material for the...

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  Arnold
 Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass v.2
  A solid grounding in musical techniques of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is essential to a complete understanding of Baroque music. Arnold's legendary work is a comprehensive survey of the topic, covering every issue of significance to today'sperformers. The text is fully amplified with numerous musical examples, authoritative citations, scholarly interpretations and syntheses, and the author's own conclusions. This rich collection of source material for the...

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  Bone et al
 Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire
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Item: 71519
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  Boswell
 Ornamentation Practice
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Item: 43627
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  Bruser & Menuhin
 Art of Practicing, The
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Item: 84920
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  Burton
 Performers Guide to the Baroque Period, w/CD
  Includes the latest thinking on stylish performance presented in a clear, helpful and practical way. Chapters from leading experts on historical background, notation and interpretation, and sources and editions. Specialist advice for keyboard, string and wind players, and singers. Illustrated with many music examples, facsimiles and pictures. Includes a full-length CD of excerpts from authoritative recordings These stimulating guides will help students and their teach...

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Item: 50563
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  Burton
 Performers Guide to the Classical Period w/CD
  Includes the latest thinking on stylish performance presented in a clear, helpful and practical way. Chapters from leading experts on historical background, notation and interpretation, and sources and editions. Specialist advice for keyboard, string and wind players, and singers. Illustrated with many music examples, facsimiles and pictures. Includes a full-length CD of excerpts from authoritative recordings These stimulating guides will help students and their teach...

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Item: 50564
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  Burton
 Performers Guide to the Romantic Period, w/CD
  Includes the latest thinking on stylish performance presented in a clear, helpful and practical way. Chapters from leading experts on historical background, notation and interpretation, and sources and editions. Specialist advice for keyboard, string and wind players, and singers. Illustrated with many music examples, facsimiles and pictures. Includes a full-length CD of excerpts from authoritative recordings These stimulating guides will help students and their teach...

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  Caldwell
 Performer Prepares, The
  The author takes an indepth look at what mental preparation is necessary for musicians to perform at their absolute best. Explores Chapters include: The Art of Performing Music; Imagining the Performance; Refining the Performance; Supporting the Performance; Artistic Grit; Stage Fright; Connecting with the Audience; Getting it All Together; Evolving as an Artist. 158 pages. Paperbound.
  
Item: 09900
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  Dahlqvist
 Keyed Trumpet & It's Greatest Virtuoso, The
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Item: 62024
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  Dolmetsch
 Interpretation of 17th/18th Century Music
  Dover reprint of the 1969 Oxford University Press publication of the same title.
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  Farkas
 Art of Musicianship, The
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Item: 52774
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  Greene
 Performance Success: Performing Your Best Under Pressure
  Performance Success teaches a set of skills so that a musician can be ready to go out and sing or play at his or her highest level, working with energies that might otherwise be wasted in unproductive ways. This is a book of skills and exercises, prepared by a master teacher.
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Item: 87951
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  Hamann & Gillespie
 Strategies for Teaching Strings, 2nd edition
  An essential guide for prospective, novice, and experienced string teachers alike. Now featuring an integrated DVD, this comprehensive text provides all the information necessary to develop and manage a successful school-based program. -the publisher
  
Item: 76007
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  Hammond
 Thank You-That's All We Need for Today...
  A Practical Guide to Music Theatre Auditions Additional Details ... is full of practical advice for anyone who auditions for musical theater shows, whether professional or amateur. Starting with the earliest stages, it covers every aspect of the audition process: choosing and learning songs; looking after your voice; deciding what to wear; preparing CVs and photos; how to make a good impression; who's who on the audition panel -- Also included: a CD of vocal warm-ups -...

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  Laredo
 Becoming A Musician Book
  
Item: 13687
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  Laudermilch
 Understandable Approach to Musical Expression
  Designed to enhance the expressive ability of instrumentalists of every age, this concise, easy-to-understand guide written by Kenneth Laudermilch presents 22 musical concepts that remove the mystery from and provide proficiency in the art of musical expression.
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Item: 47499
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  Legge
 Art of Auditioning, The
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Item: 41550
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  Liebermann
 You Are Your Instrument
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Item: 09823
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  Loft
 How to Succeed in an Ensemble
  Performer and scholar Abram Loft wants every chamber musician to be a strong, collaborative ensemble voice. Here's his hard-headed advice on choosing colleagues, rehearsing and performing effectively together, building repertoire, programming, touring and other facets of the art and business of a chamber music career. Ranging from hilarious to sobering, this is essential reading for music lovers, amateur players, students, teachers and today's many emerging professiona...

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  Mann
 Bach & Handel - Performance Practice
  
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  Nelson
 Also Sprach Arnold Jacobs
  Subtitled "A Developmental Guide for Brass Wind Musicians." In addition to being an outstanding musician, Arnold Jacobs undoubtedly was the most influential brass teacher of the second half of the twentieth century. Countless brass (and other) musicians from all over the world travelled to Chicago to study with this master. Additionally, Mr. Jacobs also gave master classes that were popular with students, teachers and professionals in many different locations. Even if ...

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  Neumeister
 Creative Practicing DVD - all brass players
  DVD Video. Ed presents a video demonstration lecture series covering the subjects of posture, breathing, warming up the muscles, developing technique, improvisation and composition. Good for players of any instrument. Creative Practicing - Practice Creatively is a five part video series. Ed discusses and demonstrates ways to make "doing" more focused, enjoyable, efficient and effective. He uses practicing an instrument as an example of how to remain focused on the task...

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  Neumeister
 Creative Practicing DVD - non-brass players
  DVD Video. Ed presents a video demonstration lecture series covering the subjects of posture, breathing, warming up the muscles, developing technique, improvisation and composition. Good for vocalists and players of any non-brass instrument. Creative Practicing - Practice Creatively is a five part video series. Ed discusses and demonstrates ways to make "doing" more focused, enjoyable, efficient and effective. He uses practicing an instrument as an example of how to re...

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  Saindon
 Exploration in Rhythm
  Exploration in Rhythm, Rhythmic Phrasing in Improvisation will develop and expand the rhythmic palette and vocabulary of the improviser and composer. Working on these concepts, players should begin to "hear" rhythms that "float over the barline" as well as develop the ability to execute phrases over longer periods of time. The end result will be a sonic erasing of the bar line and an enhanced sense of freedom with regard to rhythm and phrasing. 64 pages.
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  Sanborn
 Brass Tactics, Revised Edition - CD Only
  This CD is included free with every copy of Brass Tactics (revised edition, #47880 ONLY). Listening to the 60-minute CD will help the reader understand how to approach the exercises presented in the book in order to obtain maximum benefit. Chase Sanborndiscusses and demonstrates Lip Buzzing; Leadpipe; Mouthpiece Buzzing; Pedal Tones; Flexibility; Soft Attacks; Long Tones; Tonguing; Jazz Articulation; High Notes; & Low Notes.
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Item: 47881
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  Sanborn
 Brass Tactics, Revised Edition w/CD & DVD
  Brass Tactics has been described as 'the most complete book on trumpet playing ever written'. With a winning combination of insight, humor and real-world advice, jazz trumpeter Chase Sanborn teaches you everything you need to know about playing a brass instrument. Whether you are a professional, student, hobbyist or 'comeback player', you'll learn what, when and how to practice in order to tame the metal beast, and you'll be entertained along the way.

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  Stith
 Score and Rehearsal Preparation
  This text is sure to provide the most practical approach to orchestra and wind band score study ever published. It methodically simplifies preliminary score study and initial rehearsal preparation for all conductors of band, orchestra and chamber ensembles. It is enormously valuable for practicing conductors from elementary school to those leading professional ensembles. As a supplement to undergraduate and graduate level instrumental conducting classes, it is an extre...

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  Thurmond
 Note Grouping
  Fully explains through musical example, the concept of expressive musicianship as taught by Anton Horner, William Kincaid and Marcel Tabuteau. This book clearly illustrates how to teach students to play or sing with expression, musicianship and style andwill help to make your performances "come alive".
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Item: 49368
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  VanderCook
 Expression in Music
  An inexpensive softcover text on the basics of music expression from renowned Rubank author and composer Hale VanderCook.
  
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  Weingartner
 On the Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies
  Dover reprint of 1969 Dover edition originally entitled "On Conducting." which itself was a repulication of a 1925 Breitkopf edition.
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Item: 54907
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  Weisberg
 Art of Wind Playing, The
  This essential book for all performers, teachers and conductors of wind instruments clears away the cobwebs of superstitions and the fixed ideas of what can and can't be done. Written by one of the great wind virtuosos of our time, the book covers: resonance; attacks and releases; double tonguing; vibrato; breathing; interpretation; and more. 145 pages. 1574630849. 9781574630848.
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Item: 67014
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  Werner
 Effortless Mastery
  
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  Westberg
 Sharpen Your String Technique
  You've learned the ABCs of playing the violin, viola, cello, or bass. Now it's time to explore the rest of the alphabet, expand your horizons, and express your musicality. In 22 chapters by the master teachers at Teen Strings and Strings magazines, this book will help you strengthen your basic skills, establish good practic habits, and master specific techniques and styles. Discover ways to express yourself and how to trust your instincts - and apply all this knowledge...

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  Westberg
 Succeed as a String Player
  Succeed as a String Player! can inform, inspire, and entertain. This unique anthology from the publisher of the popular magazine for teen string players - violinists, violists, cellists, and bassists - offers tips on making better use of your practice time, overcoming stage fright, breezing through a music school audition, finding the perfect summer music camp, and much more. There even are helpful hints from some of the violin world's biggest names, including Itzhak P...

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Item: 67249
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  Williams, Thompson and Gluck
 Rhythms of the Game
  Bernie Williams' ability to play major league baseball at a high level was directly influenced by his musical training and his deep understanding of the similarities between musical artistry and athletic performance. Through a series of conversations, narratives, and sidebars, the authors (Bernie Williams, Dave Gluck, and Bob Thompson) discover and reveal the influence of music and its rhythms on the game of baseball. Readers of Rhythms of the Game will gain an insight...

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  Wooten
 Music Lesson, The
  From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes The Music Lesson, the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movem...

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