Instrumental Jazz Arranging consists of a systematic presentation of the essential techniques and materials of jazz arranging. Authors Mike Tomaro and John Wilson draw upon 50+ years of combined teaching experience to bring you a book that addresses all of the basic needs for beginning arrangers. Topics include counterpoint/linear writing, jazz harmony, compositional techniques, and orchestration. All topics serve to address issues concerned with true arranging in great detail. The book may be us...
An encyclopedic presentation of bassoon fingerings and their usage. Compiled and written by Professor Lewis Hugh Cooper and Howard Toplansky. Essentially a giant fingering chart, this book is meant to be used by teachers, serious advanced students and performing artists. Fingerings presented represent the accumulated technical knowledge acquired during twenty-five years of professional playing and teaching. GBC comb-bound softcover. 370 pages.
Category: Bassoon Textbooks Item: 045686 Grade: Price: $52.50 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
An encyclopedic presentation of bassoon fingerings and their usage. Compiled and written by Professor Lewis Hugh Cooper and Howard Toplansky. Essentially a giant fingering chart, this book is meant to be used by teachers, serious advanced students and performing artists. Fingerings presented represent the accumulated technical knowledge acquired during twenty-five years of professional playing and teaching. Hardcover. 370 pages.
Category: Bassoon Textbooks Item: 045687 Grade: Price: $62.50 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
Find out what recording techniques your favorite artists employ during the creative process! Artists on Recording Techniques examines the recording process through an unlikely pair of eyes: those of the artist. Who better to share insights into capturing the creative process than the artists themselves? Everything from vocals to guitar and drumsare covered through exclusive full-length interviews from author Jeff Touzeau's "Music, Etc." column in Pro Sound News and bonus material never printed b...
Historically, the music industry has not been very environmentally conscious. There is a lot of waste, too little recycling, and (let's admit it) a tremendous amount of energy expended. This book is designed to provide background information and tools tohelp musicians, producers, engineers, and other music enthusiasts become more sustainable and ecologically minded in their craft. It provides an informative overview of pressing environmental concerns that directly relate to the business of creati...
Jean-Marie Londeix is a pioneer of the modern classical saxophone. Many compositions are written for him, and he is one of the most well-known classical saxophonists of the 20th and 21st centuries. This book is not only a biography, but has essays and discussions of how he played some of the most famous works written for the saxophone. The book is written in English and French. - the publisher (table of contents sample pages)
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The Rough Guide to Jimi Hendrix is a thorough reference book about the life and music of the greatest rock guitarist of all time. It covers all the key events throughout his metamorphosis; from a misfit youngster growing up in poverty to his rise to international stardom, and from his days as a starving backup musician in the early 1960s to his triumphant appearances at the Monterey Pop and Woodstock rock festivals, not to 0. Special chapters are devoted to vivid description and critical evaluati...
Help Yourself to practical teaching hints with this fantastic series self-help pedagogy books by Marienne Uszler. Focus on a specific teaching technique in each book Offer practical teaching hints on how to use the technique Show you how to make these ideas work in your own studio Sketch a background against which to examine the technique Provide references for you to search further on your own. Time Flies… focuses on how to make the most productive and best use of your teaching time. -the publis...
This valuable collection of quick-to-read yet deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets all placed in one convenient source. Contributors to the book were even eager to get a look at each other's ideas! With outstanding records ofperformance, workshop clinics, recordings, research, composition, leadership and teaching, the 57 authors provide their favorite "recipes" that cover an extreme range of topics from rudiments to rock, drum set to symphonic playing, and keyboard pe...
Hardbound volume makes a nice coffee table book. Contains reproductions of the works of famous American artists, including Andrew Wyeth, Winslow Homer, Norman Rockwell, Frederick Remington and many others, along with a short musical excerpt of a famous tune. 77 pages.
Category: Textbooks - Music Appreciation Item: 055410 Grade: Price: $19.95 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
The world of popular music is filled with singer-songwriters who are not just brilliant wordsmiths but also distinctive guitarists. This eclectic guide from the publishers of Acoustic Guitar magazine covers some of the very best of these singer-songwriters. Here you will learn how these musicians support their songs with inventive accompaniments in a wide range of styles, tunings, and techniques so many cool ideas that you can borrow for use in your own songwriting. Learn to play and write like:...
Read The Beatles is a collection of interviews, essays, poetry, book excerpts, and record and movie reviews by selected writers from the last 30+ years. It contains both hard-to-find and out-of-print articles, as well as new writings about the group and the artists' individual careers. This is a must for both Beatles fans and students of pop culture.
Category: Textbooks - Biography Item: 078553 Grade: Price: $16.00 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
Compiled and Edited by James Mick, David Pope, and Soo Han. Chapter authors: Brenda Brenner, Robert Gillespie, Soo Han, Mark Laycock, James Mick, Christopher Selby, and James Woomert. This much-anticipated fourth volume in the indispensable Teaching Music through Performance in Orchestra series arrives 13 years after the publication of the previous volume, with a new team of authors and editors, each at the top of the string educationprofession. But while the team is new, the book remains an ess...
This valuable collection of quick-to-read yet deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets all placed in one convenient source. Contributors to the book were even eager to get a look at each other's ideas! With outstanding records ofperformance, workshop clinics, recordings, research, composition, leadership and teaching, the 57 authors provide their favorite "recipes" that range from overviews of successful programs to specific topics that will inspire all levels and types o...
Many musicians grapple with the heartbreak of pain and injury, yet stories of recovery remain woefully scarce. This book is intended to help rectify that shortcoming. All the authors in Notes of Hope have dealt with debilitating injuries that made makingmusic painful, difficult or impossible. Their stories are offered here as a testament to what is possible through resourcefulness, creativity and perseverance. These stories are real-life snapshots of musicians who have come to terms with their di...
Teaching Brass: A Guide for Students and Teachers is an innovative multimedia tutorial designed to teach you how to teach the brass instruments. It embeds playing activites within the text so the explanations are meaningful to you. It uses videos, PDF downloads, sound files, large color images and PowerPoint slides to help you learn. This book comes with a printed book and an access code printed inside the front cover for use on the Teaching Brass web site. There you will find videos, sound files...
Do you have an iPad? Are you thinking of getting one? This book provides the tools to help you tap into its full potential for use in any music studio. You will understand the benefits of using an iPad to enhance your teaching, discover how it can save you time and money and learn how to integrate specific apps into your daily lessons. Leila Viss, blogger at 88PianoKeys.me, has taught piano for over 25 years and has always included a lab session to reinforce concepts with every private lesson. Sh...
Subtitled Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. Bonnie Wade's Thinking Musically is the central volume in the Global Music Series. Designed for undergraduates and general readers with little or no background in music, it incorporates music from many diverse cultures--including the Americas, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Europe--and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single ...
Chock full of tips, suggestions and friendly advice from a highly successful band director, this book will inspire you to achieve your full potential and help to transform the everyday job of teaching into a series of rewarding and memorable moments. This book is a comprehensive manual to improve your band while developing yourself as an effective teacher and leader. The author shares hard-won lessons; highly creative solutions and moments of celebration during an illustrious 40-year career in wh...
Mr. Zig's Literacy, Music & Technology Connection is an outstanding resource for K-12 teachers seeking to integrate technology and the arts. Learn the process of creating, composing, recording, and producing a song. Includes a CD "Loop Library" and reproducible pages.
Category: Textbooks - Music Education Item: 077539 Grade: Price: $24.95 Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
Your first song is the hardest one you will ever write. This book is designed to help you accomplish that goal. We're not going to jot down just any song, but one that you are proud of, one that gives you the confidence and the process required to write your second song, your third song, and on and on. Here you will find the basic musical knowledge you need and a process for putting that knowledge to work. Let's get started. Let's make you into a songwriter! Includes access to audio examples onli...
Your first song is the hardest one you will ever write. This book is designed to help you accomplish that goal. We're not going to jot down just any song, but one that you are proud of, one that gives you the confidence and the process required to write your second song, your third song, and on and on. Here you will find the basic musical knowledge you need and a process for putting that knowledge to work. Let's get started. Let's make you into a songwriter! Includes access to audio examples onli...
This text is intended for use in undergraduate diction courses, accompanied by International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers, the companion text for learning to articulate individual sounds. Clear formatting, concise organization all make it a useful in the studio. Each chapter is organized into four main sections. An brief introduction highlights the issues in learning the language-sounds not found in English or three and four-letter combinations representing one sound, for instance. Next an "at-...
This text is intended for use in undergraduate diction courses, accompanied by International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers, the companion text for learning to articulate individual sounds. Clear formatting, concise organization all make it a useful in the studio. Each chapter is organized into four main sections. An brief introduction highlights the issues in learning the language-sounds not found in English or three and four-letter combinations representing one sound, for instance. Next an "at-...
In the first major book devoted to the trumpet in more than two decades, John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan trace the surprising evolution and colorful performance history of one of the world's oldest instruments. They chart the introduction of the trumpet and its family into art music, and its rise to prominence as a solo instrument, from the Baroque "golden age," through the advent of valved brass instruments in the nineteenth century, and the trumpet's renaissance in the jazz age. The author...
Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876–1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered Mahler more than 40 years earlier, when he served as the composer's assistant conductor in Hamburg. He worked with Mahler again at the Vienna Opera, and after the composer's death conducted the debut of the Ninth Symphony ...
For years, music educators have been asking the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME) for a resource on software and technology products that would help them accomplish their curricular goals. The Technology Guide for Music Educators provides this resource in a comprehensive and compact package, clearly organized into the following six core technology areas that music educators need to be competent in as they teach music in the 21st century: Electronic Musical Instruments, Music Produc...
From advising to clinical experiences to personal relationships to coursework, life as an eduation student is both exhilarating and consuming. This book highlights the major components for survival and success during the formative years in a college or university, and provides examples and strategies to grealty assist the pre-service student educator. With no-nonsense advice and practical tips, this guide will prepare education students (and their parents!) to meet the many challenges and take ad...