An Introduction to Music Technology provides a clear and concise overview of the essential elements of music technology for today's musician. It is designed to provide music students with the background necessary to apply technology in their creating, teaching, and performing. This book focuses on five topics that underlie the hardware and software in use today: Sound, Audio, MIDI, Synthesis and Sampling, and Computer Notation and Computer-Assisted Instruction. In addition, there is an appendix...
How many years has it been since your last diction class? This handy guidebook is an easy reference for the symbols used in IPA: what they look like and how they are pronounced. Example words for every symbol are included in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. And an online resource includes recorded demonstrations of every sound. A clear and concise tool for singing in foreign languages, equally useful in the choir room and the vocal studio. -the publisher (sample pages)
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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...
Self-taught jazz pianist and composer, Jean-Michel Pilc, writes on the expressive aspect of improvisation based on the premise that originality in art is a matter of expressing one's own uniqueness. He draws examples emphasizing the primacy of feeling spanning from classical music to jazz, and describes simple and essential exercises based on physicality that will help students and professionals alike to tap into his or her own stream of creativity. Written in an engaging and conversational styl...
A Ste-by-Step Guide for Understanding Basic Rhythms. Designed for band, choir, orchestras or private study, this book teaches how to read basic rhythms from the printed page. This practical, daily step-by-step guide is suitable for all instruments and levels of musical abilities. It clearly explains: beats, time signatures and tempo; note shapes and their time values; and ties, rests and dots. Other topics covered include: musical tips and terms; sight reading; practice exercises in 2/2, 2/4, 3/...
Jeff Porcaro was a founding member of the Grammyr Award-winning band Toto, and he also recorded and toured with a list of artists that reads like a who's who of popular music in the late twentieth century. His long-time friend, Robyn Flans has written this biography of one of the most recorded drummers in history, held in equal esteem by fans and music professionals alike. It includes interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Ron Howard, Jackson Browne, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs, Peter Frampton and o...
It's Performance Day! is a comprehensive look at the many strategies to manage peace of mind, nutrition, daily habits, performance day routines, energy maintenance, and spiritual focus, to be at your best for the big day, available in both print and digital formats. Organize your thoughts, and harness your energies to your advantage, with specific sections to explore everyday routines used by the experts for exercise, nutrition, and wellness, as well as plans for performance day readiness. Don't ...
Comparable to a course, the reader will be guided step by step from the grassroots to more advanced and complex ways of writing. Here, it is not intended to simply float some apodictic rules that lack proper explanation. On the contrary, the explanationsgiven will cover the questions time and again asked by students as well as the issues arising when working in an artistic situation. Through refined verbalization and a vast number of musical examples this book should contribute to a clear underst...
Many different possibilities for harmonizing the same melody are illustrated and analyzed, using techniques by such influential arrangers and composers as Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Oliver Nelson, Gil Evans, and Clare Fischer. Techniques of melody harmonization, linear writing, and counterpoint for 2, 3, 4, and 5 horns. A chapter on writing for the rhythm section clearly illustrates the techniques commonly used by jazz arrangers and composers. Six complete scores in concert key are ideal fo...
After months of diligent preparation, we have released The Jazz Educator's Handbook by Jeff Jarvis and Doug Beach. Featuring easy-to-understand text, loads of notated examples, photos, and unique illustrations by artist Steve Wiest, this 271-page compendium with two CD recordings provides a wealth of practical information for inexperienced and seasoned teachers alike. Topics include Starting a Jazz Program; Recruiting Students; Instrumentation & Set-Up; Combos & Chamber Groups; Choosing Charts; ...
Excellence in Jazz Pedagogy is a series of short, targeted publications by renowned jazz educator, composer, and performer Dean Sorenson. Each book in this collection focuses on specific topics important to anyone teaching or studying jazz. In Volume 1: Jazz Ensemble Auditions and Repertoire Selection, the author takes a look at the reasons for teaching jazz in school music programs, the rationale behind the grading of jazz materials, and some of the basics to starting a jazz ensemble program_in...
Completely revised in 1995. Now includes the most up-to-date information available for jazz educators. New charts, lists and bibliographies have been included as well as a complete chapter on Computers, Technology and Jazz Education. This text is a must for the director with little experience with jazz ensembles or for those wanting to update their skills in areas necessary to create a comprehensive jazz program in your school system. The Jazz Ensemble Director's Manual has been the text of choic...
Completely revised in 1995. Now includes the most up-to-date information available for jazz educators. New charts, lists and bibliographies have been included as well as a complete chapter on Computers, Technology and Jazz Education. This text is a must for the director with little experience with jazz ensembles or for those wanting to update their skills in areas necessary to create a comprehensive jazz program in your school system. The Jazz Ensemble Director's Manual has been the text of choic...
Completely revised in 1995. Now includes the most up-to-date information available for jazz educators. New charts, lists and bibliographies have been included as well as a complete chapter on Computers, Technology and Jazz Education. This text is a must for the director with little experience with jazz ensembles or for those wanting to update their skills in areas necessary to create a comprehensive jazz program in your school system. The Jazz Ensemble Director's Manual has been the text of choic...
If grading music students in any creative course for credit is a challenge, how much more difficult is it to grade something as personal and nebulous as jazz improvisation? Should students be evaluated on their creativity in soloing or simply on technical skills such as chords and scales? What are the objectives in an improv course, and how can they be graded? The instructors whose responses are presented in this book represent over 700 years of combined experience teaching jazz improvisation - o...
This volume was the first published jazz teaching method. One of America's greatest musician-teachers, David Baker, shows how to develop jazz courses and jazz ensembles, with lesson plans, rehearsal techniques, practice suggestions, improvisational ideas, and ideas for school and private teachers and students. -the publisher (table of contents) #black author
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Chase Sanborn's insightful and humorous writing style has created fans worldwide. The author of the Brass Tactics series of books now turns his focus towards jazz improvisation. Writing from the perspective of a life-long jazz musician, Chase offers information and tips for musicians of all levels. Jazz Tactics enlightens and entertains while it unravels the mysteries of jazz. 240 pages/spiral bound.
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Jazz Theory and Practice is the most comprehensive introduction to jazz theory ever published, and the revised addition adds even more with new ear-training software and a chapter about triads over foreign bass tones. Rich with examples from the repertoire, this contemporary text gives performers, arrangers and composers practical knowledge of the theoretical foundations of jazz. The revised CD-ROM, compatible with Windows and Mac systems, includes expanded ear-training exercises and tutorials th...
Jazz Theory and Practice is the most comprehensive introduction to jazz theory ever published, and the revised addition adds even more with new ear-training software and a chapter about triads over foreign bass tones. Rich with examples from the repertoire, this contemporary text gives performers, arrangers and composers practical knowledge of the theoretical foundations of jazz. The revised CD-ROM, compatible with Windows and Mac systems, includes expanded ear-training exercises and tutorials th...
Jazz Theory & Workbook is designed for all instrumentalists eager to understand how the jazz standards they play and improvise over are constructed. It is also a great resource for arrangers and composers seeking new writing tools. While some of the musical examples are pianistic, this book is not exclusively for keyboard players. In this structured method, every new concept is clearly presented and explained, put in context with one or more musical examples, and then consolidated with a set of ...
Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I (00030458, $39.95) includes: review of basic theory, rhythm in jazz performance, basic tonal materials, triadic generalization, diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis, substitutions and turnarounds, common melodic outlines, and an overview of voicings. Volume II (00030459, $29.95) includes: modes and modal frameworks, quartal harmony, other scales and colors, extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition,...
Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I (00030458, $39.95) includes: review of basic theory, rhythm in jazz performance, basic tonal materials, triadic generalization, diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis, substitutions and turnarounds, common melodic outlines, and an overview of voicings. Volume II (00030459, $29.95) includes: modes and modal frameworks, quartal harmony, other scales and colors, extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition,...
Learn to improvise like an instrumentalist! Artful vocal jazz improvisation requires knowing the changes, and all musicians need to understand what is happening on the musical landscape. This book will help you hear, understand and apply jazz theory so that you can solo as a complete musician. Each lesson offers a core musical concept related to harmony, melody and rhythm, integrating skills such as conducting and analysis, and reinforcing them with practical exercises. The accompanying audio tra...
A “must have” exciting collection of favorite tips from 57 of today's most outstanding educators, performers, and industry pros in the jazz education world. This is an ideal source that contains proven successful suggestions that will not only aid the teacher/director from junior high school to university levels, but the conductor and performer – novice to professional! Performance tips on instrument technique, rehearsals, programming, technology, improvisation and much more! Enjoy this quick-to...
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 definitive biography and critical study of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764), this volume deals at length not only with the composer's musical achievements but also with aspects of his life and work that made him one of the most important cultural figures in eighteenth-century France. Fascinating incidents include his central position in a musical controversy that excited the enmity of Rousseau, Diderot, and the Encyclopedists; his friendship and collaboration with Voltaire; and his position a...
The most well-respected biography of John Philip Sousa, John Philip Sousa: American Phenomenon explores his life and work and traces his effects on the role of cultural arts in the United States. Sousa was a true musical genius who dedicated his life to raising the level of his country's music appreciation and improving its image abroad. This new edition retains all the wonderful images and information about the composer and conductor who had so much influence on musical tastes in our country. Th...
"Innovative Programs for Seniors." This book is written for everyone involved with the older generation including gerontology specialists, music therapists, activities directors, and recreation directors. The activities are for those who need creative programming for senior citizens in retirement homes, day care centers, geriatric hospitals, nursing homes and those who are aging at the home. The 80 complete programs are organized into monthly themes that are coordinated with songs, visual aids...
Denise A. Gainey's Kalmen Opperman: Passing on the Flame combines interviews with Opperman's former students with personal essays and reflections from those closest to the master teacher and performer. Gainey explores Opperman's life, pedagogy, and countless contributions to the clarinet's canon. A longtime student and research colleague of Opperman's, Gainey provides a rare glimpse into the life and work of one of the greatest contributors to the clarinet. -the publisher
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Emphasizing the release of tension, both physical and mental, Karen Tuttle's Coordination Technique, based on her own experience, not only keeps violists injury-free but it also gives way to a richer, freer sound and more emotional and expressive performances. The Karen Tuttle Legacy is a resource and guide for viola students, teachers and performers to revolutionize their playing based on what works best for each individual's unique physiology. Six of Tuttle's direct and highly celebrated "viola...
Anton Weidinger has always been held to be the inventor of the keyed trumpet. This assumption probably derives from Wilhelm Schneider, Historisch-technische Beschreibung der musikalischen Instrumente (Leipzig, 1834), page 43. In this book, Schneider states that Weidinger invented his keyed trumpet in 1801. When Haydn's trumpet concerto became well known through a phonograph recording of 1938-39, some authorities changed their mind. The concerto dates from 1796 and is written for a chromatic trum...
Kurt Cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics, drawings, and writings about his plans for Nirvana and his thoughts about fame, the state of music, and the people who bought and sold him and his music. His journals reveal an artist who loved music, who knew the history of rock, and who was determined to define his place in that history. Here is a mesmerizing, incomparable portrait of the most influential musician of his time. 294 pages. Softcover. 157322359X. 9781573223591.
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This book redefines what it means to be a DJ in the ever-evolving DJ world. Powerful computing combined with innovative design has provided the modern DJ with branching options for creative expression. Through description and example, readers are presented with fundamental tutorials as well as various creative performance configurations for three of the more popular audio software applications: Traktor Pro, Serato, and Ableton Live. 082039556642. 9781435456648. 1435456645.
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Presents a comprehensive taxonomy of conducting gestures providing conductors with the knowledge and skills needed to lead and inspire expressive musical performances. 188 pgs. Includes: 13 chapters covering the craft of podium conducting including rarely discussed topics such as... the parameters of body and space conducting motion and emotion left hand signals nontraditional gestures (including "visual onomatopoeia") verbal and nonverbal cues body language and facial expres...
An extremely useful volume for pianists who wish to expand their skills at playing chords or reading melody lines and adding their own accompaniment. Major and minor triads, dominant 7th chords, diminished triads, augmented triads and more are all clearly explained and diagrammed. 79 pages.
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Authentic and complete, this presentation by one of the master teacher's devoted students explains the principles and techniques of the Leschetizky Method with numerous illustrations, exercises, and examples from piano literature. The two-part treatment begins with explanations of hand and finger positions and proceeds to discussions of the touch; diatonic and chromatic scales; trills, chords, and arpeggios; double notes, thirds, and sixths; and octaves. The second part focuses on musical perform...
Pianist Paul Badura-Skoda and composer Frank Martin carried on a vivid exchange of letters from 1965 to 1974. In this period, Martin composed two major works for piano on behalf of Badura-Skoda: Second Piano Concerto (1968/69) and Fantaisie sur des rythmes flamenco (1973). The letters reproduced here show the close collaboration and mutual trust between composer and pianist, a musical piece of contemporary history. (In English, French, and German)
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Universal Edition has published Gustav Mahler's letters to his publishers for the first time, providing insight into the inner workings of the composer's mind as he worked to translate his ideas to paper. These letters provide a detailed and multi-faceted picture of the composer, ranging from contract negotiations to the discussion of strategically distributing promotional copies of his works. To hear the true voice of Mahler in this text is truly an extraordinary experience. 264 pages. Perfect b...
Universal Edition has published Gustav Mahler's letters to his publishers for the first time, providing insight into the inner workings of the composer's mind as he worked to translate his ideas to paper. These letters provide a detailed and multi-faceted picture of the composer, ranging from contract negotiations to the discussion of strategically distributing promotional copies of his works. To hear the true voice of Mahler in this text is truly an extraordinary experience. 264 pages. Perfect b...
Friend, favorite pupil, and secretary of Franz Liszt, Arthur Friedheim was the composer's closest associate during the 1880s. In this profound and scholarly study, Friedheim examines Liszt's life as a man, pianist, composer, conductor, teacher, and writer. His vibrant, richly textured prose recaptures a golden age of music that ended with the outbreak of World War I. Friedheim's memoir evokes an era populated by giants of the keyboard and podium as well as scholars, writers, soldiers, and statesm...