A three-volume theory text designed to be used with or without the correlated software diskettes. Perfect for classroom use. Students learn new concepts in class with the workbook, then may review and reinforce those concepts in a computer lab. A combination text and workbook in three volumes. All areas of music theory are covered in a concise and practical manner and each level contains 28 lessons. -the publisher
Category: Textbooks - Music Theory, Notation & Writing Item: 000519 Grade: Price: $6.99 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
A three-volume theory text designed to be used with or without the correlated software diskettes. Perfect for classroom use. Students learn new concepts in class with the workbook, then may review and reinforce those concepts in a computer lab. A combination text and workbook in three volumes. All areas of music theory are covered in a concise and practical manner and each level contains 28 lessons. -the publisher
Category: Textbooks - Music Theory, Notation & Writing Item: 001292 Grade: Price: $5.95 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
A three-volume theory text designed to be used with or without the correlated software diskettes. Perfect for classroom use. Students learn new concepts in class with the workbook, then may review and reinforce those concepts in a computer lab. A combination text and workbook in three volumes. All areas of music theory are covered in a concise and practical manner and each level contains 28 lessons. -the publisher
Category: Textbooks - Music Theory, Notation & Writing Item: 000518 Grade: Price: $6.99 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
Move students beyond practice calendars that count only minutes and guide them to think about their learning every time they play their instrument. This 56-page resource has seventeen duplicable forms to help students reflect on their work throughout theyear - practicing outside of class, connecting rehearsals to independent practice, following concerts, and at the end of the year.
Category: Textbooks - Music Education Item: 092779 Grade: Price: $10.95 Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
Now's the time to practice smarter, not harder. It's time to Practice with Purpose! Practice is everything if you want to improve as a musician. But, what and how do you practice effectively and with efficiency? This book contains 50 easy-to-use strategies scientifically proven and field-tested to improve musical skills. It includes practice plans for every level with examples from the world's greatest performers. It's an indispensable resource to immediately increase musical proficiency. -the p...
Teachers, parents, students and players of all ages and levels will find information and insights to brass playing from one of the world's greatest practitioners of the trumpet, Rafael Mendez. Produced in collaboration with the noted brass educator Edward Gibney, this guide is written in an inviting style that will inspire, inform and clarify. 96 pages. - the publisher (table of contents)
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124 short excerpts using a mixture of treble, alto, tenor and bass clefs and various common transpositions. The book concentrates on diatonic harmonic study (including diminished sevenths) and harmonic counterpoint in up to three parts. The exercises train students to take in many staves at once, to see where the principal melody is, to understand harmonies and modulations, to read various clefs, and transpose as necessary. 110 pages. --
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Two aptitude tests designed to diagnose and measure music potential: • The only brief, longitudinally valid music aptitude tests for Grades K-6. • Crucial in helping music teachers adapt instruction to the individual musical needs of their students. • Requires no reading or music skills. The administration time is at most two 20-minute periods. Both tests have a similar design. The "Primary" test is recommended for use with younger children (K-12). The "Inter...
This modern English translation of 'Principes de la Flute' offers rare insight into the historical development of three important instruments and much useful technical information. 90 pgs. 5-3/8 x 8-1/2 inches.
Category: Flute Textbooks Item: 009074 Grade: Price: $9.95 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
Subtitled A Practical Guide to All Aspects of Teaching. No voice teacher can afford to be without the updated and revised editon of The Private Voice Studio Handbook, a comprehensive and practical guide for beginning or improving the work of the independent instructor. The topics addressed include: mission and policy statements; studio equipment and organization; auditioning and accepting new students; practice agenda for students; the importance of teaching music reading; repertoire for beginner...
Pro Tools 101 Official Courseware takes a comprehensive approach to learning the fundamentals of Pro Tools. Now updated for Pro Tools 9, this new edition covers everything you need to know to complete a Pro Tools project. Learn to build sessions that include multitrack recordings of live instruments, MIDI sequences, software synthesizers, and virtual instruments. Through hands-on tutorials, develop essential techniques for recording, editing, and mixing. The included DVD-ROM offers tutorial files...
Get the most out of Pro Tools with the definitive guidebook! Covering the LE, M-Powered, and HD versions of Pro Tools for music, post, and multimedia users at all levels, Pro Tools 7 Power!, Second Edition is the perfect resource for both newcomers looking to get up and running, and more advanced users who would like a complete desk reference on the new version. Completely updated for Pro Tools 7.4, everything from basic audio concepts and setting up your system to editing, mixing, plug-ins, MIDI...
Because it is used by musicians and recording professionals, more of the sounds heard today - from audio CDs to film scores - are created using Digidesign's Pro Tools than any other digital production system. "Pro Tools Power!" covers tons of production tips and shortcuts for using Pro Tool's digital audio workstations. It will not only enable post, music or dance mixers to get right to work, but it also offers many advanced tips for veteran Pro Tools operators. 408 pages.
Category: Textbooks - Electronic Music Item: 047783 Grade: Price: $29.95 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
Get the most out of Digidesign's Pro Tools software with this comprehensive home studio guide that will show you how to create the highest quality recordings by honing your production skills and engineering techniques. With a complete explanation of the entire production process, you'll find out everything you need to know to make your music projects stand out from the rest. You'll learn how to: mix and master recordings like the pros; run a recording session and produce great songs; set up your ...
Based on the workshop award-winning singer Claytoven Richardson teaches at San Francisco State University, this book tackles on-the-job issues singers face while trying to make a career out of singing - recording studio fundamentals, professionalism, union basics, vocal techniques for both lead and background studio singing, choosing mics, proper headphone use, and much more. 228 pages.
Category: Vocal Textbooks Item: 062884 Grade: Price: $29.99 Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
Get organized, and take charge of your music projects! This book will help you harness your creativity into clear visions and effective work plans. Whether you are producing a recording, going on tour, developing a studio, launching a business, running amarketing campaign, creating a music curriculum, or any other project in the music industry, these road-tested strategies will help you to succeed. Music projects come in all sizes, budgets, and levels of complexity, but for any project, setting u...
Companion to the French Song Anthology. The diction lessons were recorded by coach, conductor and diction specialist Pierre Vallet. The diction for each song is recorded twice: first recited as an actor would speak it, showing flow of the language and the mood, followed by a slow, deliberate lesson, allowing time for the student to repeat each line.
Category: Vocal Textbooks Item: 071341 Grade: Price: $19.95 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
In this vivid portrait, Bruce Wood illuminates the sometimes shadowy figure of Henry Purcell, richly evoking the atmosphere of 17th century England- which was full of intrigues and plots. By interweaving the events of this unparalleled period of social and political change with the life and music of Purcell, Wood creates an account of this elusive English genius that is hard to put down.
Category: Textbooks - Music History Item: 076847 Grade: Price: $24.00 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
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...
Rehearsal begins with the same, standard warm-ups. What do you do when the choir starts the repertoire and all of the beautiful singing heard during warm-ups goes out the window? Grab Tim Seelig's Quick Fixes - Prescriptions for Every Choral Challenge from the pocket of your choral folder, quickly identify the symptom in the index, read the plan of treatment, and immediately fix the problem - right on the spot! -the publisher
Category: Textbooks - Conducting & Directing Item: 086465 Grade: Price: $12.99 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
The latest step by step guide to bassoon reed tuning by Mark Eubanks continuing the work laid out in Advanced Reed Design and Testing. Includes topics and details relative to the break-in process, tip profilers, reed designs and shapes, blade profiles, gouge and cane; climate, bocals, tools, reed vibrancy, pitch centering, pad height, low register articulation, harmonic tuning, fork Bb tuning, slurring across the break, alternate fingerings, sanding techniques, knife techniques, and much more! 16...
Essential reading for parents wanting to know more about bringing music into the life of their child, this book is packed with expert advice on practically everything from birth right through to early adulthood.
Category: Textbooks - Music Education Item: 078145 Grade: Price: $32.50 Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
This exciting work, by one of today's most highly regarded music scholars, brings new light to the more than two dozen works by Ralph Vaughan Williams for military band, brass band and wind ensemble. Vaughan Williams' unique relationship with fellow composer Gustav Holst is examined as well as his relationships with personnel at the Royal Military School of Music, the BBC and the Salvation Army. There's much more in this hard-to-put-down volume for conductors, performers, students and aficionados...
Designed for music professionals and students, this extensive resource is the definitive guide for over 500 instruments, including over 190 world music instruments. Music industry veteran, Robert Bornstein, has compiled the most complete reference available today, with instrument ranges, transposition, and tuning guides, in easy, quick-reference diagrams. It also includes French, Italian, and German translations. -the publisher
Category: Textbooks - Orchestration & Instrumentation Item: 114608 Grade: Price: $24.95 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
Subtitled "Correspondance, Articles, Interviews." Considered among the most original and influential composers of the twentieth century, Maurice Ravel played a decisive role in the history of modern French music--a role that continues to be examined by students exploring the roots of musical style in our time. An internationally recognized authority on the life and works of Ravel, editor Arbie Orenstein captures the essence of this enigmatic man through his own words, both written and spoken. Thi...
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
Get ready to harness the power of Reason 5! This comprehensive guide will provide insights and tips that not only teach you the program, but will help you make better music. You'll start with a brief introduction to the basics of computer music and putting together your studio and then quickly move on to the business of creating a song. Explore all the various tools and synths that Reason offers including the Sequencer, reMix, Kong, Dr. Octo Rex, Redrum, Subtractor, Malstrom, Thor, NN-19 and NN-X...
Want to record live audio or make field recordings for television and films? This book will teach you how. Recording on the Go: The Definitive Guide to Live Recording brings together the foundations of audio and the practice of live recording. It is a comprehensive guide to every step of the location recording process, from planning what you want to do, to getting the right equipment, to setting up the recording, to editing the results to taste. More than a simple overview, this book also maps ou...
Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of learning to create sounds on a synthesizer is understanding what all the individual synthesizer components contribute to the complex finished sound. Author and veteran synthesizer instructor Brian K. Shepard draws on his years of experience in synthesizer pedagogy in order to peel back the often-mysterious layers of sound synthesis one-by-one. The result is abo...
The Rehearsal: A Quick Guide to One Music Teacher's Most Potent Retention Tool is the music teacher's most potent and powerful retention tool. Musically performed and well-attended concerts, memorable trips, trophies, superior ratings at adjudicated events, the sense of camaraderie and of belonging to something important that develops_all of these and more play important parts in student retention in our performance ensembles. But they are probably not the pivotal elements. Rather, what happens d...
The Rehearsal: A Quick Guide to One Music Teacher's Most Potent Retention Tool is the music teacher's most potent and powerful retention tool. Musically performed and well-attended concerts, memorable trips, trophies, superior ratings at adjudicated events, the sense of camaraderie and of belonging to something important that develops_all of these and more play important parts in student retention in our performance ensembles. But they are probably not the pivotal elements. Rather, what happens d...
The Rehearsal: A Quick Guide to One Music Teacher's Most Potent Retention Tool is the music teacher's most potent and powerful retention tool. Musically performed and well-attended concerts, memorable trips, trophies, superior ratings at adjudicated events, the sense of camaraderie and of belonging to something important that develops_all of these and more play important parts in student retention in our performance ensembles. But they are probably not the pivotal elements. Rather, what happens d...
This book provides one huge "room" where everyone can gather to ask questions on the art of rehearsing and listen to answers from people who know. In his foreword, Frederick Fennell says, "If you are a conductor, or are in training to be one, or are confused about how it's going, this book is all about you and me." It includes chapters by Frank Battisti, Eugene Corporon, James Croft, Donald R. Hunsberger, Jerry F. Junkin, Craig Kirchhoff, Allan McMurray, H. Robert Reynolds, James Smith, John Whit...
Reading this book soon leads one to discover that band conductors are indeed fortunate to have a number of talented and accomplished leaders, who were not only willing, but enthusiastic about sharing their ideas and philosophies with younger colleagues. The result of all of this is to provide a huge "room" where everyone can gather to ask questions on all aspects of rehearsing and listen to the answers from the experts.
Category: Textbooks - Music Education Item: 109155 Grade: Price: $19.95 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
Meredith Music's "Rehearsing the Band" series features books that provide a huge "room" where everyone can gather to ask questions on all aspects of rehearsing and listen to the answers from the experts. This High School Band volume includes chapters by Greg Bimm, Bill Eicher, David Gorham, Roy Holder, Gary Markham, Richard Saucedo, Tom Shine, Paula Thornton, Frank Troyka, David W. Vandewalker, and Bill Watson.
Category: Textbooks - Music Education Item: 109154 Grade: Price: $19.95 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
In this highly informative compendium, nationally renowned orchestra directors share their unique expertise concerning rehearsal philosophy, intonation, tone and bow control, setup and fundamentals, articulation, planning, warm-ups, recruiting, communitybuilding, and more. These educators have honed their skills through years of experience and have inspired countless young musicians. Each chapter presents their insights and individual approaches to developing musical excellence in their students....
Kristin Leitterman's Relax and Take a Deep Breath captures the essence of virtuoso Bert Lucarelli's approach to oboe playing, covering a wide variety of topics related to his philosophies on oboe performance: breathing, support, embouchure, articulation,tonguing, and reed making. The book also presents Lucarelli's thoughts on general aspects of musical performance, such as memorization, performance anxiety, and suggestions for effective practice. Leitterman's writing expertly reveals Bert's passi...
This new book offers ten easy-to-do Awareness Through Movement exercises which can be done either sitting in a chair or lying on the floor. The book includes special chapters on back pain posture sitting and ergonomics. Each exercise is completely illustrated. Often used as a supplement to work with the study of the Feldenkrais method. "In order for you to take advantage of your body's extraordinary ability to improve itself through sensory motor learning, you must give your brain an opportunity...