A treasure was lifted when this little booklet from 1912 was rediscovered! The Songbook from 1912 represents in its uniqueness an outstanding contemporary witness of German history before the First World War. It proves how natural it was that German children, whether Jewish or non-Jewish, were taught together and were given the opportunity to get to know different cultures through playing and singing. - the publisher
Category: Vocal Textbooks Item: 135438 Grade: Intermediate Price: $28.99 Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
When you rehearse a piece for the first time, how do you identify problems? How do you know which problems to address first? How do you know the most efficient way to fix those problems? These questions lie at the heart of your job and the most effectiveteachers are the ones who do it well. In this book you'll experience Andrew Boysen's innovative approach to DEVELOPING REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES. - the publisher
Category: Textbooks - Music Education Item: 135644 Grade: Price: $67.99 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
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-...
Santorella's Dictionary of Music Terms, packed with over 2,500 concisely defined music terms and theory reference charts, serves as a fantastic "quick" glossary guide for study of music. The alphabetic listing of definitions is expected, but the additional reference materials including Notation, Meters, Key Signatures, Scales, Modes, Intervals, Signs, Composers, Periods and Seating Arrangements for assorted ensembles set it apart from any other pocket dictionary in print. This Santorella Publicat...
Whether you are recording voice, instruments, or field audio for a movie soundtrack, you need to understand the digital recording process and the seemingly limitless potential of all the available software and hardware tools. With this guide, you'll learn what you need to know about modern digital recording -- whether you're operating in your home studio or in a professional recording facility. See how to use the features included in many audio recording software packages to help you produce grea...
Guitar case sized. Do-it-yourself repair is easy with this money-saving manual for acoustic and electric guitarists. Easy instructions plus 170 diagrams & photos show how to fix loose frets, adjust a bridge, and more.
Category: Textbooks - Instrument Repair & Construction Item: 003111 Grade: Price: $6.95 Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
Do-It-Yourself Ear Training is designed to empower you with essential listening skills, problem-solving abilities, goal setting, and a deeper understanding of yourself as a musician. Develop a strong musical intuition, by diving into introspective exercises designed to explore your musical identity and unlock your full potential as a musician on your terms. The power to cultivate your ear and deepen your understanding of music is now literally in your hands no matter where you are! - the publish...
Do-It-Yourself Music Theory is a fun way to get started understanding music on your own. Using well-known music from pop, classical, and many other styles, you will be given step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to get started.
Category: Textbooks - Music Theory, Notation & Writing Item: 133825 Grade: Price: $24.99 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
Culled from the DownBeat archives - includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! Features classic photos and magazine covers from DownBeat's vast archives. In honor of its 75th anniversary, DownBeat's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, DownBeat. This anthology includes the greatest of DownBeat's Jazz Hall of Famers: fr...
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...
Designed for drummers of all styles this book/cd is also a valuable resource for recording engineers and producers. It contains step-by-step instructions along with over 35 professional photos that allow you to see the tools and tuning techniques up close. The companion CD contains demos for listening, so you can read and hear the differences in sounds.
Category: Percussion Textbooks Item: 074743 Grade: Price: $14.95 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
Childrens Book. It's a cold rainy day in the zoo and the animals are bored. So they call Duck Ellington who flies in with his piano and creates a jazz-jam that chases the clouds away and gets all the animals dancing. The attached CD is the soundtrack to this rainy day adventure.
Category: Textbooks - Music Education Item: 088841 Grade: Price: $8.99 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
The purpose of the study recorded in this book is to focus on the work of the members of the trombone section that was at the heart of Ellington's acclaimed orchestra from its beginnings until Ellington's death in 1974. Much of the study focuses on the three giants who were the section in the 1930s and early 1940s: Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol and Lawrence Brown. In this engaging history of Duke Ellington's trombonists, Kurt Dietrich simultaneously honors an instrument often slighted in the literature...
This book and double CD pack takes you step by step through MI's well-known Ear Training course. Complete lessons and analysis include: basic pitch matching singing major and minor scales identifying intervals transcribing melodies and rhythm identifying chords and progressions seventh chords and the blues modal interchange, chromaticism, modulation and more! Learn to hear and to visualize on your instrument. Take your playing from good to great! Over 2 hours of practice exercises -...
A discussion of the United States musical instrument industry in the middle years of the 19th century. Unrecognized by most historians and unknown to Americans, the United States had a thriving musical instrument industry in the middle years of the 19th century. 56 pages.
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Category: Brass Textbooks Item: 044398 Grade: Price: $40.95 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
This book is a comprehensive approach to ear training that will greatly improve every player's grasp of harmonic, melodic and rhythmic concepts. Although geared to the jazz improviser, this book will prove beneficial to all types of players and all instruments. The varied examples in this book cover extensive musical vocabulary starting from simple diatonic melodies and chord progressions, working through modal, bop and pentatonic ideas. Beginners to seasoned professionals will find that The Ears...
AMAZING BUT TRUE: The Educator's Guide to the Clarinet is the Clarinet's first complete pedagogy in its 250 year history. Whether you want to teach the clarinet better or learn the clarinet, the Educator's Guide has the information you need to save you time and effort and the frustration of trial and error. The Educator's Guide to the Clarinet has received high praise from some of the world's finest clarinetists. -the publisher Second Edition Contents include an Introduction, including "Why thi...
This special limited edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of the profound text that inspired thousands of musicians to reach that place where playing music is as effortless as drawing a breath. The beautiful foil embossed cover, added chapters and articles, and testimonials by Herb Alpert, Quincyjones, and others make this edition a timeless collectible to be displayed and treasured for a lifetime.
Category: Textbooks - Performance & Preparation Item: 109532 Grade: Price: $30.00 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
Elements of Indian Music introduces the Indian melodic system in an accessible manner within the realm of Western music theory. It demonstrates a new archetype in music composition for composers of any genre, as well as composition teachers and anyone interested in ethnomusicology. This book contains a set of 12 etudes for piano and transcriptions for classical guitar. Each etude is about one minute in length and utilizes notes from a particular Indian scale. An intermediate to advanced skill ...
In his account of this very English composer, J.P.E. Harper-Scott casts a new and frequently surprising light on the public and personal faces of Elgar, and portrays his music at the very forefront of early 20th century modernism.
Category: Textbooks - Music History Item: 076851 Grade: Price: $23.00 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
One is a science, the other an art; one useful, the other seemingly decorative, but mathematics and music share common origins in cult and mystery and have been linked throughout history. "Emblems of Mind" is Edward Rothstein's classic exploration of their profound similarities, a journey into their "inner life." Along the way, Rothstein explains how mathematics makes sense of space, how music tells a story, how theories are constructed, how melody is shaped. He invokes the poetry of Wordsworth, ...
The complete original treatise on the famous PIVOT system, here explained by Reinhardt himself. From an accidental discovery to 40 years of research, the system is laid out here in over 240 pages. Presented in a traditional Question and Answer format, Reinhardt addresses all aspects of his system and of the theories of brass playing that have made his name synonymous with brass pedagogy. 255 pages. -cdp (index sample page)
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A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century. Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition. Written formusicians and non-musicians alike.
Category: Textbooks - Music History Item: 092586 Grade: Price: $44.95 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
The Error Detection: Exercises for the Instrumental Conductor texts are designed to improve the critical listening skills of the conducting student through real music excerpts that contain planted errors in the parts for the conductor to find. Both bookscontain 54 excerpts from standard band literature from grades 2 to grade 6 so students gain knowledge of real music they can use later, not just non-musical etudes. The teacher's edition contains over 350 pages of materials with analysis sheets an...
Ophee's personal journey has taken him from driving 18-wheelers to piloting passenger jets to becoming a world-renowned "historian-musicologist," specialty in guitar. Since he began guitar lessons in his early twenties, he has gone on to teach guitar andto write with increasing authority about the instrument's history, use, and compositions. He would eventually establish Editions Orph‚e, known for its excellence in guitar publications and texts. Over forty years, Ophee has contributed much to th...
Ophee's personal journey has taken him from driving 18-wheelers to piloting passenger jets to becoming a world-renowned "historian-musicologist," specialty in guitar. Since he began guitar lessons in his early twenties, he has gone on to teach guitar andto write with increasing authority about the instrument's history, use, and compositions. He would eventually establish Editions Orph‚e, known for its excellence in guitar publications and texts. Over forty years, Ophee has contributed much to th...
A useful collection of definitions, composers and theory. This pocket-sized reference book (4.25 x 5.5 inches) includes a broad range of important information, from basic principles of theory and concise biographies of composers to pronunciations of foreign terms and ranges of instruments and voices. This easy-to-use volume covers every major aspect of music. 336 pages.
Category: Textbooks - Music Dictionary/Encyclopedia Item: 026146 Grade: Price: $9.99 Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
This pocket-sized dictionary presents current and correct notation practices in an easy-to-use format. Generously illustrated and concise, this book is essential to any musician looking for a handy reference for the correct notation of music. A most welcome and beneficial source for every musician, whether using a pencil or a computer. -the publisher
Category: Textbooks - Music Dictionary/Encyclopedia Item: 026147 Grade: Price: $10.99 Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
Jazz has evolved its own harmony apart from other genres of music. In order to improvise and compose in the idiom, a basic understanding of this harmony - how chords move and connect with each other - is essential. Noted author and educator Dan Haerle explains all the fundamental chord/scale theory you need. Includes voicings to over 20 standard chord progressions so you can see and hear how the various rules apply. For all musicians. No keyboard skills required, but knowing the names of the note...
Acclaimed by the New York Times as "part muse, part quick reference," this pocket-sized dictionary is an easy-to-use tool geared specifically toward the contemporary songwriter. A concise collection of the most-often used words in popular music, the simple format allows for fast reference, while the 15,000 entries provide more than ample rhyming options. -the publisher
Category: Textbooks - Music Dictionary/Encyclopedia Item: 026148 Grade: Price: $5.99 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
The Berklee in the Pocket Essential Songwriter is an accessible reference guide that will quickly lead songwriters to ideas that are at the heart of countless hit songs. The tips and strategies jam-packed into this concise guide will help you tackle writer's block and gain fresh insight into the songwriting process. Includes: the 17 chord progressions that are at the heart of the most popular hit songs, guitar charts and keyboard chords showing how to play progressions in all 12 keys, tips to cus...