Play Piano Again
(Willis). Return to the piano with the beloved music of John Thompson! Whether it's been two years or two decades, this is the perfect time for those with a few months or up to a year of lessons to dive back at their own pace. Composer Jason Sifford carefully curated the best of Thompson's easiest music in a simple but progressive way, choosing the best pieces from Teaching Little Fingers, Easiest Piano Course, and the first grade book of the Modern Course. Important musical concepts are presented in a way that's easy to grasp at any pace and for learners of any age!
Lata 51 Songs Sargam
There are so many famous songs of Legendary Singer Lata Mangeshkar that people like to play on an instrument and sing. The book contains Song Lyrics and its SARGAM of her 51 selected songs in English/Hinglish SRGMP style. A person who knows the basics of music can play songs on any instrument easily with the help of this book.
The Everything Music Theory Book, 3rd Edition
Master the fundamentals of music with the updated edition of The Everything Music Theory Book that features online audio examples, challenging practice exercises, and hundreds of illustrations so you can take your understanding to the next level. The Everything Music Theory Book, 3rd Edition is your comprehensive guide to mastering the essential tools needed to read, play, and comprehend music. Whether you're a new student or an intermediate musician, this book offers a complete educational package that teaches you a deeper understanding of music. Learn how chords and scales are constructed, how rhythm works, and how to understand complex time signatures. Discover how to identify a key and how keys are organized. Gain insights into how composers and musicians think about songwriting. Each chapter includes several Etudes--focused practice exercises--that test and reinforce your newfound understanding of music theory. With hundreds of illustrations and helpful audio examples, this book ensures you grasp every concept thoroughly. So grab a pencil, tune your instrument, and become a better musician without missing a beat!
Play Along Hero
Play Along Hero: Sheet Music Book with Backing Tracks By James Tahmasebi Unleash your inner musician with Play Along Hero, the ultimate sheet music book for aspiring players! This collection features original, easy-to-follow sheet music designed to help beginners and intermediate musicians learn and enjoy playing along to exciting backing tracks. Created by James Tahmasebi, a passionate music teacher and composer, this book includes: Original sheet music tailored for learners. Backing tracks available on YouTube (@PlayAlongHero) to enhance your practice. Fun and engaging content suitable for kids and music lovers of all ages. Perfect for guitarists looking for a fresh and fun way to improve their skills, this first edition book makes learning music rewarding and accessible. Play Along Hero will turn every practice session into a musical adventure!
Do-It-Yourself Clarinet: The Best Step-By-Step Guide to Start Playing - Book with Online Audio and Instructional Videos
(Do It Yourself). Want to learn clarinet at your own pace? Do-It-Yourself Clarinet is the ultimate beginner's guide, designed for anyone eager to start playing no prior experience needed! With easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, audio demos, video lessons, and musical excerpts from familiar songs across Broadway, classical, pop, rock, and jazz, you'll be making music in no time. This fun and accessible book features expert video instruction from renowned clarinetists Michelle Anderson YouTube star and founder of Clarinet Mentors and Deborah Andrus, creator of Clarinet Guide and celebrated for her "inspirational teaching." Their combined expertise makes learning the clarinet simple, enjoyable, and rewarding. Inside, you'll find: * Clear guidance on assembling your clarinet, reading music, and playing your first notes * Techniques to develop your sound and play with confidence * Exclusive video lessons and demonstrations from expert teachers * Downloadable resources including a fingering chart and demonstration tracks * Clarinet-specific tips to help you overcome common beginner challenges * Toolboxes packed with pro insights to keep you improving Start your musical journey today pick up Do-It-Yourself Clarinet and play your first song faster than you ever thought possible!
Music's Making
A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.As a work of musical theory, or meta-theory, Music's Making draws extensively on work done in philosophy and literary criticism in addition to the scholarship of musicologists and music theorists. Music's Making is divided into two large parts. The first half develops global attitudes toward music: emergence out of self and hearing through (drawing on Kabbalah and other sources), middle-voice (as discussed in philosophical phenomenology), liminal space (as discussed in literary theory), an ethics of intersubjectivity (drawing on Levinas), and character, canon, and metaleptic transformations (drawing chiefly on Harold Bloom). The second half embodies a search for metaphors, figurative language toward understanding music's endlessly variegated shaping of time-space. The musicians and scholars who inform this part of the book include Pierre Boulez, Gilles Deleuze, Anton Webern, Morton Feldman, and James Dillon. The book closes with an extended inquiry into the metaphors of horizontal and vertical experience and the spiritual qualities of musical experience expressed through those metaphors.
Piano Note Reading Workbook
Apply theory into practice with more than 300 exercises created to strengthen your grasp of notes, rests, measures, scales, and rhythm.Explore the world of piano music with our detailed guide, Piano Note Reading Workbook. Specifically designed for beginners, this book breaks down the fundamentals of reading piano notes into four comprehensive chapters.Each chapter emphasizes key elements for understanding and applying music theory to the piano.Understanding the Grand Staff and Note System: Begin with the basics. Learn to navigate the grand staff, recognize the placement of notes, and match them to their corresponding keys on the piano.Note values, measures, and rests: Understand how scores are divided into measures and rest signs and explore different note types. Familiarize yourself with various note values which are essential for fluent music reading.Pitch and Key Signatures: Uncover the mysteries of musical pitches and key signatures. Our guide features lessons on major scales and natural minor scalesTime Signatures and Rhythm: Achieve mastery over time signatures and rhythms to enhance timing and accuracy.Build a solid foundation in piano music theory and performance.Grab your copy of the "Piano Note Reading Workbook" today and start mastering the beautiful language of music!
Hip-Hop Civics
In Hip-Hop Civics, Jabari Evans demonstrates how Hip-Hop can be deployed in revamping formal civic education for Black and Brown youth. Based on an original ethnographic study of a Hip-Hop-based education program, the Songwriting and Production Program (SWP) administered by the Foundation of Music in two of Chicago's lowest performing public schools, Evans argues that Hip-Hop culture is central to students' lives and can be used as a vehicle for students to engage in civic practices and extract critical lessons about mainstream media, relational currency, identity development, and race/racism within the classroom. Through a compelling exploration of the SWP program, Evans contends that Hip-Hop should be part of formal education spaces and instruction, a conclusion he reaches through his understanding of how Hip-Hop impacted his own life, and by witnessing students discuss, write, and produce Hip-Hop music as part of the SWP program.
Hip-Hop Civics
In Hip-Hop Civics, Jabari Evans demonstrates how Hip-Hop can be deployed in revamping formal civic education for Black and Brown youth. Based on an original ethnographic study of a Hip-Hop-based education program, the Songwriting and Production Program (SWP) administered by the Foundation of Music in two of Chicago's lowest performing public schools, Evans argues that Hip-Hop culture is central to students' lives and can be used as a vehicle for students to engage in civic practices and extract critical lessons about mainstream media, relational currency, identity development, and race/racism within the classroom. Through a compelling exploration of the SWP program, Evans contends that Hip-Hop should be part of formal education spaces and instruction, a conclusion he reaches through his understanding of how Hip-Hop impacted his own life, and by witnessing students discuss, write, and produce Hip-Hop music as part of the SWP program.
The Improviser's Classroom
An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Improviser's Classroom present an array of critical approaches intended to reimagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism, reciprocity, and communal care. Demonstrating how improvisation can inform scenes of teaching and learning, this volume also outlines how improvisatory techniques offer powerful, if not vital, tools for producing connection, creativity, accompaniment, reciprocity, meaningful revelation, and lifelong curiosity. The Improviser's Classroom champions activist pedagogies and the public work essential for creating communities bound together by reciprocal care and equity. Contributors: Sibongile Bhebhe, Judit Csobod, Michael Dessen, jashen edwards, Kate Galloway, Tomie Hahn, Petro Janse van Vuuren, Lauren Michelle Levesque, George Lipsitz, Rich Marsella, Tracy McMullen, Hafez Modirzadeh, Ed Sarath, Joe Sorbara, Jesse Stewart, Ellen Waterman, Carey West, and the editors
The Improviser's Classroom
An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Improviser's Classroom present an array of critical approaches intended to reimagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism, reciprocity, and communal care. Demonstrating how improvisation can inform scenes of teaching and learning, this volume also outlines how improvisatory techniques offer powerful, if not vital, tools for producing connection, creativity, accompaniment, reciprocity, meaningful revelation, and lifelong curiosity. The Improviser's Classroom champions activist pedagogies and the public work essential for creating communities bound together by reciprocal care and equity. Contributors: Sibongile Bhebhe, Judit Csobod, Michael Dessen, jashen edwards, Kate Galloway, Tomie Hahn, Petro Janse van Vuuren, Lauren Michelle Levesque, George Lipsitz, Rich Marsella, Tracy McMullen, Hafez Modirzadeh, Ed Sarath, Joe Sorbara, Jesse Stewart, Ellen Waterman, Carey West, and the editors
Popular Music in Spanish Cinema
Popular Music in Spanish Cinema analyses the aesthetics and stylistic development of soundtracks from national productions, considering how political instability and cultural diversity in Spain determined the ways of making art and managing culture.As a pioneering study in this field, the chronologically structured approach of this book provides readers with a complete overview of Spanish music and connects it to the complex historical events that conditioned Spanish culture throughout the 20th century to the present day, from the Second Republic, the Spanish Civil war, and the dictatorship through to democracy. The book enables an understanding of the relationships between the recording and film production industries, the construction of collective imagination, the formulation of new stereotypes, semiotic meanings within film music and the musical exchanges between national and international cinema. This volume is an essential read for students and academics in the field of musicology, ethnomusicology and history as well as those interested in the study of diverse musical styles such as copla, zarzuela, flamenco, jazz, foxtrot, pop and rock and how they have been used in Spanish films throughout history.
Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare And Unique
NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare And Unique: The Selection, Introduction And Descriptive Notes This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a fresh and newly reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.
Dmitry Shostakovich and Music for Stalinist Cinema (1936璽1953)
In her first volume, Joan Titus explored the early years of Dmitry Shostakovich's career as the first Russian musician to emerge as a composer for the Soviet cinema. In this second volume, Dmitry Shostakovich and Music for Stalinist Cinema (1936-1953), Titus explores Shostakovich's continued development as a preeminent Soviet film composer and his navigation of the Soviet film industry amidst the cultural politics of late Stalinism. Based on archival materials and contemporaneous press, Titus combines musical analysis of eighteen scores with discussion of socio-cultural context and reception of his work. She frames the discussion using the concepts of the mainstream and middlebrow to highlight the complex role of Shostakovich's film music within Soviet arts culture. The composer's experience with diverse filmmakers, genres, and styles allowed him the opportunity to experiment with film scoring and musical meaning, which revealed his heterogenous and thorough knowledge of musical styles and his integration of classical and popular musical trends. This unusual and varied experience makes him an excellent case study for examining the development of the film composer within Soviet film industry during late Stalinism, and situates his scoring within an emerging global film music history.
Caruso And Tetrazzini On The Art Of Singing
NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS Caruso And Tetrazzini On The Art Of Singing This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a fresh and newly reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.
Music, the Market, and the Marvellous
Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines f矇erie, the French fairy play, in the last third of the nineteenth century. It is among the first book-length studies on the genre, the first in a language other than French, and the first from a musicological perspective. Sabbatini demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, f矇erie was still thriving during the fin de si癡cle, giving rise to innovations such as composerly f矇erie and scientific f矇erie. The plays, the theatre industry, and urban geography are discussed together, as befits a commercial genre where the marvellous was shaped by the market. Recovering this forgotten ^--^but once hugely influential ^--^ repertoire provides an occasion to rethink generic taxonomies of Parisian theatre and the ontology of nineteenth-century 'popular' theatre.
The Inner Nature of Music
8 lectures, 2 Q&A sessions, and 2 closing addresses, in various cities, December 3, 1906 - March 16, 1923 (CW 283)"A tone is at the foundation of everything in the physical world."This is one of many astonishing statements made by Rudolf Steiner in this collection of seven lectures on the inner realities of music. These lectures are an unusual treasure, since they are the only two groups of lectures that Steiner gave primarily on music, other than the lecture cycle for the tone eurythmy course, Eurythmy as Visible Singing.In the first group of three lectures, given in 1906, Steiner explains why music affects the human soul so powerfully. Music has always held a special position among the arts because it is the only art form whose archetype, or source, lies not in the physical world, as with architecture, sculpture, and painting, but purely in the spiritual world-the soul's true home. Music thus directly expresses through tones the innermost essence of the cosmos, and our sense of wellbeing when we hear music comes from a recognition of our soul's experience in the spiritual world.In the remaining lectures, given in 1922 and 1923, Steiner discusses our experience of musical intervals and shows how it has undergone profound changes during the course of evolution. The religious effects of music in ancient times and the union of music with speech are considered, as well as the origin of musical instruments out of imaginations that accompanied singing. New insights are offered on the nature of the major and minor modes and on future directions of musical development."Major and minor keys, this strange bond between music and human subjectivity, the actual inner life of feeling--insofar as this life of feeling is bound to the earthly corporeality--came into being only in the course of the fourth post-Atlantean epoch and are related to the experience of the third. The difference between major and minor keys appears; the subjective soul element relates itself to the musical element." -- Rudolf Steiner (lect. 5)This volume is a translation of 7 lectures (of 8) in Das Wesen des Musikalischen und das Tonerlebnis im Menschen, published by Rudolf Steiner-Nachlaftverwaltung, Dornach, 1969 (GA 283).
Blues Soloing For Guitar, Volume 1
Want to play smokin' blues guitar? This step-by-step method book with free video lessons, backing tracks and audio demo tracks included, can quickly get you confidently playing authentic sounding blues guitar solos and licks!Learn how to play authentic blues guitar with this exciting new book and video package: 100% confusion-free language and simple explanationsDedicated website featuring video lessons and demo of all the solos, scales and techniques in the bookNo music reading necessary: guitar tab, chord and fretboard diagrams make it easy to learn even if you can't read musicDownloadable 'Play-Along' audio practice tracks'Live band feel' blues backing tracks for every solo study in the bookThis book is perfect for you if: You are a beginner looking to learn the basics of blues guitar without it being confusing and taking you yearsYou are an intermediate blues guitar player who wants to brush up your skills, learn new techniques and build up your vocabulary of blues licksYou're frustrated by your inability to play great blues solos but don't know where you're going wrongYou want to feel more confident when you step up to play blues in your band or at a jam sessionYou've been left confused, disappointed or frustrated by other methods you've followedYou want to play blues guitar but just don't know where to even startYou're fed up of trawling through millions of YouTube guitar lessons and want a proven, easy to use method to followIn Blues Soloing for Guitar, Volume 1: You'll master the essential basics all the great blues guitarists use in their playingYou'll discover the techniques, licks, scales and theory used by the hottest electric blues guitar mastersYou'll learn to play authentic blues solos in the styles of Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Albert King, Freddie King and other blues legends, complete with a lick-by-lick breakdownI show you my proven 'Power Move' method so you can immediately start playing blues licks and solos of your own (without it taking years...)I show you what you need to know about string bending, vibrato, blues curls and other crucial blues guitar techniques (so you can get them sounding great)You're shown the music theory, scales and chords you need to play authentic blues styles... taught in a no-nonsense and easy to understand wayBlues Soloing for Guitar Vol. 1 features the following lessons: Introduction: How to use this book and video packageLesson 1: The Basics You Need to play Awesome Blues Guitar, including the 12 bar blues, the minor pentatonic scale, the blues scaleLesson 2: String Bending, Blues Curls and 'Kickin' Off' Solo Study, including bending hand position, how to bend and how to make it sound bluesy!Lesson 3: Vibrato Technique and 'Sweet William' Solo Study, including 3 vibrato mistakes to avoidLesson 4: Sliding Scale Patterns and 'Blues Brew' Solo Study, including the sliding minor pentatonic pattern and sliding blues scalesLesson 5: The Major 3rd Trick and 'Windy City' Solo StudyLesson 6: More 12 Bar Blues Theory and 'Don't Rush' Solo Study, including one-four-five blues chords and quick change blues
Circle of Fifths for Guitar
Boost your guitar fretboard and guitar theory skills, your memorization and recall of the notes on your guitar neck, your music theory for guitar understanding, your knowledge of chords and chord theory, your songwriting and composition skills... and much more with the awesome power of the circle of fifths!Many guitar players never have the circle of fifths explained to them in a way that makes sense, so they never learn to use this amazing, visual tool for musicians. If you want the circle of fifths made easy, without the confusion you experience with most guitar theory books, then this title, with its accompanying 45 minute downloadable Circle of Fifths Video Masterclass and bonus resources is exactly what you need.In this book, I show you straightforward secrets or 'recipes' for using the circle of fifths chord wheel to: Learn your guitar fretboard and painlessly memorize all the notes on your guitar neck so that you never forget them (using a single easy chord shape!)Create guitar exercises for memorizing chord shapes, scale patterns, arpeggios, and licks, so that you can practice smarter and more efficiently than ever before and see greater progressLearn all the notes in every major scale and all the chords in every major and minor key so that you understand chord theory and chord progressions on a whole new level (essential knowledge for all musicians and songwriters)Understand, memorize and learn the songs you play more easily than ever before, and change key quickly and easily when you need toWork out the chords for a 12 bar blues or I-IV-V chord sequence in any key instantly using a simple 'one forward, one back' patternWork out and memorize relative minors, I-VI-II-V, II-V-I, III-VI-II-V-I chord progressions, major scale 'tricks' and shortcuts, and moreWith bite-sized lessons revealing crucial circle of fifths secrets, practical exercises, and quizzes to check your understanding, plus downloadable bonus content including a video masterclass, any guitar player can master what they need to know about the circle of fifths with this book.
Force Balance and Error Suppress OF Vibrating Silicon Micro-gyroscope
Micro vibrating ring gyroscope is a two-dimensional axisymmetric structure solid fluctuation gyroscope that evolved from a three-dimensional hemispherical resonant gyroscope. On the premise of inheriting the characteristics of hemispherical resonant gyroscope such as high accuracy, high reliability, long life, and overload resistance, it is compatible with the current mainstream MEMS processing technology, and thus has better CSWaP, and has an extensive application prospect. Therefore, the vibration ring gyroscope has become one of the research hotspots of MEMS gyroscope.
Playing The Horn
Playing The Horn: Technique and Beyond by Julian Baker, offers horn players of any age - amateur, professional, teacher, or student - to play better. It is the product of Julian Baker's long and distinguished career as a player and teacher of the horn. This book offers a rich store of deeply considered advice and guidance on horn playing, but also on musicianship in general, with many subheadings that can be found in virtually every chapter of the book.
The Just Intonation Primer
Do you want to start making music in Just Intonation, but don't know where to begin? Have you tried to read other books or articles on Just Intonation, only to be baffled by arcane terminology and strings of numbers? Or do you just want to find out what all the talk is about? The Just Intonation Primer will give you the information you need, in a succinct and readable form. With 84 pages of text and over 50 charts and diagrams, The Just Intonation Primer explains the essential concepts of Just Intonation in terms that practicing composers and musicians will understand.About the AuthorDavid B. Doty is a composer, author, instrument builder, and synthesist, and a leading authority on Just Intonation. He is a founding member of the Just Intonation Network and edited the network's journal, 1/1, from its inception in 1984 until 2006. He has worked exclusively in Just Intonation since 1975, composing primarily for American Gamelan and MIDI systems. His compositions in Just Intonation can be heard on his CD Uncommon Practice and Elliot Simpson's CD The Wayward Trail.
Explorations in Music Theory
Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition. Providing a comprehensive textbook to support music theory curricula, along with an accompanying workbook, it includes extensive performance-based exercises in each chapter, alongside written theory and analysis. This book teaches harmony as a series of historical practices, each with different advantages and disadvantages. Classes are empowered to critically compare these practices and adopt those that they find most effective. Designed to support multiple learning modalities, and incorporating repertoire from a diverse array of composers, this book offers instructors and students a comprehensive and engaging foundation in music theory.Features of this book include: Modular lessons centered on inquiry-driven pedagogy, offering flexibility Lesson difficulty is marked to allow instructors to easily organize their course A wide variety of exercises and practice tasks incorporated throughout the chapters Improvisation Labs allow students to practice concepts through improvisation Historical Minutes introduce students to historical theorists and enable them to understand music theory as a living practice Composer Spotlights highlight the stories of composers whose work is featured in the chapter, bringing forward underrepresented composers Explore Online features provide additional exercises and coverage of advanced topics through an accompanying online resource A flexible, modular organization allows the book to be used in a variety of course structures, accommodating a wide variety of schools. Enhancing improvisation and composition skills, introducing historical perspectives, incorporating diverse repertoire, and enabling students to better connect theory concepts with practical applications, this text provides a new and effective way to teach harmony.
Workbook for Explorations in Music Theory
Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition. Providing a comprehensive textbook to support music theory curricula, along with an accompanying workbook, it includes extensive performance-based exercises in each chapter, alongside written theory and analysis. This book teaches harmony as a series of historical practices, each with different advantages and disadvantages. Classes are empowered to critically compare these practices and adopt those that they find most effective. Designed to support multiple learning modalities, and incorporating repertoire from a diverse array of composers, this book offers instructors and students a comprehensive and engaging foundation in music theory.Features of this book include: - Modular lessons centered on inquiry-driven pedagogy, offering flexibility- Lesson difficulty is marked to allow instructors to easily organize their course- A wide variety of exercises and practice tasks incorporated throughout the chapters- Improvisation Labs allow students to practice concepts through improvisation- Historical Minutes introduce students to historical theorists and enable them to understand music theory as a living practice- Composer Spotlights highlight the stories of composers whose work is featured in the chapter, bringing forward underrepresented composers- Explore Online features provide additional exercises and coverage of advanced topics through an accompanying online resourceA flexible, modular organization allows the book to be used in a variety of course structures, accommodating a wide variety of schools. Enhancing improvisation and composition skills, introducing historical perspectives, incorporating diverse repertoire, and enabling students to better connect theory concepts with practical applications, this text provides a new and effective way to teach harmony.This accompanying Workbook offers exercises to accompany each chapter in the book. Divided into warmup and homework sections, the exercises in the Workbook provide additional practice with the skills addressed in the textbook through a range of approaches, including writing, composition, and identification.
Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Nineteenth Century
Leonard Slatkin delves into eight of the most beloved orchestral pieces of the nineteenth century and tackles problems conductors face before stepping onto the podium, providing tips that will help bring these works to life on the stage. He covers works by Mussorgsky, Berlioz, Brahms, Dvor獺aacute;k, Sibelius, Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Tchaikovsky.
Stick It to Your Chops Exercises to Propel Your Drumming Technique Above and Beyond
Mentaltraining als Unterst羹tzung im Klavierspiel
The book "Mental Training as a Support for Piano Playing" is dedicated to the topic of mental training and its application in the musical field, especially in piano playing. It provides an introduction to various techniques based on the theories of Kl繹ppel and Orloff-Tschekorsky and explains how these methods can be used specifically to improve musicians' mental strength and ability to concentrate.Another focus is on the biological processes that are triggered in the brain through practicing and mental training. It examines how these methods can promote not only playing technique, but also emotional and mental well-being. In addition, the book presents a survey that sheds light on musicians' experiences with mental training methods and how they integrate them into their everyday practice.
Sound & Music Projects for Eurorack and Beyond
Open-source technologies have created new expressive opportunities by expanding the creative music palette into the realm of circuits and source code, democratizing the line between design and creative application. Sound & Music Projects for Eurorack & Beyond explores the intersection of music, computer science, and electronics in the context of Eurorack, a popular framework for mounting and interconnecting modular synthesizers. This book provides a practical path for musicians and other artists to envision and build custom electronic instruments using freely available software and a modest collection of tools and electronic components. Hands-on projects are based on Teensy microcontrollers, a category of USB-based devices that are easy to program for a variety of music and sound-design applications including music synthesis, digital signal processing, and the Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Mini projects include a genetic step sequencer, interactive arpeggiator, custom effects unit, and synthesizers based on several typologies including frequency modulation, subtractive, additive, and granular synthesis. Sound & Music Projects for Eurorack & Beyond is comprised of four sections that explore music synthesis and digital signal processing, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, Eurorack concepts, and Eurorack projects. The text culminates with several custom Eurorack modules including an audio mixer, audio effects unit, MIDI to control-voltage converter and Eurorack synthesizer. Throughout the book, readers will develop relevant skills including microcontroller programming, circuit design, PCB design, and instrument fabrication in a building-block fashion that fosters experimentation and creative application.
Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education
Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education engages with an existential question for American conservatories and orchestras: What does it mean to diversify Western classical music? Many institutions have focused solely on diversifying the demography of their participants, but without a deeper conversation about structural oppression in classical music, this approach continues to isolate and exclude students of color. Rooted in the author's experience working with BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) students at a major American conservatory, this book articulates the issues facing minority students in conservatories and schools of music, going beyond recruitment to address the cultural issues that alienate students. The author argues that the issue of diversity should be approached through the lens of aesthetics, and that the performance and pedagogy of Western classical music must change if a more diverse membership is to thrive in this genre.Reflecting on the author's experience through the lens of recent critical theory in music education, this volume presents the viewpoints of Black and Latinx music students in their own words. Addressing the impact of racialized aesthetics on the well-being of BIPOC music students, the author shows how students are alienated when attempting to assimilate into conservatory environments and envisions an alternative, integrative approach to conservatory education. Offering a deep dive into the psychological and cultural reasons for the racialization of Western classical music, and potential institutional solutions, this concise book is relevant to performers, students, and institutional leaders.
Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory
Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. He has published widely and influentially in areas as diverse as Beethoven and Brahms studies, chromatic tonality, disciplinarity and metatheory, history of theory, musical meaning and hermeneutics, poststructuralism (deconstruction, intertextuality, etc.), and Schenkerian theory and analysis. Because of the scope and caliber of his published work, and also his legacy as a pedagogue, Korsyn has had a profound impact on the field of music theory, along with the related fields of historical musicology and aesthetics.This book, a festschrift for Korsyn, comprises essays that constellate around his numerous scholarly foci. Represented in the volume are not only familiar music-theoretical topics such as chromaticism, form, Schenker, and text-music relations, but also various interdisciplinary topics such as deconstruction, disability studies, German Idealism, posthumanism, and psychoanalysis. The book thus reflects the increasingly multifaceted intellectual landscape of contemporary music theory.
Kaleidoscopes for Violin Book 2
Kaleidoscopes Book 2 is designed to foster agility, grace, and emotional expression in the young violinist. These diverse, international songs - including Slovak, African American, Swedish, Irish, and other traditions - appeal to students' need for uniqueness and variety, and are the perfect size to provide both challenge and momentum. The book fosters by-ear learning through the inclusion of various "fill-in-the-blank" measures in each piece, encouraging the child to figure out the missing notes using the recording as an auditory model. By the end of the book, students can play confidently by ear. Writing the missing notes into their part develops and reinforces students' understanding of meter, pitch, rhythm, and notation.Skills introduced include vibrato, spiccato, lowered first finger, crescendo and diminuendo, spiccato, rapid 16th notes, 6/8 meter, Bb major, C major (utilizing a lowered first finger), grace notes, and 5/4 meter.
Contemporary Guitar Picking Technique 25 Solos to Develop Picking Fluency
The Marvelous Illusion
The Marvelous Illusion: The Viola in My Life I-IV is a detailed analytical study of four of Morton Feldman's most important works. Morton Feldman was one of the most original composers of the 20th century, and throughout his career he attempted to locate sound at the moment the listener becomes conscious of its presence. Focusing on the listener's attention on the sounds themselves, Feldman created the "marvelous illusion" of sounds shaping into coherent music through the act of perceiving them, rather than through the act of composing. Each work appears to assemble itself for the listener as they experience it. Author Thomas DeLio examines each work from the perspective of pitch/interval content, temporal evolution, register and timbre. Spectrographs are used to visualize what a listener actually hears, not just what is notated on a printed page, offering a window into dimensions of sound that clearly, deeply affect our experience of a musical work but which are typically not considered when analyzing music through traditional means. This perspective prioritizes timbre as central to the creative impulses of Feldman's work. This book frames these analyses with a discussion of Feldman's relationships to important contemporaries in other arts. Feldman was one member of the so-called New York School of composers which also included John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. He was also connected to painters, writers, and poets of the New York School as well, including Mark Rothko, Philip Guston and Franz Kline, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and notably Frank O'Hara. DeLio takes the specific analytical details of Feldman's compositions and fashions a tapestry of interconnections and context to reveal that above all Morton Feldman's music is about sound and spontaneity, connections arising for the listener as the composition is heard.
Musicality
The 'missing manual' which every musician and music-learner should have been handed on day one.Have you ever wondered how the musical "greats" do what they do?Whether it's the child prodigy who masters instrument technique and new music ultra-fast... the creative genius who can conjure up incredible-sounding music on-the-fly and write songs that are remembered for generations... or the campfire hero who can sit with any music group, any time, and nail any song that gets called out, no sheet music in sight.It's easy to assume that those musicians have some special "talent" or "gift". But the surprising truth is that every single skill we associate with "being a natural" in music is, in fact, learnable-by anyone.Written based on 15+ years of experience helping 30,000+ adult music-learners of all kinds at Musical U, Musicality covers all the topics and skills which are never normally taught... but can enable anyone to achieve the musical feats most assume take "talent".Including detailed chapters on: - Musicality and Musical Mindset- Active Listening- Audiation- Ear Training (incl. Solfa, Intervals, Chords and Progressions)- Playing By Ear- Improvisation- Songwriting/Composing- Singing in Tune- Mastering Rhythm- Playing With Expression- Spell-Binding Performance... and even the modern "Superlearning" techniques which let you learn up to 10x faster.This book was written with the average adult musician in mind, from hobbyist/beginner through to pro.Musicality is suitable for all instruments, from piano/keyboard, guitar and bass through to ukulele, trumpet, saxophone, violin, harmonica, mountain dulcimer... And for every genre, from rock/pop, jazz, country, folk and classical through to electronic, dance, punk, R'n'B and techno. The "inner skills" of music are universal.Its 840+ pages are packed with the information, explanations, methods, and tips and tricks you need to finally become the musician you've dreamed of being."An incredible resource."- David Reed, Improvise For Real"'Musicality' leads us to a musical land of success and ease. A valuable, meaningful and important text that will be a beacon for musicians for years to come."- Tim Topham, Top Music"With this comprehensive yet accessible book Christopher Sutton heartfully guides us into the new era of musicianship, where practice and performance alike can be realms of genius-level play and excellence. The H4 model alone makes this book worth reading. By debunking common myths - and providing models of "superlearning" music practice, accessing one's innate talent, and addressing the true fundamentals of musicianship, this much-needed book can guide anybody to greater enjoyment and effectiveness in their musical journey."- Mars Gelfo, creator of the Modacity practice app
Music, Technology, Innovation
Music, Technology, Innovation: Industry and Educational Perspectives draws upon cutting-edge practice in the use of technology from both a pedagogical and industry perspective. Situated within the latest research, this edited volume explores technological innovation from a musical perspective, examines current trends within the industry, and carefully considers them from an educational perspective.Noted throughout history, music education is responsive to industry innovations. However, emerging technologies often begin with over-hyped promises before they move through various phases of development and are then repurposed for learning and teaching. Educators can adopt an innovation and develop a framework that is pedagogically sound and learner-centred. Based on these ideas, the authors together highlight industry innovations that have potential outcomes for engaging students in music learning within research-informed practices, build upon these ideas and identify proactive mechanisms for teaching music education, and work towards developing a framework for understanding these phenomena. The chapters address key topics including the ethics of technology, AI and music, online performance and teaching, gamification, big data, teaching audio production, acoustic ecology, and more. The examination of areas in contemporary innovation can further support the potential to empower teachers and students to understand the opportunities for teaching, sustainability, and growth in music education.
Teaching Difficult Topics
Teaching Difficult Topics provides a series of on-the-ground reflections from college music instructors working in a wide variety of institutional settings about their approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the music classroom. Although some imagine the music classroom to be an apolitical space, instructors find themselves increasingly in need of resources for incorporating issues of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and historical trauma into their classrooms in ways that support student learning and safeguard their classroom communities. The teaching reflections in Teaching Difficult Topics examine difficult themes that fall into three primary categories: subjects that instructors sense to be controversial or emotionally challenging to discuss, those that derive from or intersect with real-world events that are difficult to process, and bigger-picture discussions of how music studies often focuses on dominant narratives while overlooking other perspectives. Some chapters offer practical guidance, lesson plans, and teaching materials to enable instructors to build discussions of race, gender, sexuality, and traumatic histories into their own classrooms; others take a more global view, reflecting on the importance and relevance of teaching these difficult topics and on how to respond in the music classroom when external events disrupt daily life.
Music and Science
Music and Science provides an introduction and practical guidance for a scientific and systematic approach to music research. Students with a background in humanities may find the field hard to tackle and this accessible guide will show them how to consider using an appropriate range of methods, introducing them to current standards of research practices including research ethics, open access, and using computational tools such as R for analysis. These research methods are used to identify the underlying patterns behind the data to better understand how music is constructed and how we are influenced by music. The book focusses on music perception and the experience of music as approached through empirical experiments and by analysing music using computational tools spanning audio and score materials. The process of research, collaboration, and publishing in this area of study is also explained and emphasis is given to transparent and replicable research principles. The book will be essential reading for students undertaking empirical projects, particularly in the area of music psychology but also in digital humanities and media studies.
Total Picking Control - Expanded Speed Mechanics for Guitar with 60 Lessons, Audio Backing Tracks, and Over 17 Hours of Detailed Video Instruction!
(Guitar Educational). Total Picking Control is a comprehensive guide tailored for intermediate to advanced guitar players who aim for complete mastery over their instrument. This exceptional course encompasses 60 sequential lessons, each accompanied by a full song study, and is the brainchild of Troy Stetina, a renowned musician and educator known for his expert techniques and deep understanding of guitar mechanics. The course boasts 17 hours of video performance and instruction, as well as 60 full-band audio play-along backing tracks, offering an exceptionally comprehensive learning experience. Features 60 lessons divided into six sections. Each lesson includes: * Musical Study A complete song presented in standard notation and tablature to focus on specific techniques, spanning a diverse range of musical genres including rock, metal, country, and classical. Certain studies also come with Preparation Examples to assist in mastering the material. * Video Lesson Includes both a full play-through and detailed walk-through of the Musical Study, along with additional insights. * Play-Along Audio Track A high-quality, full-band recording of the Musical Study, minus the featured guitar part, providing a professional backing track for practice. * Advanced Concept Offers "extra credit" assignments for students eager to push beyond the foundational lesson material. With Troy Stetina's guidance, Total Picking Control stands out as a groundbreaking course for guitarists seeking to dominate their craft!
16 Bars
MARCUS A. RAGSDALE AUTHOR/ARTIST Hi, thank you for buying this book. 16Bars was created from the heart, I hope it catches people's attention and will gain appreciation for my angle of Hip Hop Poetry. My idea behind putting a book out before an album was to create a different door to express myself to the hip hop industry. Sometimes people can get lost in the music, I'm passionate about my lyrics and my craft. This book is not ordinary, but it is passionate, honest, and a collective work of poetry that I started at age 19 I would like to thank you for purchasing and supporting my artistic expression. Without you I cannot be the author I dream to be. Thank you, For news, events, and merchandise visit my website at WWW.MARCUSRAGSDALE.COM
