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'Easiest' Beginner Piano Method: Gordon Banks MethodVery simple approach to playing a keyboard using just 10 keys for your 10 fingers. All keyboards, including pianos, have just 12 black and white keys that keep repeating higher and higher like a stairway going from floor to floor. We take away the...
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Danse Macabre and Havanaise for Violin and Orchestra in Full ScoreVersatile and prolific, Camille Saint-Sa ns (1835-1921) was a brilliant craftsman who contributed to every genre of French music. Two of his enduringly popular works for violin and orchestra appear in this affordable volume, which will be welcomed by performers, conductors, and students alike.Danse...
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Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage DeadheadTold against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to the mid-'90s, "Growing Up Dead" is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. Peter discovered the Grateful Dead in 1985, at the age of 15,...
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Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of ChicagoThis year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique performance practices--members played hundreds of...
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Expositions and DevelopmentsThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The Life and Music of John Field 1782-1837: Creator of the NocturneThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Guitar World Presents the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All TimeThis exciting book from the editors of Guitar World is a treasure trove for any guitarist. Featuring electrifying profiles of everyone from hard rock gods (Wes Borland, Dimebag Darrell, Tony Iommi) to British giants (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, even Nigel Tufnel) to trailblazing bluesmen...
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Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesThis essential summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished by his death in 2001, and it was brought to completion by Thomas J. Mathiesen.Author: Claude V. PaliscaPublisher: University of Illinois PressPublished: 10/16/2017Pages: 312Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9780252082979About the...
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The King's Singers Book of Rounds, Canons and PartsongsThis delightful collection of 99 rounds, canons and partsongs makes a delightful introduction to part-singing to kids from 6 to 106 The selections are arranged by categories including English Pre-1700 (Secular), Pre-1700 (Sacred), Post 1700, From Around the World and Wordless Rounds. There's also...
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Squeeze My Lemon: A Collection of Classic Blues LyricsThey call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday's just as bad/Wednesday's worse, and Thursday's also sad. There's a lot more to the blues than three chords played on an old beat-up guitar. Squeeze My Lemon is a collection of some of the best blues lines...
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Score: A Film Music Documentary - The InterviewsThe world's finest film composers uncover the secrets behind film music, from crafting emotions and making it in Hollywood, to the tricks of giving an audience goosebumps. Summary Composers Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Inception), Quincy...
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The Masterwork in Music: Volume II, 1926: Volume 2The three volumes of The Masterwork in Music present complete English translations of major works by Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker, one of the twentieth century's leading figures in the field. First published in German between 1925 and 1930, these essays represent Schenker's greatest...
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Master School of Virtuoso Piano Playing: Volume II Scalesvolume 2The second volume of the treatise acclaimed by Busoni as the most monumental work ever written on piano playing, this long-unavailable book presents the best techniques for practicing scales. The author compiled these exercises from contributions by the most famous piano virtuosos of the...
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Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata Opus 94 for Flute and PianoThe Schirmer edition of Prokofiev's Sonata Opus 94 for Flute and Piano is based on previously printed editions and recordings of his Opus 94. This edition retains the solo flute and solo violin parts in the piano score showing the differences made by the...
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Tupac 187: The Red KnightThe powerful and compelling true story of corruption, coercion and murder surrounding the Tupac Shakur & Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace homicides brought to 2014. With contribution by former Los Angeles Police Detective Russell Poole, the original Wallace homicide investigator, Michael Douglas Carlin, Director of...
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Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince BillyThe man who acts under the name Will Oldham and sings and composes under the name Bonnie "Prince" Billy has, over the past quarter-century, made an idiosyncratic journey through, and an indelible mark on, the worlds of indie rock and independent cinema. These conversations...
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Arcadiana: For String QuartetThe first performance was given by the Endellioon Quartet in the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Elgar Festival on 16 November 1994. Titles: Venezia Notturno * Das klinget so herrlich, das klinget so schon * Auf dem Wasser zu...
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A Celebration of BellsThe books of Eric Sloane celebrate the time-honored traditions of early America--from the crafting of furniture to the building of barns to the folk wisdom that sustains us--and they're reminders of the heartfelt ties that will forever bind us to these rural arts. Two...
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Improve Your Sight-Reading! Trinity Piano, Initial: A Workbook for ExaminationsThe best-selling Improve Your Sight-Reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books have been specifically written to reflect Trinity's parameters for each grade and contain new...
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All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed AmericaThe birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise...
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