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The Best Gospel Songs Ever(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 80 of the best-loved gospel songs of all time: Amazing Grace * At Calvary * Because He Lives * Behold the Lamb * Daddy Sang Bass * His Eye Is on the Sparrow * His Name Is Wonderful * How Great Thou...
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Guitar Studies - Chords(Guitar Method). This definitive jazz guitar chord method by music legend Chuck Wayne shows guitarists how to arrive at each voicing and how to vary it, using Chuck's unique systematic approach. He covers: basic triads to open voiced harmony; generic and specific voicings; cross-reference...
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). The matching folio to this multi-Grammy-winning (1998 Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best R&B Album) release includes the award-winning hit "Doo Wop (That Thing)," the title song, and 11 more: Every Ghetto, Every City * Everything Is Everything *...
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Dancing with the Devil, how Puff burned the bad boys of Hip-Hop: Dancing with the DevilHe has recorded with the biggest stars in the music business. He wrote many of the hits that made Sean "Puffy" Combs one of the richest men alive. On the surface, the multi-million dollar empire that Puff built looks like the stuff of dreams....
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The Trivia Book of Rock 'N' Roll Music: The '50s, '60s, & '70sTest your knowledge and broaden your music horizons! From Johnny Ace through The Zombies, author Jimmy Correa covers it all in The Trivia Book of Rock 'n' Roll Music: The '50s, '60s, & '70s. The easy-to-read format includes fill-in-the-blank, match-up, and multiple-choice trivia questions....
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Echoes: The Hampton Grease Band, My Life, My Music and How I Stopped Having Panic AttacksGlenn Phillips is a critically acclaimed guitarist and composer who's released 20 albums over the past 50 years. From Rolling Stone: "If rock & roll guitarists were kamikaze pilots, Glenn Phillips would be in heaven right now."As a founding member and songwriter of the...
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Kiss of the Spider WomanCharacters: 15 male, 3 femaleScenery: InteriorWinner of multiple Tony Awards including Best Musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle that juxtaposes gritty realities with liberating fantasies. Cell mates in a Latin American prison, Valentin is...
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Improve Your Sight-Reading! Clarinet, Grade 4-5: A Workbook for ExaminationsFirmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve Your Sight-Reading Clarinet Grades 4--5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly...
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Piano by Ear: Learn to Play by Ear, Improvise, and Accompany Songs in Simple StepsPiano by Ear teaches how to play the piano by ear in simple steps, and how to improvise in an array of keys and chord patterns, by working through timeless favorites, folk songs, film music, Christmas songs, and contemporary songs. It also encourages an...
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Sister Act: The Smash Hit Musical ComedySister Act is a divine new musical comedy currently raising the roof at the London Palladium (UK). Based on the smash-hit movie, Sister Act features a brand new score by 8 time Oscar winner Alan Menken who also wrote Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty...
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Superstudies for Viola, Bk 1This collection of 19 original, imaginative studies for solo viola has been specially designed for young players. Each piece concentrates one or two aspects of technique, and the whole set covers a wide range of left and right hand skills, including spicatto bowing, string-crossing,...
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80 Graded Studies for Clarinet, Book 180 Graded Studies for Clarinet brings together in two books a broad selection of 19th-century study repertory, with studies by Baermann, Berr, Demnitz, Klose, Lazarus, Lefevre, Muler, Rose, Stark, Vanderhagen, and Wiedemann - all virtuosi of their day. Also included are a number of...
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Vesper Voluntaries, Op. 14Unavailable in its complete form since Elgar's death, this delightful sequence of pieces will provide an invaluable source of performing material for organists of all abilities. The Voluntaries can be played on either manuals alone, as originally conceived, or with the optional pedal part....
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Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the WorldRoots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it....
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A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the ClashJohnny Green was a footloose slacker who loved punk rock, stumbled into being a roadie for the Sex Pistols, then tripped again into a job pushing sound equipment for the Clash and driving their beat-up van to performances in the mean industrial towns of...
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What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man"Poetic musings on a life well-lived--one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobiography. Garfunkel's history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story." --Bookreporter "It's hard to imagine any...
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Experimental Music: Cage and BeyondMichael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing that developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the postwar modernist...
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Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip GlassThis book offers the most detailed account so far of the early works of these four minimalist composers, putting extensive discussion of the music into a biographical perspective. The true musical minimalism of the 1960s and early 1970s is placed in the wider context...
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Anatomy of the OrchestraBefore his death in 1994, Norman Del Mar was acknowledged as one of the world's foremost authorities on the orchestra. Anatomy of the Orchestra is written not only for fellow conductors, players, students, and professional musicians, but also for everyone interested in the performance...
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The Poetry of the BluesA signal event in the history of the music. -- Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929-2015) considered blues lyrics a profound cultural expression that could connect all people who love poetry. A pioneer in the exploration of world...
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