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Take the Lead Swing: Alto Sax, Book & CDThis successful swinging series from Faber Music is guaranteed to jazz up any musician. This great book features full backing tracks, demonstration tracks, chord symbols in concert pitch, and wonderful arrangements. An essential tool in jazz education, this text is a must have for...
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Technique Flies High!: 14 Advanced Studies for Solo ViolinTechnique Flies High is an exciting book of new performance studies for the intermediate to advanced violinist. Using baroque, romantic, contemporary and folk styles, these studies are also ideal as unaccompanied concert repertoire. Practice and performance tips guide the student and outline the technical...
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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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Creative Haven Favorite Hymns Coloring BookYour spirit will soar with this collection of 31 inspiring images. Each illustration features a beautifully lettered hymn title, surrounded by a lovely frame of roses, hummingbirds, butterflies or other designs of nature. Timeless and beloved songs include "Amazing Grace," "Blessed Be the Tie...
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Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties--Augmented Edition"Name an iconic Sixties rock moment and Ellen Sander was probably there. A beautifully written, sweeping yet intimate account of America's cultural awakening in that decade. Massively entertaining" -- Rolling Stone A #1 Amazon Bestseller: Musical Philosophy & Social Aspects As a pioneering rock...
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The Masterwork in Music: Volume III, 1930: Volume 3The 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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Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and WorkThe definitive biography and critical study of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), this volume deals at length not only with the composer's musical achievements but also with aspects of his life and work that made him one of the most important cultural figures in eighteenth-century France....
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Piano Works, 1913-1990There is a remarkable force to all of Ornstein's music--a burst of energy, a frenzy and a passion which are ever refreshing to the tired musical ear.--George GershwinThis original anthology is the first single-volume edition of the works of American avant-garde composer Leo Ornstein...
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The Ancient Music of Ireland Arranged for PianoEdward Bunting (1773-1843), the first systematic collector of Irish folksongs, was educated as an organ and piano player in Belfast. His life's work fell upon him at nineteen years old, when he was commissioned as a scribe to notate performances at a gathering of...
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A First Book of Brahms: For the Beginning PianistSuitable for beginning pianists of all ages, this volume features 26 simplified versions of longer pieces by the great Johannes Brahms arranged in order of increasing difficulty. Selections include the famous Lullaby as well as the theme from Academic Festival Overture and Hungarian Dance...
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Don Carlos in Full ScoreBased on the play by Schiller about tragic love and intrigue at the court of Philip II of Spain, Don Carlos is among the most complex and challenging of Verdi's works. The composer revised the opera twice in the 20 years following its 1867...
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