Music Styles category: 7119 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe. Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700 in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain and Portugal. The book...
Strategies for Success in Musical Theatre
A Guide for Music Directors in School, College, and Community Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
In Strategies for Success in Musical Theatre, veteran musical director and teacher Herbert Marshall provides an essential how-to guide for teachers or community members who find themselves in charge of music directing a show. Stepping off the podium, Marshall offers practical and often humorous real-world...
by Mike Dugdale
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The 'The Ultimate Classical Music Quiz Book' is a fun selection of original questions (and answers!), comprehensively covering all facets of classical music between 1730 and 1820! As a quiz game it will separate the Mozart's from the Salineri, the Beethoven's from the Luchesi's and is a fantastic way to enjoy classical music even more.
The Bill Ferris Enhanced Omnibus E-Book
Includes Give my Poor Heart Ease and The Storied South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This Omnibus Ebook for the first time brings together pioneering folklorist William Ferris's books on the music and arts of the South.
Included in this ebook are:
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues:
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ferris toured his home state...
Music in Television
Channels of Listening
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Music in Television is a collection of essays examining television’s production of meaning through music in terms of historical contexts, institutional frameworks, broadcast practices, technologies, and aesthetics. It presents the reader with overviews of major genres and issues, as well as specific...
The Glendale Bards
A Selection of Songs and Poems by Niall Macleoid (1843-1913), 'The Bard of Skye', His Brother Iain Dubh (1847-1901) and Father Domhnall nan Oran (c.1787-1873)
Language: Scottish Gaelic
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This book marks the centenary of Neil MacLeod's death in 1913 with the republication of some of his work. It also publishes for the first time all of the identifiable work of his brother, Iain Dubh (1847 - 1901), and of their father, Domhnall nan Oran (c.1787 - 1873). Their contrasting styles mark...
Jazz in Short Measures
Jazz History in 10 “Lectures” with Selected Cd Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2001
Derived from years of teaching in the classroom and online, Dr. Lewis Rosengarten's Jazz in Short Measures offers a refreshingly succint yet thorough presenation of the struggles, styles and achievements in Jazz in a series of ten essential lectures. The history of Jazz is recovered from a variety...
Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music
Singing Devils and Distant Sounds
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period—Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini—regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally...
by Rick Payne
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Explore a whole range of slide guitar styles and tunings with Rick Payne's 'Beyond The Delta'. The journey begins in the Delta and moves through Texas and Chicago to Hawaii and beyond. The course includes exercises, tips, tunings and tricks that will inspire you to journey even further....
by Antonio Vivaldi, Peter Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
The Italian composer and violinist Antonio Vivaldi left a decisive mark on the form of the concerto, influencing the emerging style of late Baroque music. In spite of his widespread popularity today, Vivaldi was largely forgotten after death and his reputation was only re-established in the 1920’s....
by David Grubbs
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. Now that the audience is assembled is a book-length prose poem that describes...
by Gail Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Everyone has a birthday to celebrate—now there’s a special book of piano arrangements that you can use just for the occasion! This book provides unique arrangements of “Happy Birthday” in different styles including sing-along, waltz and jazzier renditions. The arrangements draw from the stylistic...
Spirit - Stallion of the Cimarron (Songbook)
Music from the Original Motion Picture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Our deluxe matching folio to the album from this DreamWorks animated film features the music of Bryan Adams and Hans Zimmer, plus a special section of full-color and black & white art from the movie, and detailed notes on the production, story, cast and music. Includes...
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This is a Christmas sheet music book with 10 popular Christmas Carols. Each Carol has two easy arrangements, one for solo E-Flat Alto Saxophone, the other for Alto Saxophone and Piano when playing duets. The piano parts can be played on piano or electronic keyboard, they are very easy to play and...