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Favola musicale per avvicinare grandi e piccini al mondo dei suoni. Il curioso Velluto e le sue avventure ci portano, con semplicità, alla scoperta degli strumenti musicali. Il testo, seppur semplice, propone termini tecnici propri del linguaggio musicale. Ad arricchire il prodotto vi sono poi una...

The Yellow Method No lessons to play the songs you love ! Approved by the Europe's House in Paris Play Jazz, Blues...  

Legendary jazz ambassador Dr. Billy Taylor's autobiography spans more than six decades, from the heyday of jazz on 52nd Street in 1940s New York City to CBS Sunday Morning. Taylor fought not only for the recognition of jazz music as "America's classical music" but also for the recognition of black...

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847) was a German pianist, organist, composer, and conductor during the Romantic period. He enjoyed wide acclaim in Germany and much of Europe, but was especially successful in Britain as a soloist and conductor. Mendelssohn composed many symphonies,...

American organist David Craighead's influence in the United States and abroad is widespread and extensive: 37 years as professor of organ at the Eastman School of Music, 48 years as church organist at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Rochester, New York, and 64 years performing in over 275 cities as...

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and...

This book contains Johann Sebastian Bach's “The Orgelbüchlein”, a compendium of 46 chorale preludes composed for organ between 1708–1717. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German musician and composer during the Baroque period. He based his work on exiting German styles but often...

“Carmen” is Georges Bizet's famous opera in four acts, first performed on 3 March 1875. The libretto was based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée and was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Unfortunately, Bizet suffered an untimely death after the opera's 33rd performance,...

Béla Bartók’s six-book Mikrokosmos cycle is here presented for the first time in a superb single volume. Written between 1926 and 1939, this celebrated musical work spans simple études for beginners and complex technical tours de force aimed at skilled pianists. Bartók’s musical...

Dieci pezzi facili per pianoforte in stile contemporaneo. Una raccolta moderna e divertente per i giovani pianisti in erba, dove la musica si intreccia al racconto, al gioco e all'azione teatrale, in una serie di brani che fondono tradizione e avanguardia. Gianmario Baleno (Enna, 1988) è un...

For centuries, pipe organs stood at the summit of musical and technological achievement, admired as the most complex and intricate mechanisms the human race had yet devised. In All The Stops, New York Times journalist Craig Whitney journeys through the history of the American pipe organ and brings...

A Matter of Gravity is a playful and touching treatment of illness and tragedy, in which an enigmatic manuscript brings together two disparate male characters. Black humor and compassion brilliantly illuminate their tragic encounter. Hélène Vachon is the author of two novels and more than...

Now fully updated, The Hammond Organ: Beauty in the B traces the technological and artistic evolution of the B-3 and other tonewheel organs, as well as the whirling Leslie speakers that catapulted the Hammond sound into history. You'll discover the genius that went into the development of Hammond's...

Mindent a zenéről! Az osztrák zenekutató, Heinrich Schenker olyan összefüggéseket, szabályokat ismert fel amik a zene felépítését, struktúráját nagyon pontosan, eddig még nem ismert módon írják le. Ez a könyv, a Legyen a zene a Tiéd!, Schenker fontos felismeréseire alapszik,...