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It is widely acknowledged that music is of great value for people with learning difficulties. It can be used as a catalyst to help those with special needs acquire and improve basic skills and thereby to communicate better. With clear aims and...

This guide to Schubert's much-loved song cycle explores both the music and the poetry from a variety of perspectives. It includes biography and cultural history, literary interpretation, source studies, and musical analysis. The genesis of both Wilhelm...

for SATB and piano or orchestra This uplifting Christmas carol demonstrates Rutter's gift for writing engaging and memorable tunes. The melody weaves between different voices and scorings, while the piano part complements the vocal lines with rich,...

This book provides valuable material to help players strengthen their sight-reading skills in preparation for ABRSM's Percussion exams at Grades 6-8. It offers attractive sample sight-reading pieces for snare drum, timpani and tuned percussion, fully...

Superstudies Viola Book 1 is a collection of 19 original, imaginative studies for solo viola and 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...

Music is a universal human experience that's been with us since the dawn of time. You've listened to music all your life . . . but have you ever wondered why? It turns out music isn't just about entertainment-it's a deeply embedded, subtly powerful...

Long admired for his interpretation of Bach's six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin, Jaap Schroeder, a leading international soloist, here provides a detailed but informal guide to their performance. Among the pinnacles of Baroque music,...

There are two versions of this anthem - for SATB with organ or strings, or SA with piano The words are from Numbers 6:24.About the AuthorJohn Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first came to notice as a composer and arranger of...

In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters. Each contributor details their keyword's intellectual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896499468Author Mark SarneckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint San Marco PublicationsPublisher San Marco PublicationsWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)...

The American composers la Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass are widely regarded as pioneers of the aesthetic and the techniques of minimalism in musical composition during the 1960s and early 1970s. This book offers the most detailed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526206329Author Tom RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Beard BooksPublisher Beard BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 157mm * 18mm

Music producer Sam Phillips and his landmark studio, Sun Records, hold a unique place in the history of rock 'n' roll - by many accounts, before Phillips recorded 'Rocket 88' by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats in 1951, rock 'n' roll as we know it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857367853Author Trinity College London PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629172705Author Jennifer WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Golgotha Press, Inc.Publisher Golgotha Press, Inc.

Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads "asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to...

Brings out Dallapiccola's enduring importance as critic as well as composer. The Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola [1904-75] always characterised himself as a `man of the theatre', and Il Prigioniero [The Prisoner] has been performed more often than...

124 short excerpts using a mixture of treble, alto, tenor and bass clefs and various common transpositions. The book concentrates on diatonic harmonic study (including diminished sevenths) and harmonic counterpoint in up to three parts. The exercises...

This book re-evaluates a figure whom the author considers to be the greatest composer of the twentieth century. Kennedy deals fully with Strauss's life as leading composer and national figure in the Third Reich, during which he was both feted and...

The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily Telegraph Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian...

Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background for a civil war that lasted for thirty years. At its centre the city's vice lord fought...

Women in Rock Memoirs vindicates the role of women in rock music. The chapters examine memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards to explore how the artists narrate their life experiences and difficulties they had to overcome, not only as...

for SATB (with divisions), cello, and piano This five-movement work celebrates the long Canadian winter, setting texts by the composer, Sara Teasdale, Lucy Maud Montgomery (of 'Anne of Green Gables' fame), and Melville Cane. Each movement depicts a...

Status Quo were one of the most successful, influential and innovative bands of the 1970s. During the first half of the decade, they wrote, recorded and performed a stream of inventive and highly complex rock compositions, developed 12 bar forms and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999750483Author Kimy PedersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Nancy Hillis Studio, LLCPublisher Nancy Hillis Studio, LLCWeight(grams)...

The Conductus repertory is the body of monophonic and polyphonic non-liturgical Latin song that dominated European culture from the middle of the twelfth century to the beginning of the fourteenth. In this book, Mark Everist demonstrates how the poetry...

A music therapist presents an informative resource, filled with scientifically based practices for accessing and attuning to the natural healing properties of music. Original.About the AuthorChristine Stevens As director of Music Therapy and Wellness...

In Jimi Hendrix: The Stories Behind the Songs, music journalist and author David Stubbs provides the definitive companion to Hendrix's recorded output, from the early years, including 'Hey Joe' and 'Purple Haze' through to his posthumously released...

Prehistoric drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical instrument. In Buddhist temples, the icons' ears were exaggerated to represent their spiritual power. And in modern...

A celebration of music from the creator of Alan Partridge, The Thick of It, Veep and The Death of Stalin.All my days, I've felt pressurized by the anonymous Keepers of the Cool who tell us what we should be wearing this year, what digital boxsets we...

John Harley's Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal comprehensively with the composer's life and works. Tallis entered the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life, and remained there for over 40 years. During a colourful period of English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999758158Author Ian GlasperFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint Earth Island BooksPublisher Earth Island Books

-- Stanley Persky, City University of New YorkAbout the AuthorThe late Felix Salzer was a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of Structural Hearing. Carl Schachter is a Professor at Queens College and at the Mannes...

This book contains all the scales and arpeggios required for ABRSM's Tuned Percussion and Percussion (Combined) exams at Grades 1-5, arranged in grade order.Book InformationISBN 9781786013125Author ABRSMPage Count 20Imprint Associated Board of the Royal...

Scotland's islands are diverse, resourceful and singularly iconic in national and global imaginations of places "apart" yet readily reached. This collection of essays offers a fascinating commentary on Scotland's island communities that celebrates their...

Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond brings together a community of international practitioner-researchers who explore voice through soma or soma through voice. Somatic methodologies offer research processes within a new area of vocal,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420973754Author Pyotr TchaikovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

They were almost The Pendletones--after the Pendleton wool shirts favored on chilly nights at the beach--then The Surfers, before being named The Beach Boys. But what separated them from every other teenage garage band with no musical training? They...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909082717Author Olivia SparkhallFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Compton Publishing LtdPublisher Compton Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394797Author Rich DeakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress