Instruction & Study

Since the 1930s and 40s, jazz has stood tall in American popular music, drawing into its embrace not only great horn players, percussionists, guitarists, bassists, and pianists, but also some of the greatest singers in America's musical history. Jazz...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540052322Author Allison JamesPage Count 56Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Timothy Cheek's revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible online, builds on the original pioneering work of 2001 that set "a new and very welcome high standard for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634052682Author Michael AllenPage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634078705Author Carol KimballPage Count 216Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495098871Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793570713Author Charles DuncanPage Count 64Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

This publication is part of a three-volume collection that comprises the bulk of the solo songs that Vaughan Williams published with Oxford University Press. They span the whole of his long life, ranging from the early 'How can the Tree but Wither?'...

Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum...

The 'IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition' includes analyses of all the prescribed works of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme music course through 2019. It also includes a comprehensive overview of all the musical styles and cultures that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423407713Author Glenn LetschPage Count 64Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

In a delightfully self-conscious philosophical "mash-up," Randall Everett Allsup provides alternatives for the traditional master-apprentice teaching model that has characterized music education. By providing examples across the arts and humanities,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781705175163Author John RileyPage Count 88Imprint Hudson MusicPublisher Hudson Music

In examining the work of Theodor Adorno, this collection of essays focuses on the German philosopher's ideas in the field of musicology. Though it addresses complex theories, this inquiry maintains a lucid style, describing the nuances of Adorno's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467929851Author F Dennis RenickFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The first full-length biographical study of Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994). The British-born Irish composer (Dame) Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) is best known today for her cycle of thirteen string quartets, composed over five decades. And yet, her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240677Author Jamey AebersoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495074738Author Carmine CarusoPage Count 52Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574243932Author Steve BardenPage Count 224Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream Publishing

EChord MasterE is a chord dictionary with a difference. Rather than just show chord shapes a which are all there in the Chord Matrix a a large portion of the book explains how to use chords with information about the theory behind them and attempts to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226482743Author Robert SchumannFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936661025Author Sylvia WoodsPage Count 112Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988662391Author Al StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mockingbird Songs & StoriesPublisher Mockingbird Songs & StoriesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786694525Author David CourtneyImprint Mel Bay Publications,U.S.Publisher Mel Bay Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741285585Author Donald MacLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793506354Author EstelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 224g

It is July 4th 2002, two musical British brothers have just touched down in the United States. Mythologised in popular song it is the birthplace of the blues, jazz, soul and rock and roll. In search of their own version of El Dorado, instead of the...

Conducting is not simply the act of marking beats; it is the much more rich art of communicating emotion, character, and mood through movement to a large group of performers in order to freeire them to create music together. Baton Basics is based on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879100636Author Ian WhitcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477869Author CeCe SammyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 192gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Considered the profession's ideal learning resource, DIRECT SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: THEORY AND SKILLS, Eleventh Edition, prepares you for effective real-world practice. Packed with case examples, illustrations and relevant learning experiences from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500410148Author Carl AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Thinking as You Play focuses on how to teach, not what to teach. Sylvia Coats gives piano teachers tools to help students develop creativity and critical thinking, and guidelines for organizing the music taught into a comprehensive curriculum. She...

A guide to the art of conducting in the twenty-first century, by the founder of the RCM's Twentieth Century Ensemble. Conducting for a New Era fills in a lacuna by offering guidance and practical advice for conducting twentieth-century and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859095911Author Ann BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint International Music PublicationsPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Easy repertoire in 2nd, 3rd and 4th positions Achieving security of fingering, tone and intonation in positions other than first is one of the major technical challenges that every young violinist has to tackle. This book offers a carefully selected and...

Lights, Camera, Soundtracks surveys over 50 years of rock 'n' roll movies, musicals and performance films. The book identifies the top guns involved in each film, provides a storyline, rates the film, and reviews its soundtrack. From pop and rock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312287085Author Roger EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Traditional approaches to musical form have always adopted a top-down perspective whereby a work's form organizes and unifies the individual parts of the work through an overarching logic. How Sonata Forms turns this view on its head, proposing instead...