Instruction & Study

Designed for both the teacher and student, this guide provides a complete review of techniques used in countertenor singing. With illustrated diagrams and exercises, the vital aspects of resonance, different registers, breathing, and vocal agility are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540002945Author Alan ArberPage Count 32Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Music educators and practicing musicians have failed to benefit as much as they could from the past two decades of music psychology research. In this volume, Parncutt and McPherson propose to improve the situation by describing new approaches, informed...

Covering works from the common practice and contemporary periods, the Score Anthology to Accompany The Complete Musician includes eighty-four complete scores for key works that are discussed in The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562240394Author Barry GalbraithPage Count 40Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985922771Author William a BayFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint William Bay MusicPublisher William Bay MusicWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

Really Easy Jazzin' About Studies Piano is designed to introduce beginner pianists (Grade 0-1) to jazz techniques such as syncopation, swing, blues and walking bass. Each unit comprises short exercises and studies, building up to a fun jazz piece in Pam...

Drawing on insights from the modern "process" philosophy of Bergson, William James, and A. N. Whitehead, Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm releases meter from its mechanistic connotations and recognizes it as a concrete, visceral agent of musical...

Settling the Score situates the classical Hollywwod film score and its practice in historical, theoretical and musical context. Kathryn Kalinak examines the conventions and strategies underpinning film scoring in Hollywood, investigating what has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634020827Author David CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786685790Author Andrew DriscollImprint Mel Bay Publications,U.S.Publisher Mel Bay Publications,U.S.

for double SATB choir unaccompanied John Rutter wrote this anthem for the dedication of the Herbert Howells memorial window in Gloucester Cathedral in 1992. The first section is full of mystical intensity, and, with its iridescent chromatic harmonies is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530028580Author Jeffrey WeinbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877180227Author John ThompsonPage Count 32Imprint Willis Music CompanyPublisher Willis Music Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497440142Author Lloyd EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

"Cross-Training in the Voice Studio: A Balancing Act'' is an innovative resource for teachers and students of singing in today's evolving professional landscape. Saunders-Barton and Spivey offer an inside view of their applied studios and the results of...

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music-its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers...

So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) presents a compendium of approaches to non-classical singing with an emphasis on vocal technique and function. Over the past twenty years, approaches to singing CCM have exploded, resulting in many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484883686Author Lindsay S DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

There is often a dichotomy between the academic approach to singing that voice students learn in the studio and what professional singers do on the operatic and concert stage. Great singers at the top of the performing profession achieve their place with...

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511638722Author Steve CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

This engaging and long influential collection of essays looks at the art of singing in its totality. Written in a lively, non-technical style, On the Art of Singing is a comprehensive manual that deals with all aspects of singing, from the physiology and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540041456Author Dana LentiniPage Count 128Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

In the context of music therapy, microanalysis is the detailed analysis of that short period of time during a music therapy session during which some kind of significant change takes place. These moments are crucial to the therapeutic process, and there...

Giving pupils the inspiration and support they need at 11-14. The Opus Pupil Books form part of the new Opus music scheme for 11-14 year olds. Opus fulfils a recognized need for music resources at this level, giving pupils and teachers thorough support...

More than 30 million Americans rely on their voices for their jobs-from teachers, religious leaders, and entertainers to lawyers, executives, salespeople, and doctors. A controlled voice increases self-confidence and enhances charisma, approachability,...

When you’re working with singers, you’re in the business of feelings and, by extension, the business of the nervous system. Emotions play a crucial role in the applied studio, and in the present age, it is becoming ever more critical for singing teachers...

Known around the world for his advocacy of early historical performance and as a skilled violin performer and pedagogue, Stanley Ritchie has developed a technical guide to the interpretation and performance of J. S. Bach's enigmatic sonatas and partitas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876391617Author Kari, Dr. JuuselaPage Count 218Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

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

Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt...

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...

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...

Do you want to learn everything you need to know to be a fantastic video game music composer? The Game Music Handbook is for you. This book takes readers on a journey through many of the greatest video game soundscapes to date, discussing key concepts...