Instruction & Study

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495019036Author Richard WaltersFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Body and Voice: Learning to Work Together is an excellent resource for teachers of singing, voice coaches, and speech-language pathologists who work with singers and other voice professionals. It provides a new paradigm for working with singers in a way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876391952Author Suzanne B. HanserPage Count 320Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540000750Author Francis PoulencPage Count 167Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

This collection includes all Clarke's songs with piano published by OUP during the 1920s and 30s, plus eight songs never before published. The songs are extremely varied, and the piano partners the voice to a rare degree.About the AuthorRebecca Clarke...

This guidebook teaches songwriters exactly how to create awesome solos that will really help their material stand out. Based on the study of nearly 900 songs from six decades of great music it explains the musical role played by solos illustrates which...

Creative practice in music, particularly in traditional concert culture, is commonly understood in terms of a rather stark division of labour between composer and performer. But this overlooks the distributed and interactive nature of the creative...

For something we often barely notice music in films is usually highly effective. It creates tension, elicits emotion and is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of the cinematic experience. Upon closer inspection, it can be seen that film music...

for SATB and organ or strings This haunting lullaby combines economy and restraint with warmth and an intensity of feeling. Material is available on hire.About the AuthorJohn Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first came to notice as...

Indispensable to amateur enthusiasts and those with professional aspirations alike, The Singer's Handbook is packed full of practical information, technical advice and exclusive tips to provide guidance for every stage of a singer's development - from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711950818Author John PittsFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Music Sales LtdWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 248mm *...

As the sound-producing mechanism for the bassoon, the reed is a vital component in the sound of the entire instrument. While pre-manufactured reeds are widely available for purchase at music stores, this one-size-fits-all option hardly does justice to...

Traditional music education centered around the ensemble classroom has often privileged reading music and instrumental technique over creative skills such as composition, improvisation, and learning by ear. As the technological landscape of students'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423490937Author William GillockPage Count 11Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

So You Want to Sing World Music explores vocal music from around the globe. Over the past several decades, world music styles have been making increasing inroads into Western popular music, music theater, choral concerts, and even concert hall...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781864691672Author Gary TurnerPage Count 52Imprint Koala PublicationsPublisher Learn to play publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793592869Author Barbara KreaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Choral Conducting: Philosophy and Practice, Second Edition is an updated resource for conductors and singers alike, a college-level text for students of choral conducting that considers conducting and singing from a holistic perspective. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480386464Author Ralph Vaughan WilliamsPage Count 39Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

The distinguished German conductor Hermann Scherchen, 1891-1966, became a legend in his own time as a supremely knowledgeable, inspiring, and uncompromising advocate of the most demanding orchestral repertoire. The founder of the Berlin Society of New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495023255Author Brooke St. JamesPage Count 55Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793571468Author 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 9781770415522Author Emm GrynerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

A selection of Hans Keller's writings on Benjamin Britten including previously unseen correspondence and reprints of long unavailable writings. It was hearing an early performance of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes that turned the young emigre writer...

Few aspects of daily existence are untouched by technology. Learning and teaching music are no exceptions and arguably have been impacted as much or more than other areas of life. Digital technologies have come to affect music learning and teaching in...

Written as a music theory text that not only addresses the important fundamental syntax of music in the classical sense but also relates this syntax to current practices and styles, this book should be particularly well-suited to musicians focusing on...

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...

The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a melange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634098642Author Joan Frey BoytimFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Berklee PressPublisher Berklee PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 311mm * 235mm...

The only insider's guide to hit songwriting in the Digital Age-from an Emmy-nominated songwriter who has mentored two generations of Grammy Award winners and nominees. "Molly has written an excellent primer on the world of songwriting. It's a great...

In an age of ubiquitous music and countless new songs releasing every minute, the Great American Songbook endures. After all, the Songbook-that sprawling canon of popular songs, standards, and show tunes from roughly the 1920s through the 1950s-is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786692194Author Lasse JohanssonImprint Mel Bay Publications,U.S.Publisher Mel Bay Publications,U.S.

Designed for Music Theory courses, Music Theory Through Improvisation presents a unique approach to basic theory and musicianship training that examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general...

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries. Few other musical works hold such a prominent place in the collective imagination; each generation rediscovers the work for itself and makes it its own. Honing in...

The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills helps students develop skills in ear-training and sight-singing through a repertoire of real music that students listen to and perform. Designed to link aural skills with what students do in the theory classroom, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739996550Author Ashley HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Stereo Output LimitedPublisher Stereo Output LimitedWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

The first historical overview of vocal performance practice and style ever published, Singing In Style provides an introduction to how such issues as ornamentation, vibrato, rubato, portamento, articulation, tempo, language, and accompaniment with period...

The arts, and particularly music, are well-known agents for social change. They can empower, transform, or question. They can be a mirror of society's current state and a means of transformation. They are often the last refuge when all attempts at social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495014086Author Jostein GulbrandsenPage Count 104Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation