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This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d'amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings. Composers like Bach made use of the viola d'amore for its...

Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student violists alike. With engaging...

This is a portrait of a fiddle-based folk revival in Norway, one that in many ways parallels contemporary folk institutions and festivals throughout the world, including American fiddling. It is a detailed case study in the politics of culture, the...

Violin and piano reduction of Walton's Violin Concerto, based on the edition published in the Walton Edition Violin and Cello Concertos volume. Commissioned by Jascha Heifetz, the work was completed in 1939 and premiered by Heifetz later that year...

Music Medals Violin Ensemble Pieces are five volumes of enjoyable and accessible repertoire. Each volume contains original pieces and imaginative arrangements for duets, trios and quartets. An excellent source of material for mixed-ability groups as well...

Featuring tailored arrangements and original pieces by the authors of the award-winning Fiddle Time series, Solo Time for Viola is a series of graded pieces ranging from intermediate to more advanced levels. The books provide concert repertoire in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785582578Page Count 36Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Music Sales Ltd

In A Notebook for Viola Players, Ivo-Jan van der Werff offers a guide to playing the viola with the greatest freedom, dexterity, and ease. It includes right and left hand exercises to build a sound technique, sections on how to practice them, how to hold...

Contains practice material for Options - the musicianship tests that are part of Music Medals. Options cover a range of skills from improvising to sight-reading and are a means of developing musical understanding and awareness. Designed as a teacher's...

Perhaps no instrument better represents the music of Appalachia than the fretted dulcimer. The instrument was no longer confined to back porches and local music halls when Jean Ritchie so melodically thrust herself and her dulcimer into the national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495079818Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 80Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Notation in Johannes Brahms's sonata scores tells violinists and pianists far more than merely what pitches to play and how long to play them--if read carefully, these scores reveal an immense amount of expression, both of musical and human essences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760853Author Toby FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Minsky has composed this set of ten cello pieces based on musical styles from places around the world, such as Mexico, Ireland, Asia, Israel, Africa, the Caribbean, and America. Ten International Cello Encores is perfect for students and recitalists who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789333732Author Daryl KellieFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Fundamental Changes LtdPublisher Fundamental Changes LtdWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)...

Pedro de Alcantara's The Integrated String Player: Embodied Vibration is a practical guide for all string players: violinists and violists, cellists and bassists, but also gamba players and anyone who makes music drawing a bow across a string. Dozens of...

This soulful piece was discovered among the composer's manuscripts upon his death in 1958 and published posthumously in 1962. As a result, little is known about it, though it may have been written for the great viola player Lionel Tetris, for whom he...

This is a compact, composite and authoritative survey of the history and development of the cello and its repertory since the origins of the instrument. The volume comprises thirteen essays, written by a team of nine distinguished scholars and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495016974Author Jeff AdamsPage Count 128Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

EGuitar Effects Pedals: The Practical HandbookE opens up the world of effects pedals vintage and new alike for the guitarist. In an easy guitarist-friendly style the book explores the history of different effects pedals what each type of effect does...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717520Author Rachel Beckles WillsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614216Author Barrie Carson TurnerPage Count 56Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495010965Author NirvanaPage Count 55Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793591480Author Friedrich DotzauerPage Count 48Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789332254Author Daryl KellieFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comPublisher WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comWeight(grams)...

New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell, including its revival in the late eighteenth century through Charles Frederick Abel. It is normally thought that the bass viol or viola da gamba dropped out of British musical life in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480387881Author Robert CrayPage Count 162Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

These books contain characterful and approachable original compositions for violin and piano. Within each is a contrast of styles and moods, indicated by the descriptive titles, and imaginative and adventurous players will find plenty to test their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495062605Author Jeremy SiskindPage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895241481Author Richard DanielsPage Count 176Imprint Cherry Lane Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Cherry Lane Music Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982957028Author Steven MooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Waterfall Publishing HousePublisher Waterfall Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635230635Author Cassia HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint C. Harvey PublicationsPublisher C. Harvey PublicationsWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993688034Author Ernest K KaaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Blue Terrier PressPublisher Blue Terrier PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932823653Author Cassia HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint C. Harvey PublicationsPublisher C. Harvey PublicationsWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

This new version of Tony Bacon's ESix Decades of the Fender TelecasterE shows how the world's first commercially successful solidbody electric guitar still attracts musicians more than 60 years since its birth in California. Today it is more popular...

An attractive selection of Baroque violin sonatas with keyboard accompaniment in three volumes. Helpful bowings and fingerings have been added and suggestions made for dynamics. The keyboard part has been expertly realised and the composers' figures left...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825635090Author Heather RamagePage Count 39Imprint AMSCO MusicPublisher AMSCO Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635232110Author Myanna HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint C. Harvey PublicationsPublisher C. Harvey PublicationsWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm)...

A selection of three movements from J. S. Bach's six suites for solo cello, arranged for unaccompanied bassoon. Martin Gatt's straightforward arrangements, which include some suggestions for dynamics and phrasing, will provide useful recital and study...