Musical instruments Books
Scarecrow Press Gerhard Brunzema His Work and His Influence
Book SynopsisDocuments the craft of organbuilder Gerhard Brunzema (1927-1992) and looks at how his instruments and his approach to organbuilding influenced music history.Trade Review...offers the reader an excellent survey of Brunzema's life and work and includes many interesting insights...is a fitting tribute to Brunzema. * The American Organist *...valuable and interesting...this book belongs in the library of every student of organ history and design. * Journal Of American Organbuilding *...presents a wide range of helpful materials... -- Lawrence Archibold, Carleton College * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *
£104.00
Hassell Street Press Caligula and Cross Purpose Le Malentendu
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LEGARE STREET PR Variations Brillantes Pour Le Piano Forte Sur La Dernière Valse De C.m. De Weber. Opéra 51
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Harcamlow Press Two Violins A Viola One Cello and Me
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Hal Leonard Corporation PedalCulture
Book SynopsisPedalCulture is a themed exploration of guitar effects pedals as cultural artifacts, derived from a 2017 design exhibition at San Francisco State University curated by the writer. This colorful and artfully designed volume contains curatorial text describing eight different object displays along with photographs of each of the sixty-three individual pedals, richly illustrated in approximately one hundred original photographs. The anthropological quest into understanding how effects stompboxes allow for quasi-supernatural power transference from on high to working guitarists is just one of the many themes explored in this volume. Other exhibits explore symbolic associations in the branding of sonic effects with notable cultural touchstones from popular arts and culture: As material manifestations of noir literature, retro-futuristic cinema, and Japanese anime; as explicit graphic metaphors for female pudenda; in explicit reference to gruesome tabloid tales of murder and mayhem
£22.50
Hal Leonard Corporation The Invisible Line: When Craft Becomes Art
Book SynopsisWhat distinguishes art from craft? Since the traditional answer skews utilitarian and hinges on an object's 'use value ' musical instruments are typically grouped into the latter category. This is a grave oversight. In ÊThe Invisible Line: When Craft Becomes ArtÊ seven West Coast artisans discuss their work and make the case for curatorial inclusion of instruments (and other primitives ) alongside the finest sculptures etchings paintings and pastels the world's museums have to offer. Conceived and edited by Larry Robinson the man behind ÊThe Art of Inlay: Design and Technique for Fine WoodworkingÊ ÊThe Invisible LineÊ consists of seven lavishly self-illustrated essays penned by self-employed practicing artisans (rather than academics art historians journalists or critics) at the height of their careers. Whether you're a a practicing musician an art aficionado a luthier or woodworker or an everyday person with an affinity for the aesthetically pleasant this gorgeous volume is sure to awe and inspire.
£18.04
Missing Method Guitar Sheets Chord Chart Paper: Over 100 pages of Blank Chord Chart Paper, TAB + Staff Paper, & more
£11.39
tredition Das Genie Ferruccio Busoni Musik als grenzenlose
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De Gruyter Joachim Tielke: Neue Funde zu Werk und Wirkung
Book SynopsisJoachim Tielke was an outstanding instrument maker in the Baroque period who is famous above all for his elaborately decorated works. The book presents new instruments made by him that have only recently become known. This has made it possible to expand on various aspects of his work and to clarify questions regarding dating more precisely. This book provides new insights into Tielke’s work and supplements the extensive volume Joachim Tielke. Kunstvolle Musikinstrumente des Barock (2011).
£24.30
Vero Verlag Das Lexikon der Musikinstrumente
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The University of Chicago Press Composing for the Jazz Orchestra
Book SynopsisA practical guide to jazz composition, illustrating technical and instrumental variations on themes.
£24.00
Columbia University Press Symphonic Music Its Evolution Since the
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to survey this large field afresh, and to do so in connected, chronological fashion. It takes notice of the fact that concertos, overtures, ballets, and suits- often overlooked or minimized in other books on symphonic music- are also parts of the literature.
£80.00
University of Illinois Press Squeeze This A Cultural History of the Accordion
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKlaus Wachsmann Prize for Advanced and Critical Essays in Organology, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2014. "A serious work of musical and cultural history."--Shelf Awareness"A fascinating cultural history of the most underestimated of instruments."--Booklist "An illuminating and occasionally whimsical account, in keeping with the instrument itself."--Library Journal"An excellent book about the piano accordion's evolution, a number of major accordionists, and the many musical genres where it has been used, from polka and zydeco to rock 'n' roll and classical music. Fascinating reading not only for accordionists, ethnomusicologists, and folklorists, but especially also general readers interested in ethnic music and cultural history."--Deborah Anders Silverman, author of Polish-American Folklore "Solid. . . . This book holds plenty of interest for those who love accordion music."--Kirkus Review "Using meticulous research, Jacobson not only touches on how topics as diverse as immigration, movies, war, and feminism have influenced the accordion's popularity, but she also finds time to drop in countless little known pop culture nuggets about great accordionists."--Publishers Weekly"Wunnerful, wunnerful. . . . A delightful and illuminating surprise."--The Wall Street Journal"An academic resource, a detailed history, and a quirky travelogue. . . . [Time] to roll out the barrel and uncork the champagne: with this book, the lowly squeezebox has begun to get its cultural due."--Maclean's “Marion Jacobson prefaces her delightful book with a quote from the Minneapolis Journal of December 16, 1912: ‘A fearful instrument that looks like a cash register, and sounds worse, produces gasps of pleasure at the Orpheum this week. It is called the piano accordion and its behaviour is shameless.’ . . . This often-maligned instrument has found a worthy champion in Jacobson. Her likeable, informative and readable book, illustrated with superb colour plates of classic instruments and performers, looks set to remain the definitive work on the subject.” —Lou Glandfield, The Times Literary Supplement "An excellent, readable book, filled with all the names one needs to know. Highly recommended."--Choice "Jacobson is at her best when she is chronicling the history of the instrument that she loves and the social scenes of which it is a part. A fun read for accordion enthusiasts"--Ethnomusicology "Ethnographically rich, compellingly written, and resting on a solid theoretical and methodological foundation, Marion Jacobson's cultural history of the accordion is a welcome addition to the extant literature on popular music, free-reed instruments, and cultural and diaspora studies."--Italian American Review "Jacobson shows the complexity and vitality of the accordion culture in America. Squeeze This! is a groundbreaking work."--Journal of American Folklore "Squeeze This! presents sound ethnomusicological scholarship based on first hand musical knowledge and performance experience as well as field and scholarly research. Jacobson's contribution to the ethnography of musical instruments in general and of the piano accordion in particular is her portrayal of the processes by which an instrument enters and is assimilated into a culture."--Western Folklore "An enthralling monograph that explores the history, diverse cultural meanings, and multifaceted musical and social roles of the piano accordion in the United States.--Journal of the Society for American Music
£15.19
Indiana University Press Rumba
Book SynopsisCuba's social and cultural complexity interpreted through the history and expressive power of rumba.Table of ContentsPREFACE1. Introduction: Portraits of a Dance2. Cuban Dance Culture3. Cuban People and Rumberos4. Performance of Rumba5. Symbolic Aspects of Rumba6. Social and Aesthetic Change in CubaAPPENDIX: LABANOTATIONNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
£15.19
Indiana University Press A Catalog of Music for the Cornett
Book SynopsisThe cornett is made of wood but has a brass cup mouthpiece and uses woodwind finger technique. It is capable of great virtuosic display and was featured in works by Monteverdi, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Praetorius, and later by Bach, Handel, and Gluck. This book compiles detailed listings of pieces from 200 printed collections.Trade Review"... a major contribution to cornett research and belongs in the library of every cornettist." Historic Brass Society "... scrupulously detailed... The first successful attempt to provide a comprehensive reference book on the cornett and its music. Recommended for both upper-division undergraduate libraries and collections serving music scholars and performers." Choice " ... it will likely stand as the definitive bibliography of cornett music for many years." Notes "... this is a groundbreaking study of the subject ... likely to remain the only major study of the instrument and the music composed for it." American Reference Books Annual "... every cornett player owes an immense debt of gratitudeto [the authors and their assistants] for revealing such a wealth of performing opportunities ..." European Journal of Early Music
£15.19
Indiana University Press A Performers Guide to SeventeenthCentury Music
Book SynopsisA comprehensive manual of performance practice for 17th century musicTrade Review[A] welcome update to a highly valuable resource for the study of performance practice, and should be a staple for any collection supporting a curriculum of music history and/or historically informed approaches to performing music of the seventeenth century. * Music Reference Services Quarterly *A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music is an invaluable resource for both students and professional musicians: it brings musicians up to date on musical research for the period; it helps performers to see the seventeenth-century as (almost) a separate era within the Baroque. * Mu Phi Epsilon *There's a vast amount of information here, and considerable wisdom. Those exploring 17th-century music should buy a copy. * Early Music Review *Full of interest, this performer's guide sometimes seems aimed at the listener and musical historian as much as the performer. * Classical Music *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsOctave Designation ChartPreface to the Second Edition \ Jeffery Kite-PowellPreface to the First Edition \ Stewart CarterAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Vocal/Choral Issues 1. National Singing Styles \ Sally Sanford 2. The Bel Canto Singing Style \ Julianne Baird 3. Choral Music in France and England \ Anne Harrington Heider 4. Choral Music in Italy and the Germanic Lands \ Gary TownePart 2. Wind, String, and Percussion Instruments 5. Woodwinds \ Herbert Myers 6. Cornett and Sackbut \ Bruce Dickey 7. Trombone \ Stewart Carter 8. Trumpet and Horn \ Steven E. Plank 9. Percussion and Timpani \ John Michael Cooper 10. The Violin: Technique and Style \ David Douglass 11. Historical Approaches to Playing the Violin \ Julie Andrijeski 12. The Viola da Gamba Family \ Stuart Cheney with Barbara Coeyman 13. Violoncello and Violone \ Marc Vanscheeuwijck 14. Keyboard Instruments \ Mark Kroll 15. Plucked String Instruments \ Paul O'DettePart 3. Performance Practice and Practical Considerations 16. Ornamentation in Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Music \ Bruce Dickey 17. Basso Continuo \ Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette 18. Meter and Tempo \ George Houle 19. Tuning and Temperament \ Herbert Myers 20. Pitch and Transposition \ Herbert MyersPart 4. The Seventeenth-Century Stage 21. Dance \ Dorothy Olsson 22. Theatrical Productions \ James MiddletonAppendix A. List of Names and DatesAppendix B. A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music: ContentsAppendix C. A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music: ContentsBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
£35.10
University of California Press Thematic Catalog of a Manuscript Collection of
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
£35.70
University of Tennessee Press Tennessee Strings
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£15.15
University of Tennessee Press Randy Wood: The Lore of the Luthier
Book SynopsisIn the 1960s and 1970s, Randy Wood was a forerunner in the vintage instrument industry. Known as the instrument repairman to the stars, the list of Wood’s clients reads like a Hall of Fame roster: Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, Chet Atkins, Emmylou Harris, Billy Gibbons, Bill Monroe, Keith Richards, Roy Acuff, Ricky Skaggs, and Hank Williams Jr. . . . to name a few. In Randy Wood: The Lore of the Luthier, Daniel Wile traces the life and work of a man who quietly influenced a hidden history of bluegrass and country music.In his twenties, Wood vowed to avoid complacency in his work. What started simply as a quest to find fulfillment turned into a career that has shaped a generation of musicians, professional and amateur alike. Through his incredible gift for lutherie, Wood brought cherished pre-WWII instruments back to life, many of which were considered beyond repair. He crafted his own instruments as well, based on what he learned from vintage instruments, and these instruments found their way into the hands of some of the most renowned musicians, thanks in part to Wood’s strategic location in Nashville during the resurgence of country music in the 1970s. Humble, unassuming, and unfazed by the presence of celebrities, Wood has spent his life devoted to building and repairing stringed instruments.Wood also built community. After tiring of big-city Nashville, he retreated to the Georgia coast, where his home shop became a hub of bluegrass activity. He eventually opened a new shop near Savannah, where a new generation of friends and strangers can come in, visit, and pick a little. Randy’s stories, complemented with those of his friends and family, create a compelling picture of a modest man with a talent for his craft, a genuine care for people, and the courage to follow his passion.
£24.71
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Horn and Conductor: Reminiscences of a
Book SynopsisThe former first horn of the Boston Symphony Orchestra writes about playing under Klemperer, Koussevitzky, Munch etc, the french horn, and specific horn passages. In this volume, Harold Meek, former first horn of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, shares anecdotes and insights about the joys and travails of playing under Klemperer, Koussevitzky, Munch, and others. He also brings together some important information about changes in the instrument itself, including a little-known letter from the great British horn virtuoso, Dennis Brain, about the virtues of different makes of horn. A valuable appendix prints interpretively challenging horn passages from three dozen masterpieces, and evaluates the solutions offered in recordings by various prominent conductors.
£23.74
West Virginia University Press Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests
£21.56
De Gruyter Instruments in Art and Science: On the Architectonics of Cultural Boundaries in the 17th Century
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a collection of original papers at the intersection of philosophy, the history of science, cultural and theatrical studies. Based on a series of case studies on the 17th century, it contributes to an understanding of the role played by instruments at the interface of science and art. The papers pursue the hypothesis that the development and construction of instruments make a substantive contribution to the opening of new fields of knowledge, the development of new cultural practices, but also to the delineation of particular genres, methods, and disciplines. This perspective leads the authors to reflect anew on what actually defines an instrument and to develop a series of basic questions to determine what an instrument is - which actions does the instrument incorporate? – which actions does the instrument make possible? - when do the objects of examination themselves become instruments? – what skills are required to use an instrument, which skills does it produce? With its combination of new theoretical models and historical case studies, its detailed demonstration of the mutual influence of art and science with the instrument as the point of intersection, this volume enters new territory. It is of great value for all those interested in the history of our perception of instruments. Besides the editors, the authors of the papers are: Jörg Jochen Berns, Olaf Breidbach, Georges Didi-Huberman, Peter Galison, Sybille Krämer, Dieter Mersch, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, and Otto Sibum.
£195.70
Taylor & Francis John Williams Changing the Culture of the Classical Guitar Performance perception education and construction Routledge Research in Music
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Taylor & Francis Practicing Music by Design Historic Virtuosi on Peak Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Horn Teaching at the Paris Conservatoire 1792 to 1903
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Horn Teaching at the Paris Conservatoire 1792 to 1903
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Taylor & Francis Korea and the Western Drumset Scattering Rhythms
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Taylor & Francis The Modern Percussion Revolution
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Taylor & Francis John Williams Changing the Culture of the Classical Guitar
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Taylor & Francis The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass From Jamerson to Spenner Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Perspectives on Early Keyboard Music and Revival in the Twentieth Century
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Taylor & Francis Order Statistics in Wireless Communications Diversity Adaptation and Scheduling in MIMO and OFDM Systems
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Taylor & Francis The Modern Percussion Revolution
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Concerto A Research and Information Guide Routledge Music Bibliographies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Viola da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts containing Consort Music Volume I The Viola Da Gamba Society Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music Volume 1
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Taylor & Francis Instruments and their Music in the Middle Ages
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Taylor & Francis The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Companion to The Mechanical Muse The Piano Pianism and Piano Music c17601850
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Taylor & Francis Studies in Italian Sacred and Instrumental Music in the 17th Century Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Musical Ecologies
Book SynopsisCommunity music around the world reflects the growing and diverse ways humans collectivise and express themselves in ways that articulate our cultural, social, and environmental complexity. Revisiting, redevising, and reimagining some of the field's approaches, ideologies, and contexts, this co-edited volume investigates beyond generalist intercultural and internationalist concepts to reveal the complexity of social ways people come together to make music and to making music be central to this sociality.The authors explore the role community music plays out around the world and how various instrumentally based music-making communities operate as ecologies that allow notions of social, political, and cultural agency and identity/ies. Chapters cover various instrumental community music ensembles, observing how they, as social microcosms of change and stasis, provide working methods new and old, extol values, and model ethical behaviours that are fluid and dynamic, steadfast anTable of ContentsList of ContributorsForewordChapter 1. Introduction - Redefining the FieldLeon R de Bruin and Jane SouthcottPART 1: MAINTAINING AND DISRUPTING TRADITIONS: CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGIES OF COMMUNITY MUSIC PRACTICES- Maintaining/ disrupting traditions- Theoretical perspectives and landscapes – re-territory/deterritorialization- Reimagining the community music ensemble- Innovation/stasis/ in the community ensembleChapter 2. Shifting the Conservatory Narrative: Designing University Curriculum that Celebrates Communities’ MusicsTe Oti Rakena and John CoulterChapter 3. Optimising the Feedback Loop Between Community and Community Ensemble: A Case StudyAdam StarrChapter 4. The Venda tshikona Reed-Pipe Dance as Community Music: Mapping the Ecology of a South African Traditional MusicSusan Harrop-Allin and Dean SalantChapter 5. An Inclusion Strategy Approach for Deepening Community Music Engagement in Non-Metropolitan AustraliaGraham Sattler and Phil MullenPART 2: THE RHYZOMAL ASSEMBLAGE: INTERACTIONS AND LOCALIZED MICRO-SYSTEMS OF INDIVIDUALS’ COMMUNAL EXISTENCE- Musical ecologies and ecosystems- Multiple participation, diverse agencies and identities- Individual and group agency- Action and intra-action in community musickingChapter 6. Agua! The flourishing of Latin Music in Melbourne, AustraliaLeon R de BruinChapter 7. Synthesis and Embodiment: The Lowell String Project as Complex Musical EcosystemElissa Johnson-GreenChapter 8. Mount Gambier's Generations in Jazz: The Impact of Community and Cross-Regional PartnershipsAdam HardcastleChapter 9. Friends in Concert: Growing Music Teacher Identities through Community Music Making Yan Chen Alvyn Eng, Siew Ling Chua and James LeeChapter 10. Training and Retaining Traditions: The Grainger Wind SymphonyJane Southcott and Leon R de BruinPART 3: WIDER MESO-SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE, EVOLUTION AND INNOVATION- Specific practices, interactions environments, partnerships and collaborations- The ethics of specific instrumental community music ensembles- Local/glocal/international perspectives and movements- Creativities in instrumental community music – how is it different/ same between prof and amateurChapter 11. The Armidale Symphony Orchestra: The Ecology of a Regional OrchestraAlana BlackburnChapter 12. Friends in Music: The Chao Feng Chinese Orchestra, Melbourne, AustraliaJane Southcott and Vicky LiaoChapter 13. The Golden Age Ensemble: A Community Music PartnershipChi Ying LamChapter 14. PUBlic Choir: Facilitating an Emergent Musicking CommunityGraham SattlerChapter 15. Jazz, Improvisation, Community: The Affective Constitution of Social IdentityChris StoverChapter 16. PostludeLeon R de Bruin and Jane SouthcottReferences Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Creative Jazz Improvisation
Book SynopsisThe leading textbook in jazz improvisation, Creative Jazz Improvisation, Fifth Edition represents a compendium of knowledge and practice resources for the university classroom, suitable for all musicians looking to develop and sharpen their soloing skills. Logically organized and guided by a philosophy that encourages creativity, this book presents practical advice beyond the theoretical, featuring exercises in twelve keys, ear training and keyboard drills, a comprehensive catalog of relevant songs to learn, and a wide range of solo transcriptions, each transposed for C, Bb, Eb, and bass clef instruments. Chapters highlight discussions of jazz theory - covering topics such as major scale modes, forms, chord substitutions, melodic minor modes, diminished and whole-tone modes, pentatonic scales, intervallic improvisation, free improvisation, and more - while featuring updated content throughout on the nuts and bolts of learning to improvise. New to the Fifth Edition:Table of ContentsPART 1: THE ART OF IMPROVISATION / 1. Practicing and Performing Jazz / PART 2: DIATONIC CHORDS AND THE MODES IN THE MAJOR SCALE / 2. Major Scales and Major 7th Chords / 3. Dorian Scales and Minor 7th Chords / 4. Mixolydian and Dominant Bebop Scales, and Dominant 7th Chords / 5. The ii V I Progression and Functional Harmony / 6. Locrian and Aeolian Scales, and the iiØ7 V7♭9 i Progression / 7. Lydian and Phrygian Scales, and Major 7♭5 Chords / PART 3: CHORD SUBSTITUTIONS, HARMONIC STRUCTURES, AND FORMS / 8. The Blues Scale, the Blues Form, and Chord Substitutions / 9. Sectional Forms and Rhythm Changes / 10. Harmonic Structures and Coltrane Substitutions / PART 4: ALTERED CHORDS, DIMINISHED MODES, WHOLE-TONE SCALES, AND HARMONIC MINOR AND MELODIC MINOR MODES / 11. Diminished Scales, Fully Diminished Chords, and Dominant 7♭9 Chords / 12. Whole-Tone Scales and Augmented Chords / 13. Melodic and Harmonic Minor Scales, and Minor/Major 7th Chords / 14. Locrian #2 and Altered Scales, and Minor iiØ9 V7 ♯9♯5 i Progressions / 15. Lydian Augmented and Lydian Dominant Scales, and Major 7th ♯5 and Dominant 9th ♯11 Chords / PART 5: BEYOND FUNCTIONAL HARMONY / 16. Free Improvisation / 17. Pentatonic Scales / 18. Four-Note Groupings Derived from Pentatonic Scales / 19. Intervallic Improvisation / 20. Odd Meters / Appendix I: Intervals / Appendix II: Modes in the Major Scale / Appendix III: Modes in the Melodic Minor Scale / Appendix IV: Diatonic 7th Chords in Major Keys / Appendix V: Diatonic 7th Chords in Minor Keys / Appendix VI: Chords and Their Relationship to Scales / Appendix VII: Upper Structure or "Slash" Chords / Appendix VIII: Creativity and an Overview of Kenny Werner’s Effortless Mastery Method
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Taylor & Francis The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things
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Cambridge University Press Musica Getutscht
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Cambridge University Press The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and EighteenthCentury Musical Style
W. Dean Sutcliffe investigates one of the greatest yet least understood repertories of Western keyboard music: the 555 keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Scarlatti occupies a position of solitary splendour in musical history. The sources of his style are often obscure and his immediate influence is difficult to discern. Further, the lack of hard documentary evidence has hindered musicological activity. Dr Sutcliffe offers not just a thorough reconsideration of the historical factors that have contributed to Scarlatti's position, but also sustained engagement with the music, offering both individual readings and broader commentary of an unprecedented kind. A principal task of this book is to remove the composer from his critical ghetto (however honourable) and redefine his image. In so doing it will reflect on the historiographical difficulties involved in understanding eighteenth-century musical style.
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Cambridge University Press The Keyboard in Baroque Europe Musical Performance and Reception
Book SynopsisTwelve of today's most distinguished scholar-performers offer essays in this volume on new and intriguing aspects of baroque keyboard music. Topics include fresh evidence on music of the seventeenth century (Frescobaldi, Froberger and Purcell), the place of the keyboard in concerted music and on comparative teaching methods (Couperin, Marpurg and Roeser), studies of the repertoire of J. S. Bach and his sons (including ornamentation in C. P. E. Bach and the Polonaises of Wilhelm Friedemann), and writing on the later eighteenth century (including Mozart) and on matters of repertoire and performance practice (continuo playing, improvisation). The volume gives a balanced picture of the latest theories and discoveries in keyboard music, of interest to both academic and performing musicians, and includes a new arrangement for keyboard of Bach's D minor Violin Partita, published here for the first time.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'The very experienced writers know how to relate particular issues to broader contexts, so there is much for the enthusiast, and several of the articles will henceforth be standards on my reading lists.' The British Clavichord SocietyReview of the hardback: 'May this collection encourage by example and stimulate further generations of Leonhardt's under-gardeners to labour for their art.' The ConsortTable of ContentsPart I. Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music: 1. On Frescobaldi's recreation of the Chaconne and the Passacaglia Alexander Silbiger; 2. Hanß Jacob Froberger's travels 1649–1653 Rudolf Rasch; 3. New perspectives on Lynar A 1 Pieter Dirksen; 4. Creating the corpus: the 'Complete Keyboard Music' of Henry Purcell Christopher Hogwood; Part II. The Early Eighteenth Century: 5. Towards a genealogy of the keyboard concerto John Butt; 6. Couperin, Marpurg and Roeser: A Germanic Art de Toucher le Clavecin, or a French Wahre Art? Davitt Moroney; Part III. The Bach Family: 7. Invention, composition and the improvement of nature: apropos Bach the teacher and practical philosopher Christoph Wolff; 8. Is there an anxiety of influence discernible in J. S. Bach's Clavierübung I? Peter Williams; 9. 'Toward the most elegant taste': developments in keyboard accompaniment from J. S. to C. P. E. Bach David Schulenberg; 10 '… welche dem größten Concerte gleichen': the polonaises of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Peter Wollny; Part IV. The Later Eighteenth Century: 11. Schnellen: a quintessential articulation technique in eighteenth-century keyboard playing Menno van Delft; 12. Mozart's non-metrical keyboard preludes Robert D. Levin; Part V. Musical envoi: 13. J. S. Bach: Keyboard Partita in A Minor after BWV 1004 Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
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Cambridge University Press Musica Getutscht A Treatise on Musical Instruments 1511 by Sebastian Virdung Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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Cambridge University Press Berlioz Romeo et Juliette Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven Symphony No 9 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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