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Jean-Michel Pilc, jazz pianist and faculty member of Steinhardt School, New York University, has written a remarkable book about the artistic and creative process in the arts. The conversational style well suits the wide ranging topic which draws examples from art and music both classical and jazz. A beautifully expressed work on a subject otherwise impossible to write about. Hailed by musicians around the world as enlightened and inspirational.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music History by Michael Miller Pdf
A beautifully composed journey through music history! Music history is a required course for all music students. Unfortunately, the typical music history book is dry and academic, focusing on rote memorization of important composers and works. This leads many to think that the topic is boring, but bestselling author Michael Miller proves that isn’t so. This guide makes music history interesting and fun, for both music students and older music lovers. • Covers more than Western “classical” music—also includes non-Western music and uniquely American forms such as jazz • More than just names and dates—puts musical developments in context with key historical events
Music Fun 101: 101 Reproducible Music Games and Puzzles (Teacher's Handbook) by Anonim Pdf
This incredible publication includes all your favorite games and puzzles, from Alphagrams, Matching Puzzles, and Crosswords to Name That Tune, Musical Sudoku, Word Searches, Mazes, and more! Clever, educational, reproducible, and fantastic fun for everyone, Music Fun 101 is a must for your music classroom. 100% Reproducible. Recommended for grades three and up. Use as a supplement to a topic or unit, an extra credit exercise, or a homework assignment. Perfect activity for substitute teachers or an easy last-minute classroom time-filler. Includes answer keys. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.
Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books! Every young child loves to listen to music, bang on drums, and pound the keys of a piano. Now here's a Hello, World! board book that can teach babies and toddlers all about musical instruments and the sounds they make—with colors, shapes, sizes, and super-simple facts. Hello, World! board books introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms with read-aloud sound words ("Plink! There are 88 keys on a piano, and they each make a different sound") and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. And each page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child. It's a perfect way to bring science and culture into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: • Solar System • Weather • Backyard Bugs • Birds • Dinosaurs • My Body • How Do Apples Grow? • Ocean Life • Moon Landing • Pets • Arctic Animals • Construction Site • Rainforest Animals • Planet Earth • Reptiles • Cars and Trucks • Music • Baby Animals • On the Farm • Garden Time • Planes and Other Flying Machines • Rocks and Minerals • Snow • Let's Go Camping • School Day
John Birchensha: Writings on Music by Benjamin Wardhaugh Pdf
John Birchensha (c.1605-?1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he claimed would enable even those without practical experience of music to learn to compose in a short time by means of 'a few easy, certain, and perfect Rules'-his most famous composition pupil being Samuel Pepys in 1662. His great aim was to publish a treatise on music in its philosophical, mathematical and practical aspects (which would have included a definitive summary of his rules of composition), entitled Syntagma music Subscriptions for this book were invited in 1672-3, and it was due to be published by March 1675; but it never appeared, and no final manuscript of it survives. Consequently knowledge about his work has hitherto remained extremely sketchy. Recent research, however, has brought to light a number of manuscripts which allow us at last to form a more complete view of Birchensha's ideas. Almost none of this material has been previously published. The new items include an autograph treatise of c.1664 ('A Compendious Discourse of the Principles of the Practicall & Mathematicall Partes of Musick') which Birchensha presented to the natural philosopher Robert Boyle, and which covers concisely much of the ground that he intended to cover in Syntagma musica detailed synopsis for Syntagma musichich he prepared for a meeting of the Royal Society in February 1676; and an autograph notebook (now in Brussels) containing his six rules of composition with music examples, presumably written for a pupil. Bringing all this material together in a single volume will allow scholars to see how Birchensha's rules and theories developed over a period of fifteen years, and to gain at least a flavour of the lost Syntagma music
Piano Masterworks - Early Intermediate Level by Hal Leonard Corp Pdf
(Piano Collection). 144 pieces by CPE Bach, JS Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Burgmuller, Clementi, Dubernoy, Ellmenreich, Greig, Gurlitt, Handel, Heller, Kohler, Kullak, le Couppey, Petzold, Reinecke, Reinhold, Schumann, Streabbog, and Tchaikovsky. All are at the early intermediate level in a convenient value-priced edition. Includes - ANONYMOUS: Minuet in G Major, BWV Appendix 116; Polonaise in G minor, BWV Appendix 119; Musette in D Major, BWV Appendix 126; Minuet in D minor, BWV Appendix 132 * CPE BACH: March in D Major, BWV Appendix 122 * JS BACH: Prelude in C Major, BWV 939 * BARTOK: 9 selections from Ten Easy Pieces * BEETHOVEN: Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5, No. 1; Waltz in D Major, WoO 85; Eccossaise in E-flat Major, WoO 86 * BURGMULLER: 13 selections from 25 Easy and Progressive Studies , Op. 100 * CLEMENTI: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36, No.1 * DUVERNOY: Study in A Major from 25 Elementary Studies, Op. 176, No. 15 * ELLMENREICH: Spinning Song, Op. 14, No. 4 * GRIEG: Watchman's Song from Lyric Pieces , Op. 12, No. 3; National Song from Lyric Pieces , Op. 12, No. 8; Sailor's Song from Lyric Pieces , Op. 68, No. 1 * GURLITT: 10 selections from Albumleaves for the Young , Op. 101 * HANDEL: Sarabanda from Suite in D minor, HWV 437 * HELLER: Scampering from 25 Studies , Op. 47, No. 1; Lullaby from 25 Studies , Op. 47, No. 19 * KOHLER: 12 Easy Studies for the Piano , Op. 157 * KULLAK: The Clock from Scenes from Childhood , Op. 62, No. 2 * LE COUPPEY: The Alphabet , Op. 17 * PETZOLD: Minuet in G Major, BWV Appendix 114; Minuet in G minor, BWV Appendix 115 * REINECKE: Sonatina in C Major, Op.136, No. 1; Sonatina in G Major, Op. 136, No. 2 * REINHOLD: March from Miniatures , Op. 39, No. 1; Hungarian Dance from Miniatures , Op. 39, No. 9; Gypsy Song from Miniatures , Op. 39, No. 13 * SCHUMANN: 12 selections from Album for the Young , Op. 68 * STREABBOG: 12 Very Easy and Melodious Studies , Op. 63; 12 Easy and Melodious Studies , Op. 64 * TCHAIKOVSKY: Morning Prayer from Album for the Young , Op. 39, No. 1; The Sick Doll from Album for the Young , Op. 39, No. 6; The Doll's Burial from Album for the Young , Op. 39, No. 7; In Church from Album for the Young , Op. 39, No. 24
Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V by Mary Tiffany Ferer Pdf
'Music and Ceremony' reconstructs musical life at the court of Charles V, examining the compositions which emanated from the court, the ordinances which prescribed ritual and ceremony, and the Emperor's prestigious chapel which reflected his power and influence.
The elusive and ungraspable in Rihms’s music Wolfgang Rihm ( b. Karlsruhe, 1952) is the most performed living German composer. With his personal, expressive, and versatile music, he became the most prominent representative of his generation. His individual approach to music was established in the 1980s and he continues to explore and enlarge his original concepts today. His 1980s work is at the core of this book, more specifically his instrumental music: the Chiffre cycle and the string quartets. Thinking about Rihm includes reflecting on his interest in philosophy, his relation to fine arts, his awareness of principles found in nature, and his references to important composers from the past. His music is embedded in the past and the actuality in modernism and postmodernism. Notwithstanding Rihm’s generosity in essays and introductions to his works, many aspects of the ‘inner sound’ of his music stay an elusive, ungraspable ‘chiffre’: a challenge for the analyst. With Foreword by Richard McGregor (Professor Emeritus, University of Cumbria)
Russian Music at Home and Abroad by Richard Taruskin Pdf
This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad ofÊÒthe Good, the True, and the BeautifulÓ to investigateÊhow the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, postÐCold War, and now postÐ9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Richard Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that attach to it in the era of Pussy Riot and renewed international tensions, before turning to individual cases from the nineteenth century to the present. Much ofÊthe volume is devoted to the resolutely cosmopolitan but inveterately Russian Igor Stravinsky, one of the major forces in the music of the twentieth century and subject of particular interest to composers and music theorists all over the world. Taruskin here revisits him for the first time since the 1990s, when everything changed for Russia and its cultural products. Other essays are devoted to the cultural and social policies of the Soviet Union and their effect on the music produced there as those policies swung away from Communist internationalism to traditional Russian nationalism; to the musicians of the Russian postrevolutionary diaspora; andÊto the tension between the compelling artistic quality of works such as StravinskyÕs Sacre du Printemps or ProkofieffÕs Zdravitsa and the antihumanistic or totalitarian messages they convey. Russian Music at Home and Abroad addresses these concerns in a personal and critical way, characteristically demonstrating TaruskinÕs authority and ability toÊbring living history out of the shadows.