Download or read book Suite for a Marimba with a Mind of Its Own written by Zito Carno and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting addition to the marimba repertoire. A suite of three movements for unaccompanied marimba. Four mallets, difficult.
Download or read book Percussion Solo Literature written by Thomas Siwe and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Percussive Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cello Suites written by Eric Siblin and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One autumn evening, shortly after ending a ten-year stint as a pop-music columnist for the Montreal Gazette, Eric Siblin attended a concert at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. There, something unlikely happened: he fell in love with a piece of classical music -- Bach's cello suites. Part biography, part music history, and part literary mystery,The Cello Suitesweaves together three dramatic stories: The first features Johann Sebastian Bach and the missing manuscript of his suites from the eighteenth century; the second is that of Pablo Casals and his incredible discovery of the manuscript in Spain in the early twentieth century; and the third is Eric Siblin's own infatuation with the suites in the twenty-first century. This love affair leads Siblin to the back streets of Barcelona, a Belgian mansion, and a bombed out German palace; to interviews with cellists Mischa Maisky, Anner Bylsma, and Pieter Wispelwey; to archives, festivals, conferences, and cemeteries; and even to cello lessons -- all in pursuit of answers to the mysteries that continue to haunt this piece of music more than 250 years after its composer's death. The Cello Suitesis an incomparable, beautifully written, true-life journey of passion, imagination, and discovery, fuelled by the transcendent power of a musical masterpiece.
Download or read book Alec Wilder in Spite of Himself written by Desmond Stone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alec Wilder wrote songs and lyrics of unsurpassed beauty and originality, and his work won the respect and admiration of such important musical figures as Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Mitch Miller, Gunther Schuller, and many others. Yet Wilder seemed almost to court obscurity. Both in the music he composed and in the way he lived his life, Wilder valued the unique and eccentric over the established and easily acceptable. And though he authored the definitive American Popular Song--which critics praised as "singular" (Studs Terkel), "pioneering" (Whitney Balliett), "rewarding" (Milton Babbitt), and "a joy to anyone who really cares about American popular music" (Max Morath)--his own contribution to that music has remained, until now, too little known and far too little appreciated. Desmond Stone's engaging and lively biography brings Alec Wilder's life and music into the spotlight where it belongs. Ranging from Wilder's childhood in Rochester, New York, to his rise as a major writer of popular songs in the 1940s, to his relationships with Frank Sinatra and the cabaret singer Mabel Mercer, Stone gives us rich insight into the creative process and profound influence of this highly unorthodox composer. We see the impulses and musical concerns that led to such standards as "I'll Be Around" and "It's So Peaceful in the Country." We also get an inside view of how he wrote his monumental American Popular Song, which remains the most significant study of America's great songwriters. More important, we get a vivid sense of a haunting, incorruptible melodist whose unique personality was mirrored in his music. Man and composer dared to be different. When Wilder in the late 1930s wrote his famous Octets, the music world did not know what to make of these irreverent, highly original pieces. Yet they had a seminal influence on jazz chamber music in America. Wilder would go on to compose hundreds of instrumental numbers. Whether he was writing concert pieces for an unprecedented and highly unusual group of instruments, or mixing jazz, classical, and popular idioms in a single song, or dashing off a sonata for a friend, Wilder followed the dictates of his own creativity rather than the expectations of the musical establishment. Such independence and unpredictability earned him the hostility of many critics but the enduring respect of the musicians he wrote for. Here then is a fascinating private portrait of a man who lived a nomad's life, who loved riding trains so much he kept a timetable in his pocket at all times, a man whose only home was a small room he maintained at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan (where he often held court in the lobby), a man with a serious drinking problem as well as the kindest and most generous of friends. Essential reading for anyone interested in American popular music, Alec Wilder in Spite of Himself provides a much needed account of this complex, colorful, and highly original life.
Download or read book The Ways Children Learn Music written by Eric Bluestine and published by GIA Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do children learn music? And how can music teachers help children to become independent and self-sufficient musical thinkers? Author Eric Bluestine sheds light on these issues in music education.
Download or read book The Instrumentalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Broad Strokes written by Rick Dior and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reporter written by Max Ascoli and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Goossens written by Carole Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the famous Goossens musical dynasty covering three generations.
Download or read book Musical America written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Mallet Marimba Playing written by Nancy Zeltsman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Percussion). This book contains a lot of music, from musical etudes designed for beginning and intermediate players, to recital material appropriate for intermediate and advanced marimbists. It includes: examples taken from contemporary solo and chamber works, with commentary and performance tips; 50 studies to develop four-mallet technique in a musical way; 18 classic and contemporary solos for recitals, auditions or juries, written by Beethoven, Handel, Chopin, Debussy, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington and others; and helpful guidelines for mallet selection, grip, strokes, tone production, rolls, stickings, phrasing and other important topics.
Download or read book The Trap of Love written by John Gaffney and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trap of Love is a three-part memoir in which the author recounts his days in the 1970s in New York City, at Columbia University Film School, in pursuit of the perfect marriage of art and love in order to construct a creative life. The search turns into both an impossible dream and nightmare involving three unforgettable women who, in recollection, are muses of a modern-day divine comedy that does for the Big Apple of forty years ago what A Confederacy of Dunces did for the city of New Orleans circa the same period. Movies, art, literature, music, and most of all, devotion to finding the ideal mate to inspire the best one has in one are what is featured in this colorful, uproarious volume.
Download or read book J S Bach Cello Suite 1 Lorimer written by J.S. Bach and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach's masterpieces transcribed for classical guitar.
