Melvin Berger: Guide To Chamber Music

Third, Corrected Edition. This guide presents 231 of the best-known, most frequently performed pieces of chamber music by 55 outstanding composers including Bartok string quartets, Beethoven piano trios and string quartets, Haydn string quartets and works by Barber, Mozart, Debussy, Borodin, Aretsky and Mendelssohn. For each composer a brief biography is followed by discussions of the individual compositions in chronological order. A practical sourcebook for chamber music players, performers and teachers.

Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: Guide To The Practical Study Of Harmony

Written during the composer?s years as a professor at the renowned Moscow Conservatory, this volume presents a clear and thorough introduction to the study of harmony - a complete course in writing music featuring numerous examples and exercises. It functions equally well as a classroom text, an adjunct to private instruction, or as a guide to individual musicians. Out of print for several decades and exceedingly rare in its original edition, the Guide to Practical Study of Harmony holds an intrinsic historical interest. This is the unabridged republication of the classic 1900 edition and is an excellent manual which remains as useful and instructive today as it was at the turn of the 20th century.

Sergius Kagen: On Studying Singing

Sergius Kagen. An invaluable guide for the student, parent or teacher.

Violin Making - A Historical And Practical Guide

Ivan Galamian: Principles Of Violin Playing And Teaching

A celebrated instructor explains his philosophy of teaching and practice methods, including the appropriate combination of technique and interpretation. Ivan Galamian, a longtime Juilliard professor, incorporates aspects of both the Russian and French schools in a system both ingenious and logical. His tutelage has produced astonishing results with students, many of whom rank among the world's most acclaimed concert artists and orchestral concertmasters. Suitable for violin teachers and students of all ages and levels, this guide presents general principles and offers practical suggestions related to posture, holding the instrument and bow, vibrato movements, intonation, tone production, bowing patterns, double stops, trills, and many other facets of playing and practice. This edition features a new Introduction by Sally Thomas, violin virtuoso and Galamian's former student.

Adam Carse: Musical Wind Instruments

This comprehensive guide presents an informative overview of wind instruments used in European Orchestra, and in the military, and other wind bands during the past 400 years.

Forsyth Choral Orchestration Bk

This book is geared toward organists seeking a brief, convenient guide to developing technical grounding for thescoring of compositions. It takes readers bar by barthrough a complete Choral orchestration.

Malwine Bree: The Leschetizy Method

Malwine Bree. A guide to fine and correct piano playing. A pupil of Czerny, Leschetizky went on to instruct an entire generation of world class pianists, including Paderewski, Schnabel and Moiseiwitsch.

Five Graphic Music Analyses

Heinrich Schenkers's comprehensive study of the musical architecture of five compositions by J.S. Bach, Haydn and Chopin. He includes highly developed examples of a graphic system of notation expressing his analytical ideas. This updated edition also includes a new introduction by Felix Salzer.

Paul DeVille: Universal Method For Saxophone

Commonly referred to as "The Saxophone Bible," this volume is the trusted training method for aspiring and serious musicians. From how to play your first note to mastering advanced concert pieces, it offers exercises and advice for every stage of learning, making it both an excellent guide for dedicated students and an indispensable tool for instructors. Paul DeVille' s guide covers everything students need to learn to develop mastery of the Saxophone. He explains the components of the instrument itself, how to make your own reeds, tuning, tone production, fingering, breath control, and playing low and high ranges. Numerous exercises provide reinforcement in playing scales, intervals, slurred and detached notes, arpeggios, cadenzas, and other musical passages. In addition to several operatic melodies and duets for two Saxophones, a dozen solos include works by Schubert, Brahms, Donizetti, and other composers. No saxophonist's musical library is complete without this comprehensive guide, now available in a sturdy and inexpensive edition. Reprint of the Carl Fisher, New York edition.

Max Reger: Modulation

Modulation - the change from one key to another - is a subject of critical importance to performers and composers in their study of harmony. This concise guide by a progressive early modernist offers valuable insights and instruction. Suitable for musicians at all levels. Newly typeset and engraved.

Foundation to Flute Playing : An Elementary Method

Ernest Frederick Wagner's Foundation to Flute Playing is an exceptional instructional guide that caters to the needs of both novice and seasoned flutists. This comprehensive book offers technique drills and musically challenging short pieces to help learners progress from medium-easy exercises to more complex compositions. The book provides a detailed guide on fundamental adjustments and care for the instrument and meticulously outlines lessons on fingering, rhythm, and tuning. Various lessons, including scale studies, articulate tonguing exercises, syncopation rhythms, staccato practices, and embouchure strengthening exercises, will help train agility and precision. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced flutist, this book is designed to help you achieve technical excellence and musical mastery.

Lillie H. Philipp: Piano Technique: Tone, Touch, Phrasing and Dynamics

This well-known pianist and teacher's guide to sound piano technique covers tone production, fingering, pedaling, chords, sight-reading, and more. Its 63 musical excerpts include works by such masters as Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Liszt. Numerous exercises, complemented by 64 black-and-white photographs, demonstrate a variety of technical, stylistic, and musical approaches.

Beethoven's Piano Playing: With An Essay On the Execution of the Trill

Beethoven's Piano Playing was originally written as an introduction to a critical edition of Beethoven's Piano concertos.This incredibly informative performance guide is the work of pianist, composer, and conductor Franz Kullak.Beethoven's Piano Playing contains more than 100 annotated and analysed musical examples along with biographical information about Beethoven and general rules for the performance of the concertos.

The Art Of Piano Pedaling: Two Classic Guides

Two of the greatest pianists of the last century - Anton Rubenstein and Teresa Carreno - left behind them works detailing the role of good pedaling in Piano performance, respectively - 'Guide to the use of the Pianoforte Pedals' and 'Possibilities of Tone-Colour by Artistic Use of the Pedals'. These two approaches are here published in one volume. Essential reading for all pianists.

Ernst Bacon: Notes On The Piano

An accomplished composer, pianist, writer, and teacher presents an easy and entertaining guide for players at all levels of expertise. Ernst Bacon offers valuable tips on working, listening, and playing habits in five sections that cover "The Performer," "The Learner," "The Player and Writer," "The Observer," and "Technically Speaking." This edition features an informative Introduction by virtuoso pianist and professor Sara Davis Buechner.

P.M. Marafioti: Caruso's Method Of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture Of The Voice

The greatest tenor of his day, Caruso possessed remarkable breath control and enunciation along with an intense quality of vocal pathos. This guide explains clearly and scientifically how singers can emulate his phenomenal vocal production. Written by a noted laryngologist who devoted most of his career to Caruso, it includes detailed diagrams, instructions, and exercises.Reprint of the D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1922 edition.

Joseph De Marliave: Beethoven's Quartets

A highly readable and accessible bar-by-bar, theme-by-theme guide to the monumental quartets of Beethoven. All 16 quartets and the Grosse Fuge are dissected and examined. Rather than simply deconstructing the formal technicalities of the pieces, Joseph De Marliave concentrates on mood and general effects, with illustrations of Beethoven's major themes allowing the reader to follow their development from the point of view of a listener. Comprehensive background detail is included for all works, including quotations, remarks from Beethoven himself, and opinion from contemporaries and patrons. A complete and authoritative study of an important body of work.

Complete Method for Rhythmical Articulation

Considered an essential resource for students at the Royal Conservatory in Milan and other schools of music, Pasquale Bona's comprehensive guide to rhythmic articulation is written for singers and instrumentalists of all levels, from beginners to professionals. Bona provides 120 études featuring practical methods for learning respective time values and their interaction within the context of musical phrases, from the basic principles of rhythm theory to the different types of articulation and how to apply articulation to various musical styles. These insightful methods and exercises promote a more nuanced interpretation, elevating a musician's performance to higher levels of melodic expressiveness.

Franz Schubert: Complete Chamber Music For Pianoforte And Strings

Reproduced directly from the famous Breitkopf and Härtel series, this volume includes the famous "Trout" quintet (1819), the Quartet in F Major (1816), and three delightful trios for pianoforte, violin, and cello. Noteheads are reproduced in a size large enough to be read easily while you play, and ample space between staves and in the margins allows room for any notes, harmonic analyses, fingerings, or annotations that you may wish to record. This edition is practical for almost any use, whether as a study guide, a reference, or as a companion for your greater musical enjoyment.Reprint of Pianoforte-Quintett, Quartett und Trios, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1886.

Laure-Cinthie Damoreau: Classic Bel Canto Technique

An indispensable guide for modern singers, this volume provides an in-depth insight into authentic 19th century vocal instruction. In her thorough treatment of the subject, Mme. Damoreau - who had played leading roles in operas by Rossini, Auber, Spontini and Meyerbeer, and had taught at the Paris Conservatoire for 22 years - offers numerous exercises with instructions for their effective use. Studies for scales, turns and trills, vocalises, solfeggio styles, and other exercises assist in training the voice, teaching sight-reading, and ensuring a clear and firm articulation of vowels and consonants without displacing the voice. The book concludes with an array of virtuoso passages, cadenzas and embellished passages from the author's own operatic repertoire.

Elementary Studies for the Trumpet

Description Preeminent cornetist, feature soloist, bandmaster, and composer Herbert L. Clarke (1867–1945) lays the foundation for a lifetime of trumpet mastery in this beginner’s guide. Clarke presents a thorough exploration of trumpet dynamics, artistry, and the subtle nuances of musical expression using thirty lessons and 116 simple exercises designed to build up the “embouchure,” a term applied to forming the lips, positioning the mouthpiece, strengthening and training the facial muscles, and acquiring endurance to produce a pure tone. Perfect for honing skills and building a solid repertoire, these annotated studies are arranged in order of complexity — crucial for players of all ages, from students to teachers and anyone serious about trumpet performance.

Peterson Ukulele Method

Even if you've never so much as touched a musical instrument before, this tried-and-true guide will have you strumming away in no time. Professor J. Kalani Peterson, an expert instructor, shares his simple methods for teaching yourself to play the ukulele. His explanations are so complete and accurate that you don't need any musical background to learn how to read musical notation. You'll also find essential details like how to tune and hold the instrument. In addition to many exercises and scales to practice, the book includes explanations of important musical terms and a repertoire of more than a dozen songs, including Aloha Oe, Auld Lang Syne, La Paloma, and otherfavorites.

Clarence G. Hamilton: Touch And Expression In Piano Playing

This brief yet comprehensive guide shows pianists how to produce every possible variety of tone, including note values, pulsation, phrases and their combination, dynamic contrasts and shadings, tempo, colour, and style. The two-part treatment addresses kinds of touch and the application of touch to expression, offering methods for achieving more sensitive execution in practice and performance.An essential volume for all piano students and teachers, this book emphasizes the relationship between techniques of touch and the expression of the composer's intention. The author excerpts and analyses portions of famous piano works and explains the uses of distinctive musical styles ? repeats and irregular measures, rhythms, and accents ? to assist students in their interpretation. He also includes hand and finger techniques for varied effects.Reprint of the Oliver Ditson Company, Boston, 1927 edition.

Goldberg Variations And Other Bach Transcriptions For Solo Piano

This volume collects four of the most important keyboard masterpieces by Johann Sebastian Bach?the "Goldberg" Variations, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, Fantasia Contrappuntistica, and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D Minor?in arrangements by celebrated pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni for his 1919 Breitkopf & Härtel edition. Additional features include Busoni's original system of keyboard notation, demonstrated vis-à-vis the Chromatic Fantasy. An important composer in his own right, Busoni ranks among history's most celebrated pianists. His controversial 25-volume edition of transcriptions of Bach's keyboard music includes side-by-side discussions of Bach's music with arrangements by Busoni and his pupil, Egon Petri. Adapted for the modern resources of the grand piano, the transcriptions include plentiful doublings of voices for higher and lower ranges of the keyboard that did not exist on Bach's clavier, in addition to analytical re-shapings of the music itself. This volume marks a significant collection of rarities that merit greater attention among performers and listeners. Dover Original.