Author: Mark Salzman
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 2011-12-21
Book Size: 78.30 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The Soloist

by Mark Salzman, The Soloist Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Soloist book, As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes on as a pupil a Korean boy whose brilliant musicianship reminds him of his own past.

Author: John F. Colson
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date: 2012-08-09
Book Size: 17.52 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Conducting And Rehearsing The Instrumental Music Ensemble

by John F. Colson, Conducting And Rehearsing The Instrumental Music Ensemble Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Conducting And Rehearsing The Instrumental Music Ensemble book, Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble is the most comprehensive guide on the rehearsal process for conducting instrumental music ensembles. Ideal for the advanced instrumental music conductor seeking to look beyond basic conducting technique, this work breaks the multidimensional activity of working with an ensemble, orchestra, or band into its constituent components. Advanced students of conducting will find within the full range of conducting activities: • Chapters on the infrastructure of the rehearsal, the rehearsal environment, 10 rehearsal essentials, score study, music imagery, inner singing, and rehearsal procedures (with an emphasis on an integrated approach to rehearsing) • The technical priorities of intonation and tuning, rhythm patterns, ensemble sonority (tone, balance, blend, color and texture), and articulation • The musical priorities of tempo and ensemble precision, phrasing and the musical line, style and interpretation, dynamics and musical expression • Emphasizing the expectations of 21st-century conductors, the challenges of conducting and rehearsing contemporary music, preparing conductor profiles and self-evaluations, and moving from the rehearsal process to concert performance Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble is a great resource for teachers and students of conducting, as well as current conductors wishing to further hone their skills.

Author: Sharde Harris
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date: 2012-05-21
Book Size: 68.24 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Emotions Of A Soloist

by Sharde Harris, Emotions Of A Soloist Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Emotions Of A Soloist book, Poetry book full of emotion that readers would be able to relate to on many levels.This book reminds the readers of that fork in the road that we often approach.

Author: Bowen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2003-11-20
Book Size: 80.88 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The Cambridge Companion To Conducting

by Bowen, The Cambridge Companion To Conducting Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Cambridge Companion To Conducting book, In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choral conducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: a leading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski, Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado s studio producer explains orchestral recording, and one of the world s most powerful managers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conduct different types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study of national traditions. It is an unusually honest book about a secretive industry and managers, artistic directors, soloists, players and conductors openly discuss their different perspectives for the first time.

Author: Steve Houghton
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Release Date: 1996
Book Size: 20.82 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 45
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The Drumset Soloist

by Steve Houghton, The Drumset Soloist Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Drumset Soloist book, The Drumset Soloist was written to provide drummers with the practice material to approach any solo, in any style, with ease. Techniques such as trading, playing over vamps, and playing over kicks (or figures) are examined, demonstrated, and made available in a CD play-along format.

Author: Bruce Bartlett
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date: 2013-07-31
Book Size: 70.55 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Practical Recording Techniques

by Bruce Bartlett, Practical Recording Techniques Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Practical Recording Techniques book, Hands-on practical guide covering all aspects of recording, ideal for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians and audio enthusiasts. Filled with tips and shortcuts, this book offers advice on equipping a home studio (both low-budget and advanced), suggestions for set-up, acoustics, choosing monitor speakers, and preventing hum. This best-selling guide also tells how to judge recordings and improve them to produce maximum results. New material covered in the 5th edition to include: * complete revision and update of digital media sections * new section on mixing tips * new section on podcasts and file sharing * new section equipment and connector levels * new section function and connector types * new section on digital metering * new section exporting projects from other studios * new photos

Author: Christos Hatzis
Publisher: Promethean Editions Limited
Release Date: 2012-07-30
Book Size: 70.64 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Telluric Dances

by Christos Hatzis, Telluric Dances Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Telluric Dances book, This edition is an arrangement of the original work, scored for oboe and orchestra, and has been arranged to work as a stand-alone recital piece but also functions as a rehearsal tool for the orchestral version. Influenced by Greek dance music, Hatzis' concerto for oboe and orchestra showcases virtuosic oboe performance through a blend of exotic and exciting music based on Mediterranean and Eastern European dance forms. Each of the three movements centres on a style of dance: chiftetelli, a common dance form originating from the Eastern Mediterranean; a passacaglia based on a 9-beat rhythmic pattern known in Greece as a zeibekiko (an improvised dance characterised by sudden and unexpected movements); and a common Balkan folk dance. Throughout the work, Hatzis references tonal modes characteristic of Turkish and Arabic music, which he first encountered in the Greek night-clubs of Toronto while working as a young composer in local bands. As such, this work reveals aspects in the genesis of Hatzis' eclectic style of music. Professional and advancing oboists alike will soar and exhilarate audiences with this work.

Author: Benjamin Britten
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date: 2011-07-07
Book Size: 37.28 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Letters From A Life Vol 1 1923 39

by Benjamin Britten, Letters From A Life Vol 1 1923 39 Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Letters From A Life Vol 1 1923 39 book, Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally gifted but inexperienced young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new friends, among them W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. This was a time of prodigious musical creativity, a growing awareness of his sexuality, and the dawning of his political convictions. Most importantly, during this period Britten met Peter Pears and established the musical and personal relationship that was to last a lifetime. Volume One comes to a close in May 1939, when Britten, accompanied by Pears, departs for North America. The letters and diaries in this illuminating first volume and its successor are supplemented by the editors' detailed commentary and by exhaustive contemporary documentation. Together they constitute a comprehensive portrait not only of the composer but of an age.

Author: Dorothy E. Smith
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date: 2014-05-27
Book Size: 19.31 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Incorporating Texts Into Institutional Ethnographies

by Dorothy E. Smith, Incorporating Texts Into Institutional Ethnographies Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Incorporating Texts Into Institutional Ethnographies book, In Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies, Dorothy E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner present a selection of essays highlighting perhaps the single most distinctive feature of the sociological approach known as Institutional Ethnography (IE) – the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people’s activities across space and time. The chapters, written by scholars who are relatively new to IE as well as IE veterans, illustrate the wide variety of ways in which IE investigations can be done, as well as the breadth of topics IE has been used to study. Both a collection of examples that can be used in teaching and research project design and an excellent introduction to IE methods and techniques, Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies is an essential contribution to the subject.

Author: Paul Rooyackers
Publisher: Hunter House
Release Date: 2002
Book Size: 47.88 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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101 More Drama Games For Children

by Paul Rooyackers, 101 More Drama Games For Children Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download 101 More Drama Games For Children book, Designed to create dynamic and supportive play environments, these improvisational, noncompetitive games encourage participants to gain as much as they contribute. By expressing themselves physically and emotionally and by exploring a range of possibilities, players gain self-confidence and a greater awareness of the feelings and experiences of others. Illustrations.

Author: Randall D. Engle
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date: 2009-07-13
Book Size: 13.39 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Serving In Your Church Music Ministry

by Randall D. Engle, Serving In Your Church Music Ministry Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Serving In Your Church Music Ministry book, For:•Individual use•Group trainingIncludes instrumentalist survey and worship planning checklistWorship is a slice of eternity that Christians can participate in on earth, and nothing can facilitate our experience of worship like music. This wise, concise guidebook will help you harness your God-given musical talent as a gift to the body of Christ, in a way that brings joy to both God’s heart and yours.Serving in Your Church Music Ministry discusses•Words on Worship•Planning for Worship•Serving at the Keyboard•Serving with Your Voice•Serving with an Instrument•Serving in the PewZondervan Practical Ministry Guides provide you with simple, practical insights for serving in today’s churches. Written by experienced pastors and church workers, these easy-to-read, to-the-point booklets address the fundamentals of different ministries as practiced effectively in real life. You’ll find biblical insight and wise, field-tested advice you can apply today, as well as discussion questions to help you think through and integrate what you read.

Author: David Parlett
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date: 2008-08-07
Book Size: 36.44 MB
Book Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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The Penguin Book Of Card Games

by David Parlett, The Penguin Book Of Card Games Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Penguin Book Of Card Games book, The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players. Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from. Not content to merely show us games with the conventional fifty-two card pack, Parlett covers many games played with other types of cards - are you brave enough to play with Tarot? With a 'working description' of each game, with the rules, variations and origins of each, as well as an appendix of games invented by the author himself, The Penguin Book of Card Games will delight, entertain and inform both the novice and the seasoned player.