Author: GAIL SMITH
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1610650433
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A truly fresh and exciting book of piano solos featuring authentic Native American melodies. the history of the American Indian is sometimes a sad drama, yet is filled with a wonder reflected in music. This book, the result of extensive research by the outstanding educator, composer and musicologist, Gail Smith, conveys music that is truly American. Easy to intermediate in difficulty.
Native American Songs for Piano Solo
Author: GAIL SMITH
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1610650433
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A truly fresh and exciting book of piano solos featuring authentic Native American melodies. the history of the American Indian is sometimes a sad drama, yet is filled with a wonder reflected in music. This book, the result of extensive research by the outstanding educator, composer and musicologist, Gail Smith, conveys music that is truly American. Easy to intermediate in difficulty.
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1610650433
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A truly fresh and exciting book of piano solos featuring authentic Native American melodies. the history of the American Indian is sometimes a sad drama, yet is filled with a wonder reflected in music. This book, the result of extensive research by the outstanding educator, composer and musicologist, Gail Smith, conveys music that is truly American. Easy to intermediate in difficulty.
Canons and Rounds for Piano Solo
Author: Gail Smith
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1619117452
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
This collection of 39 rounds and canons features a range of material from the oldest-known round; "Sumer Is Icumen In" to the famous Pachelbel Canon, as well as six original canons by Gail Smith. The short canons composed by Konrad Kunz are ideal for sight reading. There is one in every major and minor key in a 5- finger position. For the more advanced pianist there are amazing canonic piano solos by Bach, Schumann and Clementi. The right hand melody becomes the left hand melody in a very magical way melting into the most beautiful harmony imaginable. There's a canon to go "around" for pianists with any amount of experience!
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1619117452
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
This collection of 39 rounds and canons features a range of material from the oldest-known round; "Sumer Is Icumen In" to the famous Pachelbel Canon, as well as six original canons by Gail Smith. The short canons composed by Konrad Kunz are ideal for sight reading. There is one in every major and minor key in a 5- finger position. For the more advanced pianist there are amazing canonic piano solos by Bach, Schumann and Clementi. The right hand melody becomes the left hand melody in a very magical way melting into the most beautiful harmony imaginable. There's a canon to go "around" for pianists with any amount of experience!
Christian Classics for Piano Solo
Author: Gail Smith
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1619117363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This collection of piano solos includes twelve classic hymns-a variety of themes representative of the Christian faith's heritage. The unique arrangements are an addition to anyone's music library and can be used for many occasions. Examples include Amazing Grace introduced as a round, a medley of Abide with Me and Pachelbel's Canon, and an arrangement of A Mighty Fortress Is Our God with four key changes and an ending from Sigismond Thalberg's Les Huguenots, Op. 20.
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1619117363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This collection of piano solos includes twelve classic hymns-a variety of themes representative of the Christian faith's heritage. The unique arrangements are an addition to anyone's music library and can be used for many occasions. Examples include Amazing Grace introduced as a round, a medley of Abide with Me and Pachelbel's Canon, and an arrangement of A Mighty Fortress Is Our God with four key changes and an ending from Sigismond Thalberg's Les Huguenots, Op. 20.
The Art of the Native American Flute
Author: R. Carlos Nakai
Publisher: Canyon Records Prod.
ISBN: 9780786628988
Category : Flute
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A comprehensive instruction manual for learning to play the Native American flute, including information on tunings, fingerings, performance technique, tablature, style, history, standard notation, traditional ornaments, and a section on the care and maintenance of the flute. Also features sixteen transcriptions of songs from Nakai's recordings, and an analysis of his career as a recording artist and performer by the ethnomusicologist David P. McAllester.
Publisher: Canyon Records Prod.
ISBN: 9780786628988
Category : Flute
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A comprehensive instruction manual for learning to play the Native American flute, including information on tunings, fingerings, performance technique, tablature, style, history, standard notation, traditional ornaments, and a section on the care and maintenance of the flute. Also features sixteen transcriptions of songs from Nakai's recordings, and an analysis of his career as a recording artist and performer by the ethnomusicologist David P. McAllester.
The American Songbag
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Two hundred and eighty songs and ballads trace the growth of America.
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Two hundred and eighty songs and ballads trace the growth of America.
The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music
Author: Taylor A. Greer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253069300
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice. As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic polyglot, combining elements of literature, visual arts, global folk melodies, and contemporary European art music into a new musical language. The breadth of his sources of inspiration are breathtaking, including the sensual harmonies of fin-de-siècle French music, the British Aesthetic Movement, folk music drawn from the Middle East and Java, and a wide range of poets, including William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Sharp. The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music explores both his music and the rich historical context from which it grew to enrich our understanding of the composer's artistic contribution and reveal new intersections and contradictions in European and American culture during the early twentieth century. Taylor A. Greer also critiques the philosophical foundation of topic theory and its relationship to the pastoral in Griffes's music to reflect on the end of the nineteenth century and clarify our understanding of his artistic influences. With Griffes's conception of the pastoral, he transformed the siciliana-based tradition he inherited from the eighteenth century into a new and vibrant genre that preserved the usual associations of simplicity and tranquility and introduced new elements of tension into the pastoral ideal, including global voices, paradox, and occasional conflict.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253069300
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice. As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic polyglot, combining elements of literature, visual arts, global folk melodies, and contemporary European art music into a new musical language. The breadth of his sources of inspiration are breathtaking, including the sensual harmonies of fin-de-siècle French music, the British Aesthetic Movement, folk music drawn from the Middle East and Java, and a wide range of poets, including William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Sharp. The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music explores both his music and the rich historical context from which it grew to enrich our understanding of the composer's artistic contribution and reveal new intersections and contradictions in European and American culture during the early twentieth century. Taylor A. Greer also critiques the philosophical foundation of topic theory and its relationship to the pastoral in Griffes's music to reflect on the end of the nineteenth century and clarify our understanding of his artistic influences. With Griffes's conception of the pastoral, he transformed the siciliana-based tradition he inherited from the eighteenth century into a new and vibrant genre that preserved the usual associations of simplicity and tranquility and introduced new elements of tension into the pastoral ideal, including global voices, paradox, and occasional conflict.
Melody
Idealized Indian themes
Author: Charles Wakefield Cadman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Music in the Westward Expansion
Author: Laura Dean
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476685223
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room for musical instruments with their guns, food, and tools, while taking only the minimal necessities that would fit into modest wagons. During what seemed like an interminable dusty journey, music was often the sole source of light and happiness for these exhausted travelers. This book examines the roles of music in the Westward Expansion and the diverse cultural landscape of the Old West, including northern Cheyenne courtship flute makers, fiddle-playing explorers, dancing fur trappers, hymn-singing missionaries, frontier flutists, girls with guitars, wagon-driving balladeers, poetic cowboys, singing farmers, musical miners, and preaching songsters.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476685223
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room for musical instruments with their guns, food, and tools, while taking only the minimal necessities that would fit into modest wagons. During what seemed like an interminable dusty journey, music was often the sole source of light and happiness for these exhausted travelers. This book examines the roles of music in the Westward Expansion and the diverse cultural landscape of the Old West, including northern Cheyenne courtship flute makers, fiddle-playing explorers, dancing fur trappers, hymn-singing missionaries, frontier flutists, girls with guitars, wagon-driving balladeers, poetic cowboys, singing farmers, musical miners, and preaching songsters.