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Author: Victor L. Wooten Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440637695 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them. The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside. “The best book on music (and its connection to the mystic laws of life) that I've ever read. I learned so much on every level.”—Multiple Grammy Award–winning saxophonist Michael Brecker
Author: Victor L. Wooten Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440637695 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them. The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside. “The best book on music (and its connection to the mystic laws of life) that I've ever read. I learned so much on every level.”—Multiple Grammy Award–winning saxophonist Michael Brecker
Author: D. Stewart Smith Publisher: Mel Bay Publications ISBN: 1619110458 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 217
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Beginning-intermediate level. for those with a desire to learn to play from lead sheets and unlock the mysteries of music harmony, this book will lead you on the way to playing by ear. A marvelous teaching manual for classroom, private teaching, or self-instruction. Playing well from written arrangements is an art that requires years of training and practice. Learning music harmony and theory provides a musician with understanding necessary to play creatively by ear. Learning to play from melody lines and chord symbols is imperative to round out one's progress toward becoming a full fledged musician. It is an exciting adventure, not complicated if one learns it through a logical sequence of study material. This book will surprise and delight you, providing hundreds of hours of pleasure as you learn. Many songs are included that make crystal clear the text as it is presented step by step.
Author: Charles Rosen Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439135223 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 262
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Charles Rosen is one of the world's most talented pianists -- and one of music's most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals. In Piano Notes, he writes for a broader audience about an old friend -- the piano itself. Drawing upon a lifetime of wisdom and the accumulated lore of many great performers of the past, Rosen shows why the instrument demands such a stark combination of mental and physical prowess. Readers will gather many little-known insights -- from how pianists vary their posture, to how splicings and microphone placements can ruin recordings, to how the history of composition was dominated by the piano for two centuries. Stories of many great musicians abound. Rosen reveals Nadia Boulanger's favorite way to avoid commenting on the performances of her friends ("You know what I think," spoken with utmost earnestness), why Glenn Gould's recordings suffer from "double-strike" touches, and how even Vladimir Horowitz became enamored of splicing multiple performances into a single recording. Rosen's explanation of the piano's physical pleasures, demands, and discontents will delight and instruct anyone who has ever sat at a keyboard, as well as everyone who loves to listen to the instrument. In the end, he strikes a contemplative note. Western music was built around the piano from the classical era until recently, and for a good part of that time the instrument was an essential acquisition for every middle-class household. Music making was part of the fabric of social life. Yet those days have ended. Fewer people learn the instrument today. The rise of recorded music has homogenized performance styles and greatly reduced the frequency of public concerts. Music will undoubtedly survive, but will the supremely physical experience of playing the piano ever be the same?
Author: Helen Winter Publisher: Helen Winter ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 62
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We call this series “I don’t read music” since we are targeting beginners of all ages: children, teens, parents, grandparents. Folk music traditionally is not learned from sheet music or notes. Instead, it is learned by repetition and from being passed from generation to generation. We believe in this method of teaching, which is easier and more enjoyable. This book includes 58 familiar and easy-to-play folk songs and melodies. Each song here is written with color circles and letter notes inside. All songs have been simplified and transposed for one octave. Since this book is aimed at the absolute beginner without any knowledge of reading music, we do not use here the classical music staff and do not show the note duration. You can experiment with the duration on your own. If you have very little music experience, playing by note can be difficult. It is easier to follow color-coded circles with note letters. By simply following the color circles, you will sound like an experienced musician. We use here the Boomwhackers® color system commonly used by American music teachers. We call this series “I don’t read music” since we are targeting beginners of all ages: children, teens, parents, grandparents. Folk music traditionally is not learned from sheet music or notes. Instead, it is learned by repetition and from being passed from generation to generation. We believe in this method of teaching, which is easier and more enjoyable. Our simple method using circles as an aid allows the flexibility that existed in traditional ways of teaching. We recommend finding each of these songs on YouTube and listening to the rhythm before beginning to play. Our sheet music is only a guide. The most important thing is to listen and repeat what is heard in the recordings. Contents Alphabet Song A Hunting We Will Go A Sailor Went to Sea Acka Backa Are You Sleeping Baa Baa Black Sheep Baby Bumble Bee Bell Horses Bim Bum Biddy Bobby Shafto Brahms Lullaby Chumbara Cobbler, Mend My Shoe Cock-a-Doodle Doo Ding Dong DiggiDiggiDong Do You Know the Muffin Man? Doggie Doggie Fiddle-De-Dee Five Little Ducks Five Little Monkeys Frog in the Meadow Happy Birthday Hot Cross Buns It's Raining Itsy Bitsy Spider Jack and Jill Jingle Bells Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Kookaburra La Cucaracha Little Jack Horner London Bridge Mary Had a Little Lamb Miss Mary Mack My Hat Ninety-Nine Bottles Ode to Joy Oh Susannah Oh We Can Play on the Big Bass Drum Old Bald Eagle Old Blue Old McDonald Old Mother Hubbard Rain, Rain, Go Away Ring Around the Rosie Row Row Your Boat Rub-a-Dub-Dub See-Saw Margery Daw Ten in the Bed The Beep and the Pup The Big Sheep The Mulberry Bush The Wheels on the Bus This Old Man Tinga Layo To Market, to Market Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Author: Darius Milhaud Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 310
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Darius Milhaud, born in Provence in 1892, was one of the major composers of the twentieth century and also one of its most prodigious. Over 450 of his works have been catalogued (and listed in this volume), including operas, large and small, eighteen string quartets, twelve symphonies and thirty concertos, as well as such popular classics as Le Boeuf sur le toit, La Creation du monde, Suite provencal and the Suite francaise. In My Happy Life, completed in 1972, two years before the composer's death, Milhaud tells the full story of his own personal life and artistic development. A secretary to the playwright Paul Claudel, a close friend of Satie, Cocteau and Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud was also a member, along with Georges Auric and Arthur Honneger, of the scandalous group of young French composers known simply as 'les Six.'. While often regarded during his lifetime as an open-minded musician of wide tastes whose music spanned many styles from avant-garde to jazz, he is revealed here as a thinker of note and a graceful writer. He depicts with great generosity of feeling the revolution that modern music has undergone this century and his own role in it, giving a clear account of his attitude towards his work and that of his fellow composers.
Author: Helen Winter Publisher: Helen Winter ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 75
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We call this series “I don’t read music” since we are targeting beginners of all ages: children, teens, parents, grandparents. Folk music traditionally is not learned from sheet music or notes. Instead, it is learned by repetition and from being passed from generation to generation. We believe in this method of teaching, which is easier and more enjoyable. All 70 songs in this book have been written without using the classic music score system, because it is for absolute beginner who can not read sheet music. This book is aimed for those who want to add popular melodies to their experimentation. We use circles with numbers because most modern tongue drums have numbers engraved or painted on their keys. We do not show the note duration. You can experiment with a duration on your own. We recommend finding each of these songs on YouTube and listening to the rhythm before beginning to play. Our sheet music is only a guide. The most important thing is to listen and repeat the recordings. All songs from this book are possible to play in one octave. These songs are suitable for a diatonic 8-note tongue drum, which should have numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 1 of the next octave. Please note: if you have a model of the tongue drum with 5 tongues, or if some keys from the octave are missing, you will not be able to play all of the songs in this book. The songbook includes very simple, popular children’s and folk songs, but even well-known children's songs played on the tong drum will create an unusual magical sound. Table of contents PART 1 A Hunting We Will Go Acka Backa Bell Horses Bobby Shafto Doggie Doggie Frog in the Meadow Hot Cross Buns London Bridge Long-legged Sailor Mary Had a Little Lamb Miss Mary Mack Ninety-Nine Bottles Old Bald Eagle One, Two, Three, Four Rain, Rain, Go Away Ring Around the Rosie Rub-a-Dub-Dub See-Saw Margery Daw Ten in the Bed The Wheels on the Bus PART 2 Alphabet Song A Sailor Went to Sea Are You Sleeping Baa Baa Black Sheep Baby Bumble Bee Cobbler, Mend My Shoe Cotton Eyed Joe Ding Dong DiggiDiggiDong Do You Know the Muffin Man? Doctor Foster Five Little Ducks Five Little Monkeys Happy Birthday Humpty Dumpty I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas I Love Little Kitty It's Raining Jack and Jill Jingle Bells La Cucaracha Lavender’s Blue Little Jack Horner Michael, Row the Boat Ashore My Hat Oh We Can Play on the Big Bass Drum Old Blue Old McDonald Old Mother Hubbard Row Row Your Boat The Backer The Beep and the Pup The Mulberry Bush This Old Man Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star We Wish You a Merry Christmas PART 3 Bim Bum Biddy Brahms Lullaby Chumbara Cock-a-Doodle Doo Fiddle-De-Dee Itsy Bitsy Spider Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Kookaburra Li’l Liza Jane Ode to Joy Oh Susannah Peace Like a River The Big Sheep Tinga Layo To Market, to Market
Author: Oliver Sacks Publisher: Vintage Canada ISBN: 0307373495 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 448
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What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us–we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions. In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us–a power that sometimes we control and at other times don’t. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer. This is a book that explores, like no other, the myriad dimensions of our experience of and with music.
Author: Mary Amato Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ™ ISBN: 151240134X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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On odd days, Tripp uses a school practice room to let loose on a borrowed guitar. Eyes closed, strumming that beat-up instrument, Tripp escapes to a world where only the music matters. On even days, Lyla Marks uses the same practice room. To Tripp, she's trying to become even more perfect—she's already a straight-A student and an award-winning cellist. But when Lyla begins leaving notes for him in between the strings of the guitar, his life intersects with hers in a way he never expected. What starts as a series of snippy notes quickly blossoms into the sharing of interests and secrets and dreams, and the forging of a very unlikely friendship. Challenging each other to write songs, they begin to connect, even though circumstances threaten to tear them apart. From beloved author Mary Amato comes a YA novel of wit and wisdom, both heartfelt and heartbreaking, about the power of music and the unexpected chords that draw us together.
Author: Arthur H. Benade Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486173593 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 289
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Engaging, accessible introduction to structure and sound-making capacities of piano, violin, trumpet, bugle, oboe, flute, saxophone, many other instruments. Also, how to build your own trumpet, flute, clarinet. Includes 76 illustrations. Bibliography.
Author: Victor L. Wooten
Author: Victor L. Wooten
Author: D. Stewart Smith
Author: Charles Rosen
Author: Darius Milhaud
Author: Helen Winter
Author: Darius Milhaud
Author: Helen Winter
Author: Oliver Sacks
Author: Mary Amato
Author: Arthur H. Benade