Classic Festival Solos (Horn in F), Vol 1: Piano Acc.

Classic Festival Solos (Horn in F), Vol 1: Piano Acc. Review

Classic Festival Solos offers the advancing instrumentalist an array of materials graded from easy to more challenging. There are different titles for each instrument, and an assortment of musical styles has been included in each book for variety. Many of the solos appear on state contest lists. Contains: Bourree (Handel, arr. Dishinger)
* Chalet (Smith)
* Champagne Song (Mozart, arr. Ployhar)
* Elegie (Scheurer)
* Hornpipe (Handel, arr. Ployhar)
* Humoresque (Tschaikowsky, arr. Smith)
* Lady In Blue (Pelz)
* March of the Grenadiers (Ployhar)
* Menuet (K. 164) (Mozart, arr. Dishinger)
* Nobodyes Gigge (Farnaby, arr. Dishinger)
* Romanza and Allegro (Scarmolin)
* Soliloquy (Kaplan)
* Valse Triste (Sibelius, arr. Ployhar)
* Viking (Smith).

Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Music: Scholarship and Performance)

Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Music: Scholarship and Performance) Review

Performance today on either the pianoforte or the fortepiano can be at once joyful, musicianly, expressive, and historically informed. From this point of view, Sandra P. Rosenblum examines the principles of performing the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries as revealed in a variety of historical sources: their autographs and letters, early editions of their music, original instruments, and contemporary tutors and journals. She applies these findings to such elements of performance as dynamics, accentuation, pedaling, articulation and touch, technique and fingering, ornaments and embellishments, choice of tempo, and tempo flexibility.

Familiarity with the Classic conventions provides a framework for interpretation and an understanding of the choices available within the style, the amount of freedom a performer has, and which areas are ambiguous. Rosenblum's detailed study, copiously illustrated with musical examples, is invaluable for professional and amateur performers, serious piano students and their teachers and students of performance practices by Scarlatti and Clementi.

"... is and will remain unsurpassed as the study dealing with performance practice as it pertains to keyboard music of the Classical period." -- American Music Teacher

"Rosenblum's monumental achievement is thorough, objective, balanced, and imaginative, a compelling blend of love and respect for the solo, chamber, and concerto literature she addresses." -- Journal of Musicological Research

"The extent and quality of her research, the depth of her perception, and her musicianship together break new ground in the study of historic performance practice." -- Early Keyboard Journal

"Her attention to details is absolutely scrupulous; no stone unturned, no argument unquestioned or unstated." -- The Musical Times

"Its importance to thoughtful musicians cannot be overstated." -- Choice

"... thoroughly musicological." -- Performance Practice Review

"... indispensable... " -- New York Times

Know Your Scales! For Trumpet: Grade 1-3 / Early Intermediate - Intermediate

Know Your Scales! For Trumpet: Grade 1-3 / Early Intermediate - Intermediate Review

An invaluable resource for students, Know Your Scales! covers all the keys and ranges required for the exam syllabus, helping to pick up those valuable extra marks in exams! The books use finger fitness exercises, scale arpeggio study pieces, and simple improvisations to help play scales and arpeggios with real confidence.

High School Musical 3 for French Horn - Instrumental Play-Along CD/Pkg (High School Musical 3 Instrume)

High School Musical 3 for French Horn - Instrumental Play-Along CD/Pkg (High School Musical 3 Instrume) Review

Solo arrangements with CD accompaniment for 11 hits from the third installment of Disney's hit °High School Musical° movies starring Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens. Songs: The Boys Are Back Can I Have This Dance High School Musical I Want It All Just Wanna Be with You A Night to Remember Now or Never Right Here Right Now Scream Walk Away We're All in This Together (Graduation Version).

The Embouchure Builder

The Embouchure Builder Review

This book has been designed as a supplementary study to be used along with any standard method book. The studies contained herein are excellent for use in the warm-up period prior to each daily practice or performance session. The technicality of the fingerings is comparatively simple and the studies can be used to advantage by the young student with only a few weeks of formal study. This book contains much valuable material essential to successful performance not found within standard instructional material.

Patriotic Instrumental Solos

Patriotic Instrumental Solos Review

The instrumental arrangements in this series are completely compatible with each other and can be played in ensembles or as solos. Each instrument book includes a fully-orchestrated accompaniment CD that features a complete demonstration track to aid in learning each song, followed by a play-along accompaniment track. Titles are: Amazing Grace
* America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)
* America the Beautiful
* Armed Forces Medley (Marine's Hymn / The Caissons Go Rolling Along / Anchors Away)
* Battle Hymn of the Republic
* God Bless the U.S.A.
* The Star-Spangled Banner
* You're a Grand Old Flag.

A History of the Trombone (The American Wind Band)

A History of the Trombone (The American Wind Band) Review

This book, the first in the American Wind Band series, is a comprehensive account of the development of the trombone, from its initial form as a 14th-century Medieval trumpet to its alterations in the 15th century; from its marginalized use in a particular Renaissance ensemble to its acceptance in various kinds of artistic and popular music in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book is fully illustrated with more than 80 images and includes an appendix of transcriptions of selected primary source documents with translations and a comprehensive bibliography.