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  • For the Love of Music

    A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening

    by John Mauceri ...
    With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience?A protégé of Leonard Bernstein--his colleague for eighteen years--and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the ... Read more

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  • This Is What It Sounds Like

    What the Music You Love Says About You

    **One of the Next Big Idea Club's Favorite Nonfiction BooksA Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2022A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.**This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it’s also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a ... Read more

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  • Consejos para jóvenes músicos

    Series Book 14 - Musicalia Scherzo
    Robert Schumann escribió este libro en 1848 como parte de la obra Album for the Young. Estos consejos siguen siendo hoy en día uno de los textos más influyentes para músicos de todas las categorías. Steven Isserlis, uno de los chelistas más famosos del mundo y autor de dos libros sobre las vidas de varios compositores que se han convertido en referencia por su humor y agudeza, ha ampliado el texto ... Read more

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  • When Swing Was King!

    by Art Koch ...
    Looking back at one of the most historical eras in America and American music. Throughout the history of the United States, music has always been a big part of the fabric that was woven to create the canvas that shaped this country. The author takes you on a journey from the minuet during the early days of our country's birth, to the turn of century with the waltz through ragtime and blues into ... Read more

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  • Play it from the Heart

    What You Learn From Music About Success In Life

    Former students often thank their music teachers for what they were taught about music and about life. Play it from the Heart uses stories and concepts from music education as models for success. Making music together requires exceptional cooperation, and ensembles are the ultimate cooperative organizations. J. Steven Moore relates what he and his students have learned about excellence, leadership ... Read more

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  • L' esprit musical

    by Erik Satie ...
    Ayant à vous parler de la Musique — sujet bien vaste pour une causerie — je restreindrai beaucoup mon sujet, me réservant de vous parler un peu des musiciens, et, surtout, de l’Esprit musical.Le musicien se recrute dans tous les milieux ; … il nous vient de toutes les classes sociales…… L’enseignement musical se pratique comme tous les enseignements ; … il est donné par des professeurs,… et reçu ... Read more

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  • Beethoven's Piano Music

    A Listener's Guide

    Series series Unlocking the Masters
    Beethoven's works for solo piano – the sonatas, variations, and bagatelles – and the five concertos for piano and orchestra stand at the heart of the repertory. Beethoven's Piano Music: A Listener's Guide, by Victor Lederer, will help the motivated reader understand this popular but often knotty music. The bulk of the text consists of a movement-by-movement analysis of the 32 sonatas, fascinating ... Read more

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  • THE EASYWAY TO READ MUSIC Bass Clef

    The Easiest-Best-Fastest Way To Read Music - In One Day For All Musical Instruments In Bass Clef

    THE EASYWAY TO READ MUSICBass Clefby Joe ProcopioThe Easiest-Best-Fastest Way To Read Music - In One DayFor All Musical Instruments In Bass ClefImagine yourself unable to read English. Think of how tiny your world would be. Reading has opened up the entire universe to you. The same can be said for reading music. Learning to read music will o... ... Read more

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  • Verdi

    The Operas and Choral Works

    Series series Unlocking the Masters
    Giuseppe Verdi's career forms one of the loveliest arcs in musical history. The passion of his works resonates universally, while the sophistication of his middle and late operas satisfies demanding ears and tastes. In Verdi: The Operas and Choral Works, Victor Lederer surveys every one of the master's 28 operas and his greatest choral pieces, showing Verdi's growth as a musical dramatist – he ... Read more

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  • Darker with the Dawn

    Nick Cave's Songs of Love and Death

    by Adam Steiner ...
    From his early work with The Birthday Party to the future sounds of Ghosteen, Nick Cave has rewritten the language of rock 'n' roll.Darker with the Dawn uncovers the history and deeper meanings behind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' most well-known songs from “Tupelo”, “The Mercy Seat”, “Red Right Hand”, “Stagger Lee”, “Into My Arms”, to “Higgs Boson Blues” and beyond.The book explores Nick Cave's ... Read more

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  • Achieving Peak Performance in Music

    Psychological Strategies for Optimal Flow

    Achieving Peak Performance in Music: Psychological Strategies for Optimal Flow isa unique and comprehensive exploration of flow in music performance. It describes the optimal performance experiences of great musicians and outlines ten psychological steps that can be implemented to facilitate and enhance optimal experience.Achieving Peak Performance in Music reveals strategies used by experts to ... Read more

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  • Daring to Care with Music Education

    Pedagogies for Authentic Connection and Musical Engagement

    Daring to Care with Music Education offers a practical resource and reflective guide for music educators seeking to support their students' motivation and musicianship through intentional connection and care. As an instrumental clinician and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education (2023), Karin S. Hendricks provides research-based strategies for music teachers to strengthen ... Read more

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  • Thinking Community Music

    by Lee Higgins ...
    Thinking Community Music explores critical questions concerning community music practice and theory with emphasis on intervention, hospitality, pedagogy, social justice, inclusion, cultural democracy, music, research, and future possibilities. The book encourages questioning, reflection, and dialogue. Shaped as provocations and presented as eight stand-alone essays, each 'think piece' comprises of ... Read more

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  • Music + Revolution

    Greenwich Village in the 1960s

    Even before the Beatnik Riots of 1961, New York City's Greenwich Village was the epicenter of revolutionary movements in American music and culture. But, in the early 1960s and throughout the decade, a new wave of writers and performers inspired by the folk music revival of the 1950s created socially aware and deeply personal songs that spoke to a generation like never before. These writers—Bob ... Read more

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  • Spectacular Listening

    Music and Disability in the Digital Age

    by Byrd McDaniel ...
    Imagine a powerful listening experience that you want to share with others. You could describe it to someone with words, or you may choose a flashier alternative. You could, for example, costume yourself and take to the stage in a famous concert venue, delivering a rousing air guitar interpretation of a beloved rock solo for a live audience. Maybe you seek something more subtle, so you pull out ... Read more

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  • Teaching General Music

    Approaches, Issues, and Viewpoints

    General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods. These pedagogical frameworks guide teachers in planning and implementing instruction. Established approaches to teaching general music must be understood, critically examined, and possibly re-imagined for their potential in school and community music education programs. Teaching General Music brings together the top ... Read more

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  • On the Cantatas of J.S. Bach: Trinity XVII-XXVII

    The Bach Cantatas, #3

    Series Book 3 - The Bach Cantatas
    In his more than 200 cantatas Bach interprets the human condition through musical assertion and examination of the relevance of the gospels and epistles of the Christian Bible. Every cantata is discussed in my six book series On the Cantatas of J.S. Bach.The epistle, which is essentially didactic, is from the Apostolic letters retained in Scripture. The gospel, which is concerned with the life and ... Read more

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  • Berlioz

    A Listener's Guide

    Series series Unlocking the Masters
    Victor Lederer surveys the music of Hector Berlioz, one of the most pioneering orchestrators in history, and introduces the general music lover to both his masterpieces such as Les Troyens and lesser known gems.A bold innovator in the 19th century, Berlioz was a musical dramatist with an output that is less familiar than it should be and often misunderstood. His most famous and popular pieces are ... Read more

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  • How To Discover Your True Voice

    About the bookCreating music is an art meant for anyone with the genuine desire to be heard.The world has become fast paced, and there's an information overload that makes one begin to lose sight of the necessary details.There are thousands of great songs out there, but there's room for more!This book offers insights into the song writing process, as well as tips that can help any talented ... Read more

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  • Porco Brasileiro

    O PORCO CAIPIRA BRASILEIRO É MUITO RESISTENTE. E ALÉM DE CARNE PRODUZ MUITA GORDURA, UM POUCO MAIS QUE O PORCO BRANCO BRASILEIRO. ... Read more

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  • Meditações Poéticas Marianas Ao Rosário, Após Santo Anchieta

    São José de Anchieta havia escrito 15 pares de redondilhas menores em tupi, no século XVI, para meditar cada mistério do Rosário com seus catecúmenos indígenas. Para difundir e atualizar essas meditações anchietanas em português, o autor ampliou o conjunto para incorporar os mistérios luminosos, totalizando 20 poesias na mesma forma literária originalmente proposta. Estas poesias podem ser ... Read more

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  • Beatle Song Profiles: Rubber Soul

    by Joel Benjamin ...
    Series series Beatle Song Profiles
    Each of the 14 songs from Rubber Soul are “profiled” in this volume of Beatle Song Profiles.Beatle Song Profiles are concise commentaries on every Beatle song. The song profiles describe the song’s origins and inspiration, what The Beatles themselves said about it, what was unique about the music and/or production of the arrangement or vocals, and the deeper meaning of the lyrics.Sample profile ... Read more

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  • Experiencing Mahler

    A Listener's Companion

    by Arved Ashby ...
    Series series Listener's Companion
    Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks but as vivid and deeply felt journeys. Mahler took the symphony, perhaps the most tradition-bound genre in Western music, and opened it to the widest span of human experience. He introduced themes of love, nature, the chasmic depth of midnight, making peace with death, facing ... Read more

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  • Envisioning Music Teacher Education

    This volume will contain selected proceedings from the 2013 Symposium on Music Teacher Education, sponsored by NAfME’s Society for Music Teacher Education and hosted at University of North Carolina. After an introduction written by SMTE Chair, Doug Orzolek, the initial chapter will represent the keynote address of the symposium by Karen Hammerness, Director of Program Research for the Bard Master ... Read more

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