The Inner Voice traces Renee Fleming's path to maturity and success as an artist, from her youth as the child of two singing teacher parents through her years at New York's world famous Julliard School, from her struggles to establish her career to her international success. Her articulate and candid book is the most revelatory examination yet of a performing life, a luminous self-portrait of a contemporary artist and an inspirational work for singers, listeners and music-lovers alike.
"Each scale is analysed, discussed and shown in the five most commonly used patterns. Each shape is given with associated chord, triad and arpeggio pattern ... Every scale has an extensive page giving examples of its use, and a description of its unique character"--Back cover.
Musical Interpretation; Its Laws and Principles, and Their Application in Teaching and Performing
by Tobias Matthay
With an unrivaled freshness, charm, and sense of fun, Wynton Marsalis steps forward not only as a world-renowned jazz and classical performer, but as a great teacher in the tradition of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. Using wonderfully appealing examples and analogies-likening the rhythmic structures of music to playing basketball or football, teaching sonata form through a story about chasing a pet hamster through a shopping mall, drawing unprecedented and revealing connections...
Appropriate for junior- to graduate-level courses in Introduction to Conducting (advanced techniques included), Band, Orchestra, Chorus. Requires background in Music Theory, Music History, and Music Analysis. Extensively refined and updated, this new edition on conducting posits that conducting is a time-space art. It builds basic manual techniques-and includes additional band scores excerpts, placed in proximity with the classic repertoire. The text adds new baton timing techniques, and shows...
Supercharge Your Flute Technique (Supercharge, #1)
by Peter Bartels
