(Guitar Educational). Explore the essential sounds of country blues as played by seminal guitarists such as Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy and Lightnin' Hopkins. In these ten lessons, you will learn the basics of blues fingerpicking, play some ragtime licks and cool turnarounds, learn walking bass lines, try your hand at slide guitar, and more. Book includes tab, and the CD features all the songs and examples. View More...
Pianists at all levels will enjoy having this treasury of the world's best-loved piano pieces in one handy, inexpensive volume. Included are 83 all-time favorites by 40 composers -- from Alb niz to Tchaikovsky -- ready for you to play: Alb niz: Tango in D MajorBeethoven: F r Elise; Moonlight Sonata (1st movement)Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5Chopin: Minute Waltz; Polonaise MilitaireDebussy: Clair de Lune; Golliwogg's Cake WalkDvoř k: Humoresque in G-flat MajorJoplin: The Entertainer; Maple Leaf RagLiszt: Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat MajorMacDowell: To a Wild RoseMendelssohn: Spinning SongMo... View More...
Teach bass with the popular Suzuki Bass School. The Suzuki Method(R) of Talent Education is based on Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Shinichi Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the greatest joy an adult can know comes from developing a child's potential so he/she can express all that is harmonious and best in human beings. Students are taught using the "mother-tongue" approach. Each series of books for a particular instrument in the Suzuki Method is considered a Suzuki music school, su... View More...
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). We've updated this outstanding third edition to include 76 all-time country hits Includes: Always on My Mind * Blue * Could I Have This Dance * Crazy * Crying * Daddy Sang Bass * Forever and Ever, Amen * Friends in Low Places * God Bless the U.S.A. * Green Green Grass of Home * Help Me Make It Through the Night * I Fall to Pieces * King of the Road * Love Without End, Amen * Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys * Rhinestone Cowboy * Stand by Your Man * Welcome to My World * Your Cheatin' Heart * more. View More...
The Cambridge Companion to Bach goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late-twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. Benefiting from the insights and research of some of the most distinguished Bach scholars, this Companion covers cultural, social and religious contexts, surveys and analyzes Bach's compositional style, traces his influence, and considers the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations. View More...
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music is the most comprehensive and enlightening history of America's musical heritage ever published. American Grove is focused solely on the unique styles and traditions of American music. It covers popular musical forms such as country, rock, pop, soul, folk, blues, jazz, bluegrass, and big band. It explores America's vibrant classical heritage--from colonial times to John Cage--and also provides substantial articles on the traditional music of diverse cultures such as Native Americans, Jewish Americans, and Islamic Americans. The Dictionary investigates... View More...
Now available in a deluxe paperback edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the world's greatest music encyclopedia. This unique 20-volume set is packed with over 18,000 pages of information on the history and development of music, instruments, musical forms and terms, musical cities and institutions, and, above all, thousands of eminent composers and performers. The text is fully illustrated with photographs, drawings and musical examples, and all major articles include extensive bibliographies. Entries on composers are accompanied by detailed lists of compositions, which,... View More...
Chariots of Fire * Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) * How Do You Keep the Music Playing * Wanted * Can You Read My Mind? (Love Theme from Superman) * Tears Are Not Enough * You've Got a Friend and lots more. View More...
Piano Lessons is Noah Adams's delightful and moving chronicle of his fifty-second year--a year already filled with long, fast workdays and too little spare time--as he answers at last a lifelong call: to learn to play the piano. The twelve monthly chapters span from January--when after decades of growing affection for keyboard artists and artisans he finally plunges in and buys a piano--through December, when as a surprise Christmas present for his wife he dresses in a tuxedo and, in flickering candlelight, snow falling outside the windows, he attempts their favorite piece of music, a difficul... View More...
Piano Lessons is Noah Adams's delightful and moving chronicle of his fifty-second year--a year already filled with long, fast workdays and too little spare time--as he answers at last a lifelong call: to learn to play the piano. The twelve monthly chapters span from January--when after decades of growing affection for keyboard artists and artisans he finally plunges in and buys a piano--through December, when as a surprise Christmas present for his wife he dresses in a tuxedo and, in flickering candlelight, snow falling outside the windows, he attempts their favorite piece of music, a difficul... View More...
