Testing Hearing The Making of Modern Aurality

Testing Hearing The Making of Modern Aurality : Paperback

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev: Sonata In B Flat Minor

Balakirev's own success as a composer was intermittent, largely owing to eccentricites of character and a tendency to make enemies through his own overwhelming enthusiasm and intolerance of other ideas. Balakirev's Sonata in B Flat Minor for Piano is an expressive and virtuosic piece, with some beautifully gentle and lyrical moments.

Chatzkele

Chatzkele is a work based on two traditional Jewish melodies, Oifn Pripetchik and Chatzkele. The first expresses a sentiment of deep sadness and nostalgia, reminding the listener of the suffering that the Jewish people have undergone over the centuries. The second melody illustrates the unshakeable optimism which drives the Jewish community despite all terrible forms of intolerance it has endured. A wonderful cultural work which your audiences, young and old, will enjoy for many years to come.

Chatzkele

Chatzkele is a work based on two traditional Jewish melodies, Oifn Pripetchik and Chatzkele. The first expresses a sentiment of deep sadness and nostalgia, reminding the listener of the suffering that the Jewish people have undergone over the centuries. The second melody illustrates the unshakeable optimism which drives the Jewish community despite all terrible forms of intolerance it has endured. A wonderful cultural work which your audiences, young and old, will enjoy for many years to come.

Giles Swayne: Missa Tiburtina (Vocal Score)

Described by the composer as 'a prayer for sanity, a cry in the wilderness to a god who may or may not be there', this unconventional Mass (with new words) is written in the context of a world where millions of people die of hunger every year, where 10% of living species are under threat of extinction. The Mass is angrily critical of the intolerance, injustice and corruption of our world and those who control it.Duration c. 24 mins. For SATB chorus, a cappella.Vocal score.

Jean Sibelius: Rigaudon Op.78 No.4

Jean Sibelius? Opus 78 is characterised by its sheer musicality and design for home study. The set closes with an agile study called Rigaudon, a lively and testing piece which is a real challenge for an amateur violinist but one which they will enjoy immensely! The title mirrors an eighteenth-century Gavotte-like French dance and with rapid arpeggios and stuttering pizzicato creates this powerful sense of urgency and rhythm.

Chant of the Phoenix : Quarter Military Band QMB 543

Chant of the Phoenix is based on the legend of the sacred bird in Egyptian religion. After living for 500 years, the Phoenix would build a nest of herbs, fan the nest with its wings to set it afire, and burn itself to death. Fromthe ashes would emerge a new bird which, after maturing and testing its strength in flight, would soar off to the sun. (9:00)

Tipbook: Saxophone

A handy, accessible, thorough and convenient guide for saxophonists who want to get the most of out of their instrument. This Tipbook offers you a load of information, delivered at the right pace, including topics such as selecting and play-testing saxophones, buying mouthpieces, necks and reeds, maintenance and tuning as well as the history and the family of the instrument and a sax player?s glossary. Written in collaboration with and proof read by musicians, teachers, technicians and other experts, for beginners, students and advanced players.

Rick Mooney: Position Pieces Book 1 (Cello)

The pieces in this book have been specially designed to help you find certain important notes (I call them 'targets') on the cello fingerboard. The notes that I think of as targets have the same names as the open strings. That way, I can always be sure I have hit the 'bull's eye' by testing the fingered notes with an open string. These pieces will also help you to learn how certain other notes are easy to play once you have hit the target.

The Live Sound Manual

Getting Great Sound at Every Gig. From faders to frequencies, microphones to mixing, pink noise to polarity, this is the all-inclusive manual for creating the finest sound for live performances. It applies to the entire range of stage performers and their equipment - solo acoustic guitar and vocal, full-scale band requiring complex amplification, or electronica DJ working multiple turntables. Every aspect of live sound is covered, including: analyzing venue needs, acquiring and managing the ideal sound system, setting up and testing equipment, understanding and applying the theories of acoustics, maintenance, trouble-shooting, and much more. Also features a 15,000-word technical glossary.

Ronald Slabbinck/Holly Shaw-Slabbinck: One-Minute Theory (Test Bank)

One-Minute Theory for the Choral Classroom, by Ronald Slabbinck and Holly Shaw-Slabbinck, teaches the essentials of music theory without cutting into valuable rehearsal time. The curriculum, structured as a collection of one-minute lessons, is designed to target issues of music literacy specific to the choral classroom. The series provides simple and convenient assessment through the use of the Test Bank. The Student Edition provides self-explanatory lessons, but can also be used as a great jumping-off point for teaching theory in the context of performance. Includes reproducible Quizzes and Final Exam, with corresponding Answer Keys. Accompanying copy permission allows one Test Bank to fill the testing needs for your entire class.

Peter Maxwell Davies: Sonata For Clarinet And Piano

This work, which was written shortly after the Trumpet Sonata and the Five Pieces For Piano, was first performed by Georgina Dobree and the composer at the 1957 Darmstadt Festival. The score was subsequently lost, but was rediscovered by Kevin Corner in 1983.'This is a dramatic, emphatic and at times extravagant piece. The first movement is a Moderato reaching through wide-flung clarinet lines and keen piano gestures to a great climax near the end. Then comes a quick movement, a kind of demonic scherzo, including a cadenza for the clarinettist. The finale is an Adagio that gradually achieves a sort of simplicity, though not before exceedingly testing times for both players.Duration c. 25mins.

Do-It-Yourself Music Theory : The Best Step-by-Step Guide to Start Learning

Do-It-Yourself Music Theory is a fun way to get started understanding music on your own. Using well-known music from pop, classical, and many other styles, you will be given step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to get started. You'll be understanding everything in no time! Includes over 180 piano demonstration tracks of the following topics: · Theory basics · Understanding chords, scales, and keys · Intervals · Chord sequences · Classical music · Jazz harmony · Checkpoints for testing your knowledge Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Chamber Music for Violoncellos 17 : for 4 violoncellos

The latest volume in this popular series expands the repertoire of intermediate violoncello pupils with some unusual transcriptions. This time the editor, Árpád Pejtsik, has arranged Ave Maria settings (one song and three choral works) for four cellos. The first is a classical music hit, Schubert’s Ave Maria. Next is the transcription of a little-known piece from Liszt’s vast output, an item from his 1879 choral work Rosario, followed by an arrangement of the first of Verdi’s Quattro pezzi sacri, famous for being based on an ''enigmatic scale'' (scala enigmatica). The volume concludes with another evergreen, the Ave Maria from Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil. Rather than testing the players’ virtuosity, these slow-moving, contemplative pieces serve more to improve intonation skills as well as a sense of form and proportion. The editor has added suggested fingerings and bowings in order to help with the music's appropriate interpretation.

Gedenkblätter - Miniaturen

This selection is intended to reveal a less-known aspect of the genius of Franz Liszt, the greatest pianist of the 19th century: as a master of piano miniatures. While his large-scale works written over many years show Liszt as a striving composer for whom the creative process was difficult, at the same time, hidden in the shadow of the monumental peaks, the 'moments musicaux' tend to capture him in the process of improvisation, at the moment when a compositional idea flashed into his mind and was first noted down. The miniatures that feature in our selection trace his creative path through six decades (1827-1885), from his youthful testing of his wings right up to his finalfarewell. The manuscript of any piece that did not later become part of a cycle or the starting-point for a larger-scale composition generally remained in the mists of obscurity as a treasured memento preserved by one of his pupils or admirers.

Succeeding With The Masters: Classical Era - Volume One

Compiled and edited by Helen Marlais, Succeeding with the Masters is a series dedicated to the authentic keyboard works of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century masters.This series provides a complete and easily accessible method for learning and performing the works of the masters. Each book presents the works in historical perspective for the student, and provides the means and the motivation to play these pieces in the correct stylistic, musical, and technical manner. The easily understandable format of practice strategies and musical concepts make this series enjoyable for both students and teachers.To ensure authenticity, all of these pieces have been extensively researched. Teachers will find a wealth of excellent repertoire that can be used for recitals, festivals, competitions, and state achievement testing. Many of these original compositions may be new to you while others will be familiar. This series brings together an essential and comprehensive library of the pedagogical repertoire of the great composers.Succeeding with the Masters: Classical Era - Volume One is a groundbreaking collection of 26 graded repertoire pieces by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Succeeding With The Masters: Romantic Era - Volume One

Compiled and edited by Helen Marlais, Succeeding with the Masters is a series dedicated to the authentic keyboard works of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century masters.This series provides a complete and easily accessible method for learning and performing the works of the masters. Each book presents the works in historical perspective for the student, and provides the means and the motivation to play these pieces in the correct stylistic, musical, and technical manner. The easily understandable format of practice strategies and musical concepts make this series enjoyable for both students and teachers.To ensure authenticity, all of these pieces have been extensively researched. Teachers will find a wealth of excellent repertoire that can be used for recitals, festivals, competitions, and state achievement testing. Many of these original compositions may be new to you while others will be familiar. This series brings together an essential and comprehensive library of the pedagogical repertoire of the great composers.Succeeding with the Masters: Romantic Era - Volume One is a groundbreaking collection of 22 graded repertoire pieces by Schubert, Schumann, and Tchaikovsky.

Succeeding With The Masters: Baroque Era - Volume One

Compiled and edited by Helen Marlais, Succeeding with the Masters is a series dedicated to the authentic keyboard works of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century masters.This series provides a complete and easily accessible method for learning and performing the works of the masters. Each book presents the works in historical perspective for the student, and provides the means and the motivation to play these pieces in the correct stylistic, musical, and technical manner. The easily understandable format of practice strategies and musical concepts make this series enjoyable for both students and teachers.To ensure authenticity, all of these pieces have been extensively researched. Teachers will find a wealth of excellent repertoire that can be used for recitals, festivals, competitions, and state achievement testing. Many of these original compositions may be new to you while others will be familiar. This series brings together an essential and comprehensive library of the pedagogical repertoire of the great composers.Succeeding with the Masters: Baroque Era - Volume One is a groundbreaking collection of 22 graded repertoire pieces by J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, and D. Scarlatti.

Steve Kaufman: Learning To Flatpick DVD 3 - Developing Speed And Style

Move beyond the basics and get into the finer points of bluegrass flatpicking! You''ll be jamming with the best of them once you've mastered the tunes and techniques on this final DVD in this series. Steve Kaufman broadens your musical vocabulary by focusing on the essentials of good picking techniques. You'll learn to play six classic fiddle tunes - Liberty, Salt Creek, Blackberry Blossom, Clarinet Polka, Home Sweet Home and Ragtime Annie. Steve slows each one down, highlighting the tricky areas and then playing it up-to-speed so you'll hear how it should sound in performance. You'll learn how to dress up your solos using slides, arpeggios, bends, accents and a variety of intros and endings. Detailed instruction in the intricacies of crosspicking will help give your playing more rhythmic appeal and style. Steve devotes much-needed attention to one of the most challenging areas for intermediate players - how to build speed - giving you invaluable advice on practicing, testing yourself and perfecting left and right hand positions to help you accomplish your goals.

Succeeding With The Masters: Baroque Era - Volume Two

Compiled and edited by Helen Marlais, Succeeding with the Masters is a series dedicated to the authentic keyboard works of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century masters.This series provides a complete and easily accessible method for learning and performing the works of the masters. Each book presents the works in historical perspective for the student, and provides the means and the motivation to play these pieces in the correct stylistic, musical, and technical manner. The easily understandable format of practice strategies and musical concepts make this series enjoyable for both students and teachers.To ensure authenticity, all of these pieces have been extensively researched. Teachers will find a wealth of excellent repertoire that can be used for recitals, festivals, competitions, and state achievement testing. Many of these original compositions may be new to you while others will be familiar. This series brings together an essential and comprehensive library of the pedagogical repertoire of the great composers.Succeeding with the Masters: Baroque Era - Volume Two is a groundbreaking collection of 25 graded repertoire pieces by J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, and D. Scarlatti.

Succeeding With The Masters: Classical Era - Volume Two

Compiled and edited by Helen Marlais, Succeeding with the Masters is a series dedicated to the authentic keyboard works of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century masters.This series provides a complete and easily accessible method for learning and performing the works of the masters. Each book presents the works in historical perspective for the student, and provides the means and the motivation to play these pieces in the correct stylistic, musical, and technical manner. The easily understandable format of practice strategies and musical concepts make this series enjoyable for both students and teachers.To ensure authenticity, all of these pieces have been extensively researched. Teachers will find a wealth of excellent repertoire that can be used for recitals, festivals, competitions, and state achievement testing. Many of these original compositions may be new to you while others will be familiar. This series brings together an essential and comprehensive library of the pedagogical repertoire of the great composers.Succeeding with the Masters: Classical Era - Volume Two is a groundbreaking collection of 23 graded repertoire pieces by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Theory Gymnastics: Con Brio Teacher Guide (Revised)

The Con Brio Teacher Guide is the ideal partner for the teacher working through the creative Theory Gymnastics curriculum of music theory and ear-training. This Teacher Guide contains everything you will need to teach level D of Theory Gymnastics , so is intended for those teachers whose students have progressed past Con Moto, and are ready for a greater challenge. Concepts taught at this level include simple and compound meters, the circle of fifths and a deeper level of rhythmic, harmonic and melodic ear-training. The comprehensive and well-organised nature of the book means that teaching what is normally a difficult and boring topic becomes easy and entertaining. With features like answers to all the student workbook activities, notated listening examples and reproducible testing resources, Con Brio enables you to efficiently teach theoretical concepts while effectively tracking your student’s progress. So if you are looking for a creative and original way to teach music theory and ear-training, make sure you pick up the Con Brio Teacher Guide as a companion to the student workbook. You will quickly find that teaching becomes simple, easy and even fun for you. Furthermore, you are able to access free recordings of the ear-training units at the Kjos Music Company website.

Theory Gymnastics: Spirito Teacher Guide (Revised)

The Theory Gymnastics: Spirito Teacher Guide is the essential companion for the teacher of theory and ear-training using the Spirito student workbook. Featuring all the necessary information for the teacher, this guide will help you to teach the Theory Gymnastics curriculum more efficiently and effectively. Spirito is the level B resource for students aged around 8 to 11, and is the slightly more advanced progression from the Animato workbook. The level of theory here involves all major and minor five-finger patterns, chords, elementary rhythms and beginning musical terms. The content is similar to the Energico workbook, but Spirito is more targeted towards an older beginner, with specific activities and puzzles that will engage a student approaching teenage years. This Teacher Guide contains all you will need to teach these concepts alongside the student workbook, such as an answer key, notated listening examples and reproducible theory and ear-training testing resources. The creative and imaginative student workbook makes learning more entertaining, while this well-organised and comprehensive Teacher Guide makes teaching what is ordinarily a difficult subject, simple and easy. So pick up this Teacher Guide today for the best in flexible, engaging and varied approaches to teaching students theory and ear-training. To help you get the most out of the book, you can access free audio recordings for the ear-training units at the Kjos Music Company website.

Theory Gymnastics: Con Moto Teacher Guide (Revised)

The Con Moto Teacher Guide is the comprehensive resource for the teacher who is following the Theory Gymnastics ear-training and music theory curriculum, while using the companion student workbook. The Con Moto resource is targeted at level C of the curriculum, meaning it would suit a teacher whose student has progressed through either the Energico or Spirito workbooks, and is now looking to teach some more advanced concepts. Included within this edition are theory concepts like all fifteen major scales and key signatures, as well as rhythmic, harmonic and melodic ear-training. The Teachers Guide contains all the essential means to teach these ideas thoroughly and effectively, like an answer key for the student workbook, notated listening examples and reproducible testing resources in order to best track your student’s progress. Each unit is designed to introduce or reinforce a particular theoretical concept, and the brilliantly formulated puzzles and activities make learning and teaching theory far more entertaining than ever before. So, if you plan on using the Con Moto student workbook in your teaching, make sure you don’t miss out on this Teacher Guide that will enable you to maximise the effectiveness of your teaching while keeping your student engaged. In addition, you are able to access free audio recordings of all of the ear-training units by visiting the Kjos Music Company website.