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The Broadway Song
The Broadway Song is a practical repertoire guide based on 100 classic songs from the Great White Way. It gives performers a way into their characters through the formal song characteristics, as well as larger contextual materials about the source -- from background to the musical, information about the character singing, and synoptic narrative information for the song.
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The Flowering Thorn
The flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition. Most of this latter quality has to do with the very features that characterize ballads... or narrative songs. These include an appearance of fragmentation; a wide range of cultural and social referents; complex, evocative symbolic language; and variation. The notable multiformity of meaning, text and tune is mirrored in scholarship, too. The Flowering Thorn is therefore wide ranging, with articles written by world authorities from the fields of folklore, history, literature, and ethnology, employing a variety of methodologies
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Music Theory through Musical Theatre
Music Theory through Musical Theatre provides a way of teaching music theory by way of musical theatre. Not simply a traditional music theory text, the book tackles the theoretical foundations of musical theatre and musical theatre literature with an emphasis on preparing students for a professional career.
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A Treatise on Qanun Musical Ornaments
A double edition in English and Arabic about the art of ornamentations in the performance of the Arabic qanun (psaltery), based on George Sawa's experience as an artist and performer, as well as the experience of his teachers and their teachers.
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The Recorder
The fascinating story of a hugely popular instrument,
detailing its rich and varied history from the Middle Ages to the
present The recorder is perhaps best known today for its
educational role. Although it is frequently regarded as a
stepping-stone on the path toward higher musical pursuits, this
role is just one recent facet of the recorder's fascinating
history-which spans professional and amateur music-making since the
Middle Ages. In this new addition to the Yale Musical Instrument
Series, David Lasocki and Robert Ehrlich trace the evolution of the
recorder. Emerging from a variety of flutes played by
fourteenth-century soldiers, shepherds, and watchmen, the recorder
swiftly became an artistic instrument for courtly and city
minstrels. Featured in music by the greatest Baroque composers,
including Bach and Handel, in the twentieth century it played a
vital role in the Early Music Revival and achieved international
popularity and notoriety in mass education. Overall, Lasocki and
Ehrlich make a case for the recorder being surprisingly present,
and significant, throughout Western music history.
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Refining Sound
Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. As author, veteran synthesizer instructor Brian K. Shepard draws on his years of experience in synthesizer pedagogy in order to peel back the often-mysterious layers of sound synthesis one-by-one. The result is a book which allows readers to familiarize themselves with each individual step in the synthesis process, in turn empowering them in their own creative or experimental work.
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Creating Sounds from Scratch
Creating Sounds from Scratch is a practical, in-depth resource on the most common forms of music synthesis. It includes historical context, an overview of concepts in sound and hearing, and practical training examples to help sound designers and electronic music producers to effectively manipulate presets and create new sounds from scratch.
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The Synthesizer
Electronic music instruments known as synthesizers have been around since the 1950s, but the past few decades have seen their capabilities expand exponentially and their forms shape-shift from room-filling grandeur to sophisticated applications that run on pocket-sized phones and MP3 players. The Synthesizer reveals the history, basics, forms, and uses of this astonishing instrument.
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