Educational

Enhance your unit on composers with this set of 8.5x11 reproducible composer illustrations. Included are the 24 composers found on the player cards in Cheryl Lavender's Composer Bingo: Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Wagner, Verdi, Strauss, Brahms, Saint-Sans, Tchaikovsky, Dvork, Grieg, Debussy, Bartk, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev, Gershwin, Copland and Menotti. Recommended for Grades 3-8.

An incredible presentation of the most practical exercises an aspiring jazz student could want. All are logically interwoven with fine real world examples from jazz to classical. This book is an essential anthology of technical, compositional, and theoretical exercises, with lots of musical examples.

Improv fundamentals for teachers and students, covering the blues, modes, scales, progressions and more, plus chapters on phrasing melodies, the swing concept, phraseology in modern jazz, chord nomenclature, and solo development.

A thought provoking collection of ideas by today's leading conductors on how a conductor develops feelings for a piece of music and communicates those feelings to an ensemble.

A study of three basic outlines used in jazz improv and composition, based on a study of hundreds of examples from great jazz artists.

This text suggests a more connected process for expanding the jazz vocabulary. Improvisational devices are presented as derived from diatonic scales, the harmonic and melodic basis of mainstream jazz. Michael Brecker highly recommends this book, calling it useful and insightful...for all musicians who wish to expand their harmonic range and improvisational abilities. Also endorsed by James Moody and David Liebman.

Just as in his other book, Constructing a Bluegrass Mandolin, Roger's simple and concise step-by-step instructions show you the how and the why of it all, leading you on a path that blends discovery with pure joy. Over 200 photos and illustrations provide the kind of valuable reference no other book in the field can offer. Roger has used his technical knowledge on design, sound, and all of the important stages of construction that go into the building of a musical instrument, and has incorporated these ideas into one text. The end result is this valuable book of information that will help you to learn more about the makeup of a 5-string banjo, and more importantly, will give you the satisfaction and pride in being able to accomplish the building of a banjo that you can play and enjoy for years to come.

This beautifully detailed manual gives clear, step-by-step directions from raw materials to a magnificently finished mandolin through the use of simply-stated texts, photos and templates. Written by one of America's foremost authorities on acoustic instruments. 56 pages, spiral bound, including 19 full-sized blueprints covering each phase of construction. Also features a glossary of terms which enable the reader to more easily follow the instructions.

The Music Theory series is designed from the ground-up to explain the terminology and musical structures needed for modern applications. Level One is an introductory course which covers music notation, key signatures, basic scales, intervals, modes, diatonic relationships and 3-and 4-part chords. Level Two is an intermediate-level course covering larger chord forms, definitive chords in major and minor keys, substitutions, analysis of key centers in tunes, upper structure chords, voiceleading, and pentatonic and blues scale applications, a complete glossary of terms, and hundreds of written theory exercises with answers.

Eartraining is a vital (and sometimes neglected) skill that enables musicians to hear ahead in their playing and writing. These unique, modern courses have been used by hundreds of students (from beginners to working pros) at the acclaimed Grove School of Music in Los Angeles. These methods use SOLFEG (the syllables Do, Re, Mi, etc.) to apply the techniques within a key-center based relative pitch framework. Level One works on hearing and transcribing melodies, rhythms, intervals and bass lines and moves on to identify triads and simple progressions. Level Two covers hearing and transcribing triad and four-part chord progressions, key changes, chromatic tones, modal scales, and combining melodic and harmonic dictation.