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"So You Want to Sing Music Theater covers a vast array of topics. It includes a brief history of music theater; the basics of voice science and anatomy; information on vocal and bodily health and maintenance, from diet to exercise to healing techniques; advice on teaching music theater to others, with focuses on breath, posture, registers, range, and tone quality; repertoire recommendations for voice and singing types, from female and male belting...
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Piano & Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies makes it easier and more fun than ever to make music! If you don't know how to read music, this book explains in friendly, uncomplicated language all the basics of music theory, and applies it to playing the piano and keyboard. And if you've been playing for awhile? Or took lessons when you were a child but haven't played since? You can pick up some valuable tips to improve your playing, or use the book as a...
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Posture and position -- Basic fingering -- Starting to move -- Major pentascales and chords -- Minor pentascales and chords -- Finger gymnastics -- More about chords -- Minor scales -- Major scales -- Music à la mode -- Singing the blues -- Good grief, more scales -- I've got rhythm -- Expressive exercises -- One brain, two hands -- Advanced fingering -- Variations on a theme by Hanon --Teaching your fingers to fly -- Full arpeggios -- Scale olympics...
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The ukulele's small size and light weight make it easily portable, and its unique sound makes it sought after by musicians of every genre. This guide gives you the surest path from start to success. The CD includes sample tracks and songs to strum along with.
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"With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, piano aficionado Charles Cooke offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to practice every day, suggesting that they work through just that section time and again until it is perfect. In addition to his own thoughts, Cooke includes material from his interviews with master pianists, artists,...
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This program spotlights David Bitelli, a multitalented musician who has worked with Elton John, Terence Trent D'Arby, and Joan Armatrading. He acquaints students with the parts of the Boehm-system B-flat clarinet and how to assemble them, selecting the best mouthpiece, fitting the reed, posture and breathing, embouchure, holding and blowing into the clarinet, tuning, fingering, notes and intervals, tonguing, the rudiments of reading music and keeping...
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This program features one of the world's finest jazz flute players: Eddie Parker. He addresses the parts of the flute and how to assemble them, posture and breathing, embouchure, holding and blowing into the flute, tuning, fingering, notes and intervals, tonguing, the rudiments of reading music and keeping time, the Pentatonic scale, how to improvise simple songs, and disassembly, cleaning, and storage of the flute. The program concludes with a performance...
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Pete Thomas has toured with Joe Jackson and Fats Domino and has recorded with Elton John. In this program, he introduces beginners to the alto saxophone: the parts of the saxophone and how to assemble them, fitting the reed, posture and breathing, embouchure, holding and blowing into the saxophone, tuning, fingering, notes and intervals, tonguing and slurring, bending notes and vibrato, the rudiments of reading music and keeping time, scales, triad...
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In this program, renowned folk-rock fiddler Ric Sanders helps beginners get started playing the violin. Topics include the parts of the violin and bow, choosing a violin and bow, using peg paste and bow rosin, how to hold the violin and bow, tuning, bowing, plucking, fingering, notes and intervals, vibrato, the rudiments of reading music and keeping time, the D major and G major scales, the Doric mode, and how to improvise simple songs. The program...
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Whether you're a total novice about to buy your first guitar or you have already started playing and want to take your fretboard wizardry to the next level, The Complete Guitar Manual is the definitive fast-tract guide to becoming a guitar god. Learn how to play like the professionals with illustrated step-by-step sessions. Measure your progress along the way with specially written milestone pieces. Watch the online videos to learn how good technique...
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This program features Matt Clifford, a brilliant keyboard artist who has toured with The Rolling Stones and Yes. After a detailed overview of synthesizers and their capabilities, he gives instruction on choosing a keyboard; notes and intervals; bending notes and vibrato; keeping time; scales; bass lines, left- and right-hand chords, melody lines, and rhythms; MIDI technology and sampling; using orchestral, classic rock, and synthesized sounds; building...
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Despite its title, this program actually covers all the wind instruments, including the pipe organ. It considers the way in which the technology of making instruments has affected the course of musical development, particularly the development of valves for trumpets and Boehm's system of woodwind keys. The program examines the subject of vibrations in tubes, the role of finger holes, and the components of tone quality. It concludes by putting a camera...
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This program covers such problems as the production of varying degrees of loudness on harpsichords and spinets, the mechanical engineering of the modern piano, the origin of scales, and the inability of keyboard instruments to produce scales in all keys exactly in tune. Synthesizers demonstrate both the problem and its solution. The progression is from electronic organs to analogue synthesizers, from purely electronic oscillations to the addition,...
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This program is devoted to analyzing the essential features required in any instrument if a usable musical sound is to be produced. The first requirement is for a device that will produce regularity of pressure change, whether a vibration or wobble, a rotation (like the wheel of a siren), vibration of air in pipes, or tightly stretched strings, or more or less flat plates, or hollow vessels like bells. The program examines how energy can be provided...
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No other instrument has been as important to the history of Western music as the piano. Since its invention in Florence three hundred years ago, the piano has become many things to many people-a bridge between the worlds of classical and popular music and the ultimate composer's companion. This program traces the ancestry of the instrument and the history of those composers who championed its use. From the concert hall to nightclubs and living rooms,...
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Though the violins of Antonio Stradivarius and Guarneri del Gesu remain the gold standard for concert musicians, their prices-often in the millions-and their scarcity place them beyond the use of all but a handful of soloists. This NewsHour program looks at Samuel Zygmuntowicz, the master violin-maker whose replicas and original designs fetch
20) The Violin
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This program traces the history of four violins made at the workshop of master craftsman Andrea Amati-an original Amati made in 1566; a violin made by Nicolo Amati, an instructor to Stradivarius; and two 18th-century violins. We visit the Venice workshops of other violin master craftsmen, and see how the craft spread from there to Switzerland, where a workshop established in the 17th century still thrives today.