The Flute Book

The Flute Book

Author: Nancy Toff

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-09-13

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 0195373081

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The instrument -- Performance -- The music -- Repertoire catalog -- Fingering chart for the Boehm flute -- Flute manufacturers -- Repair shops -- Sources for instruments and accessories -- Sources for music and books -- Journals, societies, and service organizations -- Flute clubs and societies.


The Masters and Their Music

The Masters and Their Music

Author: W. S. B. Mathews

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-14

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 3752436255

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Reproduction of the original: The Masters and their Music by W. S. B. Mathews


Ornamentation - A Question & Answer Manual

Ornamentation - A Question & Answer Manual

Author: Carole Bigler

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 2005-05-03

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 145744237X

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This guide to understanding ornamentation in each era of music includes information on how to understand and remain faithful to the composer's intention, how many and which notes to use in each ornament, how to integrate ornaments smoothly into a performance and simple strategies and systems for realizing and practicing ornaments. A synthesis of years of scholarly research resulting in a logical, easy to follow and accurate volume.


On Music

On Music

Author: Benjamin Britten

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780198167143

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Benjamin Britten was a most reluctant public speaker. Yet his contributions were without doubt a major factor in the transformation during his lifetime of the structure of the art-music industry. This book, by bringing together all his published articles, unpublished speeches, drafts, and transcriptions of numerous radio interviews, explores the paradox of a reluctant yet influential cultural commentator, artist, and humanist. Whether talking about his own music, about the role of the artist in society, about music criticism, or wading into a debate on Soviet ideology at the height of the cold war, Britten always gave a performance which reinforced the notion of a private man who nonetheless saw the importance of public disclosure.


Contemporary American Composers

Contemporary American Composers

Author: Rupert Hughes

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-29

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13:

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Book Excerpt: The youthfulness of our school of music can be emphasized further by a simple statement that, with the exception of a few names like Lowell Mason, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Stephen A. Emery (a graceful writer as well as a theorist), and George F. Bristow, practically every American composer of even the faintest importance is now living. The influences that finally made American music are chiefly German. Almost all of our composers have studied in Germany, or from teachers trained there; very few of them turning aside to Paris, and almost none to Italy. The prominent teachers, too, that have come from abroad have been trained in the German school, whatever their nationality. The growth of a national school has been necessarily slow, therefore, for its necessary and complete submission to German influences. It has been further delayed by the meagre native encouragement to effort of the better sort. The populace has been largely indifferent,--the inertia of all large bodies would explain Read More