Jazz Inventions for Keyboard
Jazz Inventions for Keyboard

Author: Bill Cunliffe

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2005-11

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780739035382

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Pianists all know the benefits of playing the "Two-Part Inventions" of J. S. Bach. Now, world-respected jazz pianist and composer Bill Cunliffe has written his own "inventions" that will benefit every player's understanding and performance of jazz. These great-sounding etudes explore the specific harmonic, melodic, and technical challenges faced by jazz keyboardists, including the ii-V and ii-V-I progressions, outlining changes, chord-tone ornamentation, playing in octaves, tonic patterns, block chords, polytonality, stride piano, and left-hand walking bass. Pieces feature chord symbols, explanatory notes, and preparatory exercises, and each invention is performed on the CD by Bill Cunliffe. 123 pages. " . . . perfect for daily warm-up, explores the harmonic and melodic intricacies of jazz, each etude targets a specific technical skill and includes performance notes, inventions gradually become more challenging and the harmonic progressions are varied and very musical . . . a musical feast." -International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)

Inventions and Dimensions
Inventions and Dimensions

Author: Olegario Diaz

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1456634097

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This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance Michael Brecker Style of playing. The book covers scales, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz line phrases from transcribed solos. These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones in order to achieve perfect coordination. Major, minor and dominant chords, extended to their highest level, scale wise, arpeggios and chromatic passages. There are none signature centers, therefore, all these exercises will be written accidental way.

Jazz Keyboard Toolbox
Jazz Keyboard Toolbox

Author: Bill Cunliffe

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780739007266

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Now you can learn to play jazz keyboard without knowing a lot of complicated music theory. This step-by-step method uses listening and play-along techniques that make learning to play jazz fun and easy, with just enough theory to understand the concepts. You will gain a solid knowledge of the basic tools needed for accompanying and soloing in any jazz setting. A recording is included, so you can play the examples and tunes along with a professional jazz band.

Scientists, Inventors, and Tinkerers: The Discoveries and Inventions as Precursors that Led to Philo Farnsworth's Invention of Television
Scientists, Inventors, and Tinkerers: The Discoveries and Inventions as Precursors that Led to Philo Farnsworth's Invention of Television

Author: Donald Ray Schwartz

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2010-01-12

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1599428849

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Scientists, Inventors, and Tinkerers is a monograph relating in linear fashion the discoveries and inventions in electricity, electronics, wireless, and mass communications that led to the inventor Philo Farnsworth having all necessary to realize his own moment of discovery-- by inventing one of the most influential of inventions, the television. The work includes a parallel discussion of the invention of lip-synchronization talking motion pictures, as both innovations, TV and Talkies, occurred in the same year.

Inventors and Inventions
Inventors and Inventions

Author: Doris Simonis

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish

Published: 2007-09

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780761477617

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From air conditioners to MRI scanners and from bicycles to frozen foods, modern life would be unimaginable without the work of inventors. Unlike other resources on inventions, Inventors and Inventions surprises readers with its wide-ranging exploration of inventors of the past and present, including the creators of Kevlar, Coca Cola, eBay, and the Global Positioning System.

Texas Ingenuity: Lone Star Inventions, Inventors & Innovators
Texas Ingenuity: Lone Star Inventions, Inventors & Innovators

Author: Alan C. Elliott

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0738503568

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This book is a collection of informative--and sometimes quirky-- stories about Lone Star innovators, inventors, and inventions. Each story emphasizes a Texas connection and shows how Texas ingenuity, determination, or sheer dumb luck made the person or product famous and successful.

Playing Jazz Piano
Playing Jazz Piano

Author: Bob Mintzer

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781457428852

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For an aspiring jazz instrumentalist, playing piano is one of the most important skills for developing a jazz vocabulary. Bob Mintzer is a renowned jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist, pianist, bandleader, educator and member of the group, the Yellowjackets. His new book is designed for the instrumentalist who is not an accomplished piano player but wants to acquire basic jazz piano skills and jazz vocabulary. The book includes etudes that make players aware of the sound, texture, cause, effect and function of jazz chords and harmony. The 22 piano etudes feature a variety of styles, tempos, chord progressions and a the book also includes a chord voicing glossary. Mintzer offers a practical guide with a realistic approach.

Leon Forrest
Leon Forrest

Author: John G. Cawelti

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780879727345

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Leon Forrest: Introductions and Interpretations combines biography and various methods of critical analysis to interpret the work of this important African-American novelist and essayist, who critics have compared to Joyce, Faulkner, and Tolstoy. Highly praised by Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, Forrest's four novels present a remarkably rich and engaging view of contemporary African-American urban culture and its roots in the southern past. The book includes a general introduction which surveys Forrest's life and presents an interpretation of the unity of his fiction, as well as individual essays offering different interpretations of Forrest's four major novels, three interviews with the writer, and a detailed chronology and bibliography.

Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry
Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry

Author: Keith Hatschek

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-09-15

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1538111446

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The US music industry is an exciting, fast-paced, marketplace which brings together creative and business interests to connect artists with audiences. This book traces the history of the music industry from the Colonial era to the present day, identifying trends and the innovative leaders who have shaped its course. This volume embraces the diversity of the American music industry, spanning classical to country and hip hop to heavy metal. Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes that provide a comprehensive directory of college music business programs and a listing of all relevant music industry trade associations, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important artists, managers, companies, industry terminology and significant trade associations. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the business of music.