"How do woodwind instruments blow beautiful ballads? With flowing air, reeds, and Tuneful Tubes! Includes glossary, critical thinking questions, and sheet music"--
A detailed and timely examination of the complex relationships between China and the nations of the Middle East, from a Chinese perspective. The Editor-in-Chief, Yang Guang is Director of the Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; President of the Chinese Society of the Middle East. Published by China specialists Paths International in association with Social Sciences Academic Press (China).
Get in tune with woodwind instruments. Discover how woodwind instruments make music. Explore how different woodwind instruments are used around the world, from the recorder to the Indian pungi. This book includes an activity that lets you find out for yourself how musical instruments make sounds. Questions that reinforce key concepts are a great feature of this book.
Volumes 1 and 2 provide information sufficient for getting players to the "beginning professional level": embouchures, concepts of blowing, tone, fingerings reeds, practicing, performing; beginning methods for each instrument; samples from the orchestral repertory; college woodwind-class materials; Bach's complete Clavier Buchlein for woodwinds with analysis; and a means, for those who wish it, for certification.