The Contemporary Violin
The Contemporary Violin

Author: Patricia Strange

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2003-01-21

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1461664101

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Written by a composer and a musician, The Contemporary Violin offers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring. Allen and Patricia Strange's comprehensive study critically examines extended performance techniques found in the violin literature of the latter half of the twentieth century. Drawing from both published and private manuscripts, the authors present extended performance options for the acoustic, modified, electric, and MIDI violin, with signal processing and computer-related techniques, and include more than 400 notated examples. The authors begin with bowing techniques and proceed systematically through other aspects of string playing, including MIDI technologies. Their correspondence and research with many performers and composers, the book's extensive score and text bibliography, and the discography of more than 130 recordings make The Contemporary Violin a valuable contemporary music reference and guide. An additional benefit is its listing of Internet resources that will keep the reader up to date with recent developments in contemporary performance and composition. First published by UC Press, 2001.

The Contemporary Violinist
The Contemporary Violinist

Author:

Publisher: Julie Lyonn Music

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1879730073

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With the help of a practice CD you will be guided through dozens of left and right hand exercises and tunes designed to help you develop the feel of each style and how it can be used for improvisation.

The Contemporary Violin
The Contemporary Violin

Author: Patricia Strange

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0520224094

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Written by a composer and a musician, The Contemporary Violin offers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring. Allen and Patricia Strange's comprehensive study critically examines extended performance techniques found in the violin literature of the latter half of the twentieth century. Drawing from both published and private manuscripts, the authors present extended performance options for the acoustic, modified, electric, and MIDI violin, with signal processing and computer-related techniques, and include more than 400 notated examples. The authors begin with bowing techniques and proceed systematically through other aspects of string playing, including MIDI technologies. Their correspondence and research with many performers and composers, the book's extensive score and text bibliography, and the discography of more than 130 recordings make The Contemporary Violin a valuable contemporary music reference and guide. An additional benefit is its listing of Internet resources that will keep the reader up to date with recent developments in contemporary performance and composition. First published by UC Press, 2001.

Scale Studies
Scale Studies

Author: Jan H���_mal�_

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1996-02-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781457474897

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Jan H���_mal�_ (1844-1915) was an influential Czech violinist and teacher, associated with Moscow Conservatory for 46 years. These are his progressive scale studies in 10 sections.

Techniques of the Contemporary Composer
Techniques of the Contemporary Composer

Author: David Cope

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780028647371

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This text is a practical guide to the compositional techniques, resources, and technologies available to composers today. Each chapter traces the development of traditional and modern elements that form the foundation of music in the late twentieth century. Among the subjects discussed are interval exploration, serialism, pitch-class sets, twelve-tone music, electronic music, algorithmic composition, and indeterminacy.

Ricci on Glissando
Ricci on Glissando

Author: Ruggiero Ricci

Publisher:

Published: 2007-11-07

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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In his book on left-hand violin technique, Maestro Ruggiero Ricci addresses common problems in shifting by advocating the study of the glissando technique. He asserts that re-incorporating this technique will not only aid violinists in developing a better-trained ear, but also provide them with "shortcuts" to playing some of Paganini's most difficult passages. Ricci introduces and compares old and new systems of playing to provide a context for the glissando system. He outlines a series of glissando scales that provides the student with a blueprint for developing additional glissando scales in other keys. He offers exercises designed to increase flexibility, ear training, coordination, and crawling technique and has included a DVD in which he demonstrates various bowing techniques.

Guide to the Contemporary Harp
Guide to the Contemporary Harp

Author: Mathilde Aubat-Andrieu

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2019-02-11

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 025303941X

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Harps and harp music have enjoyed a renaissance over the past century and today can be heard in a broad array of musical contexts. Guide to the Contemporary Harp is a comprehensive resource that examines the vibrant present-day landscape of the harp. The authors explore the instrument from all angles, beginning with organology; moving through composition, notation, and playing techniques; and concluding with the contemporary repertoire for the harp. The rapid diversification in these areas of harp performance is the result of both technological innovations in harp making, which have produced the electric harp and MIDI harp, and innovative composers and players. These new instruments and techniques have broadened the concept of what is possible and what constitutes harp music for today. Guide to the Contemporary Harp is an essential guide for any harpist looking to push the instrument and its music to new heights.

The Classical Revolution
The Classical Revolution

Author: John Borstlap

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2017-06-15

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0486823350

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Essays by a prominent contemporary composer explore a current trend in classical music away from atonal characteristics and toward more traditional forms. Topics include cultural identity, musical meaning, and the aesthetics of beauty.

Music Notation in the Twentieth Century
Music Notation in the Twentieth Century

Author: Kurt Stone

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 9780393950533

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In this comprehensive and definitive survey of current notation procedures, Kurt Stone has brought order to a field traditionally fraught with confusion and idiosyncrasy. He not only describes and recommends new methods for notating modern music, thereby establishing standard procedures for the present and future, but integrates them with traditional practices still in use. The result is a guide to all forms of notation used in serious music today.