Collected Thoughts on Teaching and Learning, Creativity and Horn Performance
Collected Thoughts on Teaching and Learning, Creativity and Horn Performance

Author: Douglas Hill

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781457402777

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Douglas Hill is professor of music and horn at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as well as a past President of the International Horn Society, and a respected teacher and clinician. The 27 chapters of Collected Thoughts cover topics ranging from getting started to preparing for college and professional auditions, and include other subjects such as composing and improvising. There are seven chapters on repertoire that include reviews of music and texts that are the most comprehensive of any horn (or other instrumental) text to date. The process of learning and teaching is extremely insightful for everyone, from the serious student to the most experienced instructor. This book is a must for anyone interested in the horn. It is invaluable!!

Conducting Opera
Conducting Opera

Author: Joseph Rescigno

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781574417937

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"Book describes how to conduct major operas that are commonly performed. The author describes his own approach to the most difficult passages in operas by Mozart, Richard Strauss, Puccini, Richard Wagner, and others"--

Ray Brown's Bass Method
Ray Brown's Bass Method

Author: Ray Brown

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 0793594561

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(Bass Instruction). Legendary jazz bassist Ray Brown reveals his lessons and teaching philosophy in this in-depth book. Includes: solo exercises and arpeggios; music fundamentals; right- and left-hand positions; scales; chords; exercises in tenths; rhythm patterns with "drops"; diminished chords; runs and variations; blues patterns; extension scales; and much more.

The Orchestra
The Orchestra

Author: Joan Peyser

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9781423410263

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The symphonic orchestra is intriguingly considered in essays by 23 leading music authors and thinkers. Topics include historical beginnings, the role of the conductor, the orchestral audience, the nature of the repertoire, and how recordings have affected the modern orchestra. With a new editor's introduction for this 2006 edition and a glossary of terms.

Building the Operatic Museum
Building the Operatic Museum

Author: William James Gibbons

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1580464009

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Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century works played in the opera houses of Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. These works, mostly neglected during the nineteenth century, became the main exhibits in what William Gibbons calls the Operatic Museum -- a physical and conceptual space in which great masterworks from the past and present could, like works of visual art in the Louvre, entertain audiences while educating them in their own history and national identity. Drawing on the fields of musicology, museum studies, art history, and literature, Gibbons explores how this "museum" transformed Parisian musical theater into a place of cultural memory, dedicated to the display of French musical greatness. William Gibbons is Associate Professor of Musicology at Texas Christian University.

Conversations with the World's Leading Orchestra and Opera Librarians
Conversations with the World's Leading Orchestra and Opera Librarians

Author: Patrick Lo

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1442255439

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This book is based on a series of informative interviews with a number of music librarians working for different leading symphony orchestras and opera companies throughout the world. In these interviews, librarians share with the readers what kind of professional skills, knowledge and personality that are required to supply music to the performers onstage, as well as information to these world-famous performing arts organizations. Interviewees also discuss in details about their professional lives, i.e., including their personal stories and working relationships with various legendary conductors and star soloists, e.g., Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, James Levine, Donald Runnicles, Bernard Haitink, Zubin Mehta, Sir Colin Davis, etc. Via the interviewees’ stories, one can also get a glimpse of the different inside operations and the unique management styles behind the backstage of these internationally renowned performing arts organizations. There are fourteen conversations including interviews with the Chief Librarian at the Metropolitan Opera and the Orchestra Librarians at the San Francisco Ballet, the Berlin Philharmonic, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.