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1) Mettle and Metal: The Birth of Steel Pan Music and the History of Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra
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The Steel Orchestra is Trinidad and Tobago's musical gift to the world. This is the story of how steelpan music was made possible out of the fire deep within the belly and bowels of those who lived it passionately. The whole world has now been gripped by the power of this distinctive and powerful musical form.
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«De ritmo solo carece lo muerto», afirma Ce Santiago, y la vitalidad de este ensayo lo demuestra. Enamorado de la batería desde siempre, Santiago recorre la historia del instrumento y del arte de tocarlo, pero el compás de su prosa única también nos arrastrará hasta el filo del tiempo, el breve aunque crucial lapso que media entre un tic y un tac, allí donde convergen la literatura, la música y la vida entera, donde la tríada ritmo-cuerpo-instrumento...
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Fender's Stratocaster is arguably the number-one instrument icon of the guitar world. When introduced in 1954, its offset space-age lines, contoured body, and three-pickup configuration set the music world on its ear-it was truly unlike any guitar that had come before. In the hands of the world's most beloved players, the Stratocaster has since become a popular weapon of choice among rock, blues, jazz, and country players and, not coincidentally,...
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La escala dórica es uno de los siete modos griegos. Recibe esta denominación por el antiguo pueblo griego de los dorios. Es una escala diatónica que se forma a partir de las teclas blancas del piano de RE a RE; tiene un patrón de intervalos simétricos de tonos y semitonos aplicada de manera ascendente y descendente. También Podemos mencionar que esta escala inicia en el segundo grado de la escala diatónica mayor natural.Al igual que las escalas...
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"An engaging journey into the wild and wonderful world of drumming."-CLEM BURKE, Blondie
To have a great band you need a great drummer. For the first time, Tony Barrell shines a long-overdue spotlight on these musicians, offering an exciting look into their world, their art, and their personalities. In Born to Drum, he interviews some of the most famous, revered, and influential drummers of our time-including Chad Smith, Ginger Baker, Clem Burke,...
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Peppered with tips, helpful hints, and personal anecdotes to illustrate real-life application, this performance guide is essential for any wind player interested in taking his or her virtuosity to the next level. Internationally renowned bassoonist Kim Walker has compiled into one book the teachings and exercises that have made her known as an expert on bassoon performance, practice, and instruction. From basics like posture, breathing techniques,...
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En "Círculos Armónicos Modales con Séptimas 3: Explorando la Profundidad Musical", los amantes de la música y los entusiastas de la teoría musical se embarcarán en un viaje fascinante hacia la complejidad y la riqueza del modo locrio. Este libro único desentraña las capas intrincadas de este modo modal poco convencional y muestra cómo puede ser aprovechado para crear emociones y matices únicos en la música.
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11) Profundizando en las Disonancias: Explorando los Acordes Menor Oncena con Trecena Bemol, Novena Beto
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"Profundizando en las Disonancias: Explorando los Acordes Menor Oncena con Trecena Bemol, Novena Bemol y Quinta Bemol" es un viaje apasionante hacia el corazón mismo de la música y la teoría armónica. Este libro sumerge a los lectores en el fascinante mundo de las disonancias, desentrañando la complejidad de los acordes menor oncena y sus variaciones, adornados con las cautivadoras notas de trecena bemol, novena bemol y quinta bemol.
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12) Bach and Baroque
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Most articles written about performance practice deal with relatively small areas (trills, over dotting, etc.) placing emphasis on citing original sources or collating several original sources in order to support a given position. There is not sufficient information in these articles to deal with all aspects of Baroque style. This text was built on the premise that as many conclusions as possible should be drawn from the sources themselves. Leaps...
13) Mr. Tuba
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With warmth and humor, tuba virtuoso Harvey Phillips tells the story of his amazing life and career from his Missouri childhood through his days as a performer with the King Brothers and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circuses, his training at the Juilliard School, a stint with the US Army Field Band, and his freelance days with the New York City Opera and Ballet. A founder of the New York Brass Quintet, Phillips served as vice president of...
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These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. King's Lucille, Eric Clapton's Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughan's First Wife, Billy F Gibbons' Pearly Gates, Neil Young's Old Black, and many more. Here's the first-ever illustrated history of the actual guitars of the stars that made the music. Other best-selling guitar histories look at the rank-and-file models, but this book is unique in profiling the actual "star...
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Guitarists love guitars. Few own just one, and most are dreaming of their next acquisition. To help them out, here is the ultimate bucket list of guitars-plus guitar amps and various guitar effects-that aficionados must play.Included are the classics, such as the great Fender guitars, the Stratocaster and Telecaster, and the stylish Gibson Les Paul. Included as well are the dream creations-masterpieces from D'Angelico and Gretsch. And then there are...
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In the days before his fortieth birthday, London-based journalist Jasper Rees trades his pen for a French horn that has been gathering dust in the attic for more than twenty-two years, and, on a lark, plays it at the annual festival of the British Horn Society.
Despite an embarrassingly poor performance, the experience inspires Rees to embark on a daunting, bizarre, and ultimately winning journey: to return to the festival in one year's time and...
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Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and critics by decades Leo Ornstein passed away in 2002 at the age of 108. Frequently compared to Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, for a time Ornstein...
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TAPPING DISCOVERED for guitarists looking to solo with tapping. If you are looking to tap on guitar or you're looking to increase your knowledge, understanding and technique then Tapping Discovered by Honza Kourimsky and released by GMI - Guitar & Music Institute is the book for you.146 pages of pure tapping goodness takes you from first principles in chapter one all the way through to the fiendishly complete solos in chapter five. ★ After legend...
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Blending creative insights with wisdom of the masters, professional violinist Maureen Taranto-Pyatt shares practical guidance in her new methodology, Progressive Form.
With The Living Art of Violin Playing, violinists will learn to appreciate the physics and geometry of movement to facilitate a nuanced flow of compression and release in the playing. A gradual building of technique begins from sitting or standing, moves through the torso into the...
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