Music : Musical Instruments - General

Take a bow and start playing tunes with this friendly guide!Whether you're an aspiring classical musician or you just want to fiddle around, Violin For Dummi......

This book describes the recovery of the Appalachian dulcimer's lost history, tracing the dulcimer's roots in a German instrument, the scheitholt; des......

The place of the piano in classical and popular musical cultures and its changing roles over the past three centuries are examined by eminent authorities. Ev......

Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one of the worldÂs foremost authorities on Sergei Prokofiev. In this book, he draws on his intimate kn......

Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career ......

The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s and '40s, when swing was at its height. But as practicing jazz...

W. Dean Sutcliffe investigates one of the greatest yet least understood repertories of Western keyboard music: the 555 keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti......

Dowland's Lachrimae (1604) is perhaps the greatest but most enigmatic publication of instrumental music from before the eighteenth century. This new handbook......

This practical guide is intended for all violinists and viola players who wish to give - or to understand and appreciate - historically aware performances of......

This practical guide is intended for all clarinettists with a desire to investigate music of earlier periods. It contains practical help on both the aquisiti......

Early Keyboard Instruments covers a wide range of performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to the music from c. 1700-c.1900. It includes descripti......

This is a completely revised edition of volumes I and II of The Organ Music of J. S. Bach (1980), a bestselling title, which has subsequently become a classi......

This book is about three sets of etudes by Liszt: the Etude en douze exercices (1826), its reworking as Douzes grandes Ètudes (1837), and their reworking as ......

Drawing on recent ideas that explore new environments and the changing situations of composition and performance, Simon Emmerson provides a significant contr......

This book explores the world of the classical pianist and piano professor, deconstructing many familiar words that describe this environment. Based upon the ......

Joe Lilore, educator and author of 27 music books for Warner Bros. Music and United Artists - including books on The Rolling Stones, R*U*S*H, and Led Zeppeli......

2003-2004 Rankings of new Pianos is over 50 pages of objective analysis. We review about 40 selected piano brands including Yamaha, Bluthner, Kawai, and Pear......

Most books, videos and even personal instructors today typically focus the first few lessons on guitar theory, scales, notation and other topics that can be ......

Christmas duets and trios for two or more soprano recorders. Music includes familiar carols and lesser-known or earlier music. Part One features 34 Christmas......