Beyond the Horn: Challenging Exercises & Etudes for Modern Improvisation, Spiral-Bound Book

Beyond the Horn: Challenging Exercises & Etudes for Modern Improvisation, Spiral-Bound Book
Author: Walt Weiskopf
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781562240493

Gain seemingly impossible facility beyond the horn's previously-considered limits. This is a huge, 248 page spiral-bound book with enough material to keep the serious student busy for many months. Expanding on his last book, Around the Horn, author and recording artist Walt Weiskopf has raised the bar again with Beyond the Horn, a new book co-authored by saxophonist Ed Rosenberg. Beyond the Horn highlights intervals of 3rds, 5ths, 6ths, 10ths, and introduces the concept of octave displacement. Studies and Exercises are in all 12 keys. The book concludes with 20 etudes based on standard chord changes that incorporate this new material, so you have a solid reference for how and where to apply the techniques and concepts learned. This book will add increasingly larger intervals to your vocabulary and open your ears as well. Also included are author's notes on how to practice the technically challenging material. Successfully taught at the famous Eastman School of Music for the past several years, this method will take you beyond your previously assumed technical limits. For all musicians looking for a new direction.

Forward Motion

Forward Motion
Author: Hal Galper
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-01-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457101394

The same notes can sound square or swinging, depending on how the music is phrased. This revolutionary book shows how many people misunderstand jazz phrasing and shows how to replace stiff phrasing with fluid lines that have the right jazz feeling. In this book, master pianist Hal Galper also shows how get that feeling of forward motion and also how to use melody guide tones correctly, how to line up the strong beat in a bar with the strongest chord notes, and much more!

Around the Horn: 21 Modal Scales and Arpeggios Every Jazz Musician Needs to Know

Around the Horn: 21 Modal Scales and Arpeggios Every Jazz Musician Needs to Know
Author: Walt Weiskopf
Publisher: Player's Guide for All Instrum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781562240301

From the esteemed author of Intervalic Improvisation: The Modern Sound, this book is the most thorough and exhaustive study of scales and arpeggios ever assembled. Included are 21 scales and arpeggios every jazz musician needs to know based on the Major, Melodic Minor, and Harmonic Minor modes. Also included are specially-designed etudes to open your ears and increase your modal awareness. This book will allow any instrumentalist to gain facility and a solid understanding of modes, how they work, and how to best use them in practice and performance. 204 pages.

Modern Flexibilities for Brass: Bass Clef

Modern Flexibilities for Brass: Bass Clef
Author: Scott Belck
Publisher: Meredith Music Publications
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2017-08
Genre: Brass instruments
ISBN: 9781574634501

(Meredith Music Resource). This is not your grandfather's lip slur book! It is an innovative method incorporating an entirely new vocabulary of harmonically rich and rhythmically varied exercises; challenging, fun and interesting to practice. As a professional musician, lead player, jazz artist, soloist, chamber player, educator and composer, Belck combines a unique writing style, challenging musicians to think and practice creatively. A must-have for players of all levels!

Integrated Practice

Integrated Practice
Author: Pedro de Alcantara
Publisher:
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2011
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0195317076

To be a musician is to "speak music." When you have something to say and the means to say it, your gestures and sounds become both meaningful and free. Offering an innovative, comprehensive approach to musicians' health and wellbeing, Integrated Practice gives you the tools to combine total-body awareness with a deep and practical understanding of the rhythmic structure of the musical language, so that you can use the musical text itself as your guide toward psychophysical and creative freedom. The book shows you how to establish an imaginative dialogue between the relatively inflexible structure of music and your individual personality as a singer, instrumentalist, or conductor, and it explains how you can use the acoustic phenomenon of the harmonic series to make big, beautiful sounds with little muscular effort. Integrated Practice comes with more than a hundred and fifty exercises demonstrated by video and audio clips on an extensive companion website that will inform your daily practice, improvising, rehearsing, and performing. With this array of resources for every learning style, Integrated Practice is the essential handbook to personal achievement in successful, expressive musical performance.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Author: Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 048613248X

Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.

Primacy of the Ear

Primacy of the Ear
Author: Ran Blake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2010
Genre: Improvisation (Music)
ISBN: 9780557609123

Many music books are designed to help better understand written music and theory, but "Primacy of the Ear" focuses on the development of the ear."Primacy" outlines pianist and MacArthur Fellow Ran Blake's approach to growing the ear and explains how musical memory is the key to becoming a more potent musician and shaping a personal musical style.Included are the legendary "ear-robics" exercises, developed by Ran over the course of 30 years as head of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at New England Conservatory of Music.Also covered: The Auteur Theory and how it translates into music making, developing and differentiating between the conscious and subconscious mind, listening and musical memory, how to learn from your musical heroes without being consumed by them, developing and using repertoire, and how to record your music most effectively.Primacy of the Ear is Ran Blake's genius distilled--his teaching and musical philosophy in one volume. Co-written by Jason Rogers.

Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- The II/V7/I Progression, Vol 3: The Most Important Musical Sequence in Jazz!, Book & 2 CDs [With CD (Audio)]

Jamey Aebersold Jazz -- The II/V7/I Progression, Vol 3: The Most Important Musical Sequence in Jazz!, Book & 2 CDs [With CD (Audio)]
Author: Jamey Aebersold
Publisher: Jazz Play-A-Long for All Music
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781562241292

Now with a bonus second CD that contains individual ii/V7/I tracks for each major key (17 new practice tracks). The most important musical sequence in modern jazz Contains all the needed scales and chords to each CD track and all are written in the staff. Contains 120 written patterns (transposed for all instruments) and three full pages of piano voicings that correspond to the CD. Contains a Scale Syllabus which allows you to find and use various substitute scales---just like professional musicians. The CD contains four tracks of Jamey playing exercises in a "call and response" fashion over an extended ii/V7/I progression that stays in one key at a comfortable tempo. Allows you to practice major, minor, dom. 7th, diminished, whole tone, half-diminished, Lydian, and dim. whole tone scales and chords. Beginning/Intermediate level. Suggested prerequisites: Volumes 1 and 2. Titles: ii/V7/I All Major Keys * G Minor Blues * Bebop Tune * V7+9/I All Keys * ii/V7/I in Three Keys * F Blues with 8-Bar Bridge * II/V7 Random Progressions * ii /V7+9/I All Minor Keys.

Brexit and Beyond

Brexit and Beyond
Author: Benjamin Martill
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2018-01-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1787352773

Brexit will have significant consequences for the country, for Europe, and for global order. And yet much discussion of Brexit in the UK has focused on the causes of the vote and on its consequences for the future of British politics. This volume examines the consequences of Brexit for the future of Europe and the European Union, adopting an explicitly regional and future-oriented perspective missing from many existing analyses. Drawing on the expertise of 28 leading scholars from a range of disciplines, Brexit and Beyond offers various different perspectives on the future of Europe, charting the likely effects of Brexit across a range of areas, including institutional relations, political economy, law and justice, foreign affairs, democratic governance, and the idea of Europe itself. Whilst the contributors offer divergent predictions for the future of Europe after Brexit, they share the same conviction that careful scholarly analysis is in need – now more than ever – if we are to understand what lies ahead for the EU. Praise for Brexit and Beyond 'a wide-ranging and thought-provoking tour through the vagaries of British exit, with the question of Europe’s fate never far from sight...Brexit is a wake-up call for the EU. How it responds is an open question—but respond it must. To better understand its options going forward you should turn to this book, which has also been made free online.' Prospect Magazine 'This book explores wonderfully well the bombshell of Brexit: is it a uniquely British phenomenon or part of a wider, existential crisis for the EU? As the tensions and complexities of the Brexit negotiations come to the fore, the collection of essays by leading scholars will prove a very valuable reference for their depth of analysis, their lucidity, and their outlining of future options.' - Kevin Featherstone, Head of the LSE European Institute, London School of Economics 'Brexit and Beyond is a must read. It moves the ongoing debate about what Brexit actually means to a whole new level. While many scholars to date have examined the reasons for the British decision to leave, the crucial question of what Brexit will mean for the future of the European project is often overlooked. No longer. Brexit and Beyond bundles the perspectives of leading scholars of European integration. By doing so, it provides a much needed scholarly guidepost for our understanding of the significance of Brexit, not only for the United Kingdom, but also for the future of the European continent.' - Catherine E. De Vries, Professor in the department of Government, University of Essex and Professor in the department of Political Science and Public Administration Free University Amsterdam 'Brexit and Beyond provides a fascinating (and comprehensive) analysis on the how and why the UK has found itself on the path to exiting the European Union. The talented cast of academic contributors is drawn from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise and this provides a breadth and depth to the analysis of Brexit that is unrivalled. The volume also provides large amounts of expert-informed speculation on the future of both the EU and UK and which is both stimulating and anxiety-inducing.' -Professor Richard Whitman, Head of School, Professor of Politics and International Relations, Director of the Global Europe Centre, University of Kent

Music Ho!: A Study of Music in Decline

Music Ho!: A Study of Music in Decline
Author: Constant Lambert
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-11-05T11:09:00Z
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1774642700

A brilliant analysis of the music of the twenties and thirties, also discusses the music of composers like Stravinsky, Satie, Gershwin, and considers the contributions of jazz and other pop music of the time with classical music.