Playing with Style for String Quartet or String Orchestra

Playing with Style for String Quartet or String Orchestra
Author: Joanne Martin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 20
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457412929

Playing with Style is a set of colorful concert pieces in a variety of styles, including tango, ragtime, and jazz. These audience-pleasing pieces are enjoyable to play and will broaden the musical horizons of young players. The pieces use effects such as glissando and tremolo and allow opportunities to explore chromaticisms, swing rhythms and syncopation. Available for string quartet or string orchestra, violin duet or viola duet. Titles are: * Chromatic Tango * Soft Shoe * Hoedown * April Rag * Hopak * Mellow Moment.

Playing with Style for String Quartet or String Orchestra

Playing with Style for String Quartet or String Orchestra
Author: Joanne Martin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 20
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457413360

Playing with Style is a set of colorful concert pieces in a variety of styles, including tango, ragtime, and jazz. These audience-pleasing pieces are enjoyable to play and will broaden the musical horizons of young players. The pieces use effects such as glissando and tremolo and allow opportunities to explore chromaticisms, swing rhythms and syncopation. Available for string quartet or string orchestra, violin duet or viola duet. Titles are: * Chromatic Tango * Soft Shoe * Hoedown * April Rag * Hopak * Mellow Moment.

The Four and the One

The Four and the One
Author: David Rounds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Spotlighting the four women of the Lafayette Quartet, a leading Canadian ensemble, Rounds offers both a comprehensive history of the beloved instrumental form and an inside view of the complex world of professional quartet players, revealing the exultation and heatache that are the performing artists' daily fare. A treat for every music lover, whether player, listener or composer.

Indivisible by Four

Indivisible by Four
Author: Arnold Steinhardt
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000-06-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780374527006

The author tells of his own development as a student, "of how he and his intrepid colleagues were converted to chamber music ... [and of how] four individualists master and then overcome the confining demands of ensemble playing."--Jacket.

Double Stops for Cello

Double Stops for Cello
Author: Rick Mooney
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1995-10-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457404974

Double stops provide excellent learning material for the young and advancing cellist in this Rick Mooney book. More than 60 familiar folk songs—many in the Suzuki repertoire—help the student learn skills such as hearing intonation, shaping the hand correctly, shifting, extensions, and preparing for future repertoire.

Writing Better Lyrics

Writing Better Lyrics
Author: Pat Pattison
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-12-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1599631660

The Must-Have Guide for Songwriters Writing Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form and function of a song, to fine-tuning lyrics. Perfect for new and experienced songwriters alike, this time-tested classic covers the basics in addition to more advanced techniques.Songwriters will discover: • How to use sense-bound imagery to enhance a song's emotional impact on listeners • Techniques for avoiding clichés and creating imaginative metaphors and similes • Ways to use repetition as an asset • How to successfully manipulate meter • Instruction for matching lyrics with music • Ways to build on ideas and generate effective titles • Advice for working with a co-writer • And much more Featuring updated and expanded chapters, 50 fun songwriting exercises, and examples from more than 20 chart-toppings songs, Writing Better Lyrics gives you all of the professional and creative insight you need to write powerful lyrics and put your songs in the spotlight where they belong.

Dream Boogie

Dream Boogie
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2017-11-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781979787550

Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and a columnist. Hughes was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. He famously wrote about the period, which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue".

Suzuki Bass School - Volume 1 (Revised)

Suzuki Bass School - Volume 1 (Revised)
Author: Dr. Shinichi Suzuki
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 26
Release: 1995-11-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457402114

Teach bass with the popular Suzuki Bass School, Volume 1. This is the piano accompaniment. Titles: *Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Variations and Theme (Shinichi Suzuki) *Lightly Row (Folk Song) *Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) *May Song (Folk Song) *Song of the Wind, (Folk Song) *O Come, Little Children (Folk Song) *Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Variations (Shinichi Suzuki) *Lightly Row (Folk Song) *Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) *Chatter with the Angels (Spiritual) *Song of the Wind (Folk Song) *May Song (Folk Song) *French Folk Song (Folk Song) *O Come, Little Children (Folk Song) *Lament (Bohemian Folk Song) *Perpetual Motion (Shinichi Suzuki) *Allegretto (Shinichi Suzuki) *Allegro (Shinichi Suzuki) *The Little Fiddle (German Folk Song)

The Strum Bowing Method

The Strum Bowing Method
Author: Tracy Scott Silverman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-04-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781732326606

Instructional method book teaching contemporary string instrument rhythmic bow techniques such as Chopping, Ghosting and beyond.