
11.99 £
Boosey and Hawkes
A classical music omnibus- Classic FM's Classic Ephemera is an entertaining collection of quips and quirks from the world of classical music. This book contains nuggets of musical fact you didn't know you needed to know and oodles of useful information you shouldn't be without. It includes a section on celebrated composers as well as potted plots of famous operas retold as you've never heard them before. It's informative engrossing entertaining and often hilarious. Written by the authors of the Classic FM Pocket Books this substantial volume of trivia should be on any serious music-lover's shelves.

8.50 £
Hal Leonard
This book is meant to assist teachers who wish to introduce their students to creative composition but have limited lesson time available and feel the need for some direction in starting and continuing the process successfully.The process involves devoting as little as five minutes of lesson time to composition but at every lesson over a period of for example six to eight weeks. Suggestions in the concise Lesson Plans help bring about gradual changesor improvements from week to week that are enough to keep the piece developing and more importantly to keep the student immersed and motivated in the process.This book is meant to assist teachers who wish to introduce their students to creative composition but have limited lesson time available and feel the need for some direction in starting and continuing the process successfully.The process involves devoting as little as five minutes of lesson time to composition but at every lesson over a period of for example six to eight weeks. Suggestions in the concise Lesson Plans help bring about gradual changesor improvements from week to week that are enough to keep the piece developing and more importantly to keep the student immersed and motivated in the process.

22.99 £
Backbeat Books
Electric Semi-Solid Thinlines and Players Who Made Them Famous-The Gibson 335 Guitar Book tells the story of Gibson's ES-335 and related models as played by B.B. King Alvin Lee and Eric Clapton among other virtuosos. It's full of great guitars cool players and fascinating historical detail. The book traces the story from Gibson's first thinline models to the company's signature instruments and modern re-creations of today. The book is in the tradition of Tony Bacon's bestselling guitar series with a carefully researched story a gallery section of full-color pictures of the most important guitars and players and a reference section detailing production years and specifications. The 335 was launched in 1958. It had adouble-cutaway body but the interesting features were hidden inside. A solid block in an otherwise hollow body created a new semi-solid structure cleverly combining the sonic qualities of a hollowbody guitar and a solidbody. Variants included the stereo 345 and the upscale 355 and players have lined up ever since for a taste of these attractively different flavors. Some of those players featured in the book include Larry Carlton Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) Peter Hayes (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) Justin Hayward (Moody Blues) Eric Clapton Pepper Keenan (Down) B.B. King Elvin Bishop (Butterfield Blues Band) Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) Alex Lifeson (Rush) Eddie Phillips (the Creation) Johnny Marr (the Smiths) Lee Ritenour Andy Summers (the Police) Bill Nelson (Be-Bop Deluxe) and Andrew White (Kaiser Chiefs). The Gibson 335 Guitar Book tells the story of Gibson's ES-335 and related models as played by B.B. King Alvin Lee and Eric Clapton among other virtuosos. It's full of great Guitars cool players and fascinating historical detail. The book traces the story from Gibson's first thinline models to the company's signature instruments and modern re-creations of today. The book is in the tradition of Tony Bacon's bestselling Guitar series with a carefully researched story a gallery section of full-color pictures of the most important Guitars and players and a reference section detailing production years andspecifications. The 335 was launched in 1958. It had a double-cutaway body but the interesting features were hidden inside. A solid block in an otherwise hollow body created a new semi-solid structure cleverly combining the sonic qualities of a hollowbody Guitar and a solidbody. Variants included the stereo 345 and the upscale 355 and players have lined up ever since for a taste of these attractively different flavors. Some of those players featured in the book include Larry Carlton Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) Peter Hayes (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) Justin Hayward (Moody Blues) Eric Clapton Pepper Keenan (Down) B.B. King Elvin Bishop (Butterfield Blues Band) Alvin Lee (Ten Years After

8.95 £
Bosworth Edition
The ultimate crash course in music theory! In German.

6.95 £
Novello and Co
Geoffrey Tankard was a British composer conductor and highly esteemed educator at the Royal College of Music and later in Bermuda. His seminal work Pianoforte Technique on an Hour a Day has remained an touchstone of Piano technical study since its appearance in 1960. In Specimen Answers Tankard does not attempt to give answers for memorization but rather to offer some possible answers for consideration.The language is erudite and refreshingly straightforward and any student of these two works would find this volume a welcome guide to understanding the pieces in depth.Geoffrey Tankard was a British composer conductor and highly esteemed educator at the Royal College of Music and later in Bermuda. His seminal work Pianoforte Technique on an Hour a Day has remained an touchstone of Piano technical study since its appearance in 1960. In Specimen Answers Tankard does not attempt to give answers for memorization but rather to offer some possible answers for consideration.The language is erudite and refreshingly straightforward and any student of these two works would find this volume a welcome guide to understanding the pieces in depth.

5.95 £
Bosworth Edition
A beginner's tutor book for the piano starting with the names and locations on the keyboard of notes and moving through to accidentals note values and how to construct chords.

14.99 £
Hal Leonard
Pensado's Strive Education Series-The Strive curriculum is the brainchild of online-television sensation Pensado's Place and audio-publishing giant Hal Leonard. It will feature authors who are considered best in class relevant and enormously committed to education and giving back. We chose the name Strive because to attain all the key dynamics to growth in your life you simply must strive! Strive continues the Pensado ethos of edutainment combining education with entertainment to teach reach amplify inspire and yes to strive! Topics in Strive will range from vocal courses management tracking mixing social media music theory for the electronic musician miking tracking home recording marketing live instrumentation speakers headphones live sound cables connectors mastering and more. Featured authors will include such audio heavyweights as Usher's New Look Foundation rock legend Chris Lord-Alge Nashville institution the Blackbird Academy Dave Pensado pop and urban maestro Tony Maserati and Rihanna vocal producer Kuk Harrell. And there are many more all-stars to come! Additionally Strive will allow the reader to engage with other Pensado's Place opportunities from bundling software such as plug-ins headphones DAWs or other gear options to also engaging with some of our most active platform partners such as Converse Rubber Tracks and Indaba. The Strive curriculum may make you eligible for one-on-one teaching with our superstar guests VIP access at Pensado Live Events discounts on gear and more. You want to know how the pros succeeded? It starts with learning how to strive! The Strive curriculum is the brainchild of online-television sensation Pensado's Place and audio-publishing giant Hal Leonard. It will feature authors who are considered best in class relevant and enormously committed to education and giving back. We chose the name Strive because to attain all the key dynamics to growth in your life you simply must strive! Strive continues the Pensado ethos of edutainment combining education with entertainment to teach reach amplify inspire and yes to strive ! Topicsin Strive will range from vocal courses management tracking mixing social media music theory for the electronic musician miking tracking home recording marketing live instrumentation speakers headphones live sound cables connectors mastering and more. Featured authors will include such audio heavyweights as Usher's New Look Foundation rock legend Chris Lord-Alge Nashville institution the Blackbird Academy Dave Pensado pop and urban maestro Tony Maserati and Rihanna vocal producer Kuk Harrell. And there are many more all-stars to come! Additionally Strive will allow the reader to engage with other Pensado's Place opportunities

11.95 £
Bosworth Edition
Involving the whole body learning the instrument and distancing oneself from overdone mechanic ways of plaing and practising.

8.99 £
Mel Bay Publications
A concise booklet which presents a complete practicing methodology for guitarists. Topics discussed include the concepts of inner and outer poise issues affecting practice visualization and much more. A concise booklet which presents a complete practicing methodology for guitarists. Topics discussed include the concepts of inner and outer poise issues affecting practice visualization and much more.

8.95 £
Kjos Music Company
Music Theory In Band And Orchestra-The more students understand about the music the better they are able to perform it! This practical 56-page resource will build understanding and confidence by providing theory activities that balance rigor higher level thinking and time. Music Theory in Band and Orchestra makes it possible to teach music theory through repertoire and connect and expand experiences to promote higher level thinking. Nineteen different duplicable customizable forms for class use.The more students understand about the music the better they are able to perform it! This practical 56-page resource will build understanding and confidence by providing theory activities that balance rigor higher levelthinking and time. Music Theory in Band and Orchestra makes it possible to teach music theory through repertoire and connect and expand experiences to promote higher level thinking. Nineteen different duplicable customizable forms for class use.

19.50 £
Schott Music
This four-language dictionary of music contains more than 4000 terms and is intended for musicians teachers students and amateurs who wish to understand and use specialist foreign terms. The book is not academic in scope; it is based on practical experience derived from the examination of directions given on a large number of orchestral scores piano pieces and transcriptions and instrumental parts. In order to complement and clarify this vocabulary specialist dictionaries and reference books have been consulted. Contemporary musical terms taken for example from the fields of jazz pop and electronic music have also been included.

12.95 £
Edition Choudens
Français et Etrangers d'usage courant. Définitions traductions explications.

15.95 £
Alfred Music Publications
Shinichi Suzuki's philosophy struck such a responsive chord in Dr. Masaaki Honda that he has since devoted himself to spreading Suzuki's ideas of teaching and learning throughout the world. With warmth and humour Dr. Honda tells of concert tours with the phenomenal child musicians trained by Suzuki and of his own life back and forth between two cultured.

24.99 £
Faber Music
A complete step-by-step scheme of work for specialist and non-specialist teachers. This title is the key to delivering the rigorous and ever-changing demands that make up the Key Stage 2 Music curriculum. Designed for use by any music teacher regardless of technical musical knowledge the book works progressively through the syllabus describing exaclty what is required and offering easy-to-follow solutions to bring the ideas to the classroom effectively. The guide includes: 30 Lesson plans Songs with music Separate lyric sheets Photocopiable pupil's sheets A set of appendices that address the finer details of thecurriculum. The book is complete with a CD of music for all the material featured which is ideal for those teachers without Piano-playing abilities or for those classrooms where a Piano is not available.

4.95 £
Hal Leonard
Get the rock-solid fundamentals of rhythms pitch and harmony with this easy to use book. Learn the universal language used by all musicians regardless of instrument. Includes concise detailed explanations illustrations and written exercises. Construct scales cords and intervals. Identify major and minor key centers and common chord progressions. Accurately play various rhythm feels and figures. Learn the basic principles of form and compositional analysis. Get the rock-solid fundamentals of rhythms pitch and harmony with this easy to use book. Learn the universal language used by all musicians regardless of instrument. Includes concise detailed explanations illustrations and written exercises. Construct scales cords and intervals. Identify major and minor key centers and common chord progressions. Accurately play various rhythm feels and figures. Learn the basic principles of form and compositional analysis.

14.95 £
Bosworth Edition
Kato Havas was a child prodigy on the violin and played in front of Kodaly and Bartok at the age of fourteen - she therefore knows a lot about stage fright! This book addresses the causes of stage fright and tackles them with a series of exercises.

6.99 £
Faber Music
A superb modern interpretation of 'A Night On Bare Mountain' by Modest Mussorgsky. The story and illustration blend with the music on the CD to provide three dimensional inspiration for children at home and at school.

14.95 £
Novello and Co
A detailed analysis of the first 24 of Bach's 48 preludes and fugues. Each prelude is reduced to show the structure and each fugue is analysed bar by bar. Both are followed by summaries and remarks.

8.99 £
Dover Publications
Wagner initiated Romantic image of the conductor as fiery omniscient dictator of the podium. Here are his eloquent essays on role of the conductor musical interpretation many other topics. Still exciting and valid for the modern reader. This book has been translated by Edward Dannreuther.

14.95 £
Hal Leonard
The Eddie Cochran Story-Outrageously talented remarkably handsome internationally renowned and dead at the age of 21. More than 40 years after the tragic car crash that killed him Eddie Cochran remains one of the rock 'n' roll's most lamented what ifs . A trailblazing guitarist gifted vocalist hit-making composer and arranger and budding whiz-kid producer Cochran quickly ascended from Midwestern obscurity in the late '50s to become one of nascent rock 'n' roll's leading lights. He penned or recorded many of the most recognized songs in rock history Summertime Blues Nervous Breakdown Somethin' Else C'mon everybody Twenty Flight Rock Sittin' in the Balcony songs whose distinctive sound and defiant often wryly humorours lyrics have been eagerly digested analyzed and lovingly reinterpreted by generations of rockers after him from The Beatles to the Sex Pistols The Who to U2 . Three Steps to Heaven: The Eddie Cohran Story co-authored by Cochran's nephew a gifted musicion in his own right is the first American biography of this uniquely American rock legend who was among the first to be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. The book is a detailded portrait of Cochran's personal and professional triumphs and travails with fascinating insights into the rock pieoner life that only a family member could provide. Bobby Cochran reveals the dynamics of a musical family and the amazing and tragic parallels between his own life story and that of his Uncle Eddie. Bobby Cochran is an award-winning producer and guitarist who has worked with Steppenwolf the Flying Burrito Brothers Leon Russell the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Adrian Legg . Outrageously talented remarkably handsome internationally renowned and dead at the age of 21. More than 40 years after the tragic car crash that killed him Eddie Cochran remains one of the rock 'n' roll's most lamented what ifs . A trailblazing guitarist gifted vocalist hit-making composer and arranger and budding whiz-kid producer Cochran quickly ascended from Midwestern obscurity in the late '50s to become one of nascent rock 'n' roll's leading lights. He penned or recorded many of the most recognized songs in rock history Summertime Blues Nervous Breakdown Somethin' Else C'mon everybody Twenty Flight Rock Sittin' in theBalcony songs whose distinctive sound and defiant often wryly humorours lyrics have been eagerly digested analyzed and lovingly reinterpreted by generations of rockers after him from The Beatles to the Sex Pistols The Who to U2 . Three Steps to Heaven: The Eddie Cohran Story co-authored by Cochran's nephew a gifted musicion in his own right is the first American biography of this uniquely American rock legend who was among the first to be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. The book is a detailded portrait of Cochran's personal and professio