Newly edited and engraved study score for Tchaikovsky's second ballet masterpiece. Includes Preface, Synopsis, and Cast of Characters. This is the complete orchestral score, not a piano reduction, based upon the composer's autograph, the very rare first edition issued by P. Jurgenson, and the score from Tchaikovsky's complete works. This score includes variants not present in the Soviet score. Sleeping Beauty was propelled into the permanent ballet repertoire immediately after the brilliant 1889 premiere by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in St. Petersburg's ...

The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. ...

Crowd Control 2nd edition is a nuts-and-bolts manual for teachers of middle and high school performance-based classes such as band, orchestra, and chorus. This practical 'how-to' guide shows teachers, pre-service or experienced, efficient ways to manage large performance-based classrooms. With wit and sage tried-and-true advice, Haugland provides a complete behavior plan as well as concrete ideas for addressing the National Standards, Common Core, assessment, advocacy, and ensemble team building, along with ways to form a professional network. Accessible ...

‘I am delighted to commend this excellent book… It offers readers, whether people affected by Parkinson’s or other neurological conditions, family members, health and care professionals or musicians who lead music for health activities, a wonderful resource.  They share their wealth of practical experience and insights, offer useful guidance in relation to practicalities and demonstrate clearly that the use of singing as a resource for health and wellbeing is securely grounded in a growing body of robust scientific evidence.’   ...

Kniga posvyashchena vzaimosvyazi tembra (instrumentovki) i muzykal'noy formy kak tselostnoy tembrotektonicheskoy sisteme. Obosnovyvayutsya: 1 universal'nost' vzaimosvyazi tembra i formy vo vsekh formakh, zhanrakh i tembrovykh usloviyakh, 2 aktual'nost' vzaimosvyazi tembra i formy vo vsekh istoricheskikh epokhakh, natsional'nykh traditsiyakh i individual'nykh stilyakh. Issleduetsya vzaimosvyaz' tembra i formy v muzyke raznykh epokh ot barokko (vklyuchaya takzhe romantizm i avangard), do sovremennosti i v muzyke raznykh natsional'nykh traditsiy ot avstro-nemetskogo ...

Aces Back to Back is the most comprehensive, fun, fact-filled and up-to-date history of the Grateful Dead ever written - now updated through August, 2016 !! From the band's inception, through the death of Jerry Garcia, and on to their incarnations as the Other Ones, the Dead, RatDog, Phil Lesh and Friends, the Mickey Hart Band, 7 Walkers, and Furthur - a replete history complemented by never-before-penned Grateful Dead stories, anecdotes and tales. Our biography features a Foreword from Grateful Dead lyricist and renowned civil libertarian John Perry ...

Each summer, 350 musicians-amateur and professional, performers and composers-leave behind their day-to-day lives to gather for an intense week or more making music together. What makes this experience so compelling? The Music of Friends is a celebration of the history and ethos of this collective endeavor, formally known as the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, Inc. The summer of 2020 would have marked the seventy-fifth annual conference and a move to the campus of Colgate University after decades at Bennington College, a double ...

The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume that aims to fill this gap as it explores the interactions between music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms. Contributions by distinguished international scholars address ...