It's a haunting image. At least it was for author John Thomas. Some seventy women sit in four rows in front of the Gibson Guitar factory in the mid-1940s. Conventional wisdom and company lore had it that Gibson had ceased guitar production during World War II, with only seasoned craftsmen too old for war doing repairs and completing the few instruments already in progress. What were these women doing there? The image so bedeviled Thomas that he eventually set out to find at least one of the women in the photograph. He found a dozen. Along the way he would ...

A very detailed exposition of important jazz, rock, blues, country, pop, folk, classical, chords but yet of simple chord shapes is given in this book. Triad chords and their substitutes in Moveable, Open and Bar shapes are well treated. Then applications of these chords such as, to play guitar by ear only without sheet music is clearly explained plus the topic of chord substitution. With the comprehensive chord charts and tables plus a basic study illustration of the guitar fretboard added in this book; the guitarist reader will inevitably become a chord ...

Techniques, Tricks ' Pro Tips to Make Your Sound The Very Best it Can Be! Do you want to make better music? How about achieving a professional sound? Or even being able to work in professional studios? If you're serious about improving your music production, songwriting ' audio engineering skills to a professional level then keep on reading... Most musicians dream of making professional sounding music. But in order to create great music they need to understand the steps and tools involved. With proper skill development, creativity and knowledge ...

Author Michael Wood has been described as "the hardest working man in show business". He has been called one of the "most connected people in today's music industry". Everything from touring North America to voting on the Grammy Awards to now being a professor at one of the largest colleges in Canada, Michael has tried to take everything he has learned along the way and help aspiring musicians and music executives to reach their goals. On top of sharing his experiences and ideas, he has called upon some of his "friends in the 'biz" to share their stories ...

This study examines a type of Tibetan Buddhist vocal music, dbyangs, with specific emphasis on phet singing in chod dbyangs of Kagyu sect. Chapter I outlines the scope of the study, overview of few previous related studies, goal of the study and research methods. Chapter II introduces the general philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism. General discussion about the origin, occasions, theory and musical characteristics of dbyangs appear in chapter III. Chapter IV provides an overview of chod practice regarding its origin, philosophy, functions, texts, and meaning of ...

Spearheads a new field for the combined study of religion and music, drawing upon theories and methods of the social sciences, ethnomusicology, philosophy, theology, liturgical studies, and cognitive studies.

The seventh in his visionary series of thirteen tone poems for orchestra, Liszt's Festklänge was originally intended as a wedding march for his own wedding to Princess Wittgenstein during a brief period in 1853 when it seemed there would be no obstacle to the nuptials from the Vatican and even includes a 'polonaise' section alluding to the Polish origins of the Princess. After the Vatican indefinitely postponed the anticipated permission, the work was first performed as a musical introduction to a Schiller play given on 9 September 1854 with the composer ...

Después de "Teoría de la música" aparece "Solfeo". Es la quinta obra publicada de la autora. Por vez primera en un método se introduce SISTEMA MODIFICADO KODÁLY para entonar, inventado por la autora. Cada tomo cuenta con 4 capítulos: Lectura, Rítmica, Entonación, Entrenamiento auditivo. LECTURA en claves antiguas, modernas. RÍTMICA a 1, 2, más percusiones. ENTONACIÓN a 1, 2, más voces, horizontal, vertical. ENTRENAMIENTO AUDITIVO - grados, intervalos, acordes, resoluciones. ...

The ninth in his ground breaking series of thirteen tone poems for orchestra, Liszt's "Hungaria" or 'Heroic Elegy' was composed in 1854 and given a tremendously successful premiere in Budapest's National Theatre on 8 September 1856 under the composer's direction. This new study score is a digitally-restored reissue of the score edited by Otto Taubmann in the fifth volume of the Liszt-Stiftung edition, published in 1909. In contrast so many of the on-demand scores now available this one comes with all the pages with each image thoroughly checked to make sure ...

The first movement from DeVenney's outstanding new edition of this American choral masterpiece, this choral score features a complete piano reduction - reduced to cue-note size. This reformatting allows for printing on a more convenient format for choruses, at a more reasonable price.