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A complete guide to the ukulele: learn how to play, history of the uke, songs to strum, beginner and advanced techniques, famous pluckers, pull-out chord dictionary and much, much more...

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In A Dictionary for the Modern Clarinet, scholar and musician Jane Ellsworth offers lovers of the clarinet the premiere reference book for information about this remarkable instrument.

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Filled with concise and detailed definitions, A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player includes biographies of prominent performers, teachers, instrument makers, and composers of trumpet solo and ensemble literature often omitted from other musical references.

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This unique discography of 78 RPM recordings extensively profiles solo and group horn performers, including chamber ensemble and orchestra recordings.

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A distinguished New York Times editor explores the history of the pipe organ in America in a book that will intrigue and delight anyone interested in classical music and popular culture. Hear the sounds of some of the pipe organs featured in ALL THE STOPS

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This comprehensive collection of 492 songs constitutes a body of work surprisingly large in proportion and revealing in scope. Compiled from songs originally printed with music, lyrics with designated tunes, and lyrics otherwise indicating that they were actually, sung, the book follows a chronology that is historically meaningful.

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This annotated survey identifies and evaluates the published literature of chamber and concertante music originally conceived for wind instruments. Entries, arranged by instrument, are organised chronologically by genre to highlight the historical development of the works.

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Landon, himself a theatre pipe organist, has written the first history of the theatre pipe organ. He traces its development from church organ to a theatrical instrument that took the place of a piano. The book also includes a history of those companies that built theatre organs and biographical sketches of some of the leading theatre organists.

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Surveys the history of bell production and the development of moulding and casting techniques. This book describes the intricate tuning process and the role of the bellfounder. It contains photographs that illustrate the production process of some of the famous foundries in Britain, such as those at Whitechapel and Loughborough.

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"Presents a range of design approaches for developing motion-controlled digital musical instruments that reflect performer perspectives and felt experience"--

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Cavaill-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome: Bigger Than Them All, by Ronald Ebrecht, tells the engrossing story of Aristide Cavaill-Coll's quest to build the largest-ever mechanical-action organ in the biggest church at the time. Cavaill-Coll is often r...

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Most other works that instruct cellists in the art of playing their instrument come in two predictable formsemphasizing either the left hand or the right hand or instructing string players in the use of both but separately. Wilson argues that the movements of the hands are vitally interdependent, supporting one another in any technical action.

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An important characteristic of contemporary art music has been the use of conventional instruments in unconventional ways, achieving effects undreamed of or thought impossible in the early twentieth century.

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"The never-before told story of drum machines, from their primitive beginnings to their Eighties dominance to the ways they're still changing music today"--

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Aims to provide comprehensive information on the technology of music. The encyclopaedia's entries cover an immense musical field. Included are entries on traditional and electronic instruments, and on such topics as computer music composition, microphone placement and psychoacoustics.

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With encouragement from Durufls editor and the foundation established in his name, Ronald Ebrecht has meticulously studied each of Durufls works and put together the first book to analyze in detail all of Durufls music.