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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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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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The amount of knowledge that the band director is expected to know can be overwhelming. He or she is expected to be a teacher, a conductor, an artist, a musician, and an expert on every instrument in the band. This book condenses and organizes the information needed to improve the clarinet section in a single convenient resource.

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The amount of knowledge that the band director is expected to know can be overwhelming. He or she is expected to be a teacher, a conductor, an artist, a musician, and an expert on every instrument in the band. This book condenses and organizes the information needed to improve the clarinet section in a single convenient resource.

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This unique one-volume discography provides a convenient reference to recordings of solo horn, horn duos and trios, multiple horns, and horns in combination with other solo instruments and with voice. Entries are organized by type of instrumental group or performance, with recordings of each artist listed under the composer of the work.

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"Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897--1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, "I have never forgotten the power and imagination with which he played." The first great jazz soloist, Bechet was"

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This resource provides professionals, musicians, teachers, students, or individuals with an abundance of brass instrument knowledge. The book's chapters answer questions like: Where did these instruments come from How do they work How do I choose one How do I take care of m...

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For three decades, Anthony Braxton has been alternately celebrated, dismissed and attacked for his musical innovations and attempts at reconciling historically divergent and often conflicting worldviews and principles. This is a biography of the man and his music.

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In The Shofar: Its History and Use, Jeremy Montagu offers a detailed study of the ram's horn of the Bible, describing its history and use, both ritual and secular, from biblical times to the present day. Because most of those who hear--and use--the shofar hear the same blower ...

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This comprehensive study treats the wind works of Anton Bruckner as a complete genre and uses them to illustrate how the composer evolved in style throughout his career.

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In this work, the music is placed in context: why it was written, where it was played, and how it influenced other genres.

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The preponderance of early Black composers wrote choral music and even the most outstanding among them did not compose works for woodwinds.

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Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing the Flute has long been recognized as one of the primary sources of information about eighteenth-century performance practice.

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Kudsi Erguner spent his childhood in the Sufi gathering places of Istanbul, mastering the reed flute of the Turkish Mevlevi tradition; and his adulthood roaming the world, performing with the likes of Peter Brook, Jean-Michel Jarre and Peter Gabriel. This work is a memoir of a musician at the crossroads of East and West.

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Combining newspaper and manuscript evidence from the pipers themselves with a range of historical sources, the author harnesses the insights of the practical player to those of the historian and provides a fresh account of the players and their musical traditions, which have previously been the subject of much myth-making.

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Playing the Harmonica includes an easy-to-follow 64-page illustrated instruction book together with a high quality blues harmonica in the key of C.

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All over the world people associate the bagpipes with Scotland. In this informative and entertaining book Stuart McHardy introduces Scotland's national instrument - its history, development and repertoire - and examines the part that the piper himself has played in Highland and Lowland society over the centuries.

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The harmonica is an incredibly versatile instrument, suitable for all types of music - from classical, jazz and soul to rock, pop, country, fold and blues.