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 | Teach Yourself Piano Product# 460678973 Selling for $22.95 "Taking an easy, nonthreatening, hands-on approach to learning the basics, 'Teach Yourself Piano is an ideal introduction for those with no experience playing an instrument. Focusing on learning how to play the instrument, it eschews theory in favor of practical exercises designed to make you quickly feel at home at the keyboard. The book's large, stay-open format and its many helpful hints and clear, easy-to-follow diagrams help you quickly master the basics. The accompanying CD contains 60 minutes of audio instruction." |
 | The Teaching of Instrumental Music Product# 460679248 Selling for $117.6 "An ideal reference for instrumental music teachers. The first section focuses on essential issues for a successful instrumental program: objectives, assessment and evaluation, motivation, administrative tasks, recruiting and scheduling (including block scheduling), and rehearsal techniques from the first day through high school. The second section devotes a chapter to each wind instrument plus percussion and strings, and includes troubleshooting checklists for each instrument. Features photographs, additional musical examples, and troubleshooting checklists for each instrument. History of Instrumental Music. Objectives. Evaluation. Motivation. Administration. Recruiting and Scheduling. Rehearsal Techniques: Routines and Procedures. Rehearsal Techniques: Concert Preparation. Principles for Strings. An Overview of Wind Instruments. The Flute. The Oboe. The Bassoon. The Clarinet. The Saxophone. Principles for Brass. The Trumpet and Cornet. The Horn. The Trombone. The Tuba and Baritone/Euphonium. Percussion Instruments. String Instruments: Violin/Viola, Cello, Bass. For instrumental music teachers." |
 | At the Beginning: Teaching Piano to the Very Young Child Product# 460680742 Selling for $78.66 "Provides teachers with information to instruct piano students aged three through seven, including theory, methodology, printed music, and lesson plans" |
| The Teaching of Instrumental Music Product# 460684548 Selling for $117.6 "An ideal reference for instrumental music teachers. The first section focuses on essential issues for a successful instrumental program: objectives, assessment and evaluation, motivation, administrative tasks, recruiting and scheduling (including block scheduling), and rehearsal techniques from the first day through high school. The second section devotes a chapter to each wind instrument plus percussion and strings, and includes troubleshooting checklists for each instrument. Features photographs, additional musical examples, and troubleshooting checklists for each instrument. History of Instrumental Music. Objectives. Evaluation. Motivation. Administration. Recruiting and Scheduling. Rehearsal Techniques: Routines and Procedures. Rehearsal Techniques: Concert Preparation. Principles for Strings. An Overview of Wind Instruments. The Flute. The Oboe. The Bassoon. The Clarinet. The Saxophone. Principles for Brass. The Trumpet and Cornet. The Horn. The Trombone. The Tuba and Baritone/Euphonium. Percussion Instruments. String Instruments: Violin/Viola, Cello, Bass. For instrumental music teachers." |
 | The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments Product# 460767950 Selling for $85 "Musical instruments, from the simplest pipes and drums to those of the utmost complexity, have formed an integral part of the cultures of all peoples of the world from the beginning of time. Their range and diversity have inspired the skill and genius of maker, composer, and player. This book is a celebration of that achievement, examining in one alphabetical sequence the astonishing variety of Western and non-Western acoustic musical instruments. Individual entries encapsulate the essential information about the instrument considered. Each entry offers a concise description and, with the aid of numerous line drawings, illustrates details of its construction. Playing techniques are also discussed and major entries draw attention to significant developments in the history of the instrument. Dr Baines also deftly conveys the sound of the instrument and highlights characteristic examples of its use within the orchestral repertoire or, for ethnomusicological instruments, within rites of passage. Musical examples elucidate these points and the whole text is beautifully illustrated with over one hundred photographs. There are general articles on the instruments of specific periods, such as the Renaissance or Baroque, and the instruments of individual continents are considered as an entity. Instruments are also treated by family (woodwind, etc.) and by other common groupings, such as orchestra, brass band. In addition the book deals with a whole range of related subjects, for example acoustics, pitch, chord symbols; methods of playing, such as harmonics, circular breathing; and also such topics as fakes and forgeries and oddities like walking-stick instruments. There is an Appendix of makersmentioned within the text and full bibliographical details are provided for the books and other sources cited. In all, this book bears witness to the author's lifelong passion for musical instruments in all their splendid variety and is distinguished by his elegant prose and scholarship." |