NOVIDADES 08/2008

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Musicking, The Meanings of Performing and Listening - Christopher Small

Small is a perfect outsider critic, the kind of wise, generalizing mind who sees the whole picture; he is the opposite of a striving, circumspect academic who has followed the trail of specialization toward the goal of tenure. Though educated in the classical tradition and thoroughly at home with its canon, Small has shown a rare catholicity of interests . . . like all gurus, Small teaches more about how to live in relation to the subject matter than he does about the subject matter itself . . . Small's strength is openness. He fiercely believes in the universality of musical experience and seeks to make understanding of it accessible to the general reader . . . His most personal book, Musicking can be seen as a bold divestment of his own cultural training, ending in the man standing naked before his peers.

The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance - Knud Jeppesen

A meticulous and informed examination of the compositional style of the greatest Renaissance creator of liturgical music. Author Knud Jeppesen explores the elements and disciplines that constitute Palestrina's personal style including his handling of rhythm, line and harmony. The beginning chapters discuss the standard use of rhythm and harmony in Palestrina's time, setting the context of the work, identifying common and uncommon practices.At the heart of the book is a painstaking examination of Palestrina's use of dissonance and his contrapuntal technique, which forged new harmonic devices that were unorthodox for his time, but proved vital to the development of the western harmonic systems of later years. In addition, Jeppesen includes a complete history of the evolving concept of dissonance before Palestrina, including quotations from some of the earliest theoretical works.

Classic Jazz Compositions and Piano Solos - Herbie Hancock

Transcribed by Bill Dobbins. Herbie Hancock is certainly one of the most influential jazz pianists. His recordings as a member of the Miles Davis Quintet and as a leader of several sessions for the Blue Note Label have made an impact on practically all contemporary jazz pianists, especially in terms of harmonic conception and the spontaneous development of melodic and rhythmic ideas. This book contains compositions and piano solos from both of these historically influential sources. Compositions and solos: Oliloqui Valley, Goodbye To Childhood, The Sorcerer Solos on the chord changes to: Autumn Leaves, All of You, My Funny Valentine, Stella By Starlight, I Thought About You, There Is No Greater Love.

Jazz Drumming - Billy Hart

The recordings contain two mixes of each composition, one mix for listening and one mix to play along with (without drums).
Sidemen include John Abercrombie (guitar), Richie Beirach or Bill Dobbins (piano), Jimmy Knepper (trombone), David Liebman (soprano & tenor saxophone), Ron McClure or Rufus Reid (bass), Louis Smith (flügelhorn) and Bobby Watson (alto saxophone).
The book contains transcriptions of Billy Hart’s playing with helpful commentary of each recorded performance: A Night In Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie, Equinox - John Coltrane, Day & Nite - David Liebman, Ralph’s Piano Waltz - John Abercrombie, Embraceable You - George Gershwin, Lo Flame - Bill Dobbins.

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Works for Violoncello and Piano - Leos Janacek

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Leoš Janácek wrote only two works for cello and piano, of which only Pohádka (Fairy Tale) became established in the concert repertoire. Although he completed the work, the composer did not want to have it published. The history of the work’s composition is long and complicated. Janácek began writing the work before 1910, however, the Pohádka (Fairy Tale) only received its final form after a series of corrections in 1923.
The second composition, the Presto, is incomplete. Only a sketch exists which Janácek did not develop further. The original tempo marking of Allegro was changed by Janácek himself to Presto. The work has been discussed under this title in recent Janácek literature.

L'Oreille à L'Écoute Vol.1 - Agnès Mabire-Rex

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Ce recueil est le premier d'une série d'ouvrages progressifs qui s'adresse aux élèves des conservatoires, des écoles de musiques, aux étudiants en musicologie, mais aussi aux amateurs désireux de perfectionner leur connaissance du langage musical.
Chaque ouvrage s'accompagne d'un CD, qui présente, dans de nombreux cas, deux enregistrements de la même pièce.
Une première fois de manière stricte afin de rendre plus audibles les éléments à travailler. Une seconde fois dans une version plus longue ou la plus fidèle possible à l'esthétique de l'original, notamment en ce qui concerne les musiques de la Renaissance et du Baroque.

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Guitar Intro (3 Vols.) - Irina Kircher & Alfonso Montes

"Guitar-Intro" is a Three-Book series developed after 20 years of guitar teaching in many different situations by the Montes-Kircher guitar Duo. Volume One is in 2 versions - German and International. All books have CDs and can be used independently of each other - a teacher's manual is in preparation.
"Guitar-Intro II" - THE ENSEMBLE BOOK is not only the companion volume to volume 1 of the series, it is an extraordinary book of 70 works for 1-5 guitars with the theme "building musicianship and technique in ensemble playing". It includes the colour stickers so popular in Volume 1 of the series. Contains a broad palette of original compositions, Pop songs, Hits from Musicals etc. etc., contains 2 practice CDs. Ideal for home or class.

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Children’s Songs from 23 Countries for accordion - Vas Gábor (Ed.)

"From the very beginning" - we might use this expression borrowed from Microcosmos to describe this volume of selections from Gábor Vas’s most successful children’s song arrangements, ranging from the simplest, single-line harmonization to page-long little compositions that presuppose deeper knowledge, and providing accordion students with several years’ supply of showy and enjoyable performance pieces. The volume includes such popular melodies as "Sur le pont d’Avignon", "Goodbye, winter", the German "Cuckoo" and the Polish song "The cuckoo is singing".

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Ideo-Kinetics, A Workbook for Marimba Technique - Gordon B. Stout

The ideo-kinetics technique workbook is a methodology based on the relationship between sight and movement. It focuses on visually concentrating only on the notes of the instrument directly in front of the body and ki naesthetically memorising the distance from those reference notes to those outside the immediate field of vision.
It is with this principle that the exercises are developed.This book is highly recommended for all marimbists. It can be used as your primary method or in addition to other current marimba technique philosophies

Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer Vol.1 - Jim Chapin

The classic jazz independence book is now new and improved and with two CDs ! Jim Chapin, known as the "Father of Jazz Independence," has written one of the most popular drum set books of all time. This classic work should be in every drummer's library as there is always something new to learn and de velop from this masterful book. Whether for a beginner or an accomplished d rummer, this system will greatly improve independence and coordination, sti cking, power, and speed and endurance on the drum set. Dedicated to Sanford Moeller, this book proves Jim's teaching techniques like no other.
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