Chamber opera in a prologue and one act. A ghost story telling of the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in the Hebrides. This is a mystery story in the form of a chamber opera. The prologue is set as a courtof enquiry into the unexplained disappearance of the three keepers from a lighthouse. Questions are posed by a solo horn which may sound from among the audience and three officers give answer. Gradually they move from straighttestimony into fantastical imaginings of evil during a 'flashback' to the lighthouse; but then we snap back to the courtroom. In the main act the three singers become the vanished keepers. They have been together for months long enough to be fully aware of each other's weaknesses; petty bickerings suggest a relationship which is stable but liable to become highly unstable at any moment. They sing songs to reduce the tension Blazes beginning with arough ballad of street violence accompanied by violin and banjo. Sandy's song with cello and out-of-tune upright piano is a thinly disguised description of sexual bliss and Arthur's with brass and clarinet is a tub-thumpinghymn. But the songs serve only to resurrect in their minds ghosts from the past and as the fog descends each of the keepers becomes convinced that he is being claimed by the Beast. They prepare to meet its dazzling eyes whichbecome the lights of the relief vessel and the three men reappear as officers met at the lighthouse only by an infestation of rats. They leave and at the end the last hours of Blazes Sandy and Arthur begin to play overagain.Libretto only. Duration c. 1h 25mins.

Fun Songs for Learning Essential Sight Words-Reading is one of the most critical skills taught in school. An essential goal in developing this skill is making sure students are completely proficient with Sight Words. The popular ?Sing and Learn? series from Hal Leonard presents I Can We Can a creative and motivational resource that uses music to reinforce the learning of essential sight words. The Activity Songbook/Listening CD features reproducible song melodies movement suggestions activities and games all presented in a sequential teaching format. Reproducible song pictures with highlighted Sight Words and illustrations are also included for additional learning reinforcement. The enclosed Listening CDprovides song recordings to listen and sing-along. A CD-ROM is also available either separately or in a Classroom Kit with the Activity Songbook/Listening CD. This Enhanced CD-ROM includes song recordings with singers and without and printable PDFs of singer melodies full color song pictures piano accompaniments activities and artwork. Fun learning through music! Available separately: Activity Songbook/Listening CD Enhanced CD and Classroom Kit. Lessons and activities by Elizabeth Shier; with special thanks to Sarah Giordano for her creative input. Suggested for grades PreK-1.

The Musician's Guide to Cover Gigs. You could be the greatest player in the world but until you get in front of a live audience your talent means nothing. Written in straight-forward language by professional gigging musicians Making Money Making Music guides artists through every aspect of achieving financial success through lucrative cover gigs. This easy-to-use reference shows readers how to start or join a cover band choose the right cover songs land the first gigs or get better ones handle marketing and promotion use proper sound and lighting systems put on a killer show and much more.

Story Of Jazz As Told By The Men Who Made It. Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ? Charlie Parker What is jazz? The rhythm ? the feeling. ? Coleman Hawkins The best sound usually comes the first time you do something. If it's spontaneous, it's going to be rough, not clean, but it's going to have the spirit which is the essence of jazz. ? Dave Brubeck Here, in their own words, such famous jazz musicians as Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Clarence Williams, Jo Jones, Jelly Roll Morton, Mezz Mezzrow, Billie Holiday, and many others recall the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years. From its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century in the red-light district in New Orleans (or Storyville, as it came to be known), to Chicago's Downtown section and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Chicago's South Side to jam sessions in Kansas City to Harlem during the Depression years, the West Coast and modern developments, the story of jazz is vividly and colorfully documented in hundreds of personal interviews, letters, tape recorded and telephone conversations, and excerpts from previously printed articles that appeared in books and magazines. There is no more fascinating and lively history of jazz than this firsthand telling by the men who made it. It should be read and re-read by all jazz enthusiasts, musicians, students of music and culture, students of American history, and other readers. A lively book bearing the stamp of honesty and naturalness. ? Library Journal. A work of considerable substance. ? The New Yorker. Some of the quotations are a bit racy but they give the book a wonderful flavor. ? San Francisco Chronicle.

A Social and Cultural History-This ground-breaking book by David Wright explores how ABRSM became such a formative influence in the musical world and looks at some of the consequences resulting from its pre-eminent position in British musical life.The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music better known as ABRSM has influenced the musical lives and tastes of millions of people since it conducted its first exams in 1890. In this fascinating history particular emphasis is given to how free ABRSM has been to impose its musical view of things and to what extent its exams respond to the circumstances and musical preferences of its customers.The book explores how ABRSM hasnegotiated music's changing social educational and cultural landscape and casts fresh light on the challenges facing music education today.

Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton is a comprehensive and revealing biography which includes interviews with family members, musicians and producers who have worked with Dolly over the years. This new and fully updated edition includes a detailed section on the superstar's legendary performance at 2014's Glastonbury Festival.This book is a detailed assessment of her music as a singer and songwriter over the last forty years, and author Stephen Miller discusses how she shrugged aside the male-dominated world of Nashville in the early 1960s to take hold of her career, sell millions of albums and appear in films with Jane Fonda, Burt Reynolds and Sylvester Stallone.Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton throws new light on her private life - her mysterious and closely guarded relationship with her husband Carl Dean, and her lifelong friend Judy Ogle as well as her seeming love of cosmetic surgery. This is the story of an artist and performer who is deadly serious about music but is often seen as frivolous about her image. The updated version of this Dolly Parton biography includes details of her Glastonbury 2014 performance, the cherry on the cake of her illustrious career. Finding new fans and putting on a characteristically entertaining show for old ones, the UK tour led to her most recent album being her biggest-selling album in the UK ever.This incredible detailed Dolly Parton biography is a must for all fans, old and new, of this jewel in country music's crown. Boasting an authoritative account of her ongoing career, this is the only biography on the legendary lady, the queen of country, the philanthropist and perfect performer.Stephen Miller practised as a solicitor until the early Nineties when he retired in order to pursue other interests, notably American country music. For six years he reviewed albums, books and concerts and interviewed a variety of artists for a weekly country music show on commercial radio station Scot FM. He is also the author of Johnny Cash: The Life on an American Idol, also published by Omnibus Press.If you've bought the biography and been inspired by Parton's incredible songwriting, why not learn some of her Greatest Hits with our Dolly Parton sheet music. / Livre

Peter Maxwell Davies. Cinderella is a light-hearted pantomime opera based on the traditional story with a few new twists by the composer. The first performances of ‘Cinderella’ were given by children in Kirkwall in the OrkneyIslands who were non-specialist and had shown no unusual interest in or aptitude for music. All vocal parts are written within the range of children’s normal unbroken voices although the three Ugly Sisters can be played by olderboys singing an octave lower than written. Eleven solo parts plus chorus and parts for descant treble and tenor recorders trumpet percussion piano and string quintet with optional viola. 60 mins.

This book highlights the major components for survival and success during the formative years in a college university or conservatory and provides examples and strategies to greatly assist the student musician.With no-nonsense advice and practical tips this guide will prepare music students (and their parents!) to meet the many challenges and take advantage of the opportunities afforded them during the glorious college years.

During their golden years of 1977 to 1982, The Jam's frontman Paul Weller was their outspoken leader, but it was drummer Rick Buckler who was the beating heart of the band, and it is his fascinating story that is told in his autobiography, That's Entertainment: My Life In The Jam, replete with insights into his life and music.From his childhood in the 1950s to his musical growth to becoming the backbone of one of the most successful punk rock British bands, the story goes on to detail his post-Jam musical career, incorporating a number of other musicians in his continuous projects. Featuring some incredible photographs from Buckler's personal archives, in-depth details about his personal and musical life, as well as new information about his projects since The Jam, That's Entertainment: My Life In The Jam presents a great biography that is an antidote to many of the other popular music books out there.As The Jam rose to fame in 1977, their blend of rock, punk, mod and new-wave made them a musical force to be reckoned with. Weller's in-your-face attitude and songwriting combined with Bruce Foxton's powerful bass lines and Buckler's brilliant drumming to create a sound that has been often replicated but rarely matched. This book is the story of the man at the back of the band, absent from the bitter quarrels but always looking forward from the middle, both physically on-stage and metaphorically. There have been a vast number of other books written about The Jam, but none come close to the intimacy and personality of this portrayal of a pioneering band and their interesting story. Through Rick Buckler's eyes, That's Entertainment: My Life In The Jam chronicles the highlights of their heyday and the low points of the dissolution of friendships. It's a brilliant read if you're a fan of The Jam, or even at all interested in popular music, this Rick Buckler autobiography has it all. / Livre

Third Edition (Pocket Guide)-You walk into a local vintage guitar shop. You see what you think is the exact vintage Gibson Les Paul guitar you've been looking for the past seven years. Is it really true? Have you actually found it? How can you know for sure? You don't have your dependable Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars updated and expanded edition with you because it's too big to carry around! And right when you most need it too! You don't ever have to miss an opportunity like this again because now for the first time Backbeat Books presents the unabridged Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars Pocket Edition. Made in the classic model of traditional pocket field guides this book contains all the valuableup-to-date information found in the standard edition but is designed to be the ultimate user-friendly collector's companion easy to carry anywhere.Small size book that fits in your gig bag or pocket but is easy to readContains all the same information that the full size edition has including all photosLightweight paper that's durable and reproduces the book's photos well and a textured soft leatherette cover make this the perfect compliment to your full size 'home' edition

In this groundbreaking book prize-winning Pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience psychological insight and wisdom ancient and modern Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. He offers healthy alternatives for lifelong learning and suggests significant change in the way music is taught. For example playing a wrong note can be constructive useful even enlightening. The creator of the acclaimed Un-Master Class workshop also explores the special potential of group work outlining the basics of his revelatory workshop that hastransformed the music experience for participants the world over. Practicing in Westney's view is a lively honest adventurous and spiritually rewarding enterprise and it can (and should) meet with daily success which empowers us to grow even more. Teachers professionals and students of any instrument will feel the benefit from this unique guide which brings artistic vitality freedom and confidence within everyone's reach.

First published in 1977 Jean-Claude Veilhan (born in 1940) compiled the enlightening compilation Die Musik Des Barock Und Ihre Regeln towards the beginning of his career. As a prominent Recorder player himself Veilhan performed much of the Baroque repertoire for the instrument and therefore was well acquainted with the genre. Die Musik Des Barock Und Ihre Regeln encompasses all rules and styles of Baroque for every instrument. This Veilhan book is essential to the understanding of Baroque music.

First time in paperback! Noel Coward and Cole Porter's fascinating lives celebrated. Fresh on the heels of the popular motion picture based on Cole Porter's life De-Lovely Noel And Cole presents a delightful and often surprising portrait of these two geniuses. The author provides insight into both men's private lives - including a frank discussion of their homosexuality - while illuminating their musical achievements. Born an ocean apart - one in Indiana the other in England - Cole Porter and Noel Coward have come to represent the ultimate in sophistication and urbanity.Noel and Cole will be an essential reference as well as a fascinating dualbiography of two men who brought style and dazzle to the art of popular entertainment. Based on access to previously unpublished manuscripts lyrics scores and letters plus dozens of interviews the book also includes a chronology and a fifty-page section devoted to the analysis of select works.

A delightful picture story book which offers much more to teachers of young children who are seeking material to use for music sessions. The book works by reading the text and adding the suggested sounds as shown which shouldblend in with the story and add to the atmosphere.

Ortofon has been in existence for 100 years, and it is one of the few international companies that can celebrate it! For this special occasion, the brand from Denmark has decided to publish its book collector for the general public which traces the history of ortofon from its launch in 1918 to today, and which highlights its know how. A CENTURY OF ACCURACY IN SOUND For the occasion, it is the famous music historian, Kevin Howlett who wrote the book A CENTURY OF ACCURACY IN SOUND . Real research work, his work is based on the testimonies of Ortofon employees from 1970 to today. The author also takes you behind the scenes of the world leader in turntable cells by bringing out fascinating archive documents! POINTS ADDRESSED IN THE BOOK: - Chapter 1: ELECTRICAL SOUND 1918-1945 - Chapter 2: MICROGROOVE, HI-FI AND STEREO 1946-1969 - Chapter 3: ADVENTURES IN SOUND 1970-1982 - Chapter 4: TURBULENT TIMES 1983-1994 - Chapter 5: THE VINYL PRESERVATION ACADEMY 1995-2004 - Chapter 6: STATE OF THE ART 2005-2018