Stitched manuscript paper in A4 format. Idea for use in the classroom or for your own creations! Get all those burning ideas down on paper for all to see. / Tout Instrument

Line Playing · Voice-Leading · Chromaticism · Bebop Scales A clear and practical step-by-step approach to chromaticism, line playing and voice leading. The CD contains 23 play-along tracks (most of them played in two tempos), based on standard chord progressions, performed by a professional rhythm section, featuring Renato Chicco on piano, Dave Santoro on bass, and Adam Nussbaum on drums. In addition Jerry demonstrates various exercises and approaches on tenor saxophone. Chord changes are included for C concert, B flat and E flat instruments. Jerry Bergonzi is a highly respected jazz educator/musician who lives and teaches in the Boston area. Over many years his Inside Improvisation system has proven to be tremendously successful. ISBN 3-89221-049-7

Second Edition-This book defines Baroque music simply and explains how it began developed and influenced later musicians with chapters on major genres and a survey of the lives and music of the two leading composers of the late Baroque Bach and Handel.This book suggests listening viewing and further reading material to complement the main topics within the book and is an ideal resource for those wanting to explore the many aspects of Baroque music.This second edition has been fully revised and updated with expanded sections on the major genres and works of the Baroque era.Written to provide a solid foundation for pupils of all levels who are studyingBaroque music Baroque Music in Focus would also be useful for any readers with an interest in the topic.Hugh Benham read Music and English at Southampton University where he was awarded a Ph.D. for his study of the music of John Taverner. He is a chair of examiners for GCE Music an in-service trainer church organist and writer and formerly taught music in a sixth-form college.Hugh has contributed to Music Teacher and Classroom Music magazines and is the author of Baroque Music in Focus (Rhinegold 2007). His other writing includes two books on English church music including John Taverner: his Life and Music (Ashgate 2003) articles on early music contributions to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and a complete edition of Taverner for Early English Church Music.

Dragons and Dinosaurs are the fantastical beasts of myth legend and history: exciting monsters for young minds as they read learn and play. With their big teeth loud roars and fire-breathing jaws they are thought of asfearsome scary and mean creatures - even by other Dragons and Dinosaurs! Starting with the story A Roaring success! this musical activity book and CD tells the tale of two feuding Dragon and Dinosaur families who soonfind out that they're not so different after all.Ideal for specialist and generalist Early Years teachers Start With A Story - Dragons

James Gibbon Huneker (1857-1921) was a distinguished American newspaper critic, an essayist, and a prolific author. His writing style is remarkable ? unrestrained, informal, full of brilliant insight ? and this style plus Huneker's wide knowledge of art and literature as well as music has kept his literacy work alive. Chopin: The Man and His Music reflects the intimate, thorough knowledge of Chopin's music that Huneker acquired while studying to be a concert pianist and his unusually keen insight into the character of the great Polish composer whose music he adored. The book is divided into two parts. The first treats Chopin's life ? his youth in Poland, his emigration to Paris, the famous George Sand episode, his sickness and death ? and comments on Chopin as a teacher and as a pianist and performer. The second part discusses the entire body of Chopin's music, piece by piece. Huneker notes his own overall impression of the individual compositions as well as the impressions of Schumann, George Sand, Chopin's biographer Frederick Niecks, many of the great pianists, and others. He directly compares differing editions of Chopin's Études, Preludes, Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Polonaises, Sonatas, and other works edited by von Bülow, Kullak, Riemann, Mikuli, and Godowsky in their detailed treatment of fingering, phrasing, pedaling, tempo indication, and so forth. Huneker's entire work is reprinted here unchanged, thoroughly edited in running footnotes by Herbert Weinstock to correct the exuberant Huneker's inaccuracies and to add information that modern musical scholarship has unearthed. Weinstock has also provided an engrossing introductory essay on Huneker, and has amplified the bibliography to include modern books and articles on Chopin. A classic in musical biography and commentary, this work is unsurpassed for sympathetic understanding and insight into Chopin's life and music. It will interest equally music students, pianists, and music lovers.